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.
Rotary Melbourne is contributing to this Australia Day event. Gather your family and friends for a live ZOOM event being streamed across Australia from 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm AEDT, Tuesday, 26 January 2021. Our Rotary SAFE Families is being promoted too.
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/
Please continue into the "Read More" for a fascinating item around bees and their "Amegilla bubbling"!
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/
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.
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.
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.
Rotary Multi District Conference: May 01, 2021 9:00 AM – May 02, 2021 1:00 PM
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."
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".
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.
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).
Our DG Philip wrote in this week's Networker: "I am delighted to advise 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".
Canterbury Waverley Group had a terrific celebration together as witnessed in the attached photograph provided by Bill Pickett. Thanks for providing this happy shot.
The Women in Rotary International International Women's Day 2021 event has a unique difference from the past 9 Breakfasts. Online with the ability to share with thousands of people! Wait till they advise you of their keynote International presenters! Watch this space in next year's Bulletin!
In this article we look at ways in which we can be more energy efficient in the home. This is both environmentally and economically friendly and helps to make the world we live in a healthier and safer place, not only for ourselves but for future generations. (Item: Ari Talantis)
Rotary Hawthorn have provided the following link for the Donations in Kind update:
THE YEAR AT DIK | Rotary Club of Hawthorn (hawthornrotary.org.au)
DAVID BEANLAND has been named an Honorary Fellow (HonFIEAust) – Engineers Australia.
