Current Bulletin - Rotary Club of West Perth

Club Bulletin Volume 61, No 28; 29 January 2015
Meet at 07:00am for a 07:15am start.
Please be seated by 7.15. There will be time for
fellowship after the meeting.
Thursday, Zamia Cafe Kings Park
http://www.zamiacafe.com.au/location.html
www.rotarywestperth.org.au
Program: 5 February 2015
UWA PROFESSOR SHAUN COLLIN
Research into Sensory Cues which
Trigger Shark Attacks
Host
Welcome
Toast
Grace
Thanks
Duty
Geoff Hick
Ian Hutton
Byron Kakulas
Gary Leighton
Guy Mattioli
Tony Pepper
Charter granted 1954
Program: 12 February 2015
The Rotary Club of
West Perth (Inc.)
WHEELCHAIR FOR KIDS
PO Box 59, West Perth 6872
To be held at the Wheelchairs for Kids (WFK)
factory Unit 2; 45 Dellamarta Rd Wangara.
www.rotarywestperth.org.au
Partners are invited to attend.
PRESIDENT: Bernie Foley
[email protected]
SECRETARY: Michael Wright
[email protected]
Apologies: SMS to 0438 091 172
Host
Welcome
Toast
Grace
Thanks
Duty
Ian Hutton
Byron Kakulas
Gary Leighton
Guy Mattioli
Tony Pepper
Andy Rhodes
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CLUB
BULLETIN
EDITOR:
PP Tina Arthur
District 9455
DISTRICT GOVERNOR:
Dr Angus Buchanan
WORLD PRESIDENT:
Gary C K Huang
WEST PERTH ROTARY NEWS
John Hughes
Presentation
Bring a Friend
Members are encouraged to invite potential members to listen to guest speaker John Hughes,
successful business man and philanthropist, at the 12 March breakfast meeting.
Charter Club Lunch to be held on Sunday 8 February 2015 11.30am at the Valley View
Restaurant 10481 West Swan Road Henley Brook.
Formal Dress - Cost is $40 per person drinks at bar prices. RSVP by 1 February.
Rotary Club of
Ellenbrook
Charter Lunch
We would like to see as many as possible welcome the new Club and its Charter Members into
District 9455. This is a great opportunity not only to meet the new members but to network with
them and the other clubs on the day. If there are any dietary requirements, please email them to
Sheridan at [email protected] or call her on 0419 926 054
Payments can be made online to http://www.trybooking.com/GPCN and I would encourage you to
do so as soon as possible to help with catering and general organization.
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The Rotary Foundation and 20 Century Fox present a special Opening Night
END POLIO NOW MOVIE
“The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel “.
When: Thursday February 26, 2015, 7pm.
Where: The Greater Union Theatre, Morley Galleria Shopping Centre, Walter Road Morley.
Rotary
Foundation End
Polio Now
Movie Night
Ticket Price: $20. All profits to End Polio Now.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation also donates $2 for every $1 raised by Rotary.
Register and pay ONLINE: www.rotarydistrict9455.org.au/event/10201
Use your online payment receipt as your entry ticket.
Ample free parking.
Register early and bring your friends.
Thank you on behalf of the Children of the world.
From PDG Paul Gianatti, D9455 Polio Committee.
Rotary Youth
Exchange
Student Dinner
Roster
The attached dinner roster has been revised, the main changes being an adjustment due to
Carla’s departure date of 6 July 2015 and details of the last host parents added. Thank you to
Steve and Carol Thomas for being Carla’s last host parents in Australia.
Carla is staying with the Chapman family and then with Jess Whitton’s family for the following
three months - both of whom are not Rotarians. Please review the dinner roster and be sure to
mark your allocated dinner in your calendar. If for whatever reason you are unable to host Carla
on your rostered day, please contact another Rotarian and swap with them. As a courtesy, please
call the host family or Carla 24 hours in advance to confirm your appointment or if you need to
cancel so that the family can make other arrangements.
Please contact Joseph Casella if you have any questions regarding the dinner roster.
