January is Rotary Awareness Month

THE ROTARY CLUB OF RYDE DISTRICT 9680 CHARTERED The HUB 1946 Tuesday 25th January 2011 Volume 65 Issue No. 28 January is Rotary Awareness Month

The HUB 2 Rotary International Last week (continued) Officers 2010 2011 President Rotary International... Ray Klinginsmith Missouri USA District 9680 Governor... George Papallo Rotary Club of Ryde Directors President... Allen Horrell Administration Director... Ken Allen Foundation... Alex Sawyer Membership... Charles Kilby Projects... Rob Mitchell Public Relations... Stefan Sojka Secretary... Bob Kaye-Smith Treasurer... Steve Thorp Immediate Past President... Bob Carroll Committee Chairs Community Service... Burkhart Foertsch International Service... Geoff Brennan Vocational Service... Jan Cutler Youth Service... Paul Burnett Communications Bulletin Editor... David James Photographer... John Mazlin Serjeant-at-Arms... Patrick Longfield Programme... Martin Aston Attendance... Ross Rocca Social Secretary... Peter Cooper Public Officer... John Dodd Web Address... www.ryderotary.org.au Club Information Chartered: 22nd April 1946 Club: #18039 / District: #9680 in NSW, Australia Meeting Place: Level 2, Next Generation Club, next to Ryde Aquatic Centre, 504 Victoria Road, Ryde Meeting Time: Every Tuesday 6:00pm for 6:30pm Postal Address: Rotary Club of Ryde Inc. PO Box 90 Ryde, NSW 1680

The HUB 3 This Week Our RYLA Awardees Tonight Jan 25: RYLA Awardees Nathan Jenkins & Anna Gossweiler Last Meeting as recalled by Allen Horrell he Loyal toast was in the hands of Ron Thomson, and then the T Rostered Talk this week was by Ian Henderson. He wasn t going to talk about the Four Way Test like a Rotary Politician, but after pausing to praise our caterers for serving 40 meals in less than 10 minutes, while comparing their chicken to a spatchcock, and maligning their salmon quite unfairly, he moved on to a subject dear to his heart, the Australian beef industry, and the massive changes that have occurred in the last 15 years as the industry embraced the MSA Beef concept. Australia has moved from breeding, raising and fattening manufacturing grade beef on a single farm model for the American hamburger beef market, to producing a restaurant-quality product in a three tier industry. Today breeders sell weaners at around 250Kg to backgrounders who on-sell the cattle at around 450kg to feed lots where the animals are fattened to 700+Kg for the abattoir. While one member was heard to say Hendo talked a lot of bull, I for one found it fascinating, as I recall from trips here in the 1980s that you couldn t get a good steak anywhere. When I Ian Henderson moved here in 2006 I found beef was the best value for money meat on the market, and most is now of good quality. Hendo explained why, with an insider s grasp of the detail, and an enthusiasm that kept us all interested. He ran over time so much that I got to eat my entire dinner hot for once, but there was no way I was going to stop the talk it was too good to want it to stop. For the record, dinner was spatchcock, potato bake and (sigh) string beans again. I welcomed our guests outgoing Exchange Student Pius Choi and his father Joseph, Ambassadorial Scholar and sun-tanned blonde beach babe Raffaella Tiscar, and PP. Ann Smith of Lane Cove Rotary Club, then read out the apologies for absentees, this week including the Hub, for those who still get the hard copy. There is so much going on at the moment that we really need to read the Hub to keep up with it all. I circulated the attendance list for the RYEP Dinner on the 11th Feb and the Royal Rendezvous on 22nd. I called the Special General Meeting to order and invited PP and DGN John Dodd to explain the reasons for the changes to our Constitution & By-Laws, which in summary are because the RI Council on Legislation has made changes to the standard Constitution & By-Laws which we must adopt in order for our club to remain a member of RI, and some NSW law changes which we must take into account since we are changing these documents. (Continued on page 4)

