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Number 13, 22 September
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Serving the Community since 1985
Presidents Report

It is always interesting to hear other community or-
ganisations talk about their activities. Personally I
knew very little about The Smith Family, but after
hearing Geoff Miles speak on Thursday, I can now
say I understand what they do. It was also pleasing
to hear that some club members are individual sup-
porters of this organisation.

We have a number of special activities coming up
over the next two months so please lock these
dates in your diaries.

Handball contest at Concourse on Sept 27
(Grand Final Day)
Fellowship at Roti Boti on Oct 2
Hampton Trivia Night on Oct 17
Progressive Dinner on Oct 31
District Governor visit on Nov 6

I will be meeting Adrian Robb, CEO of Bayside
Council on October 14

along with other Bayside
Cluster presidents, so if you have any issue you
think I should raise, please let me know.

James will be needing 11 Beaumaris Rotarians and
friends each day we are manning the Masters Golf
parking on Nov 20, 21 22 & 23. Please try and
block your calendar for these dates. It is a signifi-
cant fundraiser for us.

We have submitted our planning application for the
Farmers Market to Council. As we hear more, Pe-
ter and I will keep you informed.
Contents

1 Presidents Report
2/3 Notices
4 This Weeks Speaker
5 Message from Rebeccah Bartlett
6 District Choir
7 Hampton Rotary Trivia Night
8 Club Structure / Picture of Week


Unless stated otherwise venue is Victoria Golf Club
6.30 for 7.00


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Next week we have Jeff Cox speaking to us on
5 Steps to get Well. Rob Fenton will be in the
chair.

Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday.

Ken

Fellowship; Roti Boti, 2 October


Our next fellowship event is on:

Thursday 2 October

ROTI BOTI 513 Hampton St. Hampton 6.30 for
7 pm

Cost is $ 40 per person including BYO Wine,
no corkage.

Roti Boti was opened in 1995 and in 2006 was
chosen amongst the top 44 Indian Restaurants
in the world.

Our menu for this night is a banquet;

Entre: Chicken Tikka, Tandoori King Prawns
and Samosas

Mains: Butter Chicken, Vindaloo Beef or Lamb,
Goa Fish Curry and Vegetarian Lentil dish, plus
Indian Breads, Garlic and Plain Naan, Rice,
Raita & cucumber salad.

All shared on tables of 6.

The venue is the upstairs private room and the
theme is Bollywood. No raffles, no gold coins,
just good company and good Indian cuisine.

There is no Rotary at Victoria Golf Club this
night. It is a substitute night, including partners.

If you did not put your name on the list last
Thursday and wish to join us, please call me on
0418 578 114 or let me know by email, Glen-
wright @ aapt.net.au

Megan Glenwright
Fellowship




Hocking Stuart Sandringham
62-64 Station Street
Telephone: 03 9521 9800
Note; As part of our arrangement with Hocking Stuart discounts
on agents fees are available to RCOB members.
Hampton Rotary - Trivia Night

Any members and or partners wishing to at-
tend the Trivia night by Hampton Rotary at
Sandringham Football Club on 17

October, to
please let me know by email or phone if they
would like to be part of a table representing
Beaumaris on this night. I am happy to take
the bookings. At present we have 8. Details
on Page 8.

Megan
0418 578 114 or glenwright@ aapt.net.au


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The Club started in 2010 / 11 and now has 94 members.

They actively embrace all the social media; website,
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Meet Upetc.

We can clearly learn a lot from them as we evolve into
the future.

They have an excellent Speaker Program and we can
get some good ideas for our own down the track.

To see more go to;

http://www.rcmelpark.com/


Rotary Club of Melbourne Park

This is the face of Rotary in the future;

We are a group of young professionals aged ~20-40s
who love to make a difference in the community and are
having fun doing it- volunteering, guest speakers, pro-
fessional development opportunities and more! This is a
club where you can help shape how it runs, projects we
work on and where we donate to. Get involved and ex-
pand your horizons!

We welcome you to join us at one of our weekly Tues-
day night meetings at The Olsen Hotel in South Yarra.
Our meeting fee is $10 for nibbles and a glass of wine
(paid with cash on the night). For further information,
please contact the club at [email protected]




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On Christmas eve 1922, five
businessmen walked into a
Sydney orphanage carrying
armfuls of toys and sweets.



They walked out inspired by a single goal: to improve the
lives of disadvantaged children in Australia.

When asked who the children could thank, one of the
men, preferring to remain anonymous, said Smith.

What about the others? the matron asked. Theyre
Smiths too, replied the man. Were all Smiths. Were
The Smith Family.

And so, The Smith Family was born.





