Rotary Club of Melbourne
www.rotaryclubofmelbourne.org.au

Meeting No 4947 in the Club’s 102^nd year

Highlights in this bulletin include: 

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

This Week's Meeting 

This Week Wednesday 27 July – Hybrid Lunch Meeting

Guest Speaker Professor Margaret Hellard AM, Deputy Director Burnet Institute

Topic ‘World Hepatitis Day’

Time/Venue: 12.30 for 12.50-1400 - Lunch - @ Sofitel No35 and Zoom

Register via Humanitix: https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melbourne-27-july

In addition the Hepatitis Testing Van will be in the Sofitel forecourt for members to view and to test should they wish.

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.

•  3 August Evening@Lyceum, Richard Wiess, CEO Living the Dream Foundation
  
  
  

•  10 August Lunch@No35 Sofitel, Monash Medal

  
  
  

•  17 August Lunch@No35 Sofitel, Prof. Diana Hansen, WEHI

  
                                                   

Last Week's Meeting  

Last week's meeting was of great interest to Rotary Melbourne Members, in which CEO of the Committee for Melbourne, Mark Melvin addressed us on the impact of the pandemic and the challenges for Melbourne going forward.
You can view the recording of the meeting HERE.                              

Reflection

Thank you to Robert Fisher for last week's reflection.      

Member News 

Rotary Melbourne member, David Carruthers attended an informal Rotary gathering onboard the Viking Jupiter. 

L to R: Fraser and Sheena MacGillivray of the Forres Rotary Club, Scotland North; Donna O’Neal of the Rotary Club of Greene & Putnam Counties, Georgia, USA; and David Carruthers of the Rotary Melbourne, Australia and his wife Caroline.

Club News   

30 Rotary Melbourne members enjoyed the Arts Committee event at the National Gallery of Victoria on 'The Picasso Century'. Thanks to David Kram and his committee for organising.  

This World Hepatitis Day, LiverWELL is supporting ten sector partners in hosting their own events around viral hepatitis through our World Hepatitis Day Incentives.      

This year LiverWell are proud to celebrate their 30th Anniversary, where they will reflect on their history and their achievements.      

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.     

A US$36,000.00 Global Grant Project of RC Lubang Island, RI District 3810, RC Melbourne, RI District 9800 and The Rotary Foundation (GG 2119385) has been finally accomplished.   

The New Daily published an article 'This Australian startup’s maggot army is making feed out of flies' about the company Bardee which was co-founded by Rotary Melbourne's 2022 Environment Sustainability Awardee, Phoebe Gardner. You can view the aritcle here.

Click HERE to view a collage of images from the End Trachoma Water Trailer in WA bringing hygiene and lots of smiles to young faces.

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.        

Rotary Melbourne members may be interested in reading the latest information from the Safe Families website on the connection between family violence and mental health HERE.   

Seven Women has now resumed physical cooking classes while we continue online cooking sessions. We welcome anyone in Nepal who would like to join these physical cooking classes where we make traditional Nepalese cuisines.   

 
District News

You’re invited to attend an information session about the future of Rotary in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.      

You and your family and friends are invited to attend the charity Rotary action on Monday 12 August to support the valuable work that Rotary Foundation undertakes to help those who are less privileged. Please see auction items.    

Membership Anniversary Peter Abotomey (23).

 This coming week to Chris Sotiropoulos, Barbara Yerondais.

Guests at Last Week's Meeting

Guests of the Club Mark Melvin, CEO Committee of Melbourne, Laura Kerr Surah, Committee of Melbourne.

Visitors & Guests of Members Karen Kim, Jill Boag (Madeleine McManus).

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