THIS WEEK'S SPEAKER
CHRIS NICOL,MANAGING DIRECTOR, MORGAN STANLEY
Chair: David Carruthers
UPCOMING SPEAKERS
08 May: Stuart Wood, AM, QC
15 May: Members Day
29 May: Young Achievers Award
LAST WEEK'S MEETING
MAJOR GENERAL JIM BARRY, AM MBE RFD ED (RETD)
There were some sombre moments in Major General Jim Barry's presentation but as the photo shows, there were some light hearted moments too, especially with question time.
IWD BREAKFAST REPORT ON MONEY RAISED
Our Honorary Treasurer, David Carruthers is seen here delivering the financial report on the highly successful International Women's Day Breakfast, organised by Kerry Kornhauser.
CLUB EVENTS & NEWS
MEMBERSHIP ENGAGEMENT SURVEY PART 2
President Robert's Report Part 2: "Last week I covered some of the key elements of the recent survey. This week I’d like to move onto some of the specific comments that were made in relation to particular projects that people were interested in being developed by Rotary Melbourne.
USES FOR RAFFLE TICKETS
Have you considered the myriad of ways you can apply a Raffle ticket? Mother's Day gift! Gift to your beloved! Gift to your adult children who need a vacation with your grandchildren! Gift to your neighbour who has looked after your house while you were away! Be part of the act of giving. Gift a ticket!
TICKET SELLING AT MARKET
Thanks to Trevor Neroy, Reg Smith, Maryla Juchnowski, Allan Wang, President Robert, we stood in the cold and rain at the Camberwell Market for a second round of Raffle Ticket selling. Each of us with our own "unique" style of selling, including Allan who translated the prizes into Mandarin! Onwards and Upwards!
COUNTDOWN!
JUST 3 WEEKS OF SELLING LEFT! Have you got some of these notes on your dining room table, waiting to be returned with your Raffle ticket stubs? Please return your Raffle ticket money/stubs urgently to Jo in the Office and why not pick up another book to sell?
RCM 2019 FOOTY TIPPING COMP. UPDATE
The following is a short report from our guru of Football Tipping, Bruce Davidson. Bruce reports: "At Round Six the competition is humming along nicely."
PRESIDENT ROBERT'S DINNER
All members and their guests are invited to join President Robert and Myra Fisher at the upcoming President’s Dinner.
This whole of Club event is one of relaxed fellowship. Bring your favourite wine and have a fun night with your fellow Club members.
2019 BREAKFAST THANK YOU DINNER
Our International Women's Day Breakfast team are presenting cheques to our Charities and thanking our Sponsors 2 May. Guest Speaker is our Mandi Wendt presenting "The Power of Together". Join us and bring a guest.
STAMP COLLECTING IS RAISING FUNDS
Item of news from the Mornington Peninsula Group's lovely lunch meeting: "Margaret Ross provided some very interesting figures on the amount of money that is raised from the sale of stamps. To date the total raised is $120,357.00.
OUR GLOBAL SCHOLAR UPDATE
FUTURE for our ROTARY GLOBAL SCHOLAR
Katie Wilford, our Rotary Global Scholar from America, is thrilled to announce that she has secured a high school mathematics teaching position at HLV High School in Victor, Iowa for the 2019 academic school year commencing in August.
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL NEWS
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Hugh Bucknall has provided this disappointing news: "This is a sad moment for Rotary, as I must inform you that Sushil Gupta has resigned as president-nominee of Rotary International 2020-2021 due to health reasons."
OTHER CLUB NEWS
ROTARY MALVERN IS CELEBRATING 60 YEARS!
Rotary Club of Malvern is planning their celebrations for 60 years of ‘Doing Good in the World’ , especially within their local community. Congratulations will be abounding when they celebrate on Saturday 25 May, 2019 with their High Tea at The Gables. If you would like to attend, please contact Lucia Cardamone: lucia.cardamone@bigpond.com
MEMBER ANNIVERSARIES
Jill Hibbins (28 today!), Susan Barton (14), Spencer Bock (11), Cynthia Edgell (15), Matthew Karakoulakis (4).
GREETINGS
Happy birthday this week to Olga Hogan (today!), Dorothy Gilmour, Tim Fischer, Ian Evans.
LAST WEEK'S GUESTS
Guests of the Club Jim Barry (Speaker).
Guests of Rotarians Margaret Ross (Ian Ross), Jamie McInally (Robert Fisher), Simon Bennett (Reg Smith), Duncan Troup, Tom O'Connell (Ian Evans), Peter Matters (Margaret Matters).
On duty this week Keith Callinan, Daryl Hawkey, Richard Skinner, Bruce Davidson (Wine), Bruce Davidson (Photos).
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