Rotary Club of Melbourne
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THIS WEEK'S SPEAKER

Topic:  “Unlocking Potential – BSL Advantage Thinking and Community Investment Committees”

Chair:  Philip Cornish

UPCOMING SPEAKERS

17 Apr:  The Reverend Professor Gary Bouma AM

24 Apr:  Major General Jim Barry AM, MBE, RFD,ED (Retd.)

01 May: Chris Nicol, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Australia  

LAST WEEK'S MEETING

Thank you to Chair Stephen Lake for providing the following summary of Commodore Greg Yorke's Navy service at last week's meeting.

OUR LATEST PAUL HARRIS FELLOWS

Last week we acknowledged the fantastic commitment and hard work for this Club – and for Rotary more broadly – by our member Hugh Bucknall and Jason Balkin of the Melbourne Convention Bureau.

Club congratulations to Jason Balkin seen here with fellow Paul Harris awardee Hugh Bucknall and President Robert.

Congratulations to Hugh Bucknall who was named a Paul Harris Sapphire at last week's meeting.

UPCOMING EVENTS

30 April Evening Meeting: Chris Kotur, "Leading in Community in the 21^st Century" bookings www.trybooking.com/BBSGE   

20 May: Whole of Club Fellowship Dinner at Choi's 

20 May: Close of RCM Centenary Raffle

CLUB EVENTS & NEWS

If you want to help the Raffle Fundraising,  there are a couple of simple things you can do.  One, return the stubs and money for any tickets sold so far to Jo at Office.  Two, take more books of tickets and sell them as soon as possible.  Six weeks left!

Our Club's Volunteer Co-Ordinator, Ari Talantis has provided a terrific update on her tireless work co-ordinating and creating Rotary volunteers for our Projects and Events.  Keep in touch with Ari with your availability to give your time in this ongoing need for volunteers.

Hopefully, you are aware of our Rotary 100 Years Centenary project "Peace Poles" initiative.  We share this with Rotary Canberra Burley Griffin.  Peace_Poles_Dorothy.pdf

PE Kevin Sheehan and iconic Rotary 100 leader, Hugh Bucknall made an offical visit to the RC Sydney recently. Pictured with Hugh and Kevin is RC Sydney President, Keith Garner AM.  

You will be pleased to know our End Trachoma 2020 Face Washing Trailer has been accepted and will be included in the World Engineers Convention program as an oral presentation in November titled “An Engineering Solution to Assist the Elimination of Trachoma from Australia”.

MEET A NEW MEMBER

Manuela Rathey was inducted into the Club on 13 March 2019 with the classification "Real Estate - Affordable Property Advisor".  Manuela is seen here with Chanti Bou at her induction.

MEMBER HIGHLIGHTS

Stephanie Woollard is seen here with her parents, Ken and Nora after Stephanie received her Order of Australia Medal recently.  

President Robert has provided an update on his comment at last week's meeting:  “Last week you may recall I mentioned I was having a few days’ break with Myra on Lord Howe Island, where I could be away from mobile phones and the Internet.

PEACE FELLOW UPDATE

Why would 40 high schoolers, 10 twenty-somethings, and four Rotarians be in the middle of the bush without cell phone coverage for an entire weekend?

HUMOUR FROM A MEMBER

You can thank Bob Glindemann for the following item in our Bulletin.

MEMBER ANNIVERSARIES

Ted Garland:  36 years (sorry for last week's error Ted) 

David deKretser: 6 years;

David Perry: 6 years;

Chris Sotiropoulos: 13 years;

Ted Exell:  13 years;

Robin Syme: 42 years.

GREETINGS

Happy birthday this week to Peter Hollingworth (today!), Mandi Wendt, Alex Buchanan, Margaret Matters. 

LAST WEEK'S GUESTS

Guests of the Club  Greg Yorke (Speaker), Hugh & Meredith Bucknall, Jason Balkin.

Visiting International Rotarians  Suresh Marcandan (Kuala Lumpur Diraja, Malaysia).

Guests of Rotarians  Lisa Sheehan (Kevin Sheehan).

On duty this week  Robin Syme, Daryl Hawkey, Pam Brown, Richard Skinner, Bruce Davidson (Wine), TBA (Photos).