The Club had a slight change of format for our Zoom Club meeting last Monday. Members were randomly broken up into small groups of around six members to have a chat among themselves on a less formal basis before rejoining with all the members at the meeting to continue in the usual format. We will trial this for a few weeks to see how it goes.

 

Some matters of interest were raised at the meeting:

 

Again our new sergeant Steve Wylie entertained us with an on-line quiz which was all about our mental age - there were some interesting results.

 

Note about the above photo:

 

In the photo above is Holgar Knaack and his partner Susanne, who is the  Rotary International President for 2020-21. Holgar is a long time member of a German Rotary Club and the theme he has adopted for his year is Rotary Opens Opportunities

 

No Holgar and Susanne did not attend last Monday's meeting but it is worthwhile showing their photo. As the Club is meeting via Zoom there is a shortage of photos from the Club meetings to include in the Bulletin.

 

 

David Shave, one of the Canterbury RC's newer members, gave a very informative "member behind the badge" presentation last Monday evening.

 

David has been a Rotarian for many years at a number of Clubs and also been President three times - he clearly has great leadership skills as was evident during his presentation given the number of senior roles he has played in large organisations and also having his own successful business.

 

We did not hear much about David as a child as his story started when he left school at the age of 16 with the aim of becoming a farmer. After four years as a farm hand, David had a significant change in direction and moved to Melbourne to commence a career is selling. He subsequently spent ten years working for the National Cash Register company. There were major developments during David's time at NCR with computing becoming more to the forefront and the connectivity between cash registers and main frame computers. He was sent to the USA for training at a young age and this assisted his rise through the organisation to take on a senior role in Sydney.

 

In the late sixties David joined a recruitment firm which his father had established. He returned to study and completed a graduate diploma in human resource management.  David took over the business and road the journey of successes of the business and several serious challenges and eventually retired in 2008.

 

During David's working career he has  been on many industry committees and held the President's position on a number of occasions. It was clear that David is an organiser, a believer in the strength of committees and someone who follows through having been awarded three life memberships.

 

Thank you David for sharing just a small part of your life story with us.

 

 

 

Our speaker next week is former District Governor Bronwyn Stephens.

 

Bronwyn is well know to the Club as she has visited many times and been part of FORaMEAL events.

 

She will speak to us about a project providing assistance by way of care packages at the Alfred Hospital. She will also take the opportunity to provide an update on Rotary matters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

District 9800 recently asked each Club to formally sign off that they had adopted several District policies that have been developed/revised over recent times.

 

These policies are:

 

The Board discussed these policies at the Board meeting last Monday and is following-up with District seeking clarification on one particular item.

 

There will be further discussion at the next Board meeting. 

 

To inform the members about the policies, most of which have been mentioned at various times and in communications to members previously, it is proposed to have a process to present about the policies by: