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ROTARY DISTRICT 9800, R.I. & OTHER ROTARY LINKS Richmond Rotary website: http://www.rotaryrichmond.org.au
District 9800 Home Page: http://www.rotarydistrict9800.org.au
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Rotary International: http://www.rotary.org
ROTARY CLUB OF RICHMONDThe Tiger Rag
Meeting 2068 24 August 2009
Celebration Occasion
Chair
PDG Judy Nettleton
Forthcoming:
Date
31 August - No Meeting - Carvery Trivia Night - Friday 28 August
7 September
14 September
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Speaker & Topic
Angelo Capuano- Ambassadorial Scholar
David Metzenthen - Author- Slade Award Evening
“Farewell to the Heather”-Story of 5,000 Scottish HighlandEmmigrants to Australia, 1838 - 1840
Chair
Nia Holdenson
John Liddell
Rob Mactier
Meeting
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Birthdaysth thGeoff Clarke - 24 Miles Schofield - 28
Wedding Anniversaries
th thPhil & Wilma Mylecharane - 24 Doreen & Miles Schofield - 25rd th Maureen & Trevor Pang - 3 Sept Chan & Lulu Chew - 6 Sept
th Joanna & Mark Fowler - 6 Sept
Induction Anniversaries
Geoff Clarke 1964 Tim Baker 1992
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Rotary Club of Richmondth45 Birthday
Sapphire Anniversary
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is de er nP t’ s pot LapeF hr to m My Fellow Rotarians,
Today we celebrate 45 fabulous years! I know that we are all extremely proud of our Club reaching such an auspicious anniversary. This is our Sapphire anniversary, hence tonight’s blue theme. Thank you to the team of Sally, Sue, Jo, Janice and others for setting a ‘sapphire scene’ for this special meeting; and to John Griffith for the work he has put into preparing tonight’s power-point presentation, ‘Places and Events’.
We are thrilled and honoured to have with us one of our Charter members, namely PP Geoff Clarke (1967-1968) and his wife, Joan. May I suggest that all those years ago, not even Geoff would have believed that he would be attending the Rotary Club of Richmond’s Sapphire Anniversary dinner and meeting! Well done Geoff!
Chartered by the Rotary Club of Melbourne, our club can boast two former District Governors, Norm Moore and Judy Nettleton, together with many outstanding Presidents’ thru the years. Hundreds of local and international projects have been successfully completed, with more in the pipeline today. We all trust that the next 45 years will be as good and as productive for our Club as our past history shows, continuing to ‘connect with community’ within Richmond, Rotary District 9800 and Rotary International.
Last Wednesday, Tim Baker & I attended the Inner Northern Community Foundation evening held at the Brunswick Town Hall. This Foundation was responsible for providing our Club with $15,000 towards the RYAP - Next Step Program. Several other groups within the City of Yarra were in attendance & they too were recipients of grants from the Foundation. A very big ‘thank you’ is due to Tim & Trevor for all the hard work put into obtaining this grant & organising this outstanding project for disadvantaged young people in our community.
Besides celebrating our 45th Charter Anniversary this week, if you are personally celebrating something special, celebrate well & remember - The Future Of Rotary Is In YOUR HANDS Michael O’Sullivan President 2009-2010
ASK A (VERY) BUSY PERSON…
Charter Member, PP Geoff Clarke (1967-1968) has been the recipient of many community and national awards. They include an MBE for community service, a ‘Silver Kangaroo’ awarded by the Scouting movement, amongst many other scouting awards. Geoff was involved in approximately 11 community organisations at the time he was asked to join Rotary in 1964…and he and his wife Joan still do ‘meals-on-wheels’ in their local area! Geoff said that he has always lived his life by the Rotary creed: ‘Service Above Self’.
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THE FOUNDING OF THE RICHMOND ROTARY CLUB
The founding of the Richmond Rotary Club began in several stages: 1.In the Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Melbourne for the 22nd January, 1964, the following item appeared, ‘Proposed Rotary Club of Richmond’. The RC Melbourne Board, at its meeting on 27th November, 1963, accepted the recommendation of the Extension Committee that the Club cede the area covered by the Municipality of Richmond for the formation of a Rotary Club.
2. The Board recommended RC Melbourne Rotarian, Ken Blair, to be the District Governor’s Special Representative, and the appointment was approved by the (then) District Governor, Earnest Oliver. In addition the Board appointed John MacFarlane and Norman Parton as deputies to assist Ken in his duties.
3. The method of selection for new members would have to have been by personal recommendation of other Rotarians; and knowledge provided by personal or business relationships.
4. Several of the Charter Members were, or had been, Rotarians: Cec. Schilling had been in the Brisbane Rotary Club, while Tom Wilding had been in a club in New Zealand, along with Bill Ould.
