Left to right: Geoff Chandler, Judy Greer, Tahlia Justice, President Rod Greer, Megan King, Matthew Wade, Renee Wade
This Day Tonight
· This is something I forgot to mention last week, when reporting on the elderly Citizens’ Xmas dinner. Chairman Marion announced that it was the 12th straight year we had held this function. It has cost us about $20,000, excluding sponsorship. It is surely one of the best things this Rotary club does!
· Also harking back to last week’s bulletin, I expect you all realised that the photo on page 4 was taken at our district conference in Geelong, 77 years ago, with the RI President in attendance!. District 65 ultimately became 9780. Spencer Nall’s son Ken is currently a member & PP of Geelong RC.
· Our visitors tonight included 3 past and one current awardee of the Victorian Certificate of Education. Introduced by Geoff Chandler , they each, in turn, spoke of their aspirations beyond year 12, and thanked OG Rotary for the granting of scholarships to the value of $1000 to assist with years 11 & 12.
· Today’s Board meeting voted $497 to the bio-sands project, $800 to the CFA website, and upgraded our trailer.
· A Portugese R.C. toasted us tonight, and Bob Osbourne thanked us for our congrats. on his nuptials.
· The Surfside Primary School invites us all to morning tea at 1050AM on Wednesday 16th December.
· A total of 84 raffle ticket books were sold last weekend! Bloody marvellous!
· President Rod has expressed hearty congrats to the Waltons on the Seniors Dinner, the DIK collection team, the market mob and all the raffle ticket vendors. He also thanked us all for our best wishes for his speedy recovery from ‘hobbeldy-kick’. He raised $250 from his ‘run’ for Rotary Foundation.
· Mick Cummins easily persuaded us all that hearing about ‘Policing in Iraq’ is much better than being there! A graphic account of a terrible job. Why don’t we leave it to the Iraqis to wipe each other out?
· Last Sunday’s market hosted 83 stalls, 483 cars, and raised $259 in the raffle and $748 in donations.
Car Raffle Sales Duties
Fri 11/12 Safeway OG AM John Dodgshun PM Bill Walton
Sun 13/12 APCO Barwon Heads AM Ingrid & Geoffrey Cummins PM Peter Cullen.
Fri 18/11 Safeway Drysdale AM Trevor McArdle PM Geoffrey Cummins
Fri 18/11 Safeway OG AM Noel Emselle PM Richard Grimmett.
17 of our members haven’t returned the two books they were issued several weeks ago. SHAME!
Landmarks and turning points in Rotary’s history
1920 Rotary reaches continental Europe [Madrid, Spain].
1921 First Rotary clubs in Australia [Melbourne] and Africa [Johannesburg, South Africa].
1927 Youth Exchange initiated in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Nice, France.
1932 Chicago Rotarian Herbert J Taylor formulates the four-Way Test. to be continued
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Some amazing stories of Polio
· Most people don’t have any symptoms and never realise they were infected.
· Some feel mildly ill; their bodies fight off the virus as they might the flu.
· In a small percentage of cases, the virus spreads to the central nervous system.
· Fewer than 1 in 100 infected people get a paralytic form of the disease When this happens, the virus destroys motor neurons, the nerve cells that control muscles.
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Notice for the meeting commencing at the Calnins, 15th December, 6.00 for 6.30
This is our annual Christmas party, which is to be a progressive dinner, with partners. If you or your partner are NOT going, you must de-register with John absolutely no later than Friday 11th, or you will be fined the set charge per person of $30, as the club is committed to the numbers advised. Bring drinks and glasses to the first two venues, plus chairs to the third. $30 pp for the meal.
Birthdays & Anniversaries 15th Judy Eyles, 17th Ian Bent. 20th Peter & Annette Cullen. 21st David & Helen Cooke.
Have you ever wondered how Rotary survived WW2?
The short answer is – ‘much healthier than Adolph!’. After Hitler became German Chancellor in 1933, the Nazis declared that Germans of Jewish descent were 2nd class citizens and forbidden to hold important jobs or own businesses. As a result, many German Rotarians lost their classifications and had to resign their membership.
By 1935, the Nazi media began to accuse Rotary of links to freemasonry and sympathetic towards Jews. Incredibly, those twisted minds claimed that by re-arranging the letters in ’Rotary’, the word ‘Tora’ appeared, which they reckoned was near enough to Torah, the Jewish law.
Largely because of this incredible nonsense, Nazi party members were banned from being Rotarians. At the height of the war, 484 Rotary clubs and 16,700 Rotarians were wiped off the rolls in all conquered countries. Some clubs continued to meet clandestinely as ‘Golf clubs’ or simply adopted their meeting day. [OG would have become the ‘Tuesday club’].
And how about the ‘Eastern Bloc’ countries which survived the war only to be forced to peek out from behind the iron curtain for the next 44 years! Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, the Balkan and Baltic states, East Germany, Cuba and China. Rotary was re-installed in all of them by 1990.
Extracted from ‘A Century of Service’, the story of Rotary International.
Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove hotel, Tuesday, 22nd December, 6.30 for 7.00
Speaker Italian Concert Pianiste Chiara Passerini Subject ‘Life in the international public arena’.
Chairman Colin Brown
Assistant Cashier & Thanker Coral Barker Greeter & Assistant Sergeant Geoffrey Cummins
Birthdays & Anniversaries 24th Geoff Brentnall 25th Jesus of Nazareth 26th Jennifer Bent
28th Colin Brown. 4th January Dick & Leone Clay. THERE WILL BE NO MEETING ON 29th DEC
Raffle ticket sales rosters for Tuesday, 5th January at various caravan parks will be e-mailed to you all on Sunday 27th December, and again on Sunday 3rd January non-attendance?– Death by lethal injection
John Fox, 2125, 08/12/2009
