For the latest edition of District 9800 Networker No. 11 February 2022. Please click here.
The Australian Rotary Health 16 February 2022 newsletter is available here.
Thank you to Rt Rev the Hon Dr Peter Hollingworth for last week's reflection.
The Environmental Sustainability Committee is calling for nominations for the 2022 Environmental Sustainability Award close this Friday 4 March.
Young Achievers Award 2022 - Call for Nominations - Nominations close on Friday 18 March 2022.
The Rotary Club of Melbourne Young Achievers awards recognise and honour annually up to three outstanding young Victorians with an award and a cheque for $1,500.
Wednesday 2 March – Lunch Meeting
Speaker Adam A. Jacoby, Founder & Chairman MiVote, and Director, Global & Strategic Innovation, Innovation Precinct, Swinburne University of Technology
Topic ‘Ethics in a digital age’
Venue No 35 Sofitel & ZOOM Online only
Time: 1230 for 1250 - 2pm
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL FOR CATERING PURPOSES
For in person attendance register by Monday 28 February at noon please.
Register: https://events.humanitix.com/rotary-melbourne-meeting-2-mar
Applications for the District 9800 Peace Fellowships for 2022 are now open.
Clean water, sanitation, and hygiene education are basic necessities for a healthy environment and a productive life.
Are you in business or do you know of a business who might be able to take on an intern from the BSL Kick Start program for 4 weeks?
Join the Club’s lunchtime Setup or Reception teams, which are responsible for setup and greeting members and guests at in-person meetings. It's a good way to meet Members and learn people’s names.
The 52nd Angus Mitchell Oration was enjoyed by many Members and Guests. The oration was presented by Prof. Jim Angus AO pictured.
The Portable Lucas Sawmill Project, which got its start from bushfire relief funds collected by Rotary clubs at the Camberwell markets and a separate RCM grant of $1,500 was included on The Project on 6 December 2021.
To read the latest Rotary Zone 8 Bulletin (February 2022) please click here.
Once again we are asking you all to spend some time each week on our club's social media accounts. Let's think of social media as a way to promote the club and its activities, and more importantly as a tool to attract the attention of like minded people.
Australia was ready to embrace Rotary in 1921.
Our guest speaker on Wednesday 16 February was Rotary Melbourne member, Peter Jones AM. Peter delivered an impressive presentation 'Melbourne's Major Events - Rebounding from COVID'.
James Wheeler Davidson joined the Rotary Club of Calgary several months after the May 1914 club charter. He had moved to the rapidly growing*1 frontier city of Calgary, Canada, in 1906 and was a successful businessman following an equally successful earlier career as a journalist and diplomat. (*1Calgary, currently 1.2 million+, had a 1906 population of 11,967, growing to 43,700 in 1911, and 63,300 by 1921).
The Rotary Club of Athinai (Greece) was founded in December of 1928. It is the first Rotary Club of Greece and the Balkans and among the first 100 established Rotary Clubs of Europe. It belongs to 2470 R.I. District. Read more about the Rotary Club of Athenai.
Just over a hundred years ago, JWD was instrumental in founding the first Rotary Clubs in Australia and New Zealand: Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington and Auckland. To celebrate the 2021 centenary, these clubs jointly resolved to mark the event with an international project that would be bigger than any of us could contemplate on our own.
Robert Lampard, MD kindly provided this article on the James W. Davidson Network. All the quotes are taken from James and Lillian Davidson in Rotary International, by R. Lampard and published by the Rotary Club of Red Deer as a Centennial project in 2006.
You can read a copy of Rotary Melbourne December 2021 Newsletter here.
For any network to be successful, it must be of perceived benefit to its participants. With the creation of the Davidson network by the Madras (Chennai) and Bombay (Mumbai) clubs the links have been established. Now we must ensure it has value to the clubs it reaches. We can do this by capitalizing on the opportunities it creates. Dr. Robert Lampard.
