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April 2015 Page 1
Kiwanis Club of Moorabbin K06652
April 2015
Special points of
interest:
Anzac Day
District
Convention
Poppy Park
Inside this issue:
Click to select.
Officers 2
President’s
Report 3
Anzac Day 4
Anzac Day 5
Convention 6
Poppy Park
Penrith 6
Registration Form 7
Gala Dinner 8
Eliminate 9
Around & About 10
Diary Dates 11
Objects 12
Lest We Forget
Last edition, I had planned to compare the
celebration of 100 years of Kiwanis to 100
years of the Anzac tradition, but instead, the
March edition served to recognise the
achievements of Len Winnell, and to ensure
that his legacy remains with us.
This month on pages 4& 5, is a summary of
the history of Anzac Day.
In the editorial of *’Mufti’ on 1st May 1939
there was the following quote:
In the 24 years that have elapsed since the
“Landing”, the “Day” has increased in
significance into Australia’s National Day.
Australia emerged to the full stature of
Nationhood on 25th April 1915.
On commenting on that full editorial, the
current President of the Victorian RSL David
McLachlan states that the reference to the
present generation of 1939 becoming “firmly
established as the repository of a priceless
tradition” resonates even more strongly
today.
I would therefore ask that on 25th April, that
you think not of how many sausages we can
sell at Bunnings, but of the sacrifice made by
so many of our fellow Australians and New
Zealanders, in all military engagements
undertaken by our two countries. Perhaps
attend the Melbourne or your local Dawn
Service.
There is no question, that the support and
participation in Anzac Day has increased
since it’s low point in the late 60’s, despite
the fact that there are no longer any ww1
vetrans living. This is mostly due to the fact
that children of vetrans are now able to march
in their place, and that the long deserved
recognition of the indigenous Australians who
served and died for us has swelled those
numbers.
It’s worth remembering our own special
returned serviceman Ralph Doddrell, who
served as a Flight Lieutenant in the RAAF,
and returned to be one of the founders of
Kiwanis Australia, and the Charter President
of Moorabbin Club.
On Friday 24th April, we will again be
assisting the residents at Warrawee
Community Village to celebrate Anzac Day.
Please make sure you are available if
possible. A few days ago, I received a
facebook post from my sister in Penrith NSW.
This was to show me the way that Penrith
recognised soldiers who died in World War 1
and all campaigns up to Afghanistan. They
planted 102,000 red poppies, each labelled
with the name of a fallen soldier.
More details on page 6.
Ed.
* ‘Mufti’ The official Journal of the Victorian
Branch of the RSL.
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The Club meets at The Buckingham Motor Inn
1130 Nepean Highway Highett (Melway 77 F9)
1st and 3rd Monday Each Month.
Fellowship 6:30 pm – 7:00 pm.
OFFICE BEARERS 2014 - 2015.
President Q3 Tim Vine
President elect. Allan Lord
Imm Past Pres. Geoff Hergt
Secretary Bryan Williams
Treasurer Bryan Williams
Peter Pahl
******
Directors. Ian Howison
Allan Lord
COMMITTEES:
Fundraising Bryan Williams (C)
Community Service Ian Howison (C)
Membership and Growth Janet Arnfield (C)
Peter Pahl
Publicity Tim Vine
House & Reception Peter Pahl
Web Master Tim Vine
Bulletin Tim Vine.
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Our President
2014-2015 (Q3)
Our Secretary
2014-2015
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Welcome to quarter 3 of this Kiwanis Year. With the passing of Len last month, we lost a friend and colleague, and a willing pair of hands who helped us achieve our goals of community service, and support for the children of the world. This brings our membership down to 9, and with only 9 sets of subs, and 9 workers for any service jobs, the task has escalated dramatically in difficulty. Should we be panicking yet? Well perhaps we should, as history shows that we can only successfully recruit new
members through our existing members. We cannot wait for other members to do it, so it has to be us, and it has to be soon. Do it for Len!
Talk about Kiwanis to everyone who will listen, and talk as though you are proud to be a Kiwanian. We have new club brochures (OK flyers) available, and I can assure you that stored in a box in a member’s garage will not help you interest anyone in joining us. Hand them out!
You also have a great story to tell, namely Eliminate. I’ve yet to find anyone who thinks it’s a dumb idea to eliminate a completely treatable disease from our planet. Talk to parents (you know the ones with children). They are guaranteed to be interested in this story, and perhaps may even want to help.
