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 19
Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 14th November 6.00 for 6.30
Speaker Ken Wyatt Subject Trains Also, Pride of Workmanship Awards Chairman Peter Cullen
Assistant Cashier& Thanker Ken Fleay Greeter and Assistant Sergeant Noel Emselle
Birthdays & Anniversaries 17th Shirley Osbourne 18th Bob & Shirley Osbourne 19th John Fox
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Notice for the Meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 21st November 6.00 for 6.30
Speaker Nigel Lane Subject Good communication with young people [a must for parents and grandparents]. Chairman Rod Bush
Assistant Cashier & Thanker Bill Steains Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Suzy Mann
Birthdays & Anniversaries 25th Richard Trigg 27th Rod Bush, Hans & Heather Franken.
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Notice of the Annual Meeting to be held at the above venue on 21st Nov. commencing at 6.35 PM.
Chairman President Richard Business 1 To receive and adopt the minutes of the annual meeting held on 11th October 2005. 2 To receive and adopt the audited financial statements of the Club for the thirteen months ended 30th June 2006. [previous financial years ended on 31st May]. 3 To elect officers of the Club for 2007/08. -- President [ Alison George is the only nominee and is presently the President elect of our Club] . President-nominee [ The member so elected will become President elect at the 2007 AGM, and is expected to be the President in 2008/09]. Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and five Directors. ** 4 Any other business of which notice was given to the secretary by 8.00 PM tonight, [Tuesday 7th November, 2006].
** Nominations must be signed by two members and the nominee. Forms for this purpose may be obtained from secretary Rod or President Richard.
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An extract from the social pages of ‘The Bulletin’, Saturday October 9, 1897.
“Amy Sherwin’s costumes at her three Melb. Concerts thoroughly ‘fetched’ the women. At one she sported ‘a gloss of satin and a shimmer of pearls’; at a second, a remarkable confection with diaphanous heliotrope sleeves; and at her third concert- a matinee- a staggering robe of lemon colour, with a huge picture-hat, and a black fan and satchel.”
Ed. Note- That last bit would probably have gone down quite well, 109 years later, at Flemington today. With the satchel, she could well have been a well-dressed bookies tout!
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Wicked Wisdom
Immorality The morality of those who are having a better time.
Inflation Prosperity with high blood pressure.
Insanity A perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
Intellectual A person who doesn’t know how to park a bike.
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A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
The man who went to lunch
A delegate to the first International Labour Conference at Washington DC in 1919, Duchman Anton Verkade, afterwards visited an old friend in Seymour, Indiana and was taken to a meeting of the new local Rotary club. Mightily impressed, he resolved, on his return to Holland, to form a similar club in his own city.
Despite his prudent Dutch friends assuring him that it was just another American fad, he persisted, and with the help of a few close friends, the Rotary club of Amsterdam was formed in November 1922. This new club, together with the Paris club, [1921] stimulated considerable interest throughout Europe in the new Rotary organization. Much of this development could be traced to the man who went to a Rotary luncheon in Seymour, Indiana!
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STOP PRESS. Teacher arrested at Avalon airport!
A public school teacher was arrested today as he attempted to board a flight while in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square, a slide rule and a calculator. A local police inspector said that he believed the man to be a member of the notorious Al-gebra movement and has been charged with carrying weapons of math instruction.
“Al-gebra is a problem for us”, the inspector said. “They desire solutions by means and extremes, and sometimes go off on tangents in search of absolute value. They use secret codes such as ‘x’ and ‘y’ and refer to themselves as ‘unknowns’. We have determined that they belong to a common denominator of the axis of medieval with co-ordinates in every country. As the Greek philanderer Isosceles used to say, ‘there are three sides to every triangle’ “.
Apparantly, there are similar problems in USA, with a recent related arrest prompting President Bush to say, “If God had wanted us to have better weapons of math instruction, he would have given us more fingers and toes”.
White House aides told reporters they could not recall a more intelligent or profound statement by the President.
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A ripper of a market!
61 sites, more than 1000 cars, $227 on the raffle,$300 on the meat tray spins. Fordie and Wally sold a car raffle ticket every 40 seconds.
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This day tonight
Those two B’s [Bush ‘n Birrell] took out the major prizes in the sweep, but the spinning wheel effort for $100 in prizes was a complete stuff-up, saved from being a debacle by the sportsmanship of John Dodgshun, Judy Greer and Coral Barker. Foxy has been relieved of spinning wheel duties. [Some unkind members thought that ‘banished’ would be a better word]. Market-Jude offered John-D a bunch of parsnips as compensation, which he graciously declined.
Fashions-in the-field prizes were awarded to Wilma Andrews, Peter Hawthorne, Jan Fox and Trevor McArdle. The weekly wine raffle went only slightly better than the spinning wheel stuff-up, when Anne [007] Brown failed to recognize 003 as a legitimate number.
It would be fair to say that tonight’s proceedings proved that not all Rotary clubs are made up of stuffy old buggers. Chairman Trevor McArdle did a good job with what he had to work with!
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The Pearl St. Art Group
A number of our mob are involved with Coral Barker’s art class, who are staging an exhibition of their work this coming weekend, 11/12 Nov. 10.00 to 4.00 at the OG Neighborhood Centre. BE THERE!