The Rotary Club of the Hills-Kellyville weekly bulletin provides updates on: 1) An upcoming program featuring a speaker from the Hills Historical Society discussing a local historical battle. 2) United Airlines donating over 2 million airline miles to Rotary for humanitarian projects after a social media campaign increased Rotary's ranking in a charity miles giveaway. 3) Rotary surpassing a $202 million fundraising challenge from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for polio eradication efforts, with plans for a local polio awareness event.

1. The Rotary Club of the Hills-Kellyville
Mon 16 Dec 2012
Issue 3. No. 23
Weekly Bulletin
Monday, 30 January 2012
Program: The Hills Historical Society
Duty Roster tonight:
Last Meeting: Door PP Alex Traill
Minutes PP Alan Jones
23 January 2012
Rotary Grace PP Ray Campbell
Program: Birthdays:
Anniversaries:
Apologies:
Toasts:
Loyal PP Alan Walker
Toasts: Overseas Club PE Bobby Redman
What Am I Up To Now PP Russ Evans
Loyal
PP Ian Pearce
Overseas Club
Rtn Michael Griscti
Welcome everyone. I hope you all enjoyed your week and especially Australia Day with
family and friends or went to one of the many celebration events that were still on in our
locality or on Sydney Harbour. Unfortunately due to the heavy rain we experienced on
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Wednesday 25 we decided to cancel our yearly Breakfast and Flag Raising Ceremony at
Kellyville. Thank you to Graeme Rohan for the setup and then dismantling of all the signs,
banners & bunting and also to Jim Sifonios for assisting in the organisation of the event and
also for contacting dignitaries and council of our decision to cancel. Hopefully next year the
weather won’t be against us.
Tonight I would like to welcome Pam Wilson from The Hills Historical Society who will be
talking to us about our local history on The Battle of Vinegar Hill and The Castle Hill
Rebellion.
President Penny Hill
Rotary receives about 2.5 million United airline miles for humanitarian projects
Thank you to all those at United -- including President and CEO Jeff Smisek -- for their generosity and
Next Meeting: the opportunity to participate in United's 10 Million Charity Miles Giveaway. And thank you to everyone
who voted for us. We couldn't have done it without your participation and persistence.
Monday 06 February 2012
For the miles giveaway, we officially came in second place and will receive 2,488,070 charity miles
from United. Rotarians will use the miles for humanitarian missions, such as transporting sick children
Program to hospitals.
Australian Brewery Visit Although the giveaway wasn't announced in advance, Rotarians and friends of Rotary quickly and
enthusiastically got the word out through social media, and we went from 18th place to second place.
WHAT AM I UP TO NOW This enabled us to receive a larger portion of the 10 million airline miles that United was donating. In
addition, we congratulate the Shriners, who took first place.
Duty Roster
Rotary Four-Way Test:
Door Is it the TRUTH?
Rotary Grace:
“O Lord our giver of all good Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Minutes Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER
We thank You for our daily food,
May Rotary friends and Rotary ways, FRIENDSHIPS?
Rotary Grace Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
Help us to serve you all our days”.

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International Services Director’s Report
Polio Eradication Program Rotary Foundation Thought for the week.
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On the 17 January 2012 This week's Rotary Foundation Thought is about
Rotary surpassed the Bill what Ambassadorial Scholars can achieve.
Gates Foundation
Challenge and has raised Probably Australia’s most famous Ambassadorial
US$202.6 million. In Scholar is Sir William Deane AC. He was a
recognition of Rotary’s early Justice of the High Court and Australia’s 22nd
achievement the Governor General. Locally many Ambassadorial
Foundation has granted a Scholars have gone to achieve impressive
further $50 million to the careers, including Professor Dominic Dwyer
cause. Rotarians sponsored by Mosman club. He was a GSE
throughout the World have a right to be proud of Team Member to India in 1986 and then as an
this achievement. Well done Rotary. Ambassadorial Scholar studied Infectious
Although this achievement is a milestone in the Diseases in 1989 at the Institute Pasteurs in
journey to the ultimate goal of eradicating polio Paris.
