Club Bulletin 20Aug2018

The Next Meetings

Youth Reunion Meeting

Monday, 20th August

This young lady is just one of our guests

No Meeting following Trivia Night

Monday 27th August

TBA

Monday 3rd September

Duty Roster

If you are unable to be at the meeting please contact the person doing your role the following week/s, arrange a swap and advise Keith, so he can amend his records.
Also, to avoid being rostered on, please notify Keith of any upcoming known absences (eg holidays) from meetings in the next twelve months.

Inside This Issue

President's Report

Night Report

Humour

Club Calendar

Upcoming Events

12th August Bunnings BBQ - Dural

13th August Combined meeting at Springfield House

25th August Trivia Night - Cherrybrook Community Centre

13th-14th October Garage Sale ALL HANDS

Trivia Night Flyer Released

August is Membership and New Club Development Month

I found all this deep and meaningful stuff that is relevant to somebody.... ZZZZZZZZZ

So, I thought I would tell you that these people INSPIRE me.

Wanted - New Members

If you know of someone who would benefit from Rotary, or, from whom Rotary would benefit if they were a member, then contact Keith.

Click here for a PDF copy of the form to the right, and send or give it to Tony C.

Significant Club Fundraising Events during the year

The Book Sale March 2018

As the result of a lot of hard work the April Book Sale was a great success, especially from the organisers Andrew Little Max Henderson, Neville Hansen and Clive Denmark. Funds raised were circa $15,000. Well done.

2017 Trivia Night

The Club held a very successful trivia night on Saturday 26 August 2017at the Cherrybrook Community Centre, raising just over $5,000 towards the charities we support.

The Garage Sale

We have just had our best and most successful Garage Sale on the weekend of 7&8 October raising a record gross - north of $35k.

Excellent Project Management and a large number of dedicated volunteers, some putting in hours of effort, in the weeks before the weekend contributed to this result.

Barbecues

The club runs fund raising barbecues throughout the year, mainly at Bunnings (both Dural and Thornleigh) Here are Barry, Tony, Nick and David hard at work. at Thornleigh..

Meetings

Monday 6:30pm for 7:00pm - Springfield House - 245 New Line Road, Dural 2158

Apologies

If you are unable to attend or are bringing a guest (even if they are your partner) you must notify Carol.
Phone 8850 6515 or email [email protected] before 11am on the day of the meeting.

If you are expected and do not show you will be required to pay for the meal.

Presidents Report 13th August

Tonight, was a fabulous evening with 8 Rotary Clubs combining to celebrate service above self and support the Norwest Sunrise Medicos in Bolivia project.
We heard an inspiring talk from Dr Ian Nicholson AM (Adult and Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgeon) about Cardiac Surgery in the Developing World. Dr Nicholson is a member of Open Heart International I(OHI) which is a team of volunteers that have been traveling to developing countries to provide surgery since 1986. It is an initiative of Sydney Adventist Hospital. OHI has implemented projects in Burs Surgery, Cardiac surgery, Eye Surgery, Orthopaedics, Primary Health and Women’s Health.

Dr Nicholson was made a Paul Harris Fellow by the Rotary Club of Norwest Sunrise for his OHI work.

As usual Frank and his staff provided a fantastic meal and there was plenty opportunity for camaraderie between members partners and guests of the combined clubs.
Twenty six Rotarians, partners and guests from our club were among the 135 attending this well organised event. The other clubs present were Lower Blue Mountains, Hills-Kellyville, Kenthurst, Norwest Sunrise, Castle Hill, Beecroft and Pennant Hills. Our club picked up one of the raffle prizes.

The origin of Rotary and “Service Above Self”

Rotary originated because of one man’s loneliness. Paul Perch Harris was a successful lawyer in the growing city of Chicago, Illinois, USA. Paul had been raise by his grandparents in the small rural village of Wallingford, Vermont. In Chicago he missed the camaraderie of the small village. On February 23 1905 he invited three businessmen in Chicago, who like himself had grown up in rural areas, to join him for lunch in his offices. The three businessmen were Sylvester Schiele, a coal merchant; Gus Loehr, a mining engineer; and Hiram Storey, a master tailor, which were in the Unity Building. They were to “band together for social purposes and to be material help to one another.” The founding four were of American, German, Swedish and Irish ancestry, professing Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish faiths.

A second club was founded in San Francisco three years after and by 1910 there were 16 clubs and 1500 members across the USA. Because they rotated their weekly meetings in different offices Paul Harris conceived the name “Rotary Club”. Membership was limited to one businessman to each classification, and emphasis was placed on attendance.

By founding “Rotary”, Paul Harris had quite an effect on the 20th century. Unknowingly, he had formed the FIRST “Service Club” in North America.

Rotary soon outgrew the “need to be of material help to one another”. “Service to Others” became more important. The first convention was held in 1910 and it was there that the saying “He profits Most who Serves His Fellows Best” was put forward by Arthur Fredrick Sheldon. The next year the idea that clubs should adopt the principle “Service , Not Self” was promoted by B. Frank Collins. These ideas were adopted by all Rotarians but is wasn’t until the convention of 1950 that the slightly modified saying “He Profits Most Who Serves Best" and “Service Above Self” were officially designate as Rotary mottos.

President Colin

Night Report 13th August

It was a unique Rotary meeting for our club, as we had a joint meeting with the following Rotary Clubs:
Norwest Sunrise, The Hills – Kellyville, Pennant Hills, Beecroft, Castle Hill, Kenthurst and Lower Blue Mountains

Welcoming opening: President Jeremy Carter (Norwest Sunrise) including Welcome to Country
Toast: 2 toasts. 1st Queen and Australian People. 2nd to Service Above Self.
Grace: All contributed

President Col’s Report
Refer President’s report in bulletin.

Director’s Reports
Nil reports were presented.

Guest Speaker
Name – Dr Ian Nicholson AM (SAN Hospital & Open Heart International)
Ian is both an Adult and Paediatric Cardiothoracic Surgeon, which is quite rare in modern medicine. He graduated in 1988 and has been a surgeon since, always looking to help as many people as he can.
The main presentation was about the Open Heart International, some information about the program:

Volunteer driven foundation and started in 1986
Initiative of the SAN Hospital, located in Wahroonga
Mostly Cardiac, burns, eye, etc surgeries completed during overseas trips away
Since inception, the program has visited 16 different countries and have completed over 7,000 cases.
Historically, volunteers came from around Australia and mostly from NSW. However, as the program has grown in reputation, more volunteers are now coming from different countries, such as USA, Germany, Japan, etc.
With the intervention of the Rotary Club of Norwest Sunrise, the program recently travelled to Bolivia (South America) and they plan a second visit to Cochabamba Bolivia.
With the increased reputation of the program more countries, large multinational medical device and pharmaceutical companies are donating more and more items for each overseas trips and missions.
Plans for the 2017/2018 year is to visit 10 countries and complete 15 overseas visits.