Rotary Club of Melbourne
www.rotaryclubofmelbourne.org.au

Meeting No 5035 in the Club’s 103rd year 

Friendship, Community, Impact and Fun this is what

Rotary Melbourne is all about!!! We welcome New Members.

Highlights in this bulletin include: 

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

This Week's Meeting - 5 June 2024

2024 Rotary Melbourne Environment Award for World Environment Day

Guest Speaker Claire Moore, Sweet Justice

Venue 12.30 for 12.50 - 2.00pm @ No35 Sofitel on Collins also Online via Zoom

Bookings: https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melb-5-jun

Upcoming Meetings & Events Calendar     

Tuesday 11 June - TERRIFIC TUESDAY Evening@Lyceum

The Energy Transition and Social License, panellists  Sara Bice (Director, Institute for Infrastructure in Society, ANU), Mary Barry (Circular Eco), and Alan Finkel (Honorary Member former Chief Scientist, Government Energy Advisor)

https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melb-11jun

19 June  Lunch@No35 Vice Presidents Reporting Day

https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melb-19-jun

26 June    Lunch@Latrobe Presidents Changeover Lunch – Partners Day

https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melb-26-jun

Last Week's Meeting

The inaugural Artificial Intelligence Summit was held jointly by Rotary Melbourne and the Royal Society of Victoria at the Society's beautiful 19th century building in Latrobe Street, featuring global thought leaders. Read more about this successful event, see photos and watch the summit here.     

Club News    

Thank you to PP Robert Fisher for providing a very comprehesive report on the Rotary International Convention held in Singapore last week.    

District News 

The Rotary eClub of Melbourne have the RIPE Stephanie Urchick as our guest speaker on Wednesday 12th June 24.    

Experience the magic that is stored within these walls. See the treasure which is donated for use in underprivileged
communities, both ocally and overseas. Find out how you can volunteer here.      

ROMAC provides surgical treatment for children in Australia and New Zealand from developing countries from our Pacific Region in the form of Life Giving and/or dignity restoring surgery not accessible to them in their home country.

If you would like to read the latest ROMAC Chairman's Message and articles on successful medical cases for May 2024 please click on this link

The Australian Rotary Health May 2024 Newsletter is available here and features articles on upcoming events and feature articles.

Environmental News

This month the Environmental Sustainability Rotarian Action Group (ESRAG) newsletter ESRAG June 2024 Volume 8 Issue 12 features an article titled 'Transforming local food systems through circular economy'.

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On Duty: Ruth Carlos Martinez (Reflection), Gerald Ashman (Photogrpahy), Philip Endersbee (MC), Marg Leser (Raffle).

Member Anniversaries: Les Schultz (52).
 

Visitors & Guests at Meeting 29 May 24 

Club Guests: Finbar O’Hanlon, Dimitrios Salampasis, Magdalena Simonis, Asron Sempf, Kostas Siourthas, Sam Saltis.

Visiting Rotarian: Wing Tang (Rotary Satellite Club of Ending Forced Organ Harvesting).

Guests of Members: Nushan Anguru (Bernie McIntosh), Wasi Abidi (Marg Leser), Will Abdo (Chris Sotiropoulos), Prem Praksash Jayaraman (Stephen Rando), Debra Davis (Peter Davis)

Visitors: Nondas Angelakos, Karen Cabecas, Peter Cebon, Lujan DeFelice, Tim Hawkes,  Pia Latorre, Rob Lawson, Nadia Leung, Adam Lu, Stuart Mackay, Antwan Malouhi, Gourav Narang, Mahesh Narayan, Dom Suto.  

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