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R O T A R Y C L U B O F B E A U M A R I S W E E K L Y B U L L E T I N Number 43 13 May 2013

Next Meeting

THURSDAY 16 MAY

SPEAKER; LUCY LIU

TOPIC; RENAISSANCE OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE CUL-

TURE

CHAIR: MALCOLM SAWLE

CASH DESK: GLENDA LAUGHTON & CHRIS MARTIN

HOST: ZILLAY BATOOL

AV: DAVID LEA

THURSDAY 23 MAY

BEAUMARIS ROTARY ON THE WEB

CHAIR: MARY SEALY

CASH DESK: GLENDA LAUGHTON & CHRIS MARTIN

HOST: GEOFF ABBOTT

AV: DAVID HONE

THURSDAY 30 MAY

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Presidents Report

It is always a pleasure to hear from one of our members when they give their “Person behind the badge” talk. I believe some of our most interesting speakers have been our own members, especially when a new member shares his or her life’s experiences with the other members of our club. So we heard from Martin Fothergill, who is already one of our more industrious and active members. We learnt that what Martin does for enjoyment seems highly dan-gerous to most of us! For a bit of fun he races cars at high speed and jumps out of aeroplanes (with or without his glasses). He is obviously an adrenalin junkie! Thank you Martin for your informative and entertaining presentation – it is a privilege and a pleasure to have you in RCOB. Martin’s wife Theresa joined us for our meeting, as well as Kathy Every. As I have said many times, it is always a delight to welcome partners to our meetings. Thank you Greg for being our stand-in Chairman and host for the evening. Also a big thank you must go to Heather who did so much to make the district MUNA event so successful (as well as all the other things she is organising!). It is members like Greg and Heather who help keep the Rotary wheels turning. I attended the district Presidents meeting last Friday night, where I received a good insight into what is hap-pening in district and other clubs. There are some interesting projects that other clubs are involved with, and particularly projects along the lines of “Peace through Service”, the Rotary International theme for 2012/2013. For example, Doncaster Rotary have a project to help combat family violence, Hampton are building a Peace Pavilion and Dingley Village are assist-ing an Afghanistan refugee to assimilate into our society. We also got an update on the Rotary International Coun-cil on Legislation recently held in Chicago and attended by PDG Jenny Coburn. There were a lot of resolutions

Contents 1 Editors Report 2 Notices 3 BRAGG /Facebook 4 This Week’s Speaker 5 The Amazing Jonathon Fundraiser 6 The Great Gatsby Fundraiser 7 Club Structure / Sight of Week

AMAZING OPPOR-TUNITY

The Amazing Jona-thon Usher

Magician / Comedian 30 July 2013 See Page 5

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passed, too many to mention here, but I am sure we will be formally told sometime soon what changes we need to make to our Constitution and Club Rules. To give you a taste, there will be different rules for what constitutes attendance, the “85 rule” will not have an age component, and New Generations will become “Youth Service”. This week (16 May) we meet again at VGC where we will learn about traditional Chinese culture from a Shen Yun performer. Not sure what Shen Yun is but I can’t wait to find out! Stay safe everyone. President John

Hocking Stuart Sandringham 62-64 Station Street

Telephone: 03 9521 9800

TRAILER AVAILABLE TO RCOB MEMBERS A “6X4” steel box trailer is availa-

ble to all RCOB Members for casual

use. It has a 7 pin round plug, lights

etc. . Please contact Geoff or Kerrie

if you wish to borrow it. No regis-

tration / insurance; all responsibility

with the user.

OVERSEAS MODEL

Note; As part of our arrangement with Hocking Stuart discounts on agents fees are available to

RCOB members.

Remember tickets are $2 each and the buyer must fill in their name, address and a contact phone number. Each member is to complete the front page of their books and that front page is to be returned with their books. Please put the money in an envelope with your name on the front and return to Susan or Tony. Please note; 1) Sales to Date; $1260 2) We have until end May to sell the tickets. 3) We have 3 spare books if anyone wants to sell more 4) In Susan’s absence please return money and books to Tony and Charmaine.

Come dressed in style for the opening of

“The Great Gatsby”

Prizes for best hat.

30 May 5:15

See page 6 for details.

