The new Rotary year kicked off with its first meeting, all about us as a club.
Trevor Jones as Sergeant happily lampooned splits in the community (as exemplified by the UK response to EU involvement) and exploited that theme while extracting coin from the audience. Trevor may be the last, as henceforth we will multi task with an MC for the meeting who will in sequence : open it, introduce the President, come back and extract coin akin to a sergeant, introduce/host the speaker, and finally hand back to the President to close.
President Meredith Hayes outlined her view of the goals and challenges for the club and all (reminding us that every Rotary member needs to be involved) and then introduced David Rush to give a summary of Foundation ( this is its centenary year) and Bernie Walshe on the Paul Harris Society. The former is having an anniversary evening on the 25th of July and one should see David about attending, whereas the second is a means by which significant focused donations can be made to the Australian Rotary Foundation Trust for eventual use by the Rotary Foundation ( Bernie can provide details of the how).
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