June Theme: Rotary Fellowship Month
Notice of Meeting for the Rotary Club of Ocean Grove
18 The Terrace, Ocean Grove
Tuesday, 16/6/2015, 6.00 for 6.30pm
Guest Speaker: Jac Renzenvrunt and Tina Evertze. "Sea Kayaking."
Chairman: Gill Morgan
Assistant Cashier and Thanker: Coral Barker
Greeter and Assistant Sergeant: Alex Magee
Weekly Raffle: Bill Steains
Birthdays and Anniversaries: Nil
Notice of the Meeting for the Rotary Club of Ocean Grove,
Tuesday, 23/6/2015, 6.00 for 6.30pm
Speaker: "Magical Mystery featuring a Jack in the Box maybe"?
Chairman: Judy Greer
Assistant Cashier and Thanker: John Calnin
Greeter and Assistant Sergeant: Marion Walton
Raffle: Richard Grimmett
Birthdays and Anniversaries: Nil
Notice of Meeting for the Rotary Club of Ocean Grove
18 The Terrace, Ocean Grove
Tuesday, 30/6/2015, 6.00 for 6.30pm
Change Over Dinner Meeting: This is a partner's night so please apologize in the usual manner. You have all been sent an email about this so please do not ignore it!
Chairman: John Paton and Adrian Schmidt
Assistant Cashier and Thanker: Richard Clay
Greeter and Assistant Sergeant: Rod Birrell.
Weekly Raffle: Birthdays and Anniversaries: 1/7 Rod Greer, 7/7 Tony Haines.
Lookout Reserve Maintenance Roster
23/5/2015 – 19 /6/2015 Eng Ho, 20/6/2015 – 18/7/2015 Wal Kelly
Report of meeting 9/6/2015
Reports: - Queenscliff Rotary Club have asked for our help with their "bricks" (Lego) project on 20-21/6 at the Point Lonsdale Primary School Hall. Contact Marianne Deacon at mariannedeacon@gmail.com
- We have also received an invitation to the 10th Anniversary Dinner of the Queenscliff Rotary Club on Wednesday 24th June at Vue Grand Hotel, 46 Hesse Street, Queenscliff RSVP 9/6/2015 to Jenny Jacobs 0423 000 501 or Wayne Pecar 0428 595 003. Three course meal, $40 per head. Payment with booking please
President: John gave a brief report on a Project being held in Tonga by the Rotary Club of Ballarat West. There is also need for more Aqua Boxes and Shelter boxes for Nepal.
Youth Committee: Judy Greer told us of Sami Gravener's experiences
(Our Outward-bound student) currently in France, She has been hosted by three families and has made close friends with several of her fellow exchange students. She has travelled extensively in France with her host parents and also visited Germany, Monaco, Austria, Czech Republic, Italy and Switzerland. For her last four months on the Exchange she will attend a science school to study Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Maths, French and English. Skiing, hiking and bike riding are also on the agenda.
Market: Adrian Schmidt reported a very successful market. $1,114 was taken at the gate, $242 in the raffle and $1,818 from stallholders.
- Ocean Grove Hardware has come on board as a sponsor for the Summer Markets with 2x$50 vouchers each market.
Mens Shed allocated August Market Collection and Relay for Life in October.
N.B. A new organizer will be needed for future Summer Markets!! So please step up if you can take on this very important task.
- Rotary Club of Drysdale change over dinner Monday 29th June 6 for 6.30 pm at Clifton Springs Golf Club. Contact JP.
Foundation: Gordon suggested that if any Rotarian has any spare cash before the end of the Financial Year, a donation to the Foundation could be considered. All donations are tax deductible. Our Club has 18 Centurians this year.
Secretary: All members are reminded to register foe our Changeover dinner on 30th June at the Bowling Club.
Footy Tipping: Alex Magee reported that Geoff Chandler leads the Footy Tipping, but Coral Barker won this week with a magnificent 9!
Community: - Football finals gate duty will be needed at the St Albans Football ground on 22/23 and 29/30 August and 5th and 12th September. Peter will organize this when he returns.
NB A back-up note taker for the Bulletin is urgently needed until the middle of July. Please consider this interesting job and let John Paton know if you can help.
Report: Meeting 9/6/2015.
Guest Speaker: Rod Greer. Future Directions.
The Club has been considering its future directions over the last 12 months or so. The Board had met in September 2014 to review the Club's functioning. From that meeting the members were asked their views on a range of issues on January2015 followed by another board meeting which brought the two sets of opinions together. The findings of that process were presented at this meeting.
Things that have been done included:
- A review of 'Membership introduction and induction'.
- A new 'Welcome to Rotary' document with details of all the tasks that members are asked to do from time to time).
- A revised 'Mentoring' document.
Each of these have now been placed on the website for all members to access.
Also highlighted in the presentation was the need to improve our communication by having a 'live' calendar on line to help planning, as well as a 'live' version of the Club Directory also on line and the need for each member to keep this up to date.
The review process showed that we were agreed that 'lowering the average age' was not necessarily a target, but rather the quality of potential Rotarians was more important.
It was generally agreed that we need a major project that would allow more involvement of more members. Two such options were: a house for holidays, short or long stay for people experiencing difficulties, and a trail from Ocean Grove to Pt. Lonsdale behind the dunes. Existing activities were generally not discussed or seen to need major change.
Social events were seen as critical and the 'glue of the Club'. We have had a good year in this regard.
Flexibility in meeting format, location and frequency were also worth considering.
We also completed a survey of the FROG's with a view to seeing how we might be able to incorporate them better into Rotary and as potential members.
Thanks to all members for their input to this process over the time. Rod Greer.
Thanks to John Fox and Rod Greer for doing the notes.
Please note it is essential that apologies be recorded by 12noon on Mondays. Also the Club has to pay for members who have not apologized and not turned up!
Phone number is 0457 315 900. Thank You
A Reminder… I would be very grateful if a hard copy of reports could be given to me…my task would be made easier!
AG