5. Minuted proceedings at an ‘organizational meeting’ held at Ken Blair’s home on the 27th July, 1964, indicated who should be the incoming President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary and Directors for the first year.
6. The Provisional Richmond Rotary Club met at the Toorak Presbyterian Church Hall, at 603 Toorak Road, (now the Toorak Uniting Church) and the 25 approved members appointed the office bearers and the first Board of Directors, acquiescing to the decisions previously taken.
7. The first ‘Provisional Rotary Club of Richmond’ met for their first lunch on the 3rd August, 1964 at the New Burwood Reception Rooms in Hawthorn (since demolished), now Swinburne College – opp the hth. The Charter, dated 12th August 1964, arrived from the USA. However we had changed from the ‘Provisional Rotary Club of Richmond’ to the ‘Rotary Club of Richmond’ at our 8th luncheon on the 21st September, 1964.
8. The formal Charter of the Club itself was 24th August, 1964, but the Charter Meeting was held on 12th October 1964, when 25 members were inducted. It took place at No 9 Darling Street, South Yarra, and 270 Rotarians were present at this formal Black Tie event, involving Melbourne Rotary Club members.
9. But we held our Inaugural Dinner on Friday, June 18th, 1965, at the Gloucester Room, Hotel Australia, Collins Street, Melbourne! This was not long before the annual changeover!
10. Later, new Rotarians could not be sure when our Club really started! (Adapted item- original author unknown. This report was provided from Club archives by RCR Historian, John Griffith, from records formerly kept by Alan Embury (dec); with kind assistance and input by Geoff Clark –who is adamant that the 24th August 1964 was the correct Charter date and year. After all, he was there at the time! Tiger Rag Sub-Ed.)
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Our revered oldest member: still young-at-heart at 90 (on the 28th August, 2009)!
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What year and why did you join Richmond Rotary?
I became a Member on the 7th July, 1980. I was nominated by Doug Wysham. Doug was on my back for years to join Rotary - but as my job involved travelling frequently interstate and overseas - I could not attend regular Club meetings and give of my best. I finally joined about three years before retiring as Managing Director in l985. (I was then appointed Chairman of the combined Companies of Cash’s/Jones Stroud Australia, until l995, when I was then 75 years of age.)
What keeps you committed to Rotary?
Once I joined I was committed to Rotary and worked with great enthusiasm at all times.
What was an early and memorable Rotary experience for you? Preparation for President of Richmond Rotary - at that time availability of members to take office was difficult. I became President in 1985.
What’s been your favourite RCR commitment and why?
The most challenging and enjoyable time was in the early 1980’s as Rotary District 9800 Treasurer for six years with the Youth Exchange Program. In that era, many women were at home looking after the family and some were willing to be committed to this Rotary program and accommodate young people from overseas. Schooling was arranged; uniforms, books and host families consulted. The school available for the female students was Canterbury Girls High School. In 1983 Doreen and I were privileged to have a girl from South Africa and one from Canada staying with us in our home. It was a wonderful opportunity to share the childrens’ school experiences in our Country. I was also their Counsellor. Special weekends away during the year with ALL Exchange Students at an arranged destination - such as the Grampians - was always rewarding. The President and Committee of District Youth Exchange would attend these weekends with the young people. During the day they had discussion groups, then hikes through the mountains. At night, following dinner, the President and Committee would lead the entire group, sharing open discussions.
What keeps you awake at night? Very little!!
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MEMORIES OF THE EARLY YEARS OF THE RICHMOND ROTARY CLUB - 1964-1980’s
Ø It was once traditional to have singing at the beginning of each meeting. Members used the American Song Book. Songs included old favourites such as ‘Coming Round the Mountain’ and ‘The Old Mill Stream’!
Ø Singing the anthem, ‘God Save the Queen’ was eventually replaced by singing, unaccompanied, our new National Anthem, ‘Advance Australia Fair’! PP Simon Marriott brought all this tradition to an abrupt end in his Presidents’ year, 2004-2005! The ‘toast to the Queen’ was also discontinued, much to the chagrin of the loyal Royalists’.
Ø As a protest, next meeting, Rotarians’ Doug Wysham and PP Michael Cowling (2003-2004) arrived at Leonda (where the Club then met) dressed in formal gear, with black tie & wearing their PHF medallions, insignia’s, badges , Doug with his WW2 medals – ‘the lot’ – claiming that ‘someone had to maintain standards and traditions’! They received a round of uproarious applause! Maintaining the rage, DW often took the opportunity to (quietly) add his own toast to Her Majesty at the end of the toast to Rotary and Australia, the toast still offered at Richmond Rotary meetings today.
