If you are unable to attend a meeting please let Suzanne M know. She will let Ivan know approximate numbers attending so he knows for catering purposes.
Suzanne's email is dreamworld@netspace.net.au or you can contact by phone.
Welcome to our visitors Bee L, Annette Allison, Vivian I and Roslyn W
Please remember that next Wednesday is the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute visit - please meet there at 6pm. Dinner has been arranged for afterwards - see article in Bulletin - if you want to attend and haven't told Roger yet, please let him know ASAP.
There is a Bunnings Sausage Sizzle on 07 August 2016. Please advise Len or Harvey if you can help out.
Sue W is away and asked if other members can also take photos of different events
Please keep the District conference in mind - it is in Geelong from 31 March 2017 to 2 April 2017
Phil M advised wife Sue has been ill - she is progressing well after keyhole surgery - get better soon Sue from all the members
Annette Allison was the guest speaker - she is the public affairs manager for the Royal Flying Doctors Service (RFDS)
The RFDS has 67 aircraft and 21 bases around Australia - it is Australia's 3rd largest airline.
Its main role is to airlift patients with life threatening illnesses/injury to hospitals around the country
The RFDS was founded by the Rev. John Flynn and the first flight took place on 17 May 1928 from Cloncurry to Julia Creek
It is the oldest and most comprehensive aero medical service in the world. It is unique and also free.
RFDS covers the length and breadth of the country from Christmas Island to Lizard Island and from Bathurst Island to Tasmania
Each aircraft is a flying Intensive Care Unit - they cost $6 million to buy and another $1 million to fit out. Each outfit will include a defibrillator, vital signs monitor, propack monitor and they can carry humidicribs. Rio Tinto funded a life jet which flies from north to south in 3 hours as opposed to 6 hours for their regular PC12 planes. They have 2 Pilatus PC 24s on order - these planes carry more patients.
The RFDS sees on average 770 patients a day or 282,000 per year.
Most of the visits are for heart related illness, road and industrial accidents.
They hold health care clinics in 70 remote locations and attend to patients in 44 clinics each day.
It costs $290 million per year to operate the RFDS - State and Federal Governments supply funding to 80% and the other 20% coming from fund raising
The RFDS relies heavily on volunteers - for example the mobile dental care truck which goes to areas where there are no dentists has 52 dentists who volunteer a week of their time each. Mobile eye care which operates out of Ouyen in Victoria visits nursing homes etc and has volunteer eye specialists on board
They also have Mobile event care - there is a contract with the AFL - The RFDS looks after injured players. They also subcontract non emergency work for Ambulance Victoria
They provide primary health care services in a variety of areas such as women's health, Child and adolescent mental health, chronic disease prevention and management including diabetes, podiatry, and nutrition; radio and remote medical consultations,
For more information about the RFDS please see the link below
Know the speaker's title or position. Do not turn and ask the speaker "Is it Associate or Assistant Professor?"
Be brief. Aim for between 45 seconds and two minutes. Five minutes is too long.
Smile and be enthusiastic in tone, gesture and choice of words.
Know enough about the subject to sound knowledgeable. Do not turn to the speaker and ask if the topic is epidemiology, epistemology or episiotomy.
Announce the speech title as given to you by the speaker. If you have any questions about it, ask the speaker before the introduction. Many speakers select specific titles for a reason or for a pun. If the speaker is not using a title, make sure that your description matches the speaker’s.
Introductions are no place to use slides, overheads or presentation software.
Anecdotes are good but should pertain to the subject and be in harmony with the mood of the presentation. Avoid using canned jokes.
If the credentials of the speaker are so outstanding that they must be shared with the audience or if there are publications the audience will want to know about, insert them in the program or prepare a separate commemorative handout.
Never use the old cliché that the speaker needs no introduction. If the introduction ties the speaker to the audience and the topic then each introduction is unique, plus there is always something new about every speaker. There may be audience members who don’t know the guest.
You are the catalyst, not the performer. Do not try to upstage the speaker with your knowledge of the subject. Do not dwell on your relationship with the speaker, even though he or she is your boss, relative or significant other.
Thanking a guest speaker
Be brief.Do not repeat the speech.
Again, you are the catalyst, not the performer. Do not try to upstage the speaker with your knowledge of the subject.
If there is a presentation do not say this is a ‘small token of our appreciation’.
Rather ‘We would like you to accept this gift in appreciation of your time spent with us this evening.’
Ask the audience to thank the speaker with acclamation.
Recently Len and Harvey held a training day for the 2016/2017 Interplast District Chairs in the Board room at the Royal College of Surgeons in Melbourne. Len presented the successful program from last Rotary year to all present. Attendees were from all over Australia.
At the 1917 Rotary Convention, outgoing RI President Arch C. Klumph proposed to set up an endowment “for the purpose of doing good in the world”.
The surplus for the Convention was $USD 26.50 and that became the "foundation" for this endowment. In 1928, it was renamed The Rotary Foundation, and it became a distinct entity within Rotary International. Since that first donation in 1917, the Foundation has received contributions totalling more than $1 billion.
In 1929, the Foundation made its first gift of $500 to the International Society for Crippled Children.
When Rotary founder Paul Harris died in 1947, contributions began pouring in to Rotary International, and the Paul Harris Memorial Fund was created to build the Foundation.
Club visit to The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Wednesday 27th July
6.00pm sharp, start
1G Royal Parade Parkville, which is north of the Grattan St intersection and on the west side of Royal Parade.
