Board Members 1984-85

President Leo Desmond

Past President Dave Roseby
Secretary Darryl Hood
President Elect Ray Carter
Treasurer Barry Swain

Club Service
Director Bob Moses
Committee Leo Desmond
Darryl Hood
Barry Swain
Charles Parsons

Community Service
Director Ray Carter
Committee Kel Barnes
Ron Lewis
Doug Ritchie
John Longhorn
Graeme Bosanquet
Gil Lunn

International Service
Director Chris Monahan
Committee Don Dellit
Neil MacLeod
Douglas Ritchie
Ian West

Vocational Service
Director Peter Chinnery
Committee John Elms
John Pollard
Dave Roseby
Stan Bennett

Public Relations Officer Ian West
Sergeant at Arms John Pollard
Assistant Sergeant Neil MacLeod
Intermesh Editor Charles Parsons
Registrar Don Dellit
Assistant Registrar John Elms

President's Report 1984-85

Fellow Rotarians

The theme of Rotary International for the past year was "Discover a New World of Service". Through the year the Loganholme Rotary Club has attempted to follow this theme in our own small way. It has been our aim to further establish the Club's name in our local community so that the residents are aware of a very active Rotary movement working for the benefit of the Loganholme district. I feel we have gone a few steps along the road to achieve this.

As President it has been my ambition to spread our community work to help as many people in the Loganholme area as possible. I felt this objective would best be achieved by supporting an organisation that helps all sections and all ages of the local community. Hence my decision to assist our local branch of the Blue Nursing Service to help them obtain a replacement car.

The four Service Committee have held various fundraising functions over the past year. The International Committee held a successful Mexican Evening in October, which was well attended. The Vocational Committee held a Careers Evening at Shailer Park High School, also in October the organisation of this was first class but sadly most schools failed to give sufficient publicity to their students to enable this event to be as beneficial as it could have been.

The Community Committee held two events during the Rotary Year. The first occasion was a Progressive Dinner, which was a very enjoyable evening. The second function was an open air Bush Dance held at John Paul College by kind permission of the Principal Mr Cec Munns.

This Year being "The Year of the Family" the evenings which gave me great pleasure were those when we were joined by our Annes and our Sons and Daughters. For example, the River Trip and the Christmas Party. In my opinion, it is advantageous to the Club for the families of the Rotarians to meet socially, especially our new members and their Annes. To borrow a phrase from John Paul College "We are family". These family evenings were arranged by the Club Service Committee.

The Rotaryannes excelled themselves during the year by organising two fundraising events, raising a total of $927. Well done Annes, a great effort.

During my year as President I feel we have experienced real growth and fellowship among the members. The Club has increased by eight new fellows - a 30% membership increase. Unfortunately we have lost John Longhorn who has moved to the Gold Coast.

We were very fortunate to be allocated Beth Rice as our Rotary Exchange Student for 1984/85. She arrived here as a shy schoolgirl, fitted in well with her host families and school and took an active part in Club activities. Through the year she matured into a suntanned charming young lady and we were all sorry when the time came for her to return home to Lancaster, Ohio last January.

In conclusion, I wish to take this opportunity to thank my Board of Directors, members and the Rotaryannes for the assistance I have received in making this Rotary Year a happy and memorable one for my wife and myself.

I wish Ray and his Board of Directors all the best for the coming Rotary Year. I am sure that under Ray's command the Club will continue to move forward, both in numbers and effort, to the benefit of the whole community.

Yours in Rotary
Leo Desmond

Club Service Report 1984-85

The Club Service Committee is happy to report that this year has been a very pleasing one in relation to membership development, with a substantial increase of 30% in membership, mostly in the latter part of the year. These new members with their widely varied vocations and new ideas should be of enormous value to the Club and its activities in the coming years.

The friendliness and fellowship within the Club, which is so vital to the success of a service club such as ours, has been kept at a high level throughout the year. With such activities as vocational nights and tours and our Bush Dance in addition to our regular weekly meetings. Our attendance figures for the year have been high although there is always room for improvement in that area.

Despite the fact that we have had more than one bulletin editor throughout the year the overall standard of "The Intermesh" has been good.

The committee has been pleased with the performance of the Club in all aspects within the Club service realm and we are sure that under the guidance of John Pollard next year will be equally successful.

Yours in Rotary
Bob Moses

Community Services Report 1984-85

The 1984-85 year was not full of spectacular events. However, we did get our "much talked about but seldom seen" (i.e. Phantom) bus shelters erected. This was mainly due to the organisational effort put in by Neil MacLeod. We have been putting these shelters up now for about three and half years.

The Club now has three bus shelters. These provide a valuable community service as well as a regular source of income for the Club. All three sheds now have all their advertising space fully let. This has occurred mainly through the endeavours of Stan Bennett and to a lesser extent, Ray Carter.

Our main fundraising events for the year were the progressive dinner and the Bush Dance, both of which were quite successful.

As usual the Club supported the Shailer Park State School fete and there were many of us that smelt like a hamburger for a week later. However, the hamburger caravan had a freezer that was adequately stocked with "tinnies" and casks. This did help to compensate and ease the burden.

We also maintained our close ties with John Paul College who helped us greatly with facilities for the bush dance. Funds have been, or will be, made available to the Beenleigh Ambulance, Blue Nurses and most schools in the area.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the members of my committee and the other fellows in the Club for their invaluable help and support during the year.

Yours in Rotary
Ray Carter

International Service Report 1984-85

Again this year the major feature of the International Service calendar has been the Club's participation in the Rotary Youth Exchange Programme.

