Rotary Club of Melbourne
Paul Harris Fellow
Ian Evans
Ian Evans was inducted into Rotary Melbourne on 12th September 2009 with the Classification: State Government -Transport and is an active member of Bayside/Toorak 2 Group. His sponsor was Chris Knight.
Ian quickly become well known in the Club as Chairman of the New Member Committee and over the years, his contribution to extending our Membership has been relentless.
Achieving some 30 new Members in 2015-16 was largely due to Ian’s efforts and was hailed as a first-class example of “Service Above Self” which led to Ian being the Recipient that year of Axle Award. In subsequent years, Ian has put in hours of work to foster the interest of prospective Members.
Since 2012, Ian has served as our New Membership Chair and since 2015, has been a member of the Membership Review Committee and a Mentor to many new Members. Rotary Melbourne’s membership engagement strategy has primarily focused on ensuring members are involved in areas that best suit them to achieve an enhanced membership experience for both new and existing members.
In this endeavour, Ian was involved in many new initiatives undertaken to improve engagement through-out the entire membership cycle with the Mentoring Program, code of conduct, member surveys, lifestyle retiree event, obtaining feedback from Corporate Members, conducting exit interviews and rewriting the Membership Review process with President of the day, Mary Barry.
Notably the efforts of our Membership Team were recognised by District Governor, Bronwyn Stephens conferring a (2018-19) District 9800 Recognition ‘For implementing a successful Membership Engagement Project’.
Now it is time to recognise the meritorious service that Ian has truly rendered to Rotary Melbourne in over the past 11 years and I wish to acknowledge that today Ian has his wife Helen with him at home. Shortly, Ian will be transferring to Rotary Nunawading and he leaves us with our best wishes and deep gratitude.
Ian Evans, for a sustained commitment to “Service Above Self” it gives me pleasure to name you on behalf of the Board and Members of the Rotary Club of Melbourne - a Paul Harris Fellow.
Your Paul Harris Pin and Citation will be delivered to you and now would Members please join me in congratulating Ian.
Conferred this 17th Day of June 2020 by Kevin F Sheehan, President of Rotary Melbourne
