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District Governor: Brian Doyle
"Build the Future with Action and Vision"
Rotary International Theme - 1996/1997
President: Ian Muil, Peter Gloor
Secretary: Helmut Eichberger
Treasurer: Robert Farmer
Club Service Director: Bob Millar
Community Service Director: Peter
Gloor/Mark Stanton
International Service Director:
Graham Harris
Vocational Service Director: Mal
Stein
Youth Service Director: Lorelle
Holcroft
Membership: Gwynne Thomas
President-elect: Geoff Voigt
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This was quite an unsettling year
for the club culminating in the resignation of the president, Ian Muil in
October. Last year's president, Peter Gloor took up the position and steered
the club steadily for the remainder of the year. As well as the club's
normal annual commitments, the Melbourne Cup function, Guess Who's coming to
Dinner, Christmas in the Village, the school fair and, of course, the Market
Festival.
The show society ended a long
running relationship with the club and found others to park cars at the show
and run the show bar.
The change of guard also had an
effect on Community Service. However, the club still had an active year.
Tree planting to stabilize and beautify the creek bank in Main Street took
place and subsequent maintenance, and from Christmas in the Village
proceeds, a line marking machine was donated to the Samford State School.
The club contributed to the restoration of the old catholic church and
presented a new overhead projector to the Rural Fire Brigade.
The line marking machine being
presented to groundsman, Neil McTaggart.
A further donation was made to the
Children's' Hospital and discussions with the historical society began to
organise a heritage trail throughout the valley. Rotary signs on either side
of Samford village were replaced with new ones, and the club promoted and
sold life saving videos - a project by the Brisbane Rotary Club. Samford
Rotary provided a water pipe to access town water for the Samford Scouts.
The club organised a memorial
service, tours of the Samford Museum, which had a special display, and
refreshments for survivors and others to commemorate the 50th anniversary of
Australia's second worst train crash disaster, in 1947, at Camp Mountain in
the Samford Valley.
In 1996/97, the club initiated
contact with the Rotary Club of Colombo North, Sri Lanka to embark on an
inter-club relationship for mutual benefit. Other international endeavours
included further involvement with Donations in Kind, a joint hosting with
the Albany Creek Club of the French GSE team, participation in the Gift of
Life Program with patient Margaret Tomba and the presentation of two "Paul
Harris Fellows" - an indication of the club's financial support to the
Rotary Foundation.
The club sponsored five more
children to attend the scout's Agooneree camp for the disabled, and
participated in the selection of Queensland's "Young Achievement Award". A
donation of $500.00 was made to the "Project Australia Program" and arranged
for a Ferny Grove State High School student, Natalie Rees to attend the
Rotary "Adventures in Citizenship" scheme.
Samford Rotary presented the
annual citizenship award and the school sports award in conjunction with the
Samford State School and sponsored students to attend RYPEN and RYLA. The
club had a successful applicant for the CRA National Science Forum and three
students to attend the Siemens Science School as well as two students to
attend the Information Technology Autumn School.
A highlight in the 1996/97
calendar was the vocational visit to the pathology laboratory of DR Sullivan
and Nicolaides, a fascinating experience.
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District Governor: Boyd Fay
"Show Rotary Cares"
Rotary International Theme - 1997/1998
President: Geoff Voigt
Secretary: Helmut Eichberger
Treasurer: Robert Farmer
Club Service Director: Richard
Joscelyne
Community Service Director: Ian
Spiller
International Service Director:
Graham Harris
Vocational Service Director:
Stuart Cotton
Youth Service Director: Lorelle
Holcroft
Membership: Rowan Macaulay
President-elect: Mal Stein
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The key objectives for the year were as
follows:
1. To recreate a positive environment for
fellowship and fun within our club and provide an interesting program
of club activities and weekly meetings, with good value meals.
2. To ensure the administration of the club
is open, professional and efficient.
3. To really work hard on our club's
history.
4. To include our partners and families as
much as possible.
5. Ties with the Rotary Club of Colombo
North, to enrich our relationship with the Albany Creek Club and
re-establish ties with the Michelton Club, our "mother" club.
6. To honour R.I. and its founder, Paul
Harris and to award one Paul Harris fellow.
7. Promote and expand the market festival.
8. Achieve a local hands-on project.
9. Australia Day citizenship event and a
cultural operatic event.
10. Support the Samford State School and its
fair.
11. A net gain of three new members.
12. Continue our active youth program.
13. Apply for a Presidential Citation.
14. A support visit to the Bribie Island
club.
15. Reintroduce job talks.
The club had a very active year achieving its
objectives particularly in the avenue of community service with
significant donations to the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund and
the Gift of Life program. The club participated in several community
projects; car window etching to reduce the likelihood of car theft,
involvement in the annual Salvation Army "Red Shield Appeal", Xmas in
the Village, the school fair parking, and a blood bank collection and
sausage sizzle. Opera by the Lake had its debut (see
separate page),
and its success enabled us to establish the Samford Valley Emergency
Fund. We naturalised 22 new citizens in an Australia Day citizenship
ceremony, maintenance on previous community projects and we erected
heritage plaques on granite boulders marking three historical sites in
Samford Valley.
