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From the President’s desk
14 November 2018
Hi all
Age and time
It is now mid-November, the busy season is commencing, with
approaching Christmas and the end of 2018. To me life is moving too
fast, I guess as you grow older the speed of time accelerates.
A big Sydney Rotary District?
Age and the speed of time were on the agenda, last Friday evening (
09/11/2018), at the District AGM and Presidents Meeting. District
Governor Sue, told us the average age of district members was 71.
Not sure on our Club, and I’m not there yet!. All efforts to
increase the District membership were not successful. The proposal
is for the two Sydney-based Districts merge and there be one
district. The benefits of such a change were presented, based on a
larger scale. Nevertheless. we are to vote on a proposal for a merge
in 2019. Not voting on the final merge, just an in-principle vote. I
hope as further information becomes available, it will be obvious
what is a winning “majority” in a Club plebiscite and a “majority”
in the District Club. An anomaly in the earlier re-districting of
Sydney clubs was the conversation with members of the splitting of
Wallacia-Mulgoa from its mother Club, Penrith. A problem from a
geographical north/south divide.
Armistice day
Armistice day was last Sunday. There were services throughout the
Nation, Rotarians Rod, Roger and Mayor Gulian, were at Davey Square
for Strathfield’s commemoration service. Myself - I was in church,
at St Anne’s Strathfield a little way up the road from Davey Square,
when mid-way through the service, there was a pause, prayers, and at
11.00 am, the church bell was rung, for a minute. I know it would
have been heard at Davey Square. The recessional organ piece played
at the end of the church service was
Men of Harlech.
Elsewhere Raymond has let me know the Rotary Club of Tumut organised
a town service, that occurred in the evening at 9.00pm, the time in
Europe when hostilities ceased in 1918. The
November issue of the Rotarian, has a full article titled “War
and Remembrance” and covers Rotarians and the Great War, in United
States and Canada. It is interesting to see covers of the Rotarian
when the United States enters the War. The article is well worth the
read and the cover is just as interesting.
Pride of Workmanship
Organisation for Pride of Workmanship is moving on, with Nick and
his committee doing a great job. Be there next week (21/11/2018) at
the Carnarvon Golf Club 6:15 for 7:00. This event is one of the
highlights of our Rotary year, where we match community and
vocational activities.
Charles |