Maleny Rotary Bulletin Vol 53 No 11 for 14 September 2011

"THE RANGE" The Rotary Club of Maleny Inc Bulletin Vol. 53 No. 11
Wednesday 14th September 2011

THIS WEEK’S MEETING
Maleny Hotel at 6:30pm for 7:00pm with Guest Speaker Chelsea Large on "Adventure in Citizenship."

APOLOGIES
Please tender meal apologies to Geoff Coughlan by noon Tuesday.

DUTY ROSTERS
                            14th Sep             21 Sep                28 Sep
Duty Officer         Rick V                Angela G             Bill H
Registration         John McL           Chris B                Tony H
ADO & Scribe      Bernice McL       Roly N                 Rick V
Fellowship           Karen B              John W                Jeff C

 SAUSAGE SIZZLE ROSTER
17th September
Greg Stevens (Leader)   Brian Doyle    Dave Edmonds    Charlotte Golding

1st October
Michael Gregory (Leader)  Sherryl Gregory   Karen Binstead     Rick Vickers

LAST WEEK’S MEETING

President Greg opened the meeting by introducing our guest IPDG Eric Wood and asking him to address the members.  Eric presented the Club with several copies of a magazine entitled ‘Humanity in Motion’ which outlines the many facets of RI activities throughout the world. He requested that members take copies & distribute them throughout the community.

A highlight of the night was the presentation by Eric to Chris Brooker of an award entitled ‘Club Builder Award’. This award is approved by the President of RI and is given to only one Rotarian per district per year for outstanding service to Rotary – well done Chris - you’re our District's top bloke in 2010/11.  This must be one of the very few occasions that the recipient was lost for words!


Directors’ reports informed us that Bike Ed will be conducted next week (numbers please to Chris), that the 5th Wednesday of any month will be a partners’ night, that Interact raised $1,000 at their Bunnings sausage sizzle last weekend, $500 of which will help defray the costs of sending 2 students to the NYSF experience. Our Christmas party will be held December 14th and that a Club Assembly is scheduled for 21st September.

Deb L. gave a very interesting talk on her involvement with youth activities both in Montana & Maleny. She came from a large family of 12 children & devoted much of her time in Montana to working with children with special needs – 3 years were spent in a kindy environment and 6 in a high school addressing youth education. She is heavily involved with our Interact Club & is delighted that membership numbers have climbed from 6 three years ago to 22 in 2011. She praised the efforts of the Interact members & finished by saying that many of them in time would make great Rotarians.

The meeting closed with PDG Eric encouraging members to give a thought to attending the RI Convention in Thailand in 2012.

FUTURE MEETINGS & EVENTS

12th to 16th Sep  Bike Ed at Maleny State School. 

21st Sep  Club Assembly - venue to be announced.

28th Sep  Maleny Hotel with RYPEN as the topic.

10th Oct  Relay for Life

BIRTHDAYS FOR SEPTEMBER

18th  Annie S       29th  Mia S

WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES FOR SEPTEMBER

4th  John and Bernice    18th  Andy and Mia     28th  Keith and Gloria

NOW FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT

FROM OUR EDUCATION CORRRESPONDENT

To mark Deb's talk last week, here are some classroom questions and answers.

TEACHER:     Maria, go to the map and find North America   .
MARIA:          Here it is.
TEACHER:     Correct.  Now class, who discovered America ?
CLASS:          Maria.
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TEACHER:    John, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor?
JOHN:           You told me to do it without using tables.
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TEACHER:   Glenn, how do you spell  'crocodile?'
GLENN:        K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L'
TEACHER:   No, that's wrong
GLENN:        Maybe it is wrong, but you asked me how I spell it.   
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TEACHER:    Donald, what is the chemical formula for water?
DONALD:     H, I ,J ,K, L ,M ,N, O
TEACHER:    What are you talking about?
DONALD:     Yesterday you said it's H to O.   


11 September 2011