1. The Official Bulletin of the Rotary Club of
Freshwater Bay Inc.
PO Box 168, Nedlands, Western Australia, 6909 District 9455 ABN: 99 602 195 617
Volume 4, Issue 21 25t h November - 2nd December 2011
Meeting 23rd November Community /Vocational ANZACS Tour
Meeting 30th November Meeting Ian Westoby
Club Christmas/Birthday Items for Hamper D. 3310 Fundraising Walk for
Function Pasta and Sauce for Manna Polio
Congratulations AG Simone Update on Microscopes Projects visited in Kota Kinabalu
New Members RF Matching Grant for Maiti Former Rotary Youth Exchange
Elham Teimouri Nepal Student
New Address for Gordon Hay Claremont Christmas Activity Attachment ‘IN THE CARDS”
Board Nominations Christmas dinner for the lonely Birthdays
Quiz Night
Meeting 23rd November pictures of the wild animals taken
while working with their partners Meeting 30th November
Dr. Helen Jones-Fairnie and PP in Africa. The Save Foundation is a
totally voluntary foundation. The Annual Address on the Rotary
Dr. Ian Fairnie from the RC of
Funds are raised through a variety Foundation, the Dr Ken Collins
Perth and Executive Director of
of events, trips and donations. All Address, will replace the regular
Service Abroad Australasia, spoke
funds raised are committed to meeting of the Club.
about the Save Foundation of
direct action on the ground in Members need to have registered
Australia. Ian has lead more than
Africa to support programs and and paid on line for this.
50 study tours to Asia, however
projects that stop poaching and 7.00pm for 7.30pm Laguna Veneto
this time he spoke on his recent
educate on the importance of Club, 49 Homer St, Mt Lawley
time in Africa and the problems of
saving endangered species. We Speaker is RI Pres. Elect Sakuji
extinction facing the rhinoceros.
appreciate Helen and Ian taking Tanaka from Japan. Alumni
Founded in 1987, the SAVE
the time to inform us of the plight speaker is MP Ben Wyatt.
FOUNDATION of Australia
(Inc.) is committed to saving of these animals with an engaging
Africa's endangered species from presentation.
Club Christmas/Birthday
extinction, with the main focus of Function
their activities on the conservation
of the African Black Rhinoceros in
This event is booked for Thursday,
Zimbabwe. Dr. Helen spoke with
22nd December, 2011 at
us regarding the progress
the Nedlands Golf Club,
made on saving the
Melvisa Ave, Nedlands.
African Black Rhinoceros
Cost is $50 pp for a three
and the barriers and
course meal. Money for
struggles in saving
this is to be paid in
endangers species.
advance and can be paid
Projects include small
into the Club’s Westpac
scale breeding ranches
Operating Account BSB
for rhinos, the painted
036-34 A/c 304015.
dogs project, projects for
Please include name and
the conservation of
event.
gorillas, hyenas, lions
Please put the date in
and elephants in
your diary and invite
Namibia, Zambia,
friends and family to
Rwanda, Zaire, and
ensure a good number
Zimbabwe. The
are present and that it is
presentation was
a successful function.
enhanced by the lovely Finish line for the End Polio Walk with PRID Ken Collins &
PDG George Kinikun
Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay, District 9455 Page 1
2. An entertaining speaker, Fundraising and
actor Faith Richardson, Membership.
has been organised by Bill
Hassell.
Community
/Vocational
Congratulations Meeting
AG Simone
Dir. Wilma McBain has set
AG PP Simone Carot a meeting for the
Collins has been busy Committee for
using her IT and social immediately after the
networking skills to update regular club meeting on
and inform Rotarians in D. Wednesday, 7th December.
9690, NSW. A Rotary Club is not able
Simone has been invited to to function effectively
serve on the RI Sydney Children from the School for the Deaf in Kota Kinabalu without regular monthly
Convention Committee for committee meetings as
the Rotary Convention which will that is where direction and
be held in Sydney in 2014. New Address for Gordon projects are discussed and set.
Simone has also been invited to Hay Attendance at committee meetings
participate in a workshop on Social should be treated as a priority.
Networking at the RI Convention
This weekend Gordon will be
in Bangkok in May.
coming onto dry land after living Items for Hamper
Congratulations from all in the
on a boat since his arrival in Perth.
RCFB Simone.
Gordon’s new address is 6
Dir Jenny Gill has requested
Archdeacon St, Nedlands, right
assistance in the form of a food
New Members next door to our Treasurer Toni
hamper for a young lady with
and Bill James.
advanced Alzheimer’s Disease.
