Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Ocean Grove Inc.
Winner of the Holmes Trophy for the best attendance by a Club at the 2006 District Conference
Volume 24 No. 36
Notice for the meeting at the Queenscliff Bowling Club at 6.00 PM, Tuesday 21st March, where we will take part in a social bowls twilight meeting with members of the Queenscliffe Rotary Club. Monday is their regular meeting night, but this will be a make-up for us. Our Tuesday meeting, normally held at the OG Hotel, has been cancelled. Therefore, take note of the following:
• We will meet on Tuesday 21st March, but at the Queenscliff Bowling Club.
*. We are due there at 6.00 PM, not 6.30.
• Come prepared to help repel the Spanish fleet, if it appears outside the heads. If this occurs, you may temporarily absent yourself from the bowls.
• Bowls will be provided, but you are requested to wear heel-less shoes.
DUTIES
There shouldn’t be any for us as RC Queenscliffe is the host.
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Birthdays and Anniversaries
Alison George, 16th. [Oops, I should have listed that in bully no. 35]. Anne Geerings 24th, David and Anne Tyrrell, 24th.
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Coming Up
Tuesday 28th March – Speaker Brian Hewitt. Subject – Aged Care. Chairman Charles Dawborn.
Greeter/ Ass’t Sgt. David Cooke. Ass’t Cashier/ Thanker John Dodgshun.
Deja-Vu You may recall that we were going to change our regular meeting night on 4th April to accommodate the visit of the Mayor on Monday 3rd April. Well, we ain’t!! Cancelled. Havn’t we been through this nonsense before? It is scheduled now for 2nd May, but don’t hold your breath!!
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More on the history of early Rotary in Oz…………………..[Service to youth is nothing new!]
Since its inception in the antipodes, Rotary has offered support to existing youth organisations and agencies. Rotarians were called upon to strengthen and support these groups in preference to establishing new organisations or agencies.
This sort of support for existing organisations is so much a part of every Rotary club’s activities that many give them only passing reference in their annual reports, reserving their emphasis for new initiatives in youth service.
Some of these organisations were originally Rotary initiatives; such as the National fitness Council [and camps] of New South Wales and the Police and Citizens Boys Clubs, both early projects of the Rotary Club of Sydney. The Victorian Young Farmers Clubs, and the Adventure Clubs were initiated by the Rotary Club of Collingwood.
So successful was the policy of handing over to the community on the completion of a project, that when the RC of Newtown, NSW adopted the provision of equipment for the police and Citizen’s Youth Club in 1962 as a project in its first year of service, members were surprised to learn that the first such youth club had been established in 1935 by their sponsor club, Sydney.!! The first Interact club commenced in April 1963, and Rotaract followed soon after in May 1968.
Wrong number
“hi honey, this is Daddy, is Mommy near the phone?”
“No Daddy, she’s upstairs in the bedroom with Uncle Paul”
After a brief pause, “but Honey, you haven’t got an Uncle Paul”.
“Oh yes I do and he’s upstairs right now in the bedroom with Mommy”
Brief pause.
“Uh, okay then, this is what I want you to do. Put the phone down on the table, run upstairs, knock on the bedroom door and shout to Mommy that Daddy’s car just came up the driveway.”
“Okay Daddy, just a minute” After a few minutes, the little girl comes back to the phone. “I did it Daddy”.
“And what happened, honey?”, he asked.
“Well, Mommy got all scared and she jumped out of bed with no clothes on and ran about screaming and she tripped over the rug and she hit her head on the dresser and now she isn’t moving at all”.
“Oh my God!!! What about your Uncle Paul?”
“Well, he jumped out of bed with no clothes on too, and he was scared and he jumped out of the back window and into the swimming pool but I guess he didn’t know that you took out the water last week to clean it and he hit the bottom of the pool and I think he’s dead.”
Long pause………….Longer pause…………….Even longer pause………………………………..
Then Daddy says “Swimming pool?...............................Is this 486- 5731?”
……………………….Don’t sweat, it’s only a joke……………………………..
More wicked wisdom
City Millions of people being lonely together.
Classic Something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read
Committee A cul-de-sac to which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
Communism Like a race in which all competitors come in first with no prizes.
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Last night’s meeting – A triple treat, but no Council representative. Surprise,surprise!
Firstly, 12 of our members, [plus 3 wives] attended the official hand-over by president Helen of the Bellarine Peninsular’s very first PAD [Public access defibrillator] at the Safeways store. Then, distributor ‘Laerdal’s representatives Bill Thalmeier and Christina Sitcheff were guests of the club at dinner and gave a practical demonstration of its use and purpose. We have been presented with a practise defibrillator by that firm, which will prove to be an invaluable acquisition.
But our recently returned outward exchange student Jack Madin was our main guest speaker, and what a delight he proved to be. One of the features of the exchange student program is to see the transformation in these young people on their return from their year overseas. Sadly, we don’t always experience that success, but when we do, it all seems worthwhile.
Jack spoke with enthusiasm, confidence and eloquence of his year in Sweden, augmented with an excellent slide show. He talked of music and learning to speak Swedish and high regard for his host families and councillors, [with whom he has kept in touch], of snow and bicycles and houses painted red and flexible school hours. Well done, Jack. **************************
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• If you want to be assured of accommodation in Warrnambool next year, get your $50 to JC NOW
• Past President Peter Robinson’s wife Helen died last weekend after a long battle with cancer. Funeral on Thursday
• President Helen invites ideas from members for charity fund outlays prior to the April board meeting.
