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ROTARY CLUB of OCH Inc.

District 9810 Victoria, Australia

Weekly Bulletin 2019-2020

Meets every Wednesday from 7:00pm at The Clayton Hotel 319 Clayton Road, Clayton (Melways 79C2)

(No meeting on public holidays)

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In This Issue

• Important Information - (pg1)

• Upcoming Club Program - (pg2)

• Last Meeting & Notes

– (pg3)

• Foundation Facts –

(pg4)

• Upcoming Dates – (pg4)

• Club Positions for 2019/20 – (pg4)

• District 9810 News –

(pg5)

• PRIP Sir Clem Renouf – (pg6)

• Congratulations Helen Gobbi OAM – (pg7)

• Rotaract Club of Monash – (pg7)

• Where other clubs meet – (pg8)

• Reminders – (pg8)

• Joke of the Week –

(pg9)

• Rotary International News – (pg9)

Important Information SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING - WEDNESDAY 17TH June Further to the report, discussion and decision taken at the Annual General Meeting, we are required to update our Constitution having regard to the decisions of the 2019, Rotary International’s Council on Legislation. The Board has endorsed the new Constitution & Bylaws which were presented to the Annual General Meeting. It is now necessary to hold a Special General Meeting (SGM) which will be held on Wednesday 17th June commencing 8 PM via Zoom for all members to approve the New Constitution & Bylaws. The agenda for the meeting is; To adopt the New Constitution & Bylaws as recommended by the Board. The SGM will be held in conjunction with other activities scheduled for that evening. The following listed documents related to the SGM have been sent to members on the Wednesday 27th May 2020.

• The Rotary OCH Victoria 2020 Template Standard Rotary Club Constitution

• Rotary OCH Bylaws

• Rules

• Bylaws dated May 2019 MEMBER SUBSCRIPTIONS 2020/21 Dear Members, This week Treasurer Warren will be forwarding to all members their subscription account for the coming Rotary year. The amount is unchanged at $260 per annum and is due by 31July 2020 please. Special arrangements can be made for any members who requests a delay in payment. Our membership fee is based on Rotary International membership as at 30 June 2020, and most of it goes in rotary capitation fees to Rotary International, District and Rotary Downunder for the Rotary Bulletin. I trust that all members are looking forward to continued membership and participation in our activities under the leadership of incoming President Bronwen.

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Rotary Four Way Test

"Of the things we think, say or 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?"

However, if for any reason you do not intending to continue your membership, it is important to advise either the Secretary and or the Treasurer, well before 30 June, so that our advice to RI is accurate and the Club does not attract unnecessary cost. Further the Rotary Down Under magazine will be emailed to members this coming year. This is a “cost cutting” measure of RDU. Please advise the Secretary or Treasurer if you want RDU magazine to be mailed -this can be arranged. Best wishes David Whiting Secretary WORKING WITH CHILDREN CHECKS For the new Rotary Year would all members please advise John Jarvis of the current serial number and expiry date of their “Working With Children” check on johnandraelene@gmail.com Thank You. UPCOMING CLUB PROGRAM Moving forward our weekly meetings will resume via ZOOM on Wednesday Evenings commencing 8 PM. A ZOOM meeting invitation will be sent each week to all members by Michael Ellinger. The current program is as follows.

Upcoming Club Program

Date Speaker Chairperson

17th June Special General Meeting to approve New Constitution & Bylaws. Speakers: Lesley Zuccaro & Greg Telley. Subject: Behind the Badge

David Park

24th June Board Meeting David Park / Bronwen Lamond

1st July Rotary OCH Virtual Changeover David Park / Bronwen Lamond

8th July General Meeting Bronwen Lamond

15th July General Meeting Bronwen Lamond

22nd July Board Meeting Bronwen Lamond

29th July 5th Wednesday of the month – Possible Fellowship Meeting

Bronwen Lamond

5th August General Meeting Bronwen Lamond

12th August General Meeting Bronwen Lamond

19th August General Meeting Bronwen Lamond

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The Object of

Rotary 1. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service; 2. High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society; 3. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life; 4. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

