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 24
Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, 19th December 2006, 6.30 for 7.00
XMAS BREAK-UP PARTY WITH PARTNERS. DE-REGISTER WITH HANS IF NO SHOW
Speakers Knowing our Club, probably, quite a few.
Please bring a Christmas pudding story to share.
Chairman Hans Franken
Assistant Cashier The first unaccompanied Rotarian to arrive Assistant Sgt. SGT.s choice.
Birthdays & Anniversaries 20th Peter & Annette Cullen 24th Geoff Brentnall
25th Jesus of Nazareth 28th Colin Brown
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There will be no meetings on 26th December or 2nd January. An optional make-up meeting will be at the Curlewis Golf Club on Monday 8th Jan. Golf at 1.00 and/or dinner at 6.00, an inter-city meeting with Drysdale and others. Register with Geoff Brentnall. Our first regular meeting in January will be Tuesday 9th. Apologies for non-attendance to Hans as usual. A casual BBQ at the Hotel.
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Canadian Capers---- Notice of a meeting of hosts at the Xmas meeting next Tuesday.
Could we all sit together, members and their partners, please. Fords, Greers, Waltons and Foxes.
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There’s no doubt about our Wal. His activities are worldwide.
Her and me went to see ‘Casino Royale’ last Saturday at Waurn Ponds. Very exciting and spectacular!
Just a few amateur observations;
• Daniel Craig is a real spunky James Bond.
• It must have cost a lot for Bert Brocolli to demolish that four story building in Venice.
• Leaving out Miss Moneypenny was a disappointment.
• The baddies, usually armed to the teeth with machine guns, are lousy shots.
• J.B. using only a pistol, [but with a 200 round magazine], rarely misses.
• The scenery is lush, the women mainly brunette, the music loud, and the sex, for Bond, muted.
• But how about two full houses, a flush and a routine flush, all in the same round of poker!! I have calculated the odds at 25,000,000 to 1.
So what has all this got to do with our Wal?
There is a defibrillater used in the film. Fair dinkum! OK, so it’s a compact job, fits in the glove box of the Bond coupe, and the audio instructions were missing, causing stupid bloody Bondy to leave the power lead disconnected, but one of the girls came to the rescue, and the defib. worked.! Thanks, Wal.
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Register for the District 9780 conference in Warrnambool, 2nd to 4th March, 2007
Foxy has the registration forms. It will cost you $170 per head for the complete package, not including accommodation. There is plenty of accom. in Warrnambool, but if you don’t already have a booking with the rest of us at the Mid City Motel, get on the phone!!
Guest speakers will include Moira Kelly AO [Exec. Director of Children First Foundation], Kevin McIntosh [Head Coach of Paralympics Cycling Team], Royce Pepin [ President of Parkinson Victoria], and Rear Admiral Mathew Tripovich, AM CSC- RAN. Recover more on www.rotary9780.org
Bicycles help Indian schoolgirls pedal to a promising future
For girls in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, having a bicycle can mean the difference between going to school or facing illiteracy and the inability to support themselves when they grow up.
After their bicycles were washed away in the December 2004 tsunami, many students along India’s southern coast had to travel long distances to the area’s remaining schools.. Without bicycles, the long commute by foot meant that the children walked home at night, says Dr. Rekha Shetty, past District 3230 governor and a member of the Rotary Club of Madras Temple City. For girls, walking wasn’t an acceptable option. “Families would not allow girls to go to school if they had to walk through remote areas after dark,” Shetty says.
While assessing tsunami damage on site in January 2005, Shetty and Dr. Peter Patel of the Rotary Club of Birmingham, England, saw three girls asking for bicycles to replace those they lost in the disaster.
Patel agreed to buy bikes for the girls, but he and Shetty learned that there were 765 more schoolgirls in tsunami-stricken areas who needed bicycles. The Rotarians then committed to raise the necessary money and launched the ‘Education on Wheels’ project. A year later, they met the demand.
Rotarians worldwide contributed to the project, including the Rotary club of Jerusalem [100 bikes], Kathmandu, Nepal [95], Pune Central, India [100], and clubs from the Tamil Nadu district pitched in by distributing the bicycles.
“A bicycle changes a girl’s whole life pattern and determines her future,” Shetty says. “Most of the girls who received bicycles want to be teachers, nurses, policewomen, and doctors. They want a career”.
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Market, Sunday 7th January ROSTER
Managers Judy & Rod Greer Main Gate John Calnin
Car Park 7.30 Col Brown. 8.30 Peter Cullen, Dennis Sanders 10 Ben Israel, Ken Fleay, Martin G.
Site Prep. Leigh Holloway Signs Rod Birrell Raffles 8.30 to 10.30 Alison George, Noel Emselle.
Raffles 9.30 t0 11.30 Bill Walton 10.30 to 12.30 Alison George, Margaret Campbell
Cray or meat tray spins Alex Magee, Marion Walton, Charles Dawborn.
Changes to the original roster have become necessary. The above is substantive. Contact Judy if ??
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Bits and Pieces
• Marion Walton was thanked in writing by several Senior Cits. for the Chrissie dinner and warmly congratulated by her fellow members.
• DIK organizer Tim Kemp thanked all those who helped with the recent book collection, in particular Hans Franken for the loan of the trailer.
• The Board has resolved not to participate in Youth Exchange in 2007.
• The RYLA camp for 6 days in April is open to youths 18 to 25. Nominations are sought.
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We were profiled
Guest Speaker Margaret Scott lead us through a very interesting self assessment tonight. A Learning Type Measure designed to help people understand and identify the differences in the way people learn. Developed for use with the 4MAT System for teaching and leadership, the LTM can provide guidance in all situations where learner differences play a role in communications and human interaction. Each group in four assessment categories got to establish a plan for the purchase of a car. Whether any of us got one was not clearly established, but it was a very interesting experiment.
The next club bulletin will be published on 9th January. MERRY CHRISTMAS!
