Paul Harris Fellows

PDG Norman Bell (multi) Widge Wyatt (dec) Les Tobin (dec) Bill Bateman (dec) John Vanderheeg (dec) Fred Rae Murray McLeish (dec) Joan Vanderheeg Colin Peacock Gren Courtland (multi) Rick Warwick Duggan Anderson (dec) (multi) Peg Parkin Lee Smith (dec) Stuart Dunstan

Ray Rennie (dec) Raymond Hind Garry Jacobs (mult) Christine Goss Terry Cash Terry Hollis Richard Whiting Beverley Bell (dec) Kevin Dalton (dec) Brian Webster (multi) PDG Hugh Langridge (multi) Lara Miller Karon Langridge Michael Metcalf PDG Paul Gianatti

Peter Lewis (dec) Michael Bermann (multi) Ian McIntrye Peter Richardson (multi) Stephen Kendall Joanna Kendall (multi) Doreen Gianatti Jeff Stephenson Roma Gehringer PDG Jodie Sparks (multi) Colin Sparks Kerry Blom Bev Poor Ros McLernon Ronnie Malthouse

Shirley Anderson Norma Rae Jill Courtland Judy Peacock Rosemary Webster Aidan Wood Dianne Reed Kimberley Skinner Tony Hawke Luukie Hawke Gerry McLernon Ron Alexander Sue Alexander Max Morrell

District Governors

Norm Bell 1970 – 1971 Hugh Langridge 2004 – 2005 Paul Gianatti 2006 – 2007 Jodie Sparks 2011 – 2012

Rotary Club of Ascot Inc

BULLETIN Volume 45 No 31

25th February 2014

Meetings: Venue: Belmont Tavern

174 Wright Street, Cloverdale

Time: Tuesday 7.00 am for 7.30 am

President: Julia Temby Past President: Michael Evans / Community Incoming President: TBA Secretary: Ron Alexander Treasurer: Joanna Kendall

Attendance: Michelle Kendall Foundation: Hugh Langridge International: Janet Holding Membership: Garry Jacobs Public Relations: Deepti Roopun Sergeant at Arms: Bev Poor Club Services: Ronnie Malthouse New generation: Aidan Wood Vocational: Max Morrell

Club Meeting Duties

Date: Host Chair: Welcoming: Grace: Loyal Toast: Informer: International Toast:

4th March 2014 Joanna Kendall

Who Gets There First Garry Jacobs Aidan Wood Janet Holding N/A

Date: Host Chair: Welcoming: Grace: Loyal Toast: Informer: International Toast:

11th March 2014 Ros McLernon Jeff Stephenson Brian Poole Jodie Sparks Bev Poor Ron Alexander N/A

Literacy Month Launched by country music star Dolly Parton and The Dollywood Foundation, the Imagination Library fosters a love of reading among preschool children by providing them with a free hardcover book every month from birth to the age of five. Communities play a significant role in providing a learning environment for children. 1 in 4 children start school unprepared with the basics to succeed. Research shows that the experiences of children’s early years can have strong effects on their future, with implications for their health, development and ability to earn. Rotary International supports and has renewed its partnership with Dollywood Foundation’s childhood literacy program “The Imagination Library”. Essentially the program: - • Fosters a love of reading among pre-school children • By providing each child registered with a free, age appropriate book every month from birth to their 5th birthday. • Australia estimated cost is up to $6.00 per child per month. or approx $72.00 per year.

Happy 45th Birthday

Thanks to Gren for the memorabilia ……….

JOANNA: This week the Rotary Club of Ascot celebrates 45 years of Rotary service and fellowship. Our club

of 28 members is a small part of the 1.2million members worldwide, but over the last 45 years the club has achieved a lot through the five avenues of service as well as raising funds for many projects. Our club has also had the privilege of 4 of our club members serving as District Governors. As a celebration of our history, I present Past Presidents Gren Courtland, Charter member and Rotarian since 1968 and Ronnie Malthouse, a Rotarian since 1992.

GREN : I was the President of the Rotary Club of Ascot for 1975 – 1976 RONNIE: I was the President of the Rotary Club of Ascot for 2005 – 2006 GREN: We were a vibrant club of 47 male members who met for lunch at Ascot Racecourse. The cost of

the meal was $3.00 and annual fees were $30. RONNIE: We were a club of 41 members, being made up 29 male and 12 female members who met for

breakfast at the Belmont Tavern. The cost of meal was $20 and annual fees $220. GREN: As we met for lunch at Ascot Racecourse, we had many visiting Rotarians, both from interstate

and overseas and a variety of interesting guest speakers, including Hon. John Tonkin, then Premier of WA, David Blenkinsop, Director of Festival of Perth, City Councillor Mick Lee, the Commissioner of State Taxation J.R.Ewing, the Bishop of the North West, Bishop Witt and many others.

