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New Horizons
                        The Official Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay
                           PO Box 168, Nedlands, Western Australia, 6909 !        District 9450!     ABN: 99 602 195 617

 Volume 1, Issue 9"                                                                                                             16th - 22nd March 2009

Rotaract                     Letter from the Club    Rotary and Literacy     Rotar y Foundation      Movie Fundraiser                Four Way Test
Summary        of    the     President               Focus on Literacy       Thought of the Week     Summary of the recent           Of the things we think,
Rotaract presentation at     President Di talks      Month.                  Arch C. Klumph, Well-   movie fundraiser.               do and say - expanded.
last week’s metings.         about Literacy Month.   Page 2                  rounded Citizen.        Page 2                          Page 4
Page 1                       Page 2                                          Page 2




                                                 The ‘Kids for Kids’ project sees kids in            Simone Carot Collins, a former Rotaractor,
Rotaract                                         schools making cards which the Club sells.          and now member of our club, also spoke
                                                 They also buy teddy bears for foster children,      briefly about another Rotaract Project.
                                                 and have given 400 bears over the past 18
                                                 months.                                             The Panama Self-Sustainable farms project,
                                                                                                     which was a funded through a matching
                                                 The Club members go out and knock on                grant between the Rotaract Clubs of Panama
                                                 doors for the Red Shield Appeal and man the         and South Perth and Rotary District 9450.
                                                 phones in the Telethon phone room. They
                                                 have also been raising money that is going to       The project was worth a total of around US
                                                 the start-up of a Micro Credit Trust Bank,          $34,000, and was completed in 2006: http://
                                                 with the focus being on East Timor.                 w w w. s o u t h p e r t h . r o t a r a c t 9 4 7 0 . o r g /
                                                                                                     activities/panama.php
                                                 For more information on the Rotaract Club of
                                                 Subiaco    please   see    their    website:        Simone’s Powerpoint presentation and
Ian Ball, from the Rotaract Club of South        www.subirotaract.com                                speech transcript is available online at
Perth, and Lauren Basanovic, from the                                                                http://www.slideshare.net/scollins77/
Rotaract Club of Subiaco, attended the           Ian is the President of the Rotaract Club of        introduction-to-rotaract if you are interested
last meeting to discuss Rotaract. The            South Perth, which has 5 active members and         in taking a look.
presentation was scheduled to coincide           meets fortnightly.
with the 41st Anniversary of the world’s                                                             You may also be interested in the latest issue
first Rotaract Club.                              The South Perth club’s projects include, Dial-      of the Rotary International "Interactive"
                                                 a-Santa, Relay for Life, Hyde Park Fair and a       online newsletter, which features a story
Rotaract has a significant history in             Car Rally.                                          about some other amazing Rotaract projects -
Australia, with both the 4th and 7th                                                                 the link is: http://www.rotary.org/en/
Rotaract Clubs being formed in Australia.        The Dial-A-Santa project, is possibly the           MediaAndNews/Newsletters/Interactive/
There are currently 49 clubs in Australia,       longest running Rotaract project worldwide,         Pages/200903/Feature.aspx
of which 6 are in Western Australia. There       as it has been running annually in WA since
are currently no Rotaract Clubs in the           1981. The club takes Santa bookings from the
Northern Territory or South Australia.           community and organises for Rotarians to act
                                                 as Santas, which has raised around $250,000.
Lauren is the Vice President of the              Details on the project can be found at:
Rotaract Club of Subiaco, which has 15           www.dialaanta.com
members and meets every second week
on a Thursday.                                   The club assists the Rotary Club of North
                                                 Perth at the Hyde Park Fair, as well as
Their current projects include, ‘Kids for        entering a team in the Relay for Life.
Kids’, Red Shield Appeal, Telethon and
Micro Credit Trust Banks.                        For more information on the Rotaract Club of
                                                 South Perth please see their website:
                                                 www.southperth.rotaract9470.org


Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay, District 9450!                                                                                                                    1
N      E   W        H    O     R   I   Z   O   N     S

