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
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Volume 25 No. 3
Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 25th July 2006, 6.00 for 6.30.
Speaker Tim Hellston Subject The Ocean Grove Structure Plan
Assistant Cashier & Thanker Rod Bush Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Margaret Campbell
Birthdays & Anniversaries NIL
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Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 1st August 2006, 6.00 for 6.30.
Speaker Alex Magee Subject World Cup Soccer Chairman Peter Cullen
Assistant Cashier & Thanker Geoff Chandler Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Hans Franken
Birthdays & Anniversaries 3rd Janice Wynn
4th Hamish Campbell
5th John & Janice Wynn
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Childrens’ versions of Bible Stories. Episode 2 of 9.
Solomon had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines. He was an actual hysterical figure as well as being in the bible. It sounds like he was sort of busy too.
The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn’t have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a young female moth.
Socrates was a famous old Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. He later died from an overdose of wedlock which is apparently poisonous. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.
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Rotary at a Glance
1,209,790 Rotarians in 32,462 clubs in 529 districts in 168 countries. 184,437 Rotaractors in 8019 clubs in 139 countries. 242,926 Interactors in 10,562 clubs in 109 countries. Down Under there are 34,796 Rotarians in 1,193 clubs in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and East Timor and 10,338 Rotarians in 267 clubs in New Zealand and nearby Pacific nations.
But how about 100 years ago, when Rotary was just one year old? [17months, to be precise!]
Well, there was just one club- Chicago, and no. 2, [San Francisco],was still two years away from being formed, but the ‘Wagon Wheel’ design was adopted as the emblem of the new Rotary Club, [without the ‘keyway’ to make it, figuratively, drivable]. So the badge we wear today is 100 years old!
Also in 1906, Sir Frederick Hopkins, an English biochemist, discovered vitamins, and the suffragette movement was agitating in England, United States and other countries.
On July 21st , 1906, the French finally, after 11 years, awarded Captain Alfred Dreyfuss the Legion of Honour, to mark the long overdue retraction of his very public disgrace on charges of treason and espionage. The violent anti-semitism which bitterly divided France for the previous 11 years finally came to an end, but far from forgotten. The original charges were found to be utterly false.
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This Day Tonight
President Richard introduced tonight’s subject- ‘Quo Vadis’ [Whither goest thou?] by posing a number of questions about numbers, all to do with our club membership. Many members knew some of the answers, but only Richard knew them all.
Current membership- 43. Membership at 30th June 2005- 52. Membership at 30th June 2001- 44
Male members today- 36. Lady members today- 7. Average age, all members 63.
Members less than one year - 3. 1 to 3 years- 4. 3 to 5 years- 3. 5 to 10 years- 8. 10 to 25 years- 18.
25 years plus- 7. [ not necessarily this club]. Number of our members who have proposed new members in the last 2 years----- 4.
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We then split up into committee groups and the leaders reported as follows as to what was discussed.
Tony Haines
The Semens Science summer school, Youth Exchange, Citizens’ Awards, Rypen, Youth Leadership, the National Science summer school, and Community Groups.
Marion Walton
Meals on Wheels, Xmas for the elderly citizens, seating along the Barwon Heads boardwalk, the needs of a local cancer sufferer.
Trevor McArdle
Past exchange students as potential Rotarians, a Peace Seminar, videos or DVDs to promote Rotary, and Trevor’s personal target of 10 new members this Rotary year.
Martin Geerings
Our initiative for a Geelong District dinner for recipients of Paul Harris Fellowships.
Tim Kemp
World Community Service, Youth Exchange, [with better screening of inwards students], education, donations-in-kind, and literacy.
Peter Cullen
Pride of workmanship awards, proposal for two work-place visits, ‘What’s new in my business’, and a first aid course for members of the community.
Through all of this, no-one asked Birrell or Fox to join their group, and the chairman ignored the fact that we had a little meeting of our own.
Him and me thought we should have more ‘hands-on’ projects and we recalled past endeavours with walking tracks, the Rotunda at Queenscliff, painting the Queenscliff railway station, painting two local houses, lawn mowing, Mirabooka, highway clean-ups, weeding along the sand dunes, landcare tree planting and phone book deliveries.
Alison George who is having a lovely holiday in the Geelong Private Hospital, [which she surely kneeds]
Suggests a ‘Race the train’ event, from Drysdale to Queenscliff.
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“Is this your first time in Sydney?” the taxi driver inquired of a Scotsman wearing the full cossie of kilt and sporran. “Aye,” he said, “ and not only that, I’m on my honeymoon”
“Then where’s your wife?” “Oh, she’s been here before”!!
