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INVOCATION
For Good Food
for Good Fellowship
and the Opportunity to
Serve through Rotary
WE GIVE THANKS
ADVANCE AUSTRALIA FAIR
Australians all let us rejoice,
For we are young and free,
We've golden soil and wealth for toil,
Our home is girt by sea,
Our land abounds in natures gifts,
Of beauty rich and rare,
In history's page, let every stage
Advance Australia Fair!
In joyful strains then let us sing,
"Advance Australia Fair!"
FOUR WAY TEST
1. Is it the TRUTH? 2. Is it FAIR to all concerned? 3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? 4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Posted by Roger Taylor on 12/1/2017 Moe eBulletin Issue No: 27
Next Meeting: Monday 16 January 2017
Rotary Club of Moe meets at 6.00 for 6.30pm
at RSL 63-65 Albert St. Moe
For Apologies and Guests please contact:
kishormanani@hotmail.com
or
Phone: 5134 1677
by 9.30 am on the Friday before this meeting.
Program: Guest Speaker
Gary Van Driel: CEO Latrobe City
All projects, scholars, and vocational training teams funded by global grants work toward specific goals in one or more of the Foundation’s six areas of focus:
MARCH:
WATER AND SANITATION MONTH
FOCUS: Provision of safe, clean drinking water to decrease world-wide poverty, while improving social stability.
Len’s Log 35
The annual Rotary Club of Moe Charity Golf Day on Monday 20th March was a great success. The winners overall were Matt’s Mates, (Matt Wilkinson’s team sponsored by his mum PP Di Wilkinson) for the third year in a row. What a fantastic result. Matt and his team have certainly mastered the three player Ambrose game.
Unfortunately the President’s Hackers started well and after 9 holes were competitive but deteriorated on the second 9 holes to finish in the middle of the field. There will be more practice for next year!
The raffle was won by Brett Farmer which was also a terrific result.
All involved worked very hard all day and we should be grateful to the Golf Day Committee and volunteers who put in such efforts before and on the day.
We will know the financial results in a week or so and the Board will discuss the application of funds in the community and beyond.
Latrobe City and our Playground sub-committee have been working on the draft plans for the playground and Alan Bishop will be speaking about any member input to the draft designs at the next RSL meeting in two weeks.
This coming Monday we will be meeting at SafeTech and a meal afterwards at the Tabaret at the Race club. Peter Kingsbury tells us that we should meet at Safetech at 6.00for 6.15. Dinner will be a la carte at the RSL with numbers to Kishor by Sunday afternoon.
We had two prospective members at the Golf Day who saw the “social side” of the club with enjoyment.
Laurie was born on the 1/5/1936 at Traralgon. He spent his early years at Gormandale, where his father was a Dairy Farmer. Laurie was educated at Gormandale East Primary School, Traralgon High School and Melbourne University where he graduated with a B.A. B.Ed. In 1958 Laurie became a Secondary School Teacher of History and Geography, teaching at Dandenong Technical School, Drouin, Korumburra, Bacchus Marsh, and Trafalgar High Schools. In 1976 Laurie became the last Principal of Yallourn High School. After its closure and a year in the Moe Regional Office of Education, Laurie had three years as Principal of Nathalia High School before transferring to Principal of Moe High School in 1982. Laurie married Jean in 1962, they have four children – David married to Janelle, Andrew married to Georgie, Robert married to Jo and Margaret married to Mark and five Grandchildren, Sam, Nicola, Olivia, Lauren, Jake and Emma. Laurie joined Rotary in Nathalia in 1979 and became a member of the Rotary Club of Moe in 1982. He was Club President in 1992-93 and has also been Club Treasurer, Bulletin Editor, Foundation Chairman and Club Historian. Laurie was a member of the Rotary Foundation at 9820 at District Level for many years and was a staunch advocate of the Rotary Foundation Mission. While Principal of Moe High School, Laurie served for a time as Gippsland representative on the Victorian Secondary Principals Association and spent some time as a Part-time Principal Liaison Officer. Since his retirement from the Education Department at the beginning of 1993, Laurie was heavily involved in a number of Community activities including the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Trafalgar and District Historical Society and work for Rotary Foundation on a District Basis. In 1997 Laurie was awarded a Paul Harris Fellow Award, the highest award a Rotarian can achieve, honouring a Legacy of Service to Rotary and the Community. His interests included History, Gardening, Travel, watching Test and Shield Cricket and Local Football, visiting Galleries and Museums, Open Gardens and attending Concerts (including classical and light classical). In 2015 due to ill health Laurie resigned from the Rotary Club of Moe, the Board regrettably accepted his resignation and appointed Laurie as an Honorary Member of the Club. Laurie had distinguished 33years of membership to the Rotary Club of Moe, throughout this time he upheld the Rotary ideals and his service to the Community is a testament to the person he was.
Saturday 11 February - Table Tennis Barbecue Monday 13 February - Rotarian Behind the Badge Thursday 16 February - Morwell RC Interclub Visit Monday 20 February - No meeting due to last week's schedule Wednesday 23 February - Rotary celebrates 111 years of service Monday 28 February - Club Assembly
NB: March 13 - Labour Day
March 20 - Gippsland Rotary Golf Classic
DISTRICT EVENTS: February 12 - Rotary Foundation Meeting March 3-5 - Multi District PETS
Allan Ormond was President and Jack Skelton Secretary. The Board reluctantly increased the Annual Subscription to $24 per year. Community Service had an active year with a further 150 trees planted in Lloyd Street. Community Service Chairman, Neil Tresidder, thanked the Moe Thirds Football Club and the City Council for their assistance with the tree planting. A Paddy’s Market was organised at the Moe Trade Fair and proved most successful, both financially and in terms of fellowship. A band of Rotarians, led by Tom Allen, painted the interior of Sunny Creek School at Old Gippstown while a fellowship meeting was held on the banks of the Latrobe River – Did anyone end up in the drink? Vocational Service arranged for” two fine lads “from Moe to attend the RYLA Camp.
Internationally the Club was most active. Brian Handley spoke to the Club, after his return from his year as a Foundation Technical Training Awardee in Kansas, giving Moe Rotarians an appreciation of International Youth Programs sponsored by Rotary. In March a tour was arranged for a visiting American Group Study Exchange Team. The Club had two students involved in the New Zealand Youth Exchange Scheme and completed the program to send bicycles to Rabaul, New Guinea, which had commenced in 1970-71. Ten bicycles were successfully dispatched. The Club through PDG Allan McHardy, arranged for Moe Plumber, Eric Tabuteau, to become a member of a FAIM team working on a project in New Guinea. Membership 41 Gained 7 Lost 8 Attendance 92.18%.
Pat and Mick where on a Trans-Atlantic Flight from JFK to Dublin on a brand new 4 engine Boeing 707 expected to take 6hours. One hour out of JFK the Captain announced that they had an engine failure but the plane was perfectly safe but the journey would take an extra 1 hour.
Sometime later a second engine failed, same procedure except that Captain now said the flight would take an extra 3 hours. After the “third” engine failed and a further 3 hours was added to the journey Pat said to Mick “I sure hope that we don’t lose another engine otherwise we will be up here all night”.
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