The Inner Wheel Club
of
Cuckfield & Lindfield

Deb Ruse

became the 28th President
of the Club
on 01 July 2012

Hello, I am this year’s President of the Inner Wheel Club of Cuckfield and Lindfield and would like to welcome you to our web pages.

Just a little bit of background to me. I was born in Reading Berkshire, the daughter of grocer. There the similarity between me and Margaret Thatcher ends.

I then moved to Cornwall to live in a small hotel. An Idyllic lifestyle you might think but in reality as an only child quite a lonely existence with my nearest school friend four miles away on the other side of a creek.

After my father qualified as a Child Care Officer we moved to north Nottinghamshire. It was here I finished my education at the local grammar school and went on to train as a Primary School Teacher.

My family had moved south to Sussex, so on qualifying in 1975 I was fortunate to gain a teaching post in Lingfield Surrey. It was during this time I joined The Mid Sussex Twenties and Burgess Hill Rotaract Club. I had met George and persuaded him to play darts for us. We were married in Ardingly in 1979 and made our home in Burgess Hill, becoming more involved with Rotaract projects, having both been presidents.

I had moved on in the teaching world and was deputy and acting head at Wivelsfield Primary School. It was during this time I took on increased domestic responsibility in the form of our daughter Victoria in 1987. It was at this time that George became a founder member of Sussex Vale Rotary Club and I joined Burgess Hill Inner Wheel, of which I was about to be President for the second time when it closed.

After the sudden death of my mother we moved to Ardingly to be with my father and great aunt. I returned to teaching carrying out supply or job share contracts. Elizabeth our second daughter was born in 1992.

I have been President previously in 2004 and am returning again; fortunately the Club is in good health so no closure this time! PHEW.

I am a Rainbow and Brownie leader in Ardingly as well as being President of Ardingly WI. and a member of Lindfield WI.I enjoy being involved with the family and am looking forward to being “Mother of the Bride” in 2013.

It is a great privilege to be Cuckfield and Lindfield Inner Wheel’s President and I am looking forward to my year in office.