1. New Horizons
The Official Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay
PO Box 168, Nedlands, Western Australia, 6909
District 9450
ABN: 99 602 195 617
Volume 1, Issue 3 2nd - 8th February 2009
Last Weeks Meeting Message from the The Rotary Foundation February Health, Hunger and First Rotary Club
A round-up of last Club President Thought of the Week February is World Humanity Grants Banner
weeks meeting. This weeks letter from This week is about 3H Understanding What are 3-H Grants. Our first Rotary Club
Page 1 the Club President. grants. Month. Page 2 Banner presented.
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Last Weeks Meeting The Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay
Last week's meeting brought us a presentation from our members District 9450
Toni James and Judith Dowson on 'Fundraising' - funds being a
highly necessary item for a Rotary Club to carry out its local and Celebrate the Induction Night for all of the new members of the
international projects. Thank you Toni and Judith for imparting Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay.
your experience and knowledge and we hope the Club can emulate The Induction Night Dinner will be held on Thursday 5th February
the wonderful results you had in this area last year. Café, Bethesda Hospital, 6.30pm for 7.00pm dinner.
A decision was taken at the meeting by the members in attendance,
Cost will be $40 per person, with $20 per person being donated back
that we would commence our regular weekly meetings half an hour
to the club’s Charity Account.
later as we have one member who has a conflicting meeting at
exactly the same time as our Rotary one, and with discussion, most
members agreed they had traffic problems with the meeting at
5.30pm and considered changing it to 6.00pm would take pressure
off. We are hopeful this will be suitable to all members. Feedback is
welcome. Please note that from 12th February, regular meetings will
be at 6.00pm.
We have two special meetings in the coming weeks: The Induction
Night next week, 5th February, cost is $40 pp, time is 6.30pm for
7.00pm. Please let us know by Monday how many people each
member will be bringing to the function for catering purposes. The
second is our Charter Night, to be held at the Royal Perth Golf
Club, on 5th March, cost is $75 pp, time is 7.00pm for 7.30pm.
Please invite family and friends to this event as it will be the most
significant night in the history of the Club.
Marija Jelavic raided her husband Jason's wine cellar and brought
along a bottle of wine which she suggested we raffle to start putting
a small amount on a weekly basis into our Charity Account.
Thanks to Marija, at $5.00 per ticket, or 3 for $10.00 (strictly
optional) almost $70 was raised. It was also agreed that the winner
would provide the prize for the following weeks raffle. It does not
need to be wine as it was also agreed members could bring along
anything they considered appropriate for the raffle. Thank you
Marija for your initiative.
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2. N E W H O R I Z O N S
MESSAGE FROM THE The Rotary February is World
CLUB PRESIDENT Foundation
Dear Rotarians,
Understanding
Week 31: This week’s Rotary Foundation
Whilst walking down Dearborn Ave in thought is about Health, Hunger and Month
Chicago, a lonely young lawyer from Vermont Humanity Grants (3H). The month of February is very special in the
conceived the idea of a Club for Professional In Romania orphaned and ill children are Rotary calendar since it is designated World
and Businessmen. On 23rd February, 1905, Paul consuming donated eggs, milk, meat and Understanding Month. The month also
Harris and three friends met in the office of poultry because of a grant from The Rotary includes the anniversary of the first meeting
Gus Loehr in Room 711, in the old Unity Foundation that benefits local farmers. of Rotary held on February 23, 1905, now
Building in Dearborn Ave and this was the very designated World Understanding and Peace
beginnings of the organisation we know as Farmers use the grant to buy everything Day.
Rotary. from animal feed to packaging materials. In designating World Understanding
There is one stipulation, the farmers have to Month, the Rotary International board asks
In the Rotary Calendar, February is World donate a portion of their products to all Rotary clubs to plan programs for their
Understanding Month, with Rotary’s birthday, children’s hospitals, schools and weekly meetings and undertake special
23rd February, designated as World orphanages. 3H grants fund large long-term activities to emphasize "understanding and
Understanding and Peace Day. Ken and I international, grassroots projects. goodwill as essential for world peace."
perceive Rotary to be the greatest tool we have By contributing to The Rotary Foundation To observe this designated month, many
to bring about Peace in our troubled world as, you are taking part in these grants. The clubs arrange international speakers, invite
through the educational and humanitarian Rotary Foundation is our Foundation; it is youth exchange students and international
programs of the Rotary Foundation, we can critical that we take ownership of it and do scholars from schools and universities to
uplift the less fortunate in all lands. what we can to change and save lives. club meetings, plan programs featuring
Educational programs such as our former Group Study Exchange team
Ambassadorial and Peace Scholars and Group members, arrange discussions on
Study Exchange Teams all work to improve international issues, present entertainment
World Understanding, whilst our with an international cultural or artistic
Humanitarian programs such as literacy, food, theme and schedule other programs with
medical (including the alleviation of Polio)and an international emphasis.
clean water (the list is endless) all help to bring Many clubs take the opportunity to launch
about peace by improving the lives of the an international community service activity
world’s poor. or make contact with a Rotary club in
another country. It is a good month to
Already, the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay has initiate a Rotary Fellowship Exchange, a 3-
a number of exciting potential projects that are H project or encourage support for
under consideration. Lead by Toni James and PolioPlus and other Rotary Foundation
Judith Dowson we talked about fundraising at programs.
our last meeting as we are only limited in what World Understanding Month is a chance for
we are able to achieve project wise, by the every club to pause, plan and promote the
amount of funds we are able to generate. Fourth Avenue of Service-Rotary's
continued quest for goodwill, peace and
We are blessed with 31 diverse and outstanding understanding among people of the world.
members to start off the Rotary Club of
Freshwater Bay and from this we are looking to
each of you to introduce friends and colleagues The first 3-H project was the immunization
into the Club to increase our effectiveness.
