Another AGM complete and it’s great to see next year’s board taking shape and indeed to have a PE is fantastic. Congratulations to all, now as Barb starts to move towards her year please consider how to help the club in the smaller but no less important jobs.
We completed a difficult club forum and despite a difficult topic is was pleasing to see a good range of discussion on the issue we have with CQ, I (and the board) appreciate the difficulty of the topic but I hope everyone understands the current position and direction. Still some work to be done but whatever the outcome we are on strong grounds to move forward.
It’s a busy time of year and we only have 3 meetings left until the end of the year with our break up on the 17th – I know Colin and his team are working towards a great meeting when hopefully we can let our hair down a bit a enjoy the spirit of the season, as importantly some well-earned fellowship.
We have an interesting speaker for our meeting 3rd Dec. Please invite any family members or friends who may be interested in attending, and book with Ross by 12 noon Wednesday 2nd.
Rotary Club of Highton 3rd December 2015
Speaker: Maureen O’Keeffe
Maureen O’Keeffe is an experienced broadcaster, trainer and manager with more than 15 years' experience working with multilingual and multicultural communities.
Maureen worked for ten years as a broadcaster with the ABC, both in Melbourne and across regional Victoria, before moving to Alice Springs where she managed the multilingual Aboriginal Radio Station, 8KIN FM.
Returning to Melbourne, Maureen went on to manage Melbourne’s 3ZZZ, Australia’s largest ethnic community ration station, with over 300 volunteers broadcasting in 57 different languages. Later she worked as the Training Manager for SBS radio in Melbourne before joining AMES to manage the establishment and ongoing operation of the Multicultural Hub, located opposite the Victoria Market.
Earlier this year she returned to her home town of Geelong, where she is now manager of Settlement and Community programs at Diversitat, with a team of 40 providing a diverse range of services to migrant and refugee communities.
On Thurs 3 December, Maureen will talk about the process for settling refugees in the Geelong region, the challenges faced by new arrivals and the range of programs that Diversitat runs to support successful integration. We will learn more about the prospect of Syrian and Iraqi refugees coming to Geelong and the ways that the community can and does support new arrivals.
The emergency committee of the International Health Regulations (IHR) has met for the seventh time and assessed that the international spread of polio continues to constitute a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). They also expanded the temporary recommendations to outbreaks of circulating vaccine derived poliovirus, due to the importance of stopping all types of poliovirus as we near the finish line of polio eradication. Learn more about cVDPVs. The statement from the emergency committee can be found here.
In 2015, wild poliovirus transmission is at the lowest levels ever, with fewer cases reported from fewer areas of fewer countries than ever before. In 2015, 57 wild poliovirus cases have been reported from two countries (Pakistan and Afghanistan), compared to 305 cases from nine countries during the same period in 2014.
On November 27 – 29, heads of governments, staff and experts from 53 commonwealth nations will gather in Malta to discuss shared global priorities at the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). Commonwealth leadership on polio has brought the disease within touching distance of eradication. Now is the time to reaffirm support and wipe the disease off the face of the earth. Sustained political and financial commitment from all countries remain critical to finishing the job to eradicate polio for good.
Wild poliovirus type 1 and Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus cases
A Rotary Moment is a two to three-minute personal story that reflects a highly memorable experience in your Rotary life. It might be an experience that impacted you so greatly that it transformed you from simply being a member of Rotary to becoming a Rotarian, or an experience that you will always remember as a key point in your Rotary life.
Telling personal stories is a powerful tool to communicate information about Rotary to members and non-members and illustrate why you are a member. Stories enable you to strongly connect with your
audience and more effectively illustrate key points in your club visit speech as compared to a simple delivery of information or facts and figures. Moments and other types of personal stories will serve to
motivate and inspire your listeners and encourage them to take their own Rotary action.
Rotary Moment presentations occur throughout the world. It is an effective way to tell the Rotary story and inspire others to join us. Although attendees will primarily be Rotarians, in "real life," most Rotary Moments are told to non-Rotarians as a way to help them understand more about our great organization and encourage them to become involved.
