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Serving the Community since 1985

Presidents Report Where do I start? Another week filled with many Rotary events. Wolf and I had the pleasure of helping all those who are Golfers at the Mayoral Golf Day at Royal Melbourne. We were the targets midway along the 6th fairway especially designed to help those golfers playing at the course for the first time, keep their little white ball on the green stuff. Thanks to Jim and his team for another successful event. Just remember that its our turn to organise it next year. On Thursday night we welcomed our third new member this year, Max Darby. I know he will make a great Beaumaris Rotarian. We also had our own Richard Shermon enlighten us on current financial and tax planning topics.

Friday night, Trish and I attended the last quarterly District Presidents meeting. Some key takeaways were:

District Changeover on June 27th A new process, like stamps and soap, but for foreign coins sitting in our homes. A Rotary Success conference on Sept 5th/6th

Contents

1 Presidents Report 2 Notices 3 This Weeks Speaker 4 MUNA 2015 5 An Evening with Max Walker 6 Club Structure / Picture of Week

Unless stated otherwise venue is Victoria Golf Club 6.30 for 7.00

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in Canberra focused on membership. Saturday the gods smiled down on Beaumaris and delivered fine weather, good crowds and another successful Farmers Market. We had some new ideas like a Mothers Day raffle, and Egg & Bacon Rolls at the BBQ which were a great success. Thanks again to all our members and partners who helped, and I hope one of our newest members, Lynda Doutch enjoyed her time at the BBQ. You just cant be a Rotarian without having worked at a BBQ on your resume. Next week we have Annette Allison from the Royal Flying Doctor Service speaking, and Mal-colm Parks will chair the meeting.

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Final Fellowship Event for President Kens Year.

Our final fellowship for our Rotary year is on Thursday 4th June as there is no meeting at VGC. Its called GUESS WHO YOU ARE HAV-ING TO DINNER. (Or more to the point who are you having dinner with?) Our current Rotary Royalty ,President Ken and his lady Shirley will be In residence with new-comers to the position , President Elect Trish and her consort Wolf warming up to take their seats of power. Join us to wine and dine with them at; 31 A Io-na Street, Black Rock. 6.30 for 7 pm start. Three course meal plus nibbles. Cost $30 per person plus BYO bottle of wine. Seats are limited due to the size of the restaurant. Book now to pay homage and have fun. Book now to avoid disappointment. Megan 0418 578 114 or Glenwright @ aapt.net.au

Hocking Stuart Sandringham 62-64 Station Street

Telephone: 03 9521 9800

Note; As part of our arrangement with Hocking Stuart discounts on agents fees are available to RCOB members.

An Evening with Max Walker

Saturday 30 May

For Details see Page 5

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T #"P: F"P" P"' Club Member Richard the Managing Director of the business and has over 25 years experience in the financial services industry after graduat-ing from Oxford University with a first class honours degree in Mathematics in 1987. He qualified as an Actuary in 1990 and is a Fel-low of the Institute of Actuaries. He worked for AXA Sun Life in the UK until moving to Austral-ia in 2000 where he took up the position of General Manager of Marketing and Product De-velopment for AXA Australia. He moved to Singapore in 2005 to lead AXAs life insurance company in that country before returning to Melbourne in 2008 to establish Re-serve Financial Consulting. He is married to Joanna and has two teenage sons Alex and Marc. Richard stepped in at the last moment to cover for a change in the Club programme. As he is bound by the strict laws governing Financial Planners he gave some broad advice and left time to answer specific questions. Some slides from his presentation follow;