DISTRICT 9455 SECOND ROTARY MEDIA WORKSHOP
District 9455
Second Rotary
Media
Workshop
If you attended the 2014 Media Workshop we will expand upon those topics and present new
material to successfully promote your club and Rotary.
New attendees in 2015 are most welcome and will gain much from this workshop as revision is
provided. The session will be lively and interactive, and give you a chance to put some of your
ideas into practice! Dr Helen Cripps will present her expertise in all forms of media giving clear
understandable advice on how to work more effectively in groups and how to get our Rotary
message out via newspaper, radio, social media and local community.
Date: Saturday, 21 February 2015
Time: 9am – Midday
Venue: ECU Mount Lawley, Building ML03, Rooms 111-2
Bring: A pen & paper and your Rotary name badge!
Welcome & Introduction – Christine Harris District 9455 Social Media Chair
1. Social Media - Christine Harris .
Learn how to use Facebook to your advantage to get more exposure for your club and its
activities.
2. Local Community Engagement – Dr Helen Cripps Edith Cowan University .
Gain leverage by partnering with existing organisations in your community
3. Rotary Branding– Louise Youens
How to use the new Rotary branding. Handouts will be provided.
We sincerely thank our media supporters who have given us their time so we might be able
to further promote Rotary to the broader community.
This is an important skill-based workshop for ALL clubs. Please join us…at least one club
member should attend. The workshop is interactive and fun and guaranteed to broaden your
knowledge and horizons on promoting Rotary. Your club will greatly benefit from the
knowledge and skills transferred from this workshop.
Space is limited so please register in advance!
Registration - District website:
http://rotarydistrict9455.org.au/index.php?action=event&id=10593
Club Notice Board – Upcoming Speakers (see Diary Dates www.rotarywestperth.org.au)
Date
Speaker
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February 2015
Club Day
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February 2015
Maria D’Cunha-Teacher
Hampton Senior High School
Tony Ford-Club Member PP
Demonstration of Robotic
19
26
Subject
PowerPoint
Yes
Program
th
5
March 2015
Mr Ashley Reid CEO
Ngala - The Oldest Charitable
Yes
Institution in WA
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12
March 2015
Mr John Hughes
Successful Businessman
“What Works for Me Can Still
No
Work for You-Lesson from John
& Philanthropist
Hughes”
Club Diary
Rotary Club of
Ellenbrook Chater
Lunch
Sunday 8 February 2015 11.30am. Details above.
Breakfast at
Wheelchair for Kids
Thursday, 12 February 2015, 7 for a 7.30am start breakfast meeting at the Wheelchairs
for Kids (WFK) factory. WFK will explain and demonstrate their operation. Partners are
invited to attend and payment to the Treasurer at the door.
Media Workshop
Saturday 21 February 9am –Details above
End Polio Now - Movie
Thursday 26 February 7pm – Details above
The Rotary District 9455 Conference will be held on 13 and 14 March 2015 in Perth
District Conference
International Great
Waiters Race (IGWR)
Registration form attached.
Will be held Sunday 12 April 2015.
Attending the talk by Weh Yeoh on the OIC Cambodia Project last week are David Arrowsmith,
Tina Arthur, guest speaker, Founder and Managing Director OIC Cambodia Weh Yeoh, Stephanie
Arrowsmith and Shannon Golding. Shannon is a speech pathologist bound for Cambodia to work
for 12 months on the OIC Cambodia Project.
For more details on this project, see the attached brochure “OIC Cambodia Project”
Above left: Pat Emery, Guest Speaker and WPRC Member, gave an update on the John Fawcett
Foundation Eye Clinic in Bali. See also John Hollingshead’s story at the end of this Bulletin.
Above right: Pat Emery with Acting President Colin Arthur.
CONGRATULATIONS TO GEOFF SIMPSON OAM
Press article scanned from the Mosman Cottesloe Post January 31, 2015.
MERC REPORT January 2015-01-27 by Jill Smith
The MERC committee have been busy in the last 3-4 months. There was a flurry of activity as RPH Shenton Park
Campus was closed down and we were able to benefit from the unwanted equipment that was available. We shared
this with other groups such as Australian Doctors for Africa and the Osborne Park RC. Almost all items were in good
working condition but excess to requirements at the new Fiona Stanley Hospital, so were collected and packed into
containers. Fraser managed to purchase four unseaworthy containers with MERC funds which are at present being
used as storage at the Shenton Park site.
