Vol 30 No: 47

June Theme: Rotary fellowship Month.

Noel and Trish Emselle 

Notice of Meeting for the Rotary Club of Ocean Grove

18 The Terrace, Ocean Grove.

Tuesday, June 5^th, 2012, 6.00 for 6.30 p.m

Speaker: PP Warren Norton – Rotarians for Land Mine Action. (A Rotary Fellowship)

Chairman: John Fox.

Greeter and Assistant Sergeant: Geoff Ford.

Assistant Cashier and Thanker: John Eyles.

Weekly Raffle: Peter McLennan.

Birthday and Anniversaries: 11/6 Wilma Andrews.

Notice of Meeting for the Rotary Club of Ocean Grove

18 The Terrace, Ocean Grove.

Tuesday, 12^th June 2012, 6.00 for 6.30p.m

Speaker: Ambulance Team Presentation/Presentation and 13^th Beach lifesaving Club

Chairman: Phil Edwards.

Assistant Cashier and Thanker: Bill Steains.

Greeter and Assistant Sergeant: Graeme Chamberlain.

Weekly Raffle: Geoff Ford.

Birthdays and Anniversaries: 14/6 Marion Walton, 16/6 Jan Brentnall and Geoff Ford

27/5 Robyn and Phil Edwards.

Notice of Meeting for the Rotary Club of Ocean Grove

18 the Terrace, Ocean Grove

Tuesday, 19^th June 2012, 6.00 for 6.30p.m

Speakers: Past member Geoffrey Cummins and Dr Prasad Cooray – The John Logan Foundation.

Chairman: Phil Edwards.

Assistant Cashier and Thanker: Rod Birrell.

Greeter and Assistant Sergeant: Coral Barker.

Weekly Raffle: Bill Walton.

Report of the Meeting: 29/5/2012.

Noel Emselle listens just prior
to Helen Trigg's announcement
of his Paul Harris Fellowship. 

DPE Helen Trigg was called upon to get some practice doing the very pleasant task of presenting a Paul Harris Fellowship to PP Noel Emselle. This recognition is well deserved and was greeted with acclamation.

Notes and reminders:

- Secy Vic: District Changeover dinner is on 1/7/2012 at Capri in North Geelong.

* * Annual reports are needed very soon.

-  Football Tipping. Alex Magee asked that those who have not yet paid to cough up their $50.00.  If you remain reluctant to oblige you must await your fate with Alex!

- International: Geoff Brentnall still has the RAWCS stickers- they are $5.00.

- John Paton reminded the members that help is needed for the Winter Market on Sunday 3^rd June.

-  Please remember to avail yourselves of the tea and coffee provided during the evening, preferably before the guest speaker commences.

-  Ann Geerings announced that there will be an outing to Inverleigh on 13^th July. Morning tea will be at the Red Door Café and Lunch will be at The Inverleigh Hotel. Bring your walking shoes, as the entertainment will be a walk around the town and viewing the lovely countryside. The departure time is 9.30 a.m. Please let Ann Magee know if you are attending.

This meeting was held at Davidson's Restaurant and as usual we were treated to good food and good company enjoyed by all present. There were 54 members and partners present.

Students at The Gordon

Mark, the Manager of the Hospitality Training Program told us of the difficulties experienced by the Gordon over the last year. Like many education programs funding has been cut and consequently student and staff numbers have had to be reviewed, but despite this the Gordon has been able to train more students than was planned or budgeted for. Much of the problem appears to have been State and Federal politics working against each other. The Federal Government provides incentives to employers to provide employment but the State Government has cut funding for student training in colleges and places of employment. (Your editor is confused; this sounds illogical to me maybe that is why I did not go into politics!)

While we have all been diligently pursuing our daily lives the SWIM TEAM has been putting in mega hours of training on Sunday mornings in an effort to do very well in the mega swim competition, which is being held later this year.

The team is as follows:

Helen Trigg (Captain), John Calnin, Margaret Campbell, Noel Emselle, John Flett, Rod Greer, Tony Haines, Jo Hawthorne, Jim Ricchini, Noel Ritson-Bennett, Bill Steains. Emergencies: Ian Bent, Richard Grimmett, Ruth Davies (FOR), Kate Greer (FOR).

Coach - Carolyn Hughes, Manager - John Calnin, Club Sponsorship - John Paton.

Encouraging visitors would be very welcome to training sessions on Sunday mornings at the pool.

- Note to members – Apologies must be in by 11a.m. on MONDAY! Notification later than this is of no use. Co-operation with this would be appreciated.

A.G