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UPCOMING PROGRAMS
Standard meeting venue and time: Dorset Gardens Hotel, 335 Dorset Road, Croydon
6:00 pm for 6:30 pm start, unless otherwise specified
$25 for two course meal.
DATE Tuesday 28th November 2017
SUBJECT AGM and Club Forum
CHAIR Greg O’Neill/Stephen Bode
DATE Tuesday 5th December 2017
SUBJECT Syrian Refugee Experience.
SPEAKER Hagop (Jacob) Kazandjian
CHAIR John Anderson
DATE Tuesday 12th December 2017
SUBJECT TBA
CHAIR TBA
DATE Tuesday 19th December 2017
SUBJECT Christmas Event: BBQ at the President’s home
CHAIR TBA
DATE Tuesday 26th December 2017. NO MEETING
DATE Tuesday 2nd. January 2018. NO MEETING
DATE Tuesday 9th. January 2018. NO MEETING
DATE Tuesday 16th. January 2018.
SUBJECT TBA
ROTARY CLUB OF CROYDON
45 Years of Serving our Community
28th November 2017 – Volume 45 No. 22
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THE CHRONICLE
A publication of the Rotary Club of Croydon ID No. 18360, District 9810.
President 2017/18 – Stephen Bode
MEMBERS CORNER
All members to advise apologies or additional numbers for meetings to:
Ian Cumming on: 0411 605 854
before 10:00 am on Monday
Cashier for November : Sue Jonas
Greeter for November : Jean Stuart.
If you are on duty and cannot attend, PLEASE ARRANGE FOR A SUBSTITUTE.
Raffle Prizes for Partner Nights:
Marlene Sinclair; Bev Stehn; Jean Stuart; Ross Taylor.
Warm Birthday wishes to all those celebrating their special day during
NOVEMBER
John Hexter 10th November
Heather Tinney 24th November
Viv Baum 25th November
We have no Wedding Anniversaries to celebrate the month of November.
Chronicle contributions and any articles of interest are invited from all members and
persons that have an interest in the promotion of Rotary International.
Please email Jean at: prcommunications@rotarycroydon.org.au
By close of business Friday.
President’s Report: 28-11-2017
Terry McEvoy, from Swinburne University provided us with an overview of the
operations of Swinburne at Croydon. Partnership opportunities with Swinburne cover
Vocational, Community and Youth Avenues of service. In particular the Indigenous
Reconciliation Action program, Migrant English, Yolngu Trades Training in Arnhem
Land and the Young Mums program. Also, furthering connections with the Croydon
Men’s Shed located at Swinburne.
We look forward to developing our relationship with Swinburne to extend our involvement with the local
Croydon community and hopefully creating a direct membership link with the Club.
Ian Cumming, as Raffle Co-ordinator, is developing a sales roster schedule. We will be selling at the
Primary Schools Speech Competition on Thursday Night and at the Maroondah Carols on Friday night.
Please allocate some time assist with sales to the public. As previously advised it is intended that members
also place books in Club partner organisations (where they have a connection) or their businesses. More
laminated flyers will be available to go with the books when they are placed at selling locations. Ian will
provide an update on raffle sales next week to incorporate results for School and Member sales.
Bev Stehn, Jean Stuart Ruth Bode and myself assisted with the Kids Club Family Fun Day last Sunday.
Bev and Jean helped prepare the food platters while Ruth and myself operated a dress up photo booth.
All ex Pegasus “within use by date” soft drinks and water have been sold. Buyers will be able to pick up
their purchases on Tuesday. We still have a quantity of sports drinks available. Let me know if anyone can
use them.
The first gifts are starting to arrive for the Ray White Little Ray of Giving Christmas program. Wrapped
gifts will be delivered to children at Safe Futures Foundation. John Anderson will arrange to get the gifts
to Ray White via Brian McDaid.
Let me know if you can assist Helping Hand Food Bank move their bulk storage stock and shelving on
January 20th 2018.
Michael and Ann Jackomos are busy preparing Christmas biscuits for the Mental Health Units at
Maroondah. Greg O’Neill has provided some “Christmasy” labels.
