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MEETING 481-
Tuesday 05 May
This meeting of the
Rotary Club of Southbank will be held at
Garden Room
Crown Towers Hotel
Whiteman Street, Southbank
6.00 for 6.30 PM
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Date |
Chair |
Scribe / Greeter |
Corporal |
Members' Moment |
Attendance |
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05.05.2009 |
Dean |
Stuart |
Jenny |
Stuart |
Philip |
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PROGRAM
Our Guest speaker at this
meeting will be Dr. Alex Buchanan, 2008-09 Global Alumni Service
to Humanity Award, Rotary Foundation.
 Rotarian
Alex Buchanan was a 1959-60 Ambassadorial Scholar sponsored by the
Rotary Club of Korumburra, Victoria, Australia to study agriculture
and science at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, USA. Dr.
Buchanan is best known for developing the Australian High Protein
Milk
Biscuit in 1965 which continues to be used in disaster areas around
the world today. While with Australian Department of Foreign
Affairs, he also developed nutrition balanced infant food in
Thailand. He served as the editor of ASEAN (Association of South
East Asia Nations) Food Journal
and was a founding member of the United Nations University World
Hunger program. Today he is executive director of the ATSE Crawford
Fund which provides for the Royce and Jean Abbey Agricultural
Training Program for Ambassadorial Scholars from low-income
countries. He is a member of the Rotary Club of Melbourne.
Global Alumni Service to
Humanity Award
The purpose of the
Global Alumni Service to Humanity Award is to honor an outstanding
former foundation program participant and to help publicize the
social benefits of the Foundation's programs
This award is intended to
celebrate a Foundation alumnus or alumna whose extraordinary service
activities and professional achievements exemplify the Rotary ideal
of Service Above Self.
Zone committees choose their alumni award winner. The Trustees of
The Rotary Foundation then select a global winner from among the
zone winners. All zones are eligible to nominate candidates for the
global award every year. The global winner is honored at the annual
Rotary International Convention. The award is open to all
eligible Foundation alumni: former Ambassadorial Scholars, Group
Study Exchange team leaders and members, and recipients of Grants
for Rotary Volunteers, Grants for University Teachers, or
Discovery Grants.
 Also
at this meeting: Mev Connell, Chairman of the Unified Rotary
Districts Bushfire Recovery Committee will give us an update on
Rotary's bushfire initiatives.
 Please
note, that on May 19th we will join the Rotary Club of Glenferrie at their
location in Hawthorn. The special guest speaker that night will be Gemma Sisia, founder of the School of Jude in Tanzania.
President Gabe's
Message
May is Australian Rotary Health Research Month, so let's find out
about the Australian Rotary Health.
The objective of Australian Rotary Health (ARH) is to raise funds
which are granted to worthy research projects in the areas of
medicine and health. Major projects are intended to be funded by
grants over several years to ensure continuity. ARH sponsors
researches that are urgently needed by the community health but are
otherwise neglected, thus providing a valuable service to the
community. Therefore, ARH uses a more encompassing concept of
“health”, with a wider vision which includes all aspects of
community health.
ARH aims to fund research projects with a strong applied research
component so that the outcomes may be applied, either by individual
Rotary clubs or otherwise back to the community. Thus, the cycle is
complete: community donates to ARH and Rotary clubs that fund the
research projects which produces results that can be applied in the
community which provided the funds......
(Full President's Message here)
Last Week's
Meeting
....Our Guest speaker at this meeting was
Angelo Capuano, the outgoing Ambassadorial Scholar of DS9800. He
will leave for the UK shortly.
Angelo is currently an Associate to Justice Gray at the
Federal Court of Australia.
Angelo gave us a wide ranging presentation on his career to date, a
background on international legal systems and what he hopes to
achieve during his time as a scholar at Oxford University.
Andrew arrived as a young child with his migrant family and settled
in Altona. He was diagnosed with a sight deficiency (keratoconus) at
13 which started to awaken his thinking in relation to the treatment
of people with disabilities of various sorts
He has obtained his legal qualifications and taught at Victoria
University prior to obtaining his present position as an Associate
to the Federal Court.
His personal efforts have been focused on improving access for
people with disabilities to the legal system and in the areas of
industrial relations and Commercial Law in particular and mainly in
the Western suburbs of Melbourne.
. ........
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DS 9800
Bushfire Support
Activities
At our last meeting we learned about the RC Melton Valleys
Yellow Ribbon initiative. If you would like to order Yellow
Ribbons to support this program please find more information
on RC Melton Valleys
website
or
click here for
Order Form.
District Assembly 2009
9:30am on
Sunday, 31 May
Wilson Hall, Melbourne University
Who should attend?
New members
• Come and hear District Governor for 09 /10 Colin Muir’s vision
• Learn as Colin’s leadership group impart their knowledge; and
• Learn a lot about Rotary from various breakout sessions.
