Rotary Club of Melbourne
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Meeting No 5019 in the Club’s 103rd year 

 Please note Jo Mavros will be on leave from Tuesday 20 February to Friday 8 March 24

Highlights in this bulletin include: 

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

This Week's Meeting - 28 February 2024

Next Meeting Wednesday 28 February 24

Guest Speaker Abiola Akinbiyi, Founder Changepreneurs

Topic 'Empowering Young CALD Women: Mentoring, Education, Networking and Outreach'

Time/Date Wednesday 28 February 24 @ 12.30 for 12.50 - 2.00pm

Venue No35 Sofitelon Collins also Online via Zoom

Price: Lunch $60 via Zoom $10

Register: https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melb-28-feb

Upcoming Meetings & Events Calendar    
  

6 Mar@No35 Hearing Week: Robert Klupacs, CEO Bionics Institute & Dr Yingjie Hu, Research and Development Engineer

Info & to Book: https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melb-6-march

Last Week's Meeting

At the Rotary Melbourne meeting on Wednesday 21 February 24 the Guest Speaker was Arthur Sinodinos, former Liberal Party politician, Former Ambassador to the US , who gave the Angus Mitchell Oration.       

Reflection 

Thank you to Philip Cornish for your reflection at last week's meeting Wednesday 21 February 2024.            

Club News    

Can you believe that the first match is THURSDAY MARCH 7^th! We have just over a week to get organised.     

Members and their partners are invited to participate in an amazing Fellowship Excursion in April 2024. This is a fantastic opportunity to get to know other members, discuss current and potential Rotary Melbourne projects and forge lifelong friendships, all while having a fun time.     

Districts and Rotary and Rotaract clubs play a key role in recruiting and recommending Rotary Peace Fellow candidates. Each year, The Rotary Foundation awards fellowships to leaders in peace and development to study at one of the Rotary Peace Centers at premier universities around the world.     

Rotary Melbourne is delighted to announce that Dr Doug Hilton AO has accepted the Club’s invitation to be the eighth Orator to commemorate the life and works of our Past President Thomas Baker and will speak on the topic 'If science is to save us'.             

Last Friday 23 February 24, was the 119th birthday of Rotary. District have suggested that a great way to celebrate would be to donate to Rotary’s number one humanitarian priority, the eradication of polio.     

In a world first, our electrical stimulation device to treat Crohn’s disease has been implanted in a patient at the Austin Hospital, with the aim of preventing inflammation of the gut recurring after surgery.       

MITS (Melbourne Indigenous Transition School) has shared their latest newsletter here. Edward Tudor, Executive Director noted '2024 has started with our new Year 7 students commencing their educational and boarding journey at MITS.  The students have formed some great initial connections and have brought with them amazing enthusiasm and energy.  With almost 90 students living with MITS across our four boarding houses, they join a thriving student community here on Wurundjeri Country.'

On Duty Cheryl Lacey (Reflection), Gerald Ashman (Photos), Bob Glindemann (MC), Stephen Mandie (Raffle).

Member Anniversaries: Robert Klupacs (1), Robert McGuirk (31), Melissa McShane (1).

Visitors & Guests at Meeting 21 February 24

Guests of Rotary Melbourne

Arthur Sinodinos (Guest Speaker), Natsuko Miguchi Vice Consul-General of Japan, Alan Finkel, Sushil Kumar, Consul General of India, Kathleen Lively, US Consul General , Ian Riseley, Juliet Riseley, Graeme Samuel.

Visiting Rotarians: David Fernee (RC Pakenham), Bernd Frischleder (RC KÖLN VILLE, Cologne, Germany), Michael Hall (RC Whittlesea), Teresa Mitchell (RC Warragul), Michael Lapina (District 9800), Nicola Fabienne (RC Bateman).

Guests of Members: Will Abdo, Anthony Young, Chris Young, Sylvia Young, Sam Theodore, Peter Witkowski, Georgette Godbolt, Peter Kapoyanis (Chris Sotiropoulos), Dr Harvey Cohen, Austin Kerr, Darin Schade (Irena Bauer), Lina Scalzo (Quin Scalzo), Jeff Oughton (Peter Hanlon), Chris Freund (Robert Fisher), Lisa Sheehan (Kevin Sheehan), Grant Steel, Yiannis Ventikos (Peter Rogers), Susanna Louie (Sana Malik), Hemang Hindocha, Russell Jansen, Tejas Muralidhara, Sisira Pulluru, (Bernie McIntosh), Anne McCormack (Susan Barton), Clifton Warren (Cheryl Lacey)

Visitors: Nushan Anguru Kankanamge, Bruce Atkinson, Alberto Balbo, Arthur Baoustanos, Luke Belfield, Crispin Blackall, Simone Carson, Chris Dolkas, Chris Freund, Conor Grace, Michael Headberry, Sean George Kabengele, Peter Kapoyanis, Kelly, Irene Klymenko, Luke Konstantopoulos, Bill Kontos, Elpis Korosidis, Daniel Koutzamanis, Fotini Kypraios, Nitin Mantri, Carlos Medrano, Eugenia Mitrakas OAM, Marios Mitromaras, Sam Muscat, Shiv Nair, Anne O'Donovan AO, Jeff Oughton, Peter Pal, George Papadopoulos, Bill Papastergiadis, Iris Papathanasiou, George Petrou, Rhys Roberts, Penny Sahinis, Dimitrios Salampasis, Arshad Samsudeen, Chris Seviloglou, Thiam Soon Sim, Magdalena Simonis, Dimitrios Siourthas, Kostas Siourthas, Artemis Siourthas, Ned Talic, Bwe Thay, Simon Thewlis, Gary Traver, Dakota Warren, Rebecca Waters, Kenoll Wilson, Peter Witkowski, Sally Wu.

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