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21st Oct,

2014

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Rotary Club of Gisborne

Rotary District 9800 - Club Number 18323 Reg. No. A0031618X

Chartered 17th

May, 1977

PO Box 292

Gisborne

Victoria 3437

gisborne@rotarydistrict9800.org

www.gisbornerotary.org.au

In this issue:

Vocational Service 1

The President’s message 2

Words of Wisdom 2

Gisborne Rotary Office 3

Bearers

Important dates 3

Duty roster 3

The Colour Run 4

Club meetings 5 & 6

Club Honour Roll 7

In his autobiography, Paul Harris

wrote “Each Rotarian is a

connecting link between the

Idealism of Rotary and his trade or

profession”. Although he was not

talking directly of vocational

service, he must have the second

avenue of service in mind as

Rotary’s classification principle

closely identifies a Rotarian with

his/her occupation or vocation.

Vocational service emphasizes the

need for each Rotarian to

personally fulfil his/her service in

the daily relationships with his/her

fellow workers and associates.

The basic question concerning

vocational service that every

Rotarian should ask is: “What can

I do in my daily work to be a little

more helpful and friendly to

others?” This is especially

important since vocational service

should be a living and daily

experience.

Founder Paul Harris had an idea

that friendship and business could

be mixed and that by doing so

would result in more business and

friendship for everyone involved.

As such, every Rotarian should

personally contribute to society

through his/her business or

profession.

They Profit Most Who Serve Best

It is now realised that “Vocational

Vocational Service Service” is one of the many

reasons for Rotary’s success. Yet,

this second avenue of service in

Rotary is often neglected. If we

want our club to grow, we must

keep vocational service in the

forefront — in our planning and to

take action. Ideas alone are useless

unless put in action. Do what is

right and put “Service Above

Self”.

Vocational service simply applies

Rotary’s concept of service to

business, the profession and the

workplace. Before Rotarians go

about putting the principles of

vocational service into practice,

they need to reflect on their daily

relations, with employees,

suppliers and peers. Otherwise,

how can they apply the words of

the second Object of Rotary, which

instructs them to understand and

practice.

High ethical standards in business

and professions, the recognition of

the worthiness of all useful

occupations, and the dignifying by

each profession to serve society

call upon each Rotarian to examine

what he/she is doing to fulfil this

part of the Object of Rotary. Since

this is subjective, only the

individual Rotarian knows how

loosely he/she is living up to

his/her ideal.

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Hello to all Rotarians.

Nov 25th

is shaping up to be an important evening for our

club. The charter of our interact club with approximately 21

students has been organised and a large number of guests

including participants from Gisborne Secondary College,

district and parents of students will be attending.

The format of the evening will be a little different from our normal structure.

Cost $15 per person (Interact Club Members Free), Hot and Cold finger food,

Tea and Coffee provided at the end of the ceremony.

The interact students have already raised several thousand dollars to kick start

some of their projects. This has occurred from several fundraising activities

over the last few months.

The colour run took place on Sunday and was a huge success. Many students

entered as well as a couple of Rotarians. A few photo’s further in this bulletin

show some students all coloured after completing the run.

The BBQ trailer was showcased at the last meeting. The next stage is to get the

hot plates and burners mounted in a frame to slide in and out of the trailer. The

trailer will then be available for fundraising activities.

On Tuesday our special general meeting will be held. Rotarians will be asked to

consider and adopt the revised Club Rules and By Laws by a vote.

See you all on Tuesday night.

Written by Andrew Hall

The President’s message

Words of wisdom

The concept of vocational service calls on Rotarians to encourage and

foster:

• high ethical standards in business and professions,

• recognise the worthiness of all useful occupations, and

• dignify each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve

society.

Left: PP Elaine takes Lois out for

her birthday.

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Anniversaries

21st October

Nicole Mortimer

28th

October

Dennis Franklin

CLUB EXECUTIVE

President:

Andrew Hall

Vice President:

PP Jacek Bialobrzeski

President Elect:

Dennis Franklin

Secretary:

Doug Wingett

Treasurer:

PP Dick Barker

DIRECTORS

Club Service

PP Pat Bialobrzeski

Community Service

Diana Taurins

New Generations

Patti Yarwood

International Service

Samantha Turner

Vocational Service

PP Phil Yarwood

Marketing & Public

Relations

Ann Crichton Hudson

KEY ROLES

Foundation Chair

Samantha Turner

Public Officer

Doug Wingett

Membership

Development

PP Barry Wills

On-To-Conference

Martin Taurins

Challenge Event

Chair

PP Jacek Bialobrzeski

RYE Counselor

Terry Hopley

The Rotary Club of Gisborne

meets every Tuesday at the

Gisborne Golf Club at 6.45pm for

a 7.15pm start.

