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NEWS for JUNE, 2021

 

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Trevor Nink has advised that the scheduled date for Rotary Melbourne's Around the Bay 2021 is Sunday 3 October, the day of Daylight Saving commencement. Please diarise and prepare for volunteering or riding! 

CLUB NEWS

Mark Pinoli as advised if you missed the Peace Symposium and/or would like to view it online, he has made the link available to us all: https://peaceleadership.org.au/videos/

Here is the link to the presentation given by Professor Margaret Gardner AO at the recent Thomas Baker Oration: https://youtu.be/Pe8q2SLEpck

Thanks to Chris Wang for providing the latest update on GECAF.  You can read this here:    RGECAF_Newsletter_2021_06_FINAL.pdf

Thanks Ted Garland for sending Editor this terrific update from the Melbourne Indigenous Transition School re. their students who have had to quarantine in Howard Springs for a fortnight so they may return to their families in the Northern Territory, for school holidays. 

Last week's evening meeting was inspirational and emotional. Our international guest speaker Ray Matsumiya has devoted his professional career to unofficial diplomacy, cross-cultural exchange, and peacebuilding. 

Our Website guru Ari Talantis has provided the link to the fantastic recent Evening Meeting with International Guest Speaker, Ray Matsumiya, Executive Director, of The University of the Middle East Project (UME): https://youtu.be/mRGz2aPeD5M

Nominations for this year's Vocational Service Award are required by 30 June, 2021. Pic. shows 2020 Awardee, Professor Sharon Lewin AO, inaugural Director of the Doherty Institute; Melbourne Laureate Professor of Medicine at The University of Melbourne; National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Practitioner Fellow; Chief Investigator in the Australian Partnership for Preparedness Research on Infectious Diseases Emergencies (APPRISE). 

We were fascinated in the simply marvellous presentation which raised our awareness in the cutting-edge Parkinson's disease research being undertaken by the two young researchers from the Florey Institute at last week's meeting.  

   Celebrating 100 years of service in 2021