Rotary Club of Parramatta City Newsletter 18th July 2011

1. Rotary Club of Parramatta City
COMMUNITY NETWORKER
ROTARY CLUB OF PARRAMATTA CITY
PRESIDENT MESSAGE AUSTRALIAN
VOCATIONAL
This Monday I will arrive back from what I can only describe as a ADVISORY
magical and amazing wedding I have ever taken part in. On behalf of PROGRAM
the four members of our club who took part (Aidan, Alf, Maurice and
myself along with partners and in Maurice’s case daughter). In such a
small place as Singapore we saw so many different cultures in a very
organized environment. I will not describe the wedding as I will leave
that to Prashanth on his return to present to the club a presentational
video of the event. One of the joys was the meeting of the
photographer’s wife, Di; many of you may remember her as a staff Vocational Service is the foundation
on which Rotary membership is built..
member a few years back along with her sister at Barnaby’s As one of the original Four Avenues
of Service it has not always received
Restaurant. It appears her husband is a world class photographer and the same attention attributed to
the other three. To advance this
Di travels the world with him around four times a year for places such as
status, the Australian Regional Rotary
Paris and Rome. Institute of Governors initiated a
special committee in 1970 to produce
As part of our International Friendship Exchange we attended a material that offered support and
guidance to all clubs.
meeting of the Rotary Club of Jurong Town at the Taleng Club. Their Called the Australian Vocational
club is a lunchtime club very similar to our’s with senior active and Advisory Committee, this evolving
group has produced materials to
members holding similar position in the corporate level as ours. One assist planning and direction for clubs
seeking ideas to develop new
exception is their District takes in five counties and many of the programs in Vocational Service.
Available through the sales
weekend activities involve travelling to another country and the other
department of Rotary Down Under is
detail is the place of their meeting which I will describe and put the Vocational Service
Director’s Guide, a slim volume
photographs on our Facebook page. We made a short trip to dealing with the responsibilities, role
and promotion of the service area
Malaysia to visit Johor before Aidan, Fran Megan and I flew to along with a list of ideas ready for
Cambodia after the last wedding reception. In one way it was a great programming.
to land in Phnom Penh where high rise buildings are not as prevalent as
Singapore and to see open sky’s but it is an underdeveloped country
and we soon saw this when we visited Destiny Rescue and was taken
around to some of homes where the young children come from. After
Phnom Penh we travelled to Sian Reap for some R & R before
backtracking and heading home. A full report will be sent out at a later
date.

2. Rotary Club of Parramatta City
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
JULY
2 District Changeover- Penrith Paceway
4 Mark Wallace- New Editor Rotary Down Under
7-11 Prashanth’s Wedding
11 Huw Murray (RYPEN attendee) and Traveller Mark Hancock
18 Amanda Mason-Jones Cancer ward of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead
25 Tony Warner- Connecting with youth, working in the public schools on the South side
of Chicago with gangs, guns and metal detectors at every door.
August
15 Former Exchange Student Signe Leth
29 Prashanth- The Wedding with all its glory and splendored
FACEBOOK
We have now available for the club a new facebook page the shortcut is http://alturl.com/wvqj5
Please visit, make comments, open discussions and for your initial visit please hit the “like button”. The
reason is the more members who like the page, we receive additional features. The Facebook page is not a
substitute for our website, but more of an additional way to reach our audience.
NOTE FROM TREASURER
As at 14th July nine members have paid their half yearly subscriptions of $230. Fantastic.
A reminder to all other members that these fees are due and payable by 31 July.
OUR INTERNATIONAL SERVICE
AN UPDATE ON VAN FOR ST. PETER’S JUNIOR SCHOOL NORTHERN UGANDA
As you know the target for this project was $18,000 with up to $9,000 promised by way of a matching
donation from the David Henning Memorial Foundation.
As at 14 July donations total $6,769, still $2,231 short of the target.
Donations have been received as follows –

3. Rotary Club of Parramatta City
Corporate – Cumberland Home Loan Group $2,000
Rotary Club of Parramatta City 1,000
Rotarians for RC of Parramatta City 1,350
Pride of Workmanship Awards – Nth P’matta OOSH 300
Other Rotarians 100
Friends & family of Henning’s 2017
Anonymous 2
$6,769
REPORTER’S NOTES: Lisa Surian
Report for today's meeting;
David Ross opened the meeting on behalf of Barry Antees who is attending the Wedding of the Year.
Welcomes were made to Hugh Murray, his mother Sharon & father Andrew
Toast to the Rotary Club of Singapore founded in 1930 and have some excellent publications for people lacking in
humour.
Director Reports;
Joy had mail !
Northcott Newsletter and Invitation for the 10th Anniversary of a Rotaract Club in the Mountains
Johnny has received correspondence regarding a Community RI Award, for clubs that perform projects in 3 out of
the 6 areas of Rotary, therefore if our or other clubs tick each box there is a special award presented. Johnny will
circulate more details once he locates the letter.
Mark had nothing to report
David spoke about the International application for a GSE Team Leader and encouraged members to apply, also
there are applications for 2 members to go to Finland.The International Convention is on in Bangkok and is
sponsored by the Government so is competitively priced dates to come, and District Conference is in Penrith 23-
25th March 2012 with an Expo attached to it this year.
Keith advised that subscriptions are now due.
We had a fantastic address by Hugh Murray, sorry my report lacks details of this talk as I didn't write anything
down as the talk was enthralling, Hugh is an amazing talent (not average to say the least) he looked to have got
allot out of the RYPEN weekend and expressed Gratitude to Mark Cadman for the nomination and our club for the
opportunity, a program as Sharon & Andrew Murray said would have a lasting impact on their son.
Mark & Karen's overseas exposé's were explored great content, overview and congratulations to them both on
the birth of their granddaughter Ivy Jane.
Lisa