The HUB 4 Last week (continued) One change is that the Club Territory, bounded by streets and rivers, has been replaced by a Locality which we have defined for Ryde as "The City of Ryde and surrounding areas, which could be argued to include most of eastern NSW. We must now declare the financial status of departing members and tell clubs they are transferring to if they owe us money. There are now five avenues of Service with RI finally adopting Youth, which they have chosen to call New Generations. You now have the option of receiving RDU or the Rotarian by email rather than post. The Secretary is now also the Public Officer, and the PEDS form has been replaced by a Working with Children Declaration. Our Administration Director Ken Allen is charged with keeping these forms for all members and partners and maintaining a register. The rule is now that Election of new members is by the Board, after considering objections by existing members. This is to make it clear that one member cannot blackball a prospective member. The Special Resolution That the Constitution and By-Laws comprising 20 pages annexed be adopted by this Club in lieu of its present Constitution and By-Laws was put by John Dodd, seconded by Allen Horrell, and passed unanimously. These documents now need to be forwarded to the Registrar of Incorporated Societies by Secretary Bob Kaye-Smith. The Special Meeting was then closed, and our normal meeting continued. Youth Exchange outbound Pius Choi then told us how he went in his HSC, his hopes for the year to come in Belgium and then I "presented" him with his blazer. Pius is from Ryde Secondary College which has taken our last few inbound exchange students. As a Korean with English as a second language, Pius is faced by further linguistic challenges going to Belgium where French and Walloon are spoken. He plays trombone in the Sydney Youth Orchestra and has been accepted for tertiary studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music when he returns from his Rotary Youth Exchange year. DGN John Dodd pointed out that this means he has exceptional musical talent, President Allen with Pius and Joseph Choi PP Anne Smith from Lane Cove Rotary then came forward to present a Paul Harris Fellow Sapphire Pin to PP Graham Rushforth, for being a special person, who inducted Anne as Lane Cove s first woman member, made her Secretary when he was President, then served as her Secretary when Anne became their first female President.

The HUB 5 Last week (continued) This award was from Anne Smith personally, rather than from the Lane Cove club. In his acceptance speech he revealed that Anne was the only person who knew how to make him shut up at a Rotary meeting. After congratulating Graham, I invited Anne to transfer to Ryde as we now find we could use her skills at our meetings! I had cunningly timed this presentation for immediately before the Serjeant-At-Arms session, for reasons that were immediately obvious to acting Serjeant David James. David Johnston won the spackle but failing to cut the pack correctly had to make do with the bottle of red. Fines and cross-fines followed, and then it was time for Rtn Surinder Joson's talk on his travels in India. His tales and slides of the Devali, the "festival of lights" in Amritsar, an important five-day festival in Hinduism, slowly morphed into an appeal to help a young lady, Pearl Jasra, orphaned at 13 who, now 24, runs a school for slum dogs, the poorest of the poor, from broken families in Amritsar. Surinder pointed out that $250 spent on this school makes the difference between hope and despair, whereas the same money would be a drop in the bucket for an Australian charity. These kids use pebbles and sticks to learn numeracy and literacy, because they have nothing else. Surinder made a case that Pearl Jasra is just as deserving of our help as the School of St Jude in Tanzania, or our own Borjegai School in Afghanistan. In thanking him I suggested he write a Project Proposal for PP Rob Mitchell s Project committee to consider. If it is (say) $250 per annum in support of Pearl s school, I would support that, and I suspect the Club would too. To plagiarise a song, I believe that Children are the future, and to improve their educational outcomes is capacity building for their community, too. I read a message from our District Governor, who has read this week s Northern District Times article on Ryde s new School, 11,700 km away. My sincere congratulations to President Allen Horrell and the Rotary Club of Ryde for this visionary and courageous project in Afghanistan. Well done also on the outstanding publicity you were able to achieve on the project. If this isn t building communities and bridging continents, I do not know what is! A truly superb story for which you all have a right to be very proud. Yours in Rotary Service George Papallo Please read this month's District e-news: it has coverage of our Royal Rendezvous, Les Whitcroft's trip to Africa, our Golf Day and our Afghanistan Project. At our next meeting it is the RYLArians return - Nathan Jenkins and our own Anna Gossweiler speak on this week at RYLA. This will be followed by our first board meeting for 2011. Even with all the business we got through on Tuesday, we still closed the meeting, after the anthem, at exactly 8pm! Allen Horrell Our PR Director (note the subdued shirt colours) with the front page NDT issue.