To advise of guests or record an

apology for non-attendance please

telephone 5428 4483 BEFORE

1.00PM MONDAY.

Cashier

Oct Ann Hudson

Nov Diana Taurins

Emergency/Welcome

Oct Kevin Mortimer

Nov John Scott

Regalia

Oct Ann Ireland

Nov Martin Taurins

Rotarians if you are unable to cover

your duties, either weekly or

monthly, please make arrangements

with another Rotarian to swap.

Duty Roster

21st October

Guest speaker Maria Anastassiou

discusses “Nurse on Call”.

2nd

November

Sunbury Bunnings BBQ.

4th

November

The President’s Melbourne Cup

Breakfast.

11th

November

Guest speaker discusses Youth

Suicide.

18th

November

Annual General Meeting.

23rd

November

Classic Motorbike and Car Show at

the Gisborne Steam Park.

25th

November

Interact Charter Night.

Please submit all bulletin articles

and photos to mh@aia.vic.edu.au

to ensure publication in the Club’s

next bulletin. Thank you.

Important dates

Birthdays

The Club Bulletin will return on:

Tuesday 4th

November

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The Colour Run on 19th October

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Our Guest Speaker was James Hay. James lives at Ballan where he has a 500 acre property, breeding beef

cattle. He is a member of the Brighton Rotary Club and on the Board of Ballan Health.

James spoke to us about his time in Saudi Arabia when he was project manager for Mobil, building an Oil

Refinery. This was 800 km south of the Suez Canal on the Red Sea coast. Shell were doing the same on the

Arabian Persian Gulf. This caused 18 European Refineries to close so skilled staff was readily available.

The Mobil project was located at Yanbu, a fishing village of 19,000 people. James had 23 nationalities

reporting to him. Senior staff were paid double the wages available in Adelaide at that time. Labourers

were paid 12 times their own Country wages. Expats were housed in a 400 metre square compound with

150 two storey villas.

The project took 6 years with 5 million man hours to complete. Staff were well looked after with a

swimming pool to every 8 villas, 4 tennis courts, 4 air conditioned squash courts and other recreational

facilities. Children were bused out to international schools.

Although management tried hard to keep everybody happy, some problems did occur. Kate, James’ wife,

was appointed leader of the women’s coordinating committee. Regular events were organised. Wives were

flown to Jedda twice a week for shopping and other events were organised including trips to Istanbul,

Nicosia, Damascus and Rome.

On completion of the project the senior staff were repatriated back to Altona Refinery where Mobil had a

problem.

James fielded questions from an interested audience.

Written by PP Rodney Harrison

Club meeting: Tuesday 7th October

Above: Graham H. unveils the new Club

BBQ trailer.

Below: PP John.

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My talk covered early child hood, a discussion about the effects of domestic violence on children and

how this hampers one’s freedom to learn.

I attended Loretto College in Ballarat and lived a large part of my young life with my grandparents,

mother and sister.

I completed 5 degrees; two at a masters level. I have a Degree in Nursing, Graduate Diploma in Adult

Education, Graduate Diploma in Midwifery, Masters in Maternal Child Health Nursing and Masters in

Management Studies.

I started at St Vincent’s Public hospital as a registered nurse. However, I went to work for 12 months at

the Mackay Base hospital in Queensland and lived in the nurses’ quarters. The hospital was often

flooded and you worked in gumboots in water.

Eventually I returned to Victoria to complete my Midwifery qualifications and then went to Katherine

in the Northern Territory. I flew with Air Medical Services and worked at an Aboriginal medical

service centre called Wurli-Wurlinjang. I even looked after long legged Lucy, the Makybe Diva of the

N.T. She was the fastest camel in Australia at one stage.

I have worked with Aboriginal women and their babies. I came to accept that they had a sixth sense and

high levels of intuition and trusted their judgements as far as the health of babies was concerned. But

the need for intervention from the local witch doctor should they have had the bone pointed at them.