Our raffle prize winners Char-maine and Geoff along with Sergeant Tony

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BRAGG (Beaumaris Rotary Amateur Golf Group) Our BRAGG group ventured down to the RACV Cape Schanck Resort last weekend. We played at two great golf courses, Cape Schanck and Flinders. The weather was a little windy, and both golf cours-es were challenging. We got together for dinner each night to socialise and support our "Rotary Problem". Congratulations to the winners. Saturday at Cape Schanck: Men Winner: Michael Hede (38) Runner Up: Bob McArthur (35) Ladies Winner: Megan Glenwright (35) Runner up: Joan Dugan (31) Team Event: Michael Hede & Ken Dugan (42) Megan Glenwright & Heather Chisholm (42) Sunday at Flinders Golf Club: Team Event: Winners: Ken Dugan & Fred Hofmann (66) Runners Up: Di Hone & Geoff Stockdale (65) Thank you to all BRAGGERs who have taken part in the golf days and weekends during the year. I hope you have had some fun and enjoyed the golf and the fellowship. I'm handing over the reins to BRAGG Man James Glenwright who will have some exciting golf events planned for the year ahead. Your BRAGG Lady, Heather.

Rotary on Facebook Next week we will be talking about this topic. You might find it helpful to look at Facebook sites from the three levels of Rotary before that event.

https://www.facebook.com/rotary

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rotary-District-9810/264557880313084

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rotary-Club-of-Cheltenham/212329722131079?fref=ts

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This Week’s Speaker; Martin Fothergill Topic; The Person Behind the Badge Martin chose to begin his talk in a unique participa-tive style complete with prizes (see photo below). From this we gather he thinks he is a male (but is possibly a bit un-sure), born in the early 1950s in a County adjacent to London. We do know that he has been married to Theresa (on the left in photo) for 38 years and they have two sons. Martin challenged the education system and attended the University of life. Starting in the paper industry in 1970 in the sample department as post boy of a paper mer-chant and ended up running one of the most success-ful and profitable merchants in Europe. The UK and Irish merchant where he was MD was eventually taken over by an Australian business. Martin moved to Australia in 2005 and headed up the Australian, NZ and Asian business. After retiring in 2010 Martin and Teresa decided to stay on in Australia and recently became Australian citizens.

Martin fills in his week with; Grandson Golf Sailing Volunteer Sandybeach Plumbing Business (doing the accounts for his son’s business) Rotary His hobbies include; Golf, where he recently had a hole in one! Fast Cars, Photography, Adrenalin Activities

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Don Cullen's 2013 Tibetan calendar - Cost is $15 each The Calendar shows selected pictures from Tibet in a desk unit with it's own stand. Proceeds go to his Tibetan Village Project, which he spoke to our club about some time ago.

BEAUMARIS ROTARY 2012-13 CLUB STRUCTURE

BOARD CLUB SERVICE

President John Manks Director Bob McArthur

PE, VP, Exec Sec Bob McArthur Auditor Tony Phillips

Secretary Roy Seager Program David Hone

Treasurer Richard Shermon Meeting Attendance Greg Every

Foundation Richard Jones Newsletter Editor David Lea

International Fred Hofmann Fellowship Heather Chisholm

New Generations Rob Fenton Sergeant Tony Phillips( David R.standby)

Membership and Marketing Trish Smyth Webmaster David Lea

Community Adrian Culshaw Photographer Greg Every

Fundraising Harry Roberts Almoner Antony Nixon

PP and On to Conference James Glenwright Host(s)/Cashiers Roster

ARH representative John Beaty (non board) Youth Protection Officer Malcolm Parks

Vocation Coordinate with program

TEAM MEMBERS

International Community New Generations Fundraising

David Langworthy Malcolm Sawle Chris Martin Geoff Abbott

Geoff Stockdale David Greenall Glenda Laughton Kerrie Geard

Ross Phillips Martin Fothergill Heather Chisholm Charmaine Jansz

Tony McKenna Greg Every John Beaty Roy Seager/James G. (Golf park-ing)

Zillay Batool Mary Sealy John Van Dyk

Larry Jackson Mike Hede Geoff Stringer

Ken Mirams Geoff Stringer Greg Every

Mal Parks Susan De Bolfo

Ken Mirams

Judi Hall (TBC) Membership and Marketing Golf Day

Chris D'Arcy Peter Flude (Marketing) Jim O'Brien

Police car project Antony Nixon Peter Flude

Roger Frewen Tony Phillips

Rob Fenton (Banker)

Shelf Cloud, Sas-katchewan Photograph by Gunjan Sinha, The day began as any other storm-chasing day in the Canadian Prai-ries. I followed this par-ticular storm from its birth and observed as it formed this gorgeous shelf structure eight hours later, at the end of the day.