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2 8 t h A u g u s t 2 0 1 2
RCDC
ROTARY CLUB OF DIAMOND CREEK
Look at me !
Mum said
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RI President
Sakuji Tanaka Rotary Club of Yashio, Saitama, Japan
Governor
John Gatt Rotary Club of Diamond Creek
AG
Pat Miller Rotary Club of Diamond Creek
Club Officers
President Steve Crosling
Vice President Alan Jones
President Elect Bev Baker
Secretary Greg Paull
Treasurer & Public Officer Greg Adams
Directors and Standing Committees
Club Administration PE Bev Baker
Membership John Egan
Public Relations PP Alan Jones
Service Projects PP Alan White
Rotary Foundation PP Linda Gidlund
Who ya gunna call !
President Steve Crosling 0417 595 282
Secretary Greg Paull 0427 712 688
Treasurer Greg Adams 0419 355 842
Editor: Greg Adams
Art Director: Greg Adams
Advertising : Greg Adams
Bottle washer : Greg as well
Editorial: send to [email protected]
Caution: The Bulletin contains no calories, vitamins,
minerals or proteins. In fact, it is devoid of nutritional value.
Nevertheless, it is a supplement much sought after and
regularly devoured by the Rotarians of Diamond Creek.
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RCDC
V o l u m e 2 1 I s s u e 9
Note: The views and opinions expressed in this newsletter
are not necessarily those of the Club or its members
District 9790
past presidents
Brian Bowen 1978-1979 Heidelberg North
Bob Eycken 1983-1984 Alperton UK
John McCrohan 1992-1993
Ron Gordon 1993-1994
Chris Doupe 1994-1995
Cliff Wearne 1995-1996
Ern Wardell 1996-1997
Rod Mackenzie 1997-1998
Steve Sampson 1998-1999
Robin Chapple 1999-2000
Peter Marriage 2000-2001
Rob Lloyd 2001-2002
Bev Baker 2002-2003
Joe Di Natale 2003-2004
Geoff Swan 2004-2005
John Gatt 2005-2006
John Arthur 2006-2007
Linda Gidlund 2007-2008
Alan White 2008-2009
Pat Millar
2009-2010
Clyde Hulme
2010-2011
Alan Jones
2011-2012
Facebook night
Thank you to Jacqui,
And
Natalie
And Sashie
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THE PRESIDENTIAL CROSS CHAT
XRAY STEVE
I have just returned from Euroa where I attended part 1 of the Rotary Leadership
Institute Course. This course has been developed by Rotary International as a grass
roots district leadership development program designed to strengthen clubs through
quality leadership education, and is convened in District 9790 by PDG Mani
Seneviratne. Mani opened Sunday’s proceedings by talking about the passion of
Rotarians and how to channel this passion into building better and stronger clubs
through better leaders and a better understanding of what Rotary is all about. The
course is available to all Rotarians, is not job or position specific, comprises 3 parts
and is conducted by experienced and formally trained Rotarians from our District.
Our facilitators for the day were PP’s Michael Tehan, Bob Matejcic and Gary
Fitzgerald and they ran a very tight but informative program. DG John Gatt also
attended the seminar and spoke of the wider vision of Rotary and how we as course
students were setting out to achieve that vision.
To quote from the RLI manual “RLI believes that having leadership skills does not
alone assure good Rotary leadership. An Effective Rotary leader must ALSO have
Rotary knowledge, perspective about where Rotary has been, where it is now and a
vision of what Rotary can be.” The overriding goal of the courses for club Rotarians
is to create enthusiasm for Rotary by opening them up to the world of Rotary outside
of their own clubs and also showing them the great potential of Rotary service for
the benefit of the world that can be furthered with excellent leadership in our clubs.
The aim is for students to return to their clubs with enthusiasm, new contacts, fresh
ideas, an increased understanding of Rotary and mew skills. Hopefully I have
achieved at least part of that but only time will tell.
Part 1 covered the topics understanding leadership, Rotary beyond the club,
membership retention, Rotary Foundation, leadership and team building and
service projects so it can be seen that the course is for ALL Rotarians with a desire to
do more in Rotary even at a club level. It is not just for Presidents or PEs, and can
in fact be of great use for anyone in any role anywhere.
