Welcomed Alison P (partner of Rob Mc) and Gina Tsao
Cassettes have been picked from Bega by Wayne and Phil with the assistance of RC of Bega
There will be discussion at the Board meeting to propose a fee increase to $300.
Please remember to donate to the Rotary Foundation
Janette is looking for more volunteers for District Changeover on 25 June 2016 at the Karalyka Centre. Need 6 people for the registration desks and a few to assist with car parking. So far Gabby, Sue, Russell and Wendy have volunteered.
Ian S is off travelling for 4 months
Don't forget the interviews at Blackburn High School next week (25 May)
Our speaker was Russell Pearson from Crimson Fox Creative Studios talking about the use of multi media in todays world with an emphasis on how Rotary can use the digital world to maximise coverage.
Examples include Facebook which has 1.59 billion users world wide. There are different reasons why people will want to join Rotary so we need to market personas.
Have a look at ideas.rotary.org -use crowd sourcing
More information can be found on their website www.crimsonfox.com.au - look at the video series
The visit has been arranged for 27 July commencing at 6pm and lasting about 60-70 minutes after which we will adjourn to a restaurant for dinner.
The Institute has advised as follows:-
“Please let me know if there is a particular area of research that you would like to hear about during the tour. The areas of research at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute include cancer, including breast, lung, ovarian, prostate, colon and blood cancers; immune disorders such as diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and celiac disease; and infectious diseases such as malaria, hepatitis B and HIV. As part of the tour you can meet with a scientist that researches in your area of interest, hear about their research and tour through their laboratory. The tours usually run for approximately one hour, and also include an overview of the history and other research areas at the institute.”
The institute is located at 1G Royal Parade, Parkville (behind the Royal Melbourne Private Hospital). There is limited car parking on their forecourt, and more parking available in the Royal Melbourne Hospital car park beside the institute.
Now that winter is settling in, Whitehorse Rotaract is organising a crocheting and knitting
session to make blankets for those in need. What is made on the day will be donated to
Kogo (http://www.kogo.org.au/?page=aboutus).
In addition, they will also be making paper stars as part of the One Million Stars to End
Violence (http://www.onemillionstars.net/), this is an interesting project to raise
awareness and will eventually be displayed at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth
Games.
No experience necessary, they can teach you on the day. However if you're proficient at
either knitting, crocheting or paper weaving, some people may be keen to pick your
brains so they can learn the basics.
Event details
May 29th 12pm - 4pm at 23 Bristow Drive, Forest Hill
If you know anyone who is a mad passionate knitter or good at crocheting get them onto
this idea at once. Skilled experts will be needed to mentor those who want to learn more
about this fine art, and as a social event. What a great cause too.
Contact Michelle at this email address: michelle_worsley93@outlook.com to express
your interest, to book a seat (you might want to take your own, just in case theirs are not
Children of the 30s & 40s “The Last Ones”
A Short Memoir
Born in the 1930s and early 40s, we exist as a very special age cohort. We are the “last ones.” We are the last, climbing out of the depression, who can remember the winds of war and the war itself with fathers and uncles going off. We are the last to remember ration books for everything from sugar to shoes to stoves. We saved tin foil and poured fat into tin cans. We saw cars up on blocks because tires weren’t available. My mother delivered milk in a horse drawn cart.
We are the last to hear Roosevelt’s radio assurances and to see gold stars in the front windows of our grieving neighbours. We can also remember the parades on August 15, 1945; VJ Day.
We saw the ‘boys’ home from the war build their Cape Cod style houses, pouring the cellar, tar papering it over and living there until they could afford the time and money to build it out.
We are the last who spent childhood without television; instead imagining what we heard on the radio. As we all like to brag, with no TV, we spent our childhood “playing outside until the street lights came on.” We did play outside and we did play on our own. There was no little league.
The lack of television in our early years meant, for most of us, that we had little real understanding of what the world was like. Our Saturday afternoons, if at the movies, gave us newsreels of the war and the holocaust sandwiched in between westerns and cartoons. Newspapers and magazines were written for adults. We are the last who had to find out for ourselves.
As we grew up, the country was exploding with growth. The G.I. Bill gave returning veterans the means to get an education and spurred colleges to grow. VA loans fanned a housing boom. Pent up demand coupled with new installment payment plans put factories to work. New highways would bring jobs and mobility. The veterans joined civic clubs and became active in politics. In the late 40s and early 50’s the country seemed to lie in the embrace of brisk but quiet order as it gave birth to its new middle class. Our parents understandably became absorbed with their own new lives. They were free from the confines of the depression and the war. They threw themselves into exploring opportunities they had never imagined.
We weren’t neglected but we weren’t today’s all-consuming family focus. They were glad we played by ourselves ‘until the street lights came on.’ They were busy discovering the post war world.
Most of us had no life plan, but with the unexpected virtue of ignorance and an economic rising tide we simply stepped into the world and went to find out. We entered a world of overflowing plenty and opportunity; a world where we were welcomed. Based on our naïve belief that there was more where this came from, we shaped life as we went.
We enjoyed a luxury; we felt secure in our future. Of course, just as today, not all Americans shared in this experience. Depression poverty was deep rooted. Polio was still a crippler. The Korean War was a dark presage in the early 50s and by mid-decade school children were ducking under desks. China became Red China. Eisenhower sent the first ‘advisors’ to Vietnam. Castro set up camp in Cuba and Khrushchev came to power.
We are the last to experience an interlude when there were no existential threats to our homeland. We came of age in the late 40s and early 50s. The war was over and the cold war, terrorism, climate change, technological upheaval and perpetual economic insecurity had yet to haunt life with insistent unease.
Only we can remember both a time of apocalyptic war and a time when our world was secure and full of bright promise and plenty. We experienced both.
We grew up at the best possible time, a time when the world was getting better not worse.
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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.
Save used stamps with a good deal of the envelope! They pay by weight! - proceeds go to ROMAC
DISTRICT STAMP FUND
Your DSF is under huge pressure to continue raising valuable funds from Philatelic Garbology.
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.
Please try -it WON'T COST YOU ONE CENT but WILL DO A LOT FOR THOSE LESS FORTUNATE.
Don't forget to save your foreign coins and notes - there is a jar to put them in at the weekly meetings
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