27 Janunary: Lunch Meeting at 1.00 pm Zoom online. Member's Lunch. Vocational Services Panel discussion: “How did Covid-19 affect your business and how you see the future post Covid-19?”
03 February: Lunch Meeting, Greg Moriarty, Secretary of Defence, Department of Defence Australia, Australia's Former Ambassador for Republics to Indonesia and Iran. "Australia's Strategic Defence Update"
10 February: Evening Meeting, Mark Balla, President Rotary Box Hill Central, Philanthropist, TED Speaker,Author. "The Journey to the Toilet: How Mark Balla is getting girls to school by solving a problem no one else saw."
Last week's meeting, we met Helen Moylan, our latest member of Rotary Melbourne and daughter of past member Eric Banks. We look forward to meeting Helen when we eventually all meet on the 35th Floor! In the meantime, we can email Helen to extend our friendship online and invite her to visit our committee meetings.
Second part of last week's meeting was a truly amazing presentation by Tim Stone, journalist and documentary filmmaker: "Through Samurai Eyes". Tim was introduced by Kazuyoshi Matsunaga, former Consulate-General Japan, Victoria.
Kazuyoshi Matsunaga, Consulate-General of Japan and Rotary Melbourne Honorary Member, farewelled us at last week's meeting via video, before introducing us to Tim Stone. (see item below)
Our MUNA (Model United Nations Assembly) Team of Manik and Samartha were announced as the winning team recently at Assembly. Neville Page, District 9800 MUNA Committee Chairperson and Christina Boys introduced the two inspirational young men at last week's meeting.
PP Bob Glindemann has advised that Second Bite has invited us to return now that it is safer, to help them with collection of food on a Sunday afternoon for a mere 2 hours every few weeks at the Prahran Market. Pic shows Zoe Mavros collecting.
The following story "Road to Tabuk" is written by Rotary Melbourne Club "Champion" Ruth Carlos Martinez who is an inspirational supporter with the The Rotary Foundation in providing significant water, sanitation and hygiene to the northern Philippines.
Thanks Bob Fels for providing members with a marvellous letter from Global Peace Scholar Peter Pal.
In this item from Peter Berg and the Rotary Environment and Sustainability team, we are reminded of how to -
Be a friend to the environment - it helps make the world a healthier and safer place
President Marion has presented her first "From our President's Desk" for 2021. A great format for updating us all to some of the Club's activities.
At this our first meeting of 2021, we will receive a farewell message from: Kazuyoshi Matsunaga, Consulate-General of Japan and Rotary Melbourne Honorary Member. He will introduce us to:Tim Stone, Journalist, Content Producer and Documentary filmmaker.
Use this link to register for meeting: https://events.humanitix.com/
20 January: Evening Meeting at 6.00 pm on Zoom online: Cassandra Goodman, Thrive Global Facilitator, Coach and Author. This is the meeting link: https://events.humanitix.com/
27 Janunary: Lunch Meeting at 1.00 pm Zoom online. Member's Lunch. Donations in Kind and Vocational Services Panel discussion: “How did Covid-19 affect your business and how you see the future post Covid-19?”
03 February: Lunch Meeting, Greg Moriarty, Secretary of Defence, Department of Defence Australia, Australia's Former Ambassador for Republics to Indonesia and Iran. "Australia's Strategic Defence Update"
10 February: Evening Meeting, Mark Balla, President Rotary Box Hill Central, Philanthropist, TED Speaker,Author. "The Journey to the Toilet: How Mark Balla is getting girls to school by solving a problem no one else saw."
We look forward to seeing you at our first Monthly evening meeting for 2021 at 6.00 pm Wednesday, 20 January. Our guest speaker will be Cassandra Goodman, Thrive Global Facilitator, Coach and Author.
This is the Registration link: https://events.humanitix.com/
Please continue into the "Read More" for a fascinating item around bees and their "Amegilla bubbling"!
President Marion Macleod along with Pam Brown (Healing the Hurt), Jim Orchard (Caravan renovations for bushfire victims) and Melanie Bois made a trip to Bairnsdale to spend time with the Rotary Club of Bairnsdale prior to Christmas 2020. We are great supporters of bushfire victims in the Bairnsdale area both with trauma counselling Healing the Hurt program and the renovated caravans initiative.
Kerry Kornhauser has announced that Rotary Melbourne will be hosting an exciting virtual International Women’s Day breakfast event on Tuesday, 9 March 2021 with a mystery Guest Speaker.
Mark Pinoli, Director of International Services has shared how our International Program Committee recently responded to an urgent request from the Rotary Club of Kathmandu to help establish a COVID testing lab at the Paropakar Hospital for Women and Children in Kathmandu, Nepal. This is the first testing facility in the country that focuses on servicing women and children affected by COVID. Photo shows the official opening of this facility.
It was with great rejoicing at Rotary Melbourne when Angus Mitchell was nominated RI President in 1948. In his acceptance speech, Angus said: “I hope that Rotary never departs from the simple but vital principle of friendly service. When we become friendly with members of our club, we cannot help pulling our weight in the club. It follows, likewise, if we are friendly with our associates in business we deal fairly with them. If we are friendly with our fellow citizens we become involved in the community, and if we make friends with people from other countries, we will contribute to international understanding and peace.”
Phil Endersbee photographed his extended family as they congregated on a beautiful beach on the east coast of Tasmania.
National R100 Australia Day event at 12.30pm on 26 January 2021.
DG Philip Archer has advised that 56 “super clusters”, each with up to 15 Rotary clubs, from across Australia have been successful in obtaining approvals for a $20,000 grant each from the National Australia Day Council for our Rotarians and clubs to celebrate Australia Day under the theme "Reflect, Respect, Celebrate - We are all part of the story".
Rotary Multi District Conference: May 01, 2021 9:00 AM – May 02, 2021 1:00 PM
Fascinating Art/Artificial Intelligence engineering presentation by Professor Dr Christoph Schommer at last week's evening meeting. If you missed it or would like a reminder: https://youtu.be/ZjMDWMS7MZw
Editor met Keith Brierley in 2017 when she visited him at his retirement residence to interview him. Unfortunately, I don't have the formal citation which was read at last week's meeting. I have instead provided my interview with this wonderful Honorary Member of Rotary Melbourne who died December 4, 2020 (93 years old).
