Chair for the meeting was Mark Williams who opened the meeting with grace and toasts before inviting VP Keith to deliver his opening remarks.
- VP Keith Thanked Denise Schellbach for organising the successful Friday-evening event at the USC on November 5th.
- Keith informed members that our sibling club, RC Taipei Tatung would be celebrating its 35th Charter anniversary in April of next year, and that we are all invited. Keith recommended RC Taipei Tatung as being very good hosts and hoped that we would be able to send a strong delegation to help them celebrate. More details to follow.
- Next week's meeting would be a club assembly and a board meeting would follow. At the club assembly, Dan Adler would present the membership development proposal that he has been working on these past couple of months.
- The following meeting would be the DG visit. Strong attendance requested.
Chair Mark then called for members'spots:
- Rtn Denise Schellbach reported that the USC cocktail meeting the previous Friday had been a great success, with 18 mambers and guests attending and 11 staying on for dinner afterwards.
- Denise also informed members that she would be operating Eddie's Van again this year, but instead of previous years where it started in early December and was for 5 days a week, this year it would start on 31st December and continue 7 days per week until the end f the school holidays.
- PP Greme Whitmore informed members that all but 80 of the trifecta tickets had been sold and that after costs and the $1000 prize, the club made $2288 for charity. Thanks to those who bought tickets.
- Graeme was also the bringer of bad news to membership on several sporting fronts. All Blacks lucky to win over England, Wallabies lost to Wales, and no good news in the cricket either.
- PP Daniel Vankov reported that the International Women's Day breakfast on 2nd March 2019 had now officially launched and registrations were being taken on the web.
Member in the spotlight this week was Stan Francis, who gave members an informative briefing on motor neurone disease (MND). Stan Francis was recently diagnosed as having MND and has done a lot of research on the topic, making the presentation both poignant and authoritative.
Stan Francis also held the winning ticket in the raffle, but was not able to wrest the joker from the full deck of cards.
VP Keith closed the meeting with the singing of the national anthem at 13:50pm.
