Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 - Bentleigh Moorabbin Central Rotary Club
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Wednesday, July 24th, 2019
The arrival of Clemence, our French exchange
student is fast approaching, she is due at
Tullamarine around 6.00pm this Sunday so a few
of us are heading out to welcome her. It would be
great if we could all do some early planning to see
how we can make her stay all the more enjoyable
and memorable.
I believe we need to ensure that we don’t allow the
responsibility to rest with only a few club members Geoff Gledhill
and their family, we can all plan some sort of President 2019-20
activity for her over her stay I’m sure. I’d suggest that if you have ideas please share
them with Helen, Julie or Geoff Gartly.
Thanks to members who are sharing their thoughts and ideas with me, I appreciate all comments and look
forward to many of them taking shape.
Some breaking news that will be of interest to members is that you now have three people from Kingston Council
in the club, don’t worry, it’s not another Councillor. Julie Reid has been appointed Kingston Councils new CEO
and I look forward to working with her in that capacity. I congratulate her on attaining the role and acknowledge
the characteristics and abilities she demonstrated through the selection process are exactly what we look for in
every Rotarian – well done Julie!
Geoff Gledhill, President 2019-20
Value of Rotary volunteering
A special report prepared for Rotary International by the Johns
Hopkins Centre for Civil Society Studies estimated the value of
Rotary member volunteer hours at $850 million a year.
That Rotary members log a lot of volunteer hours should come
as no surprise to anyone familiar with the organization. But a
new report just released by Johns Hopkins University provides
a powerful look at the impact of all those volunteer hours.
The special report prepared for Rotary International by the
Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies found that Ro-
tary members had volunteered a total of 5.8 million hours
within a four-week survey period. Extrapolating those results
over an entire year, the report gave a conservative estimate of
nearly 47 million hours of volunteer effort generated by Rotary members in a typical year.
The report then analyzed the economic impact of all those hours and estimated the value conservatively at $850
million a year, if communities had to pay for the services that Rotary volunteers provide.
Rotary, with the help of Johns Hopkins University, is the first global service organization to conduct an empirical
analysis of its volunteer’s impact using an internationally sanctioned definition of volunteer work. The authors of
the report noted in their conclusion that at each stop, the analysis had chosen the most conservative estimates.
“This makes the results reported here all the more remarkable,” the authors noted. “Translated into economic
terms, Rotary is annually generating a scale of social and economic problem-solving effort that is worth nearly
nine times more than it costs the organization to produce.”
Rotary General Secretary John Hewko said the figure doesn't even include the in-kind contributions and the
money that Rotary clubs and the Rotary Foundation raise every year. In addition, the figure doesn’t include the
volunteer work of the many relatives and friends of Rotary that members often involve in a project, or that of
members of Rotaract, Interact, or the Community Corps, that would easily double the estimate of Rotary’s eco-
nomic impact. ...from the rotary.org website.
News from Club Meeting July 17 2019 March of the Living
Faye was our chairperson last week. We were very
glad to be back “home” at Cilantro, with Sossi and
Tony serving us coffee. It was a very cold winter’s
morning and we were a full house in fine noisy,
happy form that Sergeant Tim had difficulty in
gaining our attention! Faye invited Margaret M to
give us Invocation and Paul to present the Loyal
Royal Toast. We had Barry (Zilla’s Partner), Ruth
(Tony Grusd’s Wife) Mark Shapiro, Friend of
Tony and Ruth, and Graeme Callen, friend of
Geoff Gartly visit us for this morning’s meeting.
Grant took us to Croatia for the International Club
toast. Croatia is a country in Central Europe on the
Adriatic Sea and borders with Slovenia, Hungary,
Serbia, Bosnia, Herzegovina and Montenegro.