                                                     Last year in Nigeria we were impressed
Letter from the Club                                 with a literacy project where several clubs
                                                     in the Lagos area are paying ‘beggars’ what
President                                            their children might earn on the streets
                                                     ‘begging’, so that they can attend school
Dear Rotarians,                                      each afternoon.       These children are
Along with March celebrating World                   provided with a uniform, sandals, a meal
Rotaract Week, in the Rotary Calendar                plus education, in an effort to break the
March is also Literacy month.                        poverty cycle (unemployment in Nigeria is
                                                     around 70%) by educating them.
For many years Rotary clubs and districts
around the world have made education                 There is not a single doubt that we do have
and literacy one of their major emphasis.            the ability to Make Dreams Real!
Back in about 1984-85 a wonderfully                  Yours in Rotary Service,
dedicated Australian educator, Dr Richard
                                                     Di Collins
Walker, from Queensland, devised an
                                                     Charter President
accelerated learning program, which he
named the Rotary Lighthouse for Literacy
project. Dick took this project to four              Rotary and Literacy
northern provinces in Thailand for trialing.
It was so successful the Thai Government             In 1985, Rotary declared basic literacy to be
picked it up and it swept through Thailand           a pre-condition to the development of
with magnificent results as far as Literacy           peace.    Through      this    organizational        RC of Falamo Literacy project in Lagos.
was concerned.                                       emphasis, more than half the world’s                 'Beggars' children where they are given food
                                                     nearly 33,000 Rotary clubs address the full          each day - rice, eggs and a sauce
This project has traversed the globe, with           range of literacy and mathematical
major Health Hunger and Humanity                     challenges for primary, vocational, and
Grants going to many countries to train              adult learners as well as teacher training.
teachers and implement this Concentrated
Learning Encounter (CLE) Lighthouse for              Many Rotary club members promote what
                                                                                                          The Rotary
Literacy Project. Dick, a District Governor          is called "lighthouse" literacy projects –
                                                     those that can be replicated easily, thereby
                                                                                                          Foundation
of Rotary back in 1979-80 is now in his 80s
                                                     increasing the scope of their impact.                Week 37: This week’s Rotary Foundation
and is another proud Australian who,
through his vision, dedication and untiring          Lighthouse literacy projects have been               Thought: Arch C. Klumph, Well-rounded
work has impacted the world through his              created for formal schooling, older children         Citizen.
vocation and membership in Rotary. I refer           who are not in school, functionally illiterate
                                                                                                          This week’s Rotary Foundation Thought is
you to the Health Hunger and Humanity                adults (particularly women), special
                                                                                                          about Living a Full and Well-rounded Life,
book by Sir Clem Renouf which Ken and I              groups, and teacher’s training.
                                                                                                          as illustrated by the founder of our
gave to all present at the Charter Night last        The purpose of these projects is to inspire,         Foundation, Arch C. Klumph.
week. Clem gives a historic account of the           guide and support national authorities
                                                                                                          From our archives: Arch had a great love of
Literacy program, Dick and Rotary’s work             toward alleviating mass illiteracy in
                                                                                                          music. At age 18 he began to study the
in this area from P.97. I ask each of you to         developing countries. In Thailand, for
                                                                                                          flute, and three years later he received a
read this, as it will give you an insight into       example, the “lighthouse” literacy effort
                                                                                                          chair in the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra.
just one aspect of our wonderful                     has been so successful that the government
                                                                                                          He played with the orchestra for 14 years
organisation.                                        adopted it as a national program. Similar
                                                                                                          and was a lifelong sponsor of it. "My heart
                                                     literacy initiatives have been sponsored by
                                                                                                          is in music and my head is in business," he
Rotary International Presidents have made            Rotary clubs in Australia, Bangladesh, and
                                                                                                          said.
Literacy one of their emphases year after            South Africa.
year.                                                                                                     Arch balanced his love of music and theater
One President had a special committee for                                                                 with his professional business and dreamed
‘Education of the Girl Child’, and currently                                                              huge dreams beyond Cleveland to the
there is another literacy project in operation                                                            theater of the world, with spectacular
which is to do with mentoring and                                                                         success. One of those dreams was The
computers which PDG Sylvia Byers is                                                                       Rotary Foundation.
involved with and which she encourages                                                                    Your contribution to The Rotary Foundation
our Club to pick up. We could have Sylvia                                                                 keeps Arch Klumph’s dream alive and
talk to us or the Projects committee                                                                      fulfills the dreams of many people around
sometime.                                            Movie Fundraiser                                     the world who need our help.
                                                     The club recently held a movie fundraiser
As Ken and I have travelled, particularly in
                                                     at the Somerville Theatre. The event was
developing countries we have seen
                                                     made possible by Jan Stewart who
amazing projects happening in the literacy
                                                     provided the tickets, Mara Basanovic and
field. One Rotarian in India is not only
                                                     Marija Jelavic sold the tickets, set up and
taking children from the slums, paying
                                                     organised the event."
teachers to stay back to allow these children
to do their homework, but bringing in the            They did an excellent job and the Club
mothers to educate them one afternoon a              thanks each of them for their initiative and
week after school and every now and then             valued contribution. "     The estimated
slips in a lesson on such things as nutrition.       amount raised was around $500.


