Rotary Club of Melbourne
www.rotaryclubofmelbourne.org.au

Meeting No 4873 in the Club’s 100^th year 

FROM the PRESIDENT'S DESK

By the time that you receive this Bulletin we will be preparing for DG Philip Archer’s grand Australia Day event.  It will have some excellent entertainment in Marina Prior, Mike Brady, Josh Piterman and John Foreman.  I do hope you are able to attend.  Philip is also using this as an opportunity to profile many R100 projects, including our own, as we move into the anniversary part of the year.

THIS WEEK'S MEETING

Lunch Meeting: Wednesday, 27 January

Topic: Members Lunch & Vocational Services Panel  ‘How did Covid-19 affect your business and how you see the future post Covid-19?’ with panellists: Sarah Macleod-Bourke, Richard Skinner, Catherine Baxter, Philip Endersbee, Sandra Hills and Mary Barry.

Time: 1-2pm

Venue: ZOOM Online

Meeting Registration:  

https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melbourne-weekly-meeting-27th-jan 

Our Director of Corporate Issues, Peter Davis has provided the following details of the General Meeting to be held during the Members Lunch Meeting, Wednesday, 27 January, 2021.

LAST WEEK'S MEETING

What a breath of fresh air was zoomed to those who attended last week's Evening Meeting.  Cassandra Goodman intrigued and challenged us in her presentation:  ‘How connection and the practice of self-fidelity can improve individual and community wellbeing’.  

UPCOMING SPEAKERS

LOOK AT WHAT'S AHEAD!

03 February: Lunch Meeting, To be advised.

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."

https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melbourne-weekly-meeting-10thfeb 

CLUB EVENTS & NEWS

Rotary Melbourne is contributing to this Australia Day event. Gather your family and friends for a live ZOOM event being streamed across Australia from 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm AEDT, Tuesday, 26 January 2021. Our Rotary SAFE Families is being promoted too.

Marvellous update from PP Robert Fisher this week as he and Myra visited the Dandenong based Afri Aus-Care. Every inch of their gardens are planted out with vegetables, even the fence is sprouting edibles.

The Rotary Leadership Institute is again offering Members the opportunity to understand our history, current and new initiatives in Rotary. Many of our Members have participated and all have responded with positive experience.

The Communications Team would like to remind Members that most weekly meetings are recorded and may be found on the front page of our website: Meetings/Events - You Tube. This is the link for the meeting of Wednesday, 20 January, featuring Tim Stone's fascinating presentation:   https://youtu.be/hFMGj9x_tZU 

MEMBER HIGHLIGHTS

We have Ted Garland to thank for these little gems displaying what a generation gap looks like!  Read more if you like what you see!

MEMBERS THOUGHTS

Please keep Peter Hollingworth in your thoughts at this time.  Peter has told Editor: "Ann had another fall at home and has been in Cabrini Hospital, Malvern and it is planned for her to enter respite care at The Mews in Camberwell next week."  

OTHER ROTARY NEWS

The 3rd Annual Rotary Art Show is happening again - Save the Date - March 26-28. Rotary Flemington-Kensington invites us all to enjoy the Flemington Art Show.

MEMBER ANNIVERSARIES

Membership anniversaries Allan Wang (5) – TODAY!!, Garry Fowler (13), Brian Horwood (9), Sharann Johnson (27) 

GREETINGS

Happy birthday this week Timothy Goonan, Bob Glindemann, Sandra Hills, Abdullah Saeed, Ian Sunderland, Shahid Yamin  

LAST WEEK'S GUESTS

Guest of the Club Cassandra Goodman (Guest Speaker).

Visiting Rotarians & Visitors Ian Knight (Werribee), Anthia Hinson, Robert Renshaw, Amira Meyer, Lisa Tan, Robert Andersson.

 Celebrating 100 years of service in 2021