April

Garry Shirvington Birthday 10th April
Sandy Astill Birthday 13th
Brian Fowler Anniversary 13th
Bev Cheeseman Anniversary 8th
Ron Cheeseman Anniversary 8th
Dean Wofenden Anniversary 26th

Recent Photographs

President's Message

CAIRNS-MULGRAVE ROTARY CLUB HISTORY In The Beginning
Continued

PRESIDENTS MESSAGE

There is no meeting this Friday 2nd April at the Hilton Hotel. Our meeting for this week was on Monday night at the Matson Plaza with a joint meeting with Cairns Earlville.

There is no meeting on Friday 9th April at the Hilton Hotel, this is Good Friday and our meeting for that week will be on Easter Monday. We are having a fun day for all of the family at Goomboora Park, this is behind Cool Waters Caravan Park. We are meeting at 11.30am.There will be cricket matches with Cairns Mulgrave challenging Cairns Club, ladies challenging the men etc.

It is a joint Club meeting and the cost is $20 per head for adults and children are free. The food will be supplied; you only have to bring your drinks. Please let me know if you will be coming on the day for catering by Thursday 8th April. There will be a trophy awarded for the winner!

We have a Directors meeting on Tuesday 6th April at the Hilton Hotel in the Boardroom 5pm., please try and be there as we only have this meeting with this board, the next two will be joint meetings with the new incoming Board.

Any people wanting to participate in Relay for Life and join one of our teams please contact Cheryl Williams or Gary Shirvington to register.

We are having a joint meeting with Kuranda Club on Thursday April 22nd .We will not be having a meeting at the Hilton Hotel on Friday 23rd April. Kuranda meet at the bottom pub 6.15pm for 6.30pm. We may look at hiring a van if the numbers are large enough.

Anzac day we are celebrating with Cairns Club so remember the dawn service and then breakfast on the Esplanade after.

PRESIDENT ROBYN

Last Week

We had 10 non-English speaking Japanese visitors! Jim Melvin and John Baker were also visiting Rotarians.

We have received $5750 from The Rotary Foundation to go towards our Centenary Rotary project with Cairns Earlville.

There was an extended discussion on our Art Union Duck Race.

Permits have been applied for and we have support from Festival Cairns for the race to be an official event on September 25 2004. We have great support from both the Port Authority and the Navy, from whom we will need pollution booms.

Sandy, David, Herman and Peter are working on the project. It's hoped to raise $60,000 for the Renal Dialysis Unit.

"It's novel, and will be a lot of fun doing it - even if it is a disaster," was a memorable quote from one of the members. "The ducks will have to travel 300 meters and we have to ensure that the ducks get to the finish before the tide turns!"

We're looking for a naming rights sponsor.

Our ten, non english speaking Japanese Rotarian visitors had a good time (we think).

Our Paul Harris Fellows

Rotarians

Sandy Astill, Max Bryant, Graham Cossins, David Court, Jeff Crofts, Rupert Crossland, Herman Ehrlich, Bob Fowler, Col Koppen, Bernie Mullins, Jim Watson, Denise Mitchell, David Kirchner,

Honorary Members

Ted Elliot OAM, Brian Fowler, Beres McKeown, Bernie Mullins, Les Trevenan

Past Club Members

Geoff Canton

Non Rotarians

Christine FairbrotherMargaret Jarvis Geoff GuestLou Piccone Lionel Williamson

CAIRNS-MULGRAVE ROTARY CLUB HISTORY..... Continued

THE FIRST YEAR

The club did not come away from the Charter dinner empty handed. Cash donations were gratefully received from Charters Towers, Mareeba and Earlville Clubs and from DGN Noel Pilcher.

Cairns West presented the lectern which still graces the table at meetings, our own member Bernie Mullins generously gave the badge box fashioned in his home workshop and DG Wal Kieseker undertook the framing of the Charter.

Cairns Club provided the handsome dinner bell, but unfortunately engraved the wrong date, 4.2.84, charter dinner night, instead of 13.12.83, the actual date of the club charter. For technical reasons it was easier to re-engrave 84 to 83 and to add a 1's before the 4 and 2. And so it remains to this day 14.12.83, just one day out.

