Good morning my fellow Rotarians, well another beautiful day on the Mornington Peninsula 😳 and this issue of our Club Bulletin welcome's in another Rotary Year, and as we are all aware with that comes a fair few changes. Our New District Governor is Mark Humphries and also a swag of new appointments at District Level. On the " Home Front " our Club has undergone some changes to our Board and Directors but these changes are only minor with the majority of our major Club Appointments staying relatively the same as last year. We have Ross Kilborn at the helm as our Club President, Treasurer - John Parkinson, Secretary- Ian Horton, President Elect - Brian Mann, Immediate Past President - Ross Kilborn, and our Directors are Chair Community & Vocational - Peter Jay, Chair International & Foundation - Richard Vautier, Chair Youth - John Renowden, Board Member & Social Officer - Eileen Prudden , Public Relations- Brian Mann and Club Protection Officer - Fran Chambers. At our Board Meeting, last week, via ZOOM , our President welcomed all new appointee's and expressed his gratitude for all the efforts and diligent work done by all over the past year and with the new Mornington Rotary Club Board and Director's we should have another successful year in 2020/2021.
Our New DG
Hello Everyone,
Here we are at the start of a new Rotary year. A year that will see change. Past District Governor Adrian asked us all to Break the Changes, we did. Now I am asking you to Change. Our clubs need to change, we need to look at what we are doing and how we engage with our communities and each other. We need to be bold, International President Holger Knaak has asked you to challenge your thinking, how can you make you clubs more inviting, how can you better reflect your community needs and wants, how can you actively involve younger people in meaningful ways? Stop doing and stop saying, this is how we have always done it or we tried that once and it didn’t work. Times have changed, we need to change.
To help clubs adapt to new times and ways of doing things we have put together a team of people who want to help, a group of people with idea that they want to share with you. You are not alone, do not try an reinvent the wheel all the time, work with each, learn as a team, engage with other clubs in your cluster, be involved with projects outside our District, become a project driven club.
Your new team to help invigorate all areas of your Rotary club are ready to help, they wont tell you what to do. They will help you, lead you, give you ideas and importantly be involved with the process all along the way. Please make use of the team,
Social Evening
On Wednesday evening the 15th July 2020, our club will host its first face to face Social Event. Our Club President and Social Officer have combined to ' secure ' the Mornington Hotel Bistro for our first meeting, at a personal level, since cessation of all activities 124 days ago !!!! By now you should have seen the email that was promulgated last week in relation to this event. Should you have missed the correspondence, just a reminder that we will gather, as a Club, for a social evening with no Club Business, at the Mornington Hotel on the 15th July 2020 at 6;00pm. Should you wish to attend please drop a line via SMS or email to Eileen ASAP, as tomorrow evening will be the ' cut off " for acceptance's.
Next Club Meeting - Wednesday 08th July 2020 , via ZOOM
If available tomorrow evening please don't forget to "log-on " for our next Club Meeting, commencing at 6:00pm. This Meeting will see a Guest Speaker, from our members with Judy Seager presenting her Biography and an insight into her interest in our countries Indigenous Communities , and also Judy will present a brief presentation on her recent attendance at our Districts 9820 Avenue's of Service that was conducted last week. So please tune in and sit down with a glass of fine wine and join Judy for her Guest Speaker presentation. The Meeting ID is; 927 056 436 , and the Password is : 294331