Sunday 4 September 2016

Rotary Club of Maleny Bulletin for 7th September 2016

"THE RANGE"  Vol. 58 No.5
WEDNESDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER 2016

THIS WEEK'S MEETING
Maleny Hotel at 6:30 for 7:00pm with Guest Speaker Cathy Booth on Umoja Orphanage.

APOLOGIES
Apologies to Bernice before noon on Tuesday.

DUTY ROSTERS
                               7th Sep           21st Sep          5th Oct               
Duty Officer            Jim A               Lionel T            David F                       
Assist DO               Malcolm B        CL                   Angela G                
Registration            Bernice McL    John W             Rick V
Fellowship              Jeff C                Phillip S          Chris B
        
SAUSAGE SIZZLE ROSTER
10th Sep
Jim Atkinson  (Leader)  Bill Hankinson  David Fraser

24th September
John and Bernice McLennan (Leader)  Malcolm Baker

MINUTES OF LAST MEETING
In light of the recent untimely death of the founder of Ebenezer, Ranji Chara, Angela proposed an international toast to the Rotary Club of Livingstone
and to Ebenezer.

President Jeff welcomed DG Alan Stephens and Wife Sandy on their Official Visit to our Club, AG Ian Hope, and a couple of Partners. 

Lionel reported that the calendars are ready for sale and that he had been invited to a demonstration of the ‘Cave Visualisation’ unit at the University of the Sunshine Coast and that the Club has been offered a visit to this unique 3D teaching facility. 

Ric updated us on his goals for revitalising vocational service, referring us to the District Directory for details.

CL informed us that ‘Shed the Light’ had been accepted as a RAWCS Project. 

Chris mentioned that we have volunteered for the car parking at the opening of the Light Horse Museum and that the GG was expected to attend.

DG Alan commenced his presentation with a short video celebrating the 100 years of service of The Rotary Foundation and noted that we should be proud that four of the projects highlighted were from our District.  A brief history lesson followed of how what began as fellowship came to include service and how TRF came into being with a donation of $26.50 - the hope is that in November every Rotarian will contribute $26.50 to TRF to commemorate its 100th anniversary.

Alan then turned to the ‘power of one’ and cited the examples of Paul Harris, Arch Klumph, Ian Scott (ARH), Tom Henderson (ShelterBox), and our own Clem Renouf which led to an update on the polio campaign – Nigeria has been two years without a case but last week there were two, prompting a massive response from Rotary and our partners.  It is still a possibility that we will see the last case this year. 

He outlined his experiences on being invited to join Rotary, how networking had helped him immensely personally and in business, and how he developed a passion for our youth programs.  We were encouraged to attend at least one International Convention so as to experience the internationality of Rotary and he emphasised that among NGO’s only Rotary had such
diversity and therefore the power to effect meaningful changes for the betterment of mankind.  Rotary is one of only two NGO’s that have a seat in the United  Nations.


The DG’s primary role is to support the Clubs of the District but he does have some goals of his own – to break down the barriers between Clubs and District, to encourage youth programs, and to empower his Team.  Alan concluded with an invitation to attend the District Conference ‘Empowering Rotarians to Serve Humanity’ where the Sunday will be devoted to a ‘World Café’ structure so as to promote networking between Clubs to address the challenges facing us.  One major challenge being our aging membership – the average age of Australian Rotarians is now 71!

Sandy outlined her pet project – the School of Hard Knocks which is all about empowering the disadvantaged through the arts and has a very comprehensive website http://schoolofhardknocks.org.au/sohk/.   President Jeff presented her with a contribution from the Club.       

Michael thanked DG Alan and Sandy for their presentations and added a few comments on PRIP Clem’s difficulties in getting Clubs to work together so as to take on bigger projects like polio immunisation, International Conventions, International Assemblies and our passion for Rotary.

Pamphlets on our upcoming Melbourne Cup function were circulated then President Jeff reminded us of the vocational visit to Brouhaha Brewery on 31 August and closed the meeting. 

FUTURE MEETINGS & EVENTS
14th September
Board Meeting at the Masonic Hall.

21st September
Maleny Hotel at 6:30 for 7:00pm with Guest Speaker John Whiteman on Global Food Security and Madagascan Lemurs.

28th Sepember
Masonic Hall at 5:50 for 6:00pm for Club Assembly with cheese and biscuits.

5th October
Maleny Hotel at 6:30 for 7:00pm with Guest Speaker Mike Norman on the Light Horse Museum.

WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES FOR SEPTEMBER
4th John & Bernice McLennan  18th Andy & Mia Schouteten  28th Keith & Gloria Rogers

BIRTHDAY FOR SEPTEMBER
17th Judi Ross-Smith 29th Mia Schouteten

NOW FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT
FOR STUDENTS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

MANURE...  An interesting fact.

- In the 16th and 17th centuries, everything for export had to be transported by ship.

- It was also before the invention of commercial fertilizers, so large shipments of manure were quite common.

- It was shipped dry, because in dry form it weighed a lot less than when wet, but once water (at sea) hit it, not only did it become heavier, but a process of fermentation began, of which a by-product was methane gas.

- As the stuff was stored below decks in bundles, you can see what could (and did) happen. 

- Methane began to build up below decks and the first time someone came below at night with a lantern ...  BOOOOM!

- Several ships were destroyed in this manner before it was determined just what was happening.

- After that, the bundles of manure were always stamped with the instruction ' Stow high in transit ' on them.

- This instructed the sailors to stow it high enough above the lower decks so that any water that came into the hold would not touch this "volatile" cargo and start the production of methane.

- Thus evolved the term ' S.H.I.T ' , (Stow High In Transit) which has come down through the centuries and is in use to this very day.

- You probably did not know the true history of this word.

- Neither did I.

 
 


I had always thought it was a golf term.

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