Fun and Fellowship were the order of the day on Tuesday, as our own members entertained us with their holiday tales. Golf, genealogy and outback stories with less than ideal accommodation were the main features of the travelogues of Simon O’Donoghue, Noel Halford, Charles Morrison, and Brian Reid, while Geoff Dumayne told us of his child-minding duties as his family did their best to populate the continent.  

Brian Reid won the Cherry Ripe First Prize for the best presentation, thanks to some lovely photographs and an intriguing mystery tale.  

Joe Devereaux, Trevor Jones, John Higgins and Bernie Walshe still have some yarns to tell, but time overtook us once again. When we can squeeze them into our speakers program?

When he was District Governor, Colin Muir lamented that Vocational Service was the forgotten Avenue of Rotary Service. We have addressed this concept last week, as eighteen members attended The Amora Hotel for Mentor Training under the tutelage of Justin Wibrow of Kew-on-Yarra Rotary Club. I have had encouraging feedback on both sessions, and we look forward to further developing some areas of mentoring.  

On a similar note, Geoff Wright reported on the start of a Pilot Program in Student Development at Hawthorn Secondary College.  

We have some boxed sets of Souvenir Engraved Wine Glasses from the Diamond Jubilee available to members at $20/pair.  FREE CD of the Top Twenty Hits of 1953 included!   

Dates for your diaries:

District 9800 Conference, Broadbeach, 7-9th March 2014

Rotary International Convention, Sydney, 1-4th June, 2014

After our recent speaker on Climate Change, and news in “The Australian”, I asked members if they knew the difference between a Climate Model and a Fashion Model:  the Fashion Model works . . . . .