Friday, December 24, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
RC Waikiki – The Friendly Club
Photo 4: Syd and Chris ordered a red Mustang to travel around the island of Hawaii. Somehow this is not what they were expecting
Photo 3: Revisiting THAT bin again placed by RC Waikiki at the top of Diamond Head. Other people usually scale Diamond Head for the excitement and the views. To a Rotarian, it's things like this that promote the good work that we do that gets them excited!
Photo 2: Handing over of the Rotary banners
Photo 1: Rotary Club of WaikikiOn the 24th November, I had the pleasure of visiting the Rotary Club of Waikiki in Honolulu – “The Friendly Club” – for a lunch meeting with Hawaiian shirts and a “hang loose” attitude prevailing. RC Waikiki meets at 12 noon each Wednesday at the Pacific Beach Hotel, 2490 Kalakaua Avenue, Honolulu, for lunch…..and what a lunch they provide, groaning boards of food available for all at the princely sum of $17 under President Gene Gelfo. Met some very interesting Rotarians, including a Sydney-sider Rotarian who spends three weeks in Waikiki every three months and lives in the Pacific Beach Hotel, he quipped that he attends more meetings than some of the locals! The club has in excess of 100 members. A nice touch is that members will often to pay for someone else lunch as part of their fundraising or sergeant at arms session. The presidents table is something to see, raised above the floor and decorated in true Hawaiian form. (Photo 1)
You will be glad to know that I contributed to their version of the “copper pot” as it was 45 years to the day that I had first visited Honolulu having my birthday there whilst en-route from Britain to Australia.
I had the privilege of presenting the Moorleigh-Moorabbin banners and our National Flag to RC Waikiki in exchange for their “Friendly Club” banner. (Photo 2) During a brief chat with the president, I learned that RC Waikiki would like to “team up” with an overseas club for information sharing and opportunity to meet”, we certainly could do no better. We are assured that should any of our members visit Honolulu, they would receive the warmest of Hawaiian welcomes. Have a quick peek at their website for further information. http://www.waikikirotary.org/
A little later, Chris and I scaled Diamond Head crater and I revisited the refuse bin placed by the RC Waikiki in 1992. (Photo 3)
At our last RC meeting, I was – at long last - able to emulate some of our members in claiming a “Make Up” at some exotic, foreign location…..RC Waikiki certainly qualifies on both counts!
Aloha!
Syd and Chris Gallagher
I had the privilege of presenting the Moorleigh-Moorabbin banners and our National Flag to RC Waikiki in exchange for their “Friendly Club” banner. (Photo 2) During a brief chat with the president, I learned that RC Waikiki would like to “team up” with an overseas club for information sharing and opportunity to meet”, we certainly could do no better. We are assured that should any of our members visit Honolulu, they would receive the warmest of Hawaiian welcomes. Have a quick peek at their website for further information. http://www.waikikirotary.org/
A little later, Chris and I scaled Diamond Head crater and I revisited the refuse bin placed by the RC Waikiki in 1992. (Photo 3)
At our last RC meeting, I was – at long last - able to emulate some of our members in claiming a “Make Up” at some exotic, foreign location…..RC Waikiki certainly qualifies on both counts!
Aloha!
Syd and Chris Gallagher
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