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Chair Michelle Crawford opened the meeting with a toast to Rotary International. President Neville Taylor welcomed guests: Richard Hutchinson – Rotarian and Past President and Rotaractor from Auckland, New Zealand Robyn Seale – Guest and Partner of Alan Belinda Seale – Guest Speaker
The venue will be trialling a different arrangement with the club breakfasts, we will start to see a difference from next week. This is in response to feedback from the member survey. Tom Callander and Russell Rolls represented the club in the Melbourne Marathon in the 10km run. Both met their goals, Russell to finish and Tom to better his score from last year. The funds raised will go to International service and the SocialEnterprise funds will go to this as well. Allan Driver told us a number of stories about his parents putting up an electric fence to keep him in, taking a trip on a train at 3 years old, hoping in the seat of a DC3 and his father putting up a Grandstand in his front yard to watch the queen go by. In the end, the trip on the train proved to be the tall tale, however he did make it to Pascoe Vale train station, still a mean feat at 3 years old. Announcements Tony Thomas wanted to thank the members who came to the book launch in Carlton, about 60 people there and sold about 40 books. The book is called “The West” tales about a sleepy city and presenting in WA with the WA Historical society at the end of the month. Roy Garrett – Thanked the club for the flowers for Annie, who is going through Chemo again. Russell Rolls - Working Bee at DIY on Saturday week, 27 October, please respond and Russell can tell you where to go for the working bee. Frank, Daniel, Roger, Herb, Yanpu and Rohan have volunteered, please see Russell or email if you can help out, additional helpers would be great. Frank O'Brien - Last call for members to go to Tooborac and enjoy lunch with Rotary Echuca. Also as Foundation Director, next week is the End Polio Day, 24th October, the birthday of Jonas Sulk, the scientist who invented the Polio vaccine. As part of the End Polio campaign it is purple pinkie day and members will be offered an opportunity to participate by having a fingernail painted purple. This month’s Rotary Down Under is very good and would recommend to members. Roger Thornton - Garden DesignFest, it is almost upon us, we need assistance from members and timing is 10-11 November for regional gardens and 17-18 November for Melbourne and Mornington Peninsula gardens. Please help, we are responsible for seven gardens in eastern suburbs. The Garden Captain’s are very experienced and will be able to help you. Captain’s are: Allan Seale, Tom Callander, Doug Robertson, Robe Hines, George Mackey, Frank O’Brien, Roger Thornton. Please get bookings in soon, bookings will be available through the “be collective” website. We need 2 to 3 people for each shift. Raffle tickets will also be given to members at the next meeting and we are asking members to sell 20 tickets for $2 each.
President Neville’s Announcements Board meeting was held last week and the minutes are available on ClubRunner. Given the District’s considerations around the situation with International House, the club has decided that it will not be involved with the Fraternitas Awards this year. The board has endorsed a nominating committee for club leadership positions for the coming year. The committee has endorsed a pipeline of potential presidents for the coming years. Warwick is keen to receive nominations for positions on the board for the coming Rotary year. The club AGM will be on 20 November 2018. A reminder to members to pass on to Suzette Taylor contact details of partners and friends to build the friends of RCM and for the event on Sunday 28th October. Laneway Learning Class, “The Essential Writing Workout”, like a physical workout with a personal trainer but tailored to your ‘brain’. rsvp Suzette at suzette.taylor5@bigpond.com no later than Friday 19th October.
Guest Speaker – Belinda Seale, Associate at Allen Kong Architect Pty Ltd Belinda talked about the design concept of Salutogenesis. This theory was developed by medical sociologist Aaron Antonovsky in 1979 and describes factors that support health and well-being. The three main components are comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness and deals with the idea of bringing health and well-being into the design of our build environment and how it makes us interact with the wider world and others. Casey base in Antarctica is an example of where a building design created negative impact on the staff and a redesign to separate buildings created a better measure of well-being. For the residents in aged care, it is important to consider both: Physical - space, air, light, temperature and acoustics Psychological - Personal, Cultural and the Emotional, intellectual and physical abilities. More external support is needed.
This is especially important as Residential Care environments are a building type where people spend a significant amount of time indoors. Good design features have been included in a number of the projects that Belinda has worked on to help improve the environment for residents including: Having windows into rooms from corridors and to gardens, which creates a link with space and time. Well maintained gardens are important as this is a reminder of a caring human presence. Having corridors that are verandas and encourage people to go outside to get to other parts of the facility. Allowing residents to have individual gardens Small clusters of rooms around a courtyard allows residents to interact to the degree they would like without being overwhelmed.
Raffle Winners were Nick, Keith and Roy. |
Since Rotary and its partners launched the Global Polio Eradication initiative 30 years ago, the incidence of polio has plummeted by more than 99.9 percent, from about 350,000 cases a year to just 22 cases in 2017. To sustain this progress, and protect all children from polio, Rotary has committed to raising US$50 million per year in support of global polio eradication efforts. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will match Rotary’s commitment 2:1. Without full funding and political commitment, this paralyzing disease could return to previously polio-free countries, putting children everywhere at risk. 
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President Neville Taylor
Guest Speaker Belinda Seale