Ø The meetings were always lunch meetings, commencing right on 1.00pm and finishing at 2.00pm SHARP. If the guest speaker asked to be allowed to speak for more than the allotted 20 minutes, the answer was always ‘YES, but you’ll be speaking to yourself as there is a mass exodus from the meeting at 2.01pm’! All members had to get back to work and the office with due haste.
Ø In the 60’s 70’s and early 80’s, the make-up of the then City of Richmond and the Richmond Rotary Club was very different to what they are both today. Big companies operated in Richmond, with big staff numbers, with Managing Directors’ and CEO’s with BIG EGO’s. But they all came together at the Rotary Club meetings in an egalitarian atmosphere of Rotary where first names were used – EVERYONE was on first name terms and everyone was co-opted to help on committees and with projects –no matter what their classification or professional status.
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ROTARY AND THE SALVOS: ‘THE ROTARY WHEEL & THE RED SHIELD’ APPEAL
By PP Warren Golding (1987-1988), RCR (Hon); Ltn. Colonel - Salvation Army, Retired
General Arnold Brown, the 11th International Leader of The Salvation Army, and a respected Rotarian, was Guest Speaker at the Melbourne Rotary Club in 1980. In describing the two movements separately, and in great detail, he concluded this segment of his address by saying, “Whom God hath joined together, let no man put
asunder.” That could be used in summarizing my forty years as a Salvation Army Officer.
I was ordained in January 1965 and inducted into the *Kellerberrin WA Rotary Club in June. Appointed to Rockingham, WA, in 1966, I was a Charter Member of the Rockingham Rotary Club in 1967. Moving to Gosnells, WA, in 1969, I was inducted into the local Rotary Club that year (Another three Salvation Army Officers were Club Members with ‘President’ experience!) I was one of three Rotarians appointed to a steering committee to establish accommodation for Senior Citizens’. In turn I was also appointed Committee Chairman and saw the opening of the first of 20 units. Today the facility accommodates over 250 residents. Whilst serving with The Salvation Army in Victoria as State Campaign Director for the Red Shield Appeal – 1979-1982 – the **Kiwanis signed me up for 3 years with their Melbourne Club. Another move saw me as Commanding Officer of the Salvation Army Citadel in Camberwell, Victoria, so I joined the Rotary Club of Camberwell and was a member from 1983 – 1984; and yet another shift took me to Richmond as Executive Director of the Bethesda Hospital. It was not long after that I was invited to join the Richmond Rotary Club in 1985, becoming President in 1987-1988. For me, those years when ‘Rotary and the Salvos’ joined together at Camberwell and Richmond were the best things that ever happened to me!
During the time I was Executive Director at Bethesda Hospital in Richmond - Rotary and The Salvos became partners in establishing a ‘first’ in Australia – a transitional-living home in Thornbury for brain-impaired people. I was privileged to work with 300 dedicated staff at Bethesda who never faltered in working at their Strategic Plan! (In 1998 Epworth acquired Bethesda Hospital from The Salvation Army.) On one occasion, prior to joining Richmond, I was speaking at the Keilor Rotary Club and shared with them our vision for the transitional-living home. A phone call the next day resulted in ongoing meetings with Club Members and somehow Barry Roberts of the Richmond Club heard about it and invited me to his office at Siemens, Richmond, to discuss the project. Consequently, Keilor Rotary Club donated $90,000, Richmond Rotary, $35,000 and the Salvo’s combined to open three independent-living units, and more have now been purchased! A program that is still going strong today! There have been many such partnerships over the years and I have read of many more in ‘Rotary Down Under’ and The Salvation Army ‘War Cry’. Rotarians can be proud of their willingness and generousity in supporting the many social and welfare programmes the Salvos have embarked upon in Richmond, Australia, and throughout the world. The same Rotarians’ and the Rotary movement have made a significant contribution to enhancing the life, experience and service of ‘this Salvo’.
*(Kellerberin is a typical wheatbelt service town, 203 km east of Perth on the Great Western Highway: Sub-Ed.)
**(Kiwanis: Kiwanians are volunteers changing the world through service to children and communities: Sub-Ed.)
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THE RICHMOND CLAP!
Reminiscing With Brian List, PP 1981-1982
When I was President of Richmond Rotary in 1981 we held our Club meetings at lunchtime at the Richmond Football Clubrooms in Punt Road. Time was of the essence! Most members had very busy businesses to run and insisted that our meetings should last for precisely 60 minutes, and no more. If the meetings went overtime there would be several members leaving before closure!
It became clear that we had to save time – so I decreed that we should economise our time taken to applaud! Hence the ‘Richmond Clap’ was born!
