“Kia ora fellow members,
It has been a hectic Rotary week with a range of great events and activities.
I really enjoyed the RYLA graduation dinner last Friday night, what an amazing cohort of young leaders participating in a high quality Rotary programme, our three nominees loved it and we will hear more from them in due course.
On Saturday we had the District Governor Changeover and retiring District Governor (DG) Malini thanked our Club as her local host club, presenting us with an engraved Tanoa, that some of you would have seen at Lunch on Monday. Craig Horrocks was presented with a Paul Harris Fellow by DG Malini for his work at District and Zone and was formally welcomed as the DG Nominee.
World Press continues to do well and is slightly ahead of last year’s revenue level. Please continue to promote it to your networks. A big thanks to Jeff Stangl for leading this important fundraising and profile event for us.
We have had our first meeting of the new Board and we have a strong focus on Membership Attraction led by Sophie Cousso and Membership Attraction led by Monika Levinson and their respective new committees. We are also engaging Massey University to develop a research project to help us develop the direction of RCA towards our Centenary and beyond, shaped by our members and partners.
I thought lunch last Monday was inspiring with Barnaby Marshall from the Flux Accelerator at The Icehouse setting the scene of what innovation is happening in Auckland, and Mark GATT from Think Ladder demonstrating the quality of early stage companies.
We were also joined at lunch by Michael Mueller from the Rotary Club of Freiburg in Germany, who is working on secondment in the bio department at the University of Auckland. Other guests were Dulantha Peiris from Think Ladder, Peter Dine as a guest of Shahrukh Abdali, and nice to see former member Nick Jack who came as a guest of Jacqui Bernards. Always good to see guests at our Club.
It was good to see members enjoying fellowship together and next Monday our lunch will focus on fellowship without a guest speaker, we will try and do this regularly to give more opportunity for members to interact. Petko has invited some young Rylarians to attend, it will be good to meet them. See you on Monday.”
Hei kona mai,
Brett O'Riley