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DG's WEEKLY message
Rotary Friends
I wish to start this
week's message with congratulations to the following members of the
Rotary family who have received the Order of Australia Medal - OAM. They
are PDG Ian Knight RC Werribee, Geoff Sussman RC Elsternwick and Molly
Frampton wife of Keith our District Protection Officer and Glenferrie
Rotarian Malcolm Taylor who also celebrated 50 years in Rotary this week.
Also in the Honours list today is PDG Ian Riseley OAM District 9810 who
will become a Director of Rotary International from 1st July.
This week ended with a trip to Echuca yesterday to attend the major event
for the RC Echuca Moama, the 43rd Echuca Steam Horse & Vintage Rally.
This is a wonderful event which attracts large crowds (in excess of
10,000) and is run over Saturday and Sunday of the Queens Birthday
weekend. It was great to see so many Rotarians from Rochester, Central
Melbourne Sunrise and Bendigo clubs assisting in the many roles that are
needed for this event to be so successful. Following tradition I joined
the judges for the Australian Performing Dogs Championships and could that
winning dog sing!
The week began with the District Executive for my final meeting as
Chairman and in the evening we attended the Welcome Home Dinner for the
GSE Team. What a great night it was and the members of the team gave us an
insight into the very full program that was provided by District 3660.They
obviously enjoyed this experience and I'm sure that all who attended
were reminded of the benefits of this wonderful Rotary program. Thank you
to President Noelle Pratt and the RC Brighton Beach who did a great job
hosting the evening.
On Thursday I attended the RC Footscray to hear our Liaison Officer in
East Timor Daryl Mills speak about his work and the recent events in East
Timor. It also gave me great pleasure to assist President Emanuel Tumino
pin a Sapphire PHF on Daryl and it was good to meet his wife Wadya who was
with him at the meeting. They are keen to return to Dili as soon as they
can to continue their work in assisting the people of East Timor. Remember
the request in last week's e-zine for goods now urgently needed in East
Timor.
In the evening I visited the RC Bendigo South who publicly launched the
Margaret Roberts Motor Neurone Disease Research Grant at the Monash
University School of Rural Health. This was a special evening attended by
many distinguished guests and members of the Bendigo Community.
On Friday evening Fran and I were pleased to join the District Foundation
Committee attending a dinner at the home of Rev Fr. Michael Elligate the
Chair of the District Scholarship Committee to meet the Ambassadorial
Scholars and their Counsellors and I believe it is a bonus for our
District to have these fine young students in our midst for the year of
their studies.
Enjoy your week in Rotary.
DG John Wigley
Don't forget - you can always check the back issues of Weekly
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District 9800's website: www.rotaryd9800.org |
DGs Changeover - Saturday 1 July 2006
The
Rotary Club of Southbank is organising the District Governor's
Changeover, to be held on 1 July 2006
Anyone who registers and pays before 9 June 2006, will be in the draw
for a mystery prize.
To assist you to register, and be in the early bird draw, I have
attached a copy of the
details, and registration
form.
Register
on-line: http://rotary.to/D9800/changeover2006-7/
A
great story from the RC of Prahran - Click
Here
A tractor for The School of St Jude in Tanzania
RC
of Brighton Beach inducts 6 new members in the past Rotary Year.
Congratulations. For a full list see below - Item 7.
Cancellation
of 28 June Meeting by RC Brighton North due
to Changeover arrangements.
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Rotary
Foundation Annual Giving & Centurion Sustaining
As we near the end of our
"Service Above Self" Rotary year, a big thank you to all those
49 clubs who have contributed to the Rotary Foundation.
An urgent message to those clubs who have promised and not contributed,
please send your contributions NOW, to enable the great educational and
humanitarian work of the Rotary Foundation to continue.
Send cheques to The Rotary Foundation
Rotary International South Pacific and Philippines Office
P.O. Box 1415, Parramatta NSW 2124
PDG Ian Knight.
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Speakers
Bank Update
Thank - you to the Rotarians who have 'deposited'
Speaker names into the D9800 Speaker Bank - Jill Weeks
Click Here for more speakers
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New
Members:
RC Brighton North
Russell Brewer - May 24
Barrett Houston
Brian Roche
Kate Strain
Roy Bird
Geoff Speed
RC Bendigo Sandhurst
Neville George Sharpe - Education Administration - Inducted 7/6/06
RC Wyndham
Therese Sgambaro and Sean Thomson
Changes to RI Exchange Rate
The May
Rotary exchange rate for the AUD is 1.34. Thankfully the AUD has
recovered as we swing into the donation season.
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