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Serving the Community since 1985 In Gear 2017 2018 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 28 5 February 2018 Presidents Report We tried something new on Thursday

We learnt about ventriloquist s dummies; the smallest doll you have ever almost see, the story behind a beautiful Koran binding cloth; the history of a key to Coventry Cathedral; what went on in the

1 Serving the Community since 1985 In Gear 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 28 5 February 2018 Presidents Report We tried something new on Thursday evening a Show and Tell featuring members of the club. We learnt about ventriloquist s dummies; the smallest doll you have ever almost see, the story behind a beautiful Koran binding cloth; the history of a key to Coventry Cathedral; what went on in the back of a police van in Salford UK and model railway locomotives. The evening was a great success, I can see a show and tell session becoming an annual fixture. Heather and I have just got back from the Beaumaris Rotary Amateur Golf Group (and friends) weekend at Mirboo North. While most everybody else played golf we explored beautiful Gippsland. The fantastic weekend was organised by Megan Glenwright who I am sure will be posting some photos when she gets back. Next Meetings THURSDAY 8 FEBRUARY SPEAKER; KYLIE STANLEY TOPIC; PNG HIGHLANDS FOUNDATION CHAIR; TRISH SMYTH AV; GREG EVERY CASH DESK; PETER FLUDE & CLEM QUICK THURSDAY 15 FBRUARY FELLOWSHIP VISIT TO COAST GUARD THURSDAY 22 FEBRUARY SPEAKER; AIDAN COLEMAN TOPIC; FORMER CEO OF BEGA CHEESE CHAIR; FRED HOFMANN AV; ADRIAN CULSHAW CASH DESK; JAN COOPER & ROY SEAGER THURSDAY 1 MARCH NO MEETING DISTRICT CONFERENCE Unless stated otherwise venue is Victoria Golf Club 6.30 for 7.00 Last Tuesday I attended a photo session to hand over the big cheque for our donation to the Beaumaris Concourse Traders appeal to purchase a Defibrillator Unit for the Concourse. The traders need just another $600 to buy the unit so this month s Farmers Market Raffle will be in aid of their appeal. I hope we will be able to raise most of the outstanding money. The Defibrillator Unit will be kept in the newsagents as they are open the longest. Contents 1 Presidents Report 2 Notices / Photos 3/8 This Week s Speakers: Show and Tell 9/10 BRAGG Photos 11 Conference Flyer 12/13 Interplast Golf Day 14 Letter to Sister Club in North Wales 15 Club Structure / Photo of Week

The Bayside Charity Golf Day will be held on 1 st October this year being organised and run by an executive drawn from members of Beaumaris Rotary Club and The Black

The Golf Day will be held at Royal Melbourne replacing our Mayoral Golf Day and BRSA s Charity Golf Day.

Heather Chisholm and I pass on the comments to VGC.

smaller groups. We have a meeting of the club presidents in our cluster on Wednesday morning.

If there is anything you would like raised see Vivienne who is the board member without portfolio and is there to represent and raise any issues that members may have.

This week our meeting will feature a presentation from a member of The PNG Highlands Foundation.

2 The Bayside Charity Golf Day will be held on 1 st October this year being organised and run by an executive drawn from members of Beaumaris Rotary Club and The Black Rock Sports Auxiliary. Thanks to Peter Flude, Martin Fothergill and Jim O Brien for all the time they have put in to make this happen. The Golf Day will be held at Royal Melbourne replacing our Mayoral Golf Day and BRSA s Charity Golf Day. Thanks for the feedback about the quality of the meal at VGC on Thursday. I agree with all your comments, most of mine went back. Heather Chisholm and I pass on the comments to VGC. On the subject of VGC, most of our meetings will in future be held in the main dining room as the management want to keep the Rotunda for the use of house guests and smaller groups. We have a meeting of the club presidents in our cluster on Wednesday morning. I will report back on that next week Our next board meeting is on Tuesday 13th February. If there is anything you would like raised see Vivienne who is the board member without portfolio and is there to represent and raise any issues that members may have. If you can t get hold of Vivienne then obviously bring it up with any board member. This week our meeting will feature a presentation from a member of The PNG Highlands Foundation. Yours in Rotary Chris BRAGG Golf weekend 24 Rotarians, partners and friends enjoyed fellowship, laughter and good? golf this weekend at Mirboo North. Photos attaon page 9 and 10. Special thanks to Lynda for organising our golf competitions. Arriving Friday afternoon and leaving Sunday afternoon. An exhausting time was had by all. We supported the local community of Mirboo North by lunching at LAMEZLEIGHS on Friday and having our presentation and lunch at Les Escargot Restaurant on Sunday afternoon. Thanks to all that supplied the fabulous nibbles, salads and desserts for our BBQ on Saturday night. Megan. For Fellowship. Ladies and Men s winners, Mary and Robert 237 Bay Road, Cheltenham VIC Page 2