The Smith Family is a national, independent children's
charity helping disadvantaged Australians to get the most
out of their education, so they can create better futures
for themselves.
Geoff Miles is the Head of School Sport at Caulfield
Grammar School and a volunteer with The Smith Family
specialising in fundraising. He spoke about the major
programs The Smith Family implemented to help deliver
their Mission;
To create opportunities for young Australians in need by
providing long-term support for their participation in edu-
cation.
With over 600, 000 children living in disadvantage and
less likely to achieve educationally and more likely to
experience unemployment and poor health outcomes
there is clearly a great need.
The Smith Family of today is a charity with a clear goal of
tackling disadvantage in its early stages. We provide dis-
advantaged children and young people with support that
empowers them to change their future, for the better. We
do this in a number of ways:

The Learning for Life sponsorship program allows indi-
viduals or groups in the community to sponsor an Aus-
tralian child in need. By sponsoring a disadvantaged pri-
mary, secondary or tertiary student, you can make sure a
child in need gets the new textbooks, school uniform,
stationery they need, as well as access to excursions,
camps and extra-curricular activities to develop their
skills and self-esteem. The Learning for Life program is
unique not only in terms of the large number of children
and young people it supports across Australia, but in the
length of time that these children are helped. lts a strong
commitment to children, and one that The Smith Family
couldnt make without the huge support of generous Aus-
tralians who become sponsors.

Sponsored children are also supported by community-
based Learning for Life workers who can provide encour-
agement, and connect them to local learning opportuni-
ties. More than 34,000 children and young people across
Australia receive a Learning for Life sponsorship.

The Smith Family has strong partnerships with schools in
the communities in which it works. By working closely
with schools, The Smith Family can not only provide
sponsorships to the students, but can co-ordinate learn-
ing support programs in partnership with teachers and
parents.

These programs include:

Student2student is a telephone-based peer support pro-
gram offered to students in Years 3 to 8 who have been
identified as being two years behind in their reading de-
velopment. Learning Clubs enable students in disadvan-
taged communities to get support from trained volunteer
tutors after school hours. iTrack is an Internet-based
mentoring program that enables students in secondary
school to communicate with mentors from a range of pro-
fessions, and get advice on careers, and what steps to
take to achieve that career.

ln Victoria, The Smith Family has built on its extensive
experience with school/community partnerships to be-
come the lead agency in two exciting pilot projects. The
National Partnerships Extended School Hub (NPESH) at
Wyndham Central Secondary College and Wyndham
Park Primary School, and the Kurnai Education Hub Pilot
(KEHP) at Kurnai College, in the Latrobe Valley, are in-
novative projects building stronger links between the
schools and their community.

The aim in both projects is to support the schools, their
students and parents, to help improve students educa-
tional outcomes and aspirations.

Through its network of Learning for Life workers, Learn-
ing for Life sponsorship program and g partnerships with
schools, The Smith Familys work reached 106,061 chil-
dren, young people and parents/carers across Australia
in 2011-12. To nd out more about the excellent work of
The Smith Family go to;
hp://www.thesmithfamily.com.au/













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Message from Rebeccah Bartlett

Rotary World Peace Fellowship Report UNC
-Duke Rotary Peace Centre
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

I hope you are all well. I am writing this from
Chapel Hill where I have settled in nicely,
thanks to the world-famous Southern hospitality
and generosity of Rotarians in this region. Be-
low is a list of my experiences and situation to
date, please feel free to contact me at the de-
tails below should you wish for more infor-
mation.

Location:
Im living, by myself, in a lovely two-bedroom
apartment on the border of Chapel Hill and
Durham (where the Duke part of the Fellowship
program is based). Chapel Hill is 50% student-
based and most of the rest of the population is
or was somehow affiliated with the University of
North Carolina (or Duke) at some point. It is
very hot at the moment and muggy but I am
told it will snow in the winter. The campus is
very pretty, with a great amount of gardens and
nature walks. UNC and Duke are both known
for their excellent healthcare and my school is
ranked the top public school for Public Health in
the US (second if you include Johns Hopkins
which is a private university).

The Duke-UNC program is facilitated by two
wonderful people (Susan Carroll and Amy
Cole) and Serge Dihoff, representing the Rota-
ry clubs has been a welcoming force to all the
new Fellows. My colleagues are completely
inspiring and come from Mexico, Peru, DR
Congo, Kenya, South Africa, Moldova, South
Korea and Brazil. The cohort above me has
Fellows also from Mexico, Brazil and S. Korea
as well as Thailand, Liberia, Azerbaijan, Rus-
sian, Iraq, India and Ethiopia and I do not doubt
that these will be the people running their coun-
tries one day.

