ZEPHYR

Newsletter of the

Zonta Club of Adelaide

DECEMBER 2017

Issue 407

PRESIDENT’S REPORT

It is the last report of a very busy year and on reflection I feel that we have made significant differences to the lives of women and girls locally and internationally. I was privileged to attend the fundraising event that Shila organised to further support her medical supplies and the soil child project. A number of us attended the “Herstory” event organised by the Lady Mayoress at the town hall. It was excellent to hear what other women’s organisa-tions are doing. Thank you to Erica who spoke about Zonta and was part of the Q&A sessions. She did us proud and also worked with the committee

Charter 0627 on 17/4/1969

District 23 Area 2

Empowering women and girls through Service and Advocacy

ZONTA CLUB OF ADELAIDE

CHRISTMAS LUNCH

Saturday, 2 December 2017

Hope’s Cafe

Corner Portrush Rd and Norwood Pde, Norwood

at 12 for 12.30 pm start

to get the program off the ground. The decorations were quite amazing as was the touch of one person at each table winning the Adelaide City rose. (Report on Page 4) I, along with presidents from Adelaide Torrens and Adelaide Flinders, met with managers from

Catherine House about Zonta working with them. At this stage I do not see us making a contribution financially and they are not yet set up for volunteer programs.

Club members at Victoria Square prior to the White Ribbon March held on 25 November.

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BREAST

CARE

CUSHIONS

TOTAL

7333 as at 30/11/17

NEXT

WORK-

SHOP:

Date

16/12/17

Where

25 Church St Magill

Time

9.00 am

SERVICE REPORT Mary Burford (Coordinator)

Lynne Beaumaris hosted an afternoon tea for ex clients of the DV Centre and/ or refugees on 21

st November

at her home. It was also Val Baldwin’s birthday so we were able to celebrate with a Pavlova cake and candles. It was a big surprise for her but an enjoyable occasion for all.

On Monday 30

th October

Jennifer Stehn hosted a work-shop where a few members got t o g e t h e r a n d s e w e d decorations on the bags that we give to the women from the DV Centre. We had an enjoyable afternoon and managed to get through a lot of work

Breast Cushions

The next breast cushion assem-bly and packing day will be held on Saturday 16

th December at

Ivanka’s home. This will be our final one for the year so we hope to complete enough cushions until we start sewing again next year either in February or March. Thank you to all the people who have contributed in any way this year and especially Maxine who hosted us while Ivanka was away.

DV Shelter

I have helped a number of people to apply for their Working with Children and Working with Vu lne rab le peop le DCSI certificates to allow them to volunteer at the DV Shelter. It appears that they may have worked out some of the glitches that were occurring and the last two applications have gone very smoothly. If anyone still needs help can you make a time with me and we can work through the process.

Dates for your diary:

Saturday 2nd

December is

our club’s Christmas Lunch where you are asked to bring a gift of around $25-$30 to be given to the women at the Shelter. It should be a gift to pamper the recipient and give her something special in her life.

Tuesday 12 December and

Thursday 14th

December we

will be wrapping the Christmas presents for the women and children.

Tuesday 19th

December is

the DV Centre Christmas party where we prepare the food and generally help with organisation on the day. I will send out an email shortly asking for help. Please could you respond promptly so that I can let the Centre staff know how much help we can give.

You all received the information about the project being run as part of Adelaide University Humanitarian Engineering and the information Dr Cris Birzer sent out about the crowd funding for water testing in Rajasthan. The contact is: http://universityofadelaide.pozible.com/project/world-first-filtration-system Our new banners “Zonta Says No To Violence Against Women” looked fabulous at the White Ribbon March and our club was well represented. Thank you to the Advocacy Committee for their initiative in purchasing them. The Finance committee have been very active in refining the processes for budget manage-ment and this will be presented in February 2018 in time for the next financial year.