Show & Tell Shirley & Ken Mirams Hi, my name is Gerry Gee and this is my sister, Geraldine. I am almost 60 years old, so I think I qualify to become a Rotarian.

It began as The Happy Show, with host Happy Hammond, and later named The Tarax Happy Show, when Tarax soft drinks became the sponsor.

Gerry was very popular, spawning a variety of merchandise, including a range of Gerry Gee Jnr dolls.

3 Show & Tell Shirley & Ken Mirams Hi, my name is Gerry Gee and this is my sister, Geraldine. I am almost 60 years old, so I think I qualify to become a Rotarian. On 21 January 1957, the first daily children s programme started on GTV9. It began as The Happy Show, with host Happy Hammond, and later named The Tarax Happy Show, when Tarax soft drinks became the sponsor. Melbourne ventriloquist, Ron Blaskett and his mischievous doll, my brother, Gerry Gee, featured on this show for several years. Gerry was very popular, spawning a variety of merchandise, including a range of Gerry Gee Jnr dolls. I was given to Shirley for her 6 th birthday and I have been her most treasured possession from her childhood. (I know, it s my good looks!) In 2009, Shirley and I were thrilled to meet Ron Blaskett who signed the front of me. A few years ago, Shirley and Ken were wandering through an antique store in Nar Nar Goon and found me. I m so lucky to be back with my brother again. Page 3

4 Trish Smyth So, the story goes that there were 2 dolls, both from the Great Exhibition of the Works and Industries of all Nations. The first of these exhibitions, sometimes referred to as the Crystal Palace Exhibition, was held in The Crystal Palace was built in Hyde Park to house the Exhibition. Prince Albert, of course, was one of the main instigators of the Exhibition. Six million people, equivalent to one third of the population of Britain at the time, visited the Exhibition. The first modern pay toilets were installed at this exhibition, with visitors paying a Penny to use them, hence the phrase to spend a penny. There was another International Exhibition held in 1862, at this one manufacture of ice, by an early refrigerator, caused a sensation. My special object is a little doll: she s part of the immigration experience. I have always assumed that the doll was from my mother s STINTON side of the family, I don t know why: maybe it was because the story involved brothers and I knew there were brothers on that side 7 living children in all, a large number of children as Victorian families had. However, as I was preparing for this talk I realised again, in family history it always pays to check the facts. All 7 of the living STINTON children were born in Williamstown from 1869 to 1883, so Australian birth precluded this story being about them. So, I looked to my Mother s other family the DOBSONS. Good solid farmers from Letterkenny in Ireland. They were unassisted migrants coming out in 1864 on the Great Britain. There were the adults: Robertson and Mary Jane, my great grandmother Martha Ann, 14 years old, and the other 7 children ranging from 11 to 1 years old. Later 2 others were born in Victoria. One of these children, David, died in action at Armentieres, France in So the story must be from the DOB- SON side of the family, those solid farmers who went up to the Acheron Valley and are still there today, in that lovely spot. So, the story goes there were two dolls, one won the prize as the largest from one of these exhibitions, one the prize as the smallest. Thinking about it, they could either have been from the 1851 or the 1862 exhibition, as my Great grandmother was 14 in 1864, so it could have been either. The story goes that coming through the Port Phillip heads into Melbourne, the big doll was put through the porthole by a naughty brother, hence we only have one small doll in her early Victorian costume. For me, she represents a rare survivor: a children s toy which was appreciated enough to bring on the perilous immigration journey, and then carefully cared for, and handed down through the generations. For 153 years at least, she has been kept and cherished and occasionally displayed as a special treat. My mother cared enough for her, to give her especially to my daughter; we cherish her now. Page 4

John Sime John Sime s Show and Tell object is from Indonesia.

