Rotary Club of Melbourne
www.rotaryclubofmelbourne.org.au

Meeting No 4875 in the Club’s 100^th year

THIS WEEK'S MEETING

Wednesday, 3 February - LUNCH MEETING

Guest Speaker: Dr Tania Militec, Assistant Director, Centre for Peace Building, University of Melbourne

Topic ‘Australia’s Role in Peace and Conflict Resolution’

Chairman: Richard Dent

Time: 1-2pm

Venue: ZOOM Online only

Meeting Registration: https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melbourne-lunch-meeting-3rd-feb

Adjourned to 3 February, only online at 1.05 pm during the regular Club luncheon meeting.

UPCOMING SPEAKERS

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 

17 February:  Lunch Meeting Andrew Crisp, Emergency Management Commissioner – Victoria, ‘Black Summer Bushfires - One year on - Partnering with East Gippsland Rotary Clubs’

24 February:  Monthly Members Lunch  

LAST WEEK'S MEETING

Our Vocational Services team lead by Richard Skinner created an outstanding panel of Members: Sarah Macleod-Bourke, Catherine Baxter, Philip Endersbee, and Sandra Hills. Their discussion: "How did Covid-19 affect your business and how you see the future post Covid-19?" allowed for many interesting questions.

Thank you Reg for your Reflection delivered at last week's meeting. This can be read in full over page ...

CLUB EVENTS & NEWS

Rotary Melbourne started collecting product from the Prahran Market for SecondBite more than 10+ years ago. This is not an onerous task and volunteers have come and gone over that time. We have some of the original group still collecting. We ask for your assistance now to join our roster and volunteer with us.

For the 5,000 viewers online at the Rotary Australia Day Event, Rotary Melbourne received many acknowledgements as we approach our 100th Centenary.  DG Phillip Archer and his team of volunteers showcased our projects including Give Every Child a Futue, Rotary SAFE Families, End Trachoma to much applause.

Our Director of Communications and Marketing, Kerry Kornhauser has provided a terrific article about Rotary branding and the importance of continuity.

GLOBAL SCHOLARSHIP INVITATION

A BOLD NEW WORLD

This year's International Women's Day Breakfast will be "a bold new world". For the first time, this 10th Breakfast will be an Online Event which can be view from 9 March to 12 March.  Breakfast will be in your home and will be viewed by not just 1,200 guests face to face as normal, but thousands of guests online.

Following the NITV screening, the you can watch Homeland Story on SBS On Demand until 16 Febuary. 

See:  https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/1839692867831/homeland-story

Via the Rotary 'grapevine', Editor was emailed this wonderful letter that Melbourne Rotary Club sent to Rotarian W.J. Fulton, Rotary Club of Keokuk, Iowa, USA in 1932. Thought I would share it with you.

MEMBER HIGHLIGHTS

Congratulations are offered to our Members for their Australia Day Honours: Alistair Urquhart OAM; Susan Davis AO; John Levi AC and congratulations to Stephen Mandie's wife, Amanda Mandie OAM.

Editor spotted this item on Facebook and is sharing for our enjoyment. David Kram has created a Wagner Suite 1 for Bass Trumpet, four Wagner Tubas and Contrabass Tuba for a theatrical production Das Rheingold.

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.

Rotary Foundation Australia’s Chairman, Maurie Stack, delivered an informative presentation at the Rotary Australia Day event on the Foundation’s new Public Benevolent Institution. 

MEMBER ANNIVERSARIES

Membership anniversaries Amir Dastaviz (5)  

GREETINGS

Happy birthday this week Daryl Hawkey, Ken Woollard.

LAST WEEK'S GUESTS

Visiting Rotarians & Visitors Warwick Cavell, Elizabeth Celi, Eric Perkins, Ignacio Inchausti.

 Celebrating 100 years of service in 2021