Initially it was not co-ordinated well and was rather somewhat spasmodic. However, with rehearsal, all members became enthusiastic contributors and the ‘Richmond Clap’ - one single clap of the hands - became a District-wide (and well respected) acknowledgement of welcome. Sadly it ceased at the end of my Presidency!
Further: The following remarks were made by Richmond Rotarian Doug Wysham (dec.) speaking at the Club’s 40th Charter Anniversary celebrations, Monday, 11th October, 2004:
‘I am sure a ripple of excitement went through the Richmond medical profession when they heard about the introduction of the ‘Richmond Clap’ - and pictured themselves writing hundreds of scripts whilst murmuring, ‘Just keep taking the tablets and don’t scratch it’!
To their great disappointment, it turned out to be a substitute for applause when greeting visitors to the club…it was simply a single clap of the hands!! (Demonstrate.)
The clap died out…or maybe it was just a little fizzle, but it certainly isn’t in use today!’
A GREAT DIVERSITY OF VENUES WERE USED OVER THE EARLIER YEARS OF THE RICHMOND ROTARY CLUB’S ‘ PRESIDENTS’ CHANGEOVER NIGHTS’!
FROM THE NOW DEFUNCT ‘DORCHESTER’ IN THE ALEXANDRA GARDENS (NOW A SKATE-PARK), TO THE ‘THE CHATEAU’ IN QUEENS ROAD AND THE CHANDELIER ROOM - WITH ITS MIRRORED CEILINGS - AT THE HOTEL AUSTRALIA, (THE MOST POPULAR VENUE OF THEM ALL).
“I HASTEN TO ADD THAT THE CLUB IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FACT THAT NONE OF THESE PRESTIGIOUS VENUES NO LONGER EXIST!”
Doug Wysham speaking at the 40th Charter Anniversary Gala Cocktail Evening held at The Australian Club, Melbourne, 11th October, 2004
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RICHMOND ROTARY LADIES – Making Club History
Memories shared by Beryl Golding, Janice Kesterton, Sue Bolton and Judy Nettleton
Beryl Golding – 1st Female Member of the RC Richmond, 1990. Classification: Salvation Army. It seems so long ago that I joined the Rotary Club of Richmond as their first female Member! My husband, Warren, was a member and Club President 1987-88. Warren and I were driving somewhere and he mentioned, in conversation, his concerns about the falling membership in Rotary. I made the retort that if the Club continued to exclude 51 % of the population, then that was to be expected! Nothing more was said, but at the next Board meeting Warren proposed my membership! And that for me began several happy and fulfilling years of Rotary service. Maybe some of the men were unhappy about female membership, but I didn’t get any sense from anyone that I was not accepted as a Rotarian. After years of being a Richmond Member my work took me to the other side of the City and I joined the Flemington Club, which met for breakfast. And so I continued my Rotary service, including becoming President of that Club. I was a 100% member for every year I had in Rotary. I look back at that decade of membership with happy and fulfilling memories. I am always thankful that Richmond Rotary accepted me. (Even though I’m a woman!)
PP Janice Kesterton – 2nd Female Member of the RC Richmond. Inducted 1st Nov. 1990. PP (2005-2006)(2006-2007) Classification: Medicine–Anaesthetising. I was proposed by my sailing friend, Charter Member, Tom Wilding; which was ironic really because he had spoken out forcibly, and voted against, admitting women into the Club! (He wasn’t allowed to live it down!) I was thinking of retiring from full time work but didn’t want to until I’d found something worthwhile to take its place. Tom invited me to join Rotary! My earliest commitment was to the Slade Committee and I was the Club’s ROMAC (Rotary Oceania Medical Aid for Children) representative for some years, then invited to be the ROMAC Southern Region Medical Advisor. Part of my professional practice had been based at the Royal Children’s Hospital where the majority of ROMAC patients were sent. I remember them all, and that experience, with great affection. I am also the first Richmond Rotarian to have been President for 2 years – the 1st year (2005-2006) by choice, the 2nd (2006-2007) by default, as PE Jean Marc Berthier had to defer his year for professional reasons! I was delighted to eventually hand him the ‘chains of office’!
Other Active, Early Female Members -
PP Sue Bolton – Inducted 28th April, 1997. President: 2002-2003 Classification: Education – Secondary. I was on the teaching staff of Melbourne Girls’ College, and was ‘pressured’ by the then Principal, Jan Parkes, to join the Richmond Rotary Club. The Club was committed (and still is) in assisting MGC students’ to take part in Rotary-based youth programs, such as MUNA, RYPEN, RYLA and the Slade and Ainger Awards. The Club had invited the Principal to join Rotary - which she declined in favour of me! My role at school included organizing kids for the camps etc. My first Rotary positions were with the Bulletin as Editor and New Generations Chair. I was also RCR Secretary from 2003-2009. My husband, Kevin, was the 1st man to join the Partners’ Group (now FoRR)!