The refurbishment of the linen and homewares shed at the EADVS was put forward as a project for funding by the State Government Fund my Neighbourhood program by Rev Gillies Ambler. It attracted community support and was successful, which means that the completed refurbishment will put it on a par with the clothing boutique. Great news! Exciting news. A new member, Ashleigh Bandiera, has just announced her engagement.

This week Wendy and I attended the posthumous installation of Dr Alice Rigney into the SA Women’s Honour Roll. Other members of the Awards Committee have been attending various school and university presentation nights. Our annual Amelia Earhart event will be held in the park on Sunday 21

st of January. More details

attached. Thank you to everyone and their contributions to the club and activities this year and look for-ward to seeing you in the new year.

In Zonta service

Bev Gum

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ADVOCACY Jennifer Stehn (Coordinator)

We MUST BE

COURAGEOUS

Elca and many others are work-ing through a program called Peacemakers to support women to escape from violence in India.

Read more about the program on the web. An easy way to be well informed about all issues for women is to s u bsc r ib e t o W OM EN ’ S AGENDA, a free media service posting directly to your In Box. Many thanks to all Advocacy Committee members for their work supporting all Club members to be involved in the 16 Days of Activism. The Awareness Ribbons will be on sale again at the Christmas Lunch for the cost recovery price of $1.

I was inspired this week to read about ELCA GROBLER, the F o u n d e r o f M y C h o i c e Foundation, an Opportunity International partner organization that aims to stop violence against wom en and end hum an trafficking. Her latest post echoes our commitments here in Adelaide in the middle of THE 16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM: “Violence against women” isn’t a women’s rights issue, it’s a human rights issue. In India, more women are killed each year by domestic violence than by malaria, war and acci-dents combined. I’m driven by a righteous anger about the abuse and injustice so many women face today. With so much going so right, how can so much be going so horribly wrong?

How did we get to the point in our modern society where al-most half of Indian women face domestic violence? In 2017, we still have close to 50 per cent of the girls in India who marry, marry as children. How did we get to the point where 50 million girls in India are missing? Killed as infants or foetus. Why aren’t we, in 2017, at a point where we can break the cycle of violence against women?

Why do we, as a society, allow violence to ruin the lives of mil-lions of women and their chil-dren? We must build awareness of the magnitude of this human rights crisis. Violence against women costs the global community tril-lions of dollars a year, but it’s not the economic cost that should drive action, it’s the hu-man cost.

As at 30/11/17 our club

membership is 41

MEMBERSHIP REPORT Maxine Panegyres (Coordinator)

I am sure this interest will con-

tinue with Zonta gaining a big-

ger profile through its many

activities. One such prospective

member has indicated that she

would like to attend our

Christmas lunch.

How quickly the year has gone with our Christmas lunch this week. We have welcomed new members

to the club and as well I have

written many emails in response

to questions about Zonta

International via our club website.

This last month I have written

seven such responses.

I wish all members a very Merry

Christmas and Happy New Year

on behalf of the Membership

Committee.

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Thanks to the Zontians on the day – Kaye, Hoda and Wendy as well as representatives from ZC Adelaide Flinders there was much discussion with women who wanted to find out what we do. We had 23 people sign up to receive the Zonta Says No emails and 18 indicated interest in being contacted by a Zonta club near them. I referred the names and emails, based on their suburb, to ZC Adelaide Flinders, ZC Adelaide Torrens, ZC Para District and ZC Mt Barker as well as to our own club membership committee. All clubs have indicated their willingness to make contact. The committee has yet to have a debrief meeting with the Lady Mayoress but the indication is that the event may be repeated next year. I would recommend that if this occurs it should be Area 2 Director who represents

Thank you to Erica Majba

for her report as follows:

HERSTORY –

Lady Mayoress event to

celebrate the

contribution of women

Thanks to the vision and drive of the Lady Mayoress of Adelaide and a multitude of committee meetings with representatives of five womens’ organisations, the event held 4 November was a great success. Zonta; Soroptomists; YWCA; National Council of Women SA; Business & Professional Women each had the opportu-nity to present their organisation and honour the commitment of their members. I spoke briefly of our international projects, breast cushions, birthing kits and our advocacy project Walk in My Shoes. I also invited people to sign up to receive an email for each of the 16 days of Activism to be part of our club advocacy project. We had a Zonta stand in the foyer with banners, brochures, Zonta postcards etc.

