Wednesday 13 October 2010
The President's Column
Last week our guest speaker was Treska Roden, who is the founder of the Sydney College of Etiquette, and spoke to us about Etiquette in Business. Treska was introduced by Ian Johnson – and Ian’s notes on Treska‘s talk are reported elsewhere in this newsletter (and on our website).
This week our guest speaker will be Hayden Dando, who is a Perfusionist at The Children's Hospital at Westmead. Hayden Dando will talk to us about Operation Open Heart which was established in 1986 by a small group of hospital medical and nursing staff who travelled to Tonga. Since that first trip, Operation Open Heart has successfully changed the lives of over 2000 patients and their families in 80 different organised trips to 12 countries. Umesh Kamkolkar will introduce Hayden – and will tell us what a perfusionist does!
GSE Team visit: Please put 27th October in your diaries. It is hoped that a large number of Strathfield members – and their partners – will be able to attend the evening to hear the reports and experiences of the GSE members, led by PP David Ross (Parramatta City), who recently returned from Nova Scotia. As this will be a combined-club presentation we will be hosts to visiting Rotarians from Breakfast Point, Burwood and Concord clubs.
As both Burwood and Concord clubs have designated the visit a transfer night – and Breakfast Point have indicated a strong attendance – we are expecting some 60-70 visitors on the night it would be wonderful if Strathfield could have a “show of strength” on the night. The evening will be a great opportunity for the four clubs to network and perhaps continue to explore the possibility of joint projects. The recent joint funding of the container to Pakistan was a marvelious example of what can be achieved on a joint basis.
Why have a Weekly Duty Roster for our Club?
The obvious response to this question is that it aims to provide an opportunity, over time, for all members to become involved and have an active part to play in the conduct of our weekly meetings.
It is also predicated on the old adage that ‘Many hands make light work’ and fulfils in some small way the Rotary Motto of ‘Service Above Self’ at the Club level.
The Weekly Roster is drawn up at least three months in advance and published for the information of all members and the Newsletter and on our website provides a forward planning page for the next 4 or 5 weeks.
If you are unable to be present for meeting when you are rostered for duty, please arrange a swap with someone listed for that duty in future weeks and let the Bulletin Editor know of the swap.
Cowboy logic: “The easiest way to eat crow is while it is still warm. The colder it gets, the harder it
is to swaller”
President Pete
