Rotary Club of Mount Martha News

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1 News ROTARY - MAKING A DIFFERENCE mountmartharotary@gmail.com Monday 16th October 2017 Economic and Community Development Month Meets weekly at Benito s Restaurant 1196 Nepean Highway, Mount Eliza pm for 6.30pm start R OTA RY - M A K I N G A D I F F E R E N C E ROTARY CLUB OF MT MARTHA CONTRIBUTION Hours Completed: Fwd: hours NEW: 13.0 hours Lift the Bunnings YTD: hours Funds Raised: Fwd: $4, NEW: $ Lift the Lid YTD: $4, Please remember to pass these details to either President Tom or the Bulletin Editor each week so we can update the Bulletin. INTRODUCING This week we feature Rotarian PP Doug Rhodes What is the one thing you cannot resist? A lovely Barossa Shiraz. What would be the title of your autobiography? The Things I Did Wrong. What places have you lived in? Sydney, New Zealand, Melbourne, London and Den Hague. Rotary Club of Mt Martha PO Box 342, Mornington 3931 Rotary International President: Ian Riseley District Governor 9820: Don Ripper RCMM President: Tom Goulding wilfredgoulding@gmail.com Secretary: Peter Rawlings pgr@rawlings.com.au Apologies and Guests: Barrie Sweeney by Monday midday at the latest lorbar@internode.on.net Bulletin Editor: Byron Groves Contributions by midday Friday please byron.groves58@gmail.com Website Editor: Colin Stokes chstokes@optusnet.com.au

2 Members present: 32 Apologies: Hon Members: Guest of Members: Guest of Club Paul Clark, Stephen Daly, Byron Groves, Martin Lowe. Jonathan Mayne, David Piper, Peter Rawlings, Pat and Martin Reid, Phyllis Scales, John Waterhouse. David Price. Gayle Goulding (Tom Goulding), Hazel Ewing (Bill Ewing), Jill Cummins (Bill Cummins), Lynn Annear (Roger Annear), Yvonne Marks (Rob Marks) Chris Davies (Rob Davies), Heather Morriss (Gordon Morriss), Margaret Crane (David Crane), Kaye Stokes (Colin Stokes), Jenny Jenkins (Wayne Jenkins) David Wright (Speaker) Meeting Notes 9th October PRESIDENT TOM extended a greeting to all and said how thrilled he was at the number of partners present. Honorary member, David Price was welcomed together with returned overseas travellers, the Cranes, Stokes and Wheelers. There were no announcements from the Secretary as Peter continues his holiday in London. The Lift the Lid collection, in conjunction with Mornington Club, at Bunnings over the weekend amounted to $586. Continuing the Australian Rotary Health fundraiser, those wearing hats at the meeting contributed a further $ District Governor s visit at the next meeting on 16 th October. Members are invited to a social evening at the Gouldings on Cup Eve with the usual sweeps etc. The film night for Polio Plus on Thursday 9 th November will be an opening night showing of Murder on the Orient Express. Members are encouraged to bring friends and family. ROGER SKIPSEY and 3 other members, Roger A, Lara B and Byron G attended the first session of the Rotary Leadership Institute. Feedback very favourable. Tickets for the Skyhydrant Project fundraiser to Cirque du Soleil are still available CAROL ALLEN Further volunteers sought for packing of container to South Africa at Footscray on Saturday 21 st October. COLIN STOKES Annual Portsea Camp working bee on Saturday 11 th November. Looking for workers. Meeting notes continued on next page

3 Meeting notes continued MERV WILLIAMS AND ROGER ANNEAR presented a segment giving recognition to Rob Marks for his 50 th Anniversary of joining Rotary. This evening, our club celebrates the achievement of 50 years service to Rotary by Rob Marks. Rob joined Rotary in 1967 and has been a member of five Clubs, Bayswater, Chelsea (President 1973/74) Carrum (Charter President 1978/80) Burnside SA (President 1989/90). Rob had a career in Banking and held a number of managerial appointments and retired as State Manager, Branch Support (SA & NT Division) with the Westpac Bank in In March 1992, Rob joined the Mount Martha Club and has served a number of years on the club board as Secretary, Foundation Director and Vice President. He has served in multiple roles within the club service areas notably as the Rotary Foundation Centurion program chair. At District 9820 level, Rob was selected to the position of District Governor in and during his year Rotarians were asked to respond to the Theme of the World President Act with Integrity, Serve with Love, Work for Peace. He also served as the Rotary Foundation District Co-ordinator and was a strong supporter of the Group Study Exchange program. Together with his wife Yvonne they have been great supporters of the programs and ideals of Rotary International. Especially District 9820 and the. Both have indeed given Service Above Self. Our club members and partners wish to congratulate Rob on this wonderful achievement. President Tom than handed the meeting over to Chair, Bill Cummins MERV WILLIAMS referred members to recent material circulated about the District Conference at Sale February He is the On to Conference Co-ordinator and in order to arrange accommodation is seeking feedback from members re attendance. SERGEANT AT ARMS, PETER WARREN was again in good form extracting $35.60 from numerous culprits, many related to those not wearing hats and the returned travellers. The Davies, recently moved to Langwarrin turned up at their old address in Mt Eliza thinking they were home!!! THE SWINDLE again produced no winner with $88.70 to Club coffers GUEST SPEAKER David Wright a former Rotarian spoke about Ties for Life Foundation, a not for profit charity established in 2011 and directed to the early spotting of mental health problems in youth. Most depression and anxiety can be detected at an early age and treated. Their SPOTA program, helps identify early signs of depression, improves help seeking behaviours and helps protect and maintain good mental health. A survey has shown that 30% of year 9 students on the Mornington Peninsula have depressive symptoms. The Foundation is seeking a sponsoring Rotary Club, Cluster or District PRESIDENT TOM endorsed the thanks given to the speaker and closed the meeting at Cake