The cloth was a ceremonial wrapping for a copy of the Koran which was brought onto the site of a new pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Jakarta by an Imam who was conducting an opening and

There had been a previous ceremony, at the time of commencement of the building work, which centred on the burial of the severed head of a water buffalo under the corner stone, in accord with the

5 John Sime John Sime s Show and Tell object is from Indonesia. It is an elaborately decorated red cloth, 60cm x 60cm, featuring an embroidered design with gold wire and inserts of shield shaped pieces of mirror, green and blue glass. The cloth was a ceremonial wrapping for a copy of the Koran which was brought onto the site of a new pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Jakarta by an Imam who was conducting an opening and blessing ceremony of the facility in accord with the devout Islamic faith of the Indonesian joint venture partner. There had been a previous ceremony, at the time of commencement of the building work, which centred on the burial of the severed head of a water buffalo under the corner stone, in accord with the Sumatran culture of the Indonesian joint venture partner. This was supposed to confer strength and steadfastness on the new company, its building and its staff. At the request of the Indonesian joint venture partner, a woman known respectfully by the Jakarta business community as the Iron Butterfly, the Imam made a gift of the cloth to John Sime as the representative of the foreign joint venture partner. John has had the cloth framed as a picture, with a glass front to protect this exquisite but fragile wrapping, and displays it on a wall in his home as a souvenir of an exciting and challenging time in his career in the international pharmaceutical industry. Page 5

R OT AR Y C L U B OF BE AU M AR IS B U L L ET IN SER VIN G T H E COM M U N IT Y SINC E 1985 Roy Seager This is

First was founded in 1043 by Leofric, Earl of Mercia and his wife Godiva Rebuild Cathedral alongside.

Retrieved items from rubble including key to Cathedral. Key of the door. Presented to me on my 21st birthday 1958.

Chapel of Unity any Christians You re more likely to ride naked through the City than I am to reduce taxes Second:

Michael Gothic style - built between 1374 and 1450 One of largest parish churches in England. Painting 1851.

War 1939 not my fault. Battle of Britain blitzkrieg London, Birmingham, Sheffield, Plymouth, Glasgow.

But car centre, munitions 14th November 1940 Operation Moonlight Sonata 500 tons HE; 30,000 Incendiary bombs; 50

6 R OT AR Y C L U B OF BE AU M AR IS B U L L ET IN SER VIN G T H E COM M U N IT Y SINC E 1985 Roy Seager This is about Coventry Cathedral. There have been three. First was founded in 1043 by Leofric, Earl of Mercia and his wife Godiva Rebuild Cathedral alongside. Make old ruins safe. Stonemasons, carpenters etc. Owen Stead. Retrieved items from rubble including key to Cathedral. Key of the door. Presented to me on my 21st birthday Ribbon itself is antique being some 60 years old. Medieval key. Roof timbers cross. Chapel of Unity any Christians You re more likely to ride naked through the City than I am to reduce taxes Second: -Parish Church Cathedral of St. Michael Gothic style - built between 1374 and 1450 One of largest parish churches in England. Painting Suffered under Dissolution of Monasteries King Henry VIII in 1539 violence Re-instated as cathedral War 1939 not my fault. Battle of Britain blitzkrieg London, Birmingham, Sheffield, Plymouth, Glasgow. Coventry just population. But car centre, munitions 14th November 1940 Operation Moonlight Sonata 500 tons HE; 30,000 Incendiary bombs; 50 landmines Luftwaffe go back to occupied France/Belgium to reload. Birmingham (30 km.) fire services could not get through bomb craters. Water mains blasted, rubble everywhere. Coventry laid waste. Dairy boiling molten butter. 60,000 buildings hit/ damaged inc. 111 factories and Cathedral comprehensively burnt. Official death toll 568 but many more lost or burned beyond recognition. 420 in a mass grave. Two days later Hamburg 233 died. Brits get angry but resilient when riled. Page 6

Roy Downes Roy s show piece was a painting of police, their buildings and

Roy s associated anecdote involved his time as a uniformed sergeant, a naked

capture, incarceration in a black maria and an attempted escape much to the

If you were not there you missed a treat.

