Last Meeting:

26 March 2012 Program:

GSE Farewell Night

Apologies:

Next Meeting:

Monday 16 April 2012

Program

Association of Independent Retirees

WHAT AM I UP TO NOW PP Jim Sifonios

l

Duty Roster

Door

PP Alan Jones Minutes

PP Graeme Rohan

Rotary Grace

PP Rodney Tilden

Rotary Grace:

“O Lord our 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”.

Rotary Four-

Way Test:

Is it the TRUTH?

Is it FAIR to all

concerned?

Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Mon 04 Apr 2012

Issue 3. No. 32 The Rotary Club of the Hills-Kellyville

Weekly Bulletin

Program: The Hills Environment & Project Group Duty Roster tonight: Door PP Ray Campbell Minutes PP Keith Stapley Rotary Grace PP Alan Walker Birthdays: 5th Annette Rieper

13th Helen Traill 19th Ian Pearce 24th Shirley Griscti 27th Beverley Low 29th Bobby Redman

Anniversaries: Toasts: Loyal PP Bob Low Overseas Club PE Bobby Redman What Am I Up To Now PP Keith Stapley

Rotary Four-Way Test: Is it the TRUTH?

Is it FAIR to all concerned? Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER

FRIENDSHIPS? Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Rotary Grace: “O Lord our 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”.

Monday, 02 April 2012

Last Wednesday evening we had a good representation of our members and partners who attended the Farewell Dinner to our GSE Team of journalists from the UK. The UK team addressed us on their Vocational and Social visits during their stay and they will each take back with them their memorable experiences to compare with their journalistic roles back home. They each could not praise enough the way they were welcomed and looked after during their stay by their host families and all the Clubs who went out of their way to ensure their stay exceeded their expectations. We had the opportunity to talk to a couple of the team members during the dinner who were seated out our two tables. Friday morning Bobby Redman, Alan Jones and Keith Stapley hosted the GSE Team to Tobruk Station where they had a chance to experience boomerang throwing, stock whip cracking and sheep shearing. The team really enjoyed the morning and I’m sure that Bobby Redman will give a further detailed report of the outing with the team. Thank you to Alan and Keith for providing the transport. On Friday evening the outgoing GSE Team to the UK held a Trivia Night at the Sydney Tatts Club. Claire Thompson, whom we are sponsoring, assisted the organisation of the event and a few of us were able to attend. We had a very enjoyable evening and although we were not successful in winning any prizes we were not disgraced by our efforts on our table which included four members of The Rotary Club of Chatswood. Proceeds from the evening were to assist in the costs of the teams expenses and to Polio Plus. They hoped to raise around $10,000 - $15,000 from ticket collection, raffles and silent auctions.. Tonight Gerard Nolan representing The Hills Environmental and Project Group will give us an update on what is happening in our local area. President Penny Hill

Providing shelter

Rotary International and ShelterBox have signed a project partner agreement that will allow the two organizations to collaborate more closely to provide relief and temporary shelter to survivors of disasters.

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Summary of Last meeting Our club attended the GSE Farewell evening hosted by the Castle Hill Rotary Club as such we do not have any reports to add this week.

GSE team with a visit to Tobruk Sheep Station On Friday Keith, Bobby and Alan hosted the UK GSE team with a visit to Tobruk Sheep Station. The team were given various presentations on the life of a stockman, sheep shearing and camp cooking. They were shown how to throw a boomerang

and how to crack a whip.

The boomerang throwing proved to be very popular with varying levels of success. One of the highlights was damper and billy tea around the camp fire together with a talk on how this was done for stockmen in the bush. After an enjoyable morning at Tobruk the team were taken to the Hills Special School at Northmead for lunch.

Weekly Toast - Overseas Club

Today we toast the Rotary Club of Selestat, Alsace France, chartered on the 1

st January 1954. The Club is advertising an event that may be of interest to

some of our Members :-

“Event not to be missed! For the 9th time bio winegrowers in Alsace come together at may 1st, at the Kientzheim Château” Book now

The brand new Sydney Greater West Entertainment™ Books are here

Rotary Club of The Hills-Kellyville Inc is pleased to be selling the Entertainment Book to help raise funds. Books will be available from early April. If have any queries, please contact Greg Rieper on 0400 998 790 or email gregrieper@yahoo.com.au. Entertainment™ Books feature many of the area's best restaurants, cafes, accommodation, attractions and activities, with up to 50% off and 2-for-1 offers! Purchase the new Book for just $65 and you’ll receive over $15,000 in valuable offers you can use from now until 1st June, 2013.