Thank you Richard for stepping up to the plate as a pinch hitter. If you want to avail yourself of his professional services go to;

http://reservefc.com.au/

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Model United Nations Assembly 2015 On behalf of District 9810 and of the members of the MUNA Committee I thank you all for sponsoring teams in this year's MUNA. The del-egates representing 40 countries, the diplomat-ic couriers, and those of us officiating and judg-ing the performances over the weekend, we all had a most enjoyable and satisfying weekend. I have also had a large numbers of messages of congratulations and support for the MUNA pro-gramme and the beneficial effects it has on par-ticipating students. Many of these messages came from those watching in the public galler-ies where visiting Rotarians, parents, teachers, and youngsters who had participated in past MUNA events sat and admired the outstanding ability of the students debating global issues in the Legislative Assembly chamber. Prizes were awarded at the conclusion of the two days: Best performing team on the weekend team from Sacred Heart College representing India, sponsored by RC Oakleigh Runners-up team from Yarra Hills Secondary College repre-senting Syria, sponsored by RC Montrose & District Most Popular team voted by the students team from Doncaster Secondary College repre-senting Sudan, sponsored by RC Doncaster Best Costume representing their country team from Sandringham College representing Thailand, sponsored by RC Sandringham District Governor's Special Commendation team from Yarra Hills Secondary College repre-senting Syria, sponsored by RC Montrose & District Best resolution submitted by students team from Mater Christi College representing Egypt, sponsored by RC Boronia The best performing team gets the opportunity to travel to Canberra in August to take part in MUNA from Friday 14 to Sunday 16 August at the Museum of Australian Democracy.

We congratulate all students who participated, including those who nominated but had to with-draw based on medical grounds and changing circumstances. It takes courage and some hard work to be prepared to step forward in such a public event. All these students can rightly be proud of their achievements and of the contri-bution they have made to the understanding of several of the most important global issues. For those interested in seeing some of the ac-tion and the participants, photos taken by our official photographer Ian Ballantine can be found at the web site rotarybmc.org/muna. We recommend that all clubs sponsoring a team should invite their team to one of their meetings to talk about their experiences, their impressions, and the outcome of their involve-ment in the MUNA weekend. Regards, Joe Somers Chair D9810 MUNA Committee

Photo of our MUNA team, Cassandra and Jasmine from Norwood SC, representing

Turkey with DGE David Tolstrup.

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Peaceful Outlook

Photograph by Abdullrahman Almalki, National Geo-graphic It took three days for Abdullrahman Almalki to capture the moment he wanted from this vantage near the city of Taif in Saudi Ara-bia. Almalki used a tri-pod and a remote shutter release to achieve a meditative image encompassing the lighted highway, clouds, and stars.

CLUB STRUCTURE 2014 - 2015 UPDATED 20/04/2015

BOARD CLUB SERVICE

President Ken Mirams Director Trish Smyth

PE, VP Trish Smyth Auditor Tony Phillips

Secretary Roy Seager Program Richard Jones

Treasurer James Glenwright Meeting Attendance Trish Smyth

Foundation Mike Hede Communications David Lea

Branding & PR Malcolm Sawle Fellowship Megan Glenwright

International John Beaty Photographers John Beaty, Greg Every

New Generations Kerrie Geard Almoner Geoff Stringer

Community Chris D'Arcy Chair /Host /Cashiers /AV Roster

Fundraising Adrian Culshaw Youth Protection Officer Malcolm Parks

On to Conference Robert McArthur^*

TEAM MEMBERS

International Community New Generations Fundraising

Fred Hofmann Geoff Abbott David Rushworth Harry Wolfe

John Sime Rob Fenton Mary Sealy Heather Chisholm

David Langworthy Richard Shermon Tony McKenna * Roger Frewen

Geoff Stockdale Tony Phillips Max Darby TBC Geoff Stringer

Ross Phillips David Greenall LOA David Hone

Malcolm Parks Lynda Doutch Chris Martin Judi Hall

John Manks Jason Tonks Royal Melbourne Golf Charmaine Jansz

David Greenall Jim O'Brien Antony Nixon

Concourse Festival Branding & PR Harry Wolfe Peter Flude

Kerrie Geard Peter Flude^ David Hone# Mike Hede

Masters Golf Parking David Lea MUNA / NYSF

James Glenwright Martin Fothergill Heather Chisolm

^ Farmers Market # Indigenous Project * District