In Gear Week 43 12 May 2014 HD
Transcript of In Gear Week 43 12 May 2014 HD
In Gear 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 43, 12 May 2014
Next Meeting
THURSDAY 15 MAY
SPEAKER: DAVID HONE
TOPIC: GEORGE WASHINGTON. AN INSPIRATION FOR
MODERN TIMES
CHAIR: DAVID RUSHWORTH
AV: MALCOLM PARKS
CASH DESK: KERRIE GEARD & MARY SEALY
HOST: GREG EVERY
THURSDAY 22 MAY
SPEAKER: TO BE ARRANGED
TOPIC: TO BE ADVISED
CHAIR: DAVID LANGWORTHY
AV: DAVID LEA
CASH DESK: KERRIE GEARD & MARY SEALY
HOST: GEOFF ABBOTT
THURSDAY 29 MAY
SPEAKER: DAVID RAND AM
CHIEF RESEARCH SCIENTIST CSIRO
TOPIC: ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
CHAIR: ROGER FREWEN
AV: ADRIAN CULSHAW
CASH DESK:KERRIE GEARD & MARY SEALY
HOST: MIKE HEDE
2013—2014
Serving the Community since 1985
Presidents Report
Last week we had the second last fellowship night for this Rotary year at Cilantro the Student Training Restau-rant, situated at the back of the Hemisphere Conference Centre in South Road.
Apparently the restaurant will be relocated to within the TAFE college in the not too distant future as, according to Di Hone who spoke to a Hemisphere staff member on leaving, the Conference Cen-tre is being taken over by an Aged Care group and will converted to a facility for this purpose.
Apart from being open for lunch Wednesdays to Fri-days and dinner Monday to Friday, the Cilantro also have special events such as a Celebrity Chef Degustation Dinner, Industry Icon Din-ners where students work along side some of Australia’s best known chefs and an Oaks Day lunch.
The Cilantro represents the real side of becoming a chef with lots of hard work and learning from the experienced chefs as distinct from the instant celebrity kind currently being popped out by popular television series.
A big thank you to Antony Nixon’s mother who kindly donated $1,000 to the club on Thursday which will be added to our usual donation of $1,000 to Australian Ro-tary Health. Thank you Antony on your mother’s behalf.
The last Presidents’ meeting was held at the Mulgrave Country Club last Friday night with Presidents Elects and incoming Assistant Governors also invited. Kay Gordon from Mordialloc will take over from Wil Cornelis-sen as our A.G. in Ken’s year.
A couple of items of interest that were discussed related to;
the Constitution currently being updated by the Ro-tary Club of Hampton has had some issues that
Contents
1 Presidents Report 2 / 3 Notices 4 Cilantro Photos 5 Club Structure / Picture of Week
SERGEANT’S HOMEWORK TOPIC;
CLOCKS
Unless stated otherwise venue is Victoria Golf Club 6.30 for 7.00
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need to be resolved with R.I. Hamptons Constitution has finally been approved and we will be updating ours by 30th June this year.
Membership in the district has increased from 1,251 at the start of July last year to 1,277 as at 31st March this year.
The penultimate Board Meeting for this year will be held at the RSL at 6.00pm on Wednesday with a number of items to be discussed. Outcomes from the meeting will be in next week’s newsletter. Di-rectors will now be preparing for handover to their replacement or slaving away on their contribution to the Annual Report.
David Hone will be discussing George Washington, David Rushworth is in the Chair and Greg is Acting Sergeant.
See you at VGC,
Robert
Update on Jewellery Sale
For those members that are unaware, we recently had a large amount of end of season jewellery range donated by Luxe Accessories, for sale by our Rotary club. This jewellery range is mainly aimed at the 15 – 30 year old young population. We have just recently had our second sale within the community. It was at the Pioneer Church in Park Road, Cheltenham on last Saturdays very wet day. It was very quiet and everyone was hiding from the rain. However, our team of six ladies managed to sell further stock and add to the balance of money raised so far to $1,483. Thanks to this happy group of ladies, we have once again raised the profile of Rotary in the Community while
emptying the boxes in our spare room. Many thanks to them all. Megan
Hocking Stuart Sandringham 62-64 Station Street
Telephone: 03 9521 9800
Note; As part of our arrangement with Hocking Stuart discounts
Please return all sold and unsold raffle tickets to Adrian
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Attendance at Rotary
As we are always looking for new members we
need to be able to give visitors an outline of what
they would be committing to if they were to join us
and to tell them the sort of work we do.
