Rotary Club of Melbourne
www.rotaryclubofmelbourne.org.au

 Meeting No 4831 in the Club’s 98^th year

CONGRATULATIONS MANDI

THIS WEEK'S MEETING 

Topic:  ‘R100 Status Update’

Chair:   Hugh Bucknall

UPCOMING MEETING 

4 Mar MOVED to 5 Mar –International Women’s Day Breakfast - bookings and details at www.rotaryiwdbreakfast.org.au

LAST WEEK'S MEETING

Last week's Chair, Peter Dakin has provided the following summary of Michael's presentation: "Michael provided a most interesting talk on the MCC – ‘ A private Club with a very public purpose ‘.

Rob Helme is seen here welcoming our three new members inducted last week.  They are from left: Kirsten Sayers, Robyn Hollands (Clive's daughter), and Drasko Kraguljac.  Hope next week we can read about our new members when they provide their profiles to Editor.  Welcome, Robyn, Kirsten and Drasko.

Thanks to Peter Dakin for chairing last week's meeting and introducing Michael Happell, MCC.  Terrific meeting all round.

President Kevin introduced PP James Allen and his wife Belinda from Rotary Sydney.  Rotary Sydney is working with Rotary Melbourne in the Give Every Child a Future Initiative and to create a fantastic memory making Rotary 100 Year Centenary.  Keep watching this space as the years of planning are rolled out around Australia.  

CLUB NEWS & REMINDERS

District Governor, Grant Hocking, has announced that Amanda Wendt has been selected as the District 9800 Governor Nominee (Designate), for 2022-2023. This is the year of the Melbourne International Rotary Convention.

It is not too late to attend tonight's evening meeting or suggest this meeting to a family member or colleague.  Please help support our monthly evening meetings.  We have terrific Speakers lined up for the entire year.  Tonight we will be meeting at The Lyceum Club, Ridgway Place, CBD.  Tonight's speaker:  Vivien Nguyen, Victorian Multi Cultural Commission.

HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!  The 2020 AFL Footy Tipping Competition is about to get underway. Bruce Davidson wrote:  "Thank you for your support in previous years. Together with our supporter friends  outside the Club we hope to raise $3000 for the community and charitable activities of our Club."

We are invited to attend the Bionics Institute a biomedical research institute focusing on medical bionics.  The Institute's three core research themes are bionic hearing, bionic vision and neurobionics through deep brain stimulation. Picture shows a device designed to diagnose Parkinson's Disease.

'WHERE ARE THE R100 SOCKS?'

As regular readers of our Bulletin, you would have noticed Editor requesting more photos in situ of R100 socks.  After missing the ideal photos from our official delegates to Sydney's Government House, the excuses ranged from: "Alas, we realised on departing Gov House that the opportunity was lost BUT to have taken off our shoe in such regal surrounding would have ……!" to "My greatest fear is the wrath and scorn of Dorothy!  I shall just have to have another red wine to console my self!"

Thank you Hugh Bucknall for finally respecting the R100 Socks' Photographic Competition and submitting a photograph.  Rather troubled looking socks sitting on a dining table.  Oh well ... You have to be in it to win it!  

Editor quietly minding her own business in the lift from 35th Floor Sofitel, and look what happend!  PP David Jones showing off his R100 socks to our wonderful guest speaker Michael Happell.  Boys will be boys!

GROUP EVENT

MALVERN GROUP MEET FOR MEMORIAL LUNCH

Beautiful Sunday with some of our Malvern Group enjoying a BBQ, friendship at Sharann and Mike Johnson's superb home on the edge of Flinders Golf Course with a view over Bass Strait.  This lunch in February is Malvern Group's Memorial Lunch which is traditionally February each year.  Terrific to hear the stories of past Group Captains who have made Malvern Group such a warm, friendship Group.

 

 

MEMBER HIGHLIGHT

Hugh Bucknall has been visiting friends and making new friends in the South East Coast of NSW.  This is a reflection of a small part of what he has experienced in his travels.

ROTARY CLUB NEWS

Tony Thomas has supplied the latest news on the newly created Probus Bearbrass Club.

If you would like to join one of the World of Difference tours in 2021, please read the attached Flyer. 2021_World_of_Difference_Tours.pdf

MEMBER ANNIVERSARIES

Membership anniversaries this week David Carruthers (18), Dina Gerolymou (4), Rob McGuirk (27), Richard Skinner (3).

GREETINGS

Happy birthday this week Susan Barton, Grahme Bond. 

LAST WEEK'S GUESTS

Guests of Club Michael Happell (Guest Speaker), Kirsten Sayers, Robyn Hollands, Drasko Kraguljac,

Visiting Australian Rotarians Warwick Burnham (West Footscray), James Allen 7 Belinda Allen (Sydney).

Guests of Members Colin Beames (Peter Berg), Sumeer Bhandarkar, Dasun Premadasa (Ian Evans).

On duty this week Daryl Hawkey, Trevor Hill, Rosemary Nixon, Robert Thomson, Bill Pickett (Photos), Bruce Davidson (Wine).

 Celebrating 100 years of service in 2021