Zonta clubs in SA. This year Zonta was included because our club had an association with the Lord Mayor and I was appointed as the club’s representative, but tried to make the event inclusive for members of all the local Zonta clubs.

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AdYO Musical Afternoon

I would like to thank all the members who brought friends and attended the Classical Music Afternoon at the end of October. The committee has received very positive feedback about the event and praise for the young musicians. Aileen will have discussions with AdYOs about the possibility of another performance in 2019 and will discuss this further with the Awards Committee and then the club.

Mitcham Girls High

School Presentation

Night

November has been a busy month for committee members attending various presentations. Maxine and Lynne attended Mitcham Girls High School Presentation Night where our 2018 awardees were announced to the school.

AWARDS Raema Mahony (Coordinator)

Inaugural Zonta

Aboriginal Award

The inaugural Zonta Aboriginal Award was selected for 2018. I will present the winner of the award to Amanda Bowne (yr 11 2017) at the Blackwood High School Year 11 Final Assembly on 8

th December. A Runner Up

Certificate and Book Voucher was presented to Pearl Bertani (Yr. 9 2017) at her Unley High School Presentation Assembly on 24

th November. Follow up

discussions will be held with the DECD Regional Director in Term 1 2018 about this award and the current eligible schools. In addition feedback discussions about the award will occur with the four Zonta clubs who were approached early this year.

Dr Alice Rigney

Bev and Wendy were invited to attend Government House for the announcement of a posthumous award for Dr Alice Alitja Rigney on the SA Women’s Honour Roll.

Amelia Earhart

Breakfast

Please see the attached flyer about the Amelia Earhart Breakfast Sunday 21

st January

2018. Looking forward to seeing members there as it is usually a relaxing time under the Moreton Bay trees. It is an opportunity to catch up with everyone after the festive season. Please let me know if you are attending so we can ensure we cater adequately for the event.

Left: Michaela Skipp

Below: Maxine and Lynne with

Jade Brimage

PR/PROGRAM REPORT Beverley Newberry (Coordinator)

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Program

2 December 2017 President’s Choice Christmas Lunch Hope’s Cafe Corner Portrush Road and Norwood Parade Norwood 5067 12 for 12.30 pm 7 February 2018 Dinner meeting The Lion Melbourne Street North Adelaide SA 5006 6.00 pm for 6.30 pm Our committee met on 26 November and discussed the need for members to advise Program Committee of any proposed functions which require addition in the club calendar. This should avoid any clashes of events.

We discussed proposed speak-ers for 2018 and it looks to be a very promising year with exciting speakers to attend our meetings. Please refer to the below report which Akhter has written about Angela Sharpe, who will be our guest speaker at our meeting to be held 7 March 2018,

Tracy Johnstone delivering her “first” talk at a club meeting.

(1/11/17)

Website

Updates are being added to our website with copies of recent newsletters and annual reports being inserted in the Archive section. If you require any information on our club’s activities, they should be recorded in these publications. Please note: The Program Committee is looking to host its annual Quiz Night fundraising event during April 2018. We are awaiting confirmation by our much sought after Quiz Master, Rob Elliott.

MARCH 2018 MEETING speaker Review by Akhter Rahman

As a result of the project, children’s behaviour at school improved: they learnt to work, listen and reduced interjecting.

So Angela and Jolana decided to spend as much time with the teachers as possible to help with their pronunciation (of English) and get them to read all of the books they brought with them.

They also ran a few art project days as well. And from Angela, of course, some singing (she runs a choir or two back in her home town and teaches the piano as well).

