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R O T A R Y C L U B O F B E A U M A R I S W E E K L Y B U L L E T I N Number 29, 1 February 2016
Next Meetings
THURSDAY4 FEBRUARY
SPEAKER: LOISLINDSAY
TOPIC: NEWMEMBERTALK
CHAIR: ROSSPHILLIPS
AV: KENMIRAMS
CASHDESK: LOISLINDSAY& RICHARDSHERMON
HOST: GREGEVERY
THURSDAY11 FEBRUARY
SPEAKERS: WESFLAVEL(NYSF) & JESSEGREENWOOD(HANDS
ACROSSTHEWATER)
CHAIR: TONY PHILLIPS
AV: DAVIDLEA
CASHDESK: LOISLINDSAY& MARTINFOTHERGILL
HOST: GREGEVERY
THURSDAY18 FEBRUARY
FELLOWSHIPFILMNIGHT,SPOTLIGHT
PALACEDENDY,
26 CHURCHST, BRIGHTON
TIME:TBC
THURSDAY25 FEBRUARY
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A NEWAPPROACHTOROTARY
CHAIR: DAVIDRUSHWORTH
AV: ROSSPHILLIPS
CASHDESK: LOISLINDSAY& MARTINFOTHERGILL
HOST: CHRISMARTIN
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Presidents Report
How tremendous to have Clem Quick speak and tell ustrue tales (no tall tales) of his career and life on Thursdaynight. Again it shows the tremendous range of skills and expe-rience we have in the club. There was lots of excitement andsplit second timing and reactions but there was also hard workand contribution to community in Clem and his family's story.
As usual many members have been working hard for the club,I can only mention a few instances in my column, some ofthese include:
Kerrie and the Youth team have finalised the Resilience Sur-vey with Bayside Council, have organised with Greg to haveWes Flavell speak on the 11th of February on his NationalYouth Science Forum experience, and through David Hone are
working on sponsoring Indigenous students.
John Manks has been working on the legal structures whichwould enable a new girls' hostel to be purchased in Kupang.This is possible through a generous donation made by an indi-vidual through RAWCS.
Ken and Peter have organised storage for our Farmers Mar-ket equipment at Wilson Storage, this will be convenient andeasy to access.
Next week I am again looking forward to another member talk,
Lois talking about her career and life, another privilege.
Yours in Rotary Trish
1 Presidents Report2 Notices3 This Weeks Speaker4 District Golf Day5 RC of Dingley Village Golf Day
6 Club Structure / Picture of the Day
Unless stated otherwise venue isVictoria Golf Club 6.30 for 7.00
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February is Rotary
World Understanding Month
Area of Focus: Peace and Conflict Prevention/Resolution
Some background on Rotarys amazing work in this
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Beaumaris Rotary is sponsor / mentor to our own Ambas-sadorial Scholar, Rebeccah Bartlett .
She is a Rotary Peace Scholar pursuing her master's de-gree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's
Gillings School of Global Public Health.
Hocking Stuart Sandringham62-64 Station Street
Telephone: 03 9521 9800
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was so successful he was given an offer to goodto refuse to sell it.
Led a GSE team to Brazil and Chile. The Chileanborder militia were highly suspicious of the cacheof boomerangs they had with them as gifts.
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Clem was born in Horsham on 15 September 1944. The
son of farmers he started at a local primary school whenhe was seven. He travelled 11 miles to a school with 11students. He started at Warracknabeal High School butwas then sent to board at Wesley. It was there that hemet the Nicholas brothers (of Aspro fame) and throughthem gained his first experience of flying. This would be-come both his vocation and his passion.
He gained his initial flying licence by the time he was 17and then went on to gain his commercial licence as soonas he could.
Clem was married in 1967 to a nurse, which came inhandy as some of his landings were not exactly routine.She latter succumb to cancer in 2000.
Clem went on to run a crop dusting business, Quick Air,and was part owner in a charter company Warrack Air.He also helped run the family farm with his brother.
He joined APEX and then Rotary in his 30s. He went onto be Club President, at 36, and is a Paul Harris Fellow
with sapphire.
Clems talk was littered with anecdotes from his flyingdays. As with all such speakers it is impossible to capturethe detail, nuance and wit of his presentation. AS theysay you have to have been there! A few summary high-lights include;
Water skiing behind an aeroplane to fill in time afterearly morning rice sowing
Causing havoc with local wild and domestic lifewhen he ran out of strychnine when combating amouse plague. The substitute product Endrinproved to be far more lethal than expected
Various crashes and forced landings over the yearsfrom which he walked away intact.
While instructing in an ultra-light plane he had acrash from which he did not walk away. Resultedin a broken leg.
Two of the crashes happened on Friday 13 soClem is wary of that date
Taking a Cessna Agwagon (see photo) toKununurra and having to land every 100 miles torefuel. He loaned the plane out for a season and it
INTO THE WILD BLUE YONDER: 150 years of flyingexperience is shared equally between John Thomp-son, Graham Drage and Clem Quick who celebratedthe occasion with a fly in the Aero Clubs Cessna 172
on the weekend.
Warracknabeal Herald, 20 March 2012
Above; Cessna Agwagon Below; Cessna 210
Just two of the aeroplanes in Clems fleet over theyears.
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Entry forms can be obtained from David Lea and Roy Seager at Beaumaris Rotary or the above contacts
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Sacred Swim
Photograph by Raja Subramaniyan,National Geographic Your Shot
A quiet morning at DashashwamedhGhat, the main ghat in Varanasi,India, on the banks of the GangesRiver, afforded an image that couldproject the feel of the moment: alone visitor "taking the holy bath."
(A ghat is a series of steps leading
down to a body of water, particularly
a holy river.)