Good evening Rotarians and Friends 

 

Tonights meeting was a club night, were we went over directors roles, so new members would be more advised on what not only they do for Rotary, but also there role as a director.

 

Pres Rob opened the meeting.

 

Secretary Bob spoke about joint meeting with Rya/Rosebud next week at our club 20th June, please all members let Elaine no for catering purposes. 

Bob also mentioned Rick Plumber would be a guest at our club for us to present him and the Men's shed with a cheque for $800.00, were he will give a talk on how the new shed is going.

RYLA applicants are out at the moment, there are none as yet.

Bob also mentioned RYPEN and how it was going and also about Rotary grants.

There is a gala concert hosted by Mt Eliza Rotary in aid of the 100 year anniversary of Rotary, its on the 29th July.

Bob also mentioned polo shirts,jumpers and hats, we presented our newest members with Rotary hats, all merchandise is available to order through our club.

 

Director Rick, spoke about the new banner and how the art work is going, we are looking to get this finalised as soon as we can.

 

Director and inc Pres Peter spoke about how he had written up an article with a couple of pics to go in the Rotary Down Under Magazine, it was about the fundraiser done in conjunction with Mary and Peter and the Rotary club and how successfully it was, and also how please l was for me to receive the Paul Harris Fellows award, but even more excited when my wife received one as well for all her hard work in fundraising for the community as well as cancer research, hopefully it will get published.

 

Director Ray spoke about how the Australia day event is definitely going ahead, it will go back to basics and be more manageable, all the board members have been picked.

he also said they still will need volunteers for the setting up and cleaning and packing after the event.

 

GIG, was done by Tony Viney, were he spoke briefly about the Market he is planning for Dromana and the new hurdles the shire has put in place for him to jump over, he said its very frustrating.

 

It was Emily Finsted's birthday recently. l wished her happy birthday from our club.

 

Foundation Member David Jarmen gave a talk about the clubs beginning and its charter.

they met in the Dromana hotel in the main dinning room,john Coleman was the owner then,he said it was a bit like silver service, they all had there suits on,our founding club Rosebud, they met in the Rosebud Hotel,Sid backer was the Rotarian at the time,and his son ray Backer as well. nearly every business owner in Dromana was a member of the Dromana Rotary Club.

David said what worked back then,probably wouldn't work today, they regularly did the 4 way test and vocational talks, the initial trash and treasure was done were Ritches now stands,Laurie Mullins had an engineering Buseness in Dromana and was a driving force. he had a number of fundraising events, that follow on from what Peter and Mary have done, he raised money for a specialist bed down in Rosebud,

Southern Peninsula Hospital for infants , the first art show was held in the old scout hall.

there were no women in Rotary back then, but we harnest there energy and called them Rotary Ann's, they did coffee and cake stalls and those sorts of things, we had a trial run of lighting up a Christmas tree at hospital corner, were the old hospital was opposite the BP service station., then they decided to put one up at Arthur's seat, at the garden of the moon.

David said as he was driving the tree up to Arther's seat, he was touching just about every power line on the way up, they also put bunting up along the Nepean Highway, but the wind made them put it up the second time.

John Barnes asked did John Coleman ever attent the meetings, John Coleman had a hotel in Essendon as well and spent a lot of time there, he had a hart attack going up the stairs of the Dromana Hotel.

Chris Booth asked about the first meeting and to charter,r took 4 months,  Sandy Christie, came from rosebud Rotary,Less Liddel come from Dromana

Bob Donaldson asked. was David the youngest member back then, David's reply was he still is.

it was a very good talk, not only for new members, but also those older one's that are loosing there memory haha.

l have a very good memory as you can tell bye the above.