Snippets of last week's meeting 080317

Chris Thurtell was at the door, Richard Smith was Chairman and Andy Bell was Sergeant.

We had apologies from Gerald East, Larry Murray, Peter Morgan, Daryl Sanderson and Des La Rance. 

 

President Simon Brook welcomed all members and our guest speaker Simon Schmidthe (see his presentation above). In celebration of International Women's Day which was last Wednesday, he briefly referred to the struggle the first lady members had, back in about 1986: their club's Charter was withdrawn! [But it didn't take long.  On the Gold Coast, our club actually was the last club to be chartered, before Ashmore was chartered as the first mixed club here. Ed.] A board meeting will be held in two weeks' time, the Gold Coast Ramble will be on in two weeks, and on 19th April we'll have another 'Sunset' meeting - see Events section.  On 26th April, we'll have a Joint Meeting with RC of Hope Island.  

 

DGE Darrell Brown reported from his visit to the McLean Rotary Club and presented a banner - VERY Scottish indeed! Darrell also referred to the upcoming District Assembly (was the weekend just gone by), the District Changeover will be on 25th June 2017.  Darrell's better half, Kerrie is donating one of her quilts (see picture above). It is valued at least at $1,000 and will be the first prize in a raffle to be conducted over the District Assembly and Changeovers. Proceeds will go to the Australian Rotary Health fund. (Kerrie's own 'Partner's Project' will be ROMAC though). On 21st July 2017 will be the Australian Rotary Health Muster.  Broadwater Southport and us will change the normal meeting and have a Bar-be-que on the Broadwater Parklands.  Expect about 20 caravans to roll up!  More as we get closer to the date.

 

Rosie McIntyre (picture right) has scored a major prize for an Art Union: as reported by Mario Fairlie, Bartercard is sponsoring a Family Holiday to Fiji, all expenses paid, worth $5,000! Hip Hip Hooray, Rosie!! The target is $12,000 which will all go towards our School on Samoa. Note, there will be a fundraiser for the Samoa Victims Support Group on Saturday 25th March 2017 - see flyer in the Download section. Our regular conduct with Samoa, Lina Chang will be there.

 

Doug Lipp advised, on behalf of President Elect Larry Murray on the upcoming District Assembly on this coming Sunday 12th March: all incoming board members and club executives need to attend.