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Volume 44—Bulletin 1

26 June 2012

DUTIES ROSTER

3 July 2012

Welcoming: Michelle Kendall

Ronnie Malthouse

Grace: Colin Peacock

Loyal Toast: Peter Richardson

Rotary Informer: Aidan Wood

Host Chair: Stephen Kendall

Guest Speaker: TBA

Topic: TBA

10 July 2012

Welcoming: Mike Bermann

Kimberley Holding

Grace: Ros McLernon

Loyal Toast: Bev Poor

Rotary Informer: Jeff Stephenson

Host Chair: President Michael

Committee Meetings

17 July 2012

Welcoming: Hugh Langridge

Dianne Reed

Grace: Julia Temby

Loyal Toast: Kashinee Veeren

Rotary Informer: Max Morrell

Host Chair: Peter Richardson

Guest Speaker: TBA

Topic: TBA

24 July 2012

Welcoming: Michael Metcalf

Brian Poole

Grace: Deepti Roopun

Loyal Toast: Jodie Sparks

Rotary Informer: Kashinee Veeren

Host Chair: Hugh Langridge

Guest Speaker: TBA

Topic: TBA

President Michael takes over At a gala event held on Saturday 23 June

President Michael presides over the first of many

meetings for the Ascot Rotary Club.

President: Michael Evans

Mobile: 0412 609 131

president@ascotrotary.org.au

Apologies to: Deepti Roopun (Treasurer)

Mobile: 0402 494 565

treasurer@ascotrotary.org.au

Bulletin Editor: Dianne Reed

Home: 9459 6605

bulletin@ascotrotary.org.au

DG Jodie gives Michael Evans the new Rotary Banner for 2012/13

Neil Rae was the guest speaker for the

evening. He provided us with some very

interesting information regarding our

International Project: to provide water

for the Hamlets of Eraulo in the Ermera

Region of Timor Leste. Neil, Mike B, Sue

and Ron Alexander all went to Timor to

get the project moving. Unfortunately

Fred, who was also hoping to go, couldn’t

make the trip due to a health problem.

Neil is pictured here with his wife Melanie and

his parents Fred and Norma Rae and some of

the photos he took in Timor Leste.

Mike Bermann is the

MC for the evening.

He is also the Ascot

Rotarian of the Year—

congratulations Mike.

District Governor

Jodie and husband

Colin.

President Michael and Gwen

PDG Hugh and

P Michael hand

out Centurion

Awards to 27

members and

partners.

The ‘incoming’ and the ‘outgoing’ Sergeants

had a great time removing funds from our

pockets.

President Elect Julia and husband Denis,

Whose knuckle

dusters are these?

Kash and P Michael check the raffle tickets.

Assistant Governor

Joe Byl and his wife

Sheila.

AT HANDOVER

Saturday 23 June

July Birthdays

2nd Denis Temby

7th Gerry McLernon

8th Michael Metcalf

16th Ronnie Malthouse

17th Jeff Stephenson

17th Interact 10th birthday

27th Shirley Anderson

29th Robyn Metcalf

What’s up in . . . . .JULY . . . or June

Events District Handover 7 July

Board Meeting 9 July

Ascot Olympics 21 July

ROTARY FOCUS for July: This month is: Settling in to the New Rotary Year

Sergeant's Session: Who got hit this week!

At Handover:

Gren and Michael for their Black Caviar winnings

Hugh for signing the DG’s name without her knowing

Julia for the bingle she had (which wasn’t her fault)

Fred for the gout that prevented him from going to Timor

Ron for selectively using his hearing aids

President Michael for counting the raffle winnings during the

evening.

At our meeting this week:

Brian W, Aidan and Deepti for not getting to Handover—even

when they had a good excuse.

Colin Peacock for winning a raffle he couldn’t partake of.

Julia for calling the Sarg a “lurker”.

Raffle Winner/s

At Handover:

First Prize to Judy Peacock

Second to Kimberley Holding

Boobie prize to Joanna Kendall

It was a clean sweep of purple

tickets.

At our meeting this week:

Bruno—who chose to keep it him-

self despite his sizeable cellar—

must have been a good one.

President Mike introduces the Board for 2012-13:

President elect and Club Services Director: Julia

Vocational Services Director: Max

Foundation Director: Hugh

Community Services Director: Kash

International Director: Kimberley

Sergeant: Ros

Secretary: Ron Treasurer: Deepti

Membership: Janet Holding (absent)

DON’T FORGET:

THE DG’S HANDOVER

7 JULY

Come along and

acknowledge Jodie’s

efforts for this year.

Contact Joanna if you

are going. She’ll tell you

how to pay, and how

much to pay.