the work continues. The Hills-Kellyville Club will
play a part in this when they hold their polio Today Professor Dominic Dwyer is a medical
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awareness night on the 23 February. Please virologist and infectious diseases physician, and
note this date as a special event to which we is Director of the Centre for Infectious Diseases
encourage you to bring partners and friends. Pins and Microbiology Laboratory Services, at
and books will be on sale on the night. Westmead Hospital He has a clinical and
research interest in viral diseases and antiviral
Rotary Friendship Exchange with District 3040 drug resistance of public health importance, and
runs a clinical trials unit in antiviral drugs and
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vaccines. He assists State and National
From 13 - 22 May 2012 the District is hosting governments in planning for pandemic influenza
a team of three couples and single lady on a and emerging infections, and is actively involved
Rotary friendship exchange. It is many years in outbreak investigations.
since our district has had such an exchange and
these events are great opportunity to appreciate Professor Dominic Dwyer has undertaken
the internationality of Rotary. various overseas projects, including with the
World Health Organization during the SARS
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The group will be staying in the Hills from the 20 outbreak in Beijing, with the Australian
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to the 23 May and Barry Philps who is co- Government in Vietnam for avian influenza and
ordinating the visit is seeking Rotarians who the Maldives for tsunami relief, with the
would like to host any of the visitors during their University of Sydney in Malaysia and the Sudan
visit to this area. The plan is to try and involve as for HIV, and for public health regulatory bodies in
many of the Clubs in the zone as possible. New Zealand and Hong Kong.
Professor Dominic Dwyer is a member of the
If you are able to assist, please let Bobby
WHO Global Outbreak Alert Response Network,
Redman know and she will pass the information
and the Sydney Institute for Emerging Infectious
along to Barry.
Diseases and Biosecurity at Sydney University.
103rd International RI Convention Bangkok,
Thailand.
Toast to Overseas Club
This week we
This convention is promising would like to toast
to be one of the most the Rotary Club of
interesting and exciting yet Phuket south –
and will be excellent value Thailand – District
with the lowest registration 3330.
fee in years at only US$160 Together with their President,
for Rotarians and guests. The Suchana Chaloemtoem, the Club members
cost of food, lodging and transportation is also recently celebrated Childrens’ Day.
very economical so why don’t you consider
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attending this convention from 6 – 9 May in the
Land of a Thousand Smiles.
The Rotary Club of the Hills-Kellyville meets Monday Night at the Castle Hill Tavern 6.15pm for 6.45pm start.
Postal address: P O Box 6502, Baulkham Hills Business Centre 2153

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Time to register for this year’s District The Hills-Kellyville Club will be showcasing the
Conference in Wollongong. With the close vicinity Bourke project – do please come along and offer
and short travelling time from Sydney organisers your support. So far there are six definite
are expecting high registrations this year. attendees from the Club – it would be great to
Accommodation is booking out fast, so don’t miss double that number.
your opportunity to attend and share a few fun
days with Rotarian friends, old and new. See Bobby Redman for more information.
‘Friend of Rotary’
We welcome our first ‘Friend of Rotary’ member, Michael Richardson.
Michael Richardson has registered as our first ‘Friend of Rotary’, we all
appreciate the long standing relationship that Michael has had with Rotary,
he has supported our community projects over the years and become a
personal friend to many of us. Michael was an Honorary Member of the
Rotary Club of Kellyville, and of our current club.
We welcome Michael as our first ‘Friend of Rotary’.
2012-13 RI Theme 'Peace Through Service'
By Megan Ferringer and Arnold R. Grahl broadened his understanding of the world. After joining
Rotary International News -- 16 January 2012 the Rotary Club of Yashio, in 1975, he said, he began to
realize that his life's purpose was not to make more
RI President-elect Sakuji Tanaka money, but to be useful to other people.
unveiled the 2012-13 RI theme, Peace
Through Service, during the opening "I realized that by helping others, even in the simplest of
plenary session of the 2012 ways, I could help to build peace," Tanaka said.
International Assembly, a training
event for incoming Rotary district
governors. He noted that the Japanese tradition of putting the
needs of society above the needs of the individual
helped his country rebuild after the tsunami and
Tanaka unveiled the RI theme during the opening earthquake in March.
plenary session of the 2012 International Assembly, a
training event for incoming Rotary district governors.
