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Rotary International President: Charles Keller
District Governor: Ron Smith President: Ian West Theme: Rotarians - United in Service - Dedicated to Peace Board Of Directors 1987 - 88 President Ian West Committees 1987 - 88 CLUB SERVICE Peter Chinnery - Club service director Attendance Gil Lunn VOCATIONAL SERVICE Vic Promering - Vocational service director Committee members - Graeme Bosanquet COMMUNITY SERVICE Noel Ambler - Community service director I have pleasure in submitting for your consideration my president's report for the Rotary Club of Loganholme for the year ending 30 June, 1988. At the outset I would like to pay tribute to the presidents who have gone before me. I can now say I know with what they had to contend in making this club work effectively. I am particularly grateful to Paul Harris Fellow, past President Peter Chinnery for his personal support and practical assistance at a particular time during the past year when I badly needed a friend and just the sort of practical support Peter has the unique ability to provide. At this stage I must also pay tribute to Rotarians Randal Dennings and Bill McGuire - respectively the secretary and treasurer during the past twelve months - for their energy and enthusiasm. Their effectiveness in carrying out their duties was an indispensable ingredient in the good running of the club over the past year. I know that secretaries and treasurers are often taken for granted and that their work is often undervalued by those who have not been a secretary or treasurer. Randal and Bill, please accept my thanks for carrying out your onerous duties so well. Another unsung hero I should single out for special mention is the club registrar for the past twelve months, Rotarian Gil Lunn. Gil was reliable and efficient and his work was, I suspect, unappreciated by most of the club. Thanks Gil. Of course, some others also made positive contributions to the club, whilst some others again made some not-so-positive contributions. It is not practical to mention everybody who had an input into the club. However, in any event, my thanks goes to those who gave me their loyalty and contributed to the success of the club during the year. The clubs membership has been maintained at 26 members. We lost two members during the year because of their work commitments and I had the great honor of inducting two new members, Rotarians Bob Cramp and Mike Roberts. This indicates to me that, despite what some critics tried to make out during the year, the club has maintained its appeal. However, this leads me to the comment that, I would have liked to have seen more projects carried out and more funds raised during my year as president. The projects that were carried out were of a commendable nature and well work the effort as can be seen from the service directors' reports. I believe if the club can get its service committees to meet regularly at least monthly away from independently of the board and dinner meetings in a vital and self-motivated fashion without having to be pushed and prodded on a constant basis, the club has the talent within its membership to become one of the leading clubs of District 963. I know that all Rotarians have heard of the Polio Plus Campaign and I presume most of the guests here tonight know that Rotary's Polio plus Campaign aims to eliminate polio and certain other diseases from the world well before the turn of the century. I am pleased to be able to announce that our club has donated $2000 to the Polio Plus Campaign this past year. Finally I would like to thank my Rotaryanne, Denise for her hard work with the Rotaryannes. I know she has put her hear and soul into the tasks which befell her because she happened to be the president's wife. Ian West Club Service Report Club members at the commencement of the 1987/88 year was 26. During the year two members were lost through resignation, which was balanced by the induction of two new members. Club membership currently stands at twenty-five and one honorary member. The club after deliberation decided to honour Huan Fraser with honorary membership in light of his commitments, which did not enable him to fulfill normal membership requirements. The economic climate during the past twelve months has not been comforting and to some degree has been a contributing factor to the clubs rather low average attendance percentages. However, at this time a more prosperous outlook is evident, which should strengthen attendance percentage and club membership in the future. Activities of the club during the year were: Club breakfast meetings 1 Club Service Committee may be regarded as the engine room of Club organization in this regard special thanks is offered to Charlie Parson, Steve Smith, and Ray Carter, for their efforts in producing the Club Bulletin. Ray Carter and his Corporal Bob Moses carrying out