Gradually some villagers started to grow vegetables. New varieties as well thus improving their diet, from just plain Daahl Bhaat.

and pay for new teachers, increase the Caretaker’s salary and renovate the school build-ings. Lee and Angela found charities which came on board.

The volunteers replenished the school with new supplies. They bought buckets, jugs and a container for the sugar as the mice ate a huge hole in the last plastic one. They also bought books, pencils and a pencil sharpener for the school. The group also realized that they needed to help the community with many deeper issues in the village eg., water supply, sanita-tion, food, adequate clothing. A water project was agreed to when the local Aandhimul committee met with the group of villagers from the neighbouring village (Koreka) and they all signed an agreement allowing a water project to begin.

Angela Sharp’s

presentation on

“The Andhimul Project”

to be delivered at

our March 2018 club

meeting

It is a project developed by some vo lun te e rs f r om d i f f e ren t countries, to improve the lot of the people living in a village, Andhimul, near Bandipur in Nepal, one of the poorest villages in the world. It was conceived in 2008 by Mon Bahadur Bhujel, a Primary School teacher from Nepal (and who has family in the village); Lee Allan from the UK, a volunteer in Nepal; Angela Sharp from Austra-lia; Jolana Whyte from the Czech R e p u b l i c a n d L o u |Boddington from the UK, all volunteers in Nepal.

The group raised money to train

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We wish our members happy birthday celebrations during December and January 2018 Ashleigh Bandiera 4 Dec Carol Summers 11 Dec Helena Woloszyn 3 Jan Hani Ashtari 20 Jan

Thank you to our members who have contributed to this month’s Zephyr:

President Bev Gum

Raema Mahony Awards

Maxine Panegyres Membership

Jennifer Stehn Advocacy

Mary Burford Service

Gerry Sanderson Recap of November meeting Akhter Rahman March 2018 speaker review Members who contributed to “Happenings during the month” If any member wishes to supply an article and photos, please email directly to bnewberry@internode.on.net. We would be extremely happy to publish interesting information/events in the Zephyr.

At the time of writing the bank a c c o u n t b a l a n c e w a s $30,568.03 Activity through the account since the last update included: $3,000 The University of Adelaide Scholar ship $3,000 University of SA Community Development Grant $1,200 Eastern Adelaide DVC. We were also able to finalise the Community Lottery netting the club around $7,700.

Well done to Deb Lodge from the F i n a n c e C o m m i t t e e f o r driving this activity. Mary and the team of volunteers at the Sausage Sizzles held in October made approx. $1300. A fantastic effort by all. The Classical Musical afternoon was held raising approx. $2,500 as planned. The Finance committee met for the last time this year on 20 November. We are currently in the process of flow charting the request for project funding as part of the next budget cycle. This will be shared with current committee chairs over the coming weeks.

I will be on annual leave from 13 December until 16

January.

Jennifer has the ETPOS machine, cheque and deposit books. Deb Lodge is able to process any electronic pay-ments or reimbursements over this period. Wishing you all a safe and happy holiday period

FINANCE REPORT Treasurer Lorraine Elliott

Leann was invited to simply talk about herself rather than about Zonta, but of course all Zontians know that the two are intricately intertwined. When Leann was first invited to jo in Zon ta , she qu ick ly recognised that the values and priorities gelled with her own. She has enjoyed the fellowship and been inspired by the strength, knowledge and commitment of fellow club members. Apart from being elected to the D23 Nominating Committee for the next biennium, Leann has been in a team with Pru Blackwell, Naomi Reschke, Cintra Amos and Jenny Weaver that has been instrumental in developing a concept that was voted in at the District Conference in Geelong. It is a project that will consolidate and build on strengths and ideas of clubs and provide resources to support clubs to continue the great work they are already doing. Leanne is a senior social worker and team leader at Fleurier Families where she designs, monitors and evaluates programs that support families and children. FF is primarily an early interven-tion service and the clientele comprises families who are at the pointy end of the Child Protection System. Leanne’s duties include: supervising staff and volunteers with a case load of home visits and providing group work for women and children who have been affected by domestic vio-lence.