PDG Judy Nettleton – Inducted 1st June 95, Pres.1998-1999 - PDG 2004-2005 Classification: Heat Treatment. I was approached by Les Harrison & John Griffith 3 years before I eventually joined. I decided that I would like to make a contribution to the community, plus I was very impressed with the Club’s project –the youth-based RYTE Program. I went to a couple of meetings before being inducted. 6 months later I stated that if they didn’t give me a ‘job’ then I’d leave! I have been on many committees since, including Club Services, and my least favourite, twice over,...fundraising! After my time as Club President, I was on the District Vocational Committee for
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2 yrs, then Assistant Governor – Hobson’s Bay Cluster - before becoming District Governor of RD 9800, 2004-2005. I’m also on the Board of Australian Rotary Health – ARH
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MUSINGS RE PAST MEMBERS –
A Charter Member in 1964, PP Ern Ainger (1968-69) is remembered as a man of great dignity, an outstanding and well-prepared President and Rotarian. He started E.J. Ainger Auctions in the 1940’s in Richmond. An auctioneer, Ern had a strong, melodious voice and was a renowned speaker. At one of the jumble sales held by the Ladies Auxiliary in the old Richmond Town Hall, Ern was in full flight, and auctioned off everything in sight, including the Town Hall piano! (Or was it the cedar Town Hall table he sold off? ) Named in memory of Ern, the RC Richmond’s ‘Ainger Public Speaking Awards’ for Secondary Students in Years 9-11, continue to be a joint initiative of the Rotary Club of Richmond and the Ainger family; with the 20th Ainger Awards held with great success last May 2009. His widow, Nancye Ainger, Friend of RR, and the Ainger Family, all proudly attended.
PP Norm Neale (1969- 1970) was the Managing Director of Cherub Shoes and a Union Member. He loved sailing, and as a person, he is remembered ‘as an absolute joy’ Norm was the first Paul Harris Fellow of the Club… after 14 years of dedicated service!
PP Norman (Norm) Moore (1978-1979), an accountant with his own firm, Norman A. Moore & Company, Swan Street, became the Club’s first District Governor, presiding over the RD9800 Conference held at Albury in 1984. His wife, Mora, was then an active member of the Ladies Auxiliary and is now a Friend of Richmond Rotary; and his son, Kieran is also a Richmond Rotarian.
In ‘A Brief History - Rotary Club of Richmond, 1964-1979’ it states: In 1978 Norman Moore became the 15th President of the Rotary Club of Richmond. During the year the number of members reached an all time high of 66 members. The International Night conducted by the club at the Camberwell Civic Centre attracted many exchange students and was again an outstanding success. (Kieran notes: In fact it was Kew Civic Centre – I know because it was my first job in Rotary – shows you history books can be wrong!)
A copy of Norm’s Report to District on the Change over of District Governor in 1984: “In our own District 9800, there are today 49 Rotary Clubs with a membership of over 2,700 Rotarians These are people from our communities who have pledged “ Service Above Self” and who have, during the 1983-1984 Rotary Year, totally committed themselves to ‘Share Rotary – Serve People’. (Kieran notes: In Norm’s words – the membership development has been difficult and the District had a net gain of just 3 %!) Kieran also mentions ‘that most of the Richmond Rotarians in 1983/84 would remember fondly the huge, huge effort that was put into the 1984 District Conference in Albury. (He has a video.)
Seems PP Graham Leggo (1980-81) had trouble keeping awake at meetings!
Henry Slade (dec) of Slade Knitwear, Richmond, was a Richmond Rotarian for over 25 years, and for whom the Club’s ‘Slade Literary Award’ for secondary students, is named. The Slade Award has been managed since its inception in 1993 by a committee within the Rotary Club of Richmond and continues into its seventeenth year, with the ongoing support of the Slade family. (Mon.14th Sept. the 2009 Slade Awards will be held at the Amora Hotel.)
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ACTIVITIES OF THE CLUB OVER THE EARLY YEARS
Support and funding was given to the Creche in Abinger Street, Richmond, the Creche and Kinder at Cook Court, now Boroondara Kindergarten, which is still supported by RCR to this day; (The Ladies of Rotary’ were very involved with this kinder and Joy Greer is remembered as a dynamic supporter), along with the Dame Nellie Melba Kindergarten (the Club gave them money over the years for equipment etc).
Funds were raised by a car raffle that was donated by British Motors, and a boat, car and trailer raffle organized by ‘Gentleman Jim Greer’!