their duties as Sergeant at Arms, as a stand in for Stan. A special thanks to Gil Lunn for his sterling service as Club Registrar and attendance officer, and for his organization of a memorable visit to Belmont shooting range. The term of 1987/88 Club Service Committee is concluded and best wishes go to incoming President Stan and his directors for 1988/89. Dave Roseby Through Community service the club undertook a number of projects over the past year. It is always difficult to place the projects in order of importance, as each serves different needs. However as community service director I felt the project to construct a toilet and shower for moto-Nuerone disease suffer Norm Lintern as a most rewarding project. It aided a person and his family who were unable to gain assistance through "normal" channels. It helped him to continue to be independent and maintain his self esteem. As a club it was a project in which most members were involved by donating both their time and products to the project. Early in the Rotary year the Bus shelter Project was completed, with the installation of shelters in Bryants and Chatswood roads. However advertising is still being sought for two of our shelters. It gave all club members a great deal of pleasure to present Community Service Awards to deserving members of the community. Firstly to the tradesman who donated their time in assisting the club on the Norm Lintern project. Secondly to the two couples who for the past five years have provided supervised recreation every Saturday to the young people of Shailer Park. The Australia Day festival and the Beenleigh Mayfest provided the club with the opportunity to assist other organizations and service clubs, as well as raising funds for community service. Other activities for the year included, interviewing applicants for the 1987 State Youth Camp. This introduced the club to some very talented and hardworking young people, and ultimately led us to support Sally Dillon in going to Ohio U.S.A. to attend the World Wildlife conference. Our normal assistance to the Blue Nurses as individuals and to the Salvation Army on a club basis with their annual door knocks. My appreciation to all club members who assisted on the various projects, and I trust support and help to my successor will be even greater in 88/89. In conclusion it must be said that opportunities to serve community needs are always available, unfortunately for a small club such as ours motivation and manpower are not. Noel Ambler 1. FINAL REPORT INTERNATIONAL SERVICE It was early in the year decided to direct our finances mainly towards Polio Plus, instead of an IPEC Project, as we did in previous years. 2. EXCHANGE STUDENTS - OUTBOUND Tamar Schell, who left in January 1987, returned home in January 1988, with having had a very exciting experience. Her main objective, to improve her Japanese, was definitely successful, and she managed to obtain between all the social activities, a Black Belt in KANDO. Tamar is now studying at Queensland University. This year (1988) we selected Ann McCarthy, as outbound students to Brazil, and she has settled in well, according to her father, (John McCarthy). Our Inbound student, Pernilla Wall, from Sweden, arrived in August, 1987, and at this point in time, has enjoyed her home stay with three families. Pernilla will return to Sweden in July 1988, and has just finished an exciting three weeks on Safari, in North Queensland. We also hosted Pernilla's parents, and grandparents, during their visit to Australia. GROUP EXCHANGE In April, we accommodated a group from Canada, for periods of four days, and starting with a B.B.Q. at Neil MacLeods residence, after which, we set off with four busy days. 3. 1987/1988 ROTARY FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP With July 15 as closing date for the selection of students for the Rotary Foundation Scholarship, three candidates were interviewed, and Peter Lust, a Registered nurse, at the Royal Brisbane Hospital, Intensive Care unit, was nominated by our club, and was selected for a 1988/89 Scholarship, for a course in specialised nursing techniques at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, Burnaby in Canada. Peter will be leaving later this year. I would like to thank my fellow Rotarians who have participated
in various interviews, and selections, and help to make this a successful
year. Rural Liaison Committee Proposed Rotary Unemployment Co-ordination Project LOGAN
CITY. We have been asked, by Council to oversee and co-ordinate. 'Job Search'. The Venue, materials and expertises to cater for this program will be funded by the Council, Commonwealth Employment Services, Albert and Logan news and 4BH. With a mandate to provide the following: 1. To teach year 10 students. How to search and apply
