President David opened the meeting as usual with John Thornton introducing the national anthem.

This evenings meeting will have no Guest Speaker as such, being the Clubs 35th-year Handover Dinner celebration, with the passing of the club’s leadership baton from one executive team to their new 2019/2020 Rotary years executive team and which will instead have 2 min. max highlighted reports from our club’s current Service Directors and Committee Chairs and an Annual report summary and thank you from retiring President David Ellis. There will then be a formal Handover of office to and a welcoming address from our incoming president John Bolto. We trust it will be an enjoyable evening for all with both reflections on tasks well done and eager anticipation for exciting new challenges in the Rotary year ahead.

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President David then welcomed visiting Rotarian and Assistant Governor Jeremy Wood from RC Cambridge. He also welcomed visiting guests Tanya Ellis, Colette James, Brenda Bannon and Helen Ilett.

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In which year did Harry Boan establish his "Grand Emporium" in Wellington Street, Perth?

Answer: Founded in 1896 and rebuilt in the early 1900's. The answer was given by Dick Sudlow and his table rejoiced, even Albert who does not drink!

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attendance – 39 members present and 4 guests for a total of 43.

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President David then called for any news from family or friends.

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President David then asked Peter Panek to come forward to receive a Paul Harris Fellow Award. David read out the PHF commendation and Craig gave a very nice speech as well. They then awarded Peter his new badge and his certificate. Peter was lost for words, an unusual occurrence. Said he was very proud to receive the award and thanked all those in the club for their support during his time as a member. President David then asked each Committee to report on their year’s activities.

A productive year with Trust total equity rising to above $800,000. The major donation made this year was to assist in the establishment of the Showgrounds Community Men’s Shed, a very worthwhile cause. The year ended with a modest capital gain and a sound income growth. The trust is presently adjusting its investment strategy to incorporate more diversified investment funds and less direct investments.

Highlights of the year from a financial side-of-things are detailed below. These are not accounting statements but rather a snapshot of the wonderful works and things that we have achieved together as a very strong Rotary Club.

This means that well over $170,000 has been raised in cash and kind and has been distributed and/or held in trust for the benefit of youth services, charitable organisations and/or community support ventures. No wonder we are all worn-out!

Thank you to all those who have personally put themselves out and worked hard to live the Rotary motto of "Service Above Self". This year we have in very many ways contributed to a huge effort in supporting a wide range of worthwhile organisations. We have particularly supported our youth in a number of ways, not least the Science and Engineering Challenge but in the Exchange Student programme and a number of other Rotary Youth enrichment programmes.

Thank You all for a great year of Effort and Service. Well done.

 

Members : J Bolto, K Warburton, R Ranshaw, B Davis, B McGeorge, Tom Langley, Anthony McGrath, John Murdoch, P Napper, J Hopkins, Craig James, Graeme Sansom, T Gorey. The latter 5 were not regular attendees.

Meeting held: 9 (missed Nov, Jan and March)

Activities Covered

Successes :

Concerns :

Next Year :

Community Service was kept busy during the 2018-19 Rotary Year starting with:

On behalf of the Community Services Committee, I would like to thank all the members of our Rotary Club who supported our projects as without your support we could not have enjoyed the success we did.

 

In the last 12 months, my Committee has been very busy, promoting a positive image of the Dalkeith Rotary Club.

We have been most fortunate in having ongoing support from POST Newspapers, who have published most events I have contacted them about.

Just after Carlos, let's call him Cadu from now on, arrived, they featured him, on his donated bike and complete with crash helmet, riding around the lake in Shenton Park. At that time, he was such a quiet lad and spoke little English.

This was a great introduction for him to Perth, Dalkeith Rotary and POST readers. The latest issue of the POST features a great article of Holly and Cadu in their fun jackets and an interview of these most impressive 17 year olds.

It was a sort of late "Welcome Home "to Holly and a "Sad Farewell" to Cadu. Before Xmas, we received great coverage of our involvement in Cans for Xmas and Nigel Johnson was featured amongst a mass of green rubbish bins, chock a block full of donated food. POST has asked us to give them more notice next time as they would like to do a more comprehensive coverage.

Leading up to Xmas last year, a very select group of Members and Partners were entertained by the W.A Ballet Company at the performance of "The Nutcracker"

We were offered drinks in the Patrons Lounge and viewed the dancers limbering up.

In April, we arranged for Celia Hammond to be our Guest Speaker.

Celia was most informative about her academic life and during question time, was quizzed about her political ambitions.

As we all know, she went on to be elected, the Liberal Member for Curtin.

early in the new year, POST Newspapers once again generously co-operated by sending a photographer to our Golf Day at the Nedlands Golf Club.

He captured the whole group (about 60+) in a great photograph before we teed off and even reported the results. In appreciation of POST Newspapers support, I have made an approach to Brett Christian the Owner to be a Guest Speaker at one of our Meetings.

He has been in the newspaper industry for at least 50 years.

Brett is a quiet and very private man and explained that his workload precludes him for the time being, BUT, rest assured, I will not give up.

Both Geoff Cahif and I were also able to amass a substantial amount of goods for the raffle that Anita Bourke arranged for the support of her hospital project in Cambodia.

If all this continues, this coming year is going to be equally as busy.

The committee has had a balanced year. There have been three inductions, 2 off them recruited during this year. Unfortunately, we have lost 2 members and one more has chosen to become an honorary member. So, no net gain for the year. However, the good news is that the two members who left have transferred to other clubs, so they are not lost to Rotary.

The 2018-9 year has been an active one for the Youth Committee.

