Meeting No 4861 in the Club’s 100th year
YOU HAVE UNTIL 11.59PM THIS EVENING
TO PURCHASE RAFFLE TICKETS!
YOU HAVE UNTIL 5.00PM TOMORROW EVENING
TO BID ON YOUR ITEM IN OUR SILENT AUCTION
Recommendation: Due to the silence of the auction, place the highest bid you can afford on your item. Don't miss out because you want to 'out fox' the competition!
THIS WEEK'S MEETING
MEMBERS MEETING - RAFFLE & AUCTION RESULTS
Monthly Members Lunch Meeting
Guest Speaker: Dr. Lisa O'Brien (CEO, Smith Family Foundation) https://www.thesmithfamily.com.au/about-us/our-people
Unique ZOOM Meeting Registration: TAP ON THIS FOR ZOOM REGISTRATION
Chairman: David Carruthers
Smith Family - Raffle and Silent Auction Results
LAST WEEK'S MEETING
PHIL TURTLE, INDONESIA-AUST. BUS. COUNCIL
Last Wednesday we had Phil Turtle, National President of the Australia Indonesia Business Council and Director of Engenesis Pty Ltd, speak to us on business opportunities in Indonesia. Chair Richard Skinner has provided his summary of a very interesting meeting.
REFLECTION
THIS TOO WILL PASS
Phil Cornish gave a very powerful and appropriate Reflection at last week's meeting: "This Too Will Pass"
PROJECT UPDATE
BOB GLINDEMANN'S DIK UPDATE
PP Bob Glindemann provided a terrific update on Donations in Kind at last week's meeting. We respect and appreciate the fantastic work that our Bob performs in making DIK such a world resource for communities nationally and internationally, experiencing hardship and pain.
MEET A NEW MEMBER
GREGORY KWON
A warm welcome to our new Member, Gi Tae Kwon (Gregory) who was inducted at last week's meeting online.
UPCOMING SPEAKERS
LOOK AT WHAT'S AHEAD!
7 Oct: Lunch Meeting - Dr Laura Hart, ARH Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, Population Mental Health Group at the University of Melbourne - HAT DAY – WEAR A HAT!
14 Oct: Evening Meeting
21 Oct: Lunch Meeting – DOUBLE HEADER - 2020-21 Vocational Service Award presentation & Tom Switzer, Executive Director, Centre for Independent Studies and ABC National Radio Presenter, Sydney
CLUB EVENT & REMINDERS
PLEASE REFLECT!
How can you promote good health when a bottle of wine is worth more than good gums and strong teeth??? Get real Members. The wine has triple the value and the Dental Checkup hasn't even reached its value!!! Come on put some bids in for good health not just good times! Pssst.... Can you keep a secret? The Legal Service - Create 2 Wills is the most underbid but important item on the Auction List. NO BIDS AFTER 5.00 PM TOMORROW (29.9.20) Email your bids to: silent.auction@rotarymelbourne.org.au
ONLY HOURS LEFT TO HELP THE KIDS
As the Headlines above read, this is a reminder that our Rotary Melbourne Smith Family donations via the Silent Auction and Raffle will culminate today and tomorrow. The Raffle ends at 11.59 pm tonight (Monday) and the Silent Auction bids cease at 5.00 pm tomorrow (Tuesday). Donations are most welcome at any time via the Donation button on our Website Front Page. Thank you to those Members who have helped Rotary Melbourne fund the Learning for Life Program during this COVID year. Read about the new item in the Auction ...
CALLING ALL DEBATERS
Calling all Debaters - are you a Master Debater, a School Champion, a Frustrated Barrister?! This is for you!
PETER DOHERTY PRESENTATION
Members have an opportunity to hear Professor Peter Doherty talk about A vaccine - Is it possible? And When?, courtesy of Graduate House, which members might appreciate.
UPDATE ON EMDR TRAUMA RECOVERY
VP Pam Brown and her team including Cynthia Edgell, have been working very hard to create the Trauma Recovery Network for bushfire victims.