Last Meeting & Notes Last Meeting (10th June): Apologies = Peter Webb, John Goldspink, Jim Cochrane & Jean Cochrane. Make Ups = None. Leave of Absence = Wayne Milner and Felicity Smith. Visitors = None. This week our guest speakers were DGE Alma Reynolds and Greg King through a video presentation. The video included Almas year ahead and the introduction of the incoming District Board, the introduction of the 2020/2021 Rotary Theme “Rotary Opens Opportunities” by RI President Elect Holger Knaack and Greg King announcing the DG’s partners project which will be supporting the eradication of Polio. A copy of the video presentation made by Alma can be found here We also heard two excellent “Behind the Badge” talks from both Bronwen Lamond and Doug Bowden. Bronwen went first and explained how she joined the by someone asking her in the old Clayton Rotary club and how she is also part of the “Uncle Bobs Club” where she was also a Vice-President for a number of years. Bronwen has also been an Assistant Governor in Rotary for the last three years. Has now also become a member of the Rotary Youth Exchange and the RLI leadership team. Bronwen’s career has been in education. Bronwen would like to organise a volunteer tutoring service for students with ex-school principals. Bronwen then told us about her interest where she was yachty for a number of years and loves the Sydney to Hobart yacht races. Her scariest experience was going overboard during one of her sailing experiences. Next was Doug Bowden who informed us that he joined Rotary in October 1997 and has been a member for 23 years. Doug’s presentation gave us a great history of his life from when he was born in Ardrossan on the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia to the present. While playing football at a young age Doug learned his first two valuable lessons in life. First was when you see a keg being rolled on to the team bus do not try and keep up with the senior members of the team and the second lesson was that there is no such thing as friendly in football. Doug was also in the army as an adult tradesman and studied communications and electronics. All up Doug spent 21 years in the army, which included seven different postings and 10 different addresses. Doug finally left the Army in 1990 as a Warrant Officer Class One. Doug also said that he had a starring role in an 1970’s Army Recruiting Video called the “The Green Machine” (follow the link to see if you can find him). Doug then spoke about his working career after the army from starting work at Rockwell Collins as a Quality Engineer to his current workplace which is Sepura in Notting Hill where is has been for 12 years. In the 23 years since being in Rotary, Doug has been Board member and also had roles as Program, Secretary, Fundraising, On to Conference and President of Huntingdale Rotary four times. During his Fundraising period, Doug supported the club with helping and organising of the carparking at the Masters, Presidents Cup and World Cup of Golf.

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Club Vision OCH Rotary is an energetic, fun-loving, forward-thinking Rotary Club that wishes to continue to grow strategically and provide all its members with opportunities to serve while undertaking worthwhile and sustainable projects locally, nationally and globally.

Foundation Facts

THE ROTARY FOUNDATION WEEKLY MESSAGES (By Rotarians for Rotarians) WHAT CAN YOUR $1,000 DONATION TO THE ROTARY FOUNDATION DO? Your $1,000.00 donation to The Rotary Foundation can help provide all materials necessary for the construction of a deep bore well in India which supplies clean drinking water to more than 300 people, materials to treat and prevent parasites and anaemia in need children in Uruguayan, R.S., Brazil, or purchase a tree nursery in Jamaica that will annually produce 5,000 tree seedlings and increase family income for 700 farmers, or provide artificial limbs to 25 disabled persons in Calcutta, India, or buy kitchen equipment for an orphanage in Peru, or provide a cow and animal husbandry training to a widow in Uganda where civil war shattered the economy and children die because of a lack of protein and calcium in their diets, or buy polio vaccine for 2,000 babies in Nigeria, or fund enough textbooks to educate 2,000 children in a school in Papua New Guinea, or provide 20 $50.00 micro-loans enabling women in Nicaragua to start a craft business to support their families.

Upcoming Dates Saturday 20th June 2020 – District 9810 Changeover on Zoom. It is a 7:00 pm start and the venue is your home (To book Click Here) Monday 1st July 2020 – Club Virtual Changeover (Full details to be advised) Thursday 16th July 2020 – Foodbank pickup/delivery for Dixon House Thursday 20th August 2020 – Foodbank pickup/delivery for Dixon House Thursday 12th September 2020 – Spring Charity Garden Auction (TBC) Thursday 17th September 2020 – Foodbank pickup/delivery for Dixon House Monday 28th September 2020 – Charity Golf Day at Huntingdale Golf Club (TBC) Thursday 15th October 2020 – Foodbank pickup/delivery for Dixon House Thursday 19th November 2020 – Foodbank pickup/delivery for Dixon House Thursday 3rd December 2020 – Foodbank pickup/delivery for Dixon House

Club Positions for 2019/20 President David Park Board Secretary David Whiting Board Treasurer Warren Fricke Board President Elect Bronwen Lamond Board Community Felicity Smith Board International Ian Phelan Board Youth John Bethune Board Vocational Peter Webb Foundation John Barnes Board Club Protection Officer John Jarvis Membership Steven Hill PR / Marketing Wayne Milner Programme Bronwen Lamond On to Conference Peter Child Board Also, on the Board are Jon Breisch, Anne Mooney and Cess Hodges.