Due to the next meeting being Dir. Wilma has asked that
transferred to the Dr KCA, new Board Nominations members bring in items to
members Pam Reynolds and contribute to the hamper. When
Vanessa Wood will be ‘officially’ shopping, perhaps you can put a
Nominations for the Board for
inducted the following week, 7th couple of extra items that may be
2012-13 are being sought. If you
December. suitable for the hamper in your
are interested in serving as a
Delighted to have you both join the trolley and bring them along to the
Director, Secretary or Treasurer,
RC Freshwater Bay Pam and meeting 7th December.
please have a nomination form
Vanessa.
completed and returned to the
Secretary by 7th December. Pasta and Sauce for
Elham Teimouri Elections to take place at the Club
meeting 14th December. Manna
Elham, a frequent visitor and Nominations have been received
for PE, International and Carina Marshall and her friend Jo
‘Friend of the RCFB’ is a PhD collect packets of pasta and jars of
student with Prof Ralph Martins. Community/Voc. Directors. Still
required are New Generations, pasta sauce each year and donate
Elham and her friend Maryam are them to Bev and John Lowe at
both from Iran and Manna Industries.
interested in assisting the Once again, if members
club with its projects. would like to assist Carina
Elham suddenly took ill and Jo with their Pasta and
and has been diagnosed Sauce project they would
with MS. She is currently love your contribution.
in the Ramsay section of
Joondalup Hospital and no
doubt would appreciate a Update on
visit from any member able Microscopes
to do so. However, as she
may be discharged soon it Gordon Hay has arranged a
would be advisable to meeting with CS Lyn
phone first. The hospital Beazley, Brett Sabien from
number is 9400 9400. Royalties for Regions along
Gordon paid her a visit on with Ken and Di Collins to
Children from the School for the Deaf in Kota
Sunday. see if funds can be obtained
Kinabalu
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3. for regional areas to advance the David Brockway from Shelter box like to join with others for a meal
Microscopes in Schools project. for bringing it along for the Club on 25th December. To date there
The meeting is taking place on and also thanks to Mike Penny for have been 5 interested people
Monday (28th) afternoon. his attendance and bringing his make contact.
Orders and enquiries continue to money spinner machine for our
flow in. Three further orders are use.
awaiting payment prior to Quiz Night
distribution (Albany, Fremantle Setting up commenced at 3:30 and
and Rockingham) plus an enquiry then the streets were closed to all The RC Joondalup is holding a
has been received from the Pres. of traffic and the event got underway Quiz Night on 21st January, 2012.
the RC of Tweed Heads South in D. at 4:30pm with a street parade and Cost $10 per person. Contact
9640, NSW the whole event went until colin@connectedlearning.com.au
8:30pm. It was a very friendly and
Hello Di, colourful night with all sorts ANZACS Tour
My name is Valerie Haywood, of stalls and displays to be seen.
President of Rotary Club of Tweed Stilt walkers, bungy jumps and
Heads South in Northern bongo drums for families to join After the RI Convention in
Bangkok, on 10th May, 2011, a trip
NSW, District 9640. in, to name just a few. Our tally at
While visiting family in Narrogin, the end of the night and for to HELLFIRE PASS has been
I was present at a school assembly donation to Shelter box was organised by PDG Jennifer Scot t
where the local Rotary Club $171.90, this was nearly all five E: scottadr@optusnet.com.au Cost
presented St. Matthews Primary and ten cent pieces put in by the is $100 pp and will be of particular
School with microscopes. children having fun watching the interest to members with an
This is a wonderful learning tool money spin around and go into the interest in the history of the
for young people. I would be final hole. ANZACS in the Second World
interested in exploring the Thanks also go to Matt Milner War.
possibility of starting such a (Warren's son) and Andrew
project over here. Hassell (son of Sue and Bill) who Ian Westoby
I would be grateful for any lent their time and their muscle in
information you can provide helping to set up and dismantle the DG Liz has advised that Ian is
regarding the setting up of this display...very much appreciated by progressing well and it is hoped he
project. us all. will be home in 3-4 weeks.
Yours in Rotary, Rotary members who attended Good news for all concerned.