4 This Meeting and Diary Dates - 16th October 2017 Tonight s Meeting: Topic: District Governor Visit Speaker DG Don Ripper Chair: President Tom Goulding Birthdays Members: Nil Birthdays Members Partners: Maureen Marshall (19/10), Jill Cummins (21/10) Members (Hon) & Partners : David Price (21/9) Anniversaries Members: Nil ************************************************************************************************ October is Economic and Community Development Month Front of House: K Wall, B Cummins (C Stokes, P Hancock) 23rd Oct 28th Oct 30th Oct 30th Oct 6th Nov 7th Nov 9th Nov 10th Nov 11th Nov 13th Nov 17th Nov 20th Nov 25th Nov 27th Nov 27th Nov Bulletin Note Taker: Rob Marks Speaker - Wayne Jenkins - BIO and Helicopters - Chair Peter Rawlings MM Sausage Sizzle - see Roster below Merv & Chris Williams - RAWCS in the Solomon Islands Board meeting 8.15pm November is Rotary Foundation Month Front of House: E Murray, D Rhodes (G Morriss, B Sweeney) Bulletin Note Taker: John Routledge Melbourne Cup Day Eve Social Function at Gouldings Lets Go Cruisin BBQ - see Roster below Film Night (for Polio Plus) - Murder on the Orient Express - Tom has details Cirque de Soleil - Roger Skipsey has details MM Sausage Sizzle - see Roster below AGM (and Golf Day final Planning) RCMM Community Golf Day at Mount Martha Public Golf Course No meeting due to Golf Day MM Sausage Sizzle - see Roster below Roger Skipsey - International Projects Board Meeting 8.15pm Front of House *RED = DESK DUTIES* *BLUE = WELCOME AND NAME TAGS DUTIES Mount Martha Sausage Sizzle Roster 2017/18, Arrive 9.00am finish approx. 1.00pm 28 Oct 2017 R. Annear E. Murray M. Lowe 11 Nov 2017 W. Jenkins T. Goulding T. Jolly 25 Nov 2017 R. Davies B. Ewing J. Routledge Please remember if you are unable to carry out your shift, then it is your responsibility to ask another member to swap with you. Enjoy mixing your day with the Mount Martha community. Lets Go Cruisin BBQ Roster 2017/18 Arrive 4.30pm finish approx. 7.30pm 7 Oct 2017 J. Marshall, W. Jenkins, W. Cummins, R. Annear, W Ewing, W. Branthwaite, B. Butler, P. Clark, S. Daly, R. Davies 5 Dec 2017 J, Marshall, C. Stokes, W. Cummins, T. Goulding, B. Groves, P. Hancock, T. Barrett, K.Hobby, T. Jolly, G.Kaye

5 This week I wanted to highlight a comment from Bill Gates Senior yes that s right the current Bill Gates was not the first Gates who was involved in Rotary and as CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates Senior worked hard to progress the vision for Polio eradication. He wrote in 2009: Rotary members have done everything from spending their vacations immunising children in faraway places, to lobbying heads of State, to negotiating cease-fires in civil wars long enough to get millions of children vaccinated. They ve shown us how to mobilize people, raise more money than anybody thought volunteers could, and created private-public partnerships that can take on large-scale global projects. Along the way they have taught us that when we are inspired to work together in the interest of an engaging cause, there is no problem bigger than we are Great inspiring and motivating words for all of us. Proud to be Rotarian Esther Murray Commentary on History of Rotary Foundation by Esther Murray PDG Rob Marks cutting the 50th anniversary cake of his joining Rotary. Congratulations Rob from all at RCMM. Our Guest Speaker, David Wright from Ties for Life Foundation speaking on Mental Health problems in Youth.

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