Change is inevitable; Change is constant. If you Change nothing, nothing will change ! Page 1 LINKS: Club website: www.ascotrotary.org.au Club Facebook page: www.facebook.com/AscotRotary Bricktober website: www.bricktober.info Bricktober Facebook: www.facebook.com/Bricktober.Perth AGFR 2017: District 9465: http://rotary9465.org.au Rotary International: https://www.rotary.org ROTARY CLUB OF ASCOT Chartered 26 February 1969 Meeting Venue: Belmont Tavern 174 Wright Street, Cloverdale Time: Tuesday’s 7.00 am for 7.30 am start. All finished by 8.30 am. BOARD MEMBERS 2016-17 President: Mike Bermann V P: Peter Richardson Secretary: Michelle Kendall Treasurer: Joanna Kendall Foundation: Hugh Langridge Membership: Michael Evans Exec Secretary: Hugh Langridge Club Service: Peter Richardson Projects: International: Ron Alexander Youth: Aidan Wood Vocational: Max Morrell Community: Stephen Kendall Communications: Dianne Reed Incoming Pres: Aidan Wood and Ron Alexander BULLETIN 2016-17 Volume 48 Number 38 4 April 2017 What was the first Rotary Foundation educational programme ? Well done Christine. You guessed it. See the answer later in the Bulletin. Another question next week. Rotary's special months April is . . . Maternal and Child Health Month Every day mothers risk their lives giving birth and millions of children die each year from treatable, preventable causes. At least 7 million children under the age of five, die each year due to malnutrition, poor health care and/or inadequate sanitation. This is not good enough and Rotary is doing something about it. We can all do our bit to help . . . . WELCOME TO OUR GUESTS: All the players and partners of the AGFR DG Linda McLerie PDG Brian Guest All other partners and friends of Rotary who attended the dinner
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BOARD MEMBERS 2016-17 President: Michael Bermann
Vice President: Peter Richardson
Secretary: Michelle Kendall
Treasurer: Joanna Kendall
Foundation: Rob Francis
Membership: Michael Evans
International: Ron Alexander
Projects:
Bricktober: Stephen Kendall
AGFR 2017: Aidan Wood
?: Garry Jacobs
Communications: Dianne Reed
Incoming Presidents 2017-18: Ron
Alexander and Aidan Wood
LINKS: Club website: www.ascotrotary.org.au Club Facebook page: www.facebook.com/AscotRotary Bricktober website: www.bricktober.info
AGFR 2017: District 9465: http://rotary9465.org.au Rotary International: https://www.rotary.org
ROTARY CLUB OF ASCOT Chartered 26 February 1969
Meeting Venue: Belmont Tavern 174 Wright Street, Cloverdale Time: Tuesday’s 7.00 am for 7.30 am start. All finished by 8.30 am.
BOARD MEMBERS 2016-17 President: Mike Bermann V P: Peter Richardson Secretary: Michelle Kendall Treasurer: Joanna Kendall Foundation: Hugh Langridge Membership: Michael Evans Exec Secretary: Hugh Langridge Club Service: Peter Richardson
Projects: International: Ron Alexander Youth: Aidan Wood Vocational: Max Morrell Community: Stephen Kendall
Communications: Dianne Reed
Incoming Pres: Aidan Wood and Ron Alexander
BULLETIN 2016-17
Volume 48 Number 38 4 April 2017
What was the first Rotary Foundation educational programme ?
Well done Christine. You guessed it. See the answer later in the Bulletin.
Another question next week.
Rotary's special months
April is . . . Maternal and Child Health Month
Every day mothers risk their lives giving birth and millions of
children die each year from treatable, preventable causes. At
least 7 million children under the age of five, die each year due
to malnutrition, poor health care and/or inadequate sanitation.
This is not good enough and Rotary is doing something about it.
We can all do our bit to help . . . .