Valerie Haywood. President. were Bill and Sue Hassell, Bryant
Rotary Club of Tweed Heads Stokes, Margaret Stuart, Gordon
South. Hay and Wilma McBain. D. 3310 Fundraising
Walk for Polio
RF Matching Grant for Christmas dinner for the
From 7-18th November two drivers
Maiti Nepal lonely of support vehicles accompanied
eight Rotarians who walked (and
Gillian Yudelman has prepared a The Post Newspaper has run two climbed) 340 klms from East to
RF Matching Grant application articles on the RCFB coordinating West Saba to raise funds for Polio
which is ready to be submitted to a luncheon on Christmas Day for Eradication.
the Rotary Foundation for people who are alone and would It is the third walk to raise funds
equipment for Maiti for Polio that PP Robin
Nepal Foundation. Tay has organised. The
Look forward to hearing first was two years ago
of the progress Gillian. when Rotarians walked
from northern Malaysia
Claremont to KL, the second was
last year when they
Christmas walked from KL to
Activity Singapore and this year
it was from West Saba to
On Thursday 24th Kota Kinabalu. The next
November RCFB walk is planned to be
participated in the from northern Thailand
Claremont Christmas to Bangkok in time for
Carnival by displaying a the RI Convention in
Shelter box and had a May.
money spinner for Money was still coming
donations to Shelter Walkers and drivers for the D. 3310 Polio Saba Walk in and it is hoped that
box. A big thank you to
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4. Equipment from a Matching Grant for the School for the
Deaf in Kota Kinabalu
of the visit on 17th On a brief visit to Mulu a World
December which were Heritage site in the Sarawak
gratefully received. rainforests, Ken and Di chatted
with a young recently married
The School for the Deaf couple, Priska and Urs Burri-
Oven from a Matching Grant for the School for is another project of the Muller. Priska, from Bern,
the Deaf in Kota Kinabalu RC of Kota Kinabalu Switzerland had been a Rotary
the amount this year will be which they started back Youth Exchange Student to the RC
somewhere between $100 and in 1978. As it is the end of the year of Canberra in 1999-2000. Six
$150 thousand. and schools are breaking up until couples from Canberra travelled to
Rotarians in D. 3310 walked the early January, the end of school Switzerland to attend Priska and
last leg either 11klms or 4klms. final Assembly and Concert was Urs wedding.
PRID Ken and Di were the held over to the afternoon for the Rotary touches the lives of
Representatives of RI Pres. Kalyan benefit of the visit by Rotarians. A countless numbers of people
and Binota Banerjee at the District Matching Grant for an oven and around the world and is without
Conference and Ken and his Aide mixers is just one of the many doubt the greatest tool the world
were amongst those who walked projects undertaken by the Club. has for uplifting humanity and
the last 4 klms. With this equipment biscuits etc creating a better world.
An outstanding effort. Well done are made and proceeds from the
to PP Robin and team! sale of the products benefit the
School. Attachment ‘IN THE
CARDS”
Projects visited in Kota
Kinabalu As members do not subscribe to
Former Rotary Youth the Rotarian Magazine, an
Don Bosco’s Orphanage near Mt Exchange Student excellent article ‘In The Cards’ is
Kinabalu was one of the attached which it is recommended
projects visited by Ken all members take the time
and Di. Both genders are to read.
housed at the Orphanage
which receives assistance Birthdays
from the Rotary Clubs in
Kota Kinabalu.
Birthday greetings go to
Currently there are 71
Gordon Hay for 29th Nov,,
orphans at Don Bosco,
Paddy Ramanathan and
which is down (a
Rex Evans for 30th Nov,
wonderful sign) on over
and Mignon Shardlow for
100 previously looked
6th December. A very
after. The children attend
Happy Day is wished to
local schools and are well
each one of you.
cared for by Brother Ben
and Sister Loretta. The
Rotarians donated a hose
and emergency lights to Former RYE Student Priska and husband Urs
the Orphanage at the time
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5. Roster for Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay for Month of Nov/Dec 2011
Date Program Duty Attendance Introduction Vote of Thanks
30th November RIPE Sakuji Annual Dr Ken Laguna Veneto 7.00pm for 7.30pm Book on line
Tanaka Collins Address Club, Mt Lawley
7th December John Fleming Gordon Hay Ken Collins Di Collins Alistair Brown
7th December Comm/Voc Cttee After Regular
Meeting Club meeting
14th December Bernard Bowen Jim Gould Sue Hassell Jill Henderson Paddy
Ramanathan
22nd December Faith Richardson Rex Evans Jim Gould Bill Hassell Sue Hassell
NB: ‘Duty’ responsibility is to set up venue and to pack away venue after meeting.
Board Rotary 2011-12
Jim Gould – Membership President-Bryant Stokes
Bryant Stokes – President Director E-mail
bstokes@bigpond.net.au james@bizsuccession.com.au bstokes@bigpond.net.au
Mobile
Di Collins – Secretary Jenny Gill – Fundraising Director 0419 919 572
collinsd@bigpond.net.au jennypgill@gmail.com
Toni James – Treasurer Bill Hassell – Vice President Bulletin Editor
tonipjames@hotmail.com hassell@arach.net.au Clifford Yudelman/Di Collins
Rex Evans –Club Service Director, Club Details Website
President Elect
revans@powerplus.net.au The Rotary Club of Freshwater www.rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
Bay, Inc.
