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Rotary Club of Melbourne
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Meeting No 4988 in the Club’s 102nd year  

 

 

Highlights in this bulletin include: 

  • Next Week's Meeting
  • Upcoming Meetings & Events
  • Member News
  • Club News 
  • District News
  • Convention News

Next Week's Meeting

Speakers Ian Hamm, Chairperson First Nations Foundation

Topic: 'The Voice'

Date/Time Wednesday 7 June 12.30 for 12.50 – 2.00pm

Venue No35 Restaurant Sofitel Hotel on Collins also Online via Zoom

Registration: https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melbourne-7june         

 

 

Upcoming Meetings & Events Calendar 

 

14-June

Evening@Lyceum Manon Beauchamp-Tardieu, Founder and Managing Director Green Panda, ‘The Future of Sustainable Packaging'

21-June

Lunch@No35 Vice Presidents Reporting Day 2023

28-June

Lunch@LatrobeRoom Presidents Changeover Celebration – Partners Day 

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Rotary Melbourne an Evening Conversation - 14 June 2023

Rotary Melbourne evening conversation with....

Guest Speaker Manon Beauchamp-Tardieu, Founder and Managing Director, Little Green Panda

Topic 'The Future of Sustainable Packaging'

Date/Time Wednesday 14 June 5.50 for 6.00pm - 7.30pm

Venue  The Lyceum Club, Melbourne also Online via Zoom

Price $30 (light refreshments provided)/ $10 Zoom only online access

Registrationhttps://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melbourne-14jun     

 

 

Rotary Melbourne Weekly Club Meeting - 21 June 2023

Vice Presidents Reporting Day

Guest Speaker Vice Presidents Peter Davis & Catherine Baxter

Topic 'Imagine Rotary'

Date/Time Wednesday 21 June 12.30 for 12.50 – 2.00pm

Venue No35 Restaurant Sofitel Hotel on Collins also Online via Zoom

Price $53 (2 course lunch @ No35) / $10 Zoom only online access

Registrationhttps://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melbourne-21june         

 

 

Member News

Past President David Jones AO OBE

Good to see David Jones at lunch on Wednesday 24 May.       

 

 

  

Club News    

Tonga Project - Essentials of Humanitarian Practice Training Course

PP Robert Fisher has provided an update on the Corporate Member RedR Tonga project.       

 

 

MITS May 23 Newsletter

MITS (Melbourne Indigenous Transition School) has shared their latest newsletter hereEdward Tudor, Executive Director, shared with us their 1min MITS video for Reconciliation Week, produced pro bono by Fancy Films. The students embraced the excitement of Sir Doug Nicholls Round and Dreamtime at the 'G.  We now find ourselves in the middle of National Reconciliation Week, which has prompted some very thoughtful written reflections from our students. 

 

 

Marvellous Melbourne Cocktail Party Great Success - Stats

From all reports the Rotary Melbourne Marvellous Melbourne Cocktail Party, held on Sunday 28 May 23, was a great success. The event celebrated Rotary Melbourne's special relationship with clubs across the world. Read the Interesting Stats of the Clubs represented at the event.            

 

  

District News 

District 9800 Changeover - Sat 24 June 20

We would like to invite Rotary Melbourne members to join us for the District 9800 Changeover 2023 being held on Saturday 24th June 2023 at the wonderful venue: Hyatt Place, Essendon Fields.      

 

 

Convention News

17th IFTR World Tennis Championships

The 17th ITFR World Championships were held at Melbourne Park over 4 days immediately prior to the Rotary International Convention.
Rotary Melbourne were the organisers for the event, with Brenton Whittenbury from RC Adelaide as tournament director.      

 


 

 

 

Membership Anniversary: Norman Taralrud-Bay (9).

  this week to Ron Cullen, Ian Ross, Arjang Taylor.

 

Guests at the Weekly Meeting on 24 May 23

 

Guests of the Club: Sally Capp, Andrew Sutherland, Greg Harbour, Junji & Kaoru Shimada, Catherine Taylor, Amanda Wendt & Greg Harbour.

