Bulletin No 42
08th June 2016
Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Castle Hill
ISSN 2203-126X
Rotary Club of Castle Hill Chartered 18th March 1965
PO Box 13, Castle Hill. 1765 www.rotarynews.info/club4201
Rotary Year 2015-16 District Governor: Gina Growden (District 9685 )
Rotary Int’l President: Ravi Ravindran
This Week 08 th June 2016 Networking Meeting – BHSC Chambers Chair Meeting report Meet & Greet Regalia
TBA David Brown Chris Dunwell Terry O’Mara & Ross Hood
Next Week 15 th June 2016 15 th June Club Assembly Chair Meeting report Meet & Greet Regalia
June
Mike Hallen David Bowles Mike Blair Raymond Danam & Bob Chary
Warwick Talbot June 11th
Bruce & Robyn Jenkin 10th Rod & Julie Williamson 20th
This Week Venue (on 08th June)
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From President Mike Hallen
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adjust invoices after they’re made available. If you have any plans regarding changes to your Rotary future, please let us know before the end of June 2016. If you are on our membership list on 1 July, we will have to pay the invoice and ask you to pay us without undue delay. PresidentElect Chris and Treasurer-Elect Phil Dunn will thank you for your assistance. I hope that you have all noted in your diaries that you will be attending the Club Assembly on 15th June at which we shall be asking you to receive and accept changes to our bylaws.
onight we are all at The Hills Shire Council Chambers (I hope) for the Civic Reception hosted Yours in Rotary , by Mayor Councillor Dr Michelle Byrne. We are joined by The Sydney Hills President Mike Business Chamber. The address of the function is included in the formal invitation. Parking is under the building and take the lift to the reception area in the foyer adjacent to Maurice’s Café. Rotary International plans to make our club’s July 2016 invoice available online around the middle of July. They use the membership data that’s in Rotary’s database as of 1 July to generate the invoice, so they’re asking us to make sure that our club’s information is current by then. Having an accurate membership figure is vitally important, as we can no longer ask RI to
Rotaract Club of The Hills Meets: 2nd & 4th Wednesday of each month Location: Room 3, Turner Building, Balcombe Heights Estate, 92 Seven Hills Road, Baulkham Hills.
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ritish writer and Royal Air Force pilot Roald Dahl was also an avid photographer who carried his beloved Zeiss camera on his many adventures. At a time when each photograph had to be laboriously developed by hand, on film or glass plate negatives, he amassed a collection of hundreds of images. In later years, these photographs served as a visual record of his travels, a way to document his experiences and share them with others. Yet he always spoke of his memories as being far more vivid than the photographs could ever reflect. So many events and experiences, he said, were simply impossible to capture; they could not be adequately conveyed in images or words. Language may fail, and photographs fade; minds are fallible, and details are lost. But some
experiences, as Dahl said, never dim; they stand out in our memories, even after decades, as a wall of flame. They rear up forever over the landscape of our past, dividing our lives into what came before and what came after.
heart surgery. The bright flags of Nepal fluttering over an entire village that had been rebuilt after the devastating earthquake. The feeling of awe in St. Peter’s Square at the Jubilee of Rotarians celebrated by Pope Francis. Joyful gatherings around the world, in so many countries, in so many languages That metaphor has stayed with – with friends I had never before me throughout the past year as met, my brothers and sisters in I have traveled the world for RoRotary. tary. For indeed, this entire year has stood, and will always stand, as a wall of flame in my To serve as president of Rotary mind, dividing my life into be- International is a colossal unfore and after. dertaking, one that cannot be truly conveyed in images or words. It is a wall of flame that When I think back over these 12 will burn forever in my memory, months, I see a bright kaleidodancing with light, shifting in scope of images cascading beshadow. A thousand images fore my eyes, day after day, jostle together in my mind, a week after week. The anxious thousand recollections, a thouparents in Chandigarh, India, sand emotions. Together, they hovering at the bedside of the form a great mosaic; together, child recovering from lifesaving Please page 04 3
From page 03 they show the bright and glorious work of your hands. As this Rotary year draws to a close, I am prouder than ever to be part of this great organization: one that makes the world not poorer, but richer; replaces despair with hope; raises up those whom fate has brought low; and is a gift to so many, while allowing each of us to Be a Gift to the World.
