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Camille Bilger, a 2015 Amelia Earhart Fellow and student at Cambridge University, shared about her research into the reduction of the environmental impact of aircraft gas turbines and rockets. 2015 Young Women in Public Affairs awardee Anna Rukko told her incredible story of survival and determination to make a difference after beating childhood cancer. "No one is too young or too insignificant to start to create a change," Anna said. "As a young woman, I have been seen and I have been heard. That makes me want all the young women to be seen and to be heard. I believe that a person's life can be changed and that one person can change the world.鈥�

The organizational goals focus on five key areas: service, advocacy, membership, resources and Zonta's centennial anniversary in 2019. The convention body approved a variety of international service, including the continuation of funding to eliminate obstetric fistula and the reduction of maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity in Liberia. "The Initiative for Adolescent Girls in Niger: Knowledge for Dignity" is working on reducing early marriage and early pregnancy in a critical mass of communities.

Zonta is expanding its service into two new countries, Madagascar and Nepal. "Let Us Learn Madagascar: An Integrated Program for Adolescent Girls" focuses on creating opportunities for vulnerable and excluded girls to realize their rights to an education in a secure and protective environment. The Nepal work addresses human trafficking and the unsafe migration of women and girls.

Also elected and installed was Zonta鈥檚 new leadership:

鈥⒙燩resident: Sonja H枚nig Schough, Sweden

鈥⒙燩resident-elect: Susanne von Bassewitz, Germany

鈥⒙燰ice president: Sharon Langenbeck, United States

鈥⒙燭reasurer/secretary: Bridget Masters, United States

鈥⒙營nternational directors: Sonia Albanese Carotti (Italy), Judith Anderson (Australia), Lydia Chaillou (France), Judith Kautz (United States), Ute Scholz (Germany), Ursula Werner (Germany) and Hsin-hsin Yang (Taiwan)

The next international convention will be in Yokohama in 2018 and in 2020, the convention will be in Chicago with an emphasis on celebrating Zonta鈥檚 100 years. Zonta Club of Auburn, plans on having a few members there.

Back home we had to say goodbye, at this time. It is a great honor to pay tribute to one of our original chartered Z Club members, Chloe Calhoun. Chloe joined Z Club because she wanted to be part of a club that was involved in local and international service and advocacy to empower women worldwide. She was a perfect fit for this club due to her kind, caring nature and beautiful, welcoming smile. Chloe never missed a meeting, even though she had a part-time job and was on the Auburn softball team. Her commitment and dedication were admired attributes that she possessed. For example, when the Salvation Army needed help at Thanksgiving time, Chloe was one of the first to volunteer to help on an early Saturday morning. When she was given the job of cutting up onions, she did not complain; instead, she smiled through the tears as she diligently completed this task. When we needed help sewing more dresses to donate to girls overseas, Chloe came in and gave her time and skills, even though she said was not good at sewing.

When we were putting on the end-of-the-year preschool picnic, it was Chloe that jumped at the chance to bake, make trays and even bring in Jell-O jigglers from home so the kids would have a fun treat.

I (Julie) remember the first time I met Chloe in my CAY 101 college prep course. She made a memorable impression because she was always so enthused, interested and supportive of all her classmates. She was accepting and nonjudgmental. It was her dream to be a journalist. When the course ended, we did not want to let her go, so her friends and I convinced her to take child psychology, even though she said she 鈥渄id not like children that much.鈥� Well, she fell in love with the little girl she was assigned, and we all got the chance to see Chloe鈥檚 motherly instinct. As a matter of fact, during the school day, she could be found in that preschool during her study hall, as well as her regularly scheduled class. Before she graduated, Chloe made sure to get some of her teammates and friends to sign up for Z Club because she profoundly believed in its mission. And, where Chloe went, young people followed.

Her spirit and memory will be with all of us forever. We will keep it alive by doing the service work she believed in and by creating a scholarship in memory of her. She will always be a part of Z Club of Auburn.

Chloe Calhoun was a 2016 graduate who was tragically on July 28.