"What's on in District?"
Southbank Club
Diary Dates
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MEETING 483-
Tuesday 19 May
 This
meeting of the Rotary Club of Southbank is a joined meeting with
the
Rotary Club of Glenferrie at their
location in Hawthorn.
As guests needed to be pre registered to organise this meeting,
please contact
Clubservices to find out if you
can come along as last minute visitor.
PROGRAM
The special guest speaker that night will be Gemma Sisia, director
and founder of the School of St. Jude in Tanzania who is
currently touring around Australia to promote their program.
In 2002 a young lady, Gemma Rice
(now Gemma Sisia), from a sheep farm in Australia, opened a small
school in Northern Tanzania with the help of her family, friends and
local Rotary Club.
 What
started with only a handful of children and one teacher is now a
thriving school of 1151 children, 130 teachers and 200 staff. In
January 2008 another free primary school with an initial enrolment
of over 550 children opened. These schools really have the potential
to influence the quality of Tanzania's future leaders.
Read more about the School of
Jude on their
website and follow Gemma's Tour
on
Twitter.
President Gabe's
Message
Gaby joined us as our newest member and we all wish her a wonderful
Rotary experience in our club.
Introducing and inducting a new member into Rotary is not just
important to the health of a Rotary club, the health of Rotary
International. Indeed, that is not the reason why we want people to
join Rotary. We ask people to join Rotary because that act of asking
someone to join is, in itself, a community service. We are asking
prospective members to join so they can help us better serve the
community. We offer them, in return, an opportunity to serve the
community in the unique Rotary way - by offering our fellowship, our
ideals of service and, of course, our friendship. It is arguably
more important for us to find new members than to do projects
ourselves, because we only have one pair of hands but there is no
limit to how many others you can bring to help do Rotary's good
work.....
(Full President's Message here)
Last Week's
Meeting
The theme of this meeting was the Victorian
Bushfires.
Mev Connell gave us an update of the multi district Rotary Bushfire
fundraising efforts.....
 President
Gabe presented a cheque of $39,300 from DS9800 to Matthew Stephens,
CEO of the KIDS Foundation Burn Survivor network to support their
Camp Phoenix, a special camp that will be attended by 30 families
affected by burns from the bush fires.
Kevin Love, Deputy Secretary of Land Stewardship & Biodiversity for
the Department of Sustainability and Environment (as well as an
active Rotarian from the RC of Central Melbourne) gave us an
informative insight into the Victorian Bushfires and “Black
Saturday” covering the role of DSE and the other authorities
involved in the whole fire-fighting effort.....
(Click here for full scribe notes)
DS 9800
Bushfire Support
Activities
District 9800 Bushfire Recovery
Project sponsors The Kids Foundations Burn Survivor
Network for one of their burn survivors Family camps,
Camp Phoenix. Camp
Phoenix will be held from 23rd - 26th August 2009 in Anglesea.
Find more about the Kids Foundation and Camp Phoenix on their
website:
www.kidsfoundation.org.au
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
Have you registered yet?
Do not miss out on this great opportunity to learn about Rotary,
it's Avenues of Service and upcoming Activities in District
9800.
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.
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.
 GSE
2009 Sweden
Wednesday, June 17
The RC of Albert Park will be hosting the welcome home dinner for
the Swedish GSE Team, including team member Jamie Anderson, who
had been sponsored by RC Southbank.
Contact
albertpark@rotarydistrict9800.org for more information.
Are you interested in their
adventures in Sweden?
Have a look at their
blog
with lots of pictures!
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 42, 11 May 2009)
May is Australian Rotary Health Research Month
"Continuing to Support Bushfire
Recovery"
It is important to bring our
clubs and members up to date with what has been happening with our
involvement in the bushfire recovery program and where we are
heading.
Earlier this week, our D9800 Bushfire Recovery Chairman Mev
Connell, PP Greg Matthews of the RC North Balwyn and I visited the
townships of Marysville and Kinglake and met with volunteer
organisations in both towns to discuss ways in which our Rotary
District may assist with helping the recovery efforts in those two
badly affected areas. The following are extracts of a report
written by Mev Connell last week........
(Click
here
for full message)
UPCOMING ROSTER
If you are unable to
attend a meeting for which you are rostered, please arrange for a
swap with someone and inform
Club services.
Scribes
- please send your scribe notes no later than 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 |
|
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 |
|
09.06.2009 |
Jenny |
Chris |
Richard |
Troy |
Steven |
|
16.06.2009 |
Dianne |
Philip |
Dean |
Jenny |
Stuart |
|
23.06.2009 |
Barbara |
Steven |
Michael F |
Leigh |
Michael G |
|
30.06.2009 |
Rhys |
Dean |
Lyn |
Gordon |
Richard |
|
