The meeting was opened by Meeting Sergeant – Geoff Leddy

 

 

Guest speaker Sandy and Win Fowles’ daughter Libby; past members as guests, Marilyn Harris and Trevor Steel

 

International toast – Noel Bates

Rotary Club of Anaconda Montana USA, District 5390

Female President/Treasurer Meeting Tuesday lunch at midday

Copper smelter / Tallest single standing building – smoke stack 585’ (170m)

~9000 population

Projects – community/Christmas gift delivery present to 0-18y olds/safe escape for DV victims/scholarships/Rotary Park/community cleanup/painting/youth club/dictionary to all Year 3 students/civil projects

 

** Trivia fund raiser 6 March – sweets provided, no dinner/Peter Hovey to write and present questions and MC - Don’t forget to get your tables of 8 together for the ROMAC Trivia Night, Greig has already sent out the flyer with details.

** Cedric Gowlett is feeling his age and spent Christmas in SCUH because of a walking disability.

** Brian Mason is very grateful for wheelie – Lyn Mason sent a thank you card.

** Les told a fishing joke about frogs and a brown snake, AGAIN.

** Allen Morgan noted that the Club Runner App are different information to Club Runner on the browser regarding member details and would like photos put up of all members.

** Jacqui spoke about the fun social night at Moffat Beach Brewery to start the year off. We had 2 teams - The Simple Minds team came 4^th and Rotators came 6^th  - great result.

 

Libby Harrison, (Win Fowles’ daughter) spoke about her Add Lib company where actors roleplay scenarios to assist with training professionals such as medical doctors, military personnel, police etc in simulated situations. The actors are generally acting as patients.

 

 

Add Lib is Affiliated with Griffith Uni.   Lucy, Libby’s daughter, (who spoke at our club meeting) was also involved in acting when she was a 7 year old

 

  

Tell me and I forget
Teach me and I may remember
Involve me and I learn
To create better doctors and support their medical training

Libby has been working with Griffith Uni for 11 years – surveys of actors suggest they stay involved not for the pay but because of the warm fuzzy feeling they get being involved – the ‘kick’ they got out of the job was the best value in the job.

Eg how to break bad news to a patient

Specialty – sex health/body areas include respiratory and gastro

Patients are pretend

Why do they use actors? – role play – not popular with students/students too familiar with each other/too much medical jargon used – but actor will ask questions as don’t understand jargon

Role play with peers – doesn’t work as they are too familiar with each other

Realism v educationalism

Training:

Provides safe environment if situation doesn’t go well

Debrief actor as they have been told all day they have a bad diagnosis

Medical Doctors get counselling on situation. Goal (not medical feedback):

Trainers:

Military and police are trained to be forceful!

 

   

After this very informative topic, we then went to our Fines session and collected a few dollars from most members.

Raffles were also distributed to winners and chocolates shared.

 

 

Any ideas about vocational visits would be welcome – a local business or organization that it would be good to know more about.

 

I need to have a committee to help organize Broadway in the Hangar end of August – the date is booked with QAM and Underground Opera, but we need sponsors and raffle prizes as well as any new ideas to make sure that it is another successful event.   Thanks Eve

 

THURSDAY’S MEETING – please RSVP if you haven’t already! Topic is Housing Older Women's Support Service - Tegan Haslam (Co-Ordinator), accompanied by Kylie Lowe and Bonnie Lynn.

 

I think you are always up for a challenge, SO HERE IS ONE FOR YOU TO DO WHILE IN Mount Gambier

 On 28 July 1864, Australian poet and horseman Adam Lindsay Gordon made his famous daredevil ‘leap’ alongside the Blue Lake at Mount Gambier.

He jumped his horse Red Lancer over a post-and-rail guard fence beside the Blue Lake and landed on a small 1.8 metre ledge, with a 60 metre drop to the water, then jumped back on to the road.

 

   

Then on 11 May 1934, Adam Lindsay Gordon was accorded the greatest literary honour when His Royal Highness the Duke of York unveiled his bust in Poets’ Corner at Westminster Abbey.

the only Australian to be so honoured.  In 1970, Gordon was honoured on a postage stamp bearing his portrait issued by the Australia Post. On 20 September 2014, Gordon was inducted into the Australian Jumps Racing Association's Gallery of Champions.   A suburb In Canberra, Australia's capital, is named Gordon in his honour.

 

The last time I was in Mount Gambier, I achieved the same feat as Adam Lindsay Gorden but without the horse!

No reply needed, Just a photo will suffice as prove to show us all when you return that it can be done.