What a surprise John Kinai turned out to be as our Member Behind the Badge. Amongst other things, his father was a genuine “Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel” on the Kokoda Trail in New Guinea during World War 2. Can anyone attest that maybe John’s dad helped his or her father during WW2?
Chris Woods’ presentation on membership gave an insight to a very different model of Rotary and challenged some long-standing views and policies of Rotary. If you regularly follow the Networker, you will notice that pretty well everything he said has been presented there over time and this is how Rotary is evolving.
Also in this week’s Networker, there is some information on the Perth conference including indicative airline prices and registration time frames.
On behalf of the club, I extend a very warm welcome to Justine Cadell, who came to us for the first time last week and contacted us via our website.This week is a partner’s night, so please ensure your partner is booked in. For this week only, bookings and apologies are with Chris Egger.
Our guest speaker is our very own Ian Boys, talking on the unusual but interesting topic of working in the mental health system in the 1960’s. Mental health is a topic most people don’t think about until it affects them, so this will be a rare opportunity to get an insight into how things have evolved.
Looking forward, on 2 September we have Lisa Kempa talking about RYLA, a Rotary project focused on developing youth leadership skills.
Remember, the future of Rotary is in your hands!
23 August 2009
16 August 2009
Presidents Message
This week is the board meeting, so the meeting will be a bit shorter, but still not without a point of interest. John Kinai will be giving his “member behind the badge” talk this week. John has lived for many years in both Australia and PNG working for the Department of Defence. As you get to know John, he is quite a character so I am sure this will be an entertaining and quite different talk.
Michael Nash tabled at the meeting last week an opportunity that has fallen our way to make some money. West Footscray Rotary does gate marshalling at district footy matches, but one of the other Rotary clubs that usually assists them were forced to pull out at short notice due to a more pressing commitment. Michael is giving a more detailed report also within this Bulletin, so I will not elaborate any further. This is a different sort of way to raise some money, but this opportunity is only in front of us for a short while.
We have a representation going over the weekend of the 15th and 16th August, so we will have a bit of feedback at this week’s meeting.
Remember..........The future of Rotary is in your hands!!
Gordon Clarence
Michael Nash tabled at the meeting last week an opportunity that has fallen our way to make some money. West Footscray Rotary does gate marshalling at district footy matches, but one of the other Rotary clubs that usually assists them were forced to pull out at short notice due to a more pressing commitment. Michael is giving a more detailed report also within this Bulletin, so I will not elaborate any further. This is a different sort of way to raise some money, but this opportunity is only in front of us for a short while.
We have a representation going over the weekend of the 15th and 16th August, so we will have a bit of feedback at this week’s meeting.
Remember..........The future of Rotary is in your hands!!
Gordon Clarence
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