Was the course worth it? YES. Did I lean anything? YES. Is it worth the effort? YES.
I will be encouraging our club members to attend the next part 1 session which will
be held in December – our club pays the registration and all you have to do is
provide the passion, petrol and one day. The more we know about and understand
Rotary the better we will become at being Rotarians and therefore better persons in
our community. Go for it!!!!
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28st AUGUST 2012 TUESDAY 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Club Ass. Attend, Jacqui H , Chair, Steve C, Cash Greg A,Welcome Arthur L, Regalia Alan
J, Raffle Gift Warwick L.
4th SEPTEMBER 2012 TUESDAY 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Attend, Alan W , Chair, Rod M, Cash Greg A, Welcome Pat M,
Regalia David P, Raffle Gift Roger K.
LIFE’S EVENTS
Aug 30 Kerry and Alan anniversary.
Sept 2 Alan White joined this club 18 years ago.
Sept 3 Kerry Jones birthday
Sept 7 Peter Hodge birthday, Pat Millar birthday.
WHAT’S ON, WHO’S ON AND WHEN’S IT ON
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AS IT HAPPENED LAST WEEK ?
Toast to Australia: Arthur Lewin
Rotary Grace: John Egan
President Steve
Town fair: Rod Mackenzie
The town fair has been postponed to November 24th. Now looking at redesigning to include Elizabeth St so
there is more hard surface for stalls. Also considering a permanent change of date. Refer to email for
details.
President Steve thanked Rod and other team members for the effort put in so far.
Probus: Ern Wardell
Certificate of appreciation has been given to John Mckeown as a thanks for his help setting up Probus.
Doreen has a waiting list and an interest list. They are having a mini expo on Saturday and Ern is attending
- part of this is to assess the interest in Probus in Mernda.
Reminders:
Board meeting next Monday at 7.30. Please send reports by Friday.
Keep going on the 5 cent collections!
Ohs meeting (town fair) has been rescheduled to November 20th.
Conference: We have real bookings coming in. Please get your booking in as per email detail earlier this
week.
Chair for the night: John Egan
Sergeant Roger found a few odd reasons for fining the innocent amongst us.
Facetube: Jacqui Hodge
Jacqui gave us a hands on demo of Facebook including some tips and tricks.
901 millions users. 125 billion 'friend' connections. 500 million people on a mobile device. See email for
useful facebook friends.
Youth Exchange: Bea showed us a fantastic video she had prepared on being an exchange student. We
would like to use this at conference next year.
Raffle: drawn by Sarshi, Won by Roger, Raised: $40
Fines: $26
Meeting closed at 8.55
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From left. Hoshi Kotani, Baby Maho, Maiko, Geoff, Sohta, Glenda, Komiko, Sho and Marie.
Best wishes to all at the club! We are having a great time.
We have just spent sometime in Fukuoka, Japan with our past host daughter
Maiko ( on Geoff's right )and her family. We had a wonderful time there with
them, it was so nice to catch up with them again. The weather in Japan is
very hot and humid.
We trip so far has been great. We have cruised from Sydney to Beijing on the
Dawn Princess, visiting, Singapore, Thailand! Vietnam, Hong Kong and China.
We had excellent weather and flat water all the way.
We left Japan yesterday morning and have arrived in Moscow last night. We
have a free day today in Moscow on our own today before we board The
Golden Eagle Train to travel the Trans Siberian Railroad on route to
Vladivostok for 16 days.
The weather is much cooler here, around 20degrees. It's a nice relief as the
weather most of our trip has been in the high 30's.
This is the first time we have had good Internet reception since we left
Sydney, but once we leave Moscow tomorrow we probably have connection
for the next few weeks on the train.
Regards to all from Geoff and Glenda
GEOFF & GLENDA SWANINGAROUND
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Phone 03 9438 3044
Fax: 03 9438 4070
Rotary Grace
O Lord and giver of all good
We thank you for our daily food
May Rotary friends and Rotary ways,
help us to serve you all our days.
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 Nature's 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!"