The HUB 6 Other events... D9680 Beaches Zone Get-together Date: Friday 4th February 2011 Time: 7 for 7.30pm Location: International College of Management, Darley Rd, Manly Cost: $45 for dinner + drinks at bar prices Guest speaker: The Hon Tony Abbott MHR RSVP/Contact: vhopley@bigpond.net.au Graffiti Cleanup morning Date: Saturday 5th February 2011 Details: Charles Kilby Welcome Home/Introduction Dinner for Youth Exchange Students Date: Friday 11th February 2011 Time: 6:15 for 7pm Location: Ryde-Eastwood Leagues Club Rotary Harbour Cruise to celebrate Rotary s 106th Birthday (23/2) Date: 22nd February 2011 Time: 6pm sharp, Location: Birkenhead Point Ferry Wharf (NB: Reservations closing fast!) Ryde Rotary Charity Golf Day Date: 25th February 2011 Time: Registration and breakfast, 7am for 8am start Location: Oatlands Golf Club GSE (USA) Team arrives Date: Saturday 26th February 2011 District 9680 Rotary Charity Golf Day Date: 4th March 2011 Time: 8.30am s shotgun start Location: Northbridge Golf Club, Sailors Bay Road Contact: Peter McNair, R/C Northbridge, 0415 242 628 Subs are NOW DUE reasurer Steve Thorp would be pleased to T receive your ½ yearly subscription only $125.00 for the half year (yes, no increase...) Payment may be made by cheque made out to Rotary Club of Ryde and given to Steve or by direct deposit BSB: 112 879 Account Number: 000589388 Please identify the deposit with your name and provide the Treasurer with a copy of the receipt.

The HUB 7 Attendance last meeting Attendance Last Meeting: 93.02% Makeups: Burkhart Foertsch, Hameed Fazal, John Mazlin Apologies: Alex Sawyer, Ashley Peake, Bob Carroll, Charles Kilby Eric Bond, Geoffrey Brennan, Patrick Longfield, Burkhart Foertsch, Hameed Fazal, James Candrick, Terry Kerim Guests: Raffaella Tiscar, Pius Choi, Joseph Choi Guests of members: Ann Smith (Lane Cove) Rotarian Guests: Sharon Rushforth Guest Speaker: Surinder Joson My Travels in India Jan 25: Feb 1: Looking Ahead... RYLA Awardees Nathan Jenkins & Anna Gossweiler Vocational Dinner Brush Farm Correctional Services Academy Ambassadorial Scholar Toby Collins (Solicitor) (Partners) Ambassadorial Scholar Paul Benitez (Medical Doctor) 4-Way Test School s Speaking Competition (Final) Feb 8: Feb 15: Feb 22: Harbour Cruise (details page 11) March 1: My Year in Brazil James Dodd Any suggestions? Contact Martin Aston: maaston@optusnet.com.au 02 9808 2574 Birthdays and Anniversaries January 26: Rob & Judy Mitchell 41st Wedding Anniversary January 28: Noel & Faye Dunn 55th Wedding Anniversary January 28: Graham & Carolyn Metcalfe 44th Wedding Anniversary January 29: Sally James Birthday January 31: Siddharth Maheshwari 30th Birthday Rostered Talk he rostered Rotarian can choose to give either a Vocational 4 minute talk on their T career or the Four Way Test, or give a 2 minute Elevator Talk, designed to describe Rotary in general, or Ryde Rotary in particular, to a stranger in a lift. Upcoming speakers: John Higgins 25/1/2011 Maureen Mulheron 1/2/2011 David James 8/2/2011 David Johnston 8/02/2011

The HUB 8 Ryde Rotary Charity Golf Day 2011 ere s an opportunity to spend half a day on the golf H course for a good cause. The Ryde Rotary Charity Golf Day will be held on Friday 25th February 2011 at Oatlands Golf Club. Shotgun start at 8am with registration from 7. Breakfast supplied for the early birds. Golf Day co-ordinator Mick Nelson invites you to Play on the day (as an individual or in a group) Find a sponsor Source prizes for raffles, etc. Help with preparations and activity on the day. Call Mick Nelson on 0428 645 128 Friday Night Roster for Anna Jan 28 Graham and Carolyn Metcalfe Feb 4 Patrick and Yvonne Longfield 11 Charles and Victoria Kilby 18 Bob Kaye-Smith and Janis 25 David and Sally James March 4 John and Elinor Higgins 11 Ian and Ruth Henderson 25 Burkhart and Patricia Foertsch From 23 January 2011, Anna (0459 494 143) will be hosted by : Mike and Carol Morgan, 24 Lewis St, Epping 9876 1575; 0409 761 575 Feel free to swap as long as all advised Meals on Wheels 2011 Sunday 30th January 2011, Sunday 29th May 2011 Sunday 31st July 2011, Sunday 30th October 2011 PLEASE keep these dates free Absentee Advice RING VAL I f no apology is received the Rotarian is obliged to pay for their meal. Please phone Rtn Val Payne (Phone 9874 5787) no later than 10:00am Monday, the day prior to meeting. Personal Data yde Rotary holds a certain amount of personal data about each R member though nothing that you haven't supplied yourself. This data is held in our central database (RI-CAS, aka Clubmate) and is administered by PP Graham Metcalfe. This information can only be as accurate as is supplied to Graham. Graham produces various reports, including the weekly attendance and periodically a list of all noteworthy occasions - such as your anniversar(ies) and birthdays. This data is used by The Hub Editor in the "Birthdays and Anniversaries" section and, in turn, by the President when he stands at the lectern. If this data is incorrect at the source it can often leave egg on the Pres' face.