There is an exclave separated short coastline
belonging to Bosnia and Herzegovina around Neum. The capital is Zagreb. The area is 56,594 square kilometers
and has a population of 4.28 million. The Rotary Club of Zadar belongs to District 1913and is one of the few
Districts that cover an entire country. It was created in 2011 with a ceremony held at the Croatian National
Theatre in Zagreb on June 18th. There are 52 clubs with 1700 members! Talking of Croatia there are Neanderthal
remains dating back to 130,000YA and modern humans arrived about 6,000BC. Roman occupation began
leading to the province of Dalmatia in 9AD and 650AD Croats arrived, possibly from southern Poland. The
Kingdom of Croatia was established in 925 reaching its maximum size in1097 after which it became part of the
Kingdom of Hungary. In 1652 most of the kingdom was lost to the Ottomans (Bosnia) with the remainder held by
the Habsburg Empire and then in 1878 became part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1918 the country
became part of Yugoslavia. After WWll Yugoslavia was part of the
Communist Bloc and following the collapse of communism 25/06/1991
Croatia declared Independence from Yugoslavia. Zadar is the oldest
continuously-inhabited Croatian city and the 5th largest by population of
71,500 and is situated by the sea. The origin in 9th C BC by an Illyrian
tribe, the Liburnians and the town known as Iader became Zadar in the
12th C. The industries are: Tourism, Trade, Agriculture, Fishing and
Fish Farming. It is also the source of Marasca cherries with distilleries
in Zadar producing Maraschino liqueur since the 16 th century. Grant
asked us to be upstanding to Toast President Davor Dobrovic and
the members of the Rotary Club of Zadar, Republic of Croatia. The
club has 23 members and have various projects such as Demining of
the Zadar hinterland and of Velebit, buying instruments for the Blagoje
Bers Music School, providing a library in a Zadar primary school,
Funds for assisting medical treatment, Organ Repair in a Benedictine
Monastery and the establishment of a centre for studying marine
mammals. The club meets at Hotel Nico on Mondays at 8:00 pm. Thank you Grant for yet another amazing
presentation for an International Club and allowing us to learn about another European country.
Pres. Geoff Welcomed us and our guests and mentioned how good it was to have such a full house. He
informed us that we received Thank You letters from SES
Moorabbin, and Disaster Aid, saying that it is nice to be
acknowledged for our work. He continued by praising the
committees which are u and running and by reminding us that the
market is the “lynch pin” of all our activities the fact we need to get
it “right”. He also mentioned that he is getting together with a
couple of Councillors from Glen Eira as a courtesy as our market
is in that area. Pres. Geoff called Glenda to the rostrum to tell her
that the club was very pleased to have her back as a full member
instead as an Honorary Member. He reminded us of the Welcome
Function for Clemence at Cilantro on 22nd August and advised us
of an up and coming function with the Rotary Club of Ballarat.
More information will be sent to us. Our speaker was our member
Tony Grusd who thanked us for the opportunity to talk of the
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“March of the Living” in which he and his wife Ruth
were able to participate. So What is the March of the
Living? “The International March of the Living is an
annual educational program, bringing individuals from
around the word to Poland and Israel to study the
history of the Holocaust and to examine the roots of
prejudice, intolerance hatred. The March of the Living
serves as a hopeful counterpoint to the experience of
millions of Jews and others who were forced by the
Nazis to cross vast expanses of European terrain under
the harshest of conditions and where most perished.