2!                                                                                                               Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay, District 9450
N   E    W        H    O    R    I     Z   O   N   S


Four Way Test
Is it the TRUTH?
There is a timelessness in truth which is unchangeable. Truth
cannot exist without justice.
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
The substitution of fairness for the harsh principles of doing
business at arm's length has improved rather than urt business
relationships.
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Man is by nature a cooperative animal and it is his natural instinct
to express love.
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
This question eliminates the dog-eat-dog and substitutes the idea
of constructive and creative competition.



                                                                                                              Slum area in Lagos



                                                                                        Program for March / April
                                                                                               Date                                Details

                                                                                  19th March                      Committee Meetings

                                                                                  25th March                      Board Meeting @ Ken & Di’s House

                                                                                  26th March                      Vietnam - Lyn Packer

                                                                                  2nd April                       Mission of Hope - India - Br. James

                                                                                  9th April                       Dreamfit - Darren Lomman
                         ‘Beggars Children’ in Lagos
                                                                                  16th April                      Committee Meetings




      Welcoming Roster                                 Board                                              Club Details
                                                                                                          Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay
          Date                      Name               Rotary Year 2008-09                                PO Box 168,
                                                                                                          Nedlands,
                                                       Di Collins — President
                                                                                                          Western Australia, 6909
 19th March                 Mary-Ann Wright            president@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
                                                       Ken Collins — Vice President /                     Meetings
 26th March                 Margaret Stuart            Membership Director                                Thursday 5:45pm to 6:45pm
                                                       vicepresident@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
                                                                                                          Cafe, Bethesda Hospital
                                                       membership@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
 2nd April                  Roger Marston                                                                 Queenslea Drive
                                                       Rajah Senitharajah — Treasurer                     Claremont
                                                       treasurer@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
                                                       Daniel Forsdyke — Secretary                        Email
                                                                                                          president@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
                                                       secretary@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
Bulletin Contributions                                 Bryant Stokes — Projects Director
                                                                                                          Phone!
                                                                                                          08 9385 0471
                                                       projects@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
                                                                                                          Fax
Contributions for the weekly bulletin are Claire Forsdyke — International Director                        08 9385 0472
sought from members of the club.            foundation@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
                                                                                                          Website
Why not use the bulletin to update the club Glenn Darlington — President Nominee /
on the projects your committee is working Public Relations Director
                                                                                                          www.rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au

on or promote the clubs next fundraising publicrelations@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au                       Facebook
event.                                   Peter Symons — Finance Director                                  http://www.facebook.com/group.php?
                                                       finance@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au                  gid=47737002646
Please forward articles and photos to
daniel.forsdyke@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
                                                                                                          Chartered 19 December 2008


Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay, District 9450!                                                                                                           3

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Rc Freshwater Bay Bulletin V1 I9

