Members and friends of the Fellowship Circle are geared for what will be a ‘Warm Up’ for fellow member Ruby Sampson, who was born in December 1918.

The Circle is made up of wives of Masonic Brethren. For the purposes of this feature, this columnist is dubbing them ‘Circleites,’ and member Helene Dill is heading the group planning the luncheon for Ruby on December 7, at Pembroke Sunday School.

Circleite Dill said the ‘warm up’ will be highlighted both by entertainment and tributes from across the board, or should we say ‘around the circle.’

As head planner, Ms Dill said Ruby has earned this tribute.

She is good-spirited, and the fact that she’s the eldest of all, having been a founding member along with the late Clifford Sampson, her husband of 68 years, she is, to this day, the keenest in the Circle.

Circleite Dill Can be contacted directly for further details beforehand.

We can best describe Ruby along with Clifford as big time pace setters back in the day.

In fact Ruby is currently titled ‘Queen of the Terpsichoreans’, the dance group she and Clifford help establish decades ago for the multifaceted Pembroke Community Club.

Pembroke Community Club involves skaters, majorette and other groups.

Friday nights belonged to the elders, and was initially devoted to old fashioned dancing; more recently modern line dance music has come to the fore provided by the club’s own ‘deejays.’

Many of the ‘early pace setters’ have not been able to keep up their former Friday nightclub schedules for one reason or another. Ruby is lively and lovely exception to that group.

Ruby will be in her 97th year come her next birthday this December.

She happily responds to the distinction she earned with the award as The Most Glamorous Granny.