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Edition 37
Monday, 15th July 2021
Message from our President
“Serve to change Lives”
Rotary’s vision statement is
TOGETHER we see a world, where PEOPLE unite and take action to CREATE lasting
CHANGE across the globe in our communities and in ourselves.
At the change over dinner, I outlined our objectives for this year, they are important and we need a road map to guide our activities and planning. So again, here are the four strategic priorities and objectives for this Rotary year –
INCREASE OUR IMPACT
Improve our ability to achieve and measure impact
Focus our programs and projects
EXPAND OUR REACH
Grow and diversify our membership and participation – community groups, partnerships
Create new channels into Rotary
Increase our openness and appeal
Build awareness of our impact and brand.
ENHANCE PARTICIPANT ENGAGEMENT
Provide meaningful volunteer opportunities and service
Increase our member engagement – personal and professional engagement
Recognize and appreciate what we have achieved
Communicate, Communicate, Communicate
Social fellowship – make it FUN
INCREASE OUR ABILITY TO ADAPT
Build a culture of research, innovation and willingness to take risks
Preserve the Core – then stimulate progress
Streamline governance, structure and processes
Review governance to foster more diverse perspectives in decision-making.
So, as we progress this year, I ask each member of our club: “What are you passionate about” – let us all start the conversations.
Regards and all the best,
Helen Nodrum
Meeting this week
This week are still back at Cilantro - but numbers are restricted to 25 so it is absolutely vital that you have registered your intention to attend per the email from Greg O'Shea. Our speaker this week is Andrew Campbell - Director, Brain Health and Audiology.
Also, have a look at the article below on subscribing to our Events Calendar. Have all events update directly to your phone.
Ian Ballantine
Our Club meets weekly. It can either be a Zoom meeting, or an "in person" meeting.
This week, we will be trialing Zoom access to this week's "in person" meeting. Zoom details are as normal (refer here). We hope to be on line by 7am. Please check details of each week's meeting here or elsewhere in this Bulletin to confirm venue. You are very welcome to join us.
This article is primarily here to provide links and instructions to obtain images from District 9810 Changeover held at Southern Golf Club on Friday, 9th July, 2021. The small number of images in this story are primarily of members of the Rotary Club of Bentleigh Moorabbin Central.
An Album of images can be found within this website here These images are at 1500 pixels and can be displayed via a slide show. You also have the ability to download individual images. Please read the instructions on the page.
Additionally, all images at different resolutions, (1500 pixels and maximum) are available on Google drive here. It is possible to download individual or all images.
This is the first meeting if the Rotary year 2021-2022 with Helen as President. John was chair for the meeting. Member and past President Linda O'Brien was our guest speaker.
The International toast was to President Michael Displaines and the Rotary club of Norfolk in Virginia, USA. It is in District 7600, and has 112 members and meets on Tuesdays at 12.15pm in Norfolk Scope, Norfolk. Grant, as always, presented a detailed, informative and interesting history.
Over the years, I caught glimpses of Shekhar Mehta when he came to One Rotary Center in Evanston, Illinois, for Board of Directors meetings. I met him formally during one of the days of back-to-back meetings with various staff members that every incoming Rotary president participates in. During the session I attended, he was the most relaxed person in the room, despite being the only one suffering from jet lag. He was alert, patient, and asked perceptive questions — not surprising for someone as successful as he is in his professional and philanthropic life. I kept thinking that he was assessing each of us to see how we could be recruited to help him achieve his dreams for Rotary.
This week's meeting was a an opportunity fro President Geoff to make some reflections on his past two years as President and make some special awards to some members.
Note that many more photos from the morning are contained in an album here.
It was Geoff”s last meeting as President of RCBMC. President Geoff thanked members for their support over the past two years when he was President during what was a very difficult time because of the Covid pandemic and the protracted statewide lockdown. Ian was thanked for maintaining the zoom meetings throughout this period when it was not possible to hold face to face meetings.
From the Calendar page here you can subscribe to the Club's event calendar.
This will result in the Club's calendar being added to your existing calendar subscriptions, thus ensuring that as an event is added (or modified) to the Club's calendar, it will appear on your phone, tablet etc. Calendars supported are Outlook, Google and Apple.
Take the link, Subscribe to Calendar, from the Calendar Page.
Margaret L, Paul Tim and Graham from Moorabbin. Ron and Geoff Gl. One in queue and Nil overnight parkers. A quiet start to the market. It was 8 degrees at 6am and 3 degrees at 7. It turned out a beautiful sunny day. A little drama with a water main bursting over the road from the nature strip outside Coles. South Eastern water called and customers advised to cross road. SE water need a hydro pump to repair the main and were required to keep water flowing till it arrived.
Roster for the next 2 weeks
Note Market start time is 6.15am
Click on See all Rosters at right for future weeks. Members click here to see your own roster.
I remind members that you are responsible for the information contained in the Club's database. This includes, birthdays, phone numbers, addresses etc etc. Even your own photo. You maintain this via this link.
Ian Ballantine
A reminder to members to keep checking the calendar of upcoming events for evening and perhaps, one day, daytime events.
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