In December, we sent a small container to Wewak hospital in PNG. We had been planning this for some time but
ran into difficulties finding a suitable freight company which serviced the Wewak port. This container was filled with
items suitable to be used in the hospital at Wewak which is very poorly equipped and run down. Items such as
gloves, syringes, dressings and surgical drapes were included. Living Child, the Perth-based organisation that
promotes safe births for women and babies in the Sepik region and uses Wewak as a base also added some items
they had had donated such as baby bundles, birthing kits and bed linen. The Living Child contact has proved
invaluable as their leader Sara David is the midwife who visits the Sepik 3-4 times per year and provides us with
reliable information, including the valuable contacts. These contacts are willing to take delivery of any containers we
send and distribute the items appropriately. They are a Christian aviation company which flies to remote villages in
the Sepik and has a very good network of suitable recipients.
Once again, my thanks to the RCWP Board who continue to fund the MERC project and to Geoff Woods and Fraser
Watson, the other two members of the MERC subcommittee who keep me on the straight and narrow and goodnaturedly allow me to “boss” them.
The Drama of the Mobile Clinic for Cataract Surgery in Bali! By John Hollingshead
There is no doubt that what counts in this world is who you know not what you know!
In 1986 our Hon Member Professor Byron Kakulas was then a member of the Australian Health Research Fund
(AHRF) Committee. That year he was the organiser and Program Director of the AHRF International Scientific
Conference in Sydney on the subject of Muscular Dystrophy and Neuromuscular diseases. John Hollingshead (JH)
was responsible for the admin coordination.
The Chairman of the AHRF was the late Royce Abbey from Victoria, then a PDG and RI Director. At this Conference
it was announced that Royce was to be the RI President 1988/89. In 1987 Royce visited Rotary in WA and JH was
one of his chauffeurs, and sought advice about becoming a DG.
In August 1988, JH and Helen were holidaying with a family friend of more than 30 years, John Fawcett in Bali. JH
was now DG elect for 1989/90., and was seeking ideas for projects. Over a beer or two the concept of the mobile
clinic was discussed.
Back in Perth advice was sought from Dr Ian Anderson, a cataract surgery specialist for whom Helen was secretary.
The vital question was “is it possible to do cataract surgery operations in the back of a truck?” “Yes” said Dr Ian
Anderson! It was this answer that triggered the planning of a Mobile Clinic.
This led to a Rotary Foundation 3 H (Health, Hunger and Humanity), grant submission being sent to RI HQ in
Evanston, Illinois in early 1990. The submission failed in spite of a very detailed report with support from many
sources including the Governor of Bali. This was a devastating decision, which JH regards as one of the worst days
of his life! RI “rubbed” it in by making it clear no re-consideration was permitted!
JH had been an infantry officer for some 20 years and well trained in the philosophy that the “best method of defence
is to attack”! And it is “whom you know” etc that can be made to work for you! The solution was staring JH in the
face! Royce Abbey of course, now living back in Melbourne, a member of the Rotary Foundation Board and the
immediate past RI President!
Hence a phone call to Royce explaining the dilemma engendered a very positive response “ leave it with me John,
and I will get back to you!” He did and said “The submission will be reconsidered. An inspector is to be sent to Bali
to re-examine the proposal. You will hear more soon”.
In August 1990, a very senior Indonesian PDG and businessman, Ben Titiheru, President of the Bayer Group of
Companies in Jakarta arrived to report on the project. Ben and JH had an immediate rapport, particularly when it
was suggested Ben take two days off to play golf on the delightful country course in the hills of Bali. JH meanwhile
would draft the answers for the RI report!
It worked! Our original submission however was reduced from four years funding to two. Thus in May 1991 the
former Scotch College 26 seater school bus became the first mobile clinic operating theatre for cataract surgery in
Indonesia.
In June 1991 West Perth Hon Rotarian John Fawcett in Bali took over the operational control of the project.