Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Ocean Grove Inc.
Joint winner of the Lange trophy for best membership growth.
Sole solver of the mystery of the white glove.
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Volume 26 No 37
March 25th 2008
Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 1st April, 6.00 for 6.30
Subject Motovate [Mind over Motor] Speaker Geoff Fickling, a racing car driver.
Chairman Colin Brown
Assistant Cashier & Thanker Geoff Brentnall Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Rod Birrell
Birthdays & Anniversaries Absolutely none!
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Important Notice for all members
Next Tuesday, 1st April, will be your editor’s last meeting for four weeks, as I am taking my proof reader on a slow boat to China. My last bulletin before that break will be 1st April, and the next, will be 29th April. The programs for 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th April, will be printed next week, and if you plan to be absent for any of those meetings and you see your name listed for duty, it would be very helpful if you could advise me by phone or e-mail before 8.00pm on 1st April.
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“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”
William Faulkner [about Ernest Hemingway].
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An equally important notice for all members Gerald Alan Spencer
Gerry Spencer has been proposed for membership, and the nomination has been approved by the Board of Directors. Gerry has given his consent for his name to be published, and any objections to his admission, should be submitted in writing to the secretary by 9.30 pm on Tuesday 1st April.
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“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”.
Ernest Hemingway [about William Faulkner]
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Notice for the meeting at the Banks Road Winery, Tuesday, 8th April, 6.00 for 6.30.
Subject A workplace visit, including meal and tasting. [corner Bell. Hwy & Banks Rd.]
Speaker The winemaker Chairman David Tyrrell
Assistant Cashier & Thanker Rod Bush Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Anne Brown
Birthdays & Anniversaries
8th Martin Geerings. [also King Philip IV of Spain 1605, Betty Ford 1918, and Julian Lennon 1963]
9th John Calnin & Vic Harnath. [also Jorn Utson 1918, Hugh Hefner 1926, and Dennis Quaid 1954]
10th Peter and Jo Hawthorne. [ On this day in 1912, the RMS Titanic, the largest passenger steamship in the world, left Southampton on her maiden voyage, headed for New York.]
11th Pam Turnbull. [also Septimus Severis, Roman Emperor 146, David Zeisberger, missionary 1721, and Edward Everett, the professor who admitted the first black student to Harvard University 1794]
I am going to take a break for most of April
I find that writing a two page bulletin every week is a drag, and I bet you would, too. Three straight years of it is a bit much, but I promised John Calnin that I would continue for his ‘year’, so I am stuck with it for another 15 months, and you are stuck with me [or the ‘delete’ button]. Much of it is self-inflicted, as I could easily use photos, but I have this personal view that photos are a lazy way of doing the bully, and also, a lot of purely ‘Rotary’ stuff is, in my humble opinion, boring. I would like to be more of an editor than an author,
But at least I don’t have regular critics
So, I am proposing to write more about life in general, and there are some things about which I have strong views. This week, it’s ‘common sense’. It was going to be a reflection on the idiocy of professional footballers ‘urinating in public’, but that is, after all, just an example of what this heading is all about.
Obitiary
I thank Noel Emselle for the following contribution, which I feel sure he will not claim to be ‘original’.
‘Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as knowing when to come in out of the rain, why the early bird gets the worm, life isn’t always fair, and maybe it was my fault’. More next week.
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Of babies and birds
Did you see that terrific photo of Suzie Israel and her baby son in last Thursday’s Addie? Benjamin Charles Owen finally went home after weeks of complicated surgery.
Remember my articles about the successive families of cygnets on Begola Wetlands? After 35 days of heat and no rain, the lake was down to about 1%, and mom decided her latest brood of 4 had to move on. Last Saturday, she took them across busy Emperor Drive to explore the channel through to Bonnyvale Road. Let’s hope Dad, who stayed behind, got a call through to them that it rained 9mm in the lake on Monday.
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Luba Grigorovitch was an inspiration
A double degree from Uni., joining Altona City Rotary Club at 22, Lynn Kosky’s assistant, sportswoman, world tourist, heading the New Generations committee, already attracted a 28yo & a 30yo into her club, and she’s much prettier than our youngest member, Luba has come a long way in a very short time. We should all take note, - a breath of fresh air!
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This day tonight
131,809 tickets were sold by 159 voluntary organizations to raise $209,000 in the annual car faffle.
Our Rotary district seeks a volunteer for the ‘Preserve Planet Earth’ committee.
Recent expenditure by your Board includes $1000 via RAWCS for a medical centre in Fiji, $2000 for Neighborhood House, $500 for the Bellarine Historical Society, $2000 for Polio Plus, $3000 to the Rotary Foundation, and $1200 for a shelterbox.
The Easter market was a bit of a disappointment, but 9 no-shows are a continuing problem.
Our club member’s contribution to the Queenscliff seafood fest. helped raise $85,000!
Our official visit to RC Torquay on 21st April, -not 22nd, will feature a double-lung recipient.
Paul Gleeson, [7/8], won the footy tipping comp. Bloody Fluke!
PP Tim Kemp announced his impending resignation from our club tonight, due to his appointment as Defence Secretariat manager in Canberra, as from 14th April. We congratulate him and wish him well.
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A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion. Sorry about that.