Maroondah Community Assist are preparing around 3,000 Christmas Hampers for the disadvantaged in
Maroondah and have requested public support via donations of goods to fill the hampers. Donations can be
delivered directly to Maroondah Community Assist in Mt Dandenong Road.
This week we have the AGM and Club Forum.
The AGM is the time to confirm the Board for the next Rotary year. Hopefully we will be able to confirm
the President for 2019/2020.
As part of the forum, a member Needs Assessment Survey will be conducted. Forms have been distributed
by email but will be available on the night. Also for discussion will be the need for a Program Co-ordinator
and the actions required to maximise fundraising in 2018.
Members have also been advised of two District proposals for RI Legislation changes. We need to vote on
these issues if the proposals are to be endorsed. The first proposal is to request RI to consider success
factors other than absolute member numbers for District member number minimums. The second proposal
relates to Clubs obtaining DG approval for Club name changes or Club boundary changes.
Regards,
Stephen Bode
Chairman’s Report:
Last Tuesday, Terry McEvoy, Senior Project Manager of the Croydon Campus of Swinburne University
spoke to us about the many opportunities available for young people to get into trades, adapting to new
technologies to become highly skilled trades men and women, thus creating massive opportunities,
especially with the new infrastructure coming into Victoria over the next few years. He recognizes that
although traditional education may not suit every student, the key to personal growth is finding the right
educational strategy that suits the individual.
Swinburne have paired up with Australian Industry Group and Siemens to create an apprenticeship that will
have a diploma qualification attached to it. It has practical and higher education skills combined.
Terry and his team are now helping to create employment opportunities for Indigenous communities in the
Northern Territory, especially in East Arnhem Land. These people want to work but there is no one there
who can do the jobs or train the locals. By developing training programs, Terry and his team have given the
opportunity for the people living in remote areas to get the skills needed to make their communities a better
place with access to high quality vocational education.
Terry also spoke to us about the Young Mums program that provides mothers aged 15-20 years a Victorian
Certificate of Applied Learning (VCAL), which is an equivalent to Year 11 and Year 12 studies.
Regards,
Jean Stuart
A Little Ray of Giving brings thousands of gifts
Tens of thousands of gifts have been donated locally to less fortunate children thanks to a partnership between Ray White
offices across Australia and New Zealand and their local Rotary Clubs.
The Christmas initiative is run throughout December each year and community members are encouraged to wrap and
deliver gifts to their local Ray White office.
The gifts are then collected and distributed by the partnering Rotary Club to appropriate individuals and organisations. This
is the second annual “A Little Ray of Giving” campaign.
The localised nature of the gift drive allows local organisations Rotary and Ray White to pick a suitable benefactor in their
community. It’s all about local giveback at an important time of year.
Across New Zealand, offices in Kumeu, Waiheke Island, Hornby, Hamilton, Ponsonby and many more across the nation
participated.
In South Australia, Ray White Keatley in Mount Gambier supported the Mayor’s Christmas Appeal and collected gifts for
ac.care while Ray White Gawler teamed up with the Rotary Club of Barossa and aspired to top their 2012 gift drive where
$8500 worth of goods and vouchers were donated by businesses and locals. Ray White Plympton and the Rotary Club of
Holdfast Bay collected gifts for children in the south-western suburbs and Ray White Waikerie publicly encouraged the
community to consider gifts for mums facing hardship too.
In New South Wales Ray White Wetherill Park teamed up with the local Rotary Club to collect gifts for Blue Mountains
bushfire victims. Emma Biasetto, the local coordinator, hand painted the gift paper and managed the program
locally. Emma’s personal touch really made a difference. As June Bragg of the Rotary Club of Wetherill Park wrote to the
business principal, “I just wanted to say what a delightful young woman Emma is and what a wonderful job she did
collecting all the gifts and then personally wrapping etc each one of them. They looked terrific. I am sure that the many
children and families who will benefit from her hard work will truly appreciate all the effort she went to.”