TODAY’S MEETING: JUNE 26

FROM THE PRESIDENT:

Any committee holding functions needs to

treat the Calendar as the Bible and

consult before organising anything.

Please also make sure the Bulletin Editor

is informed so the information can be

added to the Bulletin.

GUESTS:

Gwen Evans—the first lady

Art Reed—the ever patient

chauffeur,

Garry wrests

the Keyman

Award from

Mike Bermann

who thought

he had it for

one more

week.

Garry emerges victorious.

ROTARY INFORMER:

Dianne Reed—Toast to the Rotary Club of Port

Louis in Mauritius—who boasts of having a Mike

Burman as a member.

OLYMPIC GAMES

Don’t forget to sign up

for the Olympics to be

held on 21st July at

Sanderling Stadium—

the list will be circu-

lating again next week.

FROM THE EDITOR:

Attached to this week’s Bulletin is the Host Chair

listing for the year—including the first month for

next year’s team.

Please check when you are on and start thinking

of who you will organise to get as your guest

speaker.

If you are unable to do it for your nominated

week, please see if you can swap with someone

else, and then let me know who you have swapped

with.

Once you have organised your guest speaker, can

you please let me know so I can advertise it in the

Bulletin ahead of time.

"Without selfless service, no one ever receives the fruits of their rewards."

- Sri Guru Granth Sahib

President Mike finished the meeting by reminding us

to collect our copy of the Club Directory and Annual

Report, and reminding us to “Be kind to ourselves”.

President Michael and Kimberley pose with James Savundra—

who spoke to us about his work “Training the locals in Laos”.

James Savundra, a local plastic surgeon takes time while on the Interplast Team in Laos, to train the

local doctors to deal with the patients who present themselves for treatment.

Laos is a landlocked country with an area of 236,800 square kilometres; and a population of about 6.5

million. The capital is Vientiane and as James says— “a really nice country, but very poor”.

His teaching starts on day one while they are assessing the patients. They use an interpreter to work

with the local staff, and may see as many as 100 patients each time they go.

Dr Harold McComb from Perth led the first team there in 1996. At the time there were no local

plastic surgeons. He started teaching the locals how to do it. Now the local doctor, Curtney

performs about 150 cleft palate operations a year. In Perth approximately 30 are done per year.

The next most common deformity after cleft palates is from burns. The process of using skin tissue

from somewhere else on the body was invented in Melbourne in 1973—a revolutionary new process

back then.

James and his team do not just teach the surgeons while they are there, but teach the whole team to

ensure that the patient gets the very best of care from start to finish.

James showed some horrific pictures of young (and not so young) people who had been severely

disfigured because they had been burned. One young lass had a very badly burned hand because her

father had thrown a Molotov cocktail into the room. They have performed a series of operations on

the young girl and after a number of these operations she is able to grasp with her burned hand.

One thing they teach the local doctors is to operate on the patients from a very early age; and to

operate often to get the best results.

James indicated that one of the advantages he has while operating is access to some magnification

glasses which the locals do not have. His dream is to be able to provide a pair for each of the people

in Laos that he works with.

In conclusion, Kimberley indicated that she would like us to raise funds for some glasses so the next

Interplast team could take them, the next time they go so they can give them to the local doctors..