Wilma McBain - Community/ PO Box 168, Facebook
Vocational Service Director Nedlands,
williemac241@hotmail.com Western Australia, 6909 http://www.facebook.com/freshw
Ken Collins – International aterbayrotary
Service Director Meetings
collinsk@bigpond.net.au
Wednesday 5:45pm to 6:45pm
Hamish Mackie – New Café, Bethesda Hospital
Generations Director Queenslea Drive
Claremont, 6010 Chartered 19 December
hamish.mackie@optusnet.com.au
2008
Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay, District 9455 Page 5
6. Rorenv SroRrES
IN THE
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Major Donor
Because
Bill Benter playedhis han d righr,
The Rotary Foundation won
AS Tt)LIl Ttl STEPHEI{ YAFA
was about to turn 40 when I joined Rotary. The timing else, Iii discovered, so my business parulers ard I had packed
was perfect, Id wandered into a profession, computer up our primirive computer equipment and moved there.
software developmenr, where I was disconnecced from Our goal was to handicap every Hong Kong racehorse
any communiry. based on past performance, track conditions, and so forth,
I was developing a somewhat complex database pro. and place strategic bets based on the results, It was a huge
gram for beming on horse races, based on 70 variables for amount of work - but profitable and perfectly legirimate.
each horse that enabled me and my colleagues ro derernrine By 1996, thebusiness was becoming a substantial suc-
its true odds of winning in any race, once we enrered all cess, I was now beuing my own money and doing quire
the data and did our modeling. But we had ro key the well but unless you're an extremely gregarious person,
information inro our Kaypro compurers - this was way which I'm nor, yolr dont make that many new friends in
back when, and there were no available online racing dara- foreign surroundings. Thar was the draw of Rotary for
bases in the mid-'S0s. me. Our business lawyer, Gilbert Collins, invited me twice
My interaction was entirely with a compurer screen. tojoin the Rotary Club of Kowloon North before I
We didnt have cusromers or clienrs, so I had little oppor- accepted. I must have had some rrepidation; I'm not a
tunicy to connect with other humans. And I was living in joiner by nature, But before I knew it, I was on my way to
Hong Kong a long way from Pittsburgh, my home.There becoming a member. Rotarians respect the digniry and
were far fewer horses racing in Hong Kong rhan anywhere usefulness of all professions. Mine didnt have a service
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7. Rorenv StoRrES
I have
a fondness anrj an
component, so I fblt immensely aptitude for I never made a serious career choice
honored to have been asked to join. to become a gambler. My only real
In the first year after I became a numbers, and, interest has been to beat the system and
member, I learned more about the come out ahead, I have a fondness and
Hong Kong comrnunity than in all the as I discove red an aptirude for numbers, which helps
time Id been living there. Looking - and, as I discovered through Rotary,
back, its not surprising that I would
become deeply involved in the club's
thror-rgh Rotary, a passion for putting my skills to w,rrk
for causes I believe in, As I got to know
service projects. the Chinese government officials in
I soon became the club's inter- for
a passion Du'an, my level of trust increased. They
national service director and was rurned out to be sincere and honesr and
charged with reaching out to join
forces with clubs in other locations.
puttingmyskills grateful for our help. The governlnent
agreed to put up half the money if we
Bruce Stinson, past president of the
Kowloon North club, had already
to work for put up the other half - a total cost of
about $60,000 to rebuild each school.
made friends with Sai-Hong Choi, To me, dris seemed like a slam-dunk,
past president of the Rotary Club of
CAUSCS and thanks to the sLrccess of my busi-
Macau, and had visited impoverished ness, I was able to donate a substandal
Du an County in southeast China in I believe in. amount of those costs on my own'The
1999. Hed been moved to tears by Kowloon Nordr club teamed up with
the condition of rnany of the area's the Macau club on the first three
rural schools -
the roofs and walls had collapsed, and there schools in the region, and since then, our districtt clubs have
were no desks or seats, he reported. The Macau club lacked been able to fund many more, Putting the money into bricls
funding, and that's where we stepped in. and mortar assured us thar we were creadng something
I knew that it would be something of a gamble to make of lasting valug that the money wasnt being frittered away.
