The Meeting was opened by David Wallis
International Toast was given by Will Waterford to the Rotary Club of Waterford in Ireland - of course!
They meet every Monday from 1 - 2 pm, at the Tower Hotel, Waterford, located in the south east of Ireland in County Waterford! Their projects include a 25klm cycle ride, Film Night, Danish Student Exchange, Christmas Tree appeal and Golf Classic! They also have a “Sleepout” in their back gardens in Summer to raise funds for Waterford Helping Hand, a local charity. they also have senior's Pancake fun Day - the mind boggles!!!
Vocational Service by Eve McCorkell
First job on leaving school was with Bank of England in London in the Share Registry and then after moving to York, several months at the Army Barracks in the office, and with two young daughters while babies, worked as Barmaid at local pub in the evenings, then upgraded to evening receptionist at local Commercial Travellers Hotel.
On emigrating to Australia, I worked at Evans Deakin for 8 years - several different secretarial jobs (with Credit Controller, Data Processing Mgr. Financial Controller and Company Secretary). Then changed to Real Estate in the 80's boom time with rain and Horne, Mt.Gravatt. After deciding that I liked "selling", I applied to National Mutual and became an insurance salesperson - focusing on Superannuation and Income Protection, mainly for women ( it was a new thing back then). We also tried building an Australia-wide website called Accessall Australia, (back over 20 yrs ago) that had every business in Australia, state by state and region by region, but after a couple of years, we didn't have enough capital or financial support to continue. So we did some contact selling for a company who sold shipping containers and after 12 months started our own business Access Containers; after my husband died in 2014 I carried on and have seen it progress from just selling shipping containers to fully modified offices or living units etc.
A brief report from some of the Committees included -
- an update from Ross Harrison on the progress overseas with the Teachers accommodation etc.
- also a mention about the upcoming RYDA programme - Bruce Radford is looking for volunteers - please get in touch if you can help.
Riki Tiki run by Graeme Bowden and won by Win Fowles
Lots of lovely raffle prizes also won and some shared - yes, the chocolates!
Meeting finished at 7.29 pm - in time for the Special Gen. Meeting - the notes from this have already been sent to you all separately from Mike Healy.
