The shadow of your smile

When you have gone,

Will color all my dreams

And light the dawn.

"The Shadow of Your Smile", is a popular song. The music was written by Johnny Mandel with the lyrics written by Paul Francis Webster. The song was introduced in the 1965 film "The Sandpiper", with a trumpet solo by Jack Sheldon and later became a minor hit for Tony Bennett.

Johnny Mandel, the famed composer and arranger behind the Oscar-winning song “The Shadow of Your Smile” and “Suicide Is Painless,” the theme from the M*A*S*H movie and television series, died in June 2020. He was 94.

Mandel was born in New York in 1925, the son of an aspiring opera singer mother. He studied music at schools including Juilliard, and learned trumpet and trombone, finding early work with jazz bands and orchestras headed by Count Basie, Buddy Rich, Jimmy Dorsey and more. He also played in a group with Alan Greenspan, who went on to become a long-standing chair of the US Federal Reserve. “Alan was very bookish and a nice guy,” Mandel later remembered. "He also did the payroll, so we always got paid on time."

Mandel began composing and arranging, and over the years created orchestral arrangements for Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett and more, but became most celebrated for film scoring.

But what better way could we have to segue into "Rotary in Harmony"?  This week the focus was on Jazz, so our resident Jazz-Hound Noel McInnes (right) was called in to report on the event.  Noel was obviously impressed by "The Other Trio"  and the "Three Little Bops". 

Well done DG Philip and Sue Foley, for producing another Covid-friendly entertainment event.

And thanks, Noel, for your astute analysis.

Classical music fans may describe the saxophone as “An ill wind that nobody blows good!”  We offer no prizes for naming the horn player on the left. 

But the US election has certainly breezed through the Stock Market: stocks have taken a jump today.

It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good. You can forget the Melbourne Cup: all the club punters will be pleased today.

The Shadow Knows Katrina Flinn and David Pisterman always go the extra mile (or 1.60934 kilometres)

As DG Philip Archer reports on the the Walk With Us campaign: 

“The final amount raised is an astounding $121,373, with District 9800’s contribution being $75,789. 

“Well done to all those who took part in achieving such an amazing contribution toward the Foundation project, End Polio Now!”

Katrina and David's team were top of the list, raising $9,300.00!

Here at The Bulletin Office, we have been busy:  the History team of Clarrie (the office-boy) and Wee Jock have been trolling through the Club History for snippets of past achievements. Have you enjoyed their efforts so far? 

They have loaded Annual Reports in ClubRunner Documents, for you all to read at leisure, but as we catch up to the 200-2010 decade, we are running short of photos. 

Have you old photos of Hawthorn Rotary projects, tucked away in your attic or photo albums? 

If so, please scan them and send them to the Editor. We need them to brighten up your Bulletin.