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MEETING 454- 30
September 2008
This week's meeting of the Rotary Club of Southbank will be held at :
Drawing Room
Crown Towers Hotel
Whiteman Street,
Southbank
Meeting time: 6 pm for 6:30 pm start
To book or record an
apology, please contact Bobbi
via
email before
10 am Monday.
PROGRAM
Guest Speaker:
Dr Aurora Poon
Consultant Physician, Austin Hospital Department of
Nuclear Medicine and Centre for PET
about Nuclear Medicine
Next Week's meeting
Guest Speaker:
Geoff Walker, GM Asset Management VicTrack about
Rail Crossing Safety in Victoria
UPCOMING ROSTER
If you are unable to
attend a meeting for which you are rostered, please arrange for a
swap with someone and let
Carl know.
Scribes
- please send your scribe notes by 5pm
Friday to
the Bulletin Editor
to ensure your notes are included in the next
Bulletin.
Click here for
Scribe Notes Template
All rostered responsibilities are important to the success and
professionalism of our weekly meetings. Thank you for your
ongoing enthusiasm in fulfilling your rostered roles.
|
Date |
Chair |
Scribe / Greeter |
Corporal |
Members' Moment |
Attendance |
|
30.09.2008 |
Gordon |
Dianne |
Lyn |
Chris |
Richard |
|
07.10.2008 |
Stuart |
Michael F |
Michael G |
Philip |
Nick |
|
14.10.2008 |
Rhys |
Lyn |
Bettina |
Wendy |
Chris |
|
21.10.2008 |
Richard |
Michael G |
Leigh |
Tracey |
Barbara |
|
28.10.2008 |
Rhys |
Bettina |
Mandy |
Dianne |
Philip |
|
11.11.2008 |
Chris |
Leigh |
Philip |
Richard |
Bettina |
|
18.11.2008 |
Barbara |
Gordon |
Jenny |
Rhys |
Michael F |
|
23.11.2008 |
Philip |
Nick |
Stuart |
Lyn |
Dianne |
|
02.12.2008 |
Wendy |
Michael G |
Chris |
Michael G |
Jenny |
|
09.12.2008 |
Mandy |
Stuart |
Philip |
Bettina |
Dianne |
Last Week's
Meeting
......Leigh introduced Margaret Smith from AMES.
An organization with aims and values similar to Rotary. "Full
participation for all in a cohesive and diverse society". Over 56
years the organization has diversified to assist with full
participation in Australian life for refugee, humanitarian and
migrant clients. Services and support are provided in Education,
Employment and Settlement......
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here for full message)
President
Gabe's Message
A
number of guests have been attending our recent meetings, and they
were fantastic meetings. At each of these meetings, Rotarians and
guests alike had fun, thought about Rotary, found out what our
superb club is doing, and heard from interesting speakers. These
are great examples of Rotary fellowship and the reasons Rotarians
are required to regularly attend meetings. The purpose of our club
meetings is offer an opportunity for members to get to know each
other....
(Full
President's Message here)
Albert Park
Book Fair
The
Annual Rotary Albert Park Book Fair has 1,000's of pre loved
books for adults and children, ranging from recently published
novels and non fiction to some very collectible old books on a
very diverse range of topics.
11th & 12th October 2008
Albert Park Primary School, cnr Bridport Street and
Victoria Ave Albert Park -
free entry
RC
Southbank will have a Stand at this year's Book Fair and we
need some additional hands (and bodies :-) to help!
Can you please
contact Wendy if you can
assist with the following activities:
Working Bee
Saturday October 4th
We need as many people as
possible to do an inventory of the books at 116 Centre Road
east Brighton ( cnr of Charlotte and Centre Road)……hopefully
it will be 2 – 3 hours, from 1pm on the Saturday!
Helping with the Book Sales at
the Fair
October 11/12th
We need volunteers for the Book Stand for
that weekend:
Saturday from 8am – 6pm and Sunday is
10am-4pm
The Rotary
Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) is a week-long residential personal
development program for young people aged 18 to 25, which focuses
on yourself, leadership and community. Each RYLA
candidate is sponsored by a Rotary Club from District 9800. The
cost of sponsoring a candidate is used to pay for venue hire,
speakers and catering throughout the program. The sponsoring
Rotary Club is also responsible for transporting the participant
to and from the camp.
