Rotary Club of Melbourne
www.rotaryclubofmelbourne.org.au

Meeting No 4945 in the Club’s 102^nd 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 

This Week's Evening Meeting 

This Week's Upcoming Monthly Evening Gathering Wednesday 13 July 2022 

Conversation with Cameron Glover, Interplast

Topic: ‘Checking the Pulse: navigating surgical inequality during a global pandemic’

Time: 5.50 for 6.00 - 7.30pm

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Venue:  ZOOM or

Dorothy Kaiser Room, Level 3, The Lyceum Club,

Ridgway Place Melbourne

Price $30 (light refreshments provided)

          $10 ZOOM Online Only Access

Register https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melb-13-july

Upcoming Meetings & Events

Meetings will be delivered as hybrids, broadcasting via zoom, and in person each meeting.  Please ensure if you intend to attend that you have registered on Humanitix.

• 20 July LUNCH @ Sofitel No35, Speaker Mark Melvin, CEO Committee of Melbourne 'Positioning Melbourne as the No.1 destination to live, work and invest'. Register via Humanitix: https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melbourne-20-july
  
  
  
  

                                                       

Last Week's Meeting  

First meeting of the 2022-23 Rotary year with guest speaker Heidi Victoria 'The Show Must Go On'. You can view the recording of the meeting HERE.      

Reflection

Thank you to Barbara Yerondais for last week's reflection.        

Member News 

Melbourne Rotary welcomed and inducted Saptarshi De (Sap) into the Club on 29 June 2022. Sap is a Propject Manager. His classification is Business - Project Management. Sap is excited about joining Rotary Melbourne and is looking forward to his participation in the Club committees and activities.    

Club News   

Nominations for this year's Vocational Service Award are required by 30 August 2022. This picture shows the 2022 Awardee, Professor John McNeil AO is a pre-eminent Australian public health researcher. He was Head of Monash University’s School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine (SPHPM) and Head of the Department of Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine at the Alfred Medical Research Precinct from 1986 to 2019.     

Planning is underway for the Around The Bay in a Day Bicycle 2022 event and the Rotary Melbourne fund raising activities for The Smith Family’s - Learning for Life Programme.

The Rotary Melbourne volunteering opportunity for National Tree Day has been well received in the Club and there are only a few places left for members to participate in a tree planting. So get in quick.          

Susan Barton AM, Founder of Lighthouse Foundation and one of our longstanding Melbourne Rotarians, is urgently seeking good-hearted members of the Rotary community to step forward as potential foster carers.        

District News

The Australian Rotary Health June 2022 newsletter is available here.   In this edition you can read about 'Breakthrough for Non-invasive Bowel Cancer Screenings'.

For the latest edition of District 9800 Networker Final Issue for 2021-2022. Please click here.  

Rotary International News

Did you know what the symbols represent in the 2022-23 Rotary logo?     

Environmental News

Andrew Mahar AM, recently posted on his LinkedIn page: Replenish the planet with everything you do.      

The Rotary Club of Sydney’s Climate Action Group is holding an event online on the ‘Role of Bees’ this Monday 11 July 2022 at 5.30pm AEST.

Member Anniversaries: Gerard Ashman (37), Michael Selth (17), Malcolm Simpson (49)

   This coming week to: Damien Farrell.

Guests at Last Week's Meeting

Guests of the Club: Evonne Lu (MacRobertsons Girls’ High School), Heidi Victoria.

Guests of Members: Joanne Croke & Belinda Saltmarsh-Kram (David Kram).

Visiting Rotarians: Shinji Higuchi (Osaka), Peter James (Perth City).

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