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 8 21 August 2017 Presidents Report On Thursday we had our Youth Services evening co-ordinated by Chris Martin, where we had the opportunity to hear firsthand from eight of the participants in the youth programs we have supported over the last 18 months. They did a fantastic job and helped make a very successful evening. We also enjoyed the first visit of DGE Russell Gurney to our club. Russell will be District Governor in Heather s presidential year. Our 2017 / 18 District Governor, Malcolm Chiverton and his wife Karen, will be visiting the club on Thursday 30th November, please put the date in your diary. I will be going to Sandringham Rotary s meeting on Tuesday evening where John Sime will be speaking about Malaria. I think this will be the fourth time that John has delivered this talk, helping to raise the issue of Malaria particularly in the Asia Pacific region. While Rotary is rightly focused on the eradication of Polio; each year there are something over 200 million cases of Malaria worldwide and about 430,000 deaths, the majority of them children. Equally concerning are all the other diseases where the mosquito is a vector; Zika, Dengue, West Nile Virus, Chikungunya and Yellow Fever. It is estimated that mosquito borne illnesses kill about 750,000 people a year. I am hoping that some of our International team s efforts in 2017 18 will focus on this area and what we as club or perhaps a cluster can do to make even a small difference. The Cancer Council Daffodil Day (25th & 26th August) and Concourse Classic Car Show (10th September) are coming up soon at the Beaumaris Concourse. Mary Cunnington is managing our involvement in Daffodil Day and Tony Phillips has again offered to organise our participation in the car show. Mary has now filled all the places for Daffodil Day but look out for the car show signup sheet. We will need a maximum turnout on the weekend of 9th/10th September as we have the Farmers Market and Car Show on consecutive days. We have two fellowship events coming up that require action if you want to participate. The Music Quiz is on 21st September at VGC with payment in advance please. The cost is $35 per Next Meetings THURSDAY AUGUST 24 SPEAKER: BILL STUBBS TOPIC: CIVIL CELEBRANT CHAIR: MEGAN GLENWRIGHT AV: DAVID LEA CASH DESK: JAMES GLENWRIGHT & DAVID LANGWORTHY HOST: TRISH SMYTH THURSDAY AUGUST 31 SPEAKER: HEATHER/SAM TOPIC: SKIN CANCER CENTRE CHAIR: ADRIAN CULSHAW AV: KEN MIRAMS CASH DESK: DAVID HONE & CHARMAINE JANZ HOST: JOHN SIME THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 7 SPEAKER: MICHELLE KERRIN/NICHOLA LEFROY TOPIC: MELBOURNE INDIGENOUS TRANISITION SCHOOL UPDATE CHAIR: DAVID HONE AV: GREG EVERY CASH DESK: HEATHER CHISOLM &TRISH SMYTH Unless stated otherwise venue is Victoria Golf Club 6.30 for 7.00 Contents 1 Presidents Report 2 Notices 3/5 This Week s Speakers 6 Music Trivia Night 7 Art of Kakadu 8 Beaumaris Concourse Car & Bike Showw 9 Club Structure / Photo of Week
R O T A R Y C L U B O F B E A U M A R I S B U L L E T I N S E R V I N G T H E C O M M U N I T Y S I N C E 1 9 8 5 head including dinner. Payment to Rotary Club of Beaumaris BSB 633000, account number 121443964 with your name and music as the reference. You will also have seen from her recent e mail that Megan has organised a night away at Oscars on the Yarra on Friday 24th November. All the details are in the email; if you want to go you need to book this week direct with the hotel. Our meeting on Thursday will be at Victoria Golf Club. Our speaker is Bill Stubbs who will telling us about the life and times of a Civil Celebrant. Bill is a friend of mine and a committee member at Sandringham Yacht Club. I am sure you will enjoy his company. Have good week, I look forward to seeing you on Thursday. Yours in Rotary Chris 237 Bay Road, Cheltenham VIC 3192 03 8535 7980 MITS Gala Dinner Thursday 19 October Please save the date! On our annual fundraising event the MITS Gala Dinner will be held at Carousel on Albert Park Lake. Join our students for a delicious banquet feast by food&desire and entertainment by Yirrmal Marika a new generation artist from Yirrkala in North East Arnhem Land. Yirrmal is the grandson of Dr Yunupingu, former lead singer of Yothu Yindi. He is an inspiring songwriter and guitarist who performs with feeling and depth well beyond his years. He also undertook schooling away from home, so has walked the path our students are travelling. He wowed the crowds at the Port Fairy Festival this year and we know he ll do the same at the Gala Dinner. Please join us if you can. Page 2
Youth Services Presentations EuroScience Open Forum, Manchester 2016 Little Jetnm Robotics Tour to Denmark Wes Favell (photo top left Page 5) Wes attended this Forum along with two other Australian student representatives after he had attended the National Youth Science Forum. He is now studying Engineering at Monash Highlights Tamalyn Davies Ella Barlow Izzy Bennett Lalli Kirby Sandringham College The team representatives told of their journey from the State competition at Swinburne to the Australian Final at Maquarie University and then on to the Global Robotics contest in Aarhus, Denmark in May 2017. As well as developing the hardware and software for the robot they had to develop a project based upon an animal (they chose the possum) and prepare a presentation and poster. Ø Professor Brian Cox Ø Sir Andre Geim, discoverer of graphene, a new Nano material Ø Hacking your body clock, doping in elite sports Ø 2 days in London The Forum opened up Wes to the global nature of science and the level of international cooperation and gave him a new perspective on how his career might unfold. Page 3
As well as the actual event thay had to raise the funds to participate. The event hosted 119 teams from 50 countries with a total of around 1200 participants. The team clearly found the whole event a wonderful experience and are already preparing an entry for next years competition. Participants in the Pavilion Restoration and Mural Project Students from Sandringham College VCAL program, Grecia and Brendan ( photo top right Page 5) came along at the last minute and spoke about this project as the scheduled speaker Krystal had to go off and be signed up to the Carlton WAFL team. Despite being last minute standins they did an excellent job in describing how the benefits of this project. Particularly how it bought together students who barely knew each other into a well functioning team and how the result has not been vandalised since the restoration (photo bottom Page 5). RYLA candidate 2017 Paaromita Chakravarty Paaro spoke with great passion about her RYLA experience. She entered the week with no understanding of what was to come but left feeling that it had clarified the future focus of her life. She believes it is a wonderful experience for anyone at a transitional stage of their life; at what ever age. Page 4
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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. John Sime (Chair) Fred Hofmann Ken Mirams 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. Chris D Arcy Heather Chisholm James Glenwright Richard Jones Roy Seager Malcolm Sawle Vivienne Zoppolato John Manks Ross Philips 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. TBA Archivist. John Beaty Almoner. Lois Lindsay Almoner. Charmaine Jansz Club Photographer. Max Darby Community. Chris Werner (Chair) Mary Cunnington Max Darby Martin Fothergill Kerry Geard David Langworthy Tony Phillips Clem Quick Mary Sealey Richard Shermon Roy Downes Market Management. Vivienne Zoppolato (co-ordinator) Heather Chisolm Ken Mirams Greg Every Peter Flude Indigenous. David Hone (Chair) Heather D Arcy (Trachoma) DRAMATIC LITERATURE An abandoned theatre finds new life as a bustling bookstore. Photographer Thomas Martin McShane says, "This inspirational example of urban development done right, nestled deep in Buenos Aires' inner city, is now a popular place to relax, enjoy a coffee and flick through the pages of books old and new, and is, without question, one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world." PHOTOGRAPH BY THOMAS MARTIN MCSHANE, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC YOUR SHOT Page 9