July: Literacy on Health
Rotary Club of Ocean Grove Meeting: 1st July 2014
Roster for Meetings @ 18 The Terrace, Ocean Grove, 6pm for 6.30pm start:
8th July
| |
Activity
|
Club Assembly
|
Chairperson
|
John Paton
|
Greeter & Assist Sergeant
|
Richard Clay
|
Assist Cashier & Thanker
|
Gordon King
|
Weekly Raffle
|
Geoff Brentnall
|
3 on Me
|
Rod Bush
|
Birthdays
|
8th - Peter Cullen, 11th - Barbara Cummins
|
Rotary OG Induction anniversary
|
2004 - Rod & Judy Greer
2008 - Richard Trigg
|
15th July
| |
Activity
|
TBA
|
Chairperson
|
Fred Andrews
|
Greeter & Assist Sergeant
|
John Calnin
|
Assist Cashier & Thanker
|
Tony Haines
|
Weekly Raffle
|
Fred Andrews
|
3 on Me
|
Peter Cullen
|
Birthdays
|
-
|
Rotary OG Induction anniversary
|
2011 - Peter McLennan
|
22nd July
| |
Activity
|
Life in Bangladesh - Helen & Craig Salmon
|
Chairperson
|
Richard Clay
|
Greeter & Assist Sergeant
|
Geoff Chandler
|
Assist Cashier & Thanker
|
Marion Walton
|
Weekly Raffle
|
Margaret Campbell
|
3 on Me
|
Richard Grimmett
|
Birthdays
|
23rd - Nanette Calnin & Elaine Elliott
|
Lookout Reserve Maintenance Roster
19 Jul - 15 Aug
|
16 Aug - 12 Sep
|
13 Sep - 10 Oct
|
Geoff Brentnall
|
Alex Magee
|
Jill Grigg
|
Guests: Lyn Roberts (from Victor Harbour), Howard & Cheryl Tinbury (Guest Speaker)
Dates for your diary:
8th July - Board meeting next Tuesday night, please pass agenda items to Martin by Friday
17th August - Australian Youth Classical Music competition Finals Concert at Geelong College 2.30pm. Bookings can be made at GPAC (ph: 5225 1200)
30/31st August - MS Megaswim
Reports:
· David Tyrrell has offered to do a short course in CPR and if there is enough interest it might become an activity at one of our club meetings
· The errors in the 2014/2015 Membership booklets will be corrected with new books to be issued
· Discussions are underway regarding Rotary's involvement in the Community Showcase Picnic.
· Volunteers will be called for to man the gates (back & front) at the GDFL finals
· The 3rd quarterly payment is due to be paid to the Solemaid Community School, Bangladesh
· 2014/15 membership subscriptions are due - $200
· Next Sunday's indoor market is fully booked and gold coin donations will be going to Disabled Surfers Association
· Gordon attended the District Changeover Dinner in Maryborough. Geoff James is the new DG, with Jane Cox DG Elect.
· Weekly giving of $2 into the Rotary cube (yes cube) will continue this year to raise funds for the Rotary Foundation.
· Richard Grimmett is seeking interested members to help out on the organising committee for the Supper Dance in October
· Peter Hawthorne looking at the feasibility of making phone calls to socially isolated people in our community to ask 'R U OK'. Each member who would like to take part will be asked to call 3-5 people just for a general chat. Peter is looking into what information may need to be on hand should problems be encountered
· Coral is requesting suggestions of notable people who may be suitable to open this year's Art Show
· MS Megaswim Rotary Engines team now has 10 registered members. We need 5 more. To be part of the team you only need to be able to spare around 1-1/2 hours over the 24 hour period, and be able to swim as many laps as you feel capable of doing. Register at https://events.megaswim.com/2014-Ocean-Grove-24-Hour-Mega-Swim. Rotary Engines are currently on top of the fundraising leaderboard.
· Winners of the Footy tipping comp are: Geoff Brentnall (Round 13), Alison George (Round 14), Dick Clay (Round 15), with Geoff Chandler still the overall leader.
3 on Me: Dick Clay
Dick was born in East Doncaster in 1945 where his parents ran an orchard. After suffering chilblains from the cold his father packed up the family and moved to Kyabram where he worked as a fruit inspector. Dick thrived on the easygoing lifestyle in Kyabram - footy, cricket, swimming & fishing in the channels and rivers, riding his bike around the district, and going to the movies on a Saturday night. As a teenager, to be accepted as part of the Kyabram "gang", you had to pass the Kyabram courage test i.e. you had to hide under the cattle grid while the train went over the top of you. A very scary feat, but if you did it, you were considered "in". Echuca & Moama were also regular haunts, especially for the Saturday night entertainment.
The Richmond Football Club signed him up in 1966 and he continued his association with them for the next 10 years, playing with such greats as Kevin Sheedy, Kevin Bartlett, & Royce Hart.
In those days you had to have a job as well, so he found a job with Tarax soft drinks, and was involved in many aspects of the business from product testing, to marketing, distribution & sales. The skills he learnt were invaluable as he moved into running his own businesses - firstly the Court Jester Hotel in Prahran, then the Royal Saxon Hotel in Richmond, followed by Toyworld and finally a Tattslotto agency in Collingwood/Fitzroy, before retiring to Ocean Grove.
He and Leone have 3 children, and 4 grandchildren. He has a restricted pilots license having taken lessons in solo flying in Cessna planes.
(Author's note - Dick's also pretty good on the bowling green after only just taking it up last year)
The Sailing Ships of the First Fleet - Cheryl Tinbury
Cheryl is an active and passionate member of the Fellowship of First Fleeters. The Fellowship is an organisation comprised of descendants of those who arrived in Sydney Cove with the First Fleet on 26 January 1788.
Her presentation was on the 11 ships that made up the First Fleet describing in some detail the lives of the passengers and the conditions they had to endure on the long journey from England to Australia, in virtually uncharted waters. The ships were: HMS Sirius, HMS Supply, Alexandra, Charlotte, Friendship, Lady Penryhn, Prince of Wales, Scarborough, Golden Grove, Fishburn and Borrowdale.
It really made you realise just how difficult it must have been, not only for the convicts but for the ship's crew, officers, marines and their families, coming to a new land, largely unknown and uninhabited by Western civilisation, with only the provisions that they had with them to begin their new life.
 |
| Helping out at the footy: Richard Clay
Jill
|
 |
| Our new Sergeant: Richard Trigg |
