fd from the desk of district governor andy...sat 16 aug cluster 8 - ag cara champion jimboomba...
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SAT 15 AUG Jimboomba Community Hall
Corner of Johanna & Honora Streets
SAT 29 AUG
Quality Hotel Mermaid Waters, Gold Coast
SAT 2 AUG
Cluster 6 - AG Sheila Ponting Gold Coast QLD
SAT 9 AUG
Cluster 1- AG Anne Farrell Maclean NSW
SAT 16 AUG
Cluster 8 - AG Cara Champion Jimboomba Community Hall
SAT 22 AUG Cluster 10 – AG Karen Thomas
Mermaid Waters, Gold Coast
20 Stanthorpe 21 Tenterfield 22 Goondiwindi 25 YEP Rebound debriefing
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From the desk of District Governor Andy Fellow Rotarians, Rotaractors, Interactors and friends. The ability of humans to adapt has never been challenged as much in our lifetime as it has in the past 4 months. Each one of us, our families, our friends, our neighbours, our clubs, our employers, our governments, our places of worship, our supermarkets, our hospitals, our travel, and everything around us has changed to face a new future. This change was so sudden; did anyone of us see this coming? In January, this year when I joined 544 other District Governors-Elect from around the world for our Governor Training in San Diego, California USA, none of us knew, we will be leading our Clubs and Districts into a new future. Our District was advantageously placed to use modern internet technology to connect during lockdown, because we have had Rotary E-Clubs in the district meeting online since 2013. Since you elected me three years ago as District Governor Nominee, our Governor Team had been meeting over the past years on Zoom. So, moving our traditional Rotary and Rotaract club meetings to online zoom or skype platforms was not a challenge for many clubs. Let me congratulate Immediate Past Governor Harry Bolton, PDG Terry Brown and every member in our district who led this transformation to be connected online during the past 4 months for being a trailblazer. 49 of our clubs met online during lockdown. Yes, together we in District 9640 did it! My District Trainer PDG Michael and I grabbed the opportunity of the pandemic lockdown in April and May to engage with the then Presidents-Elect on zoom to discuss their challenges, aspirations and fears going forward into the unknown future. These regular interactive zoom chats led by my Assistant Governors-Elect helped us to get to know each other better and bond as a team. As a result, I am delighted to see the new camaraderie and open communications developing in each cluster. Already some clubs have teamed up to embark on joint projects to create a bigger impact in their local communities. Well done D9640, we are expanding our reach!! So where do we go from here? As a Marketing professional, to me every challenge is an opportunity to renew our focus and grow our companies or clubs. This year in place of the annual district assembly with a large gathering of people, we are having small cluster-based training days for all Rotarians starting in August. My District Trainer PDG Michael Irving together with the 10 Assistant Governors (AG’s) will organise these cluster training days after discussion with each club President. Rotaractors and Interactors too are invited to join. The AG’s will play a key leadership role this year in mentoring your club to adapt to a rapidly changing world. Please share your great ideas with your AG. Our District Leadership Meetings too will be held in 4 different clusters starting from Jimboomba in Queensland. These are ground breaking actions! We have not done this before. Let’s give it a go.
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10 Grafton 11 Yamba 12 Grafton Midday 13 Maclean 17 Beaudesert 18 Jimboomba 19 Fassifern Valley 20 Warwick Sunrise, Warwick, Allora 20 Boonah
My one crazy big goal this year is to grow our District to have 1400 Rotarians and 100 Rotaractors which were our membership numbers 10 years ago. We can achieve this goal, first by retaining our existing members. Do you know that 200 Rotarians left our clubs in the district last Rotary year? 145 of them had been in Rotary for less than 2 years!! We must stop this membership leak now. Second, we plan to start new format Rotary, Rotaract and Interact Clubs that are more affordable, flexible, action focussed and not meeting centric. I believe the COVID-19 pandemic has given us all, a once in a lifetime opportunity to “change for real” some traditions and processes our clubs have been doing for years with not much outcome. Looking ahead at this new Rotary year, one big question for us will be “how can we make membership in Rotary, Rotaract and Interact memorable to every member in our club so they will stay?” Please share with me, your ground breaking ideas or an action your club
had done to retain your members. Email me at; [email protected]. Together let’s get ready to face the new future with confidence and enthusiasm as we celebrate 100 years of Rotary in Australia!
