PP Keith McNeil, now living in Brisbane emailed President Marion: "Our Club President Margot Baillie asked me to convey the best wishes of the Brisbane High Rise Rotary Club to the Rotary Club of Melbourne during this challenging period for all of your members and all citizens of Victoria." Thank you Keith (NOTE: Keith is still a weekly Bulletin reader.)
Wednesday 12th August 2020 – EVENING MEETING
Topic: ‘Life Wasn’t Supposed to be Serious’
Guest Speaker Evening Meeting: Speaker Kerry Cue, Author, Humorist, Mathematician and Journalist
Venue: Zoom online meeting only
Evening Meeting Registration: Kerry Cue Rotary Meeting 12 August 2020
Time: 6-7 pm
Chairman: Renata Bernarde
President Marion Macleod received a warm thank you note from our Sir John Monash Medal recipient Jillian Segal AO during the week. Jillian has provided us with the website for the Monash News.
Thanks to PP Robert Fisher for his special Reflection presented to last week's meeting.
Trevor Nink has updated us with some disappointing news: "We are very disappointed that the 2020 Bicycle Network bike ride has been cancelled due to COVID-19 impacts. This has not conquered us and we in Rotary Melbourne are proceeding with our project!..." Onwards and Upwards
The date of the Rotary Club of Melbourne Inc Annual General Meeting has now been fixed as 18 November 2020. Formal notices will issue in due course. The setting of the date of the Annual General meeting triggers a series of events starting with the forming of the Presidents Nominating Committee.
Peter Davis our Director of Corporate Issues, chaired last week's historic awarding of the Sir John Monash Medal to Jillian Segal AO. History making because it was the first time in the 10 years of Rotary Melbourne's Sir John Monash Medal for Members to be meeting online. Well done to all who assisted to make this meeting so special.
President Marion said: "We know a lot about Sir John Monash in our club so on a day when we celebrate the Monash Medal it was tricky to find something that our club might not know."
19 Aug: Lunch Meeting - The Hon. Philip Dalidakis, Former Minister of Innovation & Digital Economy (Victoria) Director, Centre for Asia-Pacific Strategy
02 Sep: Lunch Meeting –Prof. Brett Sutton - Chief Medical Officer Victoria, ‘Victoria's Response to COVID-19’. Note Meeting Starting at 2.00pm.
09 Sep: Evening Meeting - Liz Ritchie, CEO, Australia Regional Institute
16 Sep: Lunch Meeting - Prof. John Dewar AO, Vice Chancellor, La Trobe University, Bundoora Topic: “What is the future for higher education in Australia”?
President Marion wrote: "It is with great sadness that I share with the Club the sad news that after a sudden and brief move into care, John Reynolds passed away on Sunday morning. He was a key member of Malvern group and all of his group colleagues have responded with sadness at the sudden news and the knowledge that the group won’t be the same. He will be missed by all of us. The Club extends its condolences to John’s family."
Membership Team with Director Chanti Bou and Serena Low have created this terrific event "Navigating Challenges and Opportunities in Retirement". Friday, 28 August. Guest speakers Jim Orchard and Debra Yin Foo will provide participants valuable insights into retirement opportunities including considering membership of Rotary Melbourne.
10.30am every Friday, with a coffee or tea, a biscuit, cake or pastry! Come online and enjoy some light conversation with President Marion. No mask needed and a great way to hear the latest news. Have a go at Zooming! https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3096547242
D9800 is inviting us to "walk, run or roll" in October to raise funds for End Polio Now via "Our Walk With Us End Polio" fitness campaign. This will be a COVID safe fitness program to raise funds.
Jennifer E. Jones, a member of the Rotary Club of Windsor-Roseland, Ontario, Canada, has been nominated to become Rotary International’s president for 2022-23, a groundbreaking selection that will make her the first woman to hold that office in the organization’s 115-year history.
Fantastic to see our Caravan Reno project promoted on the front page of the "Snowy River Mail" newspaper. Well done Jim Orchard and his team for their work in renovating caravans and delivering to bushfire victims in dire need of a roof over their heads. Photograph over page.
From Alcatraz to Mt Disappointment, R100 socks have achieved great adventures for those Members fortunate enough to have been travelling the world! Now, pitiful! Here they are in situ as Rob joins an online Rotary meeting with his foot up on the desk! Second tragedy is over the page!
Kerry Kornhauser. our Communications Director has been proactive in generating more Club promotional marketing external to Rotary Melbourne. Dorothy Gilmour has created a monthly "Rotary Melbourne News" with latest project updates, Upcoming Speakers and Awards.
Malvern Group online meeting was outstanding last week, when Dr Katie Allen, FAHMS, former medical researcher was Guest Speaker. Katie’s international public health experience includes consulting to the WHO with COVID-19 and the US National Academy of Sciences.
Nominations for this year's Vocational Service Award are required by 20 August, 2020. Rotary Melbourne established the Vocational Service Award in 1964. Pic. shows 2019 Awardee, Dr Joe Tucci, CEO Australian Childhood Foundation with PE Reg Smith and PP Kevin Sheehan.
Update from PP Bob Glindemann to Second Bite volunteers: The note below was sent to me a couple of days ago. The following day, the market collections have been suspended for the next couple of months as these harsher restrictions are applied. Pic shows our Hon Treasurer Peter Hanlon with a volunteer last year.
The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest. Neologism being a newly coined word or expression! For example: Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
Our new Chair for Evening Meetings, Renata Bernarde writes: "The evening events have been a great feature of the Rotary Club of Melbourne for many years. So it is great to see that in 2020, they are now part of the Club's Wednesdays schedule and, as you may have noticed, have replaced a lunch event on the 2nd Wednesday of every month.
David York Syme was a Charter Member of Rotary Melbourne and held the classification for Shipping? His father founded the Melbourne Steamship Company of which David became General Manager in 1918. He was a key person in the Australian shipping industry, a member of the Commonwealth Shipping Board, and the Australian Delegate to the International Conference of Shipowners. In the shipping strike of 1920, Prime Minister Hughes summoned Syme to hasten the referral of the strike to a tribunal. He was a Commissioner of the Melbourne Harbour Trust, a Director of the National Bank, the Mt. Lyell Mining & Railway Company and the Metropolitan Gas Company. He was a brother-in-law of Burdett Laycock.
This photo of Richard and Ari Skinner conveys what a dentist does when in lockdown! Here he is proudly displaying what he has industriously created recently. Ari thinks it is a vice! Is that a "device" or a "vice" Ari? Seems he has been learning fitting and turning. Hope that isn't part of his dentristry skills now!
Thank you President Marion for providing this fascinating information from National Gallery of Victoria's Director, Tony Ellwood exploring the wearing of masks over the centuries.