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Quick Links

District 9810 News

District Changeover on Zoom

Registrations are now open for the District 9810 - Zoom Changeover

DG Shia and DGE Alma invite you all to attend the District Zoom Changeover on Saturday 20th June 2020 which will mark the start of the new Rotary year. Venue: Online Date: Saturday 20 June 2020 Time: 7:00 pm start Cost: Free They are both looking forward to seeing as many Rotarians, Rotaractors and friends of Rotary there on the night, for this very different but still very fun changeover celebration night. There will be two parts to the Changeover evening - both parts will be virtual events on Zoom. Firstly, the formal changeover of District Governor from Shia Smart to Alma Reynolds. This will start at 7:00 pm. Then, for a bit of fun, from 8:00 pm each member will join a second meeting of clubs in their cluster, to be chaired by an Assistant District Governor. Both (now) PDG Shia and (DG) Alma will join each meeting in turn to allow them to chat to members. It is important that everyone register as soon as possible for these events, so we know how many will be tuning in. There is no charge and you can participate from the comfort of your home.

To book your spot follow this link - https://www.trybooking.com/BIRZS

Did You Miss District Assembly? Well, it’s not too late. Find all the workshops on line in the pages of the District Website. https://www.9810rotary.org.au/50071/Page/ShowSitePage?ClassCode=SitePage&Slug=district-assembly-2020 This year’s District Training Assembly was replaced by a “virtual” Assembly, with workshops delivered online. Members were encouraged to undertake pre-work - undertaking courses on Rotary International’s Learning Centre. Recordings of most of the workshops can be viewed via the links below, however we do encourage you to view them in conjunction with the relevant RI Learning Centre modules (details on the page). Having completed the Assembly, we further encourage you to visit the Learning Centre periodically and build a personal learning plan, to address those areas of Rotary, you’d like to learn more about. Choose from the following workshops; Workshops by Role • Presidents Elect & Assistant Governors – Conflict Resolution • Presidents Nominee • Club Secretaries • Club Treasurers • International, Vocational & Community Chairs • Youth Chairs • Foundation Chairs • Membership Chairs • Public Image / Marketing / Communication • New Members

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Special Announcements

24th June – Monica Ellinger Birthday.

10th July – Ralph & Lesley Zuccaro Wedding

Anniversary.

Workshops by Topic • Project Management • Insurance & Risk Management • Be a Vibrant Club • New Clubs – Flexibility & Innovation • Productive Meetings (Toastmasters) • Dynamic Presentations (Toastmasters)

Registrations Open for Rotary International's Free Virtual Event

“Now More than Ever, Rotary Connects the World: The 2020 Rotary Virtual Convention"

https://www.riconvention.org/en/sign-2020-rotary-virtual-convention

When: 20-26 June 2020. On Sat 20 and Sun 21 June, there will be a general session of about 60 min each starting at, 8:00am Chicago time.

Mon 22 – Fri 26 June 2020. There will be 15 breakout sessions, each of them will be 1 hour in duration, with 3 on each day commencing at 8:00am, 12:00pm and 6:00pm Chicago time.

PRIP Sir Clem Renouf It is with much sadness that I report to you that PRIP Clem passed on Thursday 11th June. Sir Clem was a giant in Rotary history as the instigator of the 3-H program that led to the polio eradication effort. We know him as the person who started the goal of Polio Eradication. To the members of Rotary Club of Nambour he was a fellow Rotarian of larger than life. He was their Club’s Charter Secretary. A founding member of the Club, Clem became District Governor in 1965-66, and went on to serve as President of Rotary International in 1978-79. Kind Regards Shia

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Congratulations Helen Gobbi OAM

We congratulate Helen Gobbi, the History Monash Inc historian and Vice-President, who was awarded a Medal (OAM) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List on 8 June 2020. Helen’s award is for “service to community history”. Her award is very well deserved, as Helen has contributed actively to History Monash Inc for over twenty years (including as President for nine terms). Helen continues to make a huge contribution of her time to exhibitions, research, writing, collecting and preserving archives, and many other facets of community history. Helen has a special relationship with our Rotary Club having written both the 50 & 60 year editions of the Rotary Club of Oakleigh History & the Rotary Club of Huntingdale History, and she is an Honorary member of our Club, and has previously been awarded a PHF by Oakleigh Rotary. Members are encouraged to check out the History Monash website and many of the items Helen has contributed to at http://www.historymonash.org.au/ Best wishes Helen

Rotaract Club of Monash

Club Meeting Details: The Club meets on the 1st and 3rd Monday of the Month at 7:30pm for a 7:45pm start (Optional social dinner at 6:30, please order your meal by 7pm to ensure you can be there for the start of the meeting) at Waverley RSL (Upstairs in the Sunset Room) 161 Coleman Parade, Glen Waverley.

