Scott has returned from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

Scott is 'an educator with a track record of working to further the Rotary Foundation’s goal of improving basic education and literacy in disadvantaged school contexts, and a clear commitment to building a career as a reforming school leader in Australia’s public school system'. Australia needs a coalition of public school system leaders, committed to improving student outcomes by investing in teaching and school communities'.

Past District Governor, Bronwyn Stephens said: 'What an inspirational and aspirational goal for the recipient of the 2018 global scholar program'. 

Chair: David Rush

Annual General Meeting

Photo: Dyland Gillis

'Seda has worked as a broadcaster with Radio Australia since the inception of its Khmer broadcasts in 1992. Prior to this, Seda worked as a community health educator with various health agencies in Australia and in a refugee camp in Thailand, where she was herself a resident. Seda holds a Post Graduate Diploma of Asian Studies and a Master of Development Studies from Monash University, Melbourne'.

Chair: Katrina Flinn

                              Cambodia...  Seda Douglas

'Seda has worked as a broadcaster with Radio Australia since the inception of its Khmer broadcasts in 1992. Prior to this, Seda worked as a community health educator with various health agencies in Australia and in a refugee camp in Thailand, where she was herself a resident. Seda holds a Post Graduate Diploma of Asian Studies and a Master of Development Studies from Monash University, Melbourne'.

Chair: Katrina Flinn

The Rotary Clubs of Hawthorn and Glenferrie

Christmas Party 

We are celebrating Christmas with Rotary Glenferrie.

At: Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club.Date:  Tuesday 17 December 2019
Venue: Kooyong Lawn Tennis Club
Time: 6:30 for 7:00 pm
Cost: $65 per person
Entertainment: Michael Lapiña (Tenor) and the Glenferrie Hawthorn Rotary Choristers.
Payment: At Club Meetings or by Bank Transfer to Rotary Club  of Hawthorn  BSB: 083-166   A/C: 53254 5861
(please identify your payment with the code “CP - Surname” on the  EFT)

12.30pm - 2.30pm

41 TURNBERRY GROVE FINGAL (MOONAH LINKS)

- the gate code for entry will be provided on acceptance -

$20.00 per person all inclusive

 (light lunch, refreshments, coffee and tea)

Please advise dietary requirements

Dress code: casual

RSVP by 24^th January 2020 to Ngaire Cannon

Email: ngairec@bigpond.net.au  

Payments can be made by ETF to

Rotary Club of Hawthorn BSB: 083-166  A/C 532545861

(Please identify your payment with the code “Fingal-Surname”) on the ETF

Photo: Stefan Johnson

For Cap and Country and its publication is about the importance of generosity, sportsmanship, perseverance and community to help us achieve our goals in life as much as in sport. 

Australian Test players, past and present, open up about the road from their backyards to the baggy green.

Breathe in the mowed grass and linseed oil as they take their first steps to glory. Share with them the euphoria of their cap presentations. Immerse yourself in the wonder of Test triumphs and the despair of being dropped form the team. In sharing the players' stories - and disclosing how treasured Australian caps are kept under lock and key, in dank cupboards and stuffed in undies drawers - Jesse Hogan takes you inside their lounge rooms as well as cricket's dressing rooms. 

Their stories contain salutary lessons for the game's future. As such, this is a conversation about Australian cricket as much as it is a chat with its best players. And at its heart is the unifying force of the cap, under which all players are equals, no matter if they've played 168 Tests like Steve Waugh, or one like Bryce McGain

Just two weeks before the first draft was completed, tragedy struck. 
At the age of 33, sports journalist Jesse Hogan suffered a devastating stroke that left him unable to speak, write or even walk. Following intensive rehabilitation and with immense support, Jesse made it back and finished the book with the help of fellow journalist Andrew Faulkner.

Chair: Katrina Flinn

Bronwyn Stephens will let us know about the exciting trip, that's planned, to Cambodia in January 2021.

(Plus we will hear about this year's Rotary International Women's Day Breakfast).

Chair: Katrina Flinn

The Burke and Wills and the Lewis and Clark expeditions were amazing feats of stamina and courage.

Mike's talk outlines the rationale for each expedition and reviews their parallels and contrasts while highlighting some of the incredible events which occurred during these treks.

Chair: Noel McInnes

Photo Credit: Tommy Lisbin

Did you know that viral hepatitis affects almost half a million Australians and that, in Victoria, about 6 people die every week of hepatitis related causes - more than the State’s road toll? 

Hepatitis Victoria and Rotary Melbourne have joined to achieve the World Health Organisation’s goal of eliminating viral hepatitis by 2030. 

