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President's Pen
Posted on Mar 09, 2017
   
 A most interesting address from guest speaker Charles Henry on the origins of Tupperware,  and a special thanks for those samples.
 
Thanks also to Bill Troedel for some smooth MC work ( Good to see you back after the year end break)
 
 
 
See you all next week at the Walter & Eliza Institute. 
 
 Meredith
 
 
 
 
External Excursion 14 March
Posted by Jill Weeks
No Meeting At Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club
 
Visit To The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Tuesday 14th March 1017
 
 
 
Assemble:   Please meet 11.50a.m. in the foyer of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 1G Royal Parade, Parkville 

Tour is from 12 noon to 1.pm. 
 
Lunch will be at Naughtons Hotel ...a five minute walk from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.
(Orders for lunch will be taken when we are at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and phoned through).
 
Footwear:  We have been asked to wear 'enclosed footwear'  (no sandals etc).  This is a safety requirement.
 
Forthcoming Projects 
Posted on Mar 09, 2017
The busy HRC programs persist. Nearly three-quarters of the Rotary year has gone.
 
It's worth reflecting on them. The Board invites ideas for other one-off  projects in the coming quarter.
 
In the Short Term we have:- 
 
Excurison to Walter & Eliza Institute 14 March (Jill Wright coordinating)
 
Auburn High School Interviews Wed am 15 March (email detail ex Wright/Owen to come)
 
Shepparton District Conference 30 March-1 April (too late to register?)
 
Salvos Project (refer Peter Lugg)
 
 
A Tupperware Party
Posted on Mar 09, 2017
Charles Henry was young finance graduate with audit roles in the early 1980’s with PriceWaterhouse. He chose to try another role for a couple of years.  This was with the Tupperware organisation.  Come 30+ years later he retires from that group after a long term career with numerous postings outside of Australia. 
 
It’s fortunate that his links to HRC member and MC Bill Troedel  caused to him to get onto our speaker list and provide the club with a most interesting story of the evolution of the Tupperware business.   Fascinating but little known to the lunch time audience he told of WWII American businessman inventor Earl Elias Tupper and post WWII housewife “Brownie” Wise and how they came together in business.
 
It’s the stuff of movies, particularly the role of Brownie Wise the woman who approached Tupper in 1948.  She made a lengthy phone call to his office in Massachusetts, during which she explained her extraordinary success selling Tupperware via home parties.
 
 Employed thereafter in a senior capacity she marketed Tupper’s products in the early 1950’s all with the house party concept.  They were withdrawn from retail stores.   It tapped into, at the time the unemployed, latent work force of house wives.   Tupper’s own earlier attempts to sell via conventional retail outlets had failed.   A forthcoming movie seeks to cast Sandra Bullock as Wise! 
 
Wise was sacked from the company in the late 1950’s.   At the same time Tupper sold out to Rexall another company and ultimately retired to Costa Rica establishing a significant philanthropic reputation.  To this day there have been several ownership changes at the corporate level but the product and marketing concepts retained.
 
Charles explained how the marketing model has transgressed the world.    Today the company is very strong but especially so in emerging countries more so than developed ones.  Doubtless the greater opportunity to harness a ready supply of under employed women in those developing countries at “house parties” is part reason.
 
The product’s genesis goes back to how Tupper used black, inflexible pieces of polyethylene slag, a waste product of the oil refining process given to him by his supervisor at DuPont.  He purified the slag and molded it to create lightweight, non-breakable containers, cups, bowls, plates, and even gas marks that were used in World War II. He later designed liquid-proof, airtight lids, inspired by the secure seal of paint can lids.   Cleverly Tupper established world wide patents in 1949.
 
 
 
The Shadow
Posted on Mar 09, 2017
  The Shadow noted and admired Anne Scott's new pearl necklace evidently gained in a high profile play on TV at the recent Kozminsky auction.  
 
 Anne was wearing the lovely piece for our lunch time meeting where one saw most gents with no ties, few jackets and even some with T shirts (not even tucked in..  Ian Pohl). It reminded The Shadow of the old adage "pearls before swine".
 
It seemed to The Shadow that the stars aligned at the meeting, being the day before International Womens Day to have an address about how back in the 1940's one woman was the key to Tupperware's success.  Then there were Tupperware gifts on each table,  and new member LeLee Tran's enthusiastic presence with guest Tina both elegantly dressed in high heels!.   More shame on the men!
 
 
 
 
Snap from Meeting
In the foreground new member Lelee Tran with long term friend and guest Tina, with President Meredith.
 
 
DIK Day   8 April
Posted by David Pisterman on Mar 09, 2017
 
 
We hear of the great things regularly coming out of the DIK store in West Footscray.   As is often noted it is one of the most productive Rotary initiatives.
 
April 8 is an open day for all to visit, to see what DIK is and help out for a couple of hours or more.
 
There are a few regulars from HRC who participate.  Open day is an opportunity for others and even friends to go along.
 
Let me know if you wish to help.
 
David Pisterman
 
Friends of Baguia Evening...2 May
Posted on Mar 09, 2017
A significant project relationship which Hawthorn Rotary has developed in recent years concerns support for people in the Baguia region of Timor Leste.   Our links with the group Friends of Baguia is part of this.
 
