Peter Rawlings and Anne Shaw are seen here presenting a cheque from the Estate of the Late Barry Rawlings who passed away last October. Community Foundation Chair, Sue McDonald accepted the cheque on behalf of the Club.
Members will all have received their Rotary Club of Melbourne Annual Appeal letter from President Robert and President Elect Kevin Sheehan. Our Foundation is your Foundation and funds the Club’s projects. A Tax Deduction is available if required. Get in before June 30. Pictured here are our lovely “elves” enveloping the letters.
For those who missed Alan Trumble's heart wrenching plea for Members to rally around our Raffle. Read on!
A highly successful dinner hosted by our partner Rotary Brighton North recently included the presenting of cheques to our three nominated charities. Pic shows Breakfast Chair Kerry Kornhauser after receiving flowers from Malcolm Baird, with North Brighton President Meg Ryan and our David Carruthers.
Did you know that our Club now has its own Instagram account? To access it just click on the following link:
https://www.instagram.com/rotarymelbourne/
Then click on follow!
The inaugural Ambulance Victoria Leaders Mentoring Program was officially completed last week at a thank you dinner in Melbourne. Bulletin Editor was thanked for her "commitment and contribution" by DG Bronwyn Stephens and Tony Walker Chief Executive Officer, Ambulance Victoria.
Our Past Honorary Secretary Keith W Callinan was recognised with a PHF Double Sapphire at last week’s meeting. He is seen here with his wife Trudi and President Robert. Congratulations Keith, this award is so well deserved!
Catherine Baxter was inducted and welcomed to Rotary Melbourne on 10th April 2010 with the classification Public Transport – Human Resources.
Holger Knaack, of the Rotary Club of Herzogtum Lauenburg-Mölln, Germany, has been selected to serve as president of Rotary International in 2020-21. The Nominating Committee's decision follows the resignation last month of President-nominee Sushil Gupta. Knaack will officially become president-nominee if no other candidates challenge him by 31 May.
This year’s ChangeOver will be a very special dinner event in the Sofitel’s LaTrobe Room for members, partners and their guests. Diarise: Wednesday 26th June in lieu of our regular lunch time meeting.
The Club’s legendary "super salesman" Alan Trumble provided the Members with a "heart wrenching" rev up about our Raffle!
President Robert has provided the following feedback in this final summary of our Membership Engagement Survey: "I’d like to complete my feedback by featuring some of the additional comments that were made by contributors."
JUST 2 WEEKS OF SELLING LEFT! Raffle drawn 20 May. This is serious now. We are hoping you will be in a ticket selling frenzy! We hope you will sell the remaining books which can be collected from Reception and Jo. Most seriously, have you returned your Raffle ticket STUBS and MONEY? Remember Alan's Message: "GIFT a TICKET!"
Let's diarise this date: Wednesday, 26 June - Changeover Dinner to be held at Sofitel. More details to follow.
We enjoyed the company of engineer Rotarian Thomas Jacubeit who was visiting us from Rotary Club of Falkensee Havell/Spree, Germany, seen here with President Robert.
Thank you to last week's Chair David Carruthers for his summary of Chris Nicol's presentation. Chris is Managing Director Head of Australian Strategy & Economics at Morgan Stanley.
Our Evening Meeting co-hosted with Leadership Victoria was an outstanding event. Christine Kotur, introduced by Richard Dent (picture) is inaugural Leader In Residence at Leadership Victoria spoke about 'Leading the Community in the 21st Century'. We will be announcing our next evening meeting for later this month in the next few days. Stay tuned!
Our On to Conference organiser, Ari Talantis outlined the fun and engaging activities for next year's On to Conference.
For those who don't follow Rotary Melbourne's Facebook page, the following entry was posted by our Social Media and Volunteering Chairperson, Ari Talantis.
President Robert's Report Part 2: "Last week I covered some of the key elements of the recent survey. This week I’d like to move onto some of the specific comments that were made in relation to particular projects that people were interested in being developed by Rotary Melbourne.
Item of news from the Mornington Peninsula Group's lovely lunch meeting: "Margaret Ross provided some very interesting figures on the amount of money that is raised from the sale of stamps. To date the total raised is $120,357.00.
JUST 3 WEEKS OF SELLING LEFT! Have you got some of these notes on your dining room table, waiting to be returned with your Raffle ticket stubs? Please return your Raffle ticket money/stubs urgently to Jo in the Office and why not pick up another book to sell?
There were some sombre moments in Major General Jim Barry's presentation but as the photo shows, there were some light hearted moments too, especially with question time.
Thanks to Trevor Neroy, Reg Smith, Maryla Juchnowski, Allan Wang, President Robert, we stood in the cold and rain at the Camberwell Market for a second round of Raffle Ticket selling. Each of us with our own "unique" style of selling, including Allan who translated the prizes into Mandarin! Onwards and Upwards!