for a job and how to handle the subsequent interviews. Much of the work has been completed, which now only needs the O.K. from Eddie Seabrook at Council. It would also be advantageous to Rotary and the project to invite Eddie, subject to his acceptance, to be a guest Speaker regarding this subject. Roger Knight ROTARYANNE'S REPORT Looking back upon this Rotary year the Rotaryannes have had quite an active year, which has been beneficial to both the club and the wider community. We had six meetings during the year and our end-of-year party will be held on Wednesday, 29 June at the Denning's. My emphasis during the year was on helping those less fortunate than ourselves and the community at larger. We kicked the year off in a fun way with a Soup and Slippers Tupperware Party that was very well attended. It was great to see all the Annes enter into the spirit of the night, partaking of the beautiful soups and "wearing their slippers". It was a tremendously successful night and it triggered off a Swains', a barbecue at the Wests' and the final one at the Dennings'. My special thanks go the Carole Hood for her assistance in organizing her night, her beautiful soups and her hospitality; and to Joy Swain for her fun "Italian Night". Our other meetings covered quite a cross-section of activities: and "Ideas For The Year" meeting; 2 guest speakers - Lenore Earle from PACT (Protect All Children Today), speaking on child abuse and Denise Teys who left us more informed on the finer points of pottery making and painting; a Christmas Party; and, a Nutri-Metics Night. The family barbecues held in November at the Schells' property was a great success. It was terrific seeing so may Rotarians, Rotaryannes and their children catching up on their quota of exercise hitting that fluffy, yellow ball around the tennis court. Peter and Adriana, we enjoyed your hospitality very much. Our special projects aimed at helping the community were two flea market visits in November and February, and a fashion parade in April. With a broad range of items donated by Rotary families and friends, Joy Swain, Adriana Schell, Elsie Parsons and I visited the Cannon Hill Flea Market in early November. The proceeds of $200 were given to three needy families in the Kingston-Woodridge area in the form of Christmas hampers. In February Joy Swain, President Ian and I went to Woodridge Flea Market with the left overs form Cannon Hill and a small amount of fresh donations. The $120 raised went towards sponsoring our Brazilian World Vision child and the remaining third of the annual sponsorship was taken from our accumulated funds. So, by cleaning out our cupboards we were able to raise these moneys from the public (instead of our own pockets) so we could in turn help four families more needy than ourselves. Thanks very much to each Rotary family (and friends) who donated items and very special thanks to Joy Swain for her hard work and her support with the flea market visits and our World Vision child. In April we held our Bi-Centennial Winter Fashion Parade at the historical Kingston Butter Factory. The proceeds of $500 were equally split between Rotary's Australian Health Research Fund for Cot Death Research and the new East Logan Citizen Youth Club for equipment. The ladies and bridal fashions were very kindly provided by Pam Easter's Daisy Hill and Wynnum "Daisy Chain" boutiques whilst the men's fashions were provided by the Woodridge branch of Miser Stores. For greater interest we had Pam Easter's and Randal Dennings as co-compeers and several Rotarian and Rotaryanne models. Dancers form the Louise Dulac Academy performed during the intermission and everyone who viewed the parade enjoyed it immensely. Many local businesses and private individuals supported the parade by donating afternoon tea items, raffle prizes, hire of the venue, crockery and chairs and printing costs; the most notable of these being the Clancy's Daisy Hill Supermarket, and Doug Ritchie's Allamanda Drive Daisy Hill Supermarket, Huan and Wendy Fraser for the venue hire and Charlie and Elsie Parsons for the printing of the parade tickets. I would particularly like to thank: Pam Easter for creating such an entertaining parade; President Ian for his support and assistance; Sue Roseby for her assistance with the catering; and the Rotarians for without their great support our parade would have been far less successful. Apart form being a productive year for the Rotaryannes, it was also quite a reproductive year. Both Sue Dennings and I "became" mothers, Sue in January with Rebecca Jane and myself in May with Robert Ian. However, Maree Bennett was one ahead of us. She became a grandmother twice in one month - in March her two daughters each had a daughter. In closing, I would like to express my immense gratitude to my husband for his tremendous support and assistance during the year. Well, it is over to you now, Maree and I sincerely wish you an enjoyable and fulfilling year.
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