HOST CHAIR ROSTER 2012/13

MONTH FOCUS 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH 5TH

JULY Settling In 3rd

Stephen

Kendall

10th

Committees

17th

Peter

Richardson

24th

Hugh

Langridge

31st

Mike

Bermann

AUGUST Membership 7th

Garry Jacobs

14th

Committees

21st

Ronnie

Malthouse

28th

Max Morrell

SEPTEMBER New

Generations

4th

Ron

Alexander

11th

Committees

18th

Kimberley

Holding

25th

Bev Poor

OCTOBER Vocational

Service

2nd

Fred Rae

9th

Committees

16th

Jeff

Stephenson

23rd

Julia Temby

30th

Joanna

Kendall

NOVEMBER Foundation 6th

Melbourne

Cup—Gren

Courtland

13th

Committees

20th

Roma

Gehringer

27th

Deepti

Roopun

DECEMBER Rotary Family 4th

Kashinee

Veeren

11th

Committees

18th

Christmas

Michael

Evans

25th

No Meeting

JANUARY Rotary

Awareness

1st

No Meeting

8th

Committees

15th

Mike

Bermann

22nd

Brian Poole

29th

Peter

Richardson

FEBRUARY World

Understanding

5th

Michelle

Kendall

12th

Committees

19th

Max Morrell

26th

Janet

Holding

MARCH Literacy /

Rotaract

5th

Dianne Reed

12th

Committees

19th

Michael

Metcalf

26th

Colin Peacock

APRIL Magazine

Month

2nd

Ronnie

Malthouse

9th

Committees

16th

Aidan Wood

23rd

Ron

Alexander

30th

Ros

McLernon

MAY Australian

Rotary Health

7th

Jodie Sparks

14th

Committees

21st

Jeff

Stephenson

28th

Brian

Webster

JUNE Fellowship 4th

Gren

Courtland

11th

Committees

18th

Brian Poole

25th

Bev Poor

JULY Settling In 2nd

Michael

Metcalf

9th

Committees

16th

Ros

McLernon

23rd

Deepti

Roopun

30th

Kashinee

Veeren

ASCOT ROTARY CLUB CALENDAR FOR 2012-13

July August September October

Monday 1 Queens Birthday

Tuesday 2

Wednesday 1 3

Thursday 2 4

Friday 3 5

Saturday 4 1 6

Sunday 1 5 2 7

Monday 2 6 3 8 Board Meeting

Tuesday 3 7 4 9

Wednesday 4 8 5 10

Thursday 5 9 6 11

Friday 6 10 7 12

Saturday 7 11 8 13

Sunday 8 12 9 14

Monday 9 Board Meeting 13 Board Meeting 10 Board Meeting 15

Tuesday 10 14 11 16

Wednesday 11 15 12 17

Thursday 12 16 13 18

Friday 13 17 14 19

Saturday 14 18 Rotaract Ball 15 20

Sunday 15 19 16 21 Rotary Ramble

Monday 16 20 17 22

Tuesday 17 Interact 10th

B’Day

21 18 23

Wednesday 18 22 19 24

Thursday 19 23 20 25

Friday 20 24 21 26

Saturday 21 Olympics Event 25 22 27

Sunday 22 26 23 28

Monday 23 27 24 29

Tuesday 24 28 25 30

Wednesday 25 29 26 31

Thursday 26 30 27

Friday 27 31 28

Saturday 28 29

Sunday 29 30

Monday 30

Tuesday 31

THEME SETTLE IN MEMBERSHIP NEW

GENERATIONS

VOCATIONAL

November December

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

1 Thursday

2 Friday

3 Bunnings Sausage

Sizzle 1 Saturday

4 2 Sunday

5 3 Monday

6 Melbourne Cup 4 Tuesday

7 5 Wednesday

8 6 Thursday

9 7 Friday

10 8 Saturday

11 9 Sunday

12 Board Meeting 10 Board Meeting Monday

13 11 Tuesday

14 12 Wednesday

15 13 Thursday

16 14 Friday

17 15 Saturday

18 16 Sunday

19 17 Monday

20 18 Christmas Party Tuesday

21 19 Wednesday

22 20 Thursday

23 21 Friday

24 22 Saturday

25 23 Sunday

26 24 Monday

27 25 – No Meeting Tuesday

28 26 Wednesday

29 27 Thursday

30 28 Friday

29 Saturday

30 Sunday

31 Monday

Tuesday

FOUNDATION ROTARY FAMILY THEME

January February

1 No Meeting

2

3

4 1

5 2

6 3

7 4

8 5

9 6

10 7

11 8

12 9

13 10

14 Board Meeting 11 Board Meeting

15 12

16 13

17 14

18 15

19 16

20 17

21 18

22 19

23 20

24 21

25 22

26 23 Birthday Party

27 24

28 25

29 26

30 27

31 28

ROTARY AWARE-

NESS WORLD UNDER-

STANDING

CALENDAR . . . . CONTINUED

March April May June

1 Monday

2 Tuesday

3 1 Wednesday

4 2 Thursday

1 5 3 Friday

2 6 4 1 Saturday

3 7 5 2 Sunday

4 8 Board Meeting 6 3 Monday

5 9 7 4 Tuesday

6 10 8 5 Wednesday

7 11 9 6 Thursday

8 12 10 7 Friday

9 13 11 8 Saturday

10 14 12 9 Sunday

11 Board Meeting 15 13 Board Meeting 10 Board Meeting Monday

12 16 14 11 Tuesday

13 17 15 12 Wednesday

14 18 16 13 Thursday

15 19 17 14 Friday

16 20 18 15 Saturday

17 21 19 16 Sunday

18 22 20 17 Monday

19 23 21 18 Tuesday

20 24 22 19 Wednesday

21 25 23 20 Thursday

22 26 24 21 Friday

23 27 25 22 Saturday

24 28 26 23 Sunday

25 29 27 24 Monday

26 30 28 25 Tuesday

27 29 26 Wednesday

28 30 27 Thursday

29 31 28 Friday

30 29 Saturday

31 30 Sunday

LITERACY/

ROTARACT MAGAZINE

MONTH AUSTRALIAN

ROTARY HEALTH FELLOWSHIP THEME

FINAL FOUR MONTHS OF THE ROTARY YEAR

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