President’s Report

21 March 2018



Last Week – the Great Debate

What a great spectacle the Great Debate – The Maurie Moroney Memorial Shield – was last week at our Club. It was a fine battle between two very strong teams, from Santa Sabina College and Meriden School. Santa Sabina College once again came out on top, winning by the slightest of margins, for their third consecutive year. Congratulations to the students and teachers at Santa Sabina, and well done for a great fight, from the students and teachers from Meriden.

Special thanks to our brand new adjudicator – Nick Hamilton-Kane. He did a wonderfully thorough and thoughtful job in assessing the performances of both teams, and I feel adjudicated accurately. Well done, Nick; you’ve secured that job for at least the next 20 years!

Also, special thanks to PP Raymond McCluskie for his expert running of the night, PP Peter Manenti for a brief history of the Shield, Bradley Ayres for all the great photos, Bill Carney for his expert time-keeping, PP Keith Byrn for his expert time-dinging, and all that came along to make it a great success.

Presidential Peace Building Conference

Well, the Australian leg of the Presidential Peace Building Conference was held at the Sydney Town Hall over the weekend. I wonder if any Strathfield Rotarians attended? I didn’t, but judging from some photos and stories I saw on Facebook (from other Clubs), it looked like a great event with over 500 officials and delegates in attendance. Great for our City; great for Rotary to promote peace in our world through such a wonderful conference.

RWHESCA Night Coming Up

It’s finally here, Paolo’s big night – this Saturday evening! I look forward to spending the evening with many Strathfield (and other Western Harbour) Rotarians as we honour local heroes from several NSW Emergency Services organisations. It will also give us a taste of our new meeting venue – Massey Park Golf Club. See you there. I’m sure it will be a great event.

This Week – Our Last Meeting Here

And so this time has also finally arrived – our last meeting ever in this venue, the (old) Strathfield Golf Clubhouse. We have had many great memories in this building, and have held many fine events and celebrations here over the past 12 years or so that we have been meeting here. In many ways, it will be sad to say goodbye to this place. Progress is progress though, and we all have to move with the times, making the most of whatever is thrown at us. I believe this is exactly how the ‘Club Move’ project team have approached this challenge, and we have a great venue option with Massey Park Golf Club. During this time the team will work through options and propose to us our next permanent meeting venue. Who knows, if we can strike the right deal, we may be back at Strathfield Golf Club, in the new Clubhouse. We’ll see.

So, don’t forget, we’ll be meeting at Massey Park from Wednesday, 28th March 2018, for at least three months.
 
Rick