WELCOME TO OUR GUESTS:
All the players and partners of the AGFR
DG Linda McLerie
PDG Brian Guest
All other partners and friends of Rotary who attended the dinner
May 2 May Host Chair: Glenys Godfrey Speaker: David Spitteler Topic: The Asylum Seekers Centre
9 May Host Chair: Michael Evans Speaker: Julie Copson A Clutterless Life
16 May Host Chair: Peter Richardson
23 May Host Chair: Stephen Kendall
30 May Host Chair: Joanna Kendall
June 6 June Host Chair: Gren Courtland
13 June Host Chair: Jeff Stephenson
20 June Host Chair: Hugh Langridge
27 June Host Chair: Max Morrell
July 4 July Host Chair:
11 July Host Chair:
18 July Host Chair:
25 July Host Chair:
If the appointed date is not suitable for you please arrange to swap with someone else, and then let the Editor know what date does work. Thanks Dianne.
2017 – AGFR – here in Perth
April 2 - 7
The dinner on April 4 at the WA Golf Club was a great success. It was well attended by members and
friends; as well as the players and partners involved in the Golf Tournament.
Well done to the organising committee. The feedback so far is that it is another great success story from
the players.
Thank you to all the members who have volunteered to support the event during the week.
The two final days will be held at the Mt Lawley Golf Course, 1 Walter Road, Inglewood.
PLEASE CHECK THE HOST CHAIR ROSTER
DON’T WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE TO FIND YOUR SPEAKER.
START LOOKING NOW!
Please notify Dianne Reed as soon as possible about the guest speaker you have lined up, and their topic so
she can add it into the Speakers Program on our Website.
The earlier you do this the better. Guest speakers can then be advertised on our website in
advance.
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PAUL HARRIS RECIPIENTS: Ron Alexander Sue Alexander Duggan Anderson (multi)(dec) Shirley Anderson Bill Bateman (dec) Beverley Bell (dec) Norm Bell (multi) Michael Bermann (multi) Kerry Blom Terry Cash (dec) Gren Courtland (multi) Jill Courtland Kevin Dalton (dec) Stuart Dunstan Gwen Evans Michael Evans Roma Gehringer Doreen Gianatti PDG Paul Gianatti Christine Goss Luujke Hawke Tony Hawke Raymond Hind Terry Hollis Annette Jacobs Garry Jacobs (multi) Joanna Kendall (multi) Michelle Kendall Stephen Kendall PDG Hugh Langridge (multi) Karon Langridge Peter Lewis (dec) Ronnie Malthouse (multi) Ian McIntyre Murray McLeish (dec) Gerry McLernon Ros McLernon Michael Metcalf Lara Millar Max Morrell Reg Parkin Colin Peacock Judy Peacock Brian Poole Bev Poor (multi) Fred Rae Neil Rae Norma Rae Dianne Reed (multi) Ray Rennie Peter Richardson Kimberley Skinner Lee Smith (dec) Colin Sparks PDG Jodie Sparks (multi) Jeff Stephenson Les Tobin (dec) Joan Vanderheeg John Vanderheeg (dec) Rick Warwick Brian Webster (multi) Rosemary Webster (dec) Richard Whiting Aidan Wood
EVENT PLANNING FOR THE NEW YEAR:
Put these dates in your calendar and get involved in our Rotary programs.
April 2- 7th – AGFR There are still 2 days of playing and activities to go for the AGFR. If you haven’t already paid for your dinner that you ate last night, please pay funds directly into Golf Account: RC Ascot Golf: BSB: 036078 Account number: 668267
April 10 – Bricktober Committee meeting This will be held at Hugh’s work place commencing at 6.00 pm. Join in and be part of the planning for this year’s Bricktober event.
April 24 – Board Meeting
7 May – Grants Seminar If we want to continue to access RI Grants to use on our projects we need to send a representative (or more) to this event. Hugh has the details, but as he is presenting he is not counted as our person. Who is willing to keep President Mike company on the day?
Mystery Event – May We are looking for ideas on how to celebrate the 100th anniversary of The Rotary Foundation. If you have any ideas – pass them on to Peter.
Handover – July 2 At Mt Lawley Golf Club for a Brunch meeting. Cost will be $35 per head – more details to come
A big thank you to all the Sponsors of the AGFR Event. Once I get a list I will publish them in the
Bulletin so that we can support them if we can. They were read out at the dinner, but too quickly for
me to capture them to include them in this issue.
