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Peter Cassady
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Mr Peter Cassady President 2020/2021
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President's Chat
Pres Chat 12/5/21
This week we welcomed 14 members and guests of Daybreak to our meeting.
 
There were 10 apologies
 
President Peter welcomed members and guests.
 
Guest Speaker
Our guest speaker today was Michael Gray from the St Joseph’s Primary School.
 
Michael has been the principal of St Josephs for 25 years but has now moved on  to other pursuits in his role as President of the Victorian Association of Catholic Primary Principals, which is a group that facilitates collegiality between principals of Catholic Primary Schools and supports young career professionals.  He will be based at the Catholic Education Leadership Centre in Melbourne but can work remotely from home.
 
Michael grew up in Birchip where he knew everyone and was related to half of them.
 
The family moved to Geelong and lived in a close knot community. From there to Torquay where his parents had a supermarket and he learned about communicating with people. After finishing his training, he taught in Geelong, then Seymour and then became a curriculum consultant for Catholic Education.
 
He picked up the job as principal of St Mary’s in Geelong and then at the tender age of 32 applied for St Josephs. He got the job.
 
There were 300 students when he first arrived and during his time there steered the school through the very ambitious task of relocating to a flood prone area on both sides of Russells Creek. It seemed a long way out at the time, ut is now deemed to be quite central. Fast-forward 25 years and there are now 603 students, 400 families and 84 staff. The school is now run like a business with an $8 – 9m budget.
 
Michael stressed the importance of education being the foundation for future life and how developing the basic skills is essential to et kids up for life.
 
He believes the most important aspects of schools are having a strong leadership and the development of learning teams. The team aspect is so important because the everyone contributes to the team and thus the whole is stronger through sharing.
 
He has a firm belief that it is so important to work with young people to help their development.
 
Soup Kitchen
Those members who are rostered on for next Monday night will be notified. They are Janey, Ali, Sergio and Barry M.
 
Quiz
Sandra’s quiz attracted a lot of thought and much competition.
 
Movie Night
Chez has reminded everyone about the movie night next Wednesday. We are showing ‘The Father” and we need members to sell as many tickets as they can.
 
Backyard Blitz
Chez and Barry will do an appraisal of Annie’s yard to see what needs to be done and will work out the when, who and how we will make it happen.
 
CELEBRATIONS
 
Rotary Anniversaries
Sandra Batten  14 May 2003
 
Program for May
19 May         Guest Speaker - Sue Cassidy
26 May         Members Choice - Ali Dennis
 
MEALS ON WHEELS
21 May        Dianne Brown
28 May        Jan Read
4 June          Ali Dennis
11 June        Fiona Steenhuis
18 June        Dianne Brown
25 June        Ann Barker
2 July           Barry Moran
9 July           Cheryl Bellman
16 July         Ian Harper
23 July         Ali Dennis
30 July         Ann Barker
 
 
Read more...
 
 
 
Check out the daybreak Facebook page for the stories. 
 
 

LAUGHTER, THE BEST MEDICINE

A new teacher was trying to make use of her psychology courses. She
started her class by saying, “Everyone who thinks they're stupid, stand
up!” After a few seconds, Little Larry stood up. The teacher said, “Do you
think you're stupid, Larry?”
 
“No, ma'am, but I hate to see you standing there all by yourself!”
 
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She hurried to the pharmacy to get medication, got back to her car and
found that she had locked her keys inside.
 
The woman found an old rusty coat hanger left on the ground. She
looked at it and said, "I don't know how to use this."
 
She bowed her head and asked God to send her some HELP.
 
Within 5 minutes a beat-up old motorcycle pulled up, driven by a
bearded man who was wearing an old biker skull rag. He got off of his
cycle and asked if he could help.
 
She said: "Yes, my daughter is sick. I've locked my keys in my car. I
must get home. Please, can you use this hanger to unlock my car?"
 
He said, "Sure." He walked over to the car, and in less than a minute
the car was open.
 
She hugged the man and through tears said, "Thank You SO Much! You are
a very nice man."
 
The man replied, "Lady, I am NOT a nice man. I just got out of PRISON
yesterday; I was in prison for car theft.
 
The woman hugged the man again sobbing, "Oh, thank you,
God! You even sent me a Professional!"
 
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Q: What do you give a pony with a cold?
 
A: Cough Stirrup!
 
(Is that because it's a little hoarse?)
 
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The jockey was riding the favourite at a race meeting, and was well ahead of the field. His horse rounded the final corner, when suddenly the jockey was hit on the head by a turkey and a string of sausages.
 
He managed to keep control of his mount and pulled back into the lead, only to be struck by a box of Christmas crackers and a dozen mince pies as he went over the last fence.
 
With great skill he managed to steer the horse to the front of the field once more when, on the run in, he was struck on the head by a bottle of sherry and a Christmas pudding. Thus distracted, he succeeded in coming only second.
 
He immediately went to the race stewards to complain that he had been seriously hampered.