Rotary Club of Melbourne
www.rotaryclubofmelbourne.org.au

Meeting No 4940 in the Club’s 101^st year 

Highlights in this bulletin include: 

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

This Week's Evening Meeting 

This Week Wednesday 8 June 2022

Evening Meeting

Speaker Garry Fowler, Co-Chair RCM Environmental Sustainability Committee

Topic 'Towards Carbon Zero' 

Time 5.50 for 6.00 - 7.30pm

Venue  ZOOM or The Lyceum Club Melbourne

Price $30 (light refreshments provided)

        $10 ZOOM Online only access

Register https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melb-8-june

Upcoming Meetings & Events

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.

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

  The 6th Thomas Baker Oration will be on 15 June in the Latrobe Dining Room and as per normal practice it is designated as a Partners Day. Especially with climate change and digital business in most people’s minds, Dr Cathy Foley AO PSM will address us on the very relevant: ‘Harnessing the Power of Science and Technology in a Rapidly Changing World’
  
  

  Please pass this invite to all your contacts we are honoured to have the Chief Scientist present.
  
  

  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 World Environment day celebration on Thursday 2 June will go down as one of President Reg's highlights of 2021/22. 

View the video of last week HERE         

Reflection

Thank you to Cheryl Lacey for the reflection on Wednesday 25 May.            

Member News 

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 third candidate is George Giamadakis.          

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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Club News   

Please see the details of the Governor of Victoria and Mr Howard invitation to a musical morning at Government House Victoria on Tuesday 21 June 22.    

Can you provide a once in lifetime opportunity for visitors to experience true old fashioned Aussie hospitality in your home on Monday night 29th May 2022?

Also bookings are now open for the RI Melbourne Convention in May 22.  Book HERE.     

District 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 

Members can read the June 2022 Rotary Downunder online here.
Rotary Melbourne members may interested to read Jessie Harman's article on changeovers on page 5.     

Environmental News

As the end of the World Environment Day event approached, Garry Fowler, Co-chair of the Environment Sustainability Committee came to the podium to accept the Carbon Social Certificate from Andrew Mahar AM, founder of WithOneSeed, an East Timor based social enterprise.      

Save the Date Sun 31 July 2022 National Tree Day.

Join Rotary Melbourne in a Community Planting. 

Expressions of interest to Jo click here

More details to come.

This month the Environmental Sustainability Rotarian Action Group (ESRAG) Oceania newsletter features information on the launch of the Cabon Calculator by Jessie Harman (RI and Zone 8 Director) who launched the event, along with Gary Fowler (Rotary Melbourne), Pat Armstrong (incoming Chair of ESRAG) and Dr Roger Blakeley (Rotary Club of Wellington).  Click this link to read the ESRAG Oceania May 22 edition.         

Member Anniversaries Claire Fraser (3), Jan Moffatt (16), Norman Taralrud-Bay (8).

 This week to: Madeleine McManus, Ian Ross, Arjang Taylor, Rodney Smith.

Guests at Last Week's Meeting

Guests of the Club: Sally Capp, John Thwaites, Matt Preston, Abiola Ajetomobi, Steve Clifford, Ian Carson, Simone     Carson, Gaurav Prakash, Claire Moore, Rayna Fahey, Manon Beauchamp-Tardieu, Darine Djendoubi, Phoebe Gardner, Alex Arnold, Kolbec Catholic College Students (4).

Guests of Members: Clive Scott, Shobith Pal, Sofitel (4), Alison McClelland, Anne Ada, Jane Wenlock, Dale & Maureen Hoy, Ari Laufer, Patsy Toop, Joe Graffam, John Bateup, Magaret Birtley, Robert Furlan, David Christian (Reg Smith), Prue Burns, Julian Waters-Lynch, Jonathan Koleib, Simon Lockrey (Carol Bond), Robert & Eunice Collier (Peter Berg), Leah Garmston, Luke Chesson, Lucie Allcock, Cale Gaylor, Allarco Cantone, Matthew Surjenko, Fiona Brent, Hemang Hindocha, George Sarantakos, Lauren Dannatt (Bernie McIntosh), Alice Mahar (Richard Dent), Jan Fowler, Andrew Mahar (Garry Fowler), Lesley Jones (Ian Jones), Paul Barcham, Zaya Hood, Hoanna Grantham (Marg Leser), Lina Scalzo (Quin Scalzo), Kerrie Barry (Jim Barry), Katerina Gaita, Andre Martinovici (Ramona Martinovici), Myra Fisher (Robert Fisher), Morgan Stanley, Harvey Kalman, Jamie Mead, Philip Mayers, Gavan Woinarski, Steve DeBono (Morgan Stanley), Jane Wang (Chris Wang), City of Melbourne (10) (Sally Capp), Maree Garland (Ted Garland), Millicent Nink (Trevor Nink), Mary Jensen (Sana Malik), Shawn Smith (Stephen Rando), Cathy Rogers (Peter Rogers), Vicky Amano (Yidan Xi).

Visiting Rotarians H Basarin, Mary Jakobenov, Maggie Payne (Nth Essendon), Janice Peeler (Richmond), Renee Giarrusso, Weronika & David Morehouse, Cameron Guymer (Mornington), Ted Waghorne, John & Liz McCaskill (Canterbury), Fabienne Nichola (Camberwell), Donna Martin, Russell Gilbert, Wendy Stirling (Port Philip), Jenny Foster (Passport Melbourne), Ian Ada (Carlton).

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