Everyone will know what our projects and success-
es have been in service to the local and internation-
al communities and will be able to talk about them.
But there may be some confusion on the attend-
ance requirements for membership.
Basically we try to pervade an atmosphere of a
happy club of like-minded people who have fun and
enjoy their weekly meetings. This encourages peo-
ple to turn up to as many meetings as possible so
they do not miss out on what is happening and go-
ing on.
There are however some Rotary rules which we are
obliged to comply with.
Basically a member must attend at least 50% of Ro-
tary club meetings in each half year and that should
include at least 30% of their own club meetings.
They can attend any other Rotary club meeting at
any time, or take part in a recognised Rotary event/
function to make up for missing a meeting at their
own club. A member can also go on line to a meet-
ing of a Rotary E-club and so get an attendance
credit for an otherwise missed meeting (see below).
The Board of our Club is always accommodating in
giving Leave of Absence when members go over-
seas on business/holidays or longer visits to loca-
tions in Australia. The same certainly applies to
sickness or family difficulties.
The attendance requirement should not normally be
a problem. Leave of Absence is almost always
granted in special situations. However no one can
be considered a contributing and active member of
a club if he/she does not turn up as regularly as
reasonably possible.
I hope this brief synopsis helps.
Roy Seager
Hon. Secretary.
Rotary “E-Clubs” in Melbourne There are two such Clubs in Melbourne, ReC of
Melbourne in District 9800 and ReC of Greater Mel-
bourne in District 9810.
However, only the latter appears to have provision
for “make-up” attendance by Rotarians from other
Clubs. You can do this by following the link;
http://www.rotaryeclubofmelbourne.org.au/
pages/make-ups
Winter and Changeover Night
is Coming
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Fun Night at Cilantro
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Fuji Blossoms Photograph by Yuga Kurita, National Geographic "I left my house after midnight to
get there in the morning, when
the air is clearer and the cherry
blossoms look more beautiful.
When I was L.the sun was
dawning, and I saw that Fuji was
hiding behind clouds. So I
parked and slept in my car for a
while, planning to go back home
after waking up. An hour later, I
sensed something and woke.
What I saw was Fuji emerging
from the clouds. I didn't try to
focus the scene perfectly be-
cause I liked the slight “bokeh”
effect on Mount Fuji in the back-
ground."
CLUB STRUCTURE 2013 - 2014 UPDATED 18/03/2014
CLUB SERVICE
President Bob McArthur Director Ken Mirams
PE, VP Ken Mirams Auditor Tony Phillips
Secretary Roy Seager Program Greg Every
Treasurer Malcolm Sawle Mee�ng A�endance Ken Mirams
Founda�on Mar�n Fothergill Communica�ons David Lea
Membership & Marke�ng Trish Smyth Fellowship Judi Hall
Interna�onal Fred Hofmann Sergeant David Hone
Youth Service Rob Fenton Photographer Greg Every, John Beaty
Community Chris D'Arcy Almoner Antony Nixon
Fundraising Adrian Culshaw Hosts & Cashiers Roster
On to Conference John Manks Youth Protec�on Officer Malcolm Parks
New Visions David Greenall
TEAM MEMBERS
Interna�onal Community Youth Service Fundraising
Harry Wolfe Geoff Abbo/ Kerrie Geard John Beaty
David Langworthy Richard Shermon Chris Mar�n Heather Chisholm
Geoff Stockdale Geoff Stringer Mary Sealy Roger Frewen
Ross Phillips Tony Phillips Megan Glenwright
Malcolm Parks David Greenall Golf Mike Hede
Tony McKenna Jim O'Brien David Rushworth
Roy Seager Charmaine Jansz
James Glenwright Antony Nixon
Susan De Bolfo
Membership and Marke�ng
Peter Flude
Richard Jones