7 Roy Downes Roy s show piece was a painting of police, their buildings and transportation through their history. Roy s associated anecdote involved his time as a uniformed sergeant, a naked woman running wild in a street after jumping through a glass window, a chase and capture, incarceration in a black maria and an attempted escape much to the astonishment of the onlookers. All told in Roy s inimitable hilarious style. If you were not there you missed a treat. Vivienne Zoppolato Vivienne bought along a collection of one of her husband Mark s collections. Soon she had members creating a train line in the VGC dining room; a first I am sure. Page 7

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commissioned the building of Beaumaris Castle as part of a chain of fortifications around the North Wales coast (others include Conwy, Caernarfon and Harlech).

11 Letter to Sister Club in North Wales The RC of Bangor Gwynedd is located in a larger town just across the water from Beaumaris. Beaumaris was originally a Viking settlement known as Porth y Wygyr ("Port of the Vikings"),but the town itself began its development in 1295 when Edward I of England, having conquered Wales, commissioned the building of Beaumaris Castle as part of a chain of fortifications around the North Wales coast (others include Conwy, Caernarfon and Harlech). The castle was built on a marsh and that is where it found its name; the French builders called it beaux marais which translates as "beautiful marshes". Liz Millman, a Club member, has family in Melbourne and has been working on building connections with Beaumaris the Younger. Page 11

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RCOB Club Structure 2017-2018 RCOB Board. President. President Elect. Hon Secretary. Hon Treasurer. Projects Director. Immediate PP. Independent Director. International.

Jim O Brien Robert McArthur Antony Nixon District Service. Youth Services. Membership. Assistant Governor. STORM BELOW A summer storm settles in over Beijing, China.

15 RCOB Club Structure RCOB Board. President. President Elect. Hon Secretary. Hon Treasurer. Projects Director. Immediate PP. Independent Director. International. John Sime (Chair) Fred Hofmann Ken Mirams Robert McArthur Youth. Chris Martin (Chair) Jan Cooper Tony McKenna Vivienne Zoppolato Event Management. Jim O Brien Robert McArthur Antony Nixon District Service. Youth Services. Membership. Assistant Governor. STORM BELOW A summer storm settles in over Beijing, China. Your Shot photographer Qing Hu captured this dramatic scene by using a long exposure of three seconds. Chris D Arcy Heather Chisholm James Glenwright Richard Jones Roy Seager Malcolm Sawle Vivienne Zoppolato John Manks Ross Philips Clem Quick Lois Lindsay David Rushworth Bridget Hage Martin Fothergill Geoff Stringer Tony McKenna Trish Smyth Ken Mirams Club Service & Administration. Attendance & Dining. Heather Chisholm Foundation. John Manks Program. Lynda Doutch Membership. Adrian Culshaw Fellowship. Megan Glenwright Auditor. Tony Phillips Club Protection Officer. Ken Mirams Communications. David Lea Social Media. Kerry, Lynda & Trish Archivist. John Beaty Almoners. Lois Lindsay, Charmaine Jansz Marketing & PR Peter Flude Club Photographer. Max Darby Community. Chris Werner (Chair) Mary Cunnington Max Darby Martin Fothergill Kerry Geard Tony Phillips Roy Downes Mary Sealey John Beaty Richard Shermon Market Management. Vivienne Zoppolato (co-ordinator) Heather Chisolm Ken Mirams Greg Every Peter Flude Indigenous. David Hone (Chair) Heather D Arcy (Trachoma) Page 15

In Gear. Next Meetings. Serving the Community since 1985

In Gear. Next Meetings. Serving the Community since 1985 Serving the Community since 1985 In Gear 2017 2018 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 13 25 September 2017 Presidents Report I made a typo in last week s piece,