our way through the Chinese regional bureaucracy and It was my kind of gemble,
ensure that the money we raised went where it was For me, one of the most rewarding results of these
intended, but I d been gambling successfully for most of service projeccs is to warch my perceptions bump up
my adult life. In myjunior year,I had dropped our of Case against rcality,I expected China to be a tyrannical place,
Western Reserve University, where I was studying physics even brutal. But my Rotarian colleagues and I learned a
and philosophy, and gone to Las Vegas with my friends few things as we watched the Longbn middle school in
to play blackjack. I remembered a sign Id seen as a teen- Dubn beingtransformed from a dilapidared building into
ager in an Atlantic City casino: "Professional card counters a functional structure, I asked the headmaster about dis'
are prohibited from playing at our tables." That always cipline."Do you spank studentsi" I wondered' He looked
stayed with me; it meant that if you learned to count, you at me incredulously."spank studentsi" He was shocked
could win. And that's what we did undl we gor bounced at the suggestion, Teachers and administrators are forbid-
out of all the Las Vegas casinos. Card-counting improves den to employ physical punishment, he expiained"'They
your odds and is complercIy legaI, but Nevada casinos are do that in your councryl" It was inconceivable to him that
private property, and owners can bar anyone they want we could even chink that was possible' So much for my
from entering, In our early 20s, we were averaging about concern about social protectors.
$80,000 each per year atblackjack, which was pretcy good Now about 11 years after the first schools were rebuilt,
back then for young kids. Du'an has become a thriving region' When we visited in
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doing For rhe RI Afghan Refugee Relief
Effort, which helped people iiving in
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at our cameras in awe; they snapped
digital photos of us with their smart- refugee carnps along dre Afghanisran-
phones. Thele had been an amazing Pakistan border, we raised over $2
Our first school
r-rpsurge in prosperiry. Is it to make rnillion; I contributed a lot myself
project was dwarfed, in a good way, Again, cherewas an open-endedueed
by high-rises a1l around.
On rhat visit, I suggested that
ourselves created by internal conflict, and we
were able to adopt a few camps along
because the cicy centers were boom- the border to provide basic comforts
ing, perhaps we could help rebuild feelsood,
o and food. But tfiere was another kind
schools in the surrounding mountain of reward, too. I visited P;rkistan,
primi-
villages, which are srill quite or to Provride where there are nllmerous Rotary
cive. The local authorities told us clubs, and discovered that rnany of
thac they hoped everyone would be
able to move our of rhe villages,
genuine help their problems are the senre problenrs
we deal with daily. Thatt nothing Id
because there is no way people can ever have learned sirting in front ofa
live prosperous lives in those areas. where comPuter screen.
The land is arid; they can raise only Because of the success of my
a few goats and not really grow any- it's neededi business,I also was able co give a
thing. With a berter educacion ar one large gift recently to The Rotary
of the schools, the officials said, the Foundation's Rotary Peace Cen[ers,
poor village children may be able to qualifr for betterjobs. in support of programs leading to graduate degrees or
Our Kowloon North and Macau clubs, wi# help from professional certificares in peace and conflict resolution
other Rotarians, have been able to give children in rhat at eighc universities around the world, Our goal on rhe
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region a chance to become educated in a safe environment. Rotary Peace Centers Major Gifts Initiative committee is
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Duhn has been the perfecc project. We were able to launch to help raise $95 million to fund the Rotary Peace Centers
it, chen eventually step away and applaud the success ofthe program in perpetuity, in the hope that peace fellows will
schools from afar, Thac is an ideal scenario. And there was rise to leadership positions in their respective counrries.
no donor fatigue, as there can be when funding seems to go The idea is to create a community of graduates so that, I
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on ard on with no end in sight and no progress. when conflicts arise between countries and cultures, these
Thac brings up another point about philanthropy former peace fellows can get rogether and use their skills
that I pay attention tor Who are we really doing this fori co resolve them before che tensions escalate.
Is it to make ourselves feel good, or to provide genuine Did I ever expecr to become involved in so rnany proj-
help where it's neededi I've been supporting a hospital ects, or to meet my wife, Vivian, in rhe Rorary Club of ii
in Haiti that serves a region devastated by the 2010 Kowloon North - she is a past president of the Rotary Club I
earthquake, with no visible signs of improvement, Tire of Peninsula Sunrise, Hong Kong - and to marry for th"
people are as poor as chey've always been; there's no end first time at age 53? I wouldnt have laid odds on any of
to the deforestacion. They're mired, and the moment the those things happening. But computer programs, even mine,
f-uncling stops, the hospital will shut down. If we can just have serious limitations. They couldnt have predicted the
keep the hospiral going, isn't that enoughi I try to remem- adventures I've had or the personal rewards rhat have come
ber that service is about serving, not getting something my way through Rorary. I donate to The Rorary Foundation
back in retLrrn. because I believc in irs mission. r
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