At our Zoom meeting on Tuesday 5 May, our Club was fortunate to have Dr Jessie Harman as the guest speaker.
Jessie is a member of the Rotary Club of Wendouree Breakfast in Victoria and she has been chosen as a Director of Rotary International for a two year period, 2021-23.
As an RI Director, Jessie will occupy the position of RI's Director for Zone 8, which now covers oceanic countries including Australia, New Zealand, East Timor, Papua New Guinea and other Pacific Island nations.
Jessie is a past Club Secretary and President and she was District 9780 Governor in 2010-11.
At the Zone level she has served as Rotary Co-ordinator; Project Lead for the Regional Membership Plan for the Zone and she is the Co-orinator of training for District Governors elect in Zone 8.
Jessie encouraged members to "dream large" and think about Rotary in one, five, ten and fifty years time.
In particular she emphasised the need for Clubs to take action to strengthen membership engagement, such that members feel that they are getting real value from Rotary.
She also spoke about the opportunities that Rotary has, especially in these difficult times, to make a difference in our local community.
In this context,, she also encouraged members to be more visible with Rotary's work so as to promote Rotary in our community - at local, national and international levels.
A big thank you to Rotarian Mark Humphries, District 9820 Governor elect, who arranged Jessie's visit to our Club.