In August this year, the Australia District Convention will be held in Melbourne.
What a great opportunity to attend a local Convention in our Centenary year. Your invite appears on page 6, and if you wish, there is an early bird registration form available on our website (front page link), or you can download it from this link here.Early Bird Registration.
Note. This Early Bird registration does not provide a financial benefit as has been the case in previous years, it simply secures your registration.
Also note that we have an invite from Brighton and Melbourne Clubs to attend their
Gala fundraising Dinner on 15th May (see page 8). Lets help them!
Yours in service,
Tim Vine
President Q3 2014 - 2015
Are you ready for Kiwanis One Day on April 11?
Kiwanis One Day will be here very soon! This is a great
opportunity to share the Kiwanis story and to inform your
community about your Kiwanis club, your activities and
the ways you support your city or town. Kiwanis One
Day is Saturday, April 11, a day when Kiwanians around
the world will gather to help their communities.
This year clubs are being encouraged to make a video of
their Kiwanis One Day project—not specifically to be
shared with the media but to be shown at our convention in Indianapolis. However, your
club can post the video on your club’s Facebook Page, or push it out via Twitter. Watch the
Kiwanis One Day contest video and read the contest guidelines.
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Anzac Day Saturday 25 April 2015 Anzac Day goes beyond the anniversary of the landing on Gallipoli in 1915. It is the day on which
we remember Australians who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations.
The spirit of Anzac, with its human qualities of courage, mateship, and sacrifice, continues to have
meaning and relevance for our sense of national identity
Why is this day special to Australians?
When war broke out in 1914, Australia had been a federal commonwealth for only 13 years. The
new national government was eager to establish its reputation among the nations of the world. In
1915 Australian and New Zealand soldiers formed part of the allied expedition that set out to
capture the Gallipoli peninsula in order to open the Dardanelles to the allied navies. The ultimate
objective was to capture Constantinople (now Istanbul in Turkey), the capital of the Ottoman
Empire, an ally of Germany.
The Australian and New Zealand forces landed on Gallipoli on 25 April, meeting fierce resistance
from the Ottoman Turkish defenders. What had been planned as a bold stroke to knock Turkey out
of the war quickly became a stalemate, and the campaign dragged on for eight months. At the end
of 1915 the allied forces were evacuated, after both sides had suffered heavy casualties and
endured great hardships. Over 8,000 Australian soldiers had been killed. News of the landing on
Gallipoli had made a profound impact on Australians at home, and 25 April soon became the day
on which Australians remembered the sacrifice of those who had died in the war.
Although the Gallipoli campaign failed in its military objectives, the Australian and New Zealand
actions during the campaign left us all a powerful legacy. The creation of what became known as
the “Anzac legend” became an important part of the identity of both nations, shaping the ways
they viewed both their past and their future
Early commemorations
The 25th of April was officially named Anzac Day in 1916. It was marked by a wide variety of
ceremonies and services in Australia, a march through London, and a sports day in the Australian
camp in Egypt. In London over 2,000 Australian and New Zealand troops marched through the
streets. A London newspaper headline dubbed them “the knights of Gallipoli”. Marches were held
all over Australia; in the Sydney march, convoys of cars carried wounded soldiers from Gallipoli
attended by nurses. For the remaining years of the war, Anzac Day was used as an occasion for
patriotic rallies and recruiting campaigns, and parades of serving members of the AIF were held in
most cities.
During the 1920s Anzac Day became established as a national day of commemoration for the
60,000 Australians who had died during the war. In 1927, for the first time every state observed
some form of public holiday on Anzac Day. By the mid-1930s, all the rituals we now associate
with the day – dawn vigils, marches, memorial services, reunions, two-up games – were firmly
established as part of Anzac Day culture.
With the coming of the Second World War, Anzac Day also served to commemorate the lives of
Australians who died in that war. In subsequent years the meaning of the day has been further
broadened to include Australians killed in all the military operations in which Australia has been
involved.
Anzac Day was first commemorated at the Memorial in 1942. There were government orders
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prohibiting large public gatherings in case of a Japanese air attack, so it was a small occasion,
with neither a march nor a memorial service. Since then, Anzac Day has been commemorated at
the Memorial every year.
What does it mean today?
Australians recognise 25 April as an occasion of national remembrance, which takes two forms.
Commemorative services are held at dawn – the time of the original landing – across the nation.
