Once again the Rotary Club of Southern Districts had a terrific speaker in Peter Harries of Channel 9 and Knight Club Night Club fame. A most entertaining night with Peter in full form. Some of our seasoned hecklers like Ron Bradbourn soon found out that Peter has had many years of experience in dealing with hecklers 
Peter Harries Entertains the Club
Please ensure you come along and welcome our two newest members in Simon Dutt and Carlton D’Souza as we welcome them both to the club.
What a terrific night – the Sloan Endeavour Scholarships were presented, with 7 awardees, 3 from Thornlie Christian College and 4 from Thornlie Senior High School. The students were excellent speakers and fine representatives of their respective schools. It mad us old Rotarians feel good that our future is in the hands of such wonderful and deserving people.
A complete photo album can be found on the web page here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rotary-Club-of-Southern-Districts/76431894404
Directors, don’t forget that next week is a Board Meeting.
The speaker for next week is Peter Harries of Channel 7 and Knight Klub Night Club fame.
A quiet meeting tonight as it was a committee night.
The club welcomed Simon Dutt who has confirmed his intention to join the club and Carlton D’Souza who runs the Maddington Centro Drycleaners. Both Simon and Carlton were invited to sit in on Committee Meetings which they accepted and both enjoyed.
Robert DaPrato gave a brief report on the visit of a number of club members to the Rotary Club of Nedlands as part of Scatter Night. Souther Districts and Nedlands will try to arrange a full club visit to each others clubs.
Don’t forget that the meeting on the 8th May is the Sloan Endeavour Scholarships night.
The club welcomed AG Joe Byl to the meeting and the final six Rotary ShootOut contenders from the Gosnells Golf Club.
Background information on Rotary and the Clubs activities was provided by Pres. John and Directors Andy Hopper and Robert Da Prato. All six members of the Golf Club expressed their appreciation of the Rotray Club’s efforts in the Community.
Of particular interest was Don McLean from the Golf Club who was a guest speaker a few years ago at one of our High School Scholarship awards nights.
Several members then presented their reports on the clubs “Scatter Night”, where members visit different Rotary clubs during the week.
Next week is Committee Meetings and we are welcoming along DG Elect for District 9455 Philip Skelton and carlton De Souza who is a prospective member.
We have several members of the Gosnells Golf Club visiting with us next week on the 17th. They are the final 6 golfers left in the Rotary Shoot Out competition and we will