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The Rotary Club of Mosman Bulletin
Vol. 54, No. 36 for meeting on April 28, 2015
April Is Magazine Month
Today we are having a Fellowship meeting in the Terrace.
President Mark and Liz Alderson are back from their trip to Japan.
There was an article in the Mosman Daily last week about how a young girl who
became homeless at 13 turned to Taldumande in North Sydney 4 years later. She
was put up in a refuge and now has a home of her own. She now works two jobs and
is doing a Diploma in Business and Event Management. The article mentions our gala
dinner in support of Taldumande Youth Services. – Clare
Acting President
and PE Ward Pollard
presenting Rtn Steve
Carroll with a cheque
from the Club for
$500 for the Rotary
Ride
Around
Australia
Against
Malaria appeal.
Malaria is not
a distant and remote
disease, and it is a
growing
problem
throughout tropical
countries and moving
south from Papua
New Guinea as the
conditions
change
allowing the spread of the anopheles mosquito and the spread of malaria.
Dorene and Steve Carroll had experienced the devastation of contracting malaria
while on an adventure holiday. In 1989 Steve took their 1-year old daughter Michelle
on a trip to Sabah in Borneo - the kind of trip so many young Australians do now to
malaria-infected countries. Two weeks later fever struck both of them. Just three
months later after being evacuated to Australia she lost the battle. Over the years
Steve has suffered 3 primary infections and 4 relapses.
Steve and a fellow retired soldier Grahme Rayner want to honour Michelle’s memory
and raise money for the fight against malaria. Their Rotary Club of Williamtown Inc.
have organised the Rotary Ride Around Australia Against Malaria (RRAAAM) which
left Newcastle on March 1, travelling around Australia in 54 days on motorcycles.
Few people are aware that malaria, the third most lethal disease in the world, could
enter our country at any moment. They are raising much needed funding to
implement a pilot program of malaria eradication in a selected area of PNG. The trial
is based on the format used in Timor Leste where, in just 8 years, the number of
cases has reduced from 223,000 to an incredibly low 1,042 reported cases.
Doug Handside from the R C of Vientiane, Lao, is also participating. His club is also
helping us with our water sanitation project in Lao. Hugh Hamlyn-Smith’s club of
Lindfield is also helping out.
Charlie Barnett, Steve Carroll, Hugh Hamlyn-Smith, Grahme Rayner & Doug Handside
YOUTHFUL PURSUITS:
Pierrick and Pedro went on an awesome trip with Barry to Tasmania. They really
enjoyed travelling there and went on a coach trip from Hobart to Port Arthur and
other places. They drove back along the Great Ocean Rd. After he came back,
Pedro’s family took him to the Waratahs game. John and Sandra Nelson took the
boys to an Italian restaurant for a delicious dinner one night.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY: 28th April – Margaret Kenny;
8th May – Angeline Low; 10th May – Geny Leal; 12th May – Judy Carroll
COMING EVENTS:
Wednesday, 29th April: TALDUMANDE FUN(d)RAISING GALA DINNER 6:30 for 7 pm
Monday, 4th May: Dinner at Mosman Club followed by 2 workshops. 6:30 for 7 pm
Tuesday, 5th May: No regular meeting
Tuesday, 12th May: Noel Phelan: The epic battle between Sydney and Kormoran.
Our RYLArians! Jackson Fitzpatrick, Youth Director Rob Hamilton, and Liam Painter
Liam Painter does IT Support for a shipping company, having completed his BSc last
year. He is Venturer Leader with 1st Mosman Scouts and is with Rovers as well. He
felt that at RYLA he learned more about leadership but also about himself as a person
to help develop his leadership and team building skills in any future endeavours.
Jackson is doing a bachelor of International and Global studies at Sydney Uni. He
works part-time with AIME – Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience during uni
and with CAYLUS (Central Australian Youth Link-Up Service) in uni holidays.
He initially met the idea of going to a weeklong camp with 70 leaders with hesitancy.
Before the week began he set himself three goals: to get out of his comfort zone,
engage with all of the people at the camp, and to come away with something that he
could directly apply to his own leadership.
The first day was based on Leadership and Negotiation. They were divided into
‘nations’ and had to exercise international relations in a sort of model United
Nations. Initially, being over-talkative and confident, Jackson was elected to be
president for his assigned country. At some point he had to leave his country for a
while and on his return played more of an observer role. After further discussions
with the facilitators it became clear that leadership isn’t always about being the one
at the front of the room talking. Leaders know when not to speak, when to allow
others to stand up.
Another lesson learned was how to give constructive criticism. Through an
empowering presentation by Les Watson, they had to positively criticise one other
(they had only known one other for less than 3 days!).
A third lesson was to never be afraid of opening a dialogue about mental illness with
the people you care about, in a safe space of course. Mental illness touches all of us
in different ways; we all either know someone close who has gone/is going through it
or have personal connections to it. An ex-RYLArian spoke, sharing her struggles with
the illness in a pathos-evoking story. It is okay to open a dialogue about mental illness
with those you care about.
These three lessons are very applicable in Jackson’s work and private life. So he
came away from the camp with new ideas about leadership. He also was able to be
outside his comfort zone in various scenarios as well, by sometimes not talking.
Liam said the fifth day was about Leadership in Crisis in various physically challenging
scenarios and the sixth day they put on a concert they had been planning all week.
The last day there was reflection and debriefing and a closing ceremony.
Both Liam and Jackson made lifelong friendships and networked with incredible
community leaders. They said they owe a massive thank you to Mosman Rotary
(and Jackson to his grandfather Dr. Ian Fitzpatrick) for sponsoring them. RYLA was
extremely beneficial and enjoyable. Liam quoted Lao Tzu: “A leader is best when
people barely know he exists; when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say:
We did it ourselves.” Jackson quoted the old saying, “Give a man a fish, they eat for a
day; teach a man how to fish, they eat for a lifetime,” They learned how to fish.
Please Advise Secretary Ward Pollard if you are an apology for the next meeting.
Attendance Desk Roster - 2015
April –Sharon Kerr and David Kerr
May – John Dean and Ward Pollard
June – Charlie Barnett and John Leslie
***Should you not be able to be on the desk on any of the nominated dates,
could you please arrange for another member to take your place.***
The Rotary Club of Mosman
Meets each Tuesday for Lunch at the Mosman Club, Military Road Mosman
12:30pm for 12:50pm
President – Mark Alderson
Secretary - Ward Pollard
P.O. Box 88 Mosman Australia 2088 Telephone: 0400 125 595/9439 4248
Email: secretary@mosmanrotary.org.au
Bulletin Editor – Clare Stockdale/Photos - Dominique Rabu
Visit our Website: www.mosmanrotary.org.au