By the time all the organising was completed there was only six months of the Rotary year left to achieve some service to the community and fortunately it was a year of great events in Cairns. The club quickly organised and manned a bottled milk vending trailer to raise funds at the official opening of the Cairns International Airport; we challenged (and beat) the Cairns Club in fund raising for the Super Walk; we fitted safety flags to hundreds of children's bikes; we contributed $127.00 to the Olympic Games Appeal; we became 100% Contributor to the Rotary Foundation and again to FAIM; we were co-opted to the organisation of the District Conference held that year in Cairns; we committed the club to an Overseas Student and we collected 2.5 kilos of used postage stamps for the Overseas Medical Christian Services.

In conjunction with the Society for Growing Australian Plants, the Wildlife Preservation Society and the Horticultural Society, and against the opposition of the local residents, the club spent a sweaty February afternoon planting trees in Chinamans Creek upstream of Irene St. The Council's promise of mulch and marker posts for the trees was never kept and a combination of local vandalism and Council mowers ensured this planting never produced a lasting memorial to our very first project.

Despite this setback it was not a bad six months' effort, relieving some contented cows of their milk, saving child cyclists from the jaws of death, exercising our leg muscles, discovering the excitement of a District Conference and making philatelists happy all around the world.

This frenzy of activity was deliberately planned to demonstrate the wide range of opportunities open to the new members and to arrange projects to bring these strangers together to form bonds of fellowship which would consolidate the club.

Of course it was not all hard work. Early in November, even while the club was still "provisional" there was a barbeque as an ice-breaker, where couples contested darts and Snakes and Ladders and Pin the Donkey and other childish pursuits: We had numerous "Job Talks" for members to bare their souls: There was an interesting group of guest speakers: And there was the pleasure of inducting three new members.

FOR THE RECORD

CHARTER MEMBERS

President - Graham Cossins
Vice-president - Jack Neven
Secretary - Barry Cockrem
Treasurer - David Court
Assistant Secretary - Roy Collyer
President Elect - Chris Lord

Directors
Club Service - Bob Fowler
Community Service - Ken O'Keeffe
Internal Service - Owen Cevasco
Vocational Service - Roy Collyer
Club Service Deputy Director - Barry Keane
Attendance Officers - Chris Lord - Bernie Mullins
Sergeant at Arms - Max Crittenden Bulletin
Editor - Graham Cossins
Programmes Officer - Peter Jans
Membership Committee - Graham Gordon - Peter Sexton - Rupert Crossland
Membership Development - Barry Keane Bruce Schuster
Public Relations - Ron Cheeseman
Fellowship Committee - Max Stevens Ted Elliott
Rotary Information - David Goodman - Gerry Rigby
International Service Deputy Director - Barry Sands - Ian Callendar
Vocational Service Deputy Director - Jim Watson
Community Service Deputy Director - Rex Gregory - Don Muir - John Lister - Des Graham - Ian Wallace

Guest Speakers December 1983- June 1984

Bernie MacKenzie - Vocational Service- What is it?
Les Paul - Miniature Furniture
Gordon McKauge - Coral Jewellery
Kirsi Vertanen - Finland - My Country
Archdeacon Tung Yep - Christmas Message
Cmdr Alan Brecht - Coastal Surveillance
PDG Jack Woodward - District Finances
PP Allan McPherson - Group Study Exchange
Julie Parker - Experiences as a Student Exchangee & a Miss Queensland contestant
Charles Tomasson - Nautical Knot Tying
Milton Undy - Model Railways
Ernie Stevens - The Cairns Historical Sociey
John Forsberg - Experiences in the Handicapped Olympics
Aileen Travis & Helen Kindt - Genealogical Society Activities
Rob Guthrie - City Garden Landscaping
Rev Jeffrey Jarvis - Easter Message
Chris Buckley - Town Planning
Marlene Shepherd & Boris McGurk - RYLA camp experiences
Alderman Chris Bolton - Why the City Games?
Rob Carey - Safety Houses