Meeting report - 26 September 2017
The meeting opened with President Frank, looking resplendent in his Tigers scarf, welcoming our guests;
- Speaker Husna Pasha,
- Roger Leask from the Essendon Club and his guest Brent West,
- Peter Jankowski who is the partner of Rana and
- Suvarna Bai who was a guest of Rob Soros.
Frank then invited Chairperson Campbell Chambers to propose a toast to the excellent work of Rotary International.
Announcements
- Peter Duras reminded members of the MCG Inner Sanctum Tour on October 8th , please RSVP to Peter for this special opportunity as soon as possible with more details at the bottom of this bulletin.
- Herb Greenwood gave an update on fundraising activities for the Charity Dinner and reminded everyone to book their seats via the link below.
- Elias Lebbos gave an update on the tree planting weekend (see separate report).
- Tony Thomas positioned us for his update on the success of a new Club, Seaford.
Michelle Crawford reminded everyone of the Lift the Lid Mental Health Breakfast on 10th October and looked terrific in her coloured sombrero, a short video provided some more details.- President Frank’s announcements:
- Congratulations to Alan Seale and team for arranging such a successful Victoria Police Mentoring Celebratory Breakfast meeting last week.
- It is our intention for our Club members to attend a meeting of each of the Rotary Clubs in our Batman Cluster. We have an opportunity to visit North Melbourne on Thursday 5 October at 6.45 for 7.00pm. It is a special meeting at which each Rotary Club who assisted their August Book Fair (A number of our members provided books) will be presented with a Certificate. Full details will be found in an email to be issued later this week.
- We have received a letter of thanks from the Executrix of the Estate of our late member, Wolfgang Jacobs, which was read out and is published in this Bulletin.
- From the Board meeting last week:
- (a ) As per last week’s Bulletin, the Board has agreed to financially support DIK by the payment of $3500 pa for the next two years, subject to annual review.
- (b ) New Member presentations will be included at least monthly in future meetings. Millie Swann will organise.
- The first of our new members to complete the Rotary Leadership Institute was Alison Chan and she was presented with her Certificate by Pres Frank. A second new member, Rana, will shortly complete her programme and will likewise be presented.
- Thank you to Elias Lebbos and his team for the work over the weekend in planting trees outside Euroa (see separate story) . RI President Ian Risley asked for at least one tree to be planted for every club member. If the stories from the field are correct, it seems that Elias and colleagues have planted trees for almost the whole District!!! Well done.
Presentations
- Tony talked about the Rotary Club of Seaford near Victor Harbour in South Australia which is challenging the norms of the traditional Club (see separate story).
- Vocational report by Alan Seale was postponed due to time constraints.
President Frank closed the meeting reminding us to do good in the world.