This is a picture of one of
the historical site markers.
The club also began development of a
recreational park in the Samford Valley called the 'Undambi Rotary Park"
Undambi Rotary Park.
Although the club didn't award a Paul
Harris fellow, an appropriate donation was made to the Rotary
Foundation, as well as a donation to the 3H program in Bangladesh. We
established a link with the Rotary Club of Colombo North and was able to
arrange for urgently needed equipment to be sent there. The club hosted
the GSE team from New York, met a number of Ambassadorial Scholars, and
continued our participation in the Donations in Kind Program. A matching
grant arranged through the district, from the Rotary Foundation, enabled
the club to make a significant contribution, the purchase and supply of
water bottles to drought stricken Papua New Guinea.
The club continued its active youth
programs participation - 16 of them. There were three highlights,
however. The club sponsored the formation and charter of the Samford
Valley Rotaract Club (see separate page)
- chartered on the 8th June, 1998, and, through corporate sponsorship,
sent nine students to participate in the Rotary Youth Leadership Award
program, and the annual citizenship award presented to local school
student, Latasha Duncan. Sonya Brown, the club's nominee to attend the
National Science School, just missed selection, but there were a record
seven students who attended the Siemens Science School. Robert Spiller
attended the Rotary Youth Program of Enrichment. This year, also, the
club co-hosted a Japanese exchange student, Reiko Oya, as part of the
Rotary Youth Exchange Program.
Reiko Oya, Kanazawa, Japan with Rotarian
Mark Stanton and family.
The club had many very interesting guest
speakers to address the weekly meetings as well as 'club speakers'
participating in "job talks". There were vocational visits, a job search
assistance program for unemployed professionals, and a "Pride of
Workmanship" award to Neil McTaggart, an employee of the local school.
The club was also involved with the "Breaking the Cycle" program.
The club applied for and was awarded a
1997/98 Presidential Citation.
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District Governor: Henry Bodman
"Follow your Rotary Dream"
Rotary International Theme - 1998/1999
President: Mal Stein
Secretary: Lorelle Holcroft
Treasurer: Andrew Woodley, Robert
Farmer, Geoff Voigt
Club Service Director: Rowan
Macaulay
Community Service Director: Bob
Millar
International Service Director:
Ian Spiller
Vocational Service Director: Phil
Robinson, Ross Shardlow
Youth Service Director: Rob
Robinson
Membership: Mark Stanton
President-elect: Gwynne Thomas
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Again this year there was a good
attendance to the district conference held at Chandler, Brisbane and four
members travelled to Singapore to attend the world conference. And the club
finally embrace the computer age and began work on a website which, of
course, you are reading at the moment. Some club activities included a good
old fashioned car rally, attended a live production at twelfth night
theatre, guess who's coming to dinner, Christmas breakfast up at Mt.
Glorious and old time dancing.
Following the success of last
year, Opera by the Lake was staged again, and whilst not a financial boon,
was, nevertheless, a great event. The viability and future of the opera
however, is largely dependent on significant sponsorship. The market
festival was held again but had run its course and its future is under
review.
Rotarians thrashed the Rotaract
youngsters twice at ten pin bowling but were soundly beaten at cricket by
the members of the Rural Fire Brigade.
As for community service, the
citizenship ceremony on Australia Day did not proceed for various reasons,
but all other planned projects occurred during the year. Discussions
continued with the local authority regarding a maintenance program for the
Undambi Rotary Park. These programs will need to be in place and working to
enable the club to continue development of the park. Planning continued for
the internment of a time capsule on Australia Day, 2000 in front of the
Rotary Station, John Scott Park, Samford and the club was again involved in
Christmas in the Village.
Samford Rotary is running with an
initiative to offer the subsidised supply and installation of smoke
detectors in the homes of senior citizens in conjunction with the Rural Fire
Brigade. The club continued its strong support for the Australian Rotary
Health Research Fund with a contribution of $1400.00 bringing the club to
the $250.00 per member milestone.
The club was invited to "man" the
bar at a local kickboxing event and are now committed to installing a
property numbering scheme to assist emergency vehicles which is being
introduced in the Samford valley.
On the international scene, the
club continued communications with the Rotary Club of Colombo North, Sri
Lanka and great quantities of paper and other stationery was packaged and
sent via Donation in Kind to Papua New Guinea. Members also participated in
the Donations in Kind program on two occasions during the year.
The club presented a "Pride of
Workmanship" award and also the annual citizenship award at the Samford
State School "prom". Ryan Williams attended the National Youth Science Forum
and one student was sponsored to attend RYLA.
The club enjoyed a very enjoyable
visit to the Brisbane Turf Club, Doomben including a 'behind the scenes'
tour and a catered afternoon tea.
Samford Rotary also conducted the
Samford Talent Quest and, whilst only few entries were received, the event
was considered a great success. Also considered a great success, but after
considerable effort, was the Art Show. At the end of the week long
exhibition, the art show made only a modest profit, but the real benefit can
be seen in the uptake of the idea and a continuation of the art show in
another form by local artists. In that sense the club performed a
significant community service.