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POWERBALL
Congratulations to all our
winners. A new one will be
starting soon. Maybe it will
be your turn this time to
win.
GUEST SPEAKERS: James Savundra (Specialist Anaesthetist) and David Vyse (Plastic Surgeon)
Topic: INTERPLAST EXPERIENCES
Interplast has been around internationally for some time and commenced in Australia in 1983 as a joint venture between Rotary and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Since that time they have held more than 40,000 patient consultations and over 23,000 surgeries across 25 countries in the Asia Pacific region. The focus for Interplast is about repairing bodies and rebuilding lives. James and David have both been involved in a number of these expeditions. James’ first trip was to Tonga where repairing cleft palates were the major part of what they did. If they can operate on a child before they turn 4 they will turn the life around of the young children they operate on. According to James and David cleft palate operations are relatively simple operations which can make huge differences to children, families and the communities they live in. Over the years the focus has been on training the medical staff in the countries they visit to do these operations themselves, and so now the focus for the Interplast teams is now more on dealing with burns victims and people with tumors and other deformities. David mentioned that one of the joys of their work is seeing the transformation in the life of the person. He mentioned that the greatest joy comes with the person being willing to make eye contact once the surgery has been completed. Both men are incredibly grateful for the support Rotary provides to this amazing program which can unlock someone’s life in a single operation. The joy we bring to families is unbelievable. Although the operation is only on one person at a time, the whole community benefits from the results. Thank you David and James for your very informative take on the work of Interplast. It’s good to hear that when you are out on a ‘job’ you do get time to relax and get some sightseeing in. We really appreciate that you are willing to take time out of your very busy schedule to perform these amazing life changing operations to the many people who need our support.
ANSWER TO LAST WEEK’S
QUIZ QUESTION:
The Ambassadorial Scholarships
were the first Rotary Foundation
Scholarships.
David
James
THIS WEEK’S FOUNDATION
QUESTION:
In what year did The Rotary
Foundation launch the Polio Plus
Program?
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ROSTER 2016-17:
Date Welcoming Informer Host Chair Speaker and Topic 11 April Michelle Kendal
Peter Richardson President Mike Maya Cherian
Entertainment Publications 18 April Brian Poole
Colin Peacock Ron Alexander President Mike and Aidan Wood
AGFR Round Up 25 April ANZAC Day No meeting this week – enjoy your own ANZAC Day
celebrations 2 May Ron Alexander
Jeff Stephenson Brian Poole Glenys Godfrey David Spiteller
The Asylum Seekers Centre 9 May Marg Fraser
Gren Courtland - Michael Evans Julie Copson
A Clutterless Life 16 May Dianne Reed
Christine Goss - Roma Gehringer
23 May Ros McLernon Michelle Kendall
- Stephen Kendall
30 May Brian Poole Aidan Wood
Colin Peacock Joanna Kendall
Informers are to find an interesting snippet of information about Rotary or one of its programmes and let the Club know why you found it interesting.
IN APRIL: BIRTHDAYS: Hugh Langridge 25 April
ANNIVERSARIES: - ROTARY ANNIVERSARIES: Peter Richardson – joined 1 April 1993 (24 years ago)
DATE FOR YOUR DIARIES:
BOARD MEETING
Monday 24 April 2017 at Hugh Langridge’s work place - 6.00 pm start. Don’t be late!
ROTARY CONFERENCE DATES:
Rotary International Conference – RI President John
Germ would like us to join him in Atlanta, Georgia, USA Dates: 10 – 14 June
Come and help celebrate 100 years of The Rotary Foundation.
See Bev for more details
Club Projects:
Bricktober
Interact Club
Australian Golfing Fellowship of Rotarians 2017
Water Project
Business Cards Watch this space for updates as they come to hand.
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Looking for a night out?
Como Rotary Club Fundraiser is on:
April 28
Contact Andrea if you are interested in
going.
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JUST A FEW
PHOTOS
CLUB BANK ACCOUNT: BSB: 036-078 ACCOUNT NO: 494404
COMMUNITY BANK ACCOUNT: BSB: 036-078 ACCOUNT NO: 494420
