1959-60

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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: Horace Bedggood (Rotary Club of Melbourne)
President: Peter Sykes
Secretary: Bob Ferguson
Treasurer: Ron Langsford

In this year the Rotary Club of Brunswick became a 200% subscriber to the Rotary Foundation Fund.

The main project for this year was the organising and setting up in conjunction with the Brunswick Council of a large scale open air Draught Board in Temple Park for the use of Senior Citizens.

Mr Hubert Opperman, the then Federal Member for Sport and Recreation in the Menzies Government, performed the Opening Ceremony; the cost of this was one hundred and fifty six pounds.

A monster bargain sale was held at the Brunswick Town Hall for the Charities of Brunswick and the sum of more than five hundred pounds was raised. Held in conjunction with this was the School Childrens Arts and Crafts Exhibition.

A weekend was again spent by members of our Club collecting firewood on the Mornington Peninsula for the Dalgany Home for Deaf & Dumb at Portsea; 25 tons was collected and delivered.

The “Public Speaking Competition” was again held in this year with a great deal of enthusiasm.

A prize of fifteen pounds was presented by the Club to the Best Apprentice of the Year at the Brunswick Technical School.

Our Club arranged for seventeen Brunswick boys from poor homes to be taken to Bendigo for a two weeks holiday at the Bendigo Rotary Club Holiday Camp on the Campaspe River.

The 1959 Christmas picnic for the children and Asian nurses was held at the Sorrento home of Mick Hudson with Father Christmas again giving each of the children and nurses a gift.

DONATIONS

  • Brunswick Elderly Citizens Welfare Twenty pounds
  • Chaplins Fund Brunswick Technical School Twenty pounds
  • Brunswick Free Kindergarten Twenty pounds
  • Brunswick & Coburg Boys Club Five pounds
  • Brunswick Old Pioneers Club Five pounds
  • Brunswick Creche Five pounds
  • Melbourne City Mission (Brunswick Branch) Five pounds
  • Don Bosco Boys Club Five pounds
  • World Refugee Fund Ten pounds

INDUCTIONS

  • John Coleman 20 August 1959
  • John Pease 10 December 1959
  • Bill Todd 11 February 1960
  • John Lazzaro 3 March 1960
  • Bill Laught 28 April 1960
  • Frank Mount 30 June 1960

RESIGNATIONS

  • George Hemingway 17 September 1959
  • Charles Couper 16 July 1959
  • Clarrie Fisher 28 July 1959

PRESIDENT’S CHANGEOVER NIGHT

This was a Dinner Dance held at “Castlereagh”, 828 High Street, Kew East on 5 July 1960. 

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