ROTARY CLUB OF OCEAN GROVE
Volume No. 21 Number 21
Bulletin for the meeting held Tuesday May 25th at The Ocean Grove Hotel
Welcome from the President Geoff Brentnall.
Treasurer Bob Osbourne: If you have ordered an Entertainment Book these are now available for collection from Bob.
Club Service, Tim Kemp: Anyone with club property please notify Tim or bring it along to the next meeting. Storage has now been arranged with the hotel.
If you are a member of a State or National Rotary Committee please advise Tim.
Rotary shirts are now available for $23.00
Community Service, Steve Gubbins: Please give blood. Only 5 weeks to go till the end of the Bloodarine Challenge!
FACT: 80% of the population will need blood at some stage in their life.
3% of the population donate blood.
Please make an effort to get to the Blood Bank before the end of JUNE to give us a chance of winning this challenge, and giving more people the chance for LIFE.
New Generations: Frank Mountford reports that he participated in an interviewed with a local candidate for the National Youth Science Forum and recommended advancement to the District level for further consideration.
Bowel Scan In Australia bowel cancer is the most common internal malignancy for both sexes combined. The average Australian has a 1-in-24-lifetime risk of developing bowel cancer. The disease is increasing as the average age of the population rises. In 1999, 11,637 new cases were diagnosed in Australia. Australia is amongst the top 10 high-risk countries in the world. Get your Bowel Scan Kit today!
Probus report, Graham Bath:
Graham has been involved in the establishment of Probus clubs recently at Winchelsea (48 foundation members, now 63 members), Lorne (27 inaugural members and 9 apologies), Buninyong (80 foundation members), Creswick (38 foundation, now 100 members – closed), Terang (100 members at formation, then 120, 140 and 148!).
Total of 11 clubs formed recently = 12,000 members in this region, 2000 of whom are Rotarians.
Members in Attendance: Total 33 Apologies: 14 Non apologies: - Percentage: 65%
Make-ups
Guests Ed Burke, Rod and Judy Green, Cheryl Selkirk, Dave Cornwall
Birthdays 26-1June Judy Grant, Bob Osbourne, Wall Kelly.
Anniversaries John and Prue Webb.
Duties
June 1 Tim Kemp Alex Magee Trevor McArdle
June 8 Peter Molloy Geoff Morphett Frank Mountford
June 15 Bob Osbourne Bill Penna Lucian Roncon
Coming up…
June 1 Tony Featherstone – Cottage By The Sea
June 22 Presentation from the Ocean Grove Racing Club committee.
Rotary Youth Exchange
The most powerful force in the promotion of international understanding and peace is exposure to different cultures. The world becomes a smaller, friendlier place when we learn that all people — regardless of nationality — desire the same basic things: a safe, comfortable environment that allows for a rich and satisfying life for our children and ourselves. Youth Exchange provides thousands of young people with the opportunity to meet people from other lands and to experience their cultures. This plants the seeds for a lifetime of international understanding.
TOP PRIORITY
The District Rotary Youth Exchange committee has invited Ocean Grove to host a Danish girl, Signe Uhlenfeldt, who is due to arrive in August this year. Signe will stay for 11 months. Members and their partners are asked to give urgent consideration to this last minute opportunity and have input to discussion at the NEXT meeting.
Profile - Signe Uhlenfeldt
Signe Uhlenfeldt is from Odense (pop 160,000) in Denmark. Sponsored by RC Odense, just turned 17 years old, 1 older brother, 1 younger brother and 1 younger sister. Mother is a GP, father works in news at TV station. In the future wants to travel and work abroad. Will probably do something medical and would love to work for the Flying Doctor! Likes cooking, travelling. Has tried scuba diving & snorkelling which she enjoyed and she learnt the piano for 6 years. Has done some dancing in school musicals.
Her written English is excellent and we expect her spoken English will also be very good, as is usually the case with Danish students.