Since its inception in 1988, more than 260,000 alumni
from 52 countries have marched the same 3-kilometer
path from Auschwitz to Birkenau on Holocaust
Remembrance Day as a tribute to all victims of the Holocaust”. Tony added
to this writing re the March that the sad outcome and disbelief, the enormity
of the crime against humanity is part of the catastrophic Holocaust and the
attempt to the
extermination of a
race. He showed
photos of the train line
that came from far-off
places in Europe and
finished at Auschwitz
and the sign that was
over the entrance that
read “Arbeit Macht
Frei” which tricked the
people in believing
that Jews were going
to work. However,
arriving at Auschwitz the soldiers made choices of to live or die
immediately. He showed photos of the ovens and the crematorium where
the bodies were burnt, Photos that showed the bed-bunks that held 10 in a bed. The Jews were pushed into
cattle carts without light, water, room for ablutions so many died even before arriving in Auschwitz. One of the
fellow travelers was “Jack” a Holocaust survivor, who was 13 years old when he got to Auschwitz and the last
words from his father was not to trust anybody and not to talk. This piece of advice he kept even up to this very
day and he felt that was why he survived. Tony showed many photographs of what he and Ruth had seen. The
worst they felt was looking at 100s and 1000s of
children’s shoes and suitcases that had been raided
of belongings, human hair in containers that were to
be used to stuff mattresses! He showed a photo of
the intact Majdanek Camp. He talked of the camps
that now serve as museums and of Schindler’s
factory which Schindler had used to save as many
lives as he could. Tony told us that all of this and
more, serves to tell us that NEVER AGAIN! LEST
WE FORGET One shining photograph amongst all
of the horror was a photograph of the most beautiful
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(Continued from page 3) Krakow Synagogue which remains intact with other amazing building as Krakow was not bombed because of its beauty. How contradictory is that? “The enormity is that so much time was spent on the effort to exterminate every Jew in Europe!” This talk was amazing and I would say that some of us found it hard to bear and tears were close. At another time it would be good to share the trip to Israel and see for ourselves through Ruth and Tony’s experiences there, and how their memorials to the world are displayed. Touching moments are shared when all the names are displayed on walls for all to see and even more emotional is it when one finds the name of a deceased family member. Thank you Tony for sharing and for giving us a most visual and valuable learning experience. Back to our reality and Sergeant Tim found ways of fining us and reminded us that the man walked on the moon 50 years ago. This prompted Faye and Zilla to share the birth of their children around this time. Faye had a boy and Zilla had the arrival of a girl. Good and happy memories. Sergeant Tim on being asked about last year’s fines he advised us that they went to the Farmers Drought Charity and this year he is choosing to support the Fred Hollows Foundation. It makes our being fined well worthwhile. Pres Geoff in closing the meeting wished us a good week and to remember ROTARY CONNECTS THE WORLD Zilla (Bulletin Reporter) Motion requiring approval by Membership At last week’s Board Meeting the following motion was moved by Helen Nodrum . MOTION:That the Board approve total cost of funding $5,000.00 for the exchange year. Seconded by Ian Bal- lantine. Motion carried. This will be put to members at the meeting on July 30
Coming Guest Speakers
JULY 24 Liz Pascarl – Rotarian behind the Badge
JULY 31 Invision Employment – Sean Teer
AUGUST 7 Emily Green- Indigenous Scholarship Recipient
AUGUST 14 Interplast
AUGUST 21 Uniting Prahran Mission
AUGUST 22 Evening-Social event- French themed dinner ****
AUGUST 28 Julie Reid – Rotarian behind the Badge
SEPTEMBER 4 Fay Veitch – Mercy Ships
SEPTEMBER 11 Clemence Vendercrys – French Exchange Student
SEPTEMBER 18 Vishal Mahajan – Rotarian behind the Badge
SEPTEMBER 25 Alan Kempton/Market Committee
October 16 DG Shia Smart Club visit
Coming Events
AUGUST 22 Evening-Social event- French themed dinner at Cilantro
21-22 March 2020 District 9810 Conference—Echuca Moama
A reminder that upcoming speakers can be reviewed on the Club website via the calendar. If you have any
suggestions for guest speakers, please contact Peter Lewis lewispm@bigpond.net.au
CONTRIBUTIONS AND REPORTS: Pease use the email address editor@rotarybmc.org.au.auwhen sending in any contributions to the
Bulletin. Please have them in by Monday evening of each week.. Must be in format that allows for text to be "copied" NO scanned
documents. In addition, please reduce photos to no larger than 100k. Thank you.
Market Report July 14, 2019
RCBMC Team consisted of:John M, Margaret M, Geoff G
Other Helpers: Sven from Moorabbin Visiting Rotarians: Dorothy Gilmore from RC
Melbourne, Hosts for International Convention in 2023
Weather conditions: Frightful, Cold, drizzling all day Cars in the queue: None
O'night parkers: Several Empty Stalls:98. (Record?) Other Comments: Quietest mar-
ket ever? School hols, trains not running, freezing cold and rain.