Tours normally last about 1 hour One of their immunology researchers will give us a lab tour and talk about their research.
The club is required to provide a listing of all names for those attending by am 21st July. If you are not able to attend our meetings of 13th or 20th July to record your name, please email Roger Wilson (roger.wilson7@bigpond.com) and provide names and also confirmation whether you are dining at Naughtons Parkville Hotel after the visit. Only people whose names are recorded on the list will be admitted on the night, due to the Institute’s security requirements.
Parking: There is only limited parking at the Institute (10 spaces in their forecourt). To get to their forecourt you will need to turn at the traffic lights from Royal Parade into the street that leads to the Royal Melbourne Hospital car park. You do not enter the hospital car park, but instead should go left just before the car park entrance- towards the Institute. At the boom gate to the forecourt you will need to press the button, let reception know you are here for the tour and reception will give you access to park on the forecourt.
Alternatively park in Royal Parade or at Naughtons Parkville Hotel, 43 Royal Parade and walk down to the Institute.
Dinner: After the tour it is suggested that we have dinner at Naughtons Parkville Hotel, 43 Royal Parade. www.parkvillehoptel.com.au. Their website contains menu plus they have a two courses for $38.50 offer. If we have more than 20 they will give us a private area to dine in. On the night they will seat us, take your order table by table and take individual payments for what we order.
Ian Armstrong and Bob Davis have checked out the food and given it a tick. It is also recommended by the Institute.
Roger Wilson will be collecting names at our meetings on 13th and 20th July.
SPONSORED BY: ROMAC (ROTARY OCEANIA MEDICAL AID FOR CHILDREN)
ASSISTED BY: ROTARY CLUB OF NUNAWADING
Bradley and his Mum accompanied by their host family and Norm from ROMAC attended RC of Nunawading's meeting on 13/07/2016
Since then Bradley has had further surgery. Please see notes below
Since our last update on 27th June, much has happened with Bradley during our "Changeover Season" as Rotarians. I have transferred to the R.C.Montrose & District since the return of the "Charter from the eClub of Greater Melbourne"
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Bradley recovered well from the re-alignment of his nose and thanks to Prof. Andrew Heggie who has been with Bradley through his years with ROMAC. We are so grateful for the dedication and skill of our surgeons in changing the lives of our patients.
During his recovery, Bradley took part is the D9810 RYLA program, thanks to the R.C.Wandin who were his sponsor club.
"The best week of my life" said Bradley as the experience and friendships sank in.
The R.C.Nunawading who took over as his sponsor club had the host family Michael & Teresa Cox to their meeting last week with the DG Carol Lawton on her Club Visit.
Thanks to Rtn. Harvey Lane who has been the club contact during Bradley's stay.
President David Hatcher on behalf of the club made a contribution to the work of ROMAC. Many thanks David & Members.
The final surgery to straighten his eyes was conducted last Friday by Dr Lionel Kowal at St Vincents Private Hospital. Such skill and support for the ROMAC program by Dr Kowal is greatly appreciated especially Bradley who has had this as a dream for many years.
He is at home with the Cox Family recovering this week but has a Guest Speaker role to address the R.C.Wandin on his RYLA and ROMAC story.
Attached are a couple of photos of the new man thanks to ROMAC.
Norm Casey (ROMAC), Bradley and his Mum Bradley and his Mum
PP Bruce, Bradley, Norm Casey, Pres. David and DG Carol - meeting 13/07/2016
Please save the motel soaps or similar size for the 'Days for Girls' program which is a program for sending sanitation products in a wash bag for teenage girls overseas. Give them to Judith who will pass them onto RC of Monash.
Save used stamps with a good deal of the envelope! They pay by weight! - proceeds go to ROMAC
DISTRICT STAMP FUND
Why not visit your City Council/Hospital/ School or big business and request their envelopes?
$100k is our aim and with $94,000.00 already achieved we haven't far to go.
UNICEF NEEDS YOUR FOREIGN COINS
More and more of us are heading overseas and we always seem to return with useless foreign coins!
Ron Brooks, RC of Forest Hill, coordinates this successful D9810 project. Ron will coordinate at District level but needs help from all clubs. In the last 18 months 120kgs of coins and notes sent to UNICEF were valued by them at $4,700.64
Eammon Bryant, UNICEF Partnerships Manager emailed “We see Rotary and UNICEF as a perfect match. Our history working with, and converting foreign coin to help children in need matched with your unparalleled reach across Australian communities, we think, makes it a dream fit”. UNICEF works in over 190 countries to support children’s health needs, clean water and sanitation, quality basic education, and protection from violence, exploitation, and HIV.
So, far more than 15 clubs in the district have joined enthusiastically into this initiative. We are 12.1kgs into the next collection.
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• $2 will provide a severely malnourished child enough therapeutic super food for one day
• $6 will provide 20 doses of potentially life-saving measles vaccine
UNICEF will also take old European coins that are no longer in circulation.
Please leave your foreign coins and notes in the jar on the desk
A mate of mine has two tickets for the AFL Football Grand Final.
Box seats plus airfares, accommodation etc., but he didn't realise when he bought them that this is going to be on the same day as his wedding - so he can't go.
If you're interested and want to go instead of him, it's at St Peter's Church in Toorak Rd. Toorak at 3.00pm. Her name's Louise.
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