15th April Meeting - IFYS

Chair

Deborah

Visitors
Guest speaker Helen Brafield & Tony
Steven Smith, Stuart’s guest
Hans Hartel, President RC Jimboomba
Anthony Pignato

International Toast

Darryl broke the normal protocol and listed some important Rotary “firsts”

•• The first Rotary club meeting was in Chicago, Illinois, on February 23, 1905.

•• The first regular luncheon meetings were in Oakland, California, chartered in 1909

•• The first Rotary convention was in Chicago in 1910.

•• The first Rotary club outside of the United States was chartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in 1910

•• The first Rotary club outside of North America was chartered in Dublin, Ireland, in 1911

•• The first Rotary club in a non-English-speaking country was in Havana, Cuba, in 1916

•• The first Rotary club in South America was chartered in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1918.

•• The first Rotary club in Asia was chartered in Manila, Philippines, in 1919.

••The first Rotary club in Africa was chartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1921.

•• The first Rotary club in Australia was chartered in Melbourne in 1921

and which was the first club to have women members Darryl?
OOPS! and Darryl cops a rap over the knuckles 

Apologies
Judy, Lyn. Bruce, Neil, Helen, Noel, Ron & Bernie, Gerry, Ian

Makeups 
Alan (many times) for the Lighthouse Centre bus garage construction

Presidents Report
Alan needs help with the shed.

Libby’s memorial was well attended by the Club.  Alf passed on his thanks on behalf of the family

We’ll have Christmas in July with Cal Pac at Meridan State College

RUSCCF Joint Meeting May 21st
Darryl will have 21 Ugandan Rotarians in town and if the program works out they may attend.

Think about how to distribute our surplus monies to worthy causes - coming up soon!

Carols on Kings - Ross & Tony from Cal Pac and Deborah met with Council.  Council would supply $30,000/year and two people to help for the three year contract.  Cal Pac is keen.  Deborah would hand out the jobs (Don’t you worry about that).  Event to be family orientated.  We could earn money from commercial vendors.  Events Centre would be made available in case of rain.  We need a resounding “yes” from the Club to move forward.  Costs of fireworks raised.  RC Ashgrove do a similar event which could be a model.  The submission is due at the end of the month.

Speaker
Iain introduced Helen and Tony from IFYS (Integrated Family and Youth Services) Helen is Regional Manager for Southern Qld. Their Management & Administration is in Warana.  They started in the 1980s and now have 250+ staff.  They have child protection services - 300 families helping and they are looking for more.  Children are wards of the State or under justice orders. 

Helen spoke about the children as being “so damaged for so long” and the need for them to re-engage with society with a dependable framework around their lives.

She is obviously dedicated to her work and brings a structured business approach to the service.  She also spoke at 100mph and I had little hope of keeping up with my notes.  The images, from the film she presented and her Powerpoint presentation, give a good indication of the scope of their work.  We ended up with 30 seconds for questions.

 

love a good pie diagram!

Directors
Pauline noted that the publicity for the Golf Day somehow morphed into Cal Pac’s article about the Trivia Night. (see earlier in the Blog)

Julianna passed on the sad news of Susan Ward’s suicide.  Susan helped with cleaning up litter in Dicky Beach and had donated change she had found to Rotary.

Ann promoted the RUSCCF Joint Meeting - guest speaker is from PNG.

Visiting Rotarian, Hans Hartel, President of RC Jimboomba, spoke to me about their efforts to attract women members to their Club.  After a brief chat with Pauline he didn't think it was so much of a problem.