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PRESIDENTS
MESSAGE
The President was in Darwin at the District Conference.
No message this week
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Six nails can be seen embedded in the skull of construction
worker Isidro Mejia. This happened when Isidro fell on April
19 on a construction site onto another worker. Isidrois doing
well now after removal of the nails! It happened in Los Angeles.
Isidro is expected to (almost) fully recover from his injuries.
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PRESIDENT ROBYN
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Last
Week.
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was at a conference in Sydney! |
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The Week Before
We were
visited by a GSE team from District 5550, Arizona U.S.A..
Their presentation was excellent if a little
rushed to meet our schedule. The slide presentation was probably
the most successful we've had at the club. A well organised
team!
The visiting
members were Doreen Krysik, Matt Herman, Cynthia Quijada,
Donna Abril and Sean Murray. The team leader was William (Bill)
Fee.
Visitors
were Brad Astill, Linda Kirchner and Margaret Logan.
Visiting Rotarians
were Pam Buxton, Earle Wickham and Sharon Brooks.
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Sandy Astill
was presented with the Ken Scheler Award
from Rotary Down Under for a
"Literary
contribution of outstanding merit which in the opinion
of the committee best exemplifies the principles of Rotary."
The award
was for an article Sandy wrote for Rotary Down Under in September
2002 about Relay For Life.
Well Done
Sandy!
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Rotary 4-Way Test
1.
Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
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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 Fairbrother
Margaret Jarvis
Geoff Guest
Lou Piccone
Lionel Williamson
Members'
progressive attendance for July 2003 to March 2004
R Goodwin
100% J Crofts 100% D Court 100%
M Bonde 94%
R Crossland 91% H Ehrlich 91% C Koppen 91%
R Logan 89% D Young 89%
B Fowler 87%
M Plunkett 86%
D Mitchell 83% B White 83%
G Plunkett 77% K Robinson 77%
D Kirchner 74% C Williams 74%
S Astill 72% S Baker 72% R Cheeseman 72% B Cheeseman 72% A Ellis
72%
C Lord 69% I McDonald 69% J Watson 69%
J Quinn 66%
I Brauman 63%
M Bryant 60% P Harm 60%
G Shirvington 57%
J Gersekowski 54%
P Sexton 50%
Excused attendance
G Cossins and M Crittenden
Rupert Crossland
Correspondence
Hi,
While trolling the net looking for
ideas for our own Rotary bulletin, I came across your bulletin/website.
I was interested in the page on Paul Harris but noted an error.
You have him in the third paragraph being born in 1968!!!
Regards PP Roy Hilton
Wetherill Park Rotary Club
D9690 .........
Hi Roy,
Hey, I was only 100 years out!!!!
Interestingly that article was probably
pulled from the RI website some years ago!!
Thanks for the info,
Regards,
Steve Baker
( It has been fixed! Editor )
FLIES
A woman walked into the kitchen to
find her husband stalking around with a fly swatter.
"What are you doing?" She asked.
"Hunting Flies" He responded. "Oh.
Killing any?" She asked.
"Yep, 3 males, 2 Females," he replied.
Intrigued, she asked. "How can you
tell?"
He responded, "3 were on a beer can,
2 were on the phone."
From David Young
Discovering
the Lift
An Islander boy and his father were
visiting the city. They were amazed by almost everything they saw,
but especially by two shiny, silver walls that could move apart
and then slide back together again.
The boy asked, "What is this, father?"
The father (never having seen an lift) responded "Son, I have never
seen anything like this in my life, I don't know what it is".
While the boy and his father were watching
with amazement, a fat old lady in a wheelchair rolled up to the
moving walls and pressed a button. The walls opened and the lady
rolled between them into a small room. The walls closed and the
boy and his father watched the small circular numbers above the
walls light up sequentially.
They continued to watch until it reached
the last number and then the numbers began to light in the reverse
order. Finally, the walls opened up again and a gorgeous, voluptuous
24-year-old blonde woman stepped out.
The father, not taking his eyes off
the young woman, said quietly to his son … "Go get your mother".
From Ted Elliott
From
The District Governor’s Newsletter
March was an ominous month for Julius
Caesar and I can only hope that the torrential rains in Cairns during
the weekend of the Assembly and my flu induced voice loss are not
horrid omens for the future. And just when I thought I was an easy
seven iron from the 18th Green.
It was a great start to the month
with the receipt and distribution of Resolutions to be considered
at Conference being efficiently handled by our District Resolutions
Officer, Hugh Bradley. Together with District Secretary Les Bunn,
Hugh did a great job and all Resolutions, together with relevant
advice in relation to voting, were passed to clubs by the 22 March
deadline.
At about that time I received an e-mail
from Rotary International confirming that they had dispatched the
long awaited Certificate recognizing 50 years of membership of Rotary
by Past President Ron Ireland of the Cairns Club. This is
a rare and significant event in Rotary, and indeed particularly
so in our District.
The fact is that only 7 such certificates
are issued each year to the 36,000 Rotarians Australia wide. However,
this occasion was made even more outstanding by the fact that Ron’s
father, Francis, himself a Past President of the Rotary club of
Cairns, also received a certificate to commemorate his 50 years
of membership of Rotary International back in 1987. To the best
of Rotary’s records, this is unique within Australia.
Congratulations Ron. It’s a great effort.
Thoughts
I’m no bigot. I hate everybody
One man in 1000 is a leader of men. The other 999
follow women.
As an outsider, what do you think of the human race?
We like your attitude. But what are you doing?
I had some sea sickness tablets once. On the box one
of the side effects listed was nausea!
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