Upcoming Rotaract Events:

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Until further notice all Rotaract Meetings will be online only. Direct Message us if you'd like to join!

Rotaract Roster:

Date Rotarian to Visit

6th July Anyone

20th July Anyone

If you cannot attend on the night you are rostered, please organise a replacement to take your place.

Where other Clubs Meet A Rotarian can attend the weekly meeting of any Rotary club around the world. This is a “make-up” and counts as attendance credit when you are not able to attend a meeting of your own club. Details for all District 9810 clubs can be obtained in the district directory or website www.9810rotary.org.au Details for clubs around the world are available in the RI Directory (held by the club secretary) and on the RI website (www.rotary.org)

Reminders Please ensure that the club is aware if you will be missing a meeting. Contact Barry Cronan at Cron20@bigpond.com or mob: 0421 417 428 the day before the meeting, if you are not going to be present. Contributions for inclusion into the Bulletin should be passed to editor@rotaryoch.org.au by Monday evening of each week. Please remember if you cannot perform your rostered job, it is your duty to find a replacement to take your place.

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Joke of the Week How to get to Heaven from Ireland. A true Story from an Irish Sunday School Teacher. I was testing children in my Dublin Sunday school class to see if they understood the concept of getting to heaven. 'I asked them, ' If I sold my house and my car, had a big garage sale and gave all my money to the church, would that get me into heaven?' 'NO!' the children answered. 'If I cleaned the church every day, mowed the garden, and kept everything tidy, would that get me into heaven?' Again, the answer was 'NO!' 'If I gave sweets to all the children, and loved my husband, would that get me into heaven?' Again, they all answered 'NO!' I was just bursting with pride for them. I continued, 'Then how can I get into heaven?' A little boy shouted out: 'YUV GOTTA BE DEAD. ‘!!’

Rotary International News

The Timor-Leste Food Lab By RDU Editorial

Founded by Australian Rotary Peace Fellow Mark Notaras and wife Alva Lim, the Timor-Leste Food Lab is shaping the future of food and agriculture in the Asia-Pacific by embracing the region’s profound food diversity and bio-cultural history. The Dili-based social enterprise has trained and mentored teams of young Timorese hospitality and tourism champions, who are innovating with their own heritage foods and unique coffees. “We are passionate about good, clean and fair food for all,” Mark said. “We currently mentor 16 Timorese youth. We ask them to think differently; to be guided by the equatorial seasons and the knowledge of their ancestors. To become plant-forward champions who celebrate the seasonality of flavours. To advocate for native and heritage ingredients.”

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Through its flagship restaurant Agora Food Studio, the Food Lab is having a significant impact on the Timorese economy and environment. Since 2016, more than 37,000 nourishing meals have been served, approximately $115,000 has been invested in the Timorese agricultural economy, 1159 litres of Timorese virgin coconut oil and 24,375kg of organic compost has been used, while 22,123 plastic bottles and 11,534 plastic straws have been avoided. Most recently, the restaurant’s chefs assisted the World Food Programme (WFP) to promote healthy, local foods for Timorese adolescents through its ‘Our Food is Our Identity’ campaign. “In achieving this social good we have drawn strength from our partnership with Rotary,” Mark said. “I was privileged to be selected as a Rotary Peacebuilding Fellow to study at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand in 2013. This professional training helped link my background in peacebuilding with my appreciation of delicious and nutritious food. “The skills and interests I developed inspired my wife and I to embark on the ambitious venture of unveiling the country’s gastronomic stories. Mediation skills and the art of working collaboratively in crosscultural contexts have since been the backbone of our young team’s success and collective growth.” With the Food Lab team now established hospitality professionals and the Agora Food Studio firmly on Dili’s culinary map, Rotary has further supported skills development. “Our young coffee-grower-cumbarista champion (fifth in the 2018 Timor-Leste competition), Cesaltina ‘Alu’ Tilman, was sponsored through the Rotary New Generations Vocational Training Selection in 2019,” Mark said. “Alu attended a professional placement at the Cairns Sheridan Hotel, Qld, where she learned skills in guest reception and housekeeping. She surprised her Cairn’s colleagues when they discovered her professional barista skills – after which they asked her to teach them how to make a super coffee!” With her English (or should we say ‘Australian’) significantly improved, Alu was promoted to General Manager of Agora Food Studio and is currently responsible for 15 staff. “We owe a debt of gratitude to the Rotary community, especially the Rotary Club of Dili, for supporting both of our placements,” Mark said. The Timor-Leste Food Lab is seeking further exchanges with Rotary partners in Australia as soon as the COVID-19 situation allows. For more information, email timorlestefoodlab@gmail.com.

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