Another act of Rotary kindness and generosity from Rotary Club of Hitchin Priory, Hertfordshire, UK. Read the following letter received recently: Letter_from_UK_Club_re._support_bushfires_2020.pdf
Yes, those pesky R100 socks cushion and warm the feet of Rob Nethercote in the early hours of the morning at the Breakfast last week. We see them here, we see them there, we see them EVERYWHERE!
Our District 9800 Conference is not far away - 27 to 29 March. Saturday, 28 March, you can hear Andrew Crisp, Emergency Management Commissioner, Emergency Management Victoria speaking on emergency services management. Andrew is just one of a terrific line up of speakers.
Check out what our PE Marion Macleod and Barbara Yerondais are working towards on Friday 22 May. Again they are part of the annual 30 km Walk for Mental Health. You can sponsor them at the attached website: https://www.coastrek.com.au/
Speaker: Helen Leake AM, Producer of biopic 'Monash'.
Topic: 'Sir John Monash'
Chair: Peter Davis
PP Peter Rogers and President Kevin'S R100 socks shared feet stories at the Lord Mayor’s sister-city reception for St. Petersburg!
More than 1,000 guests were met with a fantastic snapshot of what Rotary is about. Our Projects, our capacity to volunteer and make a difference to disadvantaged communities both locally and globally. Well done to the team of panellists and volunteers who again created an inspirational Rotary International Women's Day.
Well done to our quiet achiever, Kerry Kornhauser who delivered with support from her team, yet another highly successful Rotary International Women's Day Breakfast on Thursday at Crown Palladium. This is Kerry's 9th Breakfast!
This year's Moderator Dr Gael Jennings and MC - Husna Pasha are seen here with Kerry Kornhauser and panellists: Sally Capp, Lord Mayor, City of Melbourne; David Leser, Journalist and Writer; Debbie Platz, Asst. Comm. Australian Federal Police; Terry Moran AC, Chancellor, Federation University and Melinda Cilento, CEO, Comm for Economic Development of Australia. The discussion questions created a wonderful personal insight into each panellist's professional journey and how they see diversity in today's workplace.
Graham O'Donnell took his R100 socks (don't know why he didn't wear them?) to Cradle Mountain, Tasmania. He is seen here showing his socks the sign: " ........... We welcome you to walk on country with respect ........" Hopefully they did.
It was lovely to welcome our Rotary Exchange student Isobel Sathler Monasterio to last week's meeting. Isobel is from Brazil and our Rotary friend, Manoel Felipe was there to welcome and help her with our "Aussie lingo"!. We hope to hear more from Isobel in the future.
It was marvellous to speak with visiting Rotarian, Bernd Frischleder, from Köln-Ville, Cologne, Germany last week.
IPP Robert is seen here warmly welcoming back to Rotary Melbourne, Shinji Higuchi from our sister Club - Rotary Osaka. Always delightful to welcome back. Thank you Shinji for visiting us again.
Last week's lunch meeting was terrific as President Kevin welcomed many visitors. Smiles all round from: Samantha Dunne and Liz Pethica (Rotary Macedon Ranges), Pat Armstrong (Rotary Doncaster), and our charming Manoel Felipe and Exchange student, Isobel Sathler Monasterio (Brazil).
It was lovely to talk again with Elaine Saunders' guest, Ellen Kendall, from Rotary Steamboat Springs, USA. Ellen was keen to provide insight into promoting our Rotary Safe Families initiative to Rotary International and USA Club. Thank you Ellen.
Wonderful to see the return of David Frieze last week. President Kevin happily congratulated David with “acknowledgement of his 80 year membership of the Melbourne Cricket Club – being now the 14th most senior member – and still longing for another Demons Grand Final flag !”
The new energetic Rotary Club Macedon Ranges has invited us all to their Wine Appreciation Night on Wednesday, 1 April at Baringos Restaurant, New Gisborne, about 50 minutes from Melbourne. See the attached flyer for more details.
Past President Peter Rogers presented a Rotary Melbourne 100 Year Project: Interactive Water Trailer - End Trachoma 2020.
Dorothy is seen here presenting the latest news on Rotary Melbourne's R100 Project - Rotary Safe Families at last week's meeting.
The vision for Gathering of Kindness, a Rotary 100 Years Project, is to help the Hush Foundation to extend its reach, in Victoria and Nationally, through Rotary’s community connection.
Thank you Chris for providing a succinct update on our "Give Every Child a Future" R100 Centenary Project.
Peter Clark presented our Rotary Melbourne initiative: "End Hepatitis Now" as one of the five R100 Centenary Projects.
Thank you Clive Weeks for sending Editor some photos that need to be shared with Members. The photo shows a rather sober looking R100 Sock as it visits some of Victoria's devastated bushfire areas. The picture shows Clive's sock in Sarsfield which was greatly impacted.
President Kevin lead a Panel reporting on the R100 Centenary Projects of Rotary Melbourne. Each of the Panellists demonstrated how we are focusing on delivering humanitarian projects, capitalising on the Centenary and involving our members as we strive to enjoy our efforts as volunteers.
Our recent Evening Meeting was a huge success with a truly inspirational and fascinating speaker: Viv Nguyen, Chairman, Victorian Multi Cultural Commission. This meeting was podcast and held in an impressive professional space at the Lyceum Club.