Available from early-April 2012, the Books are sold exclusively by fund-raising organisations. When you purchase a Book, you'll be helping community fund-raising! Find out https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/1236m08

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Upcoming District Assembly.

It is time to register for District Assembly!

Date

21 April 2012

Venue

Pymble Ladies College (PLC) Avon Road, Pymble

There are a couple of vacant spots, so if anyone is interested in attending please talk to Bobby to find out details. Please ensure that you only register if you are definitely planning to attend.

Rotary and social networking

Rotarians help provide service through fellowship, and social networking is one of the many ways Rotarians are connecting online. Visit Rotary International's official social networking pages and join the conversation. Facebook See who some of the thousands of fans are on RI's official Facebook page. You'll find links to RI news stories and videos as well as comments and discussions.

Official Rotary International Facebook page

End Polio Now Join The Rotary Foundation of RI's End Polio Now cause page on Facebook. You can make a donation to support polio eradication, invite others to be a part of the cause, and keep track of how many people you've recruited.

RI General Secretary John Hewko Connect with General Secretary Hewko on Facebook, and see some of the places he goes and people he meets.

Rotary Centers Connect with Rotary World Peace Fellows, who promote national and international cooperation, peace, and the successful resolution of conflict throughout their lives, in their careers, and through service activities.

Rotary World Peace Fellowships Join this Facebook cause page to help provide educational opportunities for those interested in studying peace building and conflict resolution

Rotary Foundation alumni Read about Rotary Foundation alumni on their official Facebook page and connect with alumni from around the world.

Interact Hear more about what's happening for Interactors, our service club for people ages 12 to 18.

Video of the week http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CZ3-jX2oo4

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Rotary Foundation Thought for the Week - PolioPlus.

In 1978-79 Rotary World President, Clem Renouf of Nambour read about the Australian Navy commissioning two warships at a cost that was the equivalent of eliminating smallpox. He contacted, one of his team DG John Server then head of the infectious diseases division of the National Institutes of Health in Washington, DC and asked him if Polio could be eradicated. Server said it could, so they went to the World Health Organisation and Renouf says “They were polite but said that no NGO would have the persistence to see the distance”. Undeterred, Rotary members raised $247 million and got to work. 12 million people were vaccinated in Mexico, 27 countries in South America. Faced with such obvious success, the World Health Organisation came back to them and in 1985 Rotary’s Polio Plus became the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, commenced in cooperation with WHO, UNICEF, Centre for Disease Control Atlanta and more recently The Gates Foundation.

Only three countries remain endemic; Pakistan, Nigeria and Afghanistan. India was declared Polio free on Feb 25 2012. There is still a significant, urgent and ongoing need today. Please consider giving our fellow Rotarians your support.

“intends to die in a polio -free world” - Sir Clem Renouf SIR Clem Renouf born in Ingham (North Queensland) on April 19, 1921 became only the second Australian to be elected president of Rotary International in 1978, read his own words of being the President of Rotary International.

My Year as R.I. President By Sir Clem Renouf Two controversial events, destinfed to have far-reaching effect on Rotary's future, dominated 1978-79. Paradoxically, in one of them I found myself defending the status quo, and in the other challenging it. Jack Davis's board, of which (as president­-elect) I was a member, had withdrawn the charter of The Rotary Club of Duarte in California for having flouted the constitution by admitting three women into membership. The board had no option. Its first duty was to uphold the constitution. Like sharks around a crippled prey, the media tasted blood and pressed home their attack at every available opportunity. Suddenly Rotary became news, for the wrong reason and I spent much of my time defending the board's action and explaining the constitutional requirements for change. The second event was, of course, the launch of the Health, Hunger and Humanity program, against the entrenched opposition of a group of senior Rotarians committed, it seemed to me, to defending the status quo, fearful of the consequences of what was certainly a fundamental shift in emphasis. I had intended delaying the introduction of the 3H program until I assumed the presidency, not wishing to inject what I knew would be a controversial concept into my predecessor's program. But time to plan and develop a project worthy of our 75th Anniversary in 1979-80 was running out, so I decided to bring the idea forward for consideration by Jack Davis's board.

