Thank you to all who attended last Monday night's meeting to see DG Juliet Riseley present 'What Rotary Means to Me' to our club. Juliet showed us that Rotary means many things to many people but she doesn't want it to be around the 'M' word - that is, meetings!
(For those of you who know me, know how much I hate meetings unless they are planned, co-ordinated, there's an agenda, action item list made up so that responsibilities are allocated and followed up. That is, meetings to me must have a reason. I believe it's because in my usual job, I can be in and out of meetings all day and many of which achieve nothing and yet the outcome is that I still have to do the work that comes out of them. No wonder I have a cynical attitude about them!) Okay, I'll get off my soapbox now.
I also have to thank everyone in the club making a real difference to the projects. Sheila, for taking a proactive approach to community service and establishing relationships as well as getting us all to help out in our little way through donation of food and clothing.
Thanks to Geoff for his tireless work in Foundation and helping us find Engineer Extraordinare Andrew Boast who was selected for the Australian team to Texas on the Group Study Exchange 2011. We hope to see Andrew at our meetings as much as possible!
Thanks to Bill for his work with the Rotary Action Groups in Cambodia and promoting the importance of water and sanitation.
Thanks to Philip for work with the club service and co-ordination of the Presidents Cup and all the administration to ensure the club runs smoothly.
A big thank you to Ian for your trivia sessions. We enjoy them so much but not only go away lighter (our coins are emptied from our pockets) but we go away richer in new and useless knowledge that may come in handy in the future. Fear of long words? Really now.
Thanks also to Paul for volunteering to help Laurie out with the Plum Puddings and to Laurie for his exceptional work with the naturalisation ceremony - only having missed them twice in his years of helping out. Your work is appreciated and recognised Laurie and we hope that you have a smooth transition into your new living arrangements.
Thanks to Greg for your work on the bulletin. I enjoy and eagerly await the bulletin's arrival into my email every week. It's an important job and you do a stirling job especially with the crosswords that you include to keep us mentally active!
Really thank you to everyone who helps out in the club and it's nice to see that we all have our little roles to play to keep the club ticking over and in the near future, I hope that the "Connecting Business with Community" events will inspire some new faces to come along to our meetings so that we can promote Rotary and our club.
In the new year, I'd like us to rally together as a club (and our partners too - whoever is interested) to create a signature event or fundraiser that is going to be fun and enjoyable and get us all involved. I'm open to ideas - theatre restaurants; theatre night; movie night; cooking school; dress ups; swing dance and rock and roll night etc - one that involves a fun night, one that we can invite our friends and family to; one where we can let our hair down and just enjoy each other's company - because let's face it, we can always do with some more fun....
Anyway, I'd leave that thought with you all but if this is something that we can set up a small committee (and this includes partners - let's get them involved) then why not?
(For those of you who know me, know how much I hate meetings unless they are planned, co-ordinated, there's an agenda, action item list made up so that responsibilities are allocated and followed up. That is, meetings to me must have a reason. I believe it's because in my usual job, I can be in and out of meetings all day and many of which achieve nothing and yet the outcome is that I still have to do the work that comes out of them. No wonder I have a cynical attitude about them!) Okay, I'll get off my soapbox now.
I also have to thank everyone in the club making a real difference to the projects. Sheila, for taking a proactive approach to community service and establishing relationships as well as getting us all to help out in our little way through donation of food and clothing.
Thanks to Geoff for his tireless work in Foundation and helping us find Engineer Extraordinare Andrew Boast who was selected for the Australian team to Texas on the Group Study Exchange 2011. We hope to see Andrew at our meetings as much as possible!
Thanks to Bill for his work with the Rotary Action Groups in Cambodia and promoting the importance of water and sanitation.
Thanks to Philip for work with the club service and co-ordination of the Presidents Cup and all the administration to ensure the club runs smoothly.
A big thank you to Ian for your trivia sessions. We enjoy them so much but not only go away lighter (our coins are emptied from our pockets) but we go away richer in new and useless knowledge that may come in handy in the future. Fear of long words? Really now.
Thanks also to Paul for volunteering to help Laurie out with the Plum Puddings and to Laurie for his exceptional work with the naturalisation ceremony - only having missed them twice in his years of helping out. Your work is appreciated and recognised Laurie and we hope that you have a smooth transition into your new living arrangements.
Thanks to Greg for your work on the bulletin. I enjoy and eagerly await the bulletin's arrival into my email every week. It's an important job and you do a stirling job especially with the crosswords that you include to keep us mentally active!
Really thank you to everyone who helps out in the club and it's nice to see that we all have our little roles to play to keep the club ticking over and in the near future, I hope that the "Connecting Business with Community" events will inspire some new faces to come along to our meetings so that we can promote Rotary and our club.
In the new year, I'd like us to rally together as a club (and our partners too - whoever is interested) to create a signature event or fundraiser that is going to be fun and enjoyable and get us all involved. I'm open to ideas - theatre restaurants; theatre night; movie night; cooking school; dress ups; swing dance and rock and roll night etc - one that involves a fun night, one that we can invite our friends and family to; one where we can let our hair down and just enjoy each other's company - because let's face it, we can always do with some more fun....
Anyway, I'd leave that thought with you all but if this is something that we can set up a small committee (and this includes partners - let's get them involved) then why not?
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