SUSTAINABLE LIVING
Be a friend to the environment - it helps make the world a healthier and safer place By Peter Berg
This is the first in a series of short articles that aims to give practical advice on how we can all live in an environmentally sustainable way to help protect our environment. Making the world we live in a healthier and safer place; not only for ourselves, but more importantly for future generations.
HOMELAND STORY ONLINE THEATRE NIGHT
There will be a Rotary Melbourne Special Screening - Homeland Story Thursday, 8 October 2020 at 7.30pm. All funds raised going to the Donydji Community. Trybooking link is: https://www.trybooking.com/BLPVO Flyer: RCM_Homeland_Story_Thursday_8th_October_2020.pdf
BUSINESS CONNECTIONS in ROTARY
Membership Engagement is very busy organising their next event: Business Connections in Rotary. This will be MC'd by Debra Yin Foo and will include three of our Members: PP Quin Scalzo, Sandra Hills and Peter Dakin.
CORONA FIGHTING FUND
Let's all take part in the RM Fighting Fund: https://www.trybooking.com/BKEVJ Our taste buds can be tested at our virtual meetings with our virtual menu and we can provide important funds by paying for our virtual meal which is supporting our RM Fighting Fund!
RECENT MEETING CLOSURE PERFORMANCE
Meeting closure a couple of weeks ago was very beautiful and Editor asked Maestro David Kram about this performance. Here it is for those who missed it or would like to hear again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch1ik5c6ENs
ROTARY 100 YEAR SNAPSHOTS
BOB GLINDEMANN
Last week's segment: "Did you Know?" which highlights a Rotary 100 Year Snapshot, was about PP Bob Glindemann.
PETER CLEMENGER AO
Recently, President Marion Macleod provided a Rotary Melbourne 100 Year Snapshot around our Rotarian, Peter Clemenger AO.
MEMBER HIGHLIGHTS
LIFE IN THE AUSTRALIAN ARMY
Text of a letter from a kid from Eromanga to Mum and Dad. (For those of you not in the know, Eromanga with a Population of 45, is located approx 108km west of Quilpie and has the claim to fame of being the 'furthest town from the sea' in Australia.)
WHEN MY EVENT WENT VIRAL
Our Social Media guru, Ari Talantis has sent Editor a blog she created after much reflection of the Professor Brett Sutton promotion on Facebook. Editor is sharing it here.
27 FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
Stephen Lake has entered a very important fundraising walk and is inviting our participation. "This October I have committed to support “27 for Parkinson’s” https://www.parkinsonswalk.org.au/ which has replaced their annual Walk in the Park fundraiser."
OTHER ROTARY NEWS
DON McQUEEN BUSH BALLADS CONCERT
Don is a Rotarian and lending his talents to help raise some money to assist the Rotary Nomads in supporting excellent community projects with a concert. This event looks really terrific and certainly something different for us in COVID-19 time.
ROTARY IN HARMONY CLASSICAL CONCERT
“A free event of pure joy that will uplift your spirits”.
When? 11October, at 3.00 pm.
Bookings: https://www.trybooking.com/BLRVQ
OCTOBER MORNING TEA with DG PHILIP ARCHER
MEMBER ANNIVERSARIES
Membership anniversaries this week Peter Dakin (32), Marion Macleod (9), Eleanor Onibere (3), John Shaw (24).
GREETINGS
Happy birthday this week Kerry Kornhauser (TODAY!), Peter Clark, James Donnelly, Stephen Mandie.
LAST WEEK'S GUESTS
Guest of Club Phil Turtle (Guest Speaker)
Visiting Rotarians & Visitors John Bosco Agaba, Tom Balmer, Madhumita Bishnu, George Charalambidis, Joanne Hashim, Daniel He, Sean Johnson, Faisal Kaddafi, Ian Knight, Andrew MacIntyre, Sana Malik, Oka Simanjuntak, Sue Smith, Mike Sparkes, Kate Strain, Eddie Zhao.
 Celebrating 100 years of service in 2021    
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