  • 1. New Horizons The Official Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay PO Box 168, Nedlands, Western Australia, 6909 ! District 9450! ABN: 99 602 195 617 Volume 1, Issue 9" 16th - 22nd March 2009 Rotaract Letter from the Club Rotary and Literacy Rotar y Foundation Movie Fundraiser Four Way Test Summary of the President Focus on Literacy Thought of the Week Summary of the recent Of the things we think, Rotaract presentation at President Di talks Month. Arch C. Klumph, Well- movie fundraiser. do and say - expanded. last week’s metings. about Literacy Month. Page 2 rounded Citizen. Page 2 Page 4 Page 1 Page 2 Page 2 The ‘Kids for Kids’ project sees kids in Simone Carot Collins, a former Rotaractor, Rotaract schools making cards which the Club sells. and now member of our club, also spoke They also buy teddy bears for foster children, briefly about another Rotaract Project. and have given 400 bears over the past 18 months. The Panama Self-Sustainable farms project, which was a funded through a matching The Club members go out and knock on grant between the Rotaract Clubs of Panama doors for the Red Shield Appeal and man the and South Perth and Rotary District 9450. phones in the Telethon phone room. They have also been raising money that is going to The project was worth a total of around US the start-up of a Micro Credit Trust Bank, $34,000, and was completed in 2006: http:// with the focus being on East Timor. w w w. s o u t h p e r t h . r o t a r a c t 9 4 7 0 . o r g / activities/panama.php For more information on the Rotaract Club of Subiaco please see their website: Simone’s Powerpoint presentation and Ian Ball, from the Rotaract Club of South www.subirotaract.com speech transcript is available online at Perth, and Lauren Basanovic, from the http://www.slideshare.net/scollins77/ Rotaract Club of Subiaco, attended the Ian is the President of the Rotaract Club of introduction-to-rotaract if you are interested last meeting to discuss Rotaract. The South Perth, which has 5 active members and in taking a look. presentation was scheduled to coincide meets fortnightly. with the 41st Anniversary of the world’s You may also be interested in the latest issue first Rotaract Club. The South Perth club’s projects include, Dial- of the Rotary International "Interactive" a-Santa, Relay for Life, Hyde Park Fair and a online newsletter, which features a story Rotaract has a significant history in Car Rally. about some other amazing Rotaract projects - Australia, with both the 4th and 7th the link is: http://www.rotary.org/en/ Rotaract Clubs being formed in Australia. The Dial-A-Santa project, is possibly the MediaAndNews/Newsletters/Interactive/ There are currently 49 clubs in Australia, longest running Rotaract project worldwide, Pages/200903/Feature.aspx of which 6 are in Western Australia. There as it has been running annually in WA since are currently no Rotaract Clubs in the 1981. The club takes Santa bookings from the Northern Territory or South Australia. community and organises for Rotarians to act as Santas, which has raised around $250,000. Lauren is the Vice President of the Details on the project can be found at: Rotaract Club of Subiaco, which has 15 www.dialaanta.com members and meets every second week on a Thursday. The club assists the Rotary Club of North Perth at the Hyde Park Fair, as well as Their current projects include, ‘Kids for entering a team in the Relay for Life. Kids’, Red Shield Appeal, Telethon and Micro Credit Trust Banks. For more information on the Rotaract Club of South Perth please see their website: www.southperth.rotaract9470.org Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay, District 9450! 1
  • 2. N E W H O R I Z O N S Last year in Nigeria we were impressed Letter from the Club with a literacy project where several clubs in the Lagos area are paying ‘beggars’ what President their children might earn on the streets ‘begging’, so that they can attend school Dear Rotarians, each afternoon. These children are Along with March celebrating World provided with a uniform, sandals, a meal Rotaract Week, in the Rotary Calendar plus education, in an effort to break the March is also Literacy month. poverty cycle (unemployment in Nigeria is around 70%) by educating them. For many years Rotary clubs and districts around the world have made education There is not a single doubt that we do have and literacy one of their major emphasis. the ability to Make Dreams Real! Back in about 1984-85 a wonderfully Yours in Rotary Service, dedicated Australian educator, Dr Richard Di Collins Walker, from Queensland, devised an Charter President accelerated learning program, which he named the Rotary Lighthouse for Literacy project. Dick took this project to four Rotary and Literacy northern provinces in Thailand for trialing. It was so successful the Thai Government In 1985, Rotary declared basic literacy to be picked it up and it swept through Thailand a pre-condition to the development of with magnificent results as far as Literacy peace. Through this organizational RC of Falamo Literacy project in Lagos. was concerned. emphasis, more than half the world’s 'Beggars' children where they are given food nearly 33,000 Rotary clubs address the full each day - rice, eggs and a sauce This project has traversed the globe, with range of literacy and mathematical major Health Hunger and Humanity challenges for primary, vocational, and Grants going to many countries to train adult learners as well as teacher training. teachers and implement this Concentrated Learning Encounter (CLE) Lighthouse for Many Rotary club members promote what The Rotary Literacy Project. Dick, a District Governor is called "lighthouse" literacy projects – those that can be replicated easily, thereby Foundation of Rotary back in 1979-80 is now in his 80s increasing the scope of their impact. Week 37: This week’s Rotary Foundation and is another proud Australian who, through his vision, dedication and untiring Lighthouse