 Friends of Baguia is hosting a special one-time screening of the film Time To Draw the Line, Tuesday May 2nd, 7 pm at Palace Cinemas Como. This film is about East Timor and that nation's desire to settle it's long running boundary dispute with Australia.
 
The film includes footage of projects in Baguia.  Friends of Baguia president Derarca O'Mahony is one of the people interviewed and she will be introducing the film.   It is a great film to update yourself on this issue.
 
To reserve your tickets, please visit the Demand Film Event Page by clicking on the link below:  
 
Unlike a traditional movie showing, my Demand Film screening requires a minimum number of tickets to be reserved. They need another 39 tickets be reserved in the next 50 days in order for the screening to occur. 
 
FOB need your help if they are going to make this event happen!  They would love to see you in the audience, and would really appreciate  help  spreading the word.  Tell your other friends and have them join them for this special one-time screening of Time to Draw the Line! 
 
The link to the Friends of Baguia Committee is   https://www.facebook.com/friendsbaguia/
 

 
Make-ups and Apologies
Posted on Mar 09, 2017

Lawrence Reddaway always seeks to finalize numbers by Friday noon by collating  responses to attendance at the next meeting.   So please try the electronic response (or phone) or even carrier pidgeon!    Forewarn of any guests at the same time.   This minimizes catering costs. 

Geoff Wright collates the attendance information.  He needs to know of  "make up " events.
Club Roster
Posted on Mar 09, 2017

CLUB MEETING DUTIES      
If you cannot perform your duty, please find a replacement or contact Charles Morrison

 

   14 Mar

    21 Mar 

    28 Mar

     4 Apr

Greeting & Badges

   na Excursion

    Lane

     Lugg

     O'Beirne

Front Desk

   

    Rush

    Shore

    Stewart

Credit Cards

   

   Pisterman

    Troedel

    Warren

Set & Clear Up    

    

   Stewart

     Stewart   

     Stewart

MC        

    

   Jones

    Troedel 

    Bradshaw


SECOND BITE ROSTER (Check with Ian Macfarlane if no Salvation Army  personnel present)                  

 

  11 Mar

   18 Mar

   25 Mar

   1 April

Member

   Hanson

   Macfarlane

     Rose 
   
    tba
  
Lunch Speakers
Mar 14, 2017
Visit to The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
Club Visit
Club Visit

This is a unique opportunity to visit Australia’s oldest research institute. 

‘For more than 100 years, the institute’s discoveries have advanced scientific thinking, improved clinical practice and resulted in new and more effective treatments for patients. Around 100 clinical trials based on discoveries made at the Institute are underway. These include trials of vaccines for type 1 diabetes, coeliac disease and malaria, and trials of a new class of anti-cancer agents for treating patients with leukaemia’
 
Did you know there are over 1800 people working at the institute?
 
You may recall the excellent presentation by Dr Justin Boddey at one of our meetings last year.
he details of the visit are: 
 
Date:  Tuesday 14th March  (no meeting at Kooyong that day).
 
Time: 12 p.m  - 1p.m.    (ie:  approximately a 1 hour tour).
 
Place:  1G Royal Parade, Parkville (behind the Royal Melbourne  Private  Hospital).
 
Transport:    *Car Pool being considered from Kooyong LTC
NB:    **We need to be at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute by 11.50a.m.
 
Parking: 
We have been advised of the following: 
Royal Melbourne Hospital  car park  beside  the Institute
Or across the road at the University of Melbourne Royal Parade carpark
*(there 'may' be limited parking in the forecourt of the Institute…...subject to construction works about to begin).
 
Cost:  No cost for the tour.
 
Lunch: After the tour: Naughtons Hotel, Parkville
 
**Please note:  It is a safety regulation of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute that we all wear enclosed footwear** 
 
**Bookings for the tour are essential....
Mar 21, 2017
Committee Day (No Speaker)
Fellowship Meeting
Mar 28, 2017
Amanda Donohoe
Servants Community in 2017
Apr 04, 2017
Alan Brown
From Richmond to Thailand: Successful, Inspiring Stories You May Not Know About
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Club Events
International Women's Day Breakfast
The Palladium Southbank
Mar 08, 2017
6:50 AM – 9:00 AM
 
Visit to The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
Mar 14, 2017
 
Rotary Hawthorn's Club Vision Session
NAB Camberwell Business Centre
Mar 19, 2017
1:15 PM – 5:30 PM
 
2017 District 9800 Conference
Mar 30, 2017 – Apr 01, 2017
 
DIK Open Day
West Footscray Store Shed 40,
Apr 08, 2017
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
 
District Assembly
May 21, 2017
 
Rotary Club of Kew 50th Anniversary
Jun 15, 2017
 
District Changeover Lunch
Jun 25, 2017
 
Change-Over
Green Acres Golf Club
Jun 29, 2017
6:30 PM – 10:00 PM
 
Birthdays
Member Birthdays
Gordon Cheyne
March 11
 
Ian Macfarlane
March 31
 
Spouse Birthdays
Kate O'Beirne
March 7
 
Lisette Bamford
March 28
 
Susan Wright
March 29
 
Club Directors
President
Meredith Hayes
 
Vice President
Bernie Walshe
 
Secretary
Gordon Cheyne
 
Treasurer
Ian Gillies
 
President Elect
Katrina Flinn
 
Legal
David Rush
 
Past President
Lawrence Reddaway
 
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Web:  www.hawthornrotary.org.au