Tuesday, June 22

VOL 27 NO. 51

22nd June 2010

Notice for the Change-over Night Dinner at the Barwon Heads Golf Club, 29th June, 6.30 for 7.00
Master of Ceremonies    Coral Barker  Registration Desk   Gerry Spencer   
Assistant  Cashier     Alison George         Business   Out with the old and in with the new, and all that stuff!      
Members please take note   You and your partner are already registered to attend. If either one or both of you do not plan to attend, you MUST advise Hans by noon, Friday 25th  or it may cost you $35 or $70!!
Birthday     1st July     Rod Greer

Noel Leonard EMSELLE   BSc,  CText,  FTI
Noel was born 13th September, 1938 in Richmond, Vic., and grew up in the Northcote area in a strongly Collingwood family. There, he attended Primary School and completed years 7/8 at Preston Tech. He attended Cubs/Scouts and the YMCA in the city where he became a reasonably competent swimmer
He moved to Ocean Grove in 1952, age 13, when his father [Len] took over the management of a shoe factory in Geelong. Noel completed year 11 at Geelong Junior Technical School. He continued with the Scouts and because there were no senior Scouts [Venturers], he took the job of Cub Master of the 1st Ocean Grove pack until he enrolled at Melbourne University in 1958.
He joined the Surf Club when it reformed in 1953 and was elected to the first committee as gear steward. His membership of the OGSLSC is unbroken to this day and includes a year as President and elevation to Life Membership.
Due to his residency in Melbourne, Noel made his contribution to life-saving as an Administrator, Examiner and State and National carnival official, and was awarded a State life membership and a World Life Saving Certificate of Merit. At age 39, he Qualified as a Westpac helicopter rescue crewman/instructor and open water SCUBA diver, and served 10 seasons in volunteer aerial rescue roles. Several hundred hours of training culminated in a dozen or so search and rescue operations, with only two fatalities.
After being educated in Textile Chemistry at the Gordon Institute and in Science at Melbourne University, Noel Pursued a career in the plastics, textile and carpet industries, which kept him and his family living in Melbourne until 2000. Noel met Trish at a Queenscliff RSL dance and they married in 1962. They have 2 children [Melinda and Terry], and 5 grandchildren [Declan, James, Jasmine, Daele & Sienna]. Melinda is a Pharmacist and past employee of Geoff Brentnall.
In his professional career, Noel became a qualified industrial chemist and spent 30 years involved with research and development in the textile and plastic industries, including the construction and performance of carpets and related products.
He became an independent floor covering consultant in 1989 after 19 years with the Australian Wool Testing Authority, including 9 years as manager of the AWTA Textile Testing business unit. The laboratories were based in the ‘Arden St’ precinct and he switched his allegiance to the Kangaroos before their resurgence in the ‘70’s. Four premierships later, he feels his decision vindicated by Collingwood’s single success!
Noel was a registered NATA laboratory assessor, Treasurer and Past President of the Southern Australian Textile Institute, a Chartered Textile technologist, and a Fellow of the Textile Institute [CText,TRI] He has been an expert witness in several court and tribunal cases involving textiles and floor coverings.
 He has now handed over control of his floor covering consulting business to his son Terry, but still helps out with industry committees and technical aspects.
Noel has been continuously linked to Ocean Grove by his parents, his 57 years with the surf lifesaving club, and a holiday house bought in 1985.
Contemplating retirement and a ‘Sea Change’, Noel and Trish demolished the holiday house in 1999 and developed 4 town houses, one of which is their residence. From 2001 to 2007 they divided their time between a townhouse in Kensington Banks [3 nights] and Ocean Grove [4]. During that time, Noel joined RC Footscray and transferred to RC Ocean Grove in 2006.
Being a lover of the sea and what is under it, he began involvement with the Queenscliff Marine Discovery Centre as a volunteer in 2003. Canoe and kayak training at QMDC kindled a continuing passion for kayaking on the Barwon and local wetlands. He is currently President of the Marine Discovery support group.
Noel will become this club’s 28th President at next weeks meeting.

This Day Tonight
  • The Board has accepted Bruce Gilbert’s resignation.
  • If you thought that your Bulletin team scored a record with prompt publishing two weeks ago, how about last week? I sent my text to Richard at 9.35 pm, but he advised publishing on the www at 9.22!!
  • John Wynn did a fantastic job, on his own, on Monday, doing the DIK collections.
  • Tonight, or, perhaps Monday night, marked the winter solstice. The days will now get longer.
  • Overheard on a commuter train to Melbourne. “Didja hear that Tony Haines has resumed his surfing career? Yeah, wetsuit, big board, the lot!”
  • Bob Smith is currently in St Vincents Hospital with a serious illness. Cards, but no visitors.
  • The Board has allocated $1,600 to Jennifer Nemet for disability training
  • Appreciation has been extended to us for our concern and support for Amy & Cody, and our $1,200 to the local Toy Library, [proceeds from the January Market donations bin].
  • Mick Cummins will be absent from July to Dec., and seeks a market management replacement.
  • Ann Hodgkinson has been nominated for membership. Contact Secy.Victor if you wish to object.
  • Gary Golding, descendant from a long line of ancestral relations, graduated from Melb. Uni. with degrees in Chemistry [with Hons.] & Education, and has spent most of his working life teaching in the Shepparton District, gaining elevation to Principal at age 38. He and wife Marje have both fought cancer, and WON!
  • Red Cross Calling coordinator Carol Richardson made a brief appearance to express thanks.
  • John Flett was our second [after Gary] speaker with a brief verbal autobiography. Another ‘Chalky’, [to borrow a phrase from Pres. Rod Greer], and was perhaps Gary’s equal in academic excellence, having achieved a degree in Agricultural Science [with Hons.], education, and a Ph. D]. Counts back for three generations in the Geelong region, dabbled in dairying at Tatura, married with 6 children, and actually worked with Gary for a time.
Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh, and that’s what Craig and Helen Salmon talked about tonight.
Picture a country, to the right of India, left of Burma, and south of Nepal, and you have a tiny country about twice the size of Tasmania. But Tassie is fairly mountainous, Bangladesh is flat. Tassie boasts a population of perhaps half a million, Bangles – 160 million. It’s disease ridden, 88% Muslim, more than 50% illiterate, where most of the population is desperately poor, but people like the Salmons are trying to better at least a tiny proportion of the nation’s populous with an exciting initiative called the three T’s – {teachers Training Teachers}. Craig has an association with the Rotary club of Dhaka North, and your editor plans to explore it.
On an electrician’s truck………………’Let us remove your shorts’.

Three fascinating, but otherwise quite useless pieces of information
  • Sloths eat, sleep and give birth upside down. Sharp claws hold them in place on a branch, sometimes, even in death.
  • A starving mouse will eat its own tail.
  • Anteaters are the only mammals that have no teeth.
Sign on a plumber’s truck…………………….”We repair what your husband fixed”.
Notice for the meeting at the Ocean Grove Hotel, Tuesday 6th July, 6.00 for 6.30.
Subject   ‘What’s planned for this year’.      Chairman      President Noel
Assistant Cashier        Geoff Brentnall          Greeter & Assistant Sergeant       Rod Birrell
Birthdays      7th  Tony Haines,    8th  Peter Cullen,    11th  Lois Dawborn
If you wish to extend apologies for this or any future meeting, phone 0457 315 900.   NOT TO HANS


I have run out of space and energy, so Tuesday weeks meeting can wait.   John Fox,   2135,   22/06/2010
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