Rotary Club of Melbourne
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Meeting No 4853 in the Club’s 99^th year

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THIS WEEK'S MEETING

Wednesday 5^th August 2020 – LUNCH MEETING

Topic:  0808 Monash Medal Award 2020

Guest Speaker Awardee: Jillian Segal AO, Deputy Chancellor of UNSW, Chairman of The General Sir John Monash Foundation.

Venue:  Zoom online meeting only

Registration: Zoom Meeting Link

Time:  1-2 pm

Chairman: Peter Davis

The awarding of our Sir John Monash Medal for 2020 will be held for the first time online at our lunchtime meeting Wednesday 5 August.

LAST WEEK'S MEETING

Last week's meeting was excellent and enhanced by the presentations of Hepatitis Victoria's CEO Melanie Eagle and Martin Forest, Health Promotion Programs Manager, Hepatitis Vic. This is the link for the video: https://youtu.be/wcLKVwbUCI0

Thank you President Elect Reg Smith for last week's Reflection.

It was a treat to honour a fellow Rotarian from the United States when Past President Kevin Sheehan named Dr Carol Bond a Paul Harris Fellow at last week's meeting. This is the beauty of Zoom that we can join with people around the world in the one place and celebrate Rotary fellowship.

Winners are Grinners!  First Prize for the Mask Competition at last week's meeting, was won by PP Phil Endersbee.  A "meat tray"!  Thanks to Adrian Nelson for his sense of humour and activation of this special photograph competition that would not have happened without ... COVID-19! 

The Photographic Mask Competition was fiercely contested by most of our Members at last week's meeting.  Thank goodness we were not all in the same space at Sofitel, as the competition was truly "untamed"! Judge Adrian looks composed in the safety of his home but it would have been a different story if judging at the Sofitel! 

DID YOU KNOW ...?

David York Syme was a Charter Member of Rotary Melbourne and held the classification for Shipping? His father founded the Melbourne Steamship Company of which David became General Manager in 1918.  He was a key person in the Australian shipping industry, a member of the Commonwealth Shipping Board, and the Australian Delegate to the International Conference of Shipowners.  In the shipping strike of 1920, Prime Minister Hughes summoned Syme to hasten the referral of the strike to a tribunal.  He was a Commissioner of the Melbourne Harbour Trust, a Director of the National Bank, the Mt. Lyell Mining & Railway Company and the Metropolitan Gas Company.  He was a brother-in-law of Burdett Laycock.

UPCOMING SPEAKERS

12 Aug:  Evening Meeting - Kerry Cue, Author, Humorist, Mathematician and Journalist

19 Aug: Lunch Meeting - The Hon. Philip Dalidakis, Former Minister of Innovation & Digital Economy (Victoria) Director, Centre for Asia-Pacific Strategy

26 Aug:  Members Lunch Meeting – D9800 Governor Philip Archer

02 Sep: Lunch Meeting –Prof. Brett Sutton - Chief Medical Officer Victoria, ‘Victoria's Response to COVID-19’. Note Meeting Starting at 2.00pm.

09 Sep: Evening Meeting - Liz Ritchie, CEO, Australia Regional Institute

16 Sep: Lunch Meeting - Prof. John Dewar AO, Vice Chancellor, La Trobe University, Bundoora

CLUB NEWS & REMINDERS

Thanks Jim Orchard for providing a terrific pictorial story of the 14 caravans, generously provided by Peter Davis (pictured), brother Ken and sister Sharon Small, then restored and successfully delivered to homeless bushfire victims in rural Victoria.

We intend to close our meetings with some holiday photos of our Members prior to COVID-19. To keep up our spirits until we go travelling again ... send a special photo to Jo Mavros and we wil put this to music to end our meetings.  

10.30am every Friday, with a coffee or tea, a biscuit, cake or pastry!  Come online and enjoy some light conversation with President Marion.  No mask needed and a great way to hear the latest news. Have a go at Zooming!    https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3096547242

Members, this is a vital part of our online Rotary Melbourne weekly meetings: our Club's Fighting Fund. ( https://www.trybooking.com/BKEVJ)

'WHERE ARE THE R100 SOCKS?'

Editor was rapt to receive an update from our loved former Global Scholar Katie Wilford who was such an exceptional scholar, traveller and friend to us in Rotary Melbourne.  Her R100 socks have been used again, this time climbing her first 4.3 km high mountain.

Rob Nethercote was doing it tough during 'pandemicania' Stage 3!  Golfing and bowling!  R100 socks ensured his comfort and warmth as he toughed it out on the golf course!  Wonder what he will do in Stage 4 now?

MEMBER HIGHLIGHTS

Message from Clive:  "I was operated on first thing this morning (Friday, 31 July) and all went well - hopefully the recovery will also be fine. Should be home Tuesday - Perhaps I will be a good boy and do as I am told to help this happen!!!  Regards Clive.  We all wish you a speedy recovery Clive.  No wonder you required surgery after kicking the door down in  Alcatraz last year, hopefully you will do as your told in lockdown at home.

Thank you President Marion for providing this fascinating information from National Gallery of Victoria's Director, Tony Ellwood exploring the wearing of masks over the centuries. 

This photo of Richard and Ari Skinner conveys what a dentist does when in lockdown!  Here he is proudly displaying what he has industriously created recently. Ari thinks it is a vice!  Is that a "device" or a "vice" Ari?   Seems he has been learning fitting and turning. Hope that isn't part of his dentristry skills now!

MEMBER ANNIVERSARIES

Membership anniversaries this week  Bob Fels (34), Colin Honey (17), Abdullah Saeed (11), Ross Scholes-Robertson (34), Ken Woollard (3).

GREETINGS

Happy birthday this week  David Beanland, Sarah Macleod-Bourke, Peter Choong, Philip Endersbee, Tony Greenwood, Antony , Stephen Lake, Sue McCarthy.

LAST WEEK'S GUESTS

Guests of the Club Melanie Eagle, Martin Forrest (Speakers).

Visiting Rotarians Richard Janson (Lake Forest, Illinois, USA), Ian Knight (Werribee), Murphy Opadotun & Adedotun Amori (Ibadan Onireke Neighborhood, Nigeria), John Bosco (Agaba Kabale), Sana Malik.

Visitors & Guests Carol Bond, Sally Frieze, Gi Tae Kwon, Sue Smith, Chris Snell, Anthony Town.

    Celebrating 100 years of service in 2021