I attended ceremonies and was embraced by the Aboriginal people and given a tribal name from the top

end, Cully Cully, although I was also referred to daily as SAM.

I then worked for Family Planning as a sexual health nurse and was eventually elected on to the board.

I was selected to represent Australia in our region as the IPPF delegate and travelled to many countries,

conferences and did many community development projects in Vietnam, K.L, Mongolia and Indonesia.

I currently work 3 days a week at St Vincent’s Private hospital in Maternity in a Management and

Education Role. I also work one day a week at Victoria University (Footscray Campus) lecturing in

Human Sexuality. It is a subject I developed and have taught for 4 years based on the Core Victorian

Curriculum Catching on Early and Catching on Later (the Dutch, American and English Models). The

subject teaches primary and secondary teachers how to teach Human Sexuality from Prep to year 12

and has just been made a core unit for the science and physical education stream students.

In 2013 Rotary came into my life and I kicked off by

completing a project in Mongolia working with a team

of midwifes or MOM's on the move. It was a highly

successful 3.5week project that we are hoping to

continue to roll out globally in the quest to reduce

Maternal Mortality and Morbidity for women and

infants in countries where it is high.

Written by Sam Turner

Club meeting: Tuesday 14th October

Right: Sam Turner and President Andrew.

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Rotary Club of Gisborne Honour Roll

Charter Members:

Rodney Harrison PHF

Alan Hobbs PHF

Previous Presidents:

1977/78: Fred Barnett

1978/79: Don Langley

1979/80: Gerry Bethell

1980/81: Fritz Boegel

1981/82: Glenn Fouse

1982/83: Ken Maxfield

1983/84: David Ell

1984/85: Reg Ellis

1985/86: Ian Chippendale

1986/87: Stuart Douglas

1987/88: Rob Payne

1988/89: Peter Hollibone

1989/90: Alan Hobbs

1990/91: Peter Lamping

1991/92: Reg Ellis

1992/93: Martin Taurins

1993/94: Alan Wilcox

1994/95: Fritz Boegel

1995/96: Carl Schiller

1996/97: Kevin Johnston

1997/98: Vanda Mullen

Previous Presidents:

1998/99: Jacek Bialobrzeski

1999/00: John Scott

2000/01: Elaine Gregory

2001/02: Barbara Fletcher

2002/03: Pat Bialobrzeski

2003/04: Keith Hallett

2004/05: Martin Taurins

2005/06: Andrew Hall

2006/07: Caroline Lee

2007/08: Pat Bialobrzeski

2008/09: Barry Wills

2009/10: Michael

Wiedermann

2010/11: Philip Kudnig

2011/12: John Scott

2012/13: John Scott

2013/14: Phil Yarwood

Paul Harris Fellows:

1982: Fred Barnett

1987: Glenn Fouse

1989: Alan Hobbs

1993: Val Barnett

1995: Margaret Hobbs

1996: Peter Lamping

Paul Harris Fellows:

1998: Fritz Boegel, Peter Reade

1999: Frances Wearne, Olive Gibson

2000: Rodney Harrison, Diane Boegel

2002: Haidi Katala, Peter Wearne

2003: Martin Taurins

2004: Pat Bialobrzeski, Jacek

Bialobrzeski

2005: Elaine Gregory, Vanda Mullen

2007: Diana Taurins

2008: Andrew Hall, Barry Wills, Barry

Mullen

2009: Barbara Fletcher, Richard Barker

2010: Peter Lamping (sapphire),

Graeme Millar

2011: John Scott, Kaye Jones, Richard

Barker (sapphire)

2012: Michael Wiedermann, Jacek

Bialobrzeski (sapphire)

2013: Martin Taurins (sapphire),

Pat Bialobrzeski (sapphire)

2014: Martin Taurins (double

sapphire), Diana Taurins

(sapphire)

The Fred Barnett Rotary Award:

2005: PP Elaine Gregory PHF

2006: Barry Wills

2007: Peter Reade PHF

2008: Michael Wiedermann

2009: Kay Jones

2010: PP Pat Bialobrzeski

2011: PP Vanda Mullen PHF

2012: PP Andrew Hall

2013: PP John Scott PHF

2014: Graham Marshall

The Royce Abbey Award:

2011: Phil Yarwood

Honorary Rotarians:

Frances Wearne PHF

Peter Wearne PHF

PP Elaine Gregory PHF