I am surrounded by faculty who generally want
to invest in the students and see us all suc-
ceed. I am the only Australian in my cohort and
one of about 30 Intl students in the whole
School of Public Health, which makes me a
novelty at times. Last week, I was elected the
1
st
year Maternal and Child Health Representa-
tive to Student Government which is a great
honour.

I have attended two different Rotary Club meet-
ings as a guest and am expected to speak at
future ones both in North Carolina and inter-
state. My host family (Lee and Myrah Scott)
are two of the most generous and community-
involved people I have ever met. The Rotary
community here has been supportive and help-
ful in furnishing my home and those of my col-
leagues and in helping us settle in, in general.
In April, we hold an annual conference show-
casing the Fellowship program and I will be in
charge organising the one following this in
2016. In January, the Fellows will be taken to
Washington DC to network and liaise with dif-
ferent organisations and institutes who work in
the field of Peace and Conflict Resolution and
to investigate possible Field Experience oppor-
tunities to undertake next Summer.

One unfortunate incident occurred two weeks
after I arrived, when I fell off my bicycle and
broke my collarbone and shoulder blade. I was
very fortunate not to have broken my neck (and
yes, I was wearing my helmet). I moved back
in with my host family and was visited and
cared for by all the Fellows and centre staff as
well as many UNC students, some of whom I
hadnt even met properly yet. I feel blessed not
to have been too-badly injured and to have had
such wonderful care and support this past 2
weeks since the accident

I wish to extend my thanks to the Beaumaris
club for all your fantastic support and the kind-
ness youve shown me this past year. Addi-
tionally, I would like to thank Peter Murie for
championing my application and getting me to
this wonderful place. I owe you all a debt that
cannot be repaid. Please do not hesitate to
email me, call/ SMS or post me letters at any of
the contact details below. I miss Melbourne
terribly and look forward to seeing you again in
a few short years.

Best wishes,

Rebeccah


+1 919 951 9334 | [email protected]
100 Melville Loop Chapel Hill NC 27514 USA




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THE DISTRICT CHOIR
[Its now a reality]

Thank you to those of you that registered your expression of interest in participat-
ing in this new Rotary District venture. We now have sufficient numbers to start
singing.

We now invite any Rotarian / partner / family member/ friend who likes the oc-
casional vocal outburst to come along for a jolly good sing

There is no commitment necessary
We welcome regular or occasional singers
No experience, or particular talent required
Ability to read music not required
Just a desire to enjoy the fellowship of other fellow closet singers

Our first get together is on

SATURDAY 11 OCTOBER at 10.30 am.

Come and give it a try !!!

For details of location please contact;

Leon Moore 0412 932 794

[email protected]


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Wishful Thinking
Photograph by Sherry
Zhao, National Geo-
graphic
The sky transformed itself
into a splendid and surreal
sea of lanterns carrying all
kinds of wishes, At the
scene of the Yi Peng Lan-
tern Festival in Chiang Mai,
Thailand. Here, a couple
makes a wish before re-
leasing a lantern into the
night sky. Zhao writes. Im
glad I was fast enough to
lie down on the ground and
capture the serene moment
between this young couple,
who drew my attention with
their sincere expressions
before sending out the lan-
tern, sending up hope.
CLUB STRUCTURE 2014 - 2015 UPDATED 28/07/2014
BOARD CLUB SERVICE
President Ken Mirams Director Trish Smyth
PE, VP Trish Smyth Auditor Tony Phillips
Secretary Roy Seager Program Richard Jones
Treasurer James Glenwright Meeting Attendance Trish Smyth
Foundation Mike Hede Communications David Lea
Branding & PR Malcolm Sawle Fellowship Megan Glenwright
International John Beaty Photographers John Beaty, Greg Every
New Generations Rob Fenton Almoner Geoff Stringer
Community Chris D'Arcy Chair /Host /Cashiers /AV Roster
Fundraising Adrian Culshaw Youth Protection Officer Malcolm Parks
On to Conference Robert McArthur^*
TEAM MEMBERS
International Community New Generations Fundraising
Fred Hofmann Geoff Abbott David Rushworth Harry Wolfe
John Sime Kerrie Geard Mary Sealy Heather Chisholm
David Langworthy Richard Shermon Tony McKenna * Roger Frewen
Geoff Stockdale Susan De Bolfo LOA Geoff Stringer
Ross Phillips Tony Phillips David Greenall David Hone
Malcolm Parks David Greenall Chris Martin Judi Hall
John Manks Royal Melbourne Golf Charmaine Jansz
Branding & PR Jim O'Brien Antony Nixon
Concourse Festival Peter Flude^ Harry Wolfe Peter Flude
Kerrie Geard Martin Fothergill David Hone# Mike Hede
Masters Golf Parking David Lea MUNA / NYSF
James Glenwright Heather Chisolm
^ Farmers Market # Indigenous Project * District