Our first ever incoming exchange student Beth Rice of Lancaster, Ohio, USA completed her 12 month stay with us flew to America in January. It certainly was an experience for all concerned. All club members benefited from the programme especially the four sets of host parents who took Beth into their homes as their own daughter.

Over that 12 month period Beth developed as an individual. As well as gaining an insight into the Australian way of life (as we did into the United States ways of things) she gained confidence and assuredness through her experiences and travel within Australia and left us as a mature young lady.

Certainly at the airport her parents would have had to look twice at the slimmer, tanner and blonde "new look" version.

We were very glad to see and welcome back from Denmark outgoing student Janelle Munns. The club was favoured with regular dispatches from Janelle and we always looked forward to hearing about her progress overseas. One exception might have been Secretary Darryl who invariably came upon a few Danish tongue twisters whilst reading out her letters!

Janelle too has benefited greatly from her experiences under the programme and she gave us a first hand account complete with coloured slides shortly after her return. We have been fortunate to have a student of the calibre of Janelle as our first outgoing exchange student and I thank her for being such a fine representative and ambassador for us all.

My sincere thanks go to current President Leo Desmond and his good wife Jane, to past President Dave Roseby in his capacity as Counsellor and to his good wife Sue, to host parents Peter and Lynne Chinnery, Ray and Helen Carter, Darryl and Carole Hood and Graeme and Lyn Bosanquet who all gave so unselfishly of their time.

My thanks go to Cec and Noelene Munns, for their assistance during the programme, to Cec also in his capacity as Principal of John Paul College and to all members of the teaching staff and student body at the College who assisted Beth and made her welcome.

Finally a thank you to the members of my committee and to all club members for their support during the year which included amongst other things a successful International Service night at Juanitas restaurant in October last year.

Chris Monahan

Vocational Service Report 1984-85

Our first project for the year was a careers night at Shailer Park High School for the students who would enter the work force in the more labour intensive positions, we had 33 different types of occupations catered for. I feel that the people who gave freely of their services for this night need to be given a little bit of a rundown of what is expected of them so as they can give their best to the students as a lot are at a loss to know where to start when telling a student about their occupation.

Our next visit was to go through an optical factory but due to illness of the owner on the night it was cancelled. However, Ray Carter came to our rescue with a tour of his factory and showed us the new computerised garment controlled assembly line, which saves a lot of operator time. Many thanks to Ray for stepping in at short notice to give us this tour. We then went to the Paddington Hotel for a seafood meal afterwards, this finished off a good night.

The final tour of the year was to the Fourex Brewery this was not as good as usual as half the plant was closed down. However, we learnt that light beer is half of their production and the 2% beer is fast catching up.

The final project for our committee this year is to interview students from our local high schools for the 1986 summer science school to be held in Canberra on January 11th to 25th, 1986. We expect to interview three to four from each of our high schools and pass on two to districts there. There are only eight allowed from our district so we hope to get one of ours in.

I would like to pass on my thanks to all of my committee members for all their help in the past year and the encouragement to meet our achievements.

Peter Chinnery

Rotaryannes Report 1984-85

The past year has been quite an active one. Last October the Rotaryannes provided lots of cakes, preserves and other goodies for the cake stall at Daisy Hill Shopping Centre, making a profit of $222. We were pleased to supply some educational toys to our local Women's Refuge with $150 of these funds.

On November 16th we held a Fashion Parade and Cheese and Wine Supper at Shailer Park High School by kind permission of the Principal Mr Kel Barnes. Several businesses from the Loganholme Shopping Centre contributed towards making this a very successful evening. Well known personality Di Cant compared the Fashion Parade and even Father Christmas made an appearance. The profit of $713 from this event was passed over to the Treasurer of the Club to be put towards the Community Project of a replacement car for our local Blue Nursing Service.

I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you very much to all the Rotaryannes for their tremendous support and assistance during the past year. Also for the fellowship at the various homes kindly offered for our meetings.

I wish Helen all the best and hope she enjoys her Year as much as I have enjoyed mine.

Jane Desmond

A History of Infiltration (1984-85)

While all Rotary clubs are expected to conform to a basic set of rules and guidelines as laid down by Rotary International, each club develops its own character and is therefore different from all others. Some members of our Club would have you believe that we have become the legitimate front organisation for a militant section of the anti-smoking lobby.

As is often the case with the infiltration of organisations by small, hostile but well-organised groups, it's only when you look back with the benefit of hindsight that you realise when the earliest changes started.

Apart from the odd peeved, aside from President Leo about increased tar and nicotine levels in the air he was forced to breathe, the first serious salvo from the "guerilla" group was on a financial front. President Leo mentioned that if the average smoker with the average mortgage on his house were to spend his cigarette money on repayment of his mortgage, it would reduce the term by some 40%. The serious smokers didn't even bat a smoke-irritated eyelid at this revelation! Phase two of the campaign involved the implementation of a no-smoking period at meetings. The restrictions were starting to bite!

Encouraged by President Leo, other members declared their houses and cars to be smoke-free zones. The number of ashtrays at meetings were surreptitiously reduced. Cures (eg acupuncturists) were touted at meetings.

Riding a groundswell of success, President Leo declared the present situation regarding the smokers to be "the end of the beginning, not the beginning of the end".

The cynics among the smokers have noted that the incoming President and President Elect are both non-smokers!!

Don Dellit
(non-aligned non-smoker)