Thus, it was nurtured in his board, and I was given the privilege of announcing it at his convention in Tokyo in 1978. His encouragement and support were vital.And there was no stronger proponent of the 3H program than Jim Bomar, my successor in office. Without his enthusiastic advocacy I doubt it would to-day be a Foundation Program. It was he_ too_ whosaw more clearly than most of us at that time the threat to Rotary's future in denying membership to women. I was fortunate to have served with these two great presidents. Someone once said "If I have seen further it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants". Jack Davis and Jim Bomar were such giants. I, and the Rotary world will forever be indebted to them. When I speak to people about my term as president, many are surprised to find that it involved living in Evanston for a full year; but they are even more surprised to learn that during the preceding sixty weeks, based in Nambour, I was overseas forty weeks. I don't know of any president who has not spent almost as much time in preparation as he did in the actual office.It is demanding, continuous work. It takes a large slice of one's life. Why, then, do people so willingly accept the burden of office? Perhaps it's altruism; perhaps ego; probably some of each. But I think most would admit (to themselves, if not to others) that it is mostly ego, for since 1905 fewer than one hundred of the millions who have enjoyed Rotary membership have been so honoured.

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Page 5 Of course that statistic (one out of millions) can be quite misleading. I wasn't the choice of a majority of the 800,000 Rotarians at that time. Most had never heard of me. All that was needed was to have ten members at a certain point in time judge me favourably – 3 out of 5 on the nominating committee for director, and 7 out of 12 on the nominating committee for president. There are many who are capable, qualified and available. who will never get the call for a variety of reasons unrelated to their suitability or willingness to serve. It was a recognition of that fact, no doubt, which prompted past president Richard Evans to say to Bill Walk (upon his nomination) "Bill. never forget you've been appointed - not anointed". Good advice !

Upon making its decision. the nominating committee telephones the successful candidate to confirm his availability. Usually, as Royce Abbey _ and Glen Kinross will confirm, that call comes through in Australia in the wee small hours of the morning. 1 was spared that intrusion into my slumber, for I was in Sydney when they met, unaware of the meeting. They had great difficulty locating me_ but finally contacted Doug Biggs fwho was able to tell them I'd be returning to Nambour mid­afternoon. So they adjourned their meeting to the hotel at which they were staying, and were near the end of a pleasant dinner when I responded to their message to telephone a designated number in Evanston. I knew then that life would never be the same. Because the call came late on a Tuesdayafternoon, the first people to know about it (apart from the nominating committee) were the members of the Rotary Club of Nambour, when I announced it at our regular meeting within two hours of having accepted the invitation. Our daughter Judy returned home from London to take care of our home and my business affairs, so that I was able to devote myself fully to the task of the presidency free of distractions. And I needed to be able to do that. Until the call from the nominating committee I had given the appointment no thought, for the chance of selection was really pretty slim. Now suddenly, all that had changed. Within five months I would be serving on Jack Davis's board as president-elect, conscious of a whole range of issues to be sandwiched in between seemingly incessant travel.