The Club was renowned in the area for its wonderful Jumble Sales with trays of decorated sponge cakes for sale, tressil tables groaning with clothing, material, haberdashery etc! Held annually at the Richmond Town Hall, Bridge Road, people were always queued at the doors waiting for them to open!
The ‘HOLE-IN-ONE’ COMPETITION - sponsored by Nylex and held at the Royal Richmond Golf Club at Burnley. Stan Waterford and Doug Wysham had to retrieve the contestants’ golf balls; they were being slammed with golf balls going all over the place until they realized that there was a separate ‘Ladies Golf Day’ also being conducted! Without hard hats, they found the safest place to be was hiding behind the large gum tree to the edge of the course!
The Mobile Library – funds were raised by RCR for a vehicle. It serviced the local Richmond Primary Schools in conjunction with the Education Department. The Club provided staff and books and Richmond City Council provided parking facilities for the vehicle.
MON 31ST AUGUST: NO MEETING – NO TIGER RAG
As there won’t be a Club meeting on Monday, 31st August, due to the Carvery & Trivia Night on the previous Friday 28 August, The Tiger Rag edition for that date will not be produced. The Tiger Rag will be ‘hot off the press’ again on Monday 7th September!
Our Past Presidents
1964-651965-661966-671967-681968-691969-701970-711971-721972-731973-741974-751975-761976-771977-781978-791979-80
Cec ShillingBrian BathFrank HansenGeoff ClarkeErn AingerNorm NealeFred AllenJim GreerBarry SmithKeith DoeryHenry DrillichMiles MorphetRoy Woods Geoff PickingNorman MooreJohn Slessar
1980-811981-821982-831983-841984-851985-861986-871987-881988-891989-901990-911991-921992-931993-941994-951995-96
Graham LeggoBrian ListRowley KellerBarry Woods Ray LeggoMiles SchofieldBarry RobertsWarren GoldingBob MudgeAlan EmburyLes HarrisonJohn EllisonJohn BirchKeith CallinanJohn GriffithJohn Wysham
1996-971997-981998-991999-002000-012001-022002-032003-042004-052005-062006-072007-082008-09
Aivars LodeMark DwyerJudy NettletonMax WilsonMerv EricsonColin LookerSue BoltonMichael CowlingSimon MarriottJanice KestertonJanice KestertonJean Marc BerthierTrevor Pang
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Get well wishes from us all at Richmond Rotary Club to our past Rotarian, Beryl Golding. (PP Warren Golding) Beryl is presently a patient at Epworth Eastern Hospital, Box Hill, in the Cardiac Ward; hopefully going home mid-week to recuperate.
GUEST SPEAKERS X 3 + 1, 17TH AUG: MGC Enviroment Team - Climate change is impacting on the youth of Richmond!
Full report on pages 14 & 15 of the web edition
MEDIA RELEASE 12TH AUGUST 2009
SNAPHOP - A ROTARY YOUTH ARTS PROJECT PRESENTS:
‘Tell Me What it Looks Like’ – A Photographic Exhibition and ‘Gettin’ Schooled’ – A Fresh Youth Dance Video
Media Release Details on page 16 of web edition
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‘CONNECTING WITH COMMUNITY’: Growing, Harvesting & Nourishing Life Skills & Partnerships -
Report is on page 15 of the web page edition
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? NEED TO NOTE –
? FUNDRAISER Friday 28th August at 6.30pm for 7.00pm – Heritage Cluster Carvery & Trivia Night Fundraiser – Fitzroy Town Hall *$40 per person (Replaces RCR meeting for 31/8/09) (Michael O’Sullivan and Elissa Marriott) MONDAY, 31ST AUGUST, 2009: NO CLUB MEETING, NO TIGER RAG! *September is New Generations Month ? Wednesday 9th September, 6.00pm to 7.00pm – RYAP’: SNAPHOP – ‘Tell Me What it Looks Like’ Exhibtion – at the Centre for Contemporary Photography, 404 George Street, Fitzroy. Free nibbles and drinks provided. PLUS Fellowship Dinner after: Venue TBA ? Friday, 11th September, 7.00pm –7.40pm – RYAP’S: SNAPHOP DANCE at Dancehouse, 150 Princes Street, North Carlton. Tickets: $15 (to support the artists) or Rotary members have the option of free entry. Book at Dancehouse - 9347 2860 or check on-line: dancehouse.com.au (RCR contact: Tim Baker – 0412 568 531)
? Monday 14th September, 6.30pm for 7.00pm – RCR’s: SLADE LITERARY AWARDS for YR 9 & 10 Secondary School Students - Amora Riverwalk Hotel, Richmond (Bookings & Contact: John Liddell)