RC Southbank is currently looking for a
potential candidate to nominate for this year's RYLA Camp in
December.
Please contact
Michael Fingereth, if you know someone, you would like to
support to participate in this great program.
Applications close Friday November 14, 2008
click here for applications forms and
to find out more about RYLA
RC Southbank
Special Book Sale
 Those
of you who have read the article about our successful event at
Club 3004 a couple of weeks ago will remember that we had some
very special Children's Books, Aussie Bush Buddies by Maxine
Philp-Wright, for sale.
Christmas is getting closer and we thought that you might want to
have a chance to by some of these books for your children,
grandchildren, nephews, nieces, friend's children, neighbour's
children.......
click here for
Brochure and Order sheet
 Royce
Abbey Award Celebration
The inaugural dinner will be a celebration of
enthusiasm and commitment to the ideals of Rotary. All clubs are
encouraged to nominate a member or members to receive their Royce
Abbey Award, who will be presented with the award by Rotary
International Past President Royce Abbey on the night.
Wednesday 3 December 2008
Moonee Valley Racecourse
Key note speaker & special guest:
Past President Rotary International
Mr. Bill Boyd
Starting time, price information and payment terms will be forwarded
shortly.
The Rotary Club of Essendon
PO Box 161
Essendon VIC 3040
www.rcessendon.com.au
please click here to read
Royce Abbey's letter
or here for
Royce Abbey Award Application Form
Rotary Australia
World Community Service Ltd
D9800 Donations in
Kind (D.I.K.)
Thank you to all the clubs
who have generously pledged monetary support to assist with the DIK
store rental!
Bill Dagg is organizing an
‘official opening’ of the new store and all members are kindly
invited to the Opening on Saturday 4th October.
Click
here for details and Invitation
Have you already registered as Volunteer for the upcoming Homeless
World Cup?
We know many of you that have not
been able to "sign up" as yet are still considering involvement -
subject to other commitments that might arise.
If you are interested in "possibly volunteering" it would be great
if you
could
let Tracey
know
so that she can put you on a follow up list to talk to you as time
gets closer.
Australia's
National Street Socceroos Coach George Halkias will give us an
update on the preparation for the Homeless World Cup at our Meeting
on Oct 21st.
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 Rotary
Foundation
District 9800 GSE Program 2008/2009
This Year's Group Study
Exchange Program addresses two Countries in Europe:
Sweden (District 2380) and Turkey (District 2420)
Application are now closed for Team
Leaders and Team Members.
RC Southbank has nominated two
candidates for this year's GSE Program Sweden. We will keep
you informed about their progress.
Rotary Foundation
Melbourne Fringe Festival
William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline with Chris Bunworth
This “swiftly moving,
action-packed fairytale spun by an ensemble of only five actors”
features Chris Bunworth, a fine actor known to a number of us.
Sunday, 12th October 2008 at 5 pm
FortyFiveDownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Tickets are $27 or $20 for groups (10)
Chris may be joining us for a drink after the performance
If you would like
to join us for an entertaining Fellowship Event please contact Bobbi
via email
or phone (0410 105 360) before Monday 22nd September.
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Fellowship Dinner
On Tuesday,
14th October we will be having our meeting at the
ITALIAN
WAITERS CLUB
20 Meyers Place
(03) 9650 1508.
6pm for 6.30 pm
As most of you
will remember we had a Fellowship dinner there last year and it was
most enjoyable.
As is customary for our Fellowship events, friends and family are
invited, but we have a cap of 25 guests due to the seating capacity
of the restaurant so first in, first dressed -- or as we say in the
States, first come, first served.
Please RSVP your ACCEPTANCE OR APOLOGY by COB on Friday, 3rd
October via email to
meetings@rotary.to.
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DG Jim Studebaker's Weekly Message
(Issue 13, 22 September 2008)
September is
New Generations Month
"Foundation Humanitarian Grants"
We often
talk about our Rotary Foundation and the wonderful humanitarian
projects which can be initiated by any Rotary Club. The mission of
The Rotary Foundation is to enable Rotarians to advance world
understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of
health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.
A very effective way of increasing the effectiveness of your
projects is to apply for a humanitarian grant from our Rotary
Foundation......
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here
for full message)
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