Club Officers and Non-Executive Positions Rotary Year 2015-2016
Rotary Club of Castle Hill President President-Elect (2015-2016) Secretary Treasurer Director Club Administration Director Membership Director Public Relations Director Service Projects Director Rotary Foundation Director Outreach Projects
Mike Hallen Chris Dunwell Geoff Duffy Bruce Allen Chris Dunwell Rod Williamson Geoff Duffy Mike Blair Bruce Allen Hannibal Shabaz
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here is an old Hotel/Pub in Mar-
ble Arch, London , which used to have a gallows adjacent to it. Prisoners were taken to the gallows (after a fair trial of course) to be hanged. The horse-drawn dray, carting the prisoner, was
In addition, the following non-executive roles have been accepted by those listed below: Bulletin Editor Raffle Guest Speaker Program Attendance Recorder Welfare Officer Sergeants Harshad Desai Webmaster
Committee Chairs International Service
accompanied by an
Anil de Silva David Bowles Ross Hood Geoff Duffy Terry O’Mara Hannibal Shabaz &
armed guard, who
Paul Robinson (assisted by Chris Dunwell)
''ONE LAST DRINK''. If he
Phil Davis
would stop the dray outside the pub and ask the prisoner if he would like
said YES, it was referred to as ONE FOR THE ROAD. If he declined, that prisoner was ON THE WAGON. 4
Extraordinary General Meeting - JUNE 15th 2016. Notice is given that on 15th June 2016, an extraordinary general meeting to be held prior to the Club Assembly. The purpose of this meeting is for the members to consider and adopt recommended changes to the club bylaws. Copies of the recommended changes are available from President-Elect Chris Dunwell or Secretary Geoff Duffy for any member wishing to peruse them prior to the EGM. On behalf of the Board, PP Geoff Duffy - Secretary
01st June 2016 Apologies: Frank Anisse David Sommerlad John Barker Peter Marcer John Cooper Terry O’Mara Paul Robinson
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Attendance Make Ups: Terry O’Mara (Committee) Honorary Rotarians: Nil Friends of Rotary: Penny Bourke Visiting Rotarians: Nil GUESTS: Nil
By PP Geoff Duffy Leave of Absence: Anil de Silva till June 30, 2016 Ron Marcus, April 20 till June 29, 2016. Hannibal Shabaz, May 03 till August 03, 2016. Peter Marcer, Till June 29, 2016 Bruce Allen July 13 till Aug 17, 2016. 5
Date
January 2016
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BBQ, Bunning's Castle Hill
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Home Meeting #1 BBQ, Bunning's Castle Hill
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Home Meeting #2 –
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Home Meeting #3 – Chris Dunwell’s Guest Speaker Graham Wilcox
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Guest Speaker Michael Bendon
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Thai International Night at the Bar La
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Celebrate 111 years of Rotary All partners & friends welcome Pride in Workmanship
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Club Business Meeting
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Youth Night Mini Club Assembly
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Excellence In Teaching Awards
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Club Committee meeting
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Guest Speaker Faye Yarroll "The Gift of Hearing"
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Polio Movie Night
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Anzac Day Guest Speaker
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Business Networking
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BBQ at Heritage Park
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Club Committee Meeting
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Guest Speaker
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Club Business Meeting
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Guest Speaker- “Sustainable Water Solutions” – Rhett Butler
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“Carers in Our Society” Networking Meeting – BHSC Chambers Club Assembly/EGM
February 2016
March 2016
April 2016
May 2016
June 2016
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Event
Rotary Monthly Theme Vocational Service Month
Peace & Conflict Resolution Month
Water & Sanitation Month
Maternal & Child Health Month
Youth Service Month
Rotary Fellowships Month
Club Calendar Jan- June 2016
Month/ Year
