This Thursday 25 June, at 7.30 am we have our Changeover meeting by ZOOM when we welcome Rob McLennan as Incoming President of our Club for the Rotary year 2020-2021. Julie Campbell will be the Master of Ceremonies, for the Changeover and for Rotary year 2020-2021. The meeting is scheduled for7.30 am but you can start logging in from 7.15 am and catch up with other members for a chat if you wish. To join the meeting, just type, or copy thisURL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86382567817 into your browser and press enter.
Special guests at the Changeover are District Governor David Jones and his wife Lynn Jones; The Hon. Rachel Sanderson, MP for Adelaide; and Presidents from other Adelaide City Rotary Clubs and some of the Rotary Clubs from areas close to the city centre.
On Sunday evening, we will be having a social evening on Sunday 28 June at 4.00 pm with a Film evening to see ‘Dark Waters’ at Prospect Palace Nova Cinema 2, 98 Prospect Road, Prospect at4.00 pm. If you want to attend but haven’t booked yet, email John Wotherspoon at john@wothers.net.
Upcoming meetings
Here are the meeting dates for the next two months:
We were saddened to learn from John Karran of the recent death of Dr Allen Gale.
Allen was a past member of our Club and liked to keep in contact with us.
John said, "my personal memory of Dr. Allen is the scar I have on the Top of my Forehead, (Seems to be getting further away from my hairline over the past few years!!), which is from some Stitches he did for me when I was about 10 years old after a "Little Accident"!!!"
Rotary and Toastmasters have formed an alliance and are offering communication courses to help members to grow networks, improve skills and to increase their impact in the community.
The first two courses, which were developed by Toastmasters International, are:
Develop a speech – Learn how to write compelling speeches that take into account your topic, audience and goal.
Deliver a speech – Explore the effect your voice and body language can have on your audience.
Rob McLennan spoke at Toastmasters last Wednesday evening and found it to be a very useful experience and the feedback to be helpful. He felt that it would be beneficial for Rotarians to develop a relationship with a Toastmasters club.
Rob has invited a member of the Toastmasters City Club to be a guest speaker which Dean will organise.
Margie and Phil were very happy to receive the letter below.
Dear Margie and Phil
We had a very enjoyable time on Saturday and we’re so delighted to have been part of the celebration, both for your 80th birthday Margie and to see you, Phil, looking so well after leaving hospital. You must have been very tired the next day though!
We thought the C-19 planning was masterful, seemed to run smoothly and must have needed a lot of preparation. Congratulations to all family involved. Though brought about by necessity, it seems to be such a good way of catching up with small numbers of guests within that limited time-frame and for the guests, it was elegantly comfortable and relaxing.
Margie, your daughter and grandson were a friendly, efficient, well-oiled duo. We were well looked after by them.
We hope you continued with happy festivities and can look back on the day as special and rather unique!
We hope you continue to make good progress with recovery Phil and look forward to catching up with each of you when possible.
Centenary of Rotary Australia Launch - Save the Date
Rotary’s Centenary is a time of celebration! It Is a time to reflect on our past, and take pride in all that has been achieved. It is a time we play our part in the history of Rotary.
Our centenary is also the time to lay the foundations for our future, as we still have much to do. The key project in our centenary year will focus on stopping the one in 16 children who die in 9 Pacific nations before the age of five.
We invite you to join Rotarians across Australia on 10th July for virtual fellowship, as well as meet our R100 Centenary Ambassadors, the Governor General and Mrs Hurley, as they launch our national centenary campaign. By joining us, you will witness the “Passing the Baton” ceremony. The baton that will carry the symbols of our centenary and will travel far and wide across Rotary clubs and Districts.
Please pass this invitation on to as many Rotary clubs as possible so that they too can join this event. We ask too for your support in helping us raise funds for our R100 Centenary project, "Rotary Give Every Child a Future"; saving young lives in Pacific nations.
Please expect registration details on how you can join within the next week.
We look forward to you joining in and making your mark on history!
Kind regards,
Garry Browne Hugh Bucknall
Chair - National Centenary of Rotary Committee Founder - Centenary of Rotary Campaign
For the benefit of members, we will aim to give the Duty Roster a few weeks ahead - see below.
Responsibility
Chairperson
Attendance
Attendance
Furniture/Hosting
Bottles/ cans
Bread Run
Chairman: Meet/greet speaker for the meeting; introduce and thank speaker. Preparation:- find details about the speaker prior to the meeting. Attendance: Set up reception table (attendance sheet; members list – re -payments; guest welcome sheet; money); register member payments/ apologies/ guests. Hosting: Welcome all at the door; ensure speaker and guests are introduced to appropriatepersons. Furniture: Flags; banner display; raffle balls; collection boxes; Rotary theme banner; gong and hammer; lectern position before and returned after the meeting. Computerset up – Connect to projector. Switch on. Hold function key & press F5 twice. Bottles/cans: Collect bags of bottles/cans at meeting and take to recycle centre for refund, pass refund and empty bags to David Rowe at next meeting. Rotaract: Meets alternate Mondays at 6pm (for a 630pm start) at the General HavelockHotel in Hutt Street. Bread Run: Sundays, meet outside Romeo's, North Adelaide at 4:55pm
Members rostered for Thursday morning duty are asked to be in attendance by 6.45am
United in the spirit of Service we value truth, fairness and friendship; and we welcome the opportunity that Rotary gives us to contribute our talents and resources in support of others.
Rotary Club of Adelaide Light Mission Statement
To be recognised as the Service Club of Choice in the Eastern Precinct of Adelaide because we are a Friendly Breakfast Club that appeals to a broad range of busy people who want to make a difference to local and international communities.
At the urging of his doctor, an elderly man moved to the deepest countryside.
After settling in, he met a neighbor who was also an older man. ‘Say, is this really a healthy place?’
‘It sure is,’ the man replied. ‘When I first arrived here I couldn’t say one word. I had hardly any hair on my head. I didn’t have the strength to walk across a room, and I had to be lifted out of bed.’
‘That’s wonderful!’ said the newcomer. ‘How long have you been here?’
