1954-55

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The information on this page is from the Club’s publication “A History of the Rotary Club of Brunswick” Golden Jubilee 2nd edition, 2003:

District Governor: Alexander Sellars (Rotary Club of Albury)
President: Harry Chuck
Secretary: Alan Dyason
Treasurer: Jack Dyason

On Monday 6 September 1954 a Sportsman’s Day, arranged by Denzil Don and George Hemingway, was held at the Northern Golf Club. It consisted of a golf afternoon, evening dinner and a display of billiards by the then World Champion, Walter Lindrum and Jack Rohan, his assistant. They both came to Melbourne from Sydney to entertain us for the evening. Their total cost to the Club was fifty pounds for accommodation and fares.

Fifty pounds was paid for the loan of a billiard table, ninety five pounds to the Northern Golf Club for liquor, thirty seven pounds for waiters and thirteen pounds for meat. Other than this the Northern Golf Club, President John Brighton and Captain Bill Arnot along with their staff, provided everything free of cost. The all inclusive charge was two pounds two shillings per person.

It was a most successful day and evening and the exhibition by Walter Lindrum was nothing short of fantastic. The following were the amounts raised:

Proceeds from invitations – Four hundred and eighteen pounds
Donations and sponsors – Three hundred and nine pounds
Monster raffle – Five hundred and ninety two pounds

Spinning wheel – Six hundred and eighty one pounds
Walter Lindrum shots – Two hundred and three pounds
Putting on 6th green – Forty two pounds
Putting competition – Thirteen pounds
Sales of Niner on 6th green – Thirteen pounds

The total raised was two thousand two hundred and seventy two pounds.

This day was arranged to assist the Helping Hand Society for the Mentally Retarded Children (Coburg Branch) for the specified purpose of providing suitable premises to be built on land previously donated by the Coburg City Council, through the efforts of the Rotary Club of Brunswick-Coburg.

Three hundred tickets were sold for a show organised by the Cyd. Elwood Operatic Society by the members of our Club.

The cost of planting 20 trees at Fleming Park Brunswick was financed by our Rotary Club.

Prize books were presented to the Coburg Technical School to be given to the pupils who topped their classes through the year.

Ice cream Christmas cakes were presented to the various creches in the Brunswick and Coburg areas. This was arranged with “Peters” who carried out the distribution. Our Club became a 100% subscriber to Rotary Foundation.

DONATIONS

  • Crippled Children’s Appeal Twenty pounds
  • Brunswick & Coburg Boy’s Club Forty pounds
  • Mount Royal Chapel Fund Twenty pounds
  • Melbourne City Mission (Brunswick Branch) Ten pounds
  • Brunswick Creche Twenty pounds
  • Brunswick Kindergarten Thirty pounds
  • Helping Hand Society (Coburg Branch) Twenty pounds
  • Morning Star Training Farm Ten pounds
  • Brunswick Technical School Twenty five pounds
  • Mayoress of Brunswick Charity Fund Five pounds
  • Coburg Technical School Fifteen pounds
  • Melbourne City Mission (Table & Chairs) Thirty pounds
  • Helping Hand Society for the Mentally Retarded Children (Coburg Branch) Two thousand and fifty pounds,
    nett proceeds of Sportsmen’s Day

INDUCTIONS

  • Alan Roberts 2 December 1954
  • Doug Hemingway 9 December 1954
  • Ed Worrall 9 December 1954
  • Jim O’Meara 20 January 1955
  • Jim Nabbs 17 March 1955
  • Doug Mitchell 14 April 1955
  • Jim Reid 21 April 1955
  • Len Brown 19 May 1955
  • Bill Spencer 3 June 1955

RESIGNATIONS

Nil

PRESIDENT’S CHANGEOVER NIGHT

This was held at “Roselyn Court”, 33 Raleigh Street, Essendon on 23 June 1955. 

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