Later in the day, ex-servicemen and women meet to take part in marches through the major cities
and in many smaller centres. Commemorative ceremonies are more formal and are held at war
memorials around the country. In these ways, Anzac Day is a time when Australians reflect on the
many different meanings of war.
The Dawn Service
The Dawn Service observed on Anzac Day has its origins in a military routine which is still
followed by the Australian Army today. During battle, the half-light of dawn was one of the most
favoured times for an attack. Soldiers in defensive positions were woken in the dark before dawn,
so by the time first light crept across the battlefield they were awake, alert, and manning their
weapons; this is still known as the “stand-to”. As dusk is equally favourable for attacks, the stand-
to was repeated at sunset.
After the First World War, returned soldiers sought the comradeship they had felt in those quiet,
peaceful moments before dawn. A dawn vigil, recalling the wartime front line practice of the
dawn ‘stand-to’, became the basis of a form of commemoration in several places after the war.
There are claims that a dawn requiem mass was held at Albany in 1918, and a wreath laying and
commemoration took place at dawn in Toowoomba the following year. In 1927 a group of
returned men, returning from an Anzac function held the night before, came upon an elderly
woman laying flowers at the as yet unfinished Sydney Cenotaph. Joining her in this private
remembrance, the men later resolved to institute a dawn service the following year. Thus in 1928
150 people gathered at the Cenotaph to for a wreath laying and two minutes silence. This is
generally regarded as the beginning of organised dawn services. Over the years the ceremonies
have developed into their modern form and also seen an increased association with the dawn
landings on 25 April 1915.
Today dawn services include the presence of a chaplain, but not the presence of dignitaries such
as the governor general. They were originally very simple and followed the military routine. In
many cases, attendance at the dawn service was restricted to veterans, while the daytime
ceremony was for families and other well-wishers. Before dawn, the gathered veterans would be
ordered to “stand to” and two minutes’ silence would follow. At the end of this time a lone bugler
would play the Last Post and then conclude the service with Reveille, the bugler’s call to wake up.
In more recent times families and young people have been encouraged to take part in dawn
services, and services in Australian capital cities have seen some of the largest turnouts ever.
Reflecting this change, those services have become more elaborate, incorporating hymns,
readings, pipers, and rifle volleys. Other services, though, have retained the simple format of the
dawn stand-to, familiar to so many soldiers.
The above information is provided courtesy of the Australian
War Memorial
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Poppy Park Penrith. Poppy Park is a vision of
Remember A Soldier
organisation, to commemorate
the sacrifice of over 102,000
soldiers who have given their
life, in campaigns from Sudan
in 1885 to present day
Afghanistan, to uphold
freedom in our country.
This commemorative park was
established in Judges Park
Penrith from 21st March-29th
April 2015 and covers
2000sqm. Poppies are symbolically displayed to form the shape of a giant poppy with the
name of each fallen hero attached to the stem. Additional purple poppies were placed to
remember the animals who died in the various conflicts. You can purchase a poppy
singularly for $9.95, in packs of four, 10 or 100. There is also special school packs of
100 or 1000.
It was a weekend filled with commemoration and celebration as Penrith locals came out
on High St for the Penrith CBD Festival and the official opening of the Anzac Poppy
Park memorial. Early birds who ventured out at 9am were treated to a low-level air
force display put on to ring in the official opening of the Poppy Park.
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The Kiwanis Clubs of Brighton and Melbourne have organised a Fundraiser for
Heartkids, and the details are in the flyer below. You are cordially invited to
attend what sounds like being a most enjoyable night. Perhaps we could get a
Moorabbin group to attend.
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Kiwanis club makes history as 400K Club Thursday, March 12, 2015
The Kiwanis Club of Palo Alto, California
recently made campaign history as the first
pledged 400K Club.
In 2012, the club board made a 100K Club
pledge, stipulating it would not affect the
club’s local fundraising projects. The club is
now committed to raising US$400,000 for
The Eliminate Project.
We have found the Centennial Award to be very appealing to our members. We
believe we will reach and surpass our goal through such individual giving.
I guess that’s not too difficult for a club based in Silicon Valley, but it’s still an
incredible effort. Just in case you win Tatts, and can’t think of what to do with
your winnings, the details of the Centennial Award are included below, and the
link to the web page is included here.
As far as the Moorabbin Club is going, despite the fact
that we have lost several members since our original
Model Club commitment ($750/member), we are
currently sitting at 87% of this target. As long as we keep
the target in view, we should make it comfortably.