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District Governor: John Gabb
"Act with Consistency, Credibility and
Continuity"
Rotary International Theme - 1999/2000
President: Gwynne Thomas
Secretary: Lorelle Holcroft
Treasurer: Bernie Randall
Club Service Director: Peter Gloor
Community Service Director: Bob Millar
International Service Director: Graham Harris
Vocational Service Director: Ross Shardlow
Youth Service Director: Geoff Voigt
President-elect and Membership: Richard
Joscelyne
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1999/2000 was another busy year for Samford
Rotary. In the avenue of Community Service, the club ceremoniously interred
a time capsule in John Scott Park to be opened in 2050. With the support of
the local councillor (our own Bon Millar), the club also participated in the
Rural Addressing Project - a numbering system in rural areas to assist
emergency services. There's more to be done next year. Rotarians also
installed about 100 smoke detectors for our local senior card holders and we
coordinated a local collection on behalf of the Salvation Army. The club
pledged $10,000 toward the proposed community hall project, and continued
its strong support of the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund. This
brought the club to the $285.00 per member milestone, the eighth highest per
capita in the District.
Samford Rotary also participated in the annual
Samford State School Fete, and "Christmas in the Village". 1999/2000 was
also the year the club posted its web page on the net.
The club is a regular contributor to the Rotary
Foundation and this year, we awarded the "Paul Harris Fellow" to Geoff
Voigt. The club was also again active in Donations in Kind including the
collection of discarded hospital equipment from the Prince Charles Hospital
and transportation to DIK's Tennyson Powerhouse collection centre. The link
with The Rotary Club of Colombo North was re-established and 4 'Babyanne'
resuscitation manikins were shipped to Sri Lanka for use in training
programmes. Samford rotary was able to make a contribution to an East
Timorese family in need including the transportation of a man and his son to
Brisbane for medical treatment.
The club got to know Ambassadorial Scholar,
Matt Doane quite well during the year and the club also initiated an
International Toast as a regular part of the weekly meeting routine.
"Four Way Test" certificates were issued to
members to place in a prominent position at work and two "What's new in your
business" talks were held during the year. For the first time, Samford
Rotary presented "Ethics in Business" awards (3) to Peter Cawthorne, Peter
Cuttler and Geoff Ward. Cedric Mugridge was awarded the "Pride of
Workmanship" award. The club also had several vocational visits during the
year.
The club sponsored three students to attend the
2000 RYPEN camp and also sponsored 4 students to attend the Siemens Science
experience.
This year together with representatives from
other service groups, churches and schools, the club presented two drug
awareness seminars during the year. One seminar, aimed at parents and
concerned adults and hosted by Channel 9's Heather Foord, included several
excellent speakers, videos and static displays.. The other seminar was aimed
at kids. Mark Owen, the chaplain of Ferny Grove High School facilitated the
evening, which included displays, interviews, sports stars' video clips, sumo
wrestling, a live band and a demonstration by the Australian Customs sniffer
dog "Roxy", who stole the show. Both evenings were well attended and very
successful.
The club also promoted a Christmas "See the
World" Art Union, a major fund-raiser for the club netting about $9000 for
community activities.
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District Governor: Judy Magub
"Create Awareness - Take Action"
Rotary International Theme - 2000/2001
President: Richard Joscelyne
Secretary: Fulton Smith
Treasurer: Chris Ellis
Club Service Director: David Kruger
Community Service Director: Vito Rosso
International Service Director: Jim Simons
Vocational Service Director: Wal Ronan
Youth Service Director: Grant Mason
President-elect and Membership: Lorelle
Holcroft
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This year was a very successful year in terms
of fund raising, with a well attended and very successful "Music by the
Lake" and another very successful Christmas Art Union.
The club was introduced to a vision of creating
a facility for our community's young people. The project is an ambitious one
and this year was put aside to conduct a viability study and to develope the
project for presentation to the community.
Christmas in the Village was another successful
and enjoyable event.
Membership was a focus of the year with several
valued members leaving the club for various unrelated reasons, but the loss
was softened by the induction of three new excellent members - Ken Hood,
Brian Hansford and Dick Nunn.
Brian Hansford organised a very successful
Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal contribution.
2000/2001 will also be remembered as the year
of the Paul Harris Fellows. The club awarded four of these - one to Dot
Millar, Gwynne Thomas, Wal Ronan, and Rowan Macaulay.
Pride of Workmanship awards were awarded to Ros
Burke and Heather Tadgell for their tireless work at our local Samford State
School and an Ethics of Business award was given to Phil and Lyndal Hardman
of the Samford Post Office.
The club significantly contributed to the
Australian Rotary Health Research Fund this year as well as supporting a
combined club project - the Rotary Men's Health van. The club also
financially supported PolioPlus and Donations in Kind. We co-sponsored Youth
Exchange Student, Eric Clarke and looked after Ambassadorial scholars Chris
and Rebecca Lee.
The club also sent three more CPR manikins to
Colombo.
The key objectives for this year:
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