Rotary Club of Melbourne
www.rotaryclubofmelbourne.org.au

Meeting No 4939 in the Club’s 101^st year 

Highlights in this bulletin include: 

• This Week's Meeting 
• Upcoming Meetings & Events
• Last Week's Meeting
• Member News
• Club News 
• District News
• Environmental News

This Week's Meeting 

This Week Thursday 2 June 2022 – Lunch Meeting 

World Environment Day – Food Waste Lunch

Speakers: Food Waste Panel

2^nd RCM Environmental Sustainability Award presented 

Venue Level 1 Sofitel Ballroom

Register https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-food-waste

Upcoming Meetings & Events

The following Club meetings will be either at Level 35, Sofitel or Lyceum Club and/or online. Venue and login details will be circulated in club communications and on the Website.  Lunch meetings will be delivered as hybrids, broadcasting via zoom, and meeting in person each meeting.  Please ensure if you intend to attend that you have registered on Humanitix.

• 08 June EVENING MEETING @ Lyceum Club, TBA
  
  

• 15 June  LUNCH @ Sofitel Level 1, THOMAS BAKER ORATION Dr Cathy Foley AO PSM, Australia's Chief Scientist     

  Register via Humanitix: https://events.humanitix.com/thomas-baker-oration-2022 
   
  

  Thomas Baker Oration Wed 15 June 2022 - Register NOW

  Rotary Melbourne is honoured to have Australia’s Chief Scientist, Dr Cathy Foley AO PSM, give the 6th Thomas Baker Oration on Wednesday 15 June 2022 at the Sofitel function area.       

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•  22 June  LUNCH @ Sofitel No35, Vice Presidents Reporting Day
  
  

• 29 June  LUNCH @ Sofitel No35, Rotary Melbourne Presidents Changeover

                                              

           

Last Week's Meeting  

Our guest speaker on Wednesday 25 May was Dr. Alan Finkel AC, Australia’s Chief Scientist from 2016-20 and Special Adviser to the Australian Government on Low Emissions Technology, who presented the Rotary Melbourne Young Achiever Awards 2022.  

View the video of last week HERE         

Member News 

Melbourne Rotary welcomed and inducted Mohammad Faisal Albarbari (Mike) into the Club on 18 May 2022. Mike is a Chartered Accountant. His classification is Finance – Accounting. Mike is excited about joining Rotary Melbourne and is looking forward to his participation in the Club activities.    

The presentation of a Paul Harris Fellow Award to Honorary Secretary, Russell Board for his service particularly in 2020-2021 which was a challenging year requiring Russell’s calm and thorough governance oversight.      

Rotary Melbourne member, Vaideek Chaudhary, has agreed to interview various members of the Club as part the Communications Committee idea to get to know members of the Club. Vaideek's second candidate is Dr Chris Sotiropoulos.                

An email was circulated on 24 May asking all Rotary Melbourne members to check their online Members Directory in preparation of the 2022/23 printed Directory. Updates are required by Friday 3 June.  Please ensure you have checked both the hardcopy and online directory and advise any changes including updated photos. Please send your updates to the Directory Editor directory@rotarymelbourne.org.au  Thank you to all of those members who have already responded.

Club News   

Make sure you book for this lunch, on Saturday 23 June, as we congratulate our own Mandi Wendt as she takes the reigns from DG Dale.  Our Club is the host supporting the in coming DG Wendt.  Our first District Governor for some years.

Register: https://events.humanitix.com/district9800-changeover2022 

Visiting Rotarian Reg Hutchinson, Rotary Adelaide, was invited to the podium for the  exchange of Club banners, following which Reg H. presented a historical brass plaque which a member of the public, resident in the Adelaide Hills, had found in the garage.     

A reminder it is Annual Appeal time.  Your donation is essential and valued and will support the Club’s projects and activities some of those are shown in the image on the right. Consider the impact your donation will have on the lives of less fortunate.

Support the RCM Foundation. Tax deductible donations available.

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District News

A contingent of HOC members are jetting to Huston Texas, to join the 2022 RI Convention and promote our convention in May 2023. Travel safe!  Look out for early bird registration opportunities.      

Many members are concerned that Rotary needs to adapt and evolve to increase its relevance in a changing world.  A major consultation will begin in June about piloting a regional structure in Zone 8 (Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands) will be conducted.      

RIMERN (Rotary Inner Melbourne Emergency Relief Network) is heading for it’s 1st Birthday on 16th June & our big gift will be a van! From getting our warehouse keys until now it’s been a very exciting year!      

ROMAC provides surgical treatment for children in Australia and New Zealand from developing countries from our Pacific Region in the form of Life Giving and/or dignity restoring surgery not accessible to them in their home country.

If you would like to read the latest ROMAC Chairman's Message for May 2022 please click on this link

The Australian Rotary Health 25 May 2022 newsletter is available here.   In this edition you can read about 'A New Treatment for Stroke Patients'.

Environmental News

This month the Environmental Sustainability Rotarian Action Group (ESRAG) ESRAG May 2022 Volume 6 Issue11 features Rotarians Learning to Live Within Planetary Means.   

Member Anniversaries Vaideek Chaudhary (1).

 This week to: Gus Nossal.

Guests at Last Week's Meeting

Guests of the Club: Dr Alan Finkel AC, Berat Kaya, Laura Mc Arthur and Joseph Alkarra, Zeynep & Adnan Kaya, Cynthia Tran, James Holland, Reg Hutchinson, Russell & Narelle Board.

Guests of Members: Natasha Alabakov (Marg Leser).

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