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Vol.26 No. 11
Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 16th September, 6.00 for 6.30
Speaker Cathy Tisdale Subject Californian connection surf championships.
Chairman Richard Grimmett Attendance Officer Helen Trigg
Assistant Cashier & Thanker Geoff Brentnall Greeter & Assistant Sergant Heather Wallace
Birthdays & Anniversaries 16th Heather Wallace 17th Ian Downing 18th Ken & Lauree Fleay
Notable World Events in the week ahead [that was]
On September 19th, 1991, two German tourists were hiking in the mountains between Italy and Austria when they made an amazing discovery. It was a frozen human body they at first took to be a fellow mountain climber – but which turned out to be the oldest frozen mummy ever found. Otzi the Iceman, named after the Otzal region in which he was discovered, had been frozen inside a glacier for more than 5,000 years, a perfect example of a chalcolithic [Copper Stone Age] European. His body was incredibly well preserved, and international scientists have been studying his DNA to discover more about our evolution.
The initial conclusion was that he had died from exposure, but it was later discovered that there was an arrow lodged in his shoulder and cuts and bruises on his hands, suggesting that he had died as a result of a fight. He was still wearing the remnants of a grass cape, animal skin leggings and snowshoes, and had an axe and arrows with him. Hs age was determined to be 45-50, and his last meal had been red deer meat, wheat grain and fruit.
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Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 23rd September, 6.00 for 6.30
Speaker Michael Killingsworth Subject International Pilot Training
Chairman John Wynn Attendance Officer Dennis Sanders
Assistant Cashier & Thanker Geoff Chandler Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Rod Bush
Birthdays & Anniversaries Absolutely none!
Notable World Events in the week ahead [that was]
Chewing gum was invented on 23rd September 1848 by John Curtis in Maine, U.S. He boiled the resin obtained from spruce trees on a stove at his home, then poured it in a tub of ice water and strained it, selling it in sticks wrapped in tissue paper. Fair Dinkum!
Did you know that Dougal Haston and Doug Scott were the first Britons to scale Mt Everest on 24th September 1975? It is tempting to believe it happened in June 1953 to co-incide with the corination of H.M. Queen Elizabeth 11, but those two were respectively a New Zealander and a Sherpa.
Old People in the U.K. applied for the first time on ‘pension day’ 24th September, 1908, for the old age pension under a new Act brought down that year.
On 26th September 1908, a record crowd of 50,026 saw Carlton, 5.5 35, defeat Essendon, 3.8.26 in the V F L Grand final at the M.C.G.
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Only in America do banks leave their doors open, and then chain the pens to the counters!
Ed. Comment. Well, not quite. They also do that in Ocean Grove.
We are a step closer to holding a Craft Fair at Easter next year
A nucleus of a steering committee chaired by Jan Fox, has submitted a preliminary proposal for a three day craft exhibition next Easter at the Surfside Primary School, which has offered its assembly hall for that purpose free of charge in consideration of our work on their garden.
Why are they called apartments, when they are all stuck together?
STOP PRESS – the Board gets on the booze, in a good cause
At this morning’s meeting, the Board supported our President in a novel idea to support polio plus. We are all urged to donate a bottle of mid-priced wine to be masked and offered for sale at our 25th birthday meeting on 14th October. This is a tremendous idea, and it is confidently predicted that we will all contribute. To cover the likelihood that there will be some absentees, your editor suggests the club could purchase a reserve stock to be allocated to the absentees when they return, at cost.
A little bit of our history
Rotary started in Australia at Melbourne in 1921, 16 years after the foundation of Rotary in Chicago. Hobart, Launceston and Adelaide came next in 1924, Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong followed in 1925, Drysdale in 1975, and we were sponsored by Drysdale to receive our charter on 11th October 1983. Our District Governor in that year was Ellis Bickley from Mortlake.
The list of charter members of the Melbourne Rotary club, makes interesting reading – Sir John Gellibrand [Chief of Police], Sir Robert Gibson [Iron Founder], Sir John Monash [SEC], Harold Clapp [Chairman, Vicrail] John Latham [Barrister], Harrie Lee [MFB chief], Frank Tate [Director of Education], and various lesser dignatories. Sydney’s charter members included five Knights, but another four were later to receive Knighthoods
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Only in America could you find giant corporate monsters with names like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac!
Just how big are those U.S. mortgage Companies? About the size of BHP.[but very much more volatile and more likely to drag us all into an international depression].
………………where angels fear to tread
Oh, I must be getting old! I listened to 18 year-old guest speaker Jemima Lock tonight with the sure knowledge that if she was my daughter, I would have tried desperately to talk her out of the planned aid trip to Mombasa next month.
I know that most of Africa is rife with disease and poverty and HIV/AIDS and violence and we should be awake to the horrendous problems of the ‘third world’, but how many of us would be willing to expose our own daughter to it?
Of course, I admire Jemima, but I certainly do not envy her, or her mother. Two stints in the indigenous areas of the Northern Territory will not, I suspect, prepare her for strife–torn and disease–ridden equatorial Africa, but there is one thing for certain, I want to hear how it went when she gets back! I hope our Board can help her with the cost of this massive aid venture [I hesitate to call it an adventure!]
Notice Board
We had a visiting Rotarian from Southport North, and three guests tonight, and two new members are advertised for induction.
The Board has lodged an application to host the incoming GSE team, has resolved to cancel the meeting on Melbourne Cup night [Paul would not have approved], and it looks as if we will include a night at the trots on a Thursday night in February.
The DIK team at North Geelong want used bicycles, and four of our mob packed books there last Wednesday. Gerry Spencer reckons that a young and active club like us could easily provide a regular monthly team of workers.
I strongly disapprove of the Board’s decision to cancel the Melbourne Cup meeting! Unnecessary!
Next year’s Rotary District Conference will be held at Ballarat from Friday 13th March. Getcha red-hot accommodation bookings from Hans Franken, while they last.
If you can drag yourself out of the cot by 10.45 tomorrow morning, get to Kingston Park by 11 for a market promotion photo-shoot.
Phil. Edwards would appreciate your help in the distribution of Market ‘flyers.
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