Found windscreen sun visors in shed and sold some... gave away lots of bags to
regular stall holders (not the fm ones)..Cleaned out and Cleared up some surplus
items in shed and office (still lots to sort). Top gate not opened. $26.50 on coffee. Not
enough notes to pay Moorabbin..need a cheque. Cancelled cash collection, did our
own banking.
John Mason, leader
Market Report July 21, 2019
Market Report: Cyclonic winds with extreme wind gusts with no sign of abating. traders are enduring people op-
portunistic of making a go of it. RCBMC Team consisted of: POB, Linda O'B Other Helpers: Nomads Robin, MRC
Geoff G, Andrew K Visiting Rotarians: Geof OG & family, Neville
K Note to Market Leaders re emailing Market
Weather conditions: Who cares when you are on market duty, Report—please specify “flattened” when
you just adjust Cars in the queue: Nil, none, two late stalls sold asked how to attach the report to the email—
at stall 1 & 29 O'night parkers: None, no football Saturday night this permits me to copy and paste the text.
Empty Stalls: Squillouns, 60 as per marked sheet Stall 50 absent Thank you. IanB, editor)
August 2019
Peter O'Brien, leader
District 9810 Conference—Echuca Moama
21-22 March 2020
Registrations now open.
Go to www.9810rotaryconference.org.au
MEETING ROSTER 2019-20
Date Chairman Cashiers Regalia
24-Jul Ian Ballantine Peter Guttmann & Tim Moran Peter Lewis & Liz Pascarl
31-Jul Paul Ferguson Jo Impey & Tony Nathan Margaret Lucas & Julie Reid
7-Aug Kevin Davidson Terry Kane & Helen Nodrum Tim Lynch & Tony Ryan
14-Aug Geoff Gartly Alan Kempton & Linda O'Brien Vishal Mahajan & Karin Soster
21-Aug Larry Green Neville Kruss & Peter O'Brien Margaret Mason & Martin Utteridge
28-Aug Tony Grusd John Lehner & Greg O'Shea John Mason & Faye Weeks-Oakes
4-Sep Peter Guttmann Peter Lewis & Liz Pascarl Tim Moran & Ian Ballantine
11-Sep Jo Impey Margaret Lucas & Julie Reid Tony Nathan & Kevin Davidson
18-Sep Terry Kane Tim Lynch & Tony Ryan Helen Nodrum & Paul Ferguson
25-Sep Alan Kempton Vishal Mahajan & Karin Soster Linda O'Brien & Geoff Gartly
MARKET ROSTER 2019-20
Date Leader Asst Asst Asst
21/07/2019 Peter O'Brien Linda O'Brien NOMADS
28/07/2019 Grant Perry Tim Lynch Helen Nodrum Margret Lucas
4/08/2019 Greg O'Shea Tim Moran RC CAULFIELD
11/08/2019 Karin Soster Tony Nathan Tony Ryan
18/08/2019 Jo Impey Martin Utteridge NOMADS Faye Weeks
Please try to do your allotted duty on the appropriate day. If you are unable to do this it is YOUR responsibility to arrange a replacement by
way of swapping. If you are the designated market leader, you must swap with a person who will take on role of leader. The above rosters will
NOT show swaps so it is up to you to keep track of your changes. viewed within the members section of the website.
The Four Way Test of Things We Say and Do
1. Is it the truth?
2. Is it fair to all concerned?
3. Will it bring goodwill and better friendship?
4. Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise,
and in particular, to encourage and foster :
FIRST, the development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service.
SECOND, high ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations,
and the dignifying of each Rotarians occupation as an opportunity to serve society:
THIRD, the application of the ideal of service in each Rotarians personal, business, and community life:
FOURTH, the advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and
professional persons united in the ideal of service.
Rotary Grace
For good food, for good fellowship, and the opportunity of service through Rotary, we thank you O Lord. Amen.
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