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Volume 26 No 26
January 8th 2008
Notice for the social evening at President Alison’s residence, 20 Trethowan Avenue, Marcus Hill, Tuesday 15th January 2008, 6.00 for 6.30 A partners’ night, smart casual dress- bring your own.
If you are a member and not going, you must cancel with Hans. If you are taking your partner or guests, you must register with Hans.
Subject To the weather Speakers Just about everyone, I expect.
Chairman We probably won’t need one.
Assistant Cashier The first to arrive unaccompanied Assistant Sergeant ‘Pick your own’.
Members enjoy social Bocce at the Ocean Grove Hotel in January -
though Margaret Campbell appears to have a protest.
though Margaret Campbell appears to have a protest.
Birthdays & Anniversaries
4th Jan - Val Kelly. [also Isaac Newton 1643, Louis Braille 1809, and Jane Wyman 1914]
9th Jan – Colin & Jan Brown & Alex & Ann Magee. [There were several significant events celebrated -? -on this day. E.g. The Jewish population of Basel Switzerland, believed by the town residents to be the cause of the ongoing bubonic plague, was rounded up on 9/1/1349 and incinerated on an island. Also, the trial of Joan of Arc began on this day in1431 in Rouen, France, as a result of which, Joan also got burnt!
9th Jan – Meryl Holloway. [also Gracie Fields 1898, Richard Nixon 1913, and Joan Baez 1941]
11th Jan – Richard Grimmett [also Rod Taylor 1930, and no-one else of particular note, but Thomas Hardy died on this day in 1928]
13th – Noel & Trish Emselle. [On this day in1935, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California]
14th – Geoff & Jan Chandler. [The most unusual of many events to occur on this day happened in 1794, when Elizabeth Hog Bennett became the first woman in the U.S. to successfully give birth to a child by caesarean section. Her husband, a doctor, performed the operation, without anesthetic.] Oo, I bet that hurt!
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Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment.
Notice for the visit to the Drysdale Ambulance Station at 6.00 PM on Tuesday 22nd January, to be followed by a BBQ back at the pub, probably about 6.45.
Chairman Margaret Campbell
Assistant Cashier, at the pub Rod Birrell Assistant Sergeant Colin Brown
Bithdays & Anniversaries Absolutely none
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Belgian Rotarians sell books for water
During 2007, Rotary clubs in districts 1620, 2170 and 1630 agreed to promote and sell the 200-page photo book ‘Troubled Waters’ by Dieter Telemans. Proceeds from book sales totaling more than Aus$15,000 were earmarked for an inter-district water improvement project in Africa. The promotion was part of the ‘Troubled Waters’ program, an initiative to spread awareness about global water pollution. That effort was a collaboration among Rotarians, Belgian Government and non-government organizations.
Ed. Comment. Is Rotary in Australia doing anything to promote awareness of our many water problems?
Falling water levels in our river systems, with misuse, [rice & cotton] and pollution [the Yarra, to name one of many.] Rotary worldwide does great things with polio eradication, the three H programs [Health, Hunger and Humanity] etc, but at least those two major programs of the Rotary Foundation must, at times, seem very remote from our National concerns. Trite, but true, is the well-worn saying ‘Charity begins at home’.
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‘ Some cause happiness wherever they go, others, whenever they go’ Oscar Wilde.
From the pages of ‘The Bulletin’ October 9, 1897 [kindly loaned to your editor by Anne Brown.]
A paragraph of some oddity refers to a recent yachting cruise by the visiting German Emperor, who came ashore sporting ‘a thumping black eye’. The article goes on to say that on the following day, one of the vessel’s officers went ashore and ‘mysteriously evaporated’ – the official yarn being that ‘his bicycle had run him into the sea and drowned him’. Fair dinkum.
Arthur Streeton has a studio in Chelsea, and is just starting to paint. He has some nice little things, Cairo figure-subjects chiefly, but he was not well when in Egypt, and produced little for the time he spent there. Streeton seems to have dropped the idea of holding a London show.
Drs. Freeman and Wallace, [legally qualified and registered], of a surgery at the corner of Elizabeth and Bathurst Sts. Sydney, appealed to Middle-age & old men thus:
‘There are thousands of you troubled with weak, aching backs and kidneys, frequent painful urination and sediment in urine, and other unmistakable signs of nervous debility and premature decay. Many die of this difficulty, ignorant of the cause, which is the second state of seminal weakness. The most obstinate cases of this character treated with unfailing success.’ They probably didn’t have a Medical Board in those days.
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They say that 2007 was a drought year
Perhaps it was, but 29 Ocean Throughway recorded 646mm., the second highest recording at that address in the past ten years. 721mm was the highest, in 2001, 335 the lowest, in 2006.
Cherrapuni, in India holds the record, at 10,795mm – that’s more than 35 FEET! Merwillumbah got I foot in three hours, just the other day. Stupid bloody country!
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For those of our members who are not already members of the MCC and would like to be, it’s probably too late for you to join the waiting list anyway.
As at 31st August 2007, there were 39,490 ‘restricted’ members, [who can’t vote at the AGM or attend the AFL Grand Final], and 60,342 full members. Your editor waited 22 years to become a full member, and that was 20 years ago. The waiting list is currently 175,413! The ground capacity is about 98,000, of which 22,000 seats are reserved for members.
And speaking of cricket, [after all, it’s the Melbourne Cricket Club where they play football], hands up all those who think the Australian cricketers are ‘Up themselves’.
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This day tonight
John Corlett was a guest of the Club
Last Sunday’s market attracted 73 stalls and over 700 cars. $178 on the raffle, 4 cray spins raised $507.
Fordies car raffle needs volunteers from 4.45 on Wednesday 16th January at the Barwon Heads CP.
Still on the car raffle, 90 books were issued to members and only half have come back.
Geoff needs to get them back urgently
We all hope Vic Harnath is successful in the Grand Final tomorrow morning.
The rotary walk-way at the Barwon Heads Bluff finally has a ripper of a new sign, thanks to PR guru Richard Grimmett.
On-to-conference Secretary Hans Franken has two spare accommodation slots for the Swan Hill conference, 29th Feb, 1&2 March. Get in quick!
The announcement by President Alison of the marriage of our esteemed fellow member Cookie to Helen, was greeted with sustained applause.
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Didja hear that the little energizer Bunny in the TV ads. has been arrested, and charged with battery.
