Meeting HighLights
Wednesday evening at Geraldton Club
Viki Fennel in the Chair: Pictured with Kevin Green and Peter Nunn
Prior to the meeting Di Gilleland gave us an update on Radio Auction:
Meeting proper:
Raffle and Rotary Corner with Kevin Green
Kevin acknowledged our Club's contribution of two shelter boxes to the ongoing earthquake recovery efforts in Morocco.
Raffle was won by Hannah Lind (Ibex) with the Joker. Hannah gifts the bottle of red to her host father Laurie Dines.
Fines Session with Karen Godfrey
Robert Mosel for drinking the guest speaker's beer
Kevin Green for suggesting that a woman's place was in the kitchen
Greatest achievements – self inflicted greatness
Laurie Dines – 41 years of marriage.
Grant Woodhams – his 30yo daughter Phoebe
Peter Sukiennik – learning to give not take
Kevin Green – the success of his and Di's marriage
Bob Urquhart – 53 years of marriage to Julie... and 47(?) years at Geraldton Airport
Doc Taylor – selecting the right wife and having three children
Trevor Beaver – the Sydney Memorial and teaching 5,000 people to scuba
Robert Mosel – chairing the organisation that built Lotteries House in Geraldton
Bob Symington – coming to G'ton and eventually setting up McIntosh and Sons
Terry Stewart – emigrating to Australia at the age of seventy
Hannah Lind – Rotary exchange scholarship to Australia
Viki Fennel – family migrating to Australia in 1975 and eventually becoming a Rotarian
Other achievements:
Trevor Beaver and Bob Urquhart have been in Rotary for 41 years.
Other fines:
Kevin Green fines Peter Nunn for not being in Rotary!