This week’s blog is a combination effort from Pres Pete and Eric.
July dates of note
Adam’s birthday is TODAY (July 11)! Happy birthday, Adam.
Greg’s wife Sharon has a birthday on July 14.
July dates of note
Adam’s birthday is TODAY (July 11)! Happy birthday, Adam.
Greg’s wife Sharon has a birthday on July 14.
Sick List
Jack A – From Pres Pete, “it would not hurt if you had a spare 5 minutes to give him a call.”
Apologies from July 6
Jack A
Jack A – From Pres Pete, “it would not hurt if you had a spare 5 minutes to give him a call.”
Apologies from July 6
Jack A
Sally B
Chris B
Apologies for July 13
Eric D. I'll also be away July 20. I'll be in sunny Florida for an academic conference. I'll leave it to Danielle and Pete to do the blog. Danielle, I'll get you my log-in information so you can post if that's okay...
From a Chris Bennett email sent on July 3. Thanks Chris:
“We are having a guest speaker at the dinner in November and if any of you have a suggestion I would be most welcome
Their specifications
• Witty
• High profile
• Can be of use to introduce to a sporting club etc
• We will pay $
• Can captivate an audience
For example I have approached Jana Pittman’s parents but she is in England and unable to attend. She would have been good for the athletics clubs.”
Meeting report
David Weeks passed on a cheque he received from Grant Barrett a local roofer who will be donating $100 for every roof he installs. David also pointed out that he’ll be taking over duties of attendance tracking, so any e-makeup meetings should be sent to him rather than Alan B. David W is also the Fellow to send apologies to.
Rob B has asked for guest speaker suggestions. He’ll be putting together the speaker’s list in the coming week but until that’s ready he’s looking for any suggestion for the upcoming week or two. Contact Rob and myself if you have any thoughts of someone you’d like to invite. To the best of my knowledge, we do not have a guest for this week (July 13).
After dinner, we had the traditional open forum on suggestions for the incoming president that we have in the first meeting after changeover. From Pete “To those that arrived and contributed to the club assembly - thank you. It was certainly encouraging to have genuine input by all. We dissected the club; this really did not need to be done; but now if anybody up the Rotary chain does ask then hey it’s been done. Thanks for covering my back, fellows.”
“The thought of a ‘second’ sergeant was received well. The idea is to have a prepared sergeant arrive at the meeting, in case our club sergeant, Adam, is an apology. Watch out Fellows… if these two get together there could be more fines coming our way! The back-up sergeant will be rostered every month. The back-up sergeant for July is Eric D.” The duties of the sergeant include more than just fines and head-and-tails:
• Start the meeting on time
• Keep the president on time
• Set up regalia (and therefore needs a key to the cupboard)
• Orders food
There was some discussion around the blog. There is a general consensus that it has helped intra-club communication immensely. For it to continue to do this it is important to let me know of guest speakers as soon as you have somebody arranged, two weeks prior to the occasion if possible. When you have a guest speaker, it would be a huge help to me if, whoever is organising the guest speaker, provide me with notes on introducing their guest and also if you could be the one who takes notes on what they talk about. If you then pass these notes on to Danielle; Danielle will type them up and email them to me to post in the blog.
Further on the blog, it would also be very helpful if you’ve got something to report to the club, could you type up a paragraph and email it to me? Every week, somebody will stand up and raise an issue, pass on a cheque, give a director’s report, talk about a project, etc. Every week I try to keep track of what everybody says but, since you’re the one talking about it, wouldn’t it be easier if you wrote it for the blog? This would even work for a three-minuter.
So I’m calling to all Fellows: if you say something at a meeting send me a paragraph in an email about it. It would be as simple as “Eric, at this week's meeting I talked about…” Since we all enjoy the blog and find it really useful to the club, shouldn’t we all contribute?
Professionalism within the club was raised. Dress standards seem to be slipping, probably as a consequence of many Fellows coming straight from work. For this reason, we are not imposing a dress standard but Fellows are asked to simply consider if their dress is appropriate for Rotary. If we are forced to impose a dress standard, it will probably involve pink shirts (joking).
Every year we discuss membership. The best suggestion this year, coming from Karl M, was to approach the Bathurst Professional Women’s club that has recently disbanded.
We also had discussion around the clubs publicity. As usual, we all know we need to get in the local newspaper more, but nobody seems prepared to write the story, take a photo and give it to the newspaper. Somebody who regularly attends needs to be put in charge of this. Since I’m the Public Relations director, I guess that’s my job so I plan to lead by example.
Pres Pete raised the idea of pull up banners for anytime the club is out in the community or is taking a photo and has launched a club competition to design one. “… and now the challenge is on for the design of the club pull up banner/s. We will soon find out who the real ‘alcos’ are in the club with a bottle of wine & bottle of port on offer.”
We also raised the idea of having another inter-club challenge. The general consensus was that sporting events seemed to work best since everybody could participate. We could also involve Oberon and Blayney clubs.
Pres Pete also raised the duck race. “One idea of raising much needed funds was the expansion of the duck race. You should all have a copy of this by now; so should this be a goer we can certainly ‘tickle up’ what has been suggested. Please give this some thought please fellows. We need to start making progress with it very soon.”
Finally, “A donation was made by PP Adam to the Western Region Academy of Sport which was gratefully accepted by our own Dr. Eric Drinkwater on their behalf.” Photo attached.
