The bulletin provides information about an upcoming Rotary club meeting and other club activities. It discusses last week's meeting celebrating Rotary's 106th birthday with a guest speaker. It promotes literacy month activities in March and the district conference at the end of the month. It also provides details about an Interact interest meeting, RYPEN nominations, and the ShelterBox response to the New Zealand earthquake.

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New Horizons
The Official Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay Inc.
PO Box 168, Nedlands, Western Australia, 6909 ! District 9455! ABN: 99 602 195 617
Volume 3, Issue 31" 28th February - 6th March 2011
From the President Last Week’s Meeting This Week’s Meeting NZ Earthquake RYPEN District Conference
From the Club Did you miss last Find out what is Rotary Shelterbox Nominations are now Have you registered for
President. week’s meeting? happening this week. responds to NZ open. the conference this
Page 1 Find out what Page 1 disaster. Page 2 month.
happened Page 2 Page 3
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establish its own goals Perth. John is
Letter from the during the time alloted for a member of
that purpose. If anyone is the Rotary
President willing to serve as President Club of Perth,
in 2011-12, please let me and spoke
This week we enter “Literacy know urgently, as DGE Liz is a b o u t
Month”, the designation trying to finalise numbers for Rotary's
given by Rotary International PETS. achievements
to March. over the
Claire Forsdyke and Bill y e a r s ,
March is an extremely busy Hassell are organizing a club including the
month. We'll have 5 meetings forum to discuss our club's funding of the
in March, and we'll have 2 future, currently scheduled UWA Medical
speakers focusing on literacy, for Sunday 20th March at 10 School by the
as well as a youth segment am at Bill and Sue's home in WA Rotary
and a fascinating vocational Nedlands. It is vital that as Clubs, as well
guest speaker. many members as possible as what
attend. Rotary meant
March is also the month to him
when the President Elects The District Conference is personally.
Training Seminar (PETS) is also coming up at the end of
held, on March 12th & 13th. March, and I am not aware of It was lovely
With the recent resignation anyone from our club aside to have many
by Rob Rohrlach, at this point from Marcos and myself other guests
in time we do not have a having registered. It would join us that
President Elect attending be wonderful to have some evening, with
PETS, which is a little more members from our club most staying
troubling, as an incoming attending, even for part of the on to share
President must have attended conference, as there is a great some cake
a PETS to be able to take program and have a
office. If we are unable to focusing on some very c h a t Photo (L-R): John Shephard and Simone Carot Collins
important areas, especially afterwards. cutting the Rotary Birthday Cake
confirm a new President Elect
by then, we will need to youth and science. Thank to you
all of you who did invite of Methodist Ladies College.
select someone who has
served as a Rotary Club Yours in Rotary, others to celebrate with us.
Simone We would like to cement a
P re s i d e n t p re v i o u s l y,
great working relationship
whether in our club or
another. This Week's with MLC, and are very
Last Week's much looking forward to
I will be attending PETS as an Meeting meeting Ms Cody.
incoming Assistant Governor, Meeting
so will hear about DGE Liz
Westoby's plans for our We celebrated Rotary's 106th
We're opening Literacy
Month with our first literacy
Interact
district in 2011-12, but that birthday with a special guest, speaker, the much anticipated
will not assist our club John Shephard, the Dean of Ms Rebecca Cody, Principal The first interest meeting for
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2. N E W H O R I Z O N S
Club
Changeover
Our Club Changeover Night
has been booked for
Thursday 30th June at the
Nedlands Golf Club.
More details to follow.
Vale Maurice
Hill
Labels and Badges badge
maker PDG Maurice Hill
passed away this morning
after his 2 ½ year battle with
bowel cancer.
Maurice was very generous
when supplying our badges,
not passing on the cost of
GST or postage, and often
replacing badges at no
charge.
New Zealand
Earthquake
ShelterBox already has
response team personnel and
Photo: Ken Collins addresses the Interact interest meeting equipment in Christchurch.
