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Mr Phillip Endersbee – Rotary Club of Melbourne.
Last Wednesday evening our guest Speaker was Mr Phillip Edersbee from the Rotary Club of Melbourne.
Phillip’s association with Rotary goes back some two decades.
His presentation focused around the history and important upcoming 100 years celebration of Rotary in Australian.
Phillip has a very successful and prominent business and associations, with being a past Director of the Fitzroy Football Club and also a Board Member of the Australian Wemons Cricket Association, for which the latter Phillip played a pivotal role in transforming women’s cricket in Australia from a fledgling Amateur Association to what we now see and an International Women’s Cricketing Association.
With the major upcoming event of the 100yrs Celebration of Rotary in Australia in 2021, the rotary club of Melbourne have developed a large number of celebratory events and projects. Further to the 2021 anniversary Phillip along with a number of fellow Rotarians hatched a plan to nominate for the 2023 Rotary World Congress to be held in Melbourne.
Phillip informed us of the enormity of the task and the many thousand of “man hrs. “ of research, collaboration, and planning with such organisation’s as the Melbourne City Council, Victorian Public Transport, the Vic Tourism Industry, just to name a few, to get to the point of the formulation of a submission and then presenting the proposal to The Rotary International Planning Board.
Thru their collective efforts and unbridling enthusiasm we are now fortunate to host the Rotary International Convention in 2023 in our home city of Melbourne Australia.
Phillip also provided us with his, what one might say, his first passion, that being Sailing. Phillip and sailing goes back to his teens and his love and passion for this exciting and challenging saw him crewing on the winning yacht, Wild Rose in the Sydney to Hobart this milestone achievement saw Phillip sail with his life long friend mate Mr Roger Hickman.  Welcome to our newest Member - Mr Rod BirdRod Birt is a Property Manager who has recently joined Nicholas Lynch Real Estate. Discovering a new career/passion in the fast growing Rentals Team with having over 25 years experience as a Project Manager with operational and customer service skills in both Manufacturing and Exhibition & Events Industries. Rod provides an eye for quality & detail while problem solving and offers professionalism to the management of your properties believing in exceptional customer service to both landlords and tenants. |
