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Service Projects

The Zonta Club of Melbourne has supported many major projects over its long history.  A couple of examples are :

• 1980-1983  Buy Kitchen and gardening equipment and copying machine for the Task Force Drug Counselling and Rehabilitation Program.

• 1991-1993  Buy a car for the Bethlehem Hospital Day Care Centre.

• 1986-1988  Emergency fund to be used for immediate assistance to victims of crime.

Charter Members

Twenty two women formed the club in 1966.  Their professions included :

• Court Reporter

• Gynaecologist

• Dental Surgeon

• Director, Department of Librarianship, RMIT

• Director, School of Education, University of Melbourne

• Matron, Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind

• Principal Speech Therapist, Department of Education, Victoria

Prime Support for the 
 Establishment of New Clubs

• 1973  Melbourne Yarra

• 1978  Ballarat

• 1979  Geelong

• 1980 Frankston Bendigo

• 1981  Melbourne's West (Footscray)

• 1984  LaTrobe Valley, Mornington Peninsula

• 1985  Shepparton (with Frankston)

• 1988 Wangaratta, Sale (with LaTrobe), Albury-Wodonga

• 1994  Berwick

Alumni / Vale

Additional Information also exists in Melbourne University Library about :

• The formation of the club

• Office Bearers

• Meeting Minutes, Venues (partial)

• International Committee Membershiup

• Club Committees

• Membership

• Alumni