They have arranged
our proposed community- commercial freight of 100
based Interact club was a Hamish Mackie has kindly The board has agreed to fund ShelterBoxes (5.5 tonnes) and
huge success, with 16 agreed to be our Interact co- the full cost of 2 participants; a further 200 family size
prospective members, ordinator. if parents are willing to meet disaster relief tents be air
several parents, 5 members part of the cost, we can freighted to New Zealand.
from our club, the District The next Interact meeting sponsor more.
Interact Chairperson and a will be held on Thursday 10th A further 140 ShelterBoxes
couple of other guests in March at 7:00pm, at the same First preference will be given are currently available in
attendance, filling the entire venue. The District Interact to our Interactors, Melbourne, and ShelterBox
classroom granted to us by Chair has promised to particularly those who are in are seeking assistance from
Christchurch Grammar supply pizza, so Hamish the upper age bracket who the Australian government to
School. needs to know numbers in will not have the opportunity transport them on
advance. to apply again. government aircraft as they
Although many of the did for the Solomon Island
students were from MLC, A big thank you to Ken tsunami.
there were several different Collins for all his hard work Club
schools represented
students in years 7 – 12. We
by in organizing the initial
meeting and liaising with the Foundation Georgia Rotary
already have sufficient schools and individual
students to charter a new parents to gather so many If anyone would like to make
Student
club (a minimum of 15 is students for the club.
needed), however we plan to
a tax deductible donation to
our Club Foundation, the
Program
hold 2 more interest bank details are:
meetings to gather more RYPEN The Rotarians of Georgia,
students and give them time Account name: USA, Districts 6900, 69l0 and
to elect their initial board The Rotary Youth Program of RCFBCFI Gift Fund Account 6920 extend to you their
before submitting the Enrichment (RYPEN) camp BSB: 036-034 warmest greetings and
paperwork to Rotary for students aged 14-17 is Account no: 34-3962 friendship. We request the
International to charter the coming up in May, and cooperation of your Club in a
club. nominations are now open. project designed to further
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3. N E W H O R I Z O N S
international peace and
understanding through
acquaintanceship with
international students.
To further the International
Service object of Rotary, we
invite your Club to submit to
us the name of a suitable
student candidate(s) from your
community to be considered
for an award of a scholarship
under the Georgia Rotary
Student Program. This is not
an exchange program and
your Club will not be
obligated to accept a student
from our country.
The scholarship covers one
scholastic year, from August to
May, and is for study ONLY in
colleges and universities in the
State of Georgia, USA. The
school to be attended in
Georgia will be selected by the
Rotary Club and processed for
admission by the Georgia
Rotary Student Program. Photo: Sue and Helen Hassell
The Scholarship pays all
scholastic costs including
tuition, book allowance,
campus housing, and food.
The student must provide
transportation to and from the
U.S., medical insurance,
spending money and any
income taxes imposed on the
scholarship by the US
Treasury. Applicants must be
at least 18 but not 25 years of
age by August 1 of the year
they begin class. Applicants
cannot be married, and those
persons who have previously
studied in the U.S. for a period
exceeding four months cannot
be considered. In addition, we
cannot grant scholarships to
students in the medical, dental
or nursing fields. There will be
no exceptions to these
requirements! Only
applications for Photo: Jim Gallagher and Robert Pearce
undergraduate students will
be accepted. March, together with notes on
Applications must be received by District the Keynote Speakers.
It is permissible, but not October 1 each year to be
necessary, that a candidate for considered for the following Conference I warmly invite and encourage
one of the scholarships be a academic year that begins in you and your fellow Rotarians to
son or daughter of a Rotarian. August. Club Presidents (cc Secretaries, register for the Conference,
It is of primary importance to AGs, Board) which this year is a joint event
select someone who would be Please visit our website with District 9465 - a registration
a good "Ambassador" of your www.grsp.org where you will Attached for your members’ form is attached.
country. We request that you find our application which must information is the Programme
give the program all the be filled in and submitted online for the upcoming District This Conference promises to be
necessary publicity needed to along with a digital picture. Conference to be held on 25-27 not only informative and
secure acceptable candidates. interesting, but also exciting with
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a livewire MC, excellent D i s t r i c t
speakers and some very Governor
special guests. 2010-11
The Saturday evening R o t a r y
function will be a fun-filled International
nautically themed Pirates and District 9455
Wenches night and there will
no doubt be many Rotarians
keen to dress for the occasion
with cutlasses at the ready;
while a polished and
entertaining live band will fill
the Burswood Ballroom with
toe-tapping rhythms till late.
