Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Ocean Grove Inc.
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Vol. 26 No. 45
June 10th, 2008
Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 17th June, 6.00 for 6.30
Subject Computer Science developments Speaker Rod Bush Chairma John Dodgshun
Assistant Cashier & Thanker David Tyrrell Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Alex Magee
Birthdays & Anniversaries Absolutely none
Notable World Events in the week ahead, [that was]. Your editor has picked out three!
On 17th June 1950, surgeon Richard Lawler performed the first kidney transplant operation at the ‘Little Company of Mary’ hospital in Chicago.. The recipient, Ruth Tucker, lived for another five years.
On 20th June 1837, Victoria was crowned Queen of England She held the title until her death at age 81 in 1901. She remains England’s longest-reigning monarch.
On 21st June 1854, the first Victoria Cross was won by a 20-year-old Irish midshipman Charles Lucas of the Royal Navy. At the start of the Crimean War, he flung a live shell from his ship before it could explode.
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Sign at a Russian Orthodox Monastry ‘You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and Soviet composers, artists and writers are buried daily except Thursday.’
Notice of a Public Meeting at the OG Community Health Centre, Thursday 12th June
Prostate Cancer and other problems of the prostate will be discussed and you will hear from other people on how they survived or are successfully living with it.
40 in every 100 men over the age of 45 will experience debilitating Prostate problems. 10 of them will have cancer and 2 of them will die of it. As many men die of Prostate Cancer as women die of breast cancer.
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Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 24th June, 6.00 for 6.30
Subject The way it was Speaker John Fox Chairman David Cooke
Assistant Cashier & Thanker Bob Smith Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Marion Walton
Birthdays & Anniversaries Absolutely none
Notable World Events in the week ahead, [that was] World War 1 begins in Sarajevo
Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was relatively unpopular in Bosnia Herzegovina. When he visited Sarajevo on 28th June 1914, a plan was hatched to assassinate him. When the seven cars of the Archduke’s motorcade passed by Nedeljko Cabrinovic, one of seven conspirators, he tossed an explosive device which missed the car carrying FF and his wife Sophie, and destroyed the car behind them, injuring several people.
The would-be assassin swallowed a cyanide pill and leapt into the river Miljacka. It really was not his day, as the pill didn’t work and the river contained only 10cm. of water. The local mayor welcomed FF and his mob at the town hall, but on their way to visit the wounded from the earlier debacle, another of the conspirators, Gavrilo Princip, spotted the car containing FF and S and fired a couple of shots at them. They were driven to the Governor’s residence but died of their wounds. It wasn’t their day, either, but that’s how WW1 started.
A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.
Sounding the call to Rotary’s US$100 million challenge [part 1 of 2]
Rotary Foundation Trustee chairman Robert S Scott has heard from Rotarians around the world who share his excitement about the push to end polio and want to know how they can help. Key to that effort, he says, is Rotary’s US$100m Challenge, the three-year fundraising effort to match the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s $100m challenge grant to the Rotary Foundation for polio eradication.
“Each Rotary club is being asked to contribute at least $1,000 annually to the challenge for the next three years,” says Scott, also chair of the International PolioPlus committee. “If you consider that there are nearly 33,000 clubs in the world, their combined fundraising efforts would result in almost the full matching amount of $100 million.
All Rotarians are invited to participate in the challenge, especially those who have joined Rotary since June 2005, when the last commitments to the previous polio eradication funding campaign were fulfilled. Rotary clubs chartered since that time are also a special focus. [To be continued]
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Change-over night is Tuesday 1st July, [George to Calnin]
This gala celebration will be held at the Barwon Heads Golf Club, 6.30 for 7.00. You are all, [except the o/s recipients of this bulletin and other ‘non-Grovers’], assumed to be attending, with your partners. If not, you must apologise, well in advance. The cost is $35 per person, plus drinks. For those members who will be attending alone, registrars would appreciate two volunteers to help at the reception desk with registrations.
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Five lives and your editor wonders why we don’t go through five minute life stories from all our members.
We had four visitors tonight, which was a greater number than the sum total of committee reports.
Heather Wallace. Born Brisbane, moved to Sydney, married at 17, moved to Swan Hill, had three sons [all now successful adults] by the age of 24. With her boys off her hands, and driven by ambition to succeed in business, she went to university and qualified in Town Planning and Urban Design. Now pursuing a career in local government.
Bruce Gilbert. Born Melbourne, started professional life as a Stock Exchange clerk, frequented the Mitre Tavern, at 19 was a scrip manager for a share broker, joined a finance coy. in Perth, then with the State Bank of Victoria until it went belly-up, followed by lots of business travel, Geelong & Bellarine Books for the last ten years. Has several commercial qualifications and gifted children.
Marion Walton. Born Ballarat, educated at Clarendon College, active in several sports, wanted to enter a career in mothercraft nursing, but Bill interrupted that plan and they got married. She then threw her boundless energy into farming and country community affairs. She became a shearers cook for up to 15, took on landcare projects like planting thousands of trees at Rokewood, then sort-of retired to OG.
Bill Walton. Also educated in Ballarat, but spent time at Watchupka [I know it!] Married in ’72, suffered in the Cressy bushfires, but inherited lots of pastures and rocks. Increased his property’s carrying capacity from 1 sheep per acre to 5, has advanced from his father’s horses to a 50hp tractor to 100hp, but his son now drives a 150hp monster. Has run 20,000 sheep and 500 cattle, but the drought has taken its toll.
Vic Harnath. Born Cobram, educated Melbourne and Mildura. Played footy for Mildura Imperials. Lived at the aerodrome, joined air cadets and won a flying scholarship after earning top cadet status. Joined the RAAF and saw overseas service in various countries until 1977. Became an insurance inspector at Charlton, joined Rotary there and became Pres. served on the Rotary Board for 17years. Brief stint in Lancefield, then OG
