This Day Tonight
- President Rod recently attended a meeting of the Ocean Grove Park committee, which has the ambitious plan to raise $500,000 for further development. Watch this space.
- The Geelong East RC will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the presentation of their charter on Sunday 29th Nov at the Barwon Edge restaurant $40 pp. Contact the secy.
- One of our members has offered to sponsor our weekly raffle. A good idea, recommended to you all.
- An art show has been proposed for our club at the Barwon Heads Community Hall for November 2011, and a business plan has been prepared by a committee headed by Ian Downing. Further info. Pending!
- Tonight’s attendance, when compared with registrations or cancellations, served to demonstrate how very careless some of us are where attendance is concerned. The Board is left with no alternative but to send accounts to recalcitrants! Insanity is no excuse.
- All tickets allocated to us for the ’Amelia’ screening, have been sold.
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Pictured: Faye Eglin - Winner, Fashions On The Field
Last Suday’s market
63 stalls, 821 cars, $203 in the ‘Mitre 10’ raffle, $1292 in the donations bin. Bewdy, ripper!
The Cars Raffle
256 books sold last month, but of the 96 books issued to members, only 38 have been returned sold. SHAME!
Tonight’s meeting
There was gambling and liquor and ribaldry and loudness ‘n stuff. [No sex, as we are mostly too old], but horror of horrors, some male members were seen to keep their hats on in the dining room!!! Otherwise, it was bloody good fun, and Hans proved to have the best memory of races run, and scooped the betting pool.A fun night thanks to John Calnin, with help from Trevor, Richard and Fred. The camaraderie helped take our minds off the food.
Listen here to a snippet of this weeks meeting with audioBoo
Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday, 10th November, 6.00 for 6.30
Subject ‘My experience as an Ambassadorial Scholar’. Speaker Mick Cummins Chairman Ian Bent
Assistant Cashier & Thanker Ian Downing Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Noel Emselle
Birthdays & Anniversaries Bill & Joan Steains [11th]
The worldwide trend with Rotary
At the beginning of this financial year, there were 1,234,527 Rotarians worldwide, in 33,790 Rotary clubs in 534 districts. That’s an average of 36.5 per club. Did you know that those 33,790 clubs are the only members of Rotary International? We 1.2+m Rotarians are all members of our respective clubs, [and strictly only one club per member at any one time], but none of us are members of RI!.
Compare that with 3 years previous, when there were 1,209,790 Rotarians in 32,462 clubs, an average of 37.3 per club. Not a huge difference, but it does indicate a trend towards fewer Rotarians per club. The fall in the average number of Rotarians per club becomes dramatic when reference is made to the publication of figures for the first 50 years of Rotary’s existence. After 25 years, [1930], there were 153,00 members in 3300 clubs – an average of 46.4, and that was pretty much the same average after 50 years, [1955], when 400,000 Rotarians in 8400 clubs produced an average of 47.6.What is the minimum level of members required in any Rotary club to keep the club viable. I am tempted to believe it’s about 25. What do you think?
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One of the perks of being a tour bus driver
A tour bus driver is taking a bus full of seniors to Mildura, when a little old lady taps him on the shoulder.
She offers him a handful of almonds which he gratefully munches. After about 30 minutes, she repeats the offer, and he repeats the reaction. This little scenario is repeated about eight times on the trip.
At about this time, he asks the little old seniors’ rep. why they don’t eat the almonds themselves. She replies that it is possibly because of their old teeth, and they are not able to chew them. “So, why do you buy them?”
Whereupon the old lady answers, “We just love the chocolate around them.”
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So, who runs Rotary International?
There are currently 17 directors, 9 appointed at the 2008 world convention, and 8 at the 2009 convention, all for a two year term. 6 from USA, 2 from Japan, and one each from Brazil, Korea, England, Germany, Sri Lanka, Italy, New Zealand, Norway and Uganda. Australia has been well represented in the past.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven ‘pon the place beneath
29 Ocean Throughway has recorded 396mm to 31st Oct. Still well short of the 10-year annual average of 544. 2006 was the driest – 335mm. Paradoxically, the Victorian Mallee is expecting its best grain crop in 10 years.
Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday, 17th November, 6.00 for 6.30
Subject From Amsterdam to Budapest by 3 rivers and a few canals Speaker Marion Walton
Chairman Ingrid Cummins Assistant Cashier & Thanker Hans Franken
Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Bruce Gilbert
Birthdays & Anniversaries John Fox [19th]
Successive R.I. Presidents from 2 vastly different countries
“At the beginning of the last decade, 10.7 million children died every year. Malnutrition and the lack of access to sanitation and safe water were behind more than half those deaths. Today, child mortality is down by 27%. I believe with all my heart that Rotary’s work has played a role”.
2008-09 RI President Dong Kurn Lee. South Korea.
“I will simply rely on you, as responsible people, to see to it that we have more qualified members, true Rotarians, at the end of the year than we had at the beginning. And I will rely on you to do your best to see to the mentoring of our newest members, for retention is no less important than recruitment.”
2009-10 RI President John Kenny, Scotland.
Thought for the week Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.
HERE ENDETH THE BULLY