I look forward to seeing you
there! Photo: (L-R) Max Hipkins, Margaret Hipkins, Ken Eastwood, Kaye Eastwood, Toni James
Regards
Ian Hutton
Host - Introduction & Thank You Program for Febraury
Date Name Date Details
2nd March Max Hipkins 2nd March Ms Cody - MLC Principal
9th March Ken Collins 9th March Marilyn Krawitz - Rotaract
16th March Bill Hassell 16th March Geoff Hourn
Welcoming Roster Board Club Details
Rotary Year 2010-11
Date Name Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay Inc.
Simone Carot Collins — President
president@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au PO Box 168,
2nd March Robert Pearce Nedlands,
Di Collins — Secretary / Vice President Western Australia, 6909
9th March Jenny Gill secretary@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Meetings
vicepresident@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Wednesday 5:45pm to 6:45pm
16th March Paddy Ramanathan
Cafe, Bethesda Hospital
TBA — Club Administration Director Queenslea Drive
clubadmin@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Claremont
Email
New Horizons: Winner of the District 9450 Toni James — Treasurer
president@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
Bulletin Award for 2009/10 treasurer@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
Phone
08 9385 0471
TBA — President Elect / Projects Fax
Director
Bulletin Contributions projects@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
08 9385 0472
Website
Contributions for the weekly bulletin are Claire Forsdyke — International Director www.rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
sought from members of the club. foundation@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
Facebook
Why not use the bulletin to update the club http://www.facebook.com/
on the projects your committee is working Ken Collins — Membership Director freshwaterbayrotary
on or promote the clubs next fundraising membership@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
event. Chartered 19 December 2008
TBA — New Generations Director
Please forward articles and photos to newgenerations@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
daniel.forsdyke@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
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5. THE JOURNEY
Rotary International
Districts 9455 & 9465
Conference
Burswood Convention Centre
CONTINUES
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Friday, 25th March 2011 Archie’s Bar, South of Perth Yacht Club
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Welcome to Conference
Presentation on the “Sail Into Life” Rotary project
& Evening BBQ Social Function.
Saturday, 26th March 2011 Burswood Convention Centre
7:30 am Registration Desk Opens
8:30 am Plenary Session 1 Opening Ceremony
Welcome to Country Dr Richard Walley
Welcome to Victoria Park Mr David Ashton, Deputy Mayor
Official Opening His Excellency, Dr Ken Michael AC,
Governor of Western Australia
Address by Rotary International President’s Past Rotary International President,
Representative Mr Bill Boyd
Plenary Session 2
Key Note Speaker
“Media Triggers and How Rotary can Work with Mr Brett McCarthy,
the Media” Editor of “The West Australian”
National PR Initiatives Ian Hutton
“Rotary Ramble” - A project of the RC of Mill Point Mark Horwood
Key Note Speaker
“Square Kilometre Array” Professor Peter Quinn,
Director at the International Centre for
Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR)
National Youth Science Forum (NYSF) Kevin Trent
Rotary Youth Exchange Peter Durrant and Imogen Lievense
Lunch

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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Saturday, 26th March 2011 Burswood Convention Centre
Plenary Session 3
Key Note Speaker
“The Raising of the Sydney” Glenys McDonald
Interact, and Shayne Sherman, and
Rotaract Tristan Kolay
GSE (D9455 Outbound Team) Hugh Lavery
Matching Grant Project (D9455)
Rotary Oceania Medical Aid to Children (ROMAC) Kamahl
Australian Rotary Health (ARH) Daniel Hunt
Rotarians Against Malaria (RAM) Dr Tim Inglis
Plenary Session 4
4 Way Speaking Contest – State Final Graham Wheeler
Youth Programmes
Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) & Liz Westoby
Rotary Youth Progamme of Enrichment (RYPEN)
Handicamp Jodie Sparks
Mock United Nations Assembly (MUNA) Colin Brand
4:30 pm District Break Out Sessions
Governors Banquet – 7:00 pm for 7:30 pm until late
Theme - Nautical / Pirate

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Districts 9455 & 9465
Conference
Burswood Convention Centre
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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Sunday, 27th March 2011 Burswood Convention Centre
7:30 am Registration Desk Opens
8:00 am Reflections The Very Reverend, Dr John Shepherd
Dean of Perth
8:30 am Plenary Session 5
Address by Rotary International President’s Past Rotary International President,
Representative. Mr Bill Boyd
Includes an overview of The Rotary Foundation
GSE (D9465 Inbound Team) Portugal
Foundation Scholars:
Ambassadorial Scholar Claire Litton
Peace Scholar Lisa Craig
Membership Development Jim Bailey
John Curtin Leadership Academy (JCLA) Dr Ian Fairnie
Rotary Leadership Institute (RLI) Geoff Simpson
Rotary WA Cord Blood Bank John Iriks
Plenary Session 6
Key Note Speaker
“ShelterBox” Lasse Petersen, General Manager
Waist Disposal Challenge Awards Professor Samar Aoun
Probus Winston Marsh
GSE (D9465 Inbound Team) Texas
District 9455 Conference 2011-12 Liz Westoby
District 9465 Conference 2011-12 Jodie Sparks
Conference Summary Past Rotary International President,
Mr Bill Boyd
Closing Comments & Ceremony District Governors
Lunch 1300

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CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
HIS EXCELLENCY
DR KENNETH COMNINOS MICHAEL, AC
GOVERNOR OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Dr Ken Michael AC is a distinguished engineer in his own right, but is better known for his tireless
and respected contribution to many aspects of government, business and community activity
within Western Australia spanning more than 40 years.
He was born in Perth in 1938 and is the son of migrants from the island of Castellorizo in Greece.
His father arrived in Australia in the 1890s as a young boy, was naturalised in 1905, soon after
Federation, and served with the 11th Battalion of the Australian Imperial Forces in the First World
War. His mother arrived in the mid 1930s and married his father soon after.
Dr Michael attended Highgate Primary School. He was eight years of age when his father
passed away, placing a major burden on his mother and family, a situation replicated in
many other cases.
He was fortunate to have support from his family, Perth Legacy and the then Department of Repatriation (now Veterans' Affairs), which
gave him the opportunity to pursue his education.
He studied at Perth Boys’’ High School and Perth Modern School before embarking on his educational pursuits at The University of Western
Australia. He completed a Bachelor of Engineering with First Class Honours in Civil Engineering in 1961, and in doing so received the James
A Wood Memorial Prize.
BILL BOYD, SPECIAL GUEST TO CONFERENCE
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT’S REPRESENTATIVE
PAST ROTARY INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT 2006-07
Bill Boyd joined the Rotary Club of Wellington South in 1971 and was club President in 1978/79. He
was District Governor of District 9940 in 1983/84 and he and Lorna moved to Auckland the
following year. He has been District 9920 Trainer, Rotary Foundation chair, Quiz chair and District
Archivist and Historian.
His first international appointment was in 1991 as Regional Rotary Foundation Co ordinator, and
he has been a member of or chaired a RI or Foundation committee every year since. He was a RI
Director from 1998 to 2000 and Treasurer in 1999/2000. In 2004 he was Moderator of the
International Assembly. Bill has conducted two Rotary Foundation project audits and was
Chairman of Rotary Down Under for several years. He is Chair elect of The Rotary Foundation.
Bill was President of Rotary International in 2006/2007, only the second New Zealander to hold that position. In that capacity Bill and Lorna
visited 40 countries, some several times.