GREN: There were many highlights and worthy projects including RYLA, two blood drives, the very

successful Widows Camp, an Art Competition & Show, a junior citizens award, an outgoing Exchange student, Susan Courtland to Fukoka South Japan, a “My Fair Lady” grooming program for girls at Belmont High School, a Local business luncheon for over 100 attendees, a statewide Rotary Ladies Golf Day at Rosehill Country Club, the continued support of our reactivated Rotaract Club (their Christmas party for the residents of Nulsen Haven was an awesome undertaking), Melbourne Cup luncheon at the Races was always a good fundraiser, whilst Perth Cup Parking could be a fun New Year’s Day event. Our major project however was the financing of humi-cribs for a maternity hospital in India. We also hosted 2 GSE teams that year – one from Oklahoma, USA and one from South Africa.

RONNIE: The highlights for my year were our 2 major International

projects. Gull Petroleum donated $40,000 for a team of surgeons to go to Tanzania, and we had a matching grant with Denpasar Bali for a library and equipment for a school in Pencasari Bali. Our local community programmes were with Grandcare. We had the Christmas Hampers, Kids in the Kitchen and an Easter Picnic. We also had Brains help Drains where we donated Waterwise books to the Lathlain Primary School. These books teach children how our waterways work. Our outbound exchange student was Adam Scott, who went to Belgium. We also continued our sponsorship of the Interact Club of Ascot at Ursula Frayne College and continuing support of Handicamp and RYLA on both a club and District level.

JOANNA: The Rotary Theme for Gren’s year as President was “To Dignify the Human Being by Thought, Will

and Action” and the Rotary Theme for Ronnie’s year was “Service Above Self”.

These themes are well and truly evoked with our current major project in Bakhita as well as the ongoing smaller projects our club continues with. So to celebrate 45 years of achievement and fellowship I ask everyone to charge their glasses as we toast the Rotary Club of Ascot.

MEMORIES Grape Escape!

Handover July 2006

25th Birthday

Vocational Service Members, Steps toward a successful public Pride of Workmanship Awards Dinner is progressing well. We currently have a commitment from 4 employers and today I spoke to a Belmont accounting firm this morning, not a member, who was very excited about the program and said there is a need for this type of focus on rewarding employees. He was particularly interested in the program for the awards dinner. I appeal to all members to think outside the square about someone/business they know who would be a suitable employer to nominate an employee, and who may offer the opportunity for Ascot to get a new member. On another level, this is an appeal to members to think outside the square about who they might invite along to the award dinner as a guest to show off what we are capable of doing at Ascot Rotary and again challenge them to think about becoming a member. It should be an easy sell on both levels because we have got two very high profile guest speakers and the Belmont local Member Glenys Godfrey will be presenting the awards. Please speak to Max Garry Ronnie or Julia if you have someone in mind. We are looking for up to 10/12 awardees, and we would like at least 80 present at the awards dinner on Wednesday 9 April. I would like to have selected and advised the awardees of their selection by the middle of March some please give this your urgent (lateral thinking) attention.

International Service Mark your diary for Sunday 30th March – Reading Cinemas Belmont. Please refer to the flyer that was sent separately to all of us to further promote and make this fund raiser a success. The latest Lego Movie Reviews, thanks for Stephen for the input. On paper, making a movie based entirely on LEGO sounds like a crazy idea, but writer/directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller have built a career out of thinking outside the box. The last two films they’ve made, Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs and 21 Jump Street, also seemed like bad ideas at first, but Lord and Miller have managed to make each film succeed by letting their imaginations run wild. Not only is The LEGO Movie a perfect example of this, the movie’s also an unabashed celebration of the imagination. You think you had fun with your Legos when you were a kid? Wait until you see what these guys can do with them. This isn’t just a silly movie, it actually has something to say about the imagination of a child and how it’s something we should all cherish as it doesn’t last forever. Eventually, they grow up and their Lego collection is simply just their “collection” which completely misses what makes the toys special in the first place. This is a theme that was also covered in the Toy Story movies, but it’s done here in a way that feels very fresh. The ending, which I will not reveal, really enriches the movie and basically makes a second viewing a requirement. This is a movie that kids will want to watch over and over; luckily, you will want to as well. "The LEGO (R) Movie" is the first-ever, full-length theatrical LEGO (R) adventure. The original 3D computer animated story follows Emmet (Chris Pratt) an ordinary, rules- following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which Emmet is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared. (c) Warner Bros

Geoffrey Macnab Adults who go to The Lego Movie out of a weary sense of parental duty are in for a very pleasant surprise. Liam Lacey A movie that's fast-paced and silly with enough throwaway clever in-jokes for their accompanying adults to justify a second viewing. Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat A spiritually literate animated film for people of all ages that affirms that everyone is special and everything is truly awesome.