The HUB 9 Vocational Visit 1st February VOCATIONAL VISIT BRUSH FARM CORRECTIVE SERVICES ACADEMY A Partners Night 6.00 pm - Tuesday 1 February Cost will be $30 pp ($10 pp will be donated to the Rotary Flood Appeal) Our Vocational Visit will be on Tuesday 1 February at the above facility. Prior to our dining in the bistro (no alcohol - only soft drinks served on the night), we will tour the adjacent Brush Farm House (circa 1820), a survival from the Macquarie period and built by Gregory Blaxland (founder of the wine industry in Australia). The inspection will commence at 6.00 pm and we should all meet under the Brush Farm House rear verandah for the tour. The best access by car to Brush Farm House is as follows: Enter off Lawson Street Turn left at the top of the driveway and curve around to the large parking area beyond Brush Farm House. Assemble under the rear verandah Also on the night we will have a presentation from Toby Collins, Solicitor and Ambassadorial Scholar. An attendance sheet was circulated at Tuesday s meeting. If it missed you, be sure to chase it up this week. Jan Cutler Vocational Chair

The HUB 10 Youth Exchange Dinner 2011 Note from the HUB Editor F or 15th and 22nd February editions the editorial and production responsibilities of The HUB will be in the capable hands of Kalma McLellan. For these editions would you please send reports, news of events and photos to Kalma at the following address: kalmamclellan@optusnet.com.au If you are sending attachments, please keep these to under 5MB or use the file transfer website www.mailbigfile.com Next week s edition (1/2/2011) will be produced & distributed on Monday night. David James

The HUB 11 Rotary Birthday Celebration T his year the RI Birthday is on Wednesday the 23rd February, and as a special treat to celebrate this anniversary the Ryde Rotary Club have chartered a boat for a Harbour cruise on Tuesday 22 nd February 2011 in lieu of their normal meeting. As an added bonus the Tuesday evening will also see two big Cunard liners in our fabulous Harbour. Queen Mary 2 s visit to Sydney on February 22, 2011 will form part of a memorable Royal Rendezvous on Sydney Harbour with Queen Elizabeth, which is sure to draw thousands of spectators to the foreshore. Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary 2 will parade up the middle of Sydney Harbour on both sides of Fort Denison. Our wonderful evening will commence from Birkenhead Point Ferry Wharf at 6pm when we board our transport for the evening. Dinner will be served and our Rotary meeting will be followed by a special Rotary Birthday Cake to mark the occasion. The evening will cost $55.00 per person with a cash bar operating. We have decided to open this opportunity up to all District 9680 Rotarians and their families who wish to attend, and since it is an official club meeting, it will count as a make-up for their own club meeting. To enjoy this opportunity for fun and fellowship cruising with Ryde Rotary Club members on Sydney Harbour, please book early. This event is almost booked out. Important note about Absentees f you intend to be absent you need to advise VAL PAYNE first-hand. Telepathic I messages, dreams of being absent, thoughties, good intentions and by-the-way messages in an e-mail to someone else are not considered first-hand. If you do not advise Val prior to 10am Monday on the week of the meeting the Treasurer will expect you to pay the missed meal fee, without exception or complaint.

The HUB 12 The Rotary Club of Ryde The Rotary Vision Rotary is a worldwide organisation of more than 1.2 million business, professional, and community leaders. Members of Rotary clubs, known as Rotarians, provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. There are 33,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas. Clubs are non-political, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds. As signified by the motto Service above Self, Rotary s main objective is service in the community, in the workplace, and throughout the world. Rotary Grace O Lord and giver of all good We thank you for our daily food May Rotary friends and Rotary ways Help us to serve you all our days. The Four-Way Test of the things we think, say & do: 1. Is it the Truth? 2. Is it fair to all concerned? 3. Will it build goodwill and better friendships? 4. Will it be beneficial to all concerned? Advance Australia Fair Australians all let us rejoice, for we are young and free; We ve golden soil and wealth for toil; Our home is girt by sea; Our land abounds in nature s gifts, of beauty rich and rare; In history s page, let every stage, Advance Australia Fair. In joyful strains then let us sing, Advance Australia Fair!