 

Guests og Members: Jane Endersbee, Louise Nelson, Clifton Warren, Isabela Ellerton, Lina Scalzo, Heather Glindemann, Helen Weeks, Di Dakin, Sue Burleigh, Sarndi Addison, Philip Whelan, Belinda Saltmarsh-Kram, Vas McGuirk, Vanessa Hall, Janet Wang, Sophia Johnston, Kristine Hayes, Michael Fieldhouse, Briony Bottarelli, Debra Davis, Kate Williams, Debbie Sonin, Cathy Rogers, George Kokovas, Jane Marshall, Heather Lake, Joanne Manger.

 

Visiting Rotarians and their Guests: Beverley Washusen (Peter Washusen), Renita Dixon, Michelle Tanner (New Zealand), Peter Washusen (Newcastle Sunrise), Rajeev Kamineni, Ian Walsh, Gildi Carty, Jo Fiedler, Greg Knagge, Cam Pearce, Robyn Pearce, Frank O'Neill, Heidi Unferdorben, Robert Motteram, Frida Cheok, Richard Dahl, Kay Dowling, Julie Johnson (Adelaide), Madeleine King, Robert Taylor (Calgary, Canada), Bruce McNaught, Cherryl McNaught, Chris Muir, Paul Choy, Violet Lee, Phil Fotofast, Phil Saxby, Keith Watts, Dorothy Watts, Mark Williams, Dymphna MUIR (Brisbane, QLD), Robert Brookes (Barossa Valley, SA), Michael Hall, Maree Hall, Julie Burgess (Whittlesea), Gillian Jones (Wellington NZ), Irina Francken (New Zealand), Nesta Hatendi (Highlands, Zimbabwe), Sandra Turner (Canberra, ACT), John McKinnon (Wellington NZ), Trevor Axworthy, Mary Axworthy (Calgary Downtown, Canada), Purnendu Roychowdhury (Calcutta, India), Ingrid Steinhoff, Carolos Galceran (Barcelona Spain), Bryan Walton, Joan Walton (Calgary at Stampede Park, Canada), Patrice Gadroy (Peronne, France), Evelyne Gadroy (Amiens Trois Vallees, France), Iven Mackay, Marilyn Mackay (Yarraville), Virginia McKenzie (PNW Ending Sex Trafficking, USA), Catherine Gibson (Seattle #4, USA), Graeme Batrouney (Ocean Grove), Judith Diment (London, U.K.), Helen Karakashan (Malvern, UK), Marga Hewko, Conor Gee, Aleta Williams, Kya Robottom (Chicago, US), Saumen Ray (Calcutta, India), Demetri Sampas (Boston #7, USA), Madhumita Bishnu (E Club of Melbourne, India), Vincenzo Arienzo, Marina Alloni (Castellammare Di Stabia, Italy), Marcos Franco (Santos Oeste, Brazil), Adela Franco (Santos Boqueirão, Brazil), Teressa Mitchell (Warragul), Dimitri Tsagaris, John Garland, Rebecca Tolstoy (Perth, WA), Andrea Duenas (Santos Ponta da Praia, Brazil), Donald Hillier (Poulsbo-North Kitsap, Washington US), Rie Hamaguchi (London, U.K.), Shinji Higuchi, Junzo Tateno, Hidetaka Yoshikawa, Taichi Hirose, Shuichi Kano, Shigeru Hayashima, Masashi Nishio, Goro Okuda, Shoji Yuki, Kumiko Kano, Hideki Kano, Junko Hayashima, Akiko Nishio (Osaka, Japan), Hubert Zajicek, Anne Zajicek (Dallas, USA), Wibecke Natås Bryne, Johannes Hausken (Sola, Norway), Jill Dawson, Peter Dawson, Vasana Mututanont (Bangkok, Thailand), Serge Sourou (Oga Accra East, Ghana), Narayan Krishna Kharell (Kathmandu Nepal), John Dierksen, Kathy Dierksen (New Braunfels, Texas), Ingrid Steinhoff (Barcelona Spain), Sergio Aragon (Barcelona Diagonal, Spain), Arsenio Locsin (Manilla, Philippines), Salvador Rizzo (San Pedro Garza Garcia Mexico), Esmeralda Rizzo (Mexico), Claudia Hendry, Daniele Hendry (Ufenau, Switzerland).

 

      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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