Bill left school at 15 to work in his father’’s bookshop and retired in 1995 as General Manager of Gordon and Gotch Magazines. He still does
some consulting work in the industry. Bill and Lorna [and their families] have always been interested in sport. Lorna played tennis and
bowls and Bill was a rugby referee for 31 years. They have four children and twelve grandchildren.
Bill has been awarded the Rotary Foundation’’s Distinguished Service Award and Citation for Meritorious Service, a Distinguished Service
Award by Rotary Down Under and was named a member of the Queens Service Order for Community Service in the 2007 New Year’’s
Honours List.

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CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
BRETT McCARTHY
EDITOR, THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
Brett McCarthy started his journalism career in 1984 as a cadet reporter with The
Telegraph, Brisbane’’s then afternoon newspaper. He joined the Brisbane Daily
Sun two years later and then moved to Sydney as a reporter with The Daily
Mirror, which merged with The Daily Telegraph in 1990.
Brett was appointed assistant day editor of The Daily Telegraph in 1992, then day
editor and assistant editor (sport) before becoming the Sydney paper’’s assistant
editor in 1997. He was promoted to deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph in
1999 and moved to Perth in 2001 as editor of The Sunday Times.
In 2007 he left The Sunday Times to become involved in a Perth based family
business. Brett was appointed editor of The West Australian in March 2009.
He has a graduate certificate in management and has recently stepped down as a
director of Tennis West.
PROFESSOR PETER QUINN
DIRECTOR AT THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR RADIO
ASTRONOMY RESEARCH (ICRAR) AND PROFESSOR OF
ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF
WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
Prof Quinn was born in Australia and received his BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and
Physics from the University of Wollongong in 1978. He conducted graduate
studies in astronomy and astrophysics at the Australian National University and
received his PhD in 1982.
Prof. Quinn is a world leader in data intensive science, the design, development
and operation of super science facilities, the theory of galaxy formation and the
search for Dark Matter.
His scientific career covers 25 years of research in Australia, the US, Europe and South America and has produced more than 300
publications and articles which have received broad international recognition and acclaim. His work on computational astrophysics was
awarded a NASA High Performance Computing and Communications Grand Challenge Award in 1992 and in 2005 he was awarded the
Computerworld 21st Century Achievement Award for his work at the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT), the world’’s largest optical and
infrared observatory.
Prof. Quinn has held positions at the California Institute of Technology (1982 1985), Space Telescope Science Institute (1985 1989),
Australian National University (1989 2006) and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Munich. Prof. Quinn took up the position of
Professor of Astronomy at the University of Western Australia in August 2006 and was awarded a Western Australian Premier’’s Fellowship.
He was appointed the Director of ICRAR in 2008.

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GLENYS MCDONALD AM JP
Glenys McDonald has varied a career as a midwife, sports administrator, local government
executive, and carer, with that of researcher and author.
In 2001 she was acknowledged in the Queen’’s Birthday list with an AM for her contribution to
Masters swimming in Australia and community development.
It is her passion for HMAS SYDNEY II however, that led to her involvement with the
construction of the beautiful memorial in Geraldton; the location of the body of the unknown
sailor on Christmas Island, and ultimately to her becoming a Director of the Finding Sydney
Foundation.
She was on board the search vessel on that fateful day in March 2008 when HMAS SYDNEY
was found.
Glenys is President Elect of the Rotary Club of South Bunbury.
LASSE PETERSEN
SHELTERBOX INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR
Lasse has managed over 50 disaster relief operations for ShelterBox including leading field
teams in major disaster responses for Haiti, Myanmar, China, Somalia and many others.
Experiencing several disasters, Lasse challenged the organisation to grow tenfold in 5 years, to
help more people needing emergency shelter and basic survival items. Since then, 20
Countries have now joined ‘‘ShelterBox’’ and the organisation is poised for further strong
growth in its drive to become the Leading organisation for the provision of disaster
emergency shelter.
Lasse serves on the Boards of ShelterBox Australia, Canada and USA and is a member of the
Rotary Club of Cober Valley.