literacy projects have been Thought: Arch C. Klumph, Well-rounded work has impacted the world through his created for formal schooling, older children Citizen. vocation and membership in Rotary. I refer who are not in school, functionally illiterate This week’s Rotary Foundation Thought is you to the Health Hunger and Humanity adults (particularly women), special about Living a Full and Well-rounded Life, book by Sir Clem Renouf which Ken and I groups, and teacher’s training. as illustrated by the founder of our gave to all present at the Charter Night last The purpose of these projects is to inspire, Foundation, Arch C. Klumph. week. Clem gives a historic account of the guide and support national authorities From our archives: Arch had a great love of Literacy program, Dick and Rotary’s work toward alleviating mass illiteracy in music. At age 18 he began to study the in this area from P.97. I ask each of you to developing countries. In Thailand, for flute, and three years later he received a read this, as it will give you an insight into example, the “lighthouse” literacy effort chair in the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. just one aspect of our wonderful has been so successful that the government He played with the orchestra for 14 years organisation. adopted it as a national program. Similar and was a lifelong sponsor of it. "My heart literacy initiatives have been sponsored by is in music and my head is in business," he Rotary International Presidents have made Rotary clubs in Australia, Bangladesh, and said. Literacy one of their emphases year after South Africa. year. Arch balanced his love of music and theater One President had a special committee for with his professional business and dreamed ‘Education of the Girl Child’, and currently huge dreams beyond Cleveland to the there is another literacy project in operation theater of the world, with spectacular which is to do with mentoring and success. One of those dreams was The computers which PDG Sylvia Byers is Rotary Foundation. involved with and which she encourages Your contribution to The Rotary Foundation our Club to pick up. We could have Sylvia keeps Arch Klumph’s dream alive and talk to us or the Projects committee fulfills the dreams of many people around sometime. Movie Fundraiser the world who need our help. The club recently held a movie fundraiser As Ken and I have travelled, particularly in at the Somerville Theatre. The event was developing countries we have seen made possible by Jan Stewart who amazing projects happening in the literacy provided the tickets, Mara Basanovic and field. One Rotarian in India is not only Marija Jelavic sold the tickets, set up and taking children from the slums, paying organised the event." teachers to stay back to allow these children to do their homework, but bringing in the They did an excellent job and the Club mothers to educate them one afternoon a thanks each of them for their initiative and week after school and every now and then valued contribution. " The estimated slips in a lesson on such things as nutrition. amount raised was around $500. 2! Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay, District 9450
  • 3. N E W H O R I Z O N S Four Way Test Is it the TRUTH? There is a timelessness in truth which is unchangeable. Truth cannot exist without justice. Is it FAIR to all concerned? The substitution of fairness for the harsh principles of doing business at arm's length has improved rather than urt business relationships. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? Man is by nature a cooperative animal and it is his natural instinct to express love. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned? This question eliminates the dog-eat-dog and substitutes the idea of constructive and creative competition. Slum area in Lagos Program for March / April Date Details 19th March Committee Meetings 25th March Board Meeting @ Ken & Di’s House 26th March Vietnam - Lyn Packer 2nd April Mission of Hope - India - Br. James 9th April Dreamfit - Darren Lomman ‘Beggars Children’ in Lagos 16th April Committee Meetings Welcoming Roster Board Club Details Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay Date Name Rotary Year 2008-09 PO Box 168, Nedlands, Di Collins — President Western Australia, 6909 19th March Mary-Ann Wright president@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Ken Collins — Vice President / Meetings 26th March Margaret Stuart Membership Director Thursday 5:45pm to 6:45pm vicepresident@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Cafe, Bethesda Hospital membership@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au 2nd April Roger Marston Queenslea Drive Rajah Senitharajah — Treasurer Claremont treasurer@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Daniel Forsdyke — Secretary Email president@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au secretary@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Bulletin Contributions Bryant Stokes — Projects Director Phone! 08 9385 0471 projects@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Fax Contributions for the weekly bulletin are Claire Forsdyke — International Director 08 9385 0472 sought from members of the club. foundation@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Website Why not use the bulletin to update the club Glenn Darlington — President Nominee / on the projects your committee is working Public Relations Director www.rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au on or promote the clubs next fundraising publicrelations@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Facebook event. Peter Symons — Finance Director http://www.facebook.com/group.php? finance@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au gid=47737002646 Please forward articles and photos to daniel.forsdyke@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Chartered 19 December 2008 Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay, District 9450! 3