Last week's Meeting & AGM

 
President Mike opened the meeting.
 
INTERNATIONAL TOAST:    Proposed by David Smith to the Rotary Club of Eureka, California. It was chartered in 1923 and the current president is Mathew Owen. They meet on Mondays at noon. They are renowned as having 100 Honorary members which include past presidents of the USA Bush, Carter and JFK.
 
VOCATIONAL MINUTES:   Cedric gave his presentation. He was born in Crows Nest near Toowoomba. He became interested in motor mechanics when a relative decided to fix some machinery and showed him how it was done. In 1952 he was called up to do his national service. He has spent 42 years as a motor mechanic and enjoyed every minute of it. He joined Rotary in 1978 after he was expelled from Jaycees. He was at the Britannia Garage at the bottom end of Bulcock Street for many years and from there set up his own garage in Grigor Street. In 1994 Manfred Klink came along and bought his business. His motto thought out his life has been to meet every challenge rather than pass it off.
 
VOCATIONAL SERVICE:    Barbara reminded us that the Pride of Workmanship Awards are on 24th November, a good role up for this important night would be appreciated be the recipients. On 2nd February will will have avocational visit to Parliament House hosted by Mark McArdle.
 
ROTARIAN of the MONTH:    Graeme Bowden was presented with the Rotarian of the Month Award for his commitment to the raffle every night.
 
HAPPY BIRTHDAY:   The club presented Graeme with a cake and sang happy birthday in honour of his 70th birthday!!
 
SECRETARY:  Don Wilkie advised the club that we will have a special presentation to Cynthia Morgan and John's family to honour John's 50 years as a Rotarian. 
 
SERGEANT:  Mark Paton did a great job as sergeant and had us in stitches with some of his jokes.
 
RIKI TIKI:  Greg Lee Archer asked the questions and Cedric was the lucky winner.
 
AGM:
Peter Higgs will be the incoming president.
 
Nominations were called for the following positions and the lucky winners were!!
President Elect:                 Vacant
Secretary:                           Don Wilkie
Treasurer:                          Brian Reith
Club Service:                     Ross Harrison
Community Service:       Kevin Leadbetter
International Service:      David Smith
Youth Service:                   Dan Thomason
Vocational Service:          Barbara Bailey
 
The auditors report was unavailable so this will be presented to the club when it becomes available.
AGM Meeting was closed.
 
CLUB ASSEMBLY:
  • Brian Mason advised that the ROMAC Trivia Night will be on 2nd March 2017. Also ROMAC has been granted $500,000 in global grants from RI.
  • International toast - there has been little response from clubs we toast to our electronic communication. It was hoped that our club responds in a timely fashion to any electronic communications.
  • Evelyn McCorkell will investigate a cocktail party or similar event to invite prospective members to come along to to find out about Rotary and Caloundra Pacific.
  • Any members free on December 5th at lunch time are encouraged to come along to Dicky Beach to meet the current inbound and outbound exchange students - all 34 of them.
  • It was suggested that board meeting decisions be published in the bulletin.
  • It was suggested that members commit  or respond to requests for volunteers in a timely fashion, whether it is positive or negative response. This will allow those organising events to plan more efficiently. It was suggested that requests be made in a similar fashion to the invite to each dinner meeting.
 
RAFFLE:   Was drawn.
 
CLOSE:     President Mike reminded us that the next meeting will be a board meeting - all are welcome to attend!!
He thanked all for attending and contributing to tonight's meeting and closed the meeting.
 
 
 
 
 
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