In the preparation for your Rotary Moment, we ask you to please review the Rotary Moment (“Telling Your Rotary Story”) example by Australian Rotarian Jennifer Scott on the link below to help you to think
about the presentation of your Moment. We recommend that Rotary Moments be presented as if you were speaking to an audience of non-Rotarians.
http://vimeo.com/album/1902081/video/40317503
The maximum time for your Moment should be three minutes. As speaking to an audience often extends the time of a speech due to pauses for audience response, it is highly recommended that, if your Moment exceeds 2:30 in at-home rehearsals, it be reduced slightly in length. This will provide you with flexibility in delivery.
Tip: most speakers speak publicly at 100 to 125 words per minute. The story should be in a range from 200 to a maximum of 375 words. If using 12 point Times/Times Roman font, there will usually be an
average of about 10 words per line and 245 on a double-spaced page.
Keep these effective presentation tips in mind when you prepare, whether for a Rotary Moment or your official club visit speech:
• Grab the audience’s attention with a powerful opening line.
• Include only relevant details that move the story along
• Close with a direct or implied call to action
I wish to bring your attention to the need to give urgent and careful consideration to resolutions you wish to have presented at the 2016 District 9780 Conference and to have them submitted to PDG Chris Sims no later than Monday 18th January 2016
In accordance with the 9780 District Leadership Plan, all resolutions to be presented to the annual Conference must be received by the District Governor or his/her representative not less than sixty (60) days before the commencement of the Conference. This means that for the 2016 Conference proposed resolutions must be received on or before Monday 18th January 2016
If your Club has any matter it wishes to put before Conference 2016 in the form of a resolution, details must be provided in writing to PDG Chris Sims (see below) prior to that date. Resolutions from Clubs must be signed by both the Club President and Club Secretary.
Resolutions properly submitted will be notified to all clubs in early 2016 as allowed by the District Leadership Plan to allow due consideration before voting at Conference.
If you have any questions on this matter please contact PDG Chris Sims , Chair District Administrative Advice Committee , either by phone on 0439 209036 ,
“Butter Very Scarce”
“The scarcity of butter appears to be more acute. Yesterday the Geelong shops could secure nothing like the supplies they wanted. Owing to the high price the demand has fallen off considerably.”….The Geelong Advertiser May 26 1915.
“Khaki Dye Scarce”
“In at least one of the Geelong woollen mills scarcity of khaki dye is holding up the manufacture of cloth for the Defence Department. Most of the supplies come hitherto from Germany , and with that channel closed down English manufacturers have been drawn upon. It is apparently of different properties to the German dye, a little trouble has been experienced in getting the proper tint. Where it has been found impossible to continue the khaki output the looms are turning out grey flannel and naval blankets for the department. Not withstanding that all the milks of the Commonwealth have concentrated on khaki, the department has found it necessary to import.”…….The Geelong Advertiser June 3 1915.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. - Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. - Madeleine L'Engle, 1918-present
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 1918-present
I'd been working on my business degree for about a year when I finally got to take a popular finance course. I went to the bookstore to buy the text and was shocked to find out that it would cost me $96. I asked how much it was worth if I sold it back at the end of the semester.
"You'll get $24," said the clerk.
"This is insane," I protested as I wrote out the check.
"I know," replied the clerk sympathetically. "I've always thought that a person who buys a finance book for $96 and then sells it back for $24 should fail the course."
A woman loses both ears in an accident. A plastic surgeon she consults tells her that ear transplants are still in the testing stage, but he will do what he can.
The woman undergoes the operation, and after a time she returns to the surgeon's office to have the bandages removed and the stitches taken out. After examining her, the doctor tells her everything seems to have gone well, and she seems pleased with his work.
The next day, however, she calls the plastic surgeon in a rage. "You know what you did?" she screams. "You gave me a MAN'S ears."
"Well," says the surgeon, "an ear is an ear. What's wrong? Can't you hear?"
"I hear everything," she says. "The problem is I don't understand anything I'm told."
Two old men went hunting one day. A hang glider came soaring overhead and the first old man raised his gun and fired. After a brief pause the second old man asked "Did you get it, whatever it was?"
The first old man replied "No, I think I missed it. But I sure as heck made it turn loose that poor fella it was carrying away!"
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