More recently Leann’s own mother was raped by a group of returned soldiers after WW2. This caused such a scandal in a small country town that she was given no choice but to marry one of her attackers. Unsurprisingly, he turned out to be a brutal and mentally ill man and her life with him was horrendous until after the marriage was finished, her mother was fortunate in meeting a kind and gentle man and went on to have 3 more children. Leann admires the courage of her mother and sees her self-respect as the key feature in her survival. Looking forward into the future, Leann used the example of her own daughter as a modern woman who has faith in her own worth and has been enormously successful in her life.

Every strong woman that

we can empower can

support us to build a more

equal society…… Zonta

can play a huge part in

helping these stories to be

told and in forming a

supportive system that al-

lows women to heal,

strong and considerate

men to thrive and children

to know their worth in life.

She facilitates programs for girls and boys addressing respectful relationships. Added to this, she is responsible for collaborative pathways, stra-tegic planning and collective impact plans that aim to make a difference at a population level. Leanne is the council’s Child Safety Officer and a trainer in Safe Environments. On a personal level, Leanne is a strong woman with an unwaver-ing focus on empowering women, particularly in cases of dysfunction and disadvantage, including intergenerational pov-erty, trauma and patterns of be-haviour that are really hard to break. She outlined how the concepts of privilege and em-powerment sit so well with the ideals of Zonta in breaking cycles and supporting women who suffer domestic Violence. Looking both past and future, Leann recognises the privileges she had in making her own choices. Only five generations ago her ancestor, Catherine Rowe, a 16-year-old Irish girl, was sentenced to transportation to Australia when she and her father were convicted for stealing chickens to feed their starving family. Catherine’s fate was to be sent to a workhouse in Hobart to serve a seven year sentence. Leanne was moved to tears when she discovered Cath-erine’s records at the Female Factory in Hobart. Miraculously and despite the risks of infant mortality and abuse, Catherine lived to the age of 72 and bore seven chil-dren. Moving forward a couple of generations, Leann’s grandfa-ther and great aunts were aban-doned by their father following the death of their mother and lived in the Goodwood orphan-age.

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CLUB MEETING 1 NOVEMBER 2017 Reporter: Gerry Sanderson Leann Symonds of the Zonta Club of Fleurieu Peninsula and

Vice Area Director of Zonta International District 23, Area 2

HAPPENINGS DURING THE MONTH

A CULTURAL EXPERIENCE

The invitation said it was a cultural experience. Bev Gum, Julie Hughes and Val Baldwin accepted and attended what was a fundraiser to send a container of old RAH material to the villages in PNG with which Shila (soil child project) is familiar . We were surrounded by artifacts and the music of the country at all times. The program was a mixture of culture and facts. Shila started the evening by introducing groups who were present and spent time explaining that we were there because Zonta Adelaide had invited her to speak about her program and had made a donation to the Project which was really appreciated. Over the evening we were entertained by the Morobe singing group, Hills Girls with a Traditional Dance, the BUKA group with a dance depicting the legend of the paradise bird and a dance showing the women hunting for food. This was alternated by people speaking for a short time about work they were doing and had done for many years to do with health and nutrition in PNG. Dr. Anthony Radford who has spent 60 years go-ing to villages and working in health started his address by saying he was not surprised that Zonta was involved as we had done such great work over the years with birthing kits which had changed mortality rates so significantly.Two other health and nutrition groups spoke of their work over a number of years. While all this was happening we enjoyed a meal cooked in the PNG way. Our pork had been cooked in the ground, corn beef ground and cooked with spinach and a variety of chicken dishes,etc. We three agreed that it certainly was a cultural experience, we were glad that we had gone and really proud of the way Zonta service had been acknowledge during the night.

