Dr George Tucker was a very welcome guest speaker on Thursday. He is a long term friend of our Club, a frequent OBG and LWG participant and was awarded a PHF in 2004. He spoke passionately about his views on educating the next generation of doctors. It was also great to see Ashley Coonan (OBG mechanic for many OBG’s and PHF in 2007) drop in to have lunch with us and listen to George.
The April RCTE Board meeting was held on Wednesday 9th and it agreed to make a donation to Dr Curtis Rayment’s “It’s a Man’s issue” program and add a further $1500 to the money raised at the Rotary District Conference “Say NO to DV Walk” that was held on the 28th of March. Other local Rotary Clubs are also contributing.
Curtis will be speaking at our Club meeting on Thursday 15th of May. Members are encouraged to bring their partners along for that lunch meeting, the District Governor will also be attending that day and it is anticipated that each of the local Rotary Clubs will also be represented.
Our Club Birthday dinner will be held on Friday May 9th at Soul Kitchen – 386 Ruthven St in the CBD. Craig Mathieson has done a great job organising the dinner and a copy of the menu for the evening is also in the Easterly. Please RSVP as soon as possible and get the payments ($75 pp) to our treasurer on the Thursday meeting or by eft to the RCTE Club Acc.
The final component of the planned work at Teen Challenge will be the Yarning Circle. Phil Gillam will be leading the work scheduled on the morning of Saturday 3rd of May.
Our annual visit to Yukana for a Mother’s Day morning tea with the St Saviours College Interact Club is scheduled for Saturday 10th of May. Geoff Kapernick will chasing your participation on the morning
The planning for the Annual Charity Golf Day on Friday 23rd May is well underway. Rod Brown is chasing both raffle items and ticket sales for the raffle. If you have any further questions about the golf day please speak to Steve Davis or John Liley
I am looking forward to our Anzac Day meeting and to listen to our guest speaker Brigadier Anthony (Hector) McWatters CSM this coming Thursday.
Regards
Alistair
Club News
Hi Members
The 49th RCTE birthday party is to be held on Friday the 9th of May at Soul Kitchen. Details including the menu for the 3 course dinner are attached. Cost is $75pp and details of attendance and payments will happen soon. Please advise any dietary requirements when you book. Numbers are limited to 50 and it will be on a first in best dressed basis.
A fee will apply to any member late with an apology regardless of whether the number attending on the meeting day of the meeting is over, under or equal to what the Club Secretary submitted to the Downs Club. This fee will only apply to meetings at the Downs Club or any other club meeting where attendance numbers have to be stipulated prior to the meeting.
A Club member will be charged a meal fee of $20 if they
fail to submit any apology before 11am on Tuesday for the meeting the following Thursday (48 hrs later)
need to submit a late apology due to changed circumstance.
Fail to show up after indicating they would be present.
The members owing a fee of $20 will notified by the Club Secretary and Club Treasurer via an emailed
Late apology fee notice.
The fee can be paid by direct credit into the RCTE Club account or by adding $20 to the $35 meal fee at the next club meeting
Apologies 17.04.2025
Cameron Ashmore, Wayne Barnett, Adrian Bonica, Andy Burke, Peter Burrows, Jim Charlton, Bob Cheesman, Shane Fisher, Lex Franks, Phil Gillam, David Groves, Geoff Kapernick, Andrew Kratzmann, Peter McLoughlin, Bruce McDonald, Peter Nalder, Gav Roberts, Toby Sandell, Allan Schefe, Doc Smith, Peter Sommer, Ross Watt, Matt Wentzel, Mark Winter
