Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Ocean Grove Inc.
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Volume 26 No 23
December 4 , 2007
NOTICE OF THE DONATIONS-IN-KIND COLLECTION, Monday 10th Dec, anytime after 10.30AM
Our support of this very worthy cause is urgently sought. Full details were e-mailed to members 1111hrs. 3/12. Non PC-ers will get a copy with tomorrow’s bulletin. Please get your neighbors involved.
Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 11th December, 6.00 for 6.30
Subject The Bellarine Historical Society-2008 Project Speaker Lynette Wiley
Chairman Charles Dawborn
Assistant Cashier & Thanker Richard Grimmett Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Bruce Gilbert
Birthdays & Anniversaries
12th Colin & Jan Brown and Paul & Julie Gleeson. There were lots of historical events occurred on this day. E.g. 1800 - Washington D.C. became the capital of U.S.A., replacing the interim capital Philadelphia.
1913 – Two years after it was stolen from the Louvre museum in Paris, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece Mona Lisa was located in a former Louvre employee’s hotel room in Florence, and nylon, a new synthetic fibre, invented by Wallace Carrothers of DuPont, went into commercial production on this day in 1939 at Delaware, U.S.A.
14th Trevor McArdle [also Nostradamus 1503, George VI of England 1895, and Kim Beasley 1948]
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The Auditors have caught us out.
Our editorial staff was button-holed last Saturday, about mid-day, with the report that we had failed to report a birthday in Vol. 26, No. 21, omitting a most important one on 3rd December. We pleaded guilty, and were condemned to lunch. So here it is;
Birthday 3rd Dec. Heather Franken [also Joseph Conrad 1857, Anna Freud 1895, Frank Packer 1906]
We were also required to apologise and report her age, which we hereby do. 41 Sorry, Heather.
Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 18th December, 6.30 for 7.00
Subject Our annual Chrissy party Chairpeople Coral Barker or Trevor McArdle or both
Assistant Cashier The first unaccompanied member to arrive. Greeter & Ass’t Sgt. The second.
Members are required to apologise by noon Monday 17th Dec. if they do not plan to attend, [or suffer a penalty of $20] and guests, including partners, have to be registered with Hans, following the same timetable.
There will be no meetings on 25th Dec. or 1 Jan The Board hasn’t told me that, commonsense has!
Birthdays & Anniversaries
20th Peter & Annette Cullen. [also the day, in 1957, when Elvis Presley got his draft notice for two years in the U.S. army, and Paul Keating became PM, knocking off Bob Hawke, in 1991.]
24th Geoff Brentnall. [also King John of England 1167, Howard Hughes 1905 & Ava Gardner 1922]
25th Jesus, in Bethlehem, Judea 36 b.c.[also Isaac Newton 1642, Conrad Hilton 1887, Helena Rubenstein 1870, and Humphrey Bogart 1899]
28th Colin Brown. [also Woodrow Wilson 1856, John Fitzgerald 1960 and Patrick Rafter 1972]
Didja hear about the local fella and his family who caught a train last week and couldn’t alight at their destination because the platform had swoled in the heat, and they couldn’t get the b door open!
Which reminds me Where do all those friggin flies go in winter?
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Kowloon East becomes the first 100% Major Donor Club
The Rotary Foundation has scored a major milestone that even founder Arch Klumph might not have envisaged.
Every one of the 40 members of the Rotary Club of Kowloon East, Hong Kong have contributed US$10,000 or more to the Foundation. During a visit to the club in February, Rotary Foundation Trustee chairman, Luis Vicente Giay challenged the members to become the very first Rotary club to achieve this great level of contribution, which they did by the end of May.
This wasn’t the first time the Kowloon East club had become a leader in generous giving, having become one of the first 100% Paul Harris Fellow Clubs. I bet their average fine is more than 50cents.
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Have you ever lent someone $20 and never seen that person again? It was probably worth it
Snippetts from the DG’s newsletter for Dec. [Family Month including Community Service]
• There are 150 Probus Clubs in our D.9780, all of them formed by Rotary clubs, probably an Aus. record.
• Nominations are being called for District Governor 2010-2011. I think we have a candidate.
• Organ Donor Awareness is given prominence. Well known double lung transplant recipient Martin Mileham will be guest speaker at our combined meeting with RC Torquay on Monday 21st April at Torquay. Peter Hawthorne will talk about this and other initiatives shortly. Calendarise it NOW
• 2007 was a record year for our participation in the BOWELSCAN project. 17,588 kits sold out of 20531 available. There were 213 positive tests, [1.4%],of which about 1/3 will become life saving or life changing. If you don’t have the check, you are a bloody idiot!
• We currently have 47 members, compared with the district average, [60 clubs], of 36.
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The irony of life is that, by the time you’re old enough to know your way around, you’re not going anywhere.
This day tonight
*Judy didn’t get a chance to make a report about last Sunday’s market, but we had a disappointing 376 cars turn up to 66 stalls on a hot and windy morning. Even the camels looked buggered!. The raffle raised $196, and Tim’s mob got to spinning-wheel-off 75% of the crays. Bookings are promising for January.
• It would have been very embarrassing if the pub had decided to call it quits before tonight’s festivities, but they didn’t, and a great night was had by all.
• I desperately tried to get a count on the number of members present, and Norm thought it was about 37, give or take a few. I am happy to settle for a ‘multitude’!
• So far as the elderly citizen guests for our annual Xmas dinner is concerned, Jude thought it might have been about ‘trombones’, [that’s 76 to you youngies]. I am happy to report a ‘phallanx!’
• Anyway, PresAl welcomed all our guests, chairperson [how I hate that phrase] Marion told them all what to expect of us, Wilma Andrews and her accompanist entertained us all as we confidently expected, and our elderly citizen guests had a great night.
• The ratio of waiters to guests was about one for every two, same as the Waldorf Astoria, and Rotary clearly maintained its excellent standing in this community.
• Any member who didn’t go home being proud to be a Rotarian, is a bloody idiot!!