One decision which needs to be made early is the selection of a theme, for (at least in my experience) it has a significant influence on the development of a program or emphasis for the year in office. I stumbled upon mine, almost by chance. Just a couple of months after nomination I was at a Rotary meeting at Las Vegas, where a youth choir sang a song in which the words "Reach Out" were used repeatedly to emphasise the message. Here was my theme - simple, challenging and adaptable. I could imagine clubs and districts using these two simple words to give emphasis to whatever program was their focus for the year - Reach Out - to the young - to the elderly - to the homeless - to the hungry -. to the lonely. Of course, the words I had chosen were meaningless unless matched with action. So 1 started to think about a program which would give relevance to the theme, and gradually there emerged the idea which we now know as The Health, Hunger and Humanity (3H) Program. But there were other things to occupy mytime and energies, much of it devoted to explaining and defending the Board's action in having cancelled the charter of the Rotary Club of Duarte for having admitted three women into membership. The club appealed this decision to the 1978 Convention at Tokyo, but by an overwhelming majority (1,060 to 34) delegates voted to uphold the board's decision. It was not a vote against the admission of women into our membership. It was simply a recognition of the fact that the Board had no alternative to upholding the Constitution, and that any change in that Constitution could come only by decision of a duly constituted Council on Legislation. Meanwhile, the battle being fought by the X-Rotary Club of Duarte (as it called itself) raged on, through the courts of California, and finally to the Supreme Court of the U.S.A. in consequence of which the male only restriction on Rotary Club membership was abolished in the U.S.A., and ultimately (by decision of the Council on Legislation) world-wide.It was unfortunate that the door closed to female membership was finally battered down from the outside, instead of being opened invitingly from the inside, as it would have been eventually, with changing attitudes and increasing pressure for change evident at succeeding councils on legislation. Twenty one years ago, in the midst of the battle to open Rotary's ranks to women, it seemed inconceivable that the day would come when a majority of clubs would admit women into their ranks, and that, in my own district, a capable, committed female Rotarian would serve as District Governor. In many respects 1978-79 was a watershed year in the history of Rotary, and one of its most controversial. I was greatly privileged to have been called to serve as President at that time of challenge and opportunity and to have had June at my side, questioning, supporting and encouraging. One needs the refuge of a quiet harbour when storms are raging.

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Club Members

Name

Classification

Ray Campbell PP,PHF Education - Secondary

Thomas Cann PHF Landscape Supplies

Col Davis Accounting Taxation

Russ Evans PP,PHF Finance

Henry Grech PP Legal Practice

Michael Griscti PHF Lighting Technician

Penny Hill PHF Customer Service Manager

Alan Jones PP,PHF Marketing Consultancy

Bob Low PHF Electrical Distribution

Robert Mackey PP,PHF Construction Services

Ian Pascoe PP Gas Fitting

Bruce Pike Nursery Retail

Suresh Prasad PP Sugar Research

Haran Ramachandran PP,PHF Computer Support

Bobby Redman Psychology

Michael Richardson Honorary Member

Greg Rieper PP,PHF Consultancy

Graeme Rohan PP,PHF Petroleum Distribution

Gordon Scoble PP,PHF Education Primary

Jim Sifonios PP,PHF Product Development

Keith Stapley PP,PHF Photogrammetry

Rod Tilden PP,PHF Window Furnishing Sales

Alex Traill PP,PHF Building & Maintenance

Wilf Van Emmerik PP,PHF Specialised Transport

Allan Walker PP Funeral Direction

Glenn Willcox PP Project Estimating

P – President PP - Past President PHF - Paul Harris Fellow

Dan Murphy Roster

Saturday 14 April 2012 PP Russ Evans PP Rob Mackay

Saturday 21 April 2012 PP Gordon Scoble PP Rdod Tilden

WHAT AM I UP TO NOW 23rd Apr PP Haran Ramachandran 30th Apr PP Greg Rieper

Duty Roster Monday 23 April 2012

Door PP Gordon Scoble Minutes PP Wilf Van Emmerik Rotary Grace PP Ian Pascoe

Club Calendar

Note: Apologies must be in to PP Graeme Rohan by 12pm on Mondays so numbers

can be confirmed for dinner.

Joke of the Day

A duck goes into a furniture store and says 'got any duck food?' The guy at the counter says, 'sorry, we don't sell duck food'. The little duck walks out. The next day, same duck, same guy. 'Got any duck food?' 'Sorry little duck, I told you yesterday, no duck food here. ' The duck walks out. Next day, again, 'got any duck food?' The guy says 'No! we don't sell duck food! and if you come in here again I'm gonna nail your feet to the floor!' The duck walks out. next day, duck walks in. 'Got any nails? ' The guy says 'what?... no'. '...got any duck food?

Water to drink

By collaborating with other organizations and working with local communities, Rotarians are helping to improve access to clean water and sanitation. Watch a video about Rotary’s work in this area of focus.