Bulletin 27

February 15, 2010

Our latest club news includes:

• Gearing up for the Sydney Road Street Party on Sunday 28th Feb
• A report of our guest speaker, Glenn Tebble, on his experience with Cystic Fibrosis
• Invite for Richmond Rotary’s Lunar Dinner on Friday 26th Feb
• An update on programs and projects including Stewart Lodge, the Rochester project, and the Moreland L2P program
• Club discussion for an upcoming Past Members Fellowship Day
• Announcement of $5,000 in funding for Bagong Barrio projects (our health project in Manila, The Philippines)
• Upcoming club events

Brunswick Bulletin vol 57 no 27 (541kb pdf)

Bulletin No 26 Vol 57

February 10, 2010

Mal’s back!

Mal Dubock has taken up the reigns again as our faithful Bulletin editor (with much grateful thanks from President Dean) … the latest edition is attached.

Mel Kennedy’s efforts and input into the Bulletin in the past was certainly worthy of the title “service above self” — and admirably included a lot of time spent on club activities in the background, while holding down a full time job, her own part-time business and work in and for Dean’s business. Most of her work is hidden in the background, but she puts her heart into Brunswick Rotary and the Board gladly last night gave her our congratulations for the work she’s being doing both as Secretary and with the bulletin.

It will be somewhat interesting once again to see what Mal comes up with each edition!

Download Bulletin Number 26, Volume 57 (660kb pdf file)

Vale Will Moulding

January 18, 2010

It was with much sadness to advise that Honorary Member Will Moulding passed away peacefully overnight on Friday night.

Will was the club’s last surviving charter/foundation member, joining in October 1952 and serving as Club President in 1971-72 (he started his Rotary President year when I was less than 2 weeks old — Dean). He was also a 5 sapphire Paul Harris Fellow — the club’s highest awarded by our club.

As Mal Dubock has described, will was an active, committed and inspirational Rotarian, and was a 100% attendee for almost 50 years and attended all Rotary functions (he was on “The Walk” at 82). Will was a regular golfer into his 90s.

Will was older than Rotary itself. Rotary was formed in February 1905, Will had been born the July prior.

Our condolences go out to son John and Will’s family.

Will’s Funeral

Will’s funeral will be next Friday (22nd January 2010) at 1pm in the Renowden Chapel, Springvale Botanical Cemetery, and followed by refreshments in the tea rooms.

Service conducted by Rev Eric Gowers. Eulogies by Will’s son John and Greg Sewell.

There are detailed maps of the cemetery in later editions of Melway’s indicating the location of the Renowden Chapel, the page number varies in different editions (see also the pic below — currently Melway Map 80 E8). A funeral notice appear’s in today’s newspapers.

News about our avenues of service

July 27, 2009

When you click on the categories of service on the home page — the four official Avenues of Service — Club service, International Service, Vocational Service and Community Service; plus Foundation and New Generations — you’ll be taken to the latest news in each category.

This will appear here as a timeline (from most recent news to oldest) and specifically relate to our activities, news, updates and events relating to each area of service we undertake.

Welcome Cuc

July 19, 2009

It’s always a great meeting at Rotary when a new member induction is taking place — and our meeting of 16th July 2009 was no exception.

We welcomed Cuc Lam as our newest Brunswick Rotarian, witnessed by 22 members and guests (a great turnout for the annual visit from our District Governor Colin Muir and his wife Pauline).

Cuc joins Rotary in the classification “Multicultural Services” and we hope she enjoys a long and most rewarding future as a Rotarian.

Some people may recognise Cuc’s name: she is a former City of Maribyrnong councillor and her red vinyl suitcase forms part of the permanent collection at the Immigration Museum at Old Customs House in Flinders Street.

In the photo above welcoming Cuc we have in the back row (L-R): David Earley (one of Cuc’s club sponsors), District 9800 Assistant Governor Chris Wang, Club President Dean Kennedy. In the front row (L-R): Mike Landry (Cuc’s other club sponsor), Cuc Lam, Pauline Muir and District 9800 Governor Colin Muir.