"This is a lesson that I think the whole world can learn
from, in a positive way. When we see the needs of
"Peace, in all of the ways that we can understand it, is a others as more important than our own needs -- when
real goal and a realistic goal for Rotary," he said. "Peace we focus our energies on a shared goal that is for the
is not something that can only be achieved through good of all -- this changes everything," he said. "It
agreements, by governments, or through heroic changes our priorities in a completely fundamental way.
struggles. It is something that we can find and that we And it changes how we understand the idea of peace."
can achieve, every day and in many simple ways."
Tanaka will ask Rotarians to focus their energy on
Peace has different meanings for different people, supporting the three priorities of the RI Strategic Plan ,
Tanaka said. he said. He added that he will ask the incoming leaders
to promote three Rotary peace forums, to be held in
"No definition is right, and no definition is wrong," he Hiroshima, Japan; Berlin; and Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
said. "However we use the word, this is what peace
means for us. “In Rotary, our business is not profit. Our business is
peace,” he said. “Our reward is not financial, but the
"No matter how we use, or understand the word, Rotary happiness and satisfaction of seeing a better, more
can help us to achieve it," he added. peaceful world, one that we have achieved through our
own efforts.”
Tanaka, a businessman from the greater Tokyo
metropolitan area, shared how becoming a Rotarian
The Rotary Club of the Hills-Kellyville meets Monday Night at the Castle Hill Tavern 6.15pm for 6.45pm start.
Postal address: P O Box 6502, Baulkham Hills Business Centre 2153

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Club Members
Dan Murphy Roster
Saturday 4 February 2012
Name Classification
Ray Campbell PP,PHF Education - Secondary
Thomas Cann PHF Landscape Supplies
PP Rod Tilden
Col Davis Accounting Taxation
PP Allan Walker
Stephen Dinte Financial Planning
Russ
Henry
Evans
Grech
PP,PHF
PP
Finance
Legal Practice
Saturday 11 February 2012
PP Glen Wilcox
Michael Griscti PHF Lighting Technician
Rtn Bruce Pike
Paul Haslam Steel Distribution
Penny Hill Customer Service Manager
Alan Jones PP,PHF Marketing Consultancy
WHAT AM I UP TO NOW
Bob Low
6th Feb PP Rod Tilden
PHF Electrical Distribution
Robert Mackey
13th Feb PP Robert Mackey
PP,PHF Construction Services
Ian Pascoe
20th Feb PP Ray Campbell
PP Gas Fitting
Ian Pearce
27th Feb P Penny Hill
PP,PHF Industrial Consultancy
Bruce Pike Nursery Retail
Suresh Prasad PP Sugar Research
Haran Ramachandran PP,PHF Computer Support Duty Roster
Bobby Redman Psychology Monday 13 February 2012
Michael Richardson Honorary Member
Greg Rieper PP,PHF Consultancy Door PP Greg Rieper
Graeme Rohan PP,PHF Petroleum Distribution Minutes PP Allan Walker
Gordon Scoble PP,PHF Education Primary
Rotary Grace Rtn Stephen Dinte
Jim Sifonios PP,PHF Product Development
Keith Stapley PP,PHF Photogrammetry
Joke of the Day –
Rod Tilden PP,PHF Window Furnishing Sales
Alex Traill PP,PHF Building & Maintenance
A guy sticks his head in the barber shop and
Wilf Van Emmerik PP,PHF Specialised Transport asks, "How long before I can get a haircut?" The
Allan Walker PP Funeral Direction barber looks around the shop and says, "About
Glenn Willcox PP Project Estimating two hours." The guy leaves.
P – President PP - Past President PHF - Paul Harris Fellow
A few days later, the same guy sticks his head in
the door and asks, "How long before I get a
Club Calendar haircut?" The barber looks around the shop full of
customers and says, "About two hours." The guy
leaves.
A week later, the same guy sticks his head in the
shop and asks, "How long before I can get a
haircut?" The barber looks around the shop an
says, "About an hour and half." The guy leaves.
The barber looks over at a friend in the shop and
says, "Hey Bill, follow that guy and see where he
goes." In a little while, Bill comes back into the
shop laughing hysterically. The barber asks, "Bill,
where did he go when he left here?" Bill looked
up and said, "To your house."
Note: Apologies must be in to PP
Graeme Rohan by 12pm on Mondays
so numbers can be confirmed for
dinner.
The Rotary Club of the Hills-Kellyville meets Monday Night at the Castle Hill Tavern 6.15pm for 6.45pm start.
Postal address: P O Box 6502, Baulkham Hills Business Centre 2153