The year commenced with the arrival of Rotary Youth Exchange student Cadu (Carlos Eduardo Rossi Barreto) from Brazil on 25^th July 2018. He attended Shenton College, stayed with three host families during the year (the Mellor's, Gorham's and Bisset's), participated in many of our Club's fundraising activities and proved to be an outstanding person and a pleasure to have around the club.

In July, Ashley Dunne attended RYLEAP and in September she spoke about her fantastic experience and thanked the DRC.

In November, Peter Smith raised the EarlyAct program for year 6 students with the Dalkeith Primary school. They expressed interested in the Program as it supported their leadership development goals and, following a series of meetings with the DPS board and staff, Peter was able to commence the program at the school in May 2019. This is a significant achievement for the Club. Peter will be assisted by Lindsay Dry and Neil Wilkie in the implementation of the program.

In December, we sponsored Shenton College Year 9 student Kalagan Driver to the Conoco Phillips Science Experience.

In January, Mia Davis and Andy Sommerville-Brown attended the RYLA camp. Our outbound RYE student Holly Fredrickson returned to Perth after spending a fantastic year in Switzerland. We also sponsored a buddy, Jemma Fleming, for Camp Opportunity.

In February we agreed to support the Rotary Citizenship Award program developed by City Rotary and Study Perth. This is a mentoring program for overseas students. In March, seven DRC members attended a mentoring training session run by AIM to prepare for this program.

In March, we had RYLA students Mia Davis and Andy Sommerville Brown speak at the Club about their experience at the RYLA camp. Both spoke in glowing terms about their experience. We also had Holly Fredrickson speak very well about her yearlong exchange in Switzerland which she described as a life changing experience and expressed her gratitude to the DRC.

A real highlight of the year was the Rotary Club of Dalkeith being the organising club of the Perth Metropolitan Year 10 WA Science and Engineering Challenge, run nationally by The University of Newcastle, Australia. From April 1 to 5, 1200 Year 10 Students from 40 schools across WA competed in the week-long event at the Claremont Showground. The event has been successful in inspiring students to choose science subjects and consider a career in science and engineering. Richard Gorham coordinates the Clubs effort, ably supported by Michael Bisset who raised $30,000 in corporate sponsorship, along with many other club volunteers. The University of Newcastle emailed their thanks and stated that it was the best organised event in Australia! Richard and Michael have started investigating extending the program to the Goldfields along with preparing for an extended Perth program next year.

In May we sponsored two year 10 students for the RYPEN leadership camp. They were Charlie Beer from Kununurra and Korbyn Fraser-Dickinson from Bullsbrook College. Charlie's parents emailed thanking the DRC for their support and said it "had been an amazing weekend for Charlie, he has had a really wonderful experience and has returned home a happy and motivated fella."

Trevor gave a brief summary of progress to date. They have raised almost $250k towards the opening of the shed.

Another grant from Lotteries West is in progress for $120k.

The shed now has a new floor, upgraded electrics and plumbing and painting of the internal and external walls is in progress. They expect to open for business in less than 3 months.

To date, they have 110 committed members who have paid their deposit and another +200 interested in joining in the future.

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Trevor fined the wine table as usual. He asked Jeremy Wood to contribute some of the change he left on the registration table to the kitty. David Miller copped his return tax and Kevin J and Dave S got fined for winning the golf this morning. Kevin was also fined for volunteering for gardening duty at the Men’s Shed when he freely admits to never gardening at home.

John Lindquist was fined for throwing his badge around while eating his dinner, David Miller for his footy tipping win and Peter Panek for the PHF award. Finally, the Sergeant fined all those who did not wear a tie to this evening’s dinner, this caught many members out and I am sure earned the club much money.

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1. the Men's shed, and which has finally emerged after many years of consideration, thanks primarily to efforts and connections of our relatively newer club member Trevor Gorey [ plus more latterly support from Peter Panek and Mike Bisset ] - and it's great to see the Men's Shed take root this year, raise or have pledged many $IOOK's of donated funds, attract over 100 new members and become a viable reality for both our club and with the support of fellow neighbouring Rotary clubs, and is likely to officially open its doors within the next few months.
2. the youth Science and Engineering Challenge, growing from dying on the vine

Details of the highlights from our various Service Committees have been brought to our attention this evening by our club Directors and Committee chairs, during their reports — however, I would like to acknowledge and give a few votes of thanks as follows:

Finally, too - and before I induct John Bolto to be our next President, I wish to thank my wife Tanya for her support provided to me during this past Rotary year; and to thank all of my fellow club members for their support and wise council on occasions too when they have felt it was needed.

It is pleasing to note here too that our PE John is a thoroughly well prepared and highly competent President Elect, well versed in all Club, District and RI matters and well supported by all members of our club; and even more so by the vast array of the engineering fraternity who dominate our club membership and believe that it's time for the club's engineering driven "P-Train" to get back on the rails and help drive the club forward.

John will make an excellent President for our club in the next Rotary year!

President David then recited the Club President Induction Charge and John Bolto was given his new badges and the Presidents Chain was put on his shoulder. I think they drooped by it may have been an optical illusion.

 

President John then took over the meeting.

He thanked Jeremy Wood for attending this evening even though he was not our Assistant Governor, Alison Kirby from Beaufort Club will be our zone AG, she, unfortunately, could not make it the meeting this evening.

President John also thanked the other guest for attending and thanked the many member present and absent who had sent him their good wishes for his time as President, he hopes to be able to live up to the club’s expectation in the coming year.

President John then closed the meeting by acknowledging the club’s sponsor and the flag.