April 2015 Page 10
IMPORTANT DATES. 10th April Karen Howison’s Birthday
18th April Eleanor Griffith’s Birthday
24th April ANZAC Service @ Warrawee
25th April ANZAC Day
25th April Bunnings BBQ (Moorabbin)
7th May Tim Vine’s Birthday
9th May Lonnie Williams’ Birthday
Last month I was with a group who travel away every year, and had the opportunity to visit Marysville. The group includes a Rotarian, a Lion, and a Kiwanian, so I thought this was a great opportunity to show them one of the achievements of Kiwanis, namely the rebuilt Rotunda (Bandstand). My first stop was the grand Information Centre in the main street
complete with displays of the aftermath of the 2009 bushfire, and some of the rebuilding that has taken place since. I stepped up and explained that I was from Kiwanis, and would like to see the Rotunda that was rebuilt by Kiwanis. Never heard of Kiwanis, and asked if we were a part of Lions. OK then
if you go down the road, before the creek, you will see the Lions Park, and there’s a shelter there that could be it. One of the volunteers in the information centre who had heard our conversation said that there was another
shelter over the creek and off to the right, beyond the park that could be it. Red faced, I thanked them, and went to explore. I walked down to the Lions Park, and entered to discover beautifully sculptured pathways and shrubs, and a magnificient play area built by Rotary. A little further down, I discovered an impressive shelter, and my heart leapt, until I remembered the photo I had seen of the Kiwanis Rotunda, and realised that this was certainly not it. This was confirmed by the Plaque proudly
displayed on the front. I continued down until I came to the creek, and then had to venture back to the road. The area on the other side of the creek did not look particularly promising, but then I saw it back towards the tree line. I headed towards it, and circled it searching for a plaque. There was none. Shortly after I arrived, a young mother with a toddler in a pram arrived, and proceded to change the infant. I was glad to see it was being used, even if none of the locals knew where it came from, and certainly no visitors are likely to come across it. The lesson I learned that day, was that Kiwanis will always unknown if we continue to hide our achievements from the public.
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Diary Dates.
Members please note!
The information below is correct at the time of going to press, but can change.
All changes are posted on the Club Website, so please check there.
13th April Club Dinner Meeting & Board Meeting
6:30 for 7:00 p.m. Chairman: Tim Vine
Programme A look at Global Warming
Invocation & Vote of thanks Peter Pahl
20th April Club Dinner Meeting (Partner’s Night)
6:30 for 7:00 p.m. Chairman: Tim Vine
Programme Barbara Cohen & Patricia Culliver
Bentleigh Baysider Falls Clinic
Invocation & Vote of thanks Allan Lord
24th April ANZAC Service
10:30 am Warrawee Retirement Village
Volunteers will be given their roster/duty on 20th April meeting
4th May Club Dinner Meeting
6:30 for 7:00 p.m. Chairman: Tim Vine
Programme The Ancient Art of Auction—Allan Lord
Invocation & Vote of thanks Geoff Hergt
Note: You will be booked in for dinners, unless you apologise to Bryan.
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* Please ring Bryan Williams on 9587-6980 by Sunday Evening, if:
1.) You are unable to attend a Club Meeting and / or
2.) You are unavailable to carry out your duty on your rostered day. (ie. Vote of thanks)
Should you not advise Bryan of your inability to attend by the appropriate time and the club incurs
expenses as a result, you will be required to reimburse those expenses to the Club.
Kiwanis Australia District
47th Annual Convention
28th/29th August 2015
Let’s make History Bell City Mantra and BreakFree Hotels 215 Bell Street Preston, Vic. 3072
Click here for Registration Details
April 2015 Page 12
Visit us on www.kiwanismoorabbin.org.au to find the very
latest activities of our club.
THE OBJECTS OF
KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL.
1. TO GIVE primacy to the human and spiritual rather than to the
material values of life.
2. TO ENCOURAGE the daily living of the Golden Rule in all
human relationships
3. TO PROMOTE the adoption and the application of higher social,
business and professional standards.
4. TO DEVELOP, by precept and example, a more intelligent,
aggressive and serviceable citizenship.
5. TO PROVIDE, through Kiwanis clubs, a practical means to form
enduring friendships, to render altruistic service and to build
better communities.
6. TO COOPERATE in creating and maintaining that sound public
opinion and high idealism which make possible the increase of
righteousness, justice, patriotism and good will.