Rotary Club of Malvern is planning their celebrations for 60 years of ‘Doing Good in the World’ , especially within their local community. Congratulations will be abounding when they celebrate on Saturday 25 May, 2019 with their High Tea at The Gables. If you would like to attend, please contact Lucia Cardamone: lucia.cardamone@bigpond.com
Hugh Bucknall has provided this disappointing news: "This is a sad moment for Rotary, as I must inform you that Sushil Gupta has resigned as president-nominee of Rotary International 2020-2021 due to health reasons."
Our Honorary Treasurer, David Carruthers is seen here delivering the financial report on the highly successful International Women's Day Breakfast, organised by Kerry Kornhauser.
Have you considered the myriad of ways you can apply a Raffle ticket? Mother's Day gift! Gift to your beloved! Gift to your adult children who need a vacation with your grandchildren! Gift to your neighbour who has looked after your house while you were away! Be part of the act of giving. Gift a ticket!
Next Sunday, 28 April and if you don't need "beauty sleep", our Raffle Team would love you to join us at Camberwell Market, in front of Pets Plus in the carpark market from 8 am - 10 am. Enjoy the camaraderie as we sell Raffle Tickets!
Have you got some of these notes lying around your home, waiting to be returned with your Raffle ticket stubs? Please return your Raffle ticket money/stubs urgently to Jo in the Office. Plus, I won't need to keep "jazzing up" this message every week!
President Robert has provided the first synopsis of our recent Membership Engagement Survey with some interesting results.
Chris Kotur, is Leadership Victoria's Leader in Residence and is our Guest Presenter at our Evening Meeting on Tuesday, 30 April. Don't miss a fascinating topic: "Leading in Community in the 21st Century". Bookings www.trybooking.com/BBSGE.
President Robert provided a very informative and marvellous inclusion to last week's meeting to remind us of our Club's 98th Anniversary on April 21. It created much interest from Members so has been included into this week's Bulletin.
We extend our congratulations to our former Member Charlie Allen. Charlie is seen here with Governor of Victoria, the Honorary Linda Dessau after being awarded the Australian Police Medal - Order of Australia.
Excellent and informative presentation was delivered last week by Conny Lenneberg, Executive Director, Brotherhood of St Laurence. Conny is seen here with Chair Philip Cornish.
Here we are at Camberwell Market at 7.00 am on Sunday morning! Kevin, Robert, Dorothy, Maryla and Reg selling tickets to anyone who would stop to hear our individual selling styles. Even sold a ticket to a man who was too terrified to fly in a plane! Volunteers needed for Camberwell Market Sunday, 28 April.
Our International Women's Day Breakfast team are presenting cheques to our Charities and thanking our Sponsors 2 May. Guest Speaker is our Mandi Wendt presenting "The Power of Together". Join us and bring a guest.
Ticket stubs need to be returned to the RCM office and payment can be cheque, cash, or EFT. Check with Jo should you wish to transfer your raffle sale proceeds. We appreciate every ticket you sell which assists the Club to make this a fundraising success for 2019.
PP Mary Barry, Graham O'Donnell and Dorothy Gilmour would like to thank all of you who participated in the recent launch of Rotary Safe Families. From the Feedback Forms, the two Workshops were an outstanding success. We plan to run them again in a couple of months for those who were unable to attend.
Alex Buchanan is seen here being congratulated by President Robert. Alex is soon to be celebrating his 85th Birthday. Happiest of Birthdays Alex!
At last week's meeting, Catherine Baxter was inducted. Welcome Catherine Baxter to Rotary Melbourne. We look forward to working alongside you in the future.
Topic: "Changing Religious Diversity in Australia: What is and What is Coming"
Chair: Peter Hollingworth
Stephanie Woollard is seen here with her parents, Ken and Nora after Stephanie received her Order of Australia Medal recently.
Thank you to Chair Stephen Lake for providing the following summary of Commodore Greg Yorke's Navy service at last week's meeting.
Congratulations to Hugh Bucknall who was named a Paul Harris Sapphire at last week's meeting.
Club congratulations to Jason Balkin seen here with fellow Paul Harris awardee Hugh Bucknall and President Robert.
Topic: “Unlocking Potential – BSL Advantage Thinking and Community Investment Committees”
Chair: Philip Cornish
You will be pleased to know our End Trachoma 2020 Face Washing Trailer has been accepted and will be included in the World Engineers Convention program as an oral presentation in November titled “An Engineering Solution to Assist the Elimination of Trachoma from Australia”.