Held at the Shire Council Chambers with the Mayor
BBQ @ Bunnings “Wildlife in Madagascar” – Ron Guthrie Club Changeover
JUNE Rotary Fellowships Month 6
Bunnings have offered us a cancellation for
Sunday June 12th & Phil Dunn has told them YES THANK YOU A roster will go around this week but please keep this date free & let me know asap to do a morning or PM shift Thanks in anticipation. YIR The 2 Phils
We have secured the Cumberland State Forest th
BBQ site for Sunday October 30 so please record this in your diary to help as we need a big team on this busy day (every 2 years)
Out with the old and in with the new 29th June 2016 at Castle Hill Country Club. Cost: $45 per person (includes a “welcome drink”) Join us as we welcome Chris and Joanne We have some guests attending our changeover meeting including: Ray Williams MP for Castle Hill and his wife Wendy Mayor Councillor Michelle Byrne and her husband Matt Superintendent Rob Critchlow Aileen Mountifield, Founder and CEO of The Lisa Harnum Foundation and her husband George
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DUTY ROSTERS If you are unable to meet your roster allocation it is your responsibility to arrange for someone to take your place. 22 June
Ron Guthrie. "The Wildlife of Madagascar"
Chair Ross Hood Meeting report Chris Dunwell Meet & Greet Phil Dunn Regalia Ron Marcus and Peter Marcer
29 June
Changeover
Chair Mike Hallen Meeting Report Chris Dunwell Meet & Greet Paul Robinson Regalia Hannibal Shabaz & Mike Blair
ground. The more we contribute to our Foundation’s Annual Fund, . . District Grants the more opportunities and funding we will District Grants allow Rotary clubs to identify, have for such projects. plan, and fund worthy projects in their own communities or internationally. Grants can fund The Rotary Foundation improvements such as kitchen equipment for a allows us to “do good in the world” here in our own community, as food pantry, assistance for after-school programs, dictionaries or encyclopedias for prima- well as internationally. ry school children, or renovations to a play-
THIS WEEK’S ROTARY FOUNDATION THOUGHT is about
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PAST PRESIDENTS 1965-66Gerald Engel Prov & Charter President 1966-67 John Wells 1967-68 Roley McClintock 1968-69 Don Wright 1969-70 Ray Wells 1970-71 Tony Dehlsen 1971-72 Roy Martin 1972-73 Frank Crooke 1973-74 Allan Buckingham 1974-75 Ken Binns 1975-76 Colin Lawford 1976-77 Roger Wood 1977-78 Brian Stacey 1978-79 Warren Bowden 1979-80 Ern Death 1980-81 Peter Gilbank 1981-82 Graeme Brangwin 1982-83 Stan Fulker 1983-84 Phillip Dunn 1984-85 Bill Robinson 1985-86 John Barker PSM 1986-87 Norm Roach 1987-88 Milton Colburt 1988-89 Ron Marcus OAM 1989-90 Bill Tait 1990-91 Peter Wood 1991-92 Bruce Allen 1992-93 Ray White 1993-94 Ron Miller
1994-95 Gerry Larkin 1995-96 Hannibal Shabaz 1996-97 George McDonald 1997-98 Peter McBean 1998-99 John Stuart 1999-00 Geoff Duffy 2000-01 John Cooper 2001-02 Mike Hallen 2002-03 Judy Ford 2003-04 Jeff Whyte 2004-05 Peter Ford 2005-06 Mike Blair 2006-07 Terry O’Mara AM 2007-08 David Waterhouse 2008-09 Peter Marcer 2009-10 Rod Williamson 2010-11 Terry O’Mara AM 2011-12 Stephen Macquarie 2012 –2013 Paul Robinson 2013-2014 Bev Cooney OAM 2014 - 2015 Mike Blair PAST PRESIDENTS OTHER CLUBS David Sommerlad AM , Bruce Jenkin MBE Neil Todd, Phil Davis Raymond Danam SERVICE ABOVE SELF AWARD Ron Marcus OAM
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We meet at
Castle Hill Country Club every WEDNESDAY at 6:30 pm for 7:00 pm (Spurway Drive, Baulkham Hills NSW 2153) Apologies, Please inform Geoff Duffy NO LATER than Noon Tuesday before the next meeting so numbers can be confirmed for Dinner jgduffy@internode.on.net
BULLETIN EDITOR
Anil De Silva (from Cobar, Outback NSW)
Phil Davis—Sergeant’s Fine Session Mike Hallen for losing his way to the board meeting at Chris Dunwells David Bull for leaving his mobile hanging on a hook back home. Chris Dunwell for his phone ringing just as he was to address the club Mike Blair for the Swans win over the unbeaten North Melbourne side David Brown for thinking he would avoid a fine by saying little to the Sgt Chris Dunwell for wearing a Wallabys shirt on a League State of Origin game night The Sgt then told 2 ‘golfers jokes
aniljdes@yahoo.com.au
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Deadline Friday 8:00 pm
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Phil Dunn
Burrumbuttock Hay Runners approaching Cobar March, 2016
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