Rotary Club of Melbourne
Paul Harris Fellow
Graeme Whitelaw
Graeme Whitelaw was inducted into Rotary Melbourne on 17th February 2010 with the Classification Stockbroking and his sponsor was Peter Marfleet. His career has embraced various areas of finance including stockbroking, funds management & investment banking.
Graeme is one of those Rotary Melbourne members who quickly qualified for the title - quiet achiever. He brought his expertise as a financial advisor and stockbroker in a most practical and important way as a member of the Investment Committee since 2017. Rotary Melbourne is most grateful for Graeme’s most valuable advisory services provided over many years both in terms of his professionalism and efficiency and in particular his constructive input into moving our investment management to Morgan Stanley.
In everything Graeme does, he epitomises Rotary’s central ethic of ‘Service above Self’. His openness to new ideas has been exemplary and this was reflected in his time as Group Captain of the Balwyn Group, his chairing of the annual Festive Wine Fundraiser and more recently, Graeme has turned his attention to the work of the Welfare of the Young Committee, where we are confident he will play an influential leadership role.
Significantly, from July 2018 to June 2020 Graeme has capably performed the role of Minute Secretary to our Board, skilfully documenting the detail and the nuances of decisions.
Now it is time to recognise the meritorious service that Graeme has truly rendered to Rotary Melbourne in fellowship, administration and our humanitarian project work delivery over the past 10 years and I know that his wife Dianne is on-line to share this occasion today.Graeme Whitelaw, for 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.
Delivered on this 15th day of July 2020 by Immediate Past President, Kevin F Sheehan