Experienced Members
This is a great opportunity for you to come and mentor and support
our new members
09/10 Leadership Group
If you’re in the leadership group it will give you an
opportunity to learn of what’s new in Rotary from the various
district chairs.
It’s also great for fellowship, not just within our own club but
with members from other clubs AND
it can help us to showcase Southbank.
So why not grab your new Southbank polo shirt and come along?
Call Narina Amvazas on 0430 189 622 to book you tickets. The cost
of $30 per head will be paid by the club.
For those of you who can't make it perhaps you can join us for
some fellowship (a glass of wine or coffee in Carlton) following
the Assembly.
If you haven’t ordered your polo shirt, email
Richard Clark with your size and don’t forget to get
one for your partner.
Rotary Science School Programs
Did you know that Rotary is
involved in two great Science Programs, the National Youth
Science Forum (NYSF) and the Siemens Science Experience?
Whilst the Siemens Science
Experience is a 3 day program for Year 9 students, the National
Youth Science Forum caters for students Year 11 and lasts for 12
days.
Applications for both programs
are now open.
Please refer to their Websites for more information:
Siemens Science Experience
National Youth Science Forum (NYSF)
Rotary Australia World Community Service Ltd
(RAWCS)
RAWCS Fundraising Walks.
After the inaugural RAWCS fundraising walk last year on Kokoda the
interest is to extend the opportunity for further participation.
RAWCS are pleased to announce two walks and encourage Rotarians,
family members and friends of Rotary to give consideration to
being part of this opportunity.
Walk 1. KOKODA 2009-K2
13th September 2009 – 24th September 2009.
Owens Corner to Kokoda
The walk traces the steps of the Australian Forces through the
Owen Stanley Range and honours the handful of 18 year old militia
troops who stood between the enemy onslaught and our homeland.
Most of the diggers had not previously fired a shot in anger.
Team
Leader: PDG Bob Sydes (03 6344959)
rbsydes@bigpond.com
Further information refer to site
www.kokodaspirit.com.au
Walk 2. SANDAKAN DEATH MARCH – S1
30th April 2010 – 11th May 2010
This
walk gives the option of walking all the way, part walk part bus
or all the way using bus transport so caters for all fitness
levels.
The
Sandakan – Ranau POW Death March follows in the footsteps of the
POWs who were force-marched three times between January and June
1945 from their prisoner of war camp in Sandakan camp North
Borneo, west to the small settlement of Ranau. The very mention of
the words Sandakan/Ranau in tandem conjures visions of tragedy of
immense proportions. The Death March is acknowledged as the worst
tragedy for Australia in World War II.
Team
Leader PDG Lou Johnson (03 63445014)
marlou@tassie.net.au
Further information refer to site
www.sandakandeathmarch.com
Registrations for both walks are to be lodged with Lou Johnson
(details above).
DG's ChangeOver
This year’s ChangeOver dinner will
be held on Saturday, 27 June from 7pm at the Melbourne Park Function
Centre beside the Rod Laver Stadium.
The Rotary Club of Hawthorn will be hosting the event.
Please contact David Pisterman on 0418 345 607 for further
information.
DG Jim Studebaker's Weekly Message
(Issue 40, 27 April 2009)
April is Rotary Magazine Month
"It's Coming.
Prepare...Prepare...Prepare..."
How the year moves on ….
Certainly, one of the salutary events in the Rotary year is the
two-day Presidents Elect Training Seminar (PETS). In many ways, it
is the key gathering … the one that draws from our past and looks
to assuring our future structure.
Our PETS is Rotary from every conceivable angle – it touches on
philosophy, psychology and multitude of organisational components.
For the incoming presidents it is an intense session with a steep
learning curve. But, importantly, it is also an event that engages
fellowship and produces individual cross-club presidential
friendships which often become life-long.
Last weekend saw the culmination of many months of planning and
preparation as presidents-elect and partners went through an
intensive and fun filled D9800 PETS in ‘celsius challenged”
Ballarat. I jest …. Ballarat was great and the hospitality and
fellowship that emanated from the weekend points to an exciting
time in 2009/10........
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Date |
Chair |
Scribe / Greeter |
Corporal |
Members' Moment |
Attendance |
|
12.05.2009 |
Stuart |
Steven |
Barbara |
Dianne |
Chris |
|
19.05.2009 |
Rhys |
Lyn |
Rhys |
Richard |
Dean |
|
26.05.2009 |
Michael G |
Chris |
Leigh |
Michael G |
Steven |
|
02.06.2009 |
Richard |
Jenny |
Dean |
Lyn |
Leigh |
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09.06.2009 |
Jenny |
Chris |
Richard |
Troy |
Steven |
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16.06.2009 |
Dianne |
Philip |
Dean |
Jenny |
Stuart |
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23.06.2009 |
Barbara |
Steven |
Michael F |
Leigh |
Michael G |
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30.06.2009 |
Rhys |
Dean |
Lyn |
Gordon |
Richard |
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