Health, Hunger and of 6 million children in the Philippines
Humanity (3-H) Grants against polio. As 3-H progressed, new
This Thursday, 5th February is the night all programs were added to help people in
In 1978, Rotary launched its most
members will be Inducted as Rotarians. I developing areas of the world. Now, in
comprehensive humanitarian service
sincerely hope you will find your membership addition to the mass polio immunization of
activity with the Health, Hunger and
in Rotary brings you as much satisfaction and over 100 million children in various
Humanity Program. The 3-H Program is
joy as it has Ken and me. Having taken our countries, 3-H has promoted nutrition
designed to undertake large-scale service
small children with us to the Refugee Camps in programs, vocational education, improved
projects beyond the capacity of individual
Hong Kong when we served as Rotary irrigation to increase food production,
Rotary clubs or groups of clubs.
Volunteers, and to the hundreds of projects we polio victim rehabilitation and other
have visited in developing countries, Rotary By 1994, more than 135 different 3-H activities which benefit large numbers of
has impacted significantly in formulating their projects have been approved and people in developing countries. All 3-H
values and commitment to service along with undertaken in 49 different countries, with projects are supported by the voluntary
our own. The world has become a global an appropriation at more than $37 million. contributions of Rotarians through The
village, we have valued friends all around the The objective of these projects is to improve Rotary Foundation. In years to come the 3-
world and it has enriched and expanded our health, alleviate hunger and enhance H Program may well be considered
lives in ways we could never have envisaged. human, cultural and social development Rotary's finest service activity, showing
among peoples of the world. The ultimate how Rotarians care and are concerned
Yours in Rotary service, goal is to advance international about people in need, wherever they may
Di Collins understanding, goodwill and peace. be.
Charter President
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3. N E W H O R I Z O N S
Last Weeks Meeting (Cont. from Page 1) Program for February
Remember, it is your Club and we are happy to introduce, change or
remove various 'things' according to the wishes of the members. It Date Details
will be impossible to always please everyone 100%, however, we will
endeavour to try to please as many as possible on all counts. 5th February Induction Night
Peter Symons has kindly agreed to assist Simone with Rosters / Note: 6:30pm for 7:00pm start
Guest Speakers etc. Thank you Peter. With the two dinners,
committee meetings etc. the weeks programs are filling fast. 12th February Mara Basanovic and Marija Jelavic
Due to commitments already in place prior to the formation of the Note: 6:00pm for 6:15pm start
Club, Ken and Di will be away for two meetings from 12th Feb. and
one on 12th March, as they will be attending a District Conference in 19th February Committee Meetings
NSW as the Representatives of the President of Rotary International
at the Rotary Conference. Simone will chair the meetings in Di’s 26th February Club Assembly (Committee Reports)
absence.
Photo: Judith and Toni presenting a session on Fundraising
Club Website
Club Webmaster, Simone has started on the development of the
club’s website. She is kindly fitting this work into her ‘spare time’, in
the meantime the website’s address has been secured:
http://www.rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au/
Generic email addresses will also be linked to the website:
example@rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
This will mean that members that hold positions in the club will be
contactable directly via the website, but without their personal email
addresses being released onto the world wide web.
The other advantage of these generic emails is that when the position
holders change in July each year, the public email address stays the
same, but the new position holder receives the email.
Our First Board
Rotary Club Rotary Year 2008-09
Banner Di Collins — President
Ken Collins — Vice President / Membership Director
Brother James recently Simone Carot Collins — President Elect
returned from India, and Rajah Senitharajah — Treasurer
whilst he was there he Daniel Forsdyke — Secretary
attended some make-up Bryant Stokes — Projects Director
meetings at the Rotary Claire Forsdyke — International Director
Club of Calcutta Glenn Darlington — Public Relations Director
Mahanagar. Peter Symons — Finance Director
Continuing a tradition
Brother James was Club Details
presented with a banner
from the club, which he Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay
presented to President PO Box 168,
Di on his return. Nedlands,
Western Australia, 6909
Hopefully we can work
out a way to display Meetings
Photo: Brother James and President Di
them! Thursday 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Cafe, Bethesda Hospital
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Email: collinsd@bigpond.net.au
Why not use the bulletin to update the club on the projects your committee Phone: 08 93850471
is working on or promote the clubs next fundraising event. Fax: 08 93850472
Please forward articles and photos to daniel.forsdyke@mac.com
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