Welcome to Assistant Governor Paul Mee and wife Adele
Welcome to Mary (partner of Joe) and Bee (guest of Suzanne)
Update on Bradley (ROMAC) - see below
Deakin Awards are being held next Thursday 09/06/2016 at George Wood Performing Arts Centre in Ringwood (part of Yarra Valley Grammar School). Start time is 6.30pm. Judith has been nominated.
Wendy O is after sponsors for the MS walk - please see Wendy for further information
Ben reported on the Blackburn High School Careers Expo. A write up is below.
Harvey has become a Grandfather again. His sons partner had a girl - her name is Nancy (after her Grandmother) and she was 2.8kg
Interplast target will be exceeded which is great news
Please get entertainment books from Russell
AG Paul sent greetings from DG David. Paul has almost completed 2 years as AG. He said Nunawading leads the way with its support of Interplast and that it is a fantastic program. He made mention of the Medical Imaging Machine going to Timor Leste and another to Nepal.
He also asked us to consider that in 2017 it is the centennial of the Rotary Foundation and it is a good opportunity to celebrate the engine room of Rotary. Incoming District Governor Carol has a wish list that includes running men's health forums.
The guest speaker was Tom Thorpe from the Rotary Club of Box Hill. he is the vocational director. He is also the head of the Wattle Park Historical Society.
Tom spoke about the Lone Pine and the 101st anniversary of the Lone Pine. Seedlings have been planted over the years that are descendent from the original Lone Pine.
The "Lone Pine" tree growing near the main carpark is listed on the National Trust's Significant Tree Register, being one of the country's few original Lone Pines. The tree was grown from the seed of a cone collected by one of the Australian soldiers involved in the Gallipoli Campaign from the lone pine tree in Gallipoli, Turkey as a reminder of this notable battle and the ANZACs' involvement in World War I. Planted in Wattle Park on 8 May 1933 at the Trooping of the Colour by the 24th Battalion, the tree was the first Lone Pine to ever be publicly planted as an ANZAC memorial, pre-dating the one planted at Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance by a month, and the one at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra by seventeen months"
On 25 May our club assisted Blackburn High School with its annual mini career expo for its students. This year the event seemed bigger than ever. It is aimed at VCE students who are thinking about their future career choices.
The two areas we helped the school were in providing guest speakers to discuss particular types of careers with students, and, to conduct mock interviews to give students an experience and some preparation tips on their job application, CV, and interview techniques. Thank you to Dr Bob Davis and Dr Alex Ioannidis for their talk on the medical profession. Many students and their parents were interested, for most, it was “standing room” only! Thank you to Janette Ethrington, Ian Armstrong, Wendy Oliver and David Hatcher for assisting with the mock interviews. Thank you to everyone else who offered their assistance.
At club members request, we did not have a guest speaker for the night, and club members who were not required for the careers talks or school interviews enjoyed some fellowship at Bucatinis.
A newsletter from Rotary International South Pacific & Philippines Office
late May 2016 Newsletter
Message from The South Pacific and Philippines Office
As Rotarians we are continually giving. We give our time to make our club an effective organisation, we give our energy to be part of all those things that bring in the funds we need, and we give personally so that others less fortunate than ourselves can have a better life.
Along with personal giving, the contributions received from clubs are the lifeblood of The Rotary Foundation and all the good things you and I do are driven by the money clubs provide. At the current date, there are 313 clubs in Australia who have not given anything to the Foundation’s Annual Fund and a move simply has to be made to reduce, or even eliminate, this number.
I know the number will reduce as we approach the end of June but May is such a good time to take action. The current RI exchange rate is A$1.30 to one US dollar but in June it moves up to A$1.35. That means your June Aussie dollar will bring in 3.7% less US dollars and that’s a big swing.
Giving now gets the money you send working earlier and that can only be a good thing for the world. Send a cheque or transfer by EFT but give some thought to doing so by the end of May.
Bruce
Bruce Allen
Supervisor - Rotary Foundation
Incoming Club Officers
All clubs are urgently reminded to update your Incoming Club Officers immediately. Please ensure you update the Club President and Club Secretary for 2016-17 as they are essential in being able to update club records in 2016-17; receiving the Club Invoice and being recorded in Official Directory.
Other Officers to be entered also include Club Treasurer, Director – Membership and Director – Rotary Foundation. You may also enter the Club Executive Secretary if you have one.
Your assistance is greatly appreciated.
Please update Membership Details
Please update your club membership records to reflect new members and those who have resigned or terminated their membership. It is important that we maintain current and up to date records at all times. Please see the How-To Guides on the Resources section of this advisory.
Club Email Address
In updating Membership details, please also include your club’s email address as another method of contact. For clubs in Australia, this would be very helpful in that acknowledgement for club contributions can now be done via email.
Resources
Exchange Rates:
June 2016
USD
AUD
1.35
NZD
1.46
PHP
47.00
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A final reminder that the deadline to register for the “Riseley” Luncheon is 10 June 2016, details as follows:
WHERE: Whitehorse Club 298-336 Burwood Highway, East Burwood.
WHEN: 12.30 for 1.00pm Sunday 19th June 2016
Two course lunch including drinks
COST: $45 per person (Tables of 10 available)
Dress Code: Smart casual. RSVP: Friday 10 June 2016
A booking form with payment options is attached. You shouldn’t miss this opportunity to say farewell and best wishes to RIPN Ian as he becomes the Fifth Australian to assume the highest office in Rotary.
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.
Contact Russell W if you want a 2016/2017 entertainment book - only $65.00 with $13.50 going to the club for fund raising.
Discover thousands of valuable up to 50% off and 2-for-1 offers for many of the best restaurants, cafés, arts, attractions, hotels, travel, shopping and much more – choose your way with the following:
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
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
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