Guest Speaker for Next Meeting: Jodi Rashbrook - Teaching English and Education in India Jodi will be sharing her experiences when she recently spent 6 months in Ladakh (Northern India) teaching conversational English and helping to make the students more confident in speaking to western tourists. Jodi will also talk about a new venture which is starting in Perth (an NGO with their Head Office in Ireland) raising funds for schools in Cambodia and India and more specifically the Perth Branch which is starting to raise funds for an educational village which is underway in Varanasi, India. Quiz for Bright People Answers To Quiz: 1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends: Boxing. 2. North American landmark constantly moving backward: Niagara Falls .. The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute. 3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons: Asparagus and rhubarb. 4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside: Strawberry. 5. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It grew inside the bottle. The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems. 6. Three English words beginning with dw: Dwarf, dwell and dwindle...

7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar: Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation mark, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses. 8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh: Lettuce. 9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with 'S': Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts. Joke Corner I had been single for a long time. One day, I told my mother that I'd fallen in love at last and was going to get married.

She was overjoyed. I then told my mother, "Just for fun, Ma, I'm going to bring over 3 women and you try and guess which one I'm going to marry." My mother agreed.

The next day, I brought 3 beautiful women into the house, sat them down on the couch, and they all chatted for a while. Then I turned to my mom and said, "Okay, Ma. Guess which one I'm going to marry?" She immediately replied, "The one in the middle." "That's amazing, Ma! You're right. How did you know?" "I don't like her."

Club Calendar 2013 – 2014

February March April May June

THEME WORLD UNDERSTANDING

LITERACY/ROTARACT MAGAZINE MONTH

AUSTRALIAN ROTARY HEALTH

FELLOWSHIP THEME

Tuesday 1 Tuesday

Wednesday 2 Wednesday

Thursday 3 1 Thursday

Friday 4 2 Friday

Saturday 1 1 5 PETS Training

3 Saturday

Sunday 2 2 6 Car Rally 4 District Assembly

1 RI Convention

Sunday

Monday 3 3 Labour Day 7 AGFR 5 2 RI Convention

Monday

Tuesday 4 4 8 Board Meeting

6 3 RI Convention

Tuesday

Wednesday 5 5 9 AGFR 7 4 RI Convention

Wednesday

Thursday 6 6 10 AGFR 8 5 Thursday

Friday 7 7 11 AGFR 9 6 Friday

Saturday 8 8 12 10 7 Saturday

Sunday 9 19 13 11 8 Sunday

Monday 10 Board Meeting 10 Board Meeting 14 12 Board Meeting

9 Board Meeting

Monday

Tuesday 11 11 15 13 10 Tuesday

Wednesday 12 12 16 14 11 Wednesday

Thursday 13 13 17 15 12 Thursday

Friday 14 14 18 Good Friday

16 RYPEN Camp 2

13 Friday

Saturday 15 15 19 17 RYPEN Camp 2

14 Saturday

Sunday 16 16 20 Easter Day

18 RYPEN Camp 2

15 Sunday

Monday 17 17 21 Easter Monday

19 16 Monday

Tuesday 18 Guest Meeting 18 22 20 17 Tuesday

Wednesday 19 19 23 21 18 Wednesday

Thursday 20 20 24 22 19 Thursday

Friday 21 21 District Conference

25 Anzac Day

23 20 Friday

Saturday 22 Club Birthday 22 District Conference

26 24 21 Saturday

Sunday 23 23 District Conference

27 25 22 Sunday

Monday 24 24 28 23 24 Monday

Tuesday 25 Birthday Dinner

25 29 27 24 Tuesday

Wednesday 26 26 30 28 25 Wednesday

Thursday 27 27 29 26 Thursday

Friday 28 28 30 27 Friday

Saturday 29 31 28 Saturday

Sunday 30 Movie Day 29 Sunday

Monday 31 30 Monday

MONTH FOCUS 1ST

2ND

3RD

4TH

5TH FEBRUARY World

Understanding* 4

th

Colin Peacock 11

th

Gren Courtland*

18th

Garry Jacobs

25th

No-one

MARCH Literacy* 4th

Joanna Kendall*

11th

Member Update Gren Courtland

18th

Fred Rae

25th

Michael Metcalf

APRIL Magazine Month* 1st

Deepti Roopun*

8th

Michael Evans

15th

Member Update Bev Poor

22nd

Brian Poole

29th Jeff Stephenson

MAY Australian Rotary Health*

6th

Mike Bermann

13th

Member Update Fred Rae

20th

Michelle Kendall*

27th

Bev Poor

JUNE Fellowship 3rd

Janet Holding*

10th

Garry Jacobs

17th

Member Update Jeff Stephenson

24th

Dianne Reed