WELCOME TO 2020-21 ASSISTANT GOVERNORS Your club's first point of contact
Click on the email address to connect with your AG
ANNE FARRELL Mclean
JOHN OOMEN Casino
NERIDA DEAN Mullumbimby
BRUCE KUHN Broadbeach
DAVID BISIKER Parkwood
Cluster 1 Grafton Grafton Midday Iluka Woombah Maclean Yamba
Cluster 2 Casino Kyogle Lismore West Mullumbimby Summerland Sunrise
Cluster 3 Alstonville Ballina-on-Richmond Byron Bay Goonellabah Lismore
Cluster 4 Banora Tweed Currumbin-Coolangatta-Tweed Kingscliff Mt Warning AM Murwillumbah Murwillumbah Central
Cluster 5 Ashmore Burleigh Heads Burleigh Heads Rotaract e-Club of NextGen Qld. Mudgeeraba Robina Surfers Paradise
ERIC LEWIS Runaway Bay
SHEILA PONTING Surfers Paradise [email protected]
CARA CHAMPION Fassifern Valley
LEW VERNEY Goondiwindi
KAREN THOMAS Burleigh Heads
Cluster 6 Coomera River Coomera Valley Griffith Gold Coast Hope Island Nerang Southport
Cluster 7 Broadbeach Broadwater Southport Gold Coast Mermaid Beach Parkwood Runaway Bay Surfers Sunrise
Cluster 8 Allora Beaudesert Boonah Fassifern Valley Satellite Club of Jimboomba Sunrise Jimboomba Warwick Warwick Sunrise
Cluster 9 Goondiwindi Stanthorpe Satellite Club of Stanthorpe Flexitime Tenterfield Satellite Club of Tenterfield—The Granite Belt
Cluster 10 Gold Coast Passport Coomera Waters Varsity Lakes Satellite Club of Coomera River—Mt Tamborine
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YOUR 2020-21 DISTRICT CHAIRS
District Administration Chair Wendy Scarlett Banora Tweed [email protected]
District Training Chair Michael Irving Southport [email protected]
Club Development Chair David Baguley Gold Coast
Rotary Foundation Chair Phil Fairweather Hope Island [email protected]
Youth Programs Chair
Darrell Brown Surfers Sunrise [email protected]
International Service Chair
Terry Brown Lismore [email protected]
Public Image Chair
Gareth Hunt Hope Island [email protected]
Membership Chair
Rowan Johnstone Gold Coast [email protected]
FUTURE LEADERS OF OUR DISTRICT
2021-22 District Governor Elect
JEFF EGAN
Mt Warning AM
2022-23 District Governor Nominee
KAREN THOMAS Burleigh Heads
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT HOLGER KNAACK 2020-2021
Dear fellow Rotarians:
Ask any Rotarian what led them to Rotary, and you’ll usually get different answers. Why? Not only does Rotary mean different things to members in different parts of the world, it also has a unique meaning for each Rotarian.
However, we are all brought together in three important ways. We believe in Rotary values and all share the same Four Way Test. We believe in friendships and love spending time together. And we take great satisfaction in helping others – we are committed to Service.
Regards, Holger Knaack President, Rotary International 2020-21 Holger Knaack, a member of the Rotary Club of Herzogtum Lauenburg-Mölln, Germany He’s the organization’s first German president, and came to that position in untraditional fashion. Read a profile of Knaack in The Rotarian and visit the office of the president pages.
PRESIDENTIAL THEME: ROTARY OPENS OPPORTUNITIES
Knaack urges members to embrace change so Rotary can expand and thrive. Rather than setting a specific target for increasing the number of members, Knaack is asking clubs and districts to think about how to grow in a sustainable and organic way. He wants clubs to focus on keeping current members engaged and adding new members who are the right fit for their club.
“We need to stop thinking of new members as people we can mark down as statistics and then forget about,” Knaack said. “Every new member changes us a little bit. That person brings a new perspective, new experiences. We need to embrace this constant renewal. We will grow stronger as we learn from new members.”
Download 2020-21 theme logo and materials 2020-21 Theme: President-elect Holger Knaack (PDF)
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ZONE 8 MAP FEATURING DG’S FROM THE 19 DISTRICTS IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
STRATEGIC PLANNING | Rotary’s plan for the next five years | Learn more HERE
International Conference in Honolulu: hardly anyone was there…
Saturday 20th June, the Rotary International Convention opened in Honolulu. Except that hardly
anyone was there… You see, just like our District Conference, dozens of AFL and Rugby matches and ordinary club meetings, also this event could not be held physically. Modern technology allows the live streaming of the conference and this was the first ever where anyone could attend – free of charge! However, not everyone has the time (or inclination) to spend the better part of a week sitting at their computer, particularly if one of the most attractive components of any conference is missing: the coffee breaks, the lunches and dinners which allow you to network with fellow Rotarians from all over.
Enter ‘Post Conference Streaming’. The whole lot is up on Youtube. You can watch the whole lot, or just selective segments. Even better: not meaning to be derogatory, but you can fast forward or skip what I (in streamed business seminars) used to call ‘Corporate Gumph’… Even better: if a speaker speaks (in your view) too slowly, you can run the video at 1.5 speed or even double speed. How good is that!
Click here to access the opening session on Saturday 20th June. Franz Huber | Rotary Club of Surfers Sunrise
* DG Andy was a breakout speaker at “Grow Rotary Through New Club Types” session moderated by Jesse Harmon.
Do you know a local hero who has an outstanding story? Each month ‘A letter from Andy’ will feature ‘Angels among us’. These heroes can be Rotarians in your club, their family or local community leaders. Club projects and fundraisers will be featured on the district website.
Email your stories to the editor: Jodie Shelley [email protected].