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Herstory

photos:

From left: Daina and Val Erica, Kaye and Hoda

MORIALTA COMMUNITY QUIZ NIGHT

Many members attended the Quiz Night to raise funds for the Women’s Safety Services SA (Eastern Adelaide Domestic Violence Service). Candice Prosser (pictured left), a journalist with ABC News in Adelaide did an excellent job as Quizmaster. Attendees enjoyed the night, enthusiastically becoming involved in “heads and tails”.

Many thanks to Helena Woloszyn for organising a table of 14. They managed a very good result. The Organisers also thanked Erica Majba for her donation of $100 as Erica could not attend, but donated the moneys received from her guests.

One giant leap for Akhter.....

As reported by “The Senior News November 2017” “No matter who you are or how old you are, life is all about conquering the next challenge, as Akhter Rahman can attest. The Norwood clinical psychologist has become the oldest person to take on the Mega Jump at Mega Adventures Aerial Park in West Beach. Akhter was strapped into a harness before stepping out into space and an 18 metre freefall jump. She also jumped up to eight metres. “I was pretty nervous but it was great, just amazing, she said.”

Akhter pictured with Fiona Telford-Sharpe, from The Exchange, created by not- for-profit aged care provide, ACH Group to encourage older people to network and challenge themselves.

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WHITE RIBBON BREAKFAST 24 November 2017

Bev Gum, Erica Majba, Akhter Rahman, Gerry Sanderson, Carol Summers, Jenni Thomson and Beverley attended the White Ribbon Breakfast featuring keynote speaker

Dr Michael Kaufman PhD and Co-Founder of the Global White Ribbon Campaign. Dr Kaufman is an internationally-acclaimed Canadian author, activist, consultant and public speaker. He is currently senior fellow at Instituto Promundo in Washington DC, a global consortium that works to promote gender equality and create a world free from violence by engaging men and boys in part-nership with women and girls. “Men have been defined as part of the problem. But the White Ribbon Campaign believes that men can also be part of the solution. Confronting men’s violence requires nothing less than a commitment to full equality for women and a redefinition of what it means to be men, to discover a meaning to manhood that doesn’t require blood to be spilled”. Michael Kaufman About 1700 people attended including the Governor, the Honourable Hieu Van Le, Hon Zoe Bettison MP and Rachael Sanderson MP. Many thanks to Cintra Amos of the Zonta Club of Adelaide Flinders for all the preliminary work undertaken to make this event an outstanding success.

1 The White Ribbon Breakfast

organisers and their guests.

Cintra Amos from the Zonta Club

of Adelaide Flinders is front row

far left. 2 Carol, Gerry, Jenni and past member Anna Muller enjoying breakfast. 3 President Bev Gum 4 Erica with guest Jessica and Akhter.

Where did White Ribbon come from? 1991: On the second anniversary of the massacre of 14 women by a lone gunman in Montreal, Canada, a handful of Canadian men initiate a Campaign to urge men to speak out about violence against women. The symbol of the Campaign was a white ribbon.

1999: The United Nations General Assembly

declares 25 November the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

This day, 25 November, is the anniversary of the assassination of the Mirabal sisters – three Dominican political dissidents who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. White Ribbon Day is now observed on this date each year, with the white ribbon as its iconic symbol.

2003: UNIFEM, now UN Women, established the White Ribbon Campaign in Australia.

2007: The White Ribbon Foundation is formed in Australia as a stand-alone entity.

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OUR 2017-2018 CLUB FUNDRAISING AND EVENTS PROGRAM

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ZONTA CLUB MEETING NIGHTS

Adelaide 1st Wednesday Adelaide Flinders 3rd Wednesday Adelaide Hills 4th Wednesday Adelaide Torrens 2nd Tuesday Clare & Districts 3rd Tuesday Fleurieu Peninsula 4th Tuesday Gawler 2nd Wednesday Mt Barker 3rd Tuesday Noarlunga Southern Vales 4th Wednesday Para District Area 1st Tuesday Port Lincoln 4th Tuesday Riverland 1st Tuesday

