Meeting No 4941 in the Club’s 101st year
Highlights in this bulletin include:
- This Week's Meeting
- Upcoming Meetings & Events
- Last Week's Evening Meeting
- Member News
- Club News
- District News
- Environmental News
This Week's Meeting
Dr Cathy Foley AO PSM, Thomas Baker Oration
Wednesday 15 June 2022 – Lunch Meeting
6th Thomas Baker Oration
Speaker Dr Cathy Foley AO PSM, Australia's Chief Scientist
Topic ‘Harnessing the Power of Science and Technology in a Rapidly Changing World’
Venue Level 1 Latrobe Room Sofitel Melbourne
Register Bookings https://events.humanitix.com/thomas-baker-oration-2022
Invite partners, friends and colleagues along
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.
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22 June LUNCH @ Sofitel No35, Vice Presidents Reporting Day
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29 June LUNCH @ Sofitel No35, Rotary Melbourne Presidents Changeover
Last Week's Evening Meeting
Last week's evening meeting 8 June 2022
Rotary Melbourne's evening meeting was our second hybrid format held at the Lyceum Club on 8 June. The guest speakers were Phoebe Gardner - the winner of Rotary Melbourne’s Environmental Sustainability Award in 2022 and Garry Fowler on Carbon Calculator. A great recording of the meeting can be viewed on Rotary Melbourne’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toouWzudydk.
Member News
Vale Ken Badenoch
Members will be saddened to learn that Josh Badenoch advised on Saturday 11 June that his father, Ken Badenoch, had passed away on Tuesday. Funeral details will be advised when known. Members can read more about Ken's recent acceptance of a Paul Harris Award here.
Amanda Wendt & Katie Wilford catch up in Houston
Several years ago, Katie Wilford came from Iowa to Melbourne under the Rotary Global Scholar program. Recently at the RI Convention in Houston she caught up with Amanda Wendt.
Club News
Special Guests at Sustainability Lunch
Rotary Melbourne were delighted to have three representatives from the Melbourne Indigenous Transition School (MITS) at the Sustainability Lunch on Thursday 2 June.
MITS June 22 Newsletter
MITS (Melbourne Indigenous Transition School) has shared their latest newsletter here. Edward Tudor, Executive Director, mentions that 'In recent months we’ve all reflected on how good it is to be returning to life as normal: the friends, the events, the milestones and the connections. Over the past few weeks at MITS this return to normal has been particularly profound, as we’ve celebrated Sir Doug Nicholls Round, Dreamtime at the ‘G and Reconciliation Week.'
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is next Wednesday.
Rotary Water Trailer #1 now in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands WA
by Peter Rogers
We have received this update on current service of our first Interactive Water Trailer - built in 2018 for service in APY Lands, SA as part of our Rotary Melbourne EndTrachoma R100 initiative.
National Tree Day - Sunday 31 July 22
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.
Rotary Melbourne Annual Appeal 22 - Act Now
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. - 30 June is just around the corner!!!!
Click to make a donation
District News
HOC 2023 News - Home Hospitality night
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 Changeover - Congratulate our Member Amanda Wendt
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
2022 Zone 8 Rotary & Rotaract 'Better Together' Conference
Zone 8 Better Together Conference will be held in Canberra from October 28-30.
International News
Rotary International President's message
Read the RI President 2021-22 Shekhar Mehta's message here.
June 2022
Environmental News
Rotary Melbourne's Environmental Sustainability Food Waste Event
Rotary Melbourne launched its first annual ‘World Environment Day’ on June 2nd with partners City of Melbourne, and Sofitel Melbourne on Collins with all the profits from the lunch going to SecondBite.
Rotarians for Bees
Rotary Melbourne may be interesting in reading about 'Bees, youth and healthcare can be catalysts for change' in the latest hundup Congo publication by Rotarians for Bees. Click here to read.
Calculating your Club’s carbon footprint
This spring ESRAG Oceania launched a Carbon Calculator for Clubs in Australia and New Zealand to use to calculate their carbon emissions from meetings, events and projects.
On Duty John Peberdy (Reception), Gerald Ashman (Photographer)
Member Anniversaries Christina Boys (2), Cameron Glover, Sana Malik, Ramona Martinovici (1), Shahid Yamin (3).
 This week to: Suresh Marcandan, Bill Philip, Rodney Smith.
Guests at Last Week's Meeting
Guests of the Club: Phoebe Gardner.
Guests of Members: Coco Ma (Yidan Xi).
Visiting Rotarians: Karen Loblay (Sydney), Anil Changaroth (Pandan Valley Singapore).
A New Way to Support Rotary Melbourne
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