Rotary Notes – 210824 – Rotary Club of Greater Geraldton
Geraldton Golf Club
President Hugh Lavery
Sergeant Bob Urquhart
Attendance: Hugh Lavery, Bob Urquhart, Grant Woodhams, Karen Lavery, Brenton Wellington, Jo Clarke, Sofia Underland, Wayne Hosking, Terry Stewart, Ian Taylor, Don Rolston, Russell McKinnon, Barry Dring, Jim Dillon, Viki Fennell, Rob Mosel.
Invocation and Toast – Ian Taylor
Guests: Karen Lavery, Wayne Hosking, Sofia Underland (IBEX), Brenton Wellington (guest speaker)
Announcemen
ts from Hugh Lavery:
Next Board meeting will be held on Thursday 29th August from 5pm – 6pm at 11 Askew St, Geraldton.
HL attended District Monthly Board meeting. Was impressed by their meeting format, particularly their reports 1) for noting 2) for discussion 3) for decision.
Also attended Community Group Growth Plan (Oceans 11) which is composed of northern clubs – Batavia, Ellenbrook, Greater Geraldton, Hillarys-Wanneroo, Joondalup, Karrinyup, Mindarie, Mt Lawley, North Perth, Osborne Park, Scarborough.
Floor Announcements:
Barry Dring: So far his son has collected 5,000 sets of used reading glasses for Bali. Barry is collecting on his behalf. All old glasses accepted.
IBEX
report with Norway's Sofia Underland:
Went to Kalbarri in the rain... learnt to play poker; saw whales; walked the Loop.
Raffle: 5 of Clubs is drawn – Hugh Lavery's card, he declines the bottle of wine and there is a redraw with the Jack of Diamonds securing the red grape juice for Viki Fennell.
Rotary Corner with Hugh Lavery:
Hugh explains the function of the Rotary Community Groups which are developing growth and leadership plans for clubs.
All clubs need volunteers to function at their community events. It essential that some of these volunteers are from younger generations. If this doesn't occur many clubs will fold. Our own included.
It is important to become digitally literate.
There are more follow meetings to come with Rotary Community Groups.
Fines Session w
ith Viki Fennell:
Who doesn't have their photo in Club Runner? Many!
The Phil Martin budgie smuggler photo – Russ McKinnon fined for this indiscretion.
What sort of full moon did we have last night? Who knew? Waning Gibbous!
Terry Stewart's self confessed hair cut
Russ McKinnon's self confessed back yard clean up
Barry Dring's self confessed absence in Perth – plus son turning 50, daughter turning 40. Oh Baz!
Thin Woodie's self confessed collapse after sculling an espresso martini!
Hugh Lavery concluded meeting with his confession from 1979 about being a member of the UWA Engineers' Sculling Club.
Guest Speaker- (accompanied by visual presentation) Brenton Wellington from Transformative Growth Institute runs the Blokehood Camps. Note we (RCGG) sponsored two young men to go on the Blokehood camp.
He told us that young men need to get away from Mum and being mothered.
One of the major issues is anger and how to deal with it. We are often taught that anger is bad and that we need to suppress it. A significant contributor to anger in young men is alcohol. It is important to master becoming comfortable with anger. At first a lot of young guys laugh off their anger and don't want to deal with it.
Brenton has written “The Bloke Book” which details a range of emotions and energies.
Questions: Russell McKinnon – Do you do follow up programmes with the Blokehood participants? Brenten explained that there is comprehensive follow-up involving direct contact with camp attendees and their parents.
President's Report - Hugh Lavery:
Australia’s worst naval disaster occurred on 19 November 1941 when HMAS Sydney II was lost following a battle with the German raider HSK KORMORAN, in the Indian Ocean off the Western Australian coast. Geraldton was the last port visited prior to her demise. The loss of the SYDNEY with its full war complement of 645 sailors remains etched in the nations psyche. The KORMORAN was also sunk, but 317 of its crew of 397 survived. The fate of the Sydney remained one of Australia’s greatest wartime mysteries until the location of the wreck in 2008.