DECEMBER

2 President’s Choice Christmas lunch to be held at Hope’s Cafe 9 Movie “Wonder” fundraiser at the Regal Theatre, Kensington Park. $15 adults/$10 children under 13. Free afternoon tea. UniSA in collaboration with The Seeds of Affinity. RSVP: sophie.diamandi@unisa.edu.au/ Lola 0409 027 458 / Sata 0401 738 854 Money raised will be donated to the Seeds of Affinity organisation which supports South Australian women released from prison. The movie "Wonder" is a very fascinating and inspiring movie for families, friends, organisations and communities to watch. Please come along to support women’s empowerment. 12/14 EADVS Christmas parcel wrapping 19 Volunteers at EADVS Christmas party

2018

JANUARY

21 Amelia Earhart Breakfast in Botanic Park

FEBRUARY

7 Club dinner meeting at the Lion Hotel, North Adelaide

JUNE 29/ Zonta International 64th Convention to be held in

JULY 3 Yokohama Japan

ZONTA INTERNATIONAL

Founded in 1919, Zonta International is a global organization of members working together to advance

the status of women worldwide through service and advocacy. Its Objects are:

To improve the legal, political, economic, educational, health, and professional status of women through service and advocacy.

To work for the advancement of understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of members.

To promote justice and universal respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.

To be united internationally to foster high ethical standards, to implement service programs, and to provide mutual support and fellowship for members who serve their communities, their nations, and the world.

W e ’ re on t h e W e b ! Z o n t a C l u b o f A d e l a i d e I n c Club, International and District B o x 31 32 PO , N o rw o o d 50 6 7 www.zontaclubofadelaide.org.au zontadelaide@gmail.com www.zonta.org (Member ID) Charter 0627 on 17 April 1967

www.zontadistrict23.org.au Area 2 District 23

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Zonta International is a global service organisation of professionals working

together to advance the status of women through service and advocacy.

ZONTA CLUB OF ADELAIDE INC

BOARD

President Bev Gum Vice-President Wendy Bruce Secretary Helen Joraslafsky Treasurer Lorraine Elliott

Directors Mary Burford, Daina Long, Deborah Lodge, Akhter Rahman, Gerry Sanderson,

Stephanie Steensma, Carol Summers

COMMITTEES 2016-2017

Membership/Fellowship Aileen Connon, Raema Mahony, Susanne Pfitzner Maxine Panegyres (Coordinator) Advocacy Wendy Bruce, Millicent Hughes, Kathy Ellis, Erica Majba, Jennifer Stehn (Coordinator) Tracy Johnstone, Jill Olifent, Kaye Roberts-Thomson, Colleen Tomlian. Stephanie Steensma Service Hani Ashtari, Val Baldwin, Lynne Beaumaris, Julie Hughes, Mary Burford (Coordinator) Ivanka Jovanovich, Anne Milne, Gerry Sanderson, Jenni Thomson, Angela Vandellis, Kay Wood, Janice Watson Ashleigh Bandiera, Susanne Pfitzner, Wendy Bruce, Carmen Gurd, Cheryl Triantafilidis, Kay Wood, Janice Watson, Miriam Zhu Awards Lynne Beaumaris, Bev Gum, Millicent Hughes, Raema Mahony (Coordinator) Beverley Newberry. Maxine Panegyres, Margaret Peters PR/Program/Website Bev Gum, Daina Long, Akhter Rahman Beverley Newberry (Coordinator) Finance Helen Joraslafsky, Deb Lodge, Jennifer Stehn, Carol Summers Lorraine Elliott (Treasurer) NOMINATING 2018 Val Baldwin, Aileen Connon, Cheryl Triantafilidis NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN SA Millicent Hughes, Lynne Beaumaris VISITORS BOOK Val Baldwin ACSO Bev Gum ARCHIVIST Beverley Newberry VOLUNTEERING STRATEGY FOR SA Val Baldwin