Also in New South Wales, Ray White Rural in Murwillumbah had 44 gifts donated by locals. Ray White Dapto donated
over 150 gifts to the Salvation Army. The Double Bay office had 85 gifts donates and Gerringong on the South Coast
doubled their gift intake from 2012 to 2013 – this year distributing 122 gifts. Rural offices, Ray White Temora and Ray
White Rural Murwillumbah, distributed 108 and 53 gifts locally, respectively. Ray White Menai totalled 64.
Menai’s Matt Debreczeni said it was a fantastic initiative. “Great to be a part of and see all these gifts coming in. Wish we
could see these kid’s faces!”
In Victoria, Ray White Ballarat participated for their first time. Phillip Lee, Director of Ray White Ballarat said a big thank
you to clients, staff and members of the community who put toys under the Christmas tree in their office over the last few
weeks.
“We had the pleasure of handing the toys over to Merv Lincoln from the Salvation Army on Friday to distribute to those in
need this Christmas”.
Mr Lee said, “the generous contributions of toys will help put a smile on a young child’s face this Christmas.”
Across Whittlesea in Victoria, offices joined forced with the Rotary Club of Bundoora including Ray White Mill Park, Ray
white Bundoora, Ray White South Morang, Ray White Thomastown and Ray White Epping. In Croydon, Melba College
supported the campaign.
In Queensland, Ray White Rockhampton distributed 7500 pamphlets to encourage the community to get behind the gift
drive. Gladstone donated their gifts to the Salvation Army, Roseberry Community Services and UnitingCare Community
via the Rotary Club of South Gladstone. The benefactor of the gifts donated to Ray White Whitsunday and Rotary Club of
Airlie Beach was the Whitsunday Crisis and Counselling Service. The corporate team collected 85 presents.
But story of the month goes to the community of Ascot in Brisbane. Ray White Ascot had 180 gifts delivered by Ascot
State School when the year four students decided to boycott “secret Santa” in the classroom and instead donated all of the
gifts to those less fortunate children in their community.
In Western Australia, offices from Narrogin to Dongara and Morley participated. So too did offices in Burnie and Central
Launceston in Tasmania.
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Made up of men and women across all vocations and cultures,
Rotary continues to make an impressive impact. Are you:
• Keen to help others and want to make a difference?
• Seeking more meaning and purpose in your life?
• Looking for ways to help your community?
• Want to be part of a worldwide network for good?
• Interested in a Corporate Social Responsibility program in which your company can participate?
Volunteering with Rotary can provide you with a great work life balance. It’s an opportunity to extend
your life experience and business skills, to benefit your local community and the wider world.
• It provides a bridge from your working and home life – to meet and network with other business and
community people
• Ongoing personal development
• Grow your understanding and knowledge
• Open to both men and women
• Make a new extended network of friends
• Weekly contact opportunities
• Links to a vast international network
• Provides a pathway to do good in the world
The impact our members make takes shape at our Club meetings and activities. These gatherings allow
you to join other passionate, visionary people to discuss and act upon community needs.
Rotary Club meetings are also a place to strengthen connections to friends and neighbours and form
meaningful relationships that last a lifetime.
If you are interested in finding out more about:
The Rotary Club of Croydon please visit: http://rotarycroydon.org.au/
or for information about Rotary International visit: www.rotary.org.au/
Club Information
Postal Address: P.O. Box 226, Croydon Victoria 3136
Meeting Venue: Dorset Gardens Hotel 335 Dorset Road, Croydon Victoria 3136
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CroydonRotary
Website: http://rotarycroydon.org.au/
Club President Stephen Bode president@rotarycroydon.org.au 0468 565 250
Vice President John Anderson john@anderson-assoc.com.au 0408 341 516
Immediate Past
President Dr Joy Varughese kochanattujoy@gmail.com 0451 880 186
Secretary Greg O’Neil secretary@rotarycroydon.org.au 9870-4422
President Elect Jean Stuart Jeanieos007@gmail.com 0416 036 489
Treasurer Eric Thomas royalltreasurer@rotarycroydon.org.au 9723 4162
PR/Communications Jean Stuart prcommunications@rotarycroydon.org.au 0416 036 489
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