WEEKLY BULLETIN Volume 41: Issue 15, 5th Oct, 2011
Forward Program
Date/Time / Program / Speaker / Chairman/Vote of Thanks / Raffle Prize / Note
10th October
6 for 6.30pm / Membership Night / Various / Andrew Goddard
Ray Cooper / Ray Cooper / Committee
Meetings
17th October
6 for 6.30pm / Club Forum / No speaker / Don Kerley / Peter Dalwood
24th October
6 for 6.30pm / Spirit of Sharing / Peter Cole / Bob Reynolds
Alan Bell / Bernie Edwards / Board Meeting
31st Oct / No Meeting
– Melbourne Cup Eve
Meeting Apologies – Contact Camille 0417 127 697 email :
A number of Club members will be presenting short presentations on a range of subjects to demonstrate the extensive range of activities our Rotary Club is involved in – youth development, local and international projects.
It will be an entertaining and informative night.
« Copy & paste the following email to send to prospective members
“ You are invited to attend a special Membership Information night to be held by The Rotary Club of Glen Waverley on Monday 10th October, 2011. Themeeting is held at the Cabaret Room at the back of the Village Green Hotel on the cnr of Springvale and Ferntree Gully Roads at 6.00 for 6.30pm start and willfinish around 7.45pm. Please come along and find out more about Rotary and some of the projects that the Rotary Club of Glen Waverley has been working on in recent years. “
October – Peter Lowe, David Mair, Rob McPherson, Sue Mills
November – Peter Morgan, Alan Newstead, Peter Nicolls, Brian Norton
If you are not available for roster duty on the day allocated please arrange a swap with another member.
Bulletin Articles to Don Kerley .au by 11:59 pm Tuesdays
Photos and guest speaker summaries contained on Club website www.clubrunner.ca/glenwaverley
One comment I did hear DG Juliet make was that ‘the Rotary Club of Glen Waverley is a model Club for the District’. When I was preparing my responses to the long list of agenda items for the pre-meeting with Club officers it was easy to demonstrate the virtues of this strong and active Club. There is always room for improvement and change however, and bringing new members into the Club is one of the best ways to keep our great Club thriving. In recent weeks we have had a few prospective members show an interest in the Club which is very pleasing. As history shows most new members come from the personal contacts of our Club members.
Inviting a friend or neighbour to our Membership Night next Monday will help to continue our reputation as a ‘model’ Club.
“DEAR FELLOW ROTARIANS AND PARTNERS
Considering a major part of my working life has been spent delivering oral reports and seminars, generally without notes, I was too overcome with emotion on Monday night to say the things I would like to say now.
I came from quite humble beginnings, with a father off to war soon after my birth and post war living for a period in Housing Commission emergency huts. I was quite aware of a lot of poverty around me.
With the passage of time, I fortunately managed to rise above these beginnings but never lost the compassion which I had developed for those less fortunate than myself. Also, having lost a son aged only 34 years, my feelings for those who lose their loved ones due to the 4 F’s (famine, fire, flood and food (lack of)) are ultra strong.
A reasonably successful business has enabled me to put my money where my heart is, and for many years, certainly through Lions and then Rotary but also through other Media I have sought to financially and bodily assist wherever possible. I know I am not Robinson Crusoe in this regard and there are many members of the Club far more deserving of PHF than myself.
As the District Governor acknowledged, Glen Waverly Rotary Club is justifiably a model for all other Clubs in our District.
I would like to now thank you, one and all, for your congratulations, kind words and kisses (ladies only) on the night. As Jeff Fenech once said
“I LOVE YOUSE ALL”.
JIM LEISHMAN P.H.F. (a Proud, Happy Fellow)”
Tuesday, 18th October, 2011
Mayor of Monash Golf Day Dinner, Riversdale Golf Club
Contact Noel Taylor to join on his dinner table for the evening
Cost is $60 per head including drinks
Australian Rotary Health Christmas Cards
Contact Jeff Gouldson for your orders
(see attachment to this Bulletin )
Saturday, 22nd October, 2011
RC Wheelers Hill – 30 Year Celebration
Contact Graeme Woolacott
Sat & Sun 22nd & 23rd October, 2011
Secondhand Booksale
Blackflats State School
Club Contact ; Ray Walker
15-18th December, 2011
2011 JBWere Masters Golf Tournament
Victoria Golf Club
(Driving 11-19th December)
Monday, 21st November – Saturday, 24 December, 2011
Christmas Raffle
Monday, 5th December, 2011
Club Christmas Dinner
Riversdale Golf Club
Bulletin Articles to Don Kerley .au by 11:59 pm Tuesdays
Photos and guest speaker summaries contained on Club website www.clubrunner.ca/glenwaverley