? Sat & Sun 19th & 20th September, 10.00am -5.00pm daily - Fun in Retirement Expo & Garden Show, Boroondara Sports Complex, Belmore Rd, Balwyn. RCR volunteers needed for the roster to help man (person) the Club display (Jo Cowling/Janice Kesterton) ? Friday 25th September at 7.00pm – Club Fellowship Dinner - Details TBA *October is Vocational Services Month ? Saturday 3rd October, 7.00pm for 7.30pm – 50th Birthday Celebration Dinner for RC Collingwood, Collingwood Town Hall, *$80 pp – ([email protected]) ? SPECIAL CLUB MEETING…Monday 5th October, 6.30pm for 7.00pm: 4 Steps For Life – CPR Program & Demonstration’, Amora Riverwalk Hotel (Melissa Carfax-Foster/Dave Jackson) ? Sunday 18th October from 11.00am-5.00pm – FoRR’s ‘Day On The Hill’, Lake Cooper Estate Corop (near Rochester). Drive/take bus from Melb Sunday or stay o/n Sat (Jenny List)
? Monday 26th October, 6.30pm for 7.00pm – Mock Racing Night - Details TBA
*November is Foundation Month ? Friday 13th November – Visit to the Immigration Museum – FoRR - Details TBA *February is World Understanding Month ? February 2010 –Lunar New Year Dinner (Michael O’Sullivan)
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Check out Rotary District 9800's latest event listings at: ‘News and Events’ & ‘Events Calendar’. Go to: http://www.rotarydistrict9800.org.au/Members/NetworkerOnlineArticles#Grapes
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GUEST SPEAKERS X 3 + 1, 17TH AUG: MGC Enviroment Team - Climate change is impacting on the youth of Richmond!
Introduction by Annie Wysham, Sub-Ed.
On the 10thJuly 2009, 19 MGC students travelled to Australia’s first National Youth Summit On Climate Change - POWERSHIFT. Its aim was to inform, inspire and mobilise the youth delegates. The take home message from POWERSHIFT was, ‘climate change is no longer an environmental issue, it is a social justice issue, and we all have a responsibility to act.’ The students raised their own funds to get to Powershift in Sydney.
The guest speakers at our Club meeting of Monday 17th August, were Melbourne Girls’ College students: Ruby Albury, Snr School Environment Team Captain, Yr 12; Emma Lewis, Snr School Environment Team, Vice-Captain, Yr 11, and Miriam (Mim) DinaPoli, Middle School Environment Team Captain, Yr 9, assisted by Andrew Vance, Environmental Projects Coordinator, teaching staff. Their topic: THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE YOUTH OF RICHMOND – Stories from POWERSHIFT - and an update on the MGC Sustainability Collective. We were also treated at their end of their presentation to a video called ‘POWERSHIFT Flash-dance’, featuring 1,500 young delegates dancing down the steps and on the forecourt of the Sydney Opera House, dressed in blue PS T-shirts and green hard hats! A challenging, lively, interactive and informative question time followed! Chair, Annie Wysham, presented all 4 with Rotary pens plus an enviro-friendly cotton hankerchief each for the girls. This account of their talk to Rotary was prepared by Ruby, Emma and Mim: ‘A group of students from Melbourne Girls’ College attended the first ‘National Youth Summit On Climate Change – POWERSHIFT’. We had an amazing experience meeting climate victims and activists, networking with youth from around Australia and even people from outside Australian borders! Among the inspirational speakers was Ben Namakin, a Pacific Islander from Pohnpei, Pacific Islands, Micronesia. Ben is an active climate change educator and campaigner for strong action on climate change to save the Pacific Islands from flooding, dehydration and loss of all resources. We believe that not all environmentalists are vegan hippies who lay themselves down in the path of loggers; but that everyone is an environmentalist and just need awareness and their own individual outlet for this environmentalism. Climate change is impacting on the youth of Richmond. We are growing up with a huge responsibility to create social change before it is too late, to save our future from becoming unpredictable and unstable. We are growing up seeing events such as devastating bushfires and increasing frequency of tropical storms, and the loss of ecosystems such as the Great Barrier Reef. We feel anxious about what our futures hold, yet inspired and excited about our opportunity to follow our passion and act to prevent dangerous climate change. Our Melbourne Girls’ College Environment Team is working towards our school becoming more sustainable. We are improving our waste and recycling programs, introducing worm farms, running educational activities for our fellow students and hosting our annual Environment Conference for the wider community and Victorian schools. We also send our MGC students to environmental conferences. We have also begun the ‘Sustainability Collective’; a student-staff-community group working together on projects within our school and community.