News / Updates (from Pete):
We have our new DG Neal Fogarty, coming to visit on 31st August. Could you all please make a note now?
This year there will be 2 X GSE teams leaving our district: one to the Philippines and the other to the USA. Although the teams do not leave till March, 2011; the selection for this event is in mid- to late-August. Should there be anybody you believe interested in this then please pass on.
The Annual District Conference is in Orange 1st – 3rd April; 2011. Just thought you needed to know.
“We are having a guest speaker at the dinner in November and if any of you have a suggestion I would be most welcome
Their specifications
• Witty
• High profile
• Can be of use to introduce to a sporting club etc
• We will pay $
• Can captivate an audience
For example I have approached Jana Pittman’s parents but she is in England and unable to attend. She would have been good for the athletics clubs.”
Meeting report
David Weeks passed on a cheque he received from Grant Barrett a local roofer who will be donating $100 for every roof he installs. David also pointed out that he’ll be taking over duties of attendance tracking, so any e-makeup meetings should be sent to him rather than Alan B. David W is also the Fellow to send apologies to.
Rob B has asked for guest speaker suggestions. He’ll be putting together the speaker’s list in the coming week but until that’s ready he’s looking for any suggestion for the upcoming week or two. Contact Rob and myself if you have any thoughts of someone you’d like to invite. To the best of my knowledge, we do not have a guest for this week (July 13).
After dinner, we had the traditional open forum on suggestions for the incoming president that we have in the first meeting after changeover. From Pete “To those that arrived and contributed to the club assembly - thank you. It was certainly encouraging to have genuine input by all. We dissected the club; this really did not need to be done; but now if anybody up the Rotary chain does ask then hey it’s been done. Thanks for covering my back, fellows.”
“The thought of a ‘second’ sergeant was received well. The idea is to have a prepared sergeant arrive at the meeting, in case our club sergeant, Adam, is an apology. Watch out Fellows… if these two get together there could be more fines coming our way! The back-up sergeant will be rostered every month. The back-up sergeant for July is Eric D.” The duties of the sergeant include more than just fines and head-and-tails:
• Start the meeting on time
• Keep the president on time
• Set up regalia (and therefore needs a key to the cupboard)
• Orders food
There was some discussion around the blog. There is a general consensus that it has helped intra-club communication immensely. For it to continue to do this it is important to let me know of guest speakers as soon as you have somebody arranged, two weeks prior to the occasion if possible. When you have a guest speaker, it would be a huge help to me if, whoever is organising the guest speaker, provide me with notes on introducing their guest and also if you could be the one who takes notes on what they talk about. If you then pass these notes on to Danielle; Danielle will type them up and email them to me to post in the blog.
Further on the blog, it would also be very helpful if you’ve got something to report to the club, could you type up a paragraph and email it to me? Every week, somebody will stand up and raise an issue, pass on a cheque, give a director’s report, talk about a project, etc. Every week I try to keep track of what everybody says but, since you’re the one talking about it, wouldn’t it be easier if you wrote it for the blog? This would even work for a three-minuter.
So I’m calling to all Fellows: if you say something at a meeting send me a paragraph in an email about it. It would be as simple as “Eric, at this week's meeting I talked about…” Since we all enjoy the blog and find it really useful to the club, shouldn’t we all contribute?
Professionalism within the club was raised. Dress standards seem to be slipping, probably as a consequence of many Fellows coming straight from work. For this reason, we are not imposing a dress standard but Fellows are asked to simply consider if their dress is appropriate for Rotary. If we are forced to impose a dress standard, it will probably involve pink shirts (joking).
Every year we discuss membership. The best suggestion this year, coming from Karl M, was to approach the Bathurst Professional Women’s club that has recently disbanded.
We also had discussion around the clubs publicity. As usual, we all know we need to get in the local newspaper more, but nobody seems prepared to write the story, take a photo and give it to the newspaper. Somebody who regularly attends needs to be put in charge of this. Since I’m the Public Relations director, I guess that’s my job so I plan to lead by example.
Pres Pete raised the idea of pull up banners for anytime the club is out in the community or is taking a photo and has launched a club competition to design one. “… and now the challenge is on for the design of the club pull up banner/s. We will soon find out who the real ‘alcos’ are in the club with a bottle of wine & bottle of port on offer.”
We also raised the idea of having another inter-club challenge. The general consensus was that sporting events seemed to work best since everybody could participate. We could also involve Oberon and Blayney clubs.
Pres Pete also raised the duck race. “One idea of raising much needed funds was the expansion of the duck race. You should all have a copy of this by now; so should this be a goer we can certainly ‘tickle up’ what has been suggested. Please give this some thought please fellows. We need to start making progress with it very soon.”
Finally, “A donation was made by PP Adam to the Western Region Academy of Sport which was gratefully accepted by our own Dr. Eric Drinkwater on their behalf.” Photo attached.
News / Updates (from Pete):
We have our new DG Neal Fogarty, coming to visit on 31st August. Could you all please make a note now?
This year there will be 2 X GSE teams leaving our district: one to the Philippines and the other to the USA. Although the teams do not leave till March, 2011; the selection for this event is in mid- to late-August. Should there be anybody you believe interested in this then please pass on.
The Annual District Conference is in Orange 1st – 3rd April; 2011. Just thought you needed to know.
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