Meeting No 4871 in the Club’s 100th year
WELCOME TO FIRST BULLETIN FOR 2021. MAY 2021 TREAT US ALL WITH MUCH MORE KINDNESS THAN 2020.
FROM OUR PRESIDENT'S DESK
President Marion has presented her first "From our President's Desk" for 2021. A great format for updating us all to some of the Club's activities.
THIS WEEK'S MEETING
KAZUYOSHI MATSUNAGA & TIM STONE
At this our first meeting of 2021, we will receive a farewell message from: Kazuyoshi Matsunaga, Consulate-General of Japan and Rotary Melbourne Honorary Member. He will introduce us to:Tim Stone, Journalist, Content Producer and Documentary filmmaker.
Use this link to register for meeting: https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melbourne-weekly-meeting-13-january-2021
UPCOMING SPEAKERS
LOOK AT WHAT'S AHEAD!
20 January: Evening Meeting at 6.00 pm on Zoom online: Cassandra Goodman, Thrive Global Facilitator, Coach and Author. This is the meeting link: https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melbourne-evening-meeting-20-january-2021
27 Janunary: Lunch Meeting at 1.00 pm Zoom online. Member's Lunch. Donations in Kind and Vocational Services Panel discussion: “How did Covid-19 affect your business and how you see the future post Covid-19?”
03 February: Lunch Meeting, Greg Moriarty, Secretary of Defence, Department of Defence Australia, Australia's Former Ambassador for Republics to Indonesia and Iran. "Australia's Strategic Defence Update"
10 February: Evening Meeting, Mark Balla, President Rotary Box Hill Central, Philanthropist, TED Speaker,Author. "The Journey to the Toilet: How Mark Balla is getting girls to school by solving a problem no one else saw."
FIRST EVENING MEETING FOR 2021
We look forward to seeing you at our first Monthly evening meeting for 2021 at 6.00 pm Wednesday, 20 January. Our guest speaker will be Cassandra Goodman, Thrive Global Facilitator, Coach and Author.
This is the Registration link: https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melbourne-evening-meeting-20-january-2021
CLUB NEWS & EVENTS
SUCCESSFUL VISIT TO ROTARY BAIRNSDALE
President Marion Macleod along with Pam Brown (Healing the Hurt), Jim Orchard (Caravan renovations for bushfire victims) and Melanie Bois made a trip to Bairnsdale to spend time with the Rotary Club of Bairnsdale prior to Christmas 2020. We are great supporters of bushfire victims in the Bairnsdale area both with trauma counselling Healing the Hurt program and the renovated caravans initiative.
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY GOES ONLINE 2021
Kerry Kornhauser has announced that Rotary Melbourne will be hosting an exciting virtual International Women’s Day breakfast event on Tuesday, 9 March 2021 with a mystery Guest Speaker.
WE HELPED WOMEN and CHILDREN in NEPAL with COVID
Mark Pinoli, Director of International Services has shared how our International Program Committee recently responded to an urgent request from the Rotary Club of Kathmandu to help establish a COVID testing lab at the Paropakar Hospital for Women and Children in Kathmandu, Nepal. This is the first testing facility in the country that focuses on servicing women and children affected by COVID. Photo shows the official opening of this facility.
MEMBER HIGHLIGHTS
ANGUS MITCHELL WISDOM
It was with great rejoicing at Rotary Melbourne when Angus Mitchell was nominated RI President in 1948. In his acceptance speech, Angus said: “I hope that Rotary never departs from the simple but vital principle of friendly service. When we become friendly with members of our club, we cannot help pulling our weight in the club. It follows, likewise, if we are friendly with our associates in business we deal fairly with them. If we are friendly with our fellow citizens we become involved in the community, and if we make friends with people from other countries, we will contribute to international understanding and peace.”
COULDN'T RESIST THIS ONE!
Phil Endersbee photographed his extended family as they congregated on a beautiful beach on the east coast of Tasmania.
OTHER ROTARY HIGHLIGHTS
SAVE THE DATE: ROTARY AUSTRALIA DAY
National R100 Australia Day event at 12.30pm on 26 January 2021.
DG Philip Archer has advised that 56 “super clusters”, each with up to 15 Rotary clubs, from across Australia have been successful in obtaining approvals for a $20,000 grant each from the National Australia Day Council for our Rotarians and clubs to celebrate Australia Day under the theme "Reflect, Respect, Celebrate - We are all part of the story".
A CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
District 9800 has notified us the Rotary Australia Day Main Event will be held at Nossal High School on Tuesday 26 January from 12.30pm to 2.00pm with a bbq lunch following.
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FASCINATING READ ABOUT BEES
Please continue into the "Read More" for a fascinating item around bees and their "Amegilla bubbling"!
SAVE THE DATE: MULTI DISTRICT CONFERENCE
Rotary Multi District Conference: May 01, 2021 9:00 AM – May 02, 2021 1:00 PM
CENTENARY UPDATE
ROTARY 100 YEARS' STAMP and COINS
This is a preview of the set of 2021 commemorative coins and stamp set. More details to come.
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 Celebrating 100 years of service in 2021    
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