We are very privileged to have RCR member Annie Wysham, as a part of our new Sustainability Collective, with her experience in waste management and waste minimisation, within local government and the private area. We are very proud and grateful for our relationship with Richmond Rotary, as it is a unique partnership offering opportunities to both RCR and MGC. We thoroughly enjoyed 2009’s ‘Clean Up Australia Day’ organised by RCR. We are also very grateful for the various funding assistance we’ve received from RCR, most recently the generous donation the RCR Board have allotted to aid eager young Year 9 MGC students to present at the 2009 International River Health Conference in Canberra in October!
‘CONNECTING WITH COMMUNITY’: Growing, Harvesting & Nourishing Life Skills & Partnerships - Compiled by Annie Wysham – Sub-Ed.
At the invitation of Jo Cowling, Jude Sullivan, Kitchen Garden Coordinator at Yarra Primary School, Richmond, attended our last meeting and gave a short address. She expressed appreciation for the partnership the program and the school enjoy with Richmond Rotary and for the volunteer work at the many working bees - and with the Program, volunteering alongside the children. Some of the funding from Rotary has gone to purchase new path edging, materials for a further raised garden bed and shade cloth, plus much-needed gum boots of all sizes, amongst other items! The program no longer receives funding from the Stephanie Alexander Foundation, so all help is gratefully accepted. The Kitchen Garden Program and the Feed Program are going so well. The fact that the children are learning how to ‘grow and harvest’ within the school, prepare the dishes in the school kitchen and share the delicious food around the table in the traditional way, gives us all hope that these skills will be with them for life. “In the past, Richmond Rotary has also been very generous in helping our school with the community barbeque, the worm farm, the chicken coop and the kitchen garden barbeque.” Jude concluded. “Thank you Richmond Rotary on behalf of Yarra Primary School students, teachers and parents for your continuing support of our school’s growing Kitchen Garden Program. Rotarian Pam Heath is now our Club contact and representative for the YPS Kitchen Garden Program. Pam has taken over from Jo Cowling who has reluctantly relinquished the role after committing herself to it so enthusiastically for almost 3 years. Her legacy? Green thumbs!
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A man has six children and is very proud of his achievement. He is so proud of himself, that he starts calling his wife, "Mother of Six" in spite of her objections.One night, they go to a party. The man decides that it's time to go home and wants to find out if his wife is ready to leave as well.He shouts at the top of his voice, "Shall we go home 'Mother of Six?'His wife, irritated by her husband's lack of discretion, shouts right back,
"Anytime you're ready, Father of Four."
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SNAPHOP - A ROTARY YOUTH ARTS PROJECT PRESENTS:
‘Tell Me What it Looks Like’ – A Photographic Exhibition and ‘Gettin’ Schooled’ – A Fresh Youth Dance Video
SNAPHOP supports young people to work collaboratively with professional artists in photography, dance and multimedia; through programs running in schools and in both the Centre for Contemporary Photography and Dancehouse. This year, two events celebrate the creative work of young people living, working or schooling in the City of Yarra, who are on the edges… of diverse cultural backgrounds or in alternative education settings. This work highlights young people’s creativity and lets them shine!
Tell Me What it Looks Like – FREE Exhibition launch, Sept 9th, 6.00pm-7:30pm. Nibbles and drinks provided. Exhibition runs from Sept 9 to 18th @ Centre for Contemporary Photography. Wed - Sat 11 am to 6pm. Sun 10.00am – 5pm. This exhibition showcases images of 12 young people who have been working with professional photographer, Michael Warnock, to develop hands on camera skills, as well as their creative ideas. Participants have also learned about photo history and photo production. The exhibition includes some video clip footage from ‘Gettin’ Schooled’.
Funded by City of Yarra’s ‘Emerging Issues Grants’ and Rotary, in partnership with the Centre for Contemporary Photography
‘Getting’ Schooled’ - A fresh youth dance video that puts together ‘nu school hip hop and krump’, taking it from the streets to the classroom in a story of dance as a means to non-violence. Rap not included! A program for newly-arrived young people to explore street dance history and contribute to on-line dance culture. Directed by theatre/dance director Vince Miller and original music and video by Chilli from 3121 Media. Video concept developed in collaboration with lead participants. Additional choreography by Homer, Claudia Sangiorgani and participants. Doco by Jez. This video is screened along with a live performance at Dancehouse on Friday September 11th 7 - 7:40pm. This is part of Open Studio at Dancehouse -where independent dancers perform and share in profits off the door. Bookings at Dancehouse 9347 2860 or check on-line - dancehouse.com.au. Funded by City of Yarra’s ‘Emerging Issues Grants’, Rotary and Arts Victoria Community Partnerships, in partnership with Dancehouse. RC Richmond RYAP Chair: Tim Baker 0412 568 531 Media Contact: Dominique Miller, Project Co-ordinator 0409 137 598 or
