Meeting Notes October 10 2018

Chair                           Katherine

Sergeant                      Nigel

Grace                           Simon N

 

Sergeant Nigel opened the meeting calling on Simon to say grace.

Katherine welcomed Members, and special guests District Governor Graham Jull and wife Elizabeth, Assistant Governor Area 9 Ann Clarke, our Rotary Exchange Student from France Mathis, Sue Dobson and Ben’s guest Tupuna Rangi (Special Needs Athlete who attended the World  Tae kwon-Do Games in Argentina).  

 

Apologies                    Gail, Ian, Peter and Simon W for next week. 

Club Visits                  Lynne, David Trim and David Hills went to Napier Club on Monday.

 

Andy – MS Steps is fast approaching and helpers and  walkers are needed.  Please contact Andy  if you can help  in any way. Thank you. 

Katherine – the Club said farewell to our waitress who is shifting to Auckland. A card and Club banner/cloth were presented to her.

Adrienne– is organising a visit to her son’s farm for Sat 13th October.  

Saturday 13 October at Te Maire, 679 Matheson Road, Tikokino. 

Hosts George and Laura Williams. 

$20.00  head to cover catering costs; morning tea and lunch. 

Assemble at 10:00am for morning tea.  The farm tour will be a walking tour (or by vehicle). 

Phil – Friday 12 October, WWI, Passchendaele,843 solderswere killed and 2500 were wounded in 4 hours. (Later in the year Phil is visiting the area to  attend commemorative celebrations.) 

Paul – if anyone has Manky Maps sitting around, please bring them back to Rotary as we have outlets who will sell  them. Thank  you. 

Lynne– mentioned the Club cards and micro-fibre cloths for giving away on Club visits.  Tell her how many are needed. 

Lynne – invited Members to attend the Royal Society Lecture, 6 November, 6:00pm, National Aquarium. Exploration of the Deep Sea around NZ : progress and promise. Dr Dave Pawson, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC.

 

Don’t forget to text apologies to Katherine, 027 8296308…  or entre your apologies on line via the ‘events’ page of our website.  

 

Raffle – Number 23, Adrienne.

 

3 Minute Speaker – cancelled this week in favour of the DG’s address.

 

Having recently been to the Royal Society Memory Lecture, Nigel commented that he learnt how useless our memories are, and, proceeded to fine  everyone on lapses of memory. (Birthdays, anniversaries, anything really- you get the  idea.)

 

John  introduced our District Governor Graham Jull from the Rotary Club of Te Awamutu.  

Graham began his address by commenting on the beautiful HB day, welcoming our International Exchange Student Mathis, and telling us that when his Club came to Mike Smith’s Conference in Napier, they all went on a bike ride along our Pathways. He also thanked AG Ann Clarke for her work and for attending all the Napier meetings with him.

As Governor, 2 years training are expected of one before taking on the role. For Graham, culminating in being hosted in Orlando Florida by the clubs there, before attending the International  Assembly held in San Diego. There he spent a week with all the other DG Elects from around the World (537 of them), the International President, his Directors, his Committee Chairs, the General Secretary and his 800 staff. 

Graham explained why he joined Rotary; the 4 Way Test, Objects, The Focus, the Avenues of Service.

He is a fan of the New Mission Statement; Good people, having fun and  great fellowship, doing good in the world. 

He recalled 2 shake-ups that Rotary had experienced; 4 May 1987 Women were able to join Rotary and in 2016 Council said Rotary Clubs could be run as the members wanted to run them.

There are 51 Clubs in District 9930 having meetings at differing times of the day.

Rotary has been going for 113 year and in 2021 we will have had 100 years of Rotary in NZ. In 2021 what will we look like?  To celebrate that milestone, Rotary will combine with UNICEF to vaccinate  100,000 children in the Pacific, and run a project in Nepal.

Graham reminded us of …

Rotary has 2 forthcoming Conferences for us to attend, the World Conference in Hamburg, and our District Conference in Hamilton, March 15-17, $240.00.

In conclusion Graham advised we must … engage/be relevant/effective/visible/good people doing good work/understand change/adapt as Rotary Must Be relevant!

In conclusion, Graham thanked us for hosting him and Elizabeth. 

 

The talk was followed with questions and comments from Members and a vote of thanks, and presentation of our Rotary Pathway Coin and thank you card, was presented by President Katherine.

 

An invitation was extended to club Members to meet at the Village kitchen for coffee and a chat after the meeting.

 

Katherine read the next week’s duties and thanked all the guests. 

 

Parting thought… Toby

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming your misfortune.