With a cure now available for hepatitis C and a vaccination for hepatitis B, this global goal is achievable if community awareness can be raised. 

A Hepatitis Victoria educator and a lived experience public speaker will present at the meeting on Tuesday 25 February to raise awareness, address the problem of stigma and discrimination in the community and encourage people to seek testing and treatment.

Chair: Kevin Rose

'Peacebuilder clubs play a vital role in sparking passion and a direction for peace within their own Rotary clubs, districts and communities. 

A central part of the mission of Rotary is to empower Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace. Rotarian Peacebuilder clubs commit to engage in dialogues and projects that promote positive peace in their communities and across the globe. Building peace may seem like a daunting task, but the Rotarian Action Group for Peace has identified the Simplify, Unify, and Engage approach, which paves a more do-able, effective and successful path to peace and nonviolence'.

Chair:  Dennis Shore

'After surviving a day in the Death Zone, adventurer and explorer Dan Bull completed an unguided ascent of Mt Everest in his 20s. He has since made numerous first ascents up unclimbed peaks in uncharted locations such as northern Greenland, and has successfully tackled some of the world's most dangerous mountains. Among them, the infamous North Face of the Eiger, a vertical mile of brittle rock and ice in the Swiss Alps, nicknamed Mordwand in German, literally, 'Murder Wall'.

Dan now plans to take record-breaking to new heights, literally, as he attempts to make history, again, with his latest record-breaking attempt: The Highest Swim. Dan will continue to push his mind and body to the limits as he battles against a chilling assault on the senses and endeavours to swim in the highest lake on Earth and become the first person to swim above an altitude of 6,000m / 20,000 ft.

Nicknamed Unstoppabull by his sisters, Dan has an unrelenting desire to push limits and test the boundaries of what is possible. He has been awarded multiple Guinness World Records for his achievements, all accomplished whilst overcoming a debilitating childhood condition to demonstrate firsthand that Anything is Possibull'.

(Source: ICMI)

Chair: Geoff Wright

Photo Credit: Guinness World Records

Not To Be Missed.

Our newest, soon to be member, David McNamara will do a 'Behind The Badge' talk.

Zoom in and hear some tall tales and true, from some of our members!

Melbourne based Jacqueline and Claire's production company, Clothesline Content produced the documentary, The Story of The Road, and created all the content for the I Am 100 festival;  celebrating 100 hundred years since construction began on the iconic, Great Ocean Road.

They’ve created content for the biggest shows on Australian TV and are now creating video content online.

You can see a little more here.

*Plus....Watch: 4pm, Friday 24th April, 2020 (ANZAC DAY EVE) –  New Documentary ‘The Story of the Road’  to air on SBS.

Inspiring Nhill College student, Mu Yeh will tell  about his wonderful experiences at the National Youth Science forum in Brisbane during January.

He enjoyed meeting like minded students from all over Australia. Mu came to Nhill, with his family, eleven years ago, from a refugee camp on the Thai, Myanmar border.

Mu’s ambition is to become a surgeon.

Inspiring Nhill College student, Mu Yeh will tell  about his wonderful experiences at the National Youth Science forum in Brisbane during January. 

He enjoyed meeting like minded students from all over Australia.

Mu came to Nhill, with his family, eleven years ago, from a refugee camp on the Thai, Myanmar border. 

Mu’s ambition is to become a surgeon.

Dr Gary Presland is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, is an authority on Aboriginal and natural history in Melbourne, has a research interest in police history in Victoria, is widely published and is a prize-winning author and editor.

He is a long-standing member of the Archaeological and Anthropological Society of Victoria, as well as  a number of local historical societies, including Footscray, Victoria Police, and Box Hill.

Gary is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, an Honorary Fellow of The University of Melbourne (School of Geography) and an Honorary Associate of Museum Victoria, and closely involved with the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria.

Photo Credit: Jill Weeks

Dr Gary Presland is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, is an authority on Aboriginal and natural history in Melbourne, has a research interest in police history in Victoria, is widely published and is a prize-winning author and editor.

He is a long-standing member of the Archaeological and Anthropological Society of Victoria, as well as  a number of local historical societies, including Footscray, Victoria Police, and Box Hill.

Gary is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, an Honorary Fellow of The University of Melbourne (School of Geography) and an Honorary Associate of Museum Victoria, and closely involved with the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria.

WINGS, Hawthorn Amateur Football Club

Sarah Ward volunteers as Player Welfare Manager for the Hawthorn Amateur Football Club.

‘Tragic circumstances led Hawthorn Amateur Football Club to focus on mental health through the creation of their revolutionary Player Wellbeing Program, WINGS.'