Over the past week, I’ve found myself coming back to our Strategic Plan; not in a formal sense, but as a way of taking stock.
At the last Board meeting, we agreed to build this in more deliberately, adopting a practice of reviewing the Strategic Plan twice a year—once to assess how we are tracking, and again to consider what might need to change or want to prioritise as the club moves forward. A plan should guide us, but it also needs to remain a living document.
The Strategic Plan is useful because it sets out the full breadth of what we understand a Rotary club to be. It goes well beyond our weekly meetings and social events and speaks to our work across community, international, youth, and Foundation activities, with Peace as the common thread.
This is a special Rotary Hawthorn lunch meeting where we recognise a deserving member of our community who gives selflessly to support an older person in our Boroondara area.
To present this year’s award, Ben Rogers, CEO of COTA Victoria and Seniors Rights Victoria will be our guest speaker.
Please bring a guest to this special meeting at Kooyong.
21 April:Annual Service to Seniors Award, Ben Rogers, CEO COTA, Seniors Rights Victoria
28 April: Zoom - George Hulse and Jimmy Thomson, The First ANZACS
5 May:
12 May: No Meeting
19 May: Laraine Stephens, “Crime With a Twist Of History” at Kooyong
May 26: TBA Zoom meeting
2 June: No lunch – Changeover Dinner at Kooyong
CLUB SERVICE NEWS
By Terry Kitchen
BUNNINGS BBQ SUNDAY 31 MAY. I will be calling for volunteers to fill the roster between 9am - 5pm.
BUSINESS BREAKFAST FRIDAY 21 AUGUST. Mark Eldredge has taken the lead on this event as part of his membership drive. It will be held in the Stadium Room at Kooyong from 7.30 am - 9 am. The guest speaker will be Anshul Chopra, Enterprise Account Director at Microsoft, and his topic will be “Beyond the AI Hype: What Business Leaders Need to Know Now”.
“LIFT the LID – On the Pandemic” LUNCH FRIDAY 2 OCTOBER This year, we have secured as guest speaker Professor Jodie McVernon, Director of Epidemiology at the Doherty Institute
We are once again taking part in the GWS COMMUNITY RAFFLE. Last year, we raised over $600 through the raffle.
PROJECT UPDATES
Katrina Flynn alerted Editor to a delightful email of appreciation to Rotary Hawthorn for our welcome when Emily Wilkinson and Sokly Tep visited us a few weeks ago.
Thank you Katrina for sharing this as it is a reminder to us all, that being a Rotarian can make a huge difference to those who do not have the opportunities we have here in Australia.
Clue 1: I am a passionate Rotarian especially regarding “Who Am I?”
Clue 2: Married to a Glenferrie Rotarian
Clue 3: Much time spent around Op Shop!
Email or message David Pisterman (pisterman41@gmail.comwith your answer to this month’s Quiz. A bottle of the best is waiting for the winner at our lunch meeting 21 April donated by the last prize winner.
Be afraid! Do not incur the wrath of DP!
SOME ROTARY NEWS - REGIONALISATION
Over the next four weeks, Editor is providing some “Rotarian reading” about Regionalisation of Rotary Zone 8 and what it all means.
Do you know how much time and effort is applied every weekend without fail in the creation of your Bulletin? Yes, I am complaining. Without 3 or 4 of our members who provide regular news items, your editor is left searching social media for news items, which she needs to rewrite, get approval for photo publication and layout in a format that our wonderful Vincent does his magic in loading into ClubRunner every weekend without fail!
Fairs fair members. Since no one has accepted this important role in our Club’s volunteering, at least please help your editor by providing some news items, photos of what you are doing, visiting, enjoying. Thank you!
DID YOU KNOW
In PP Andrew Crockett’s year, 2021-22: Rotary 100 Year Yarra Bank Reserve Playground Centenary Project came to fruition.
After a collaboration over two years between the Rotary Clubs of Glenferrie, Camberwell, Canterbury, and Hawthorn, the Rotary Foundation, and the City of Boroondara, the playground was officially opened on 21 November 2021. Denbigh Richards was our representative on the project committee.
In June 2022, the project was awarded District Recognition as a successful community project that involved collaboration between partner clubs and the local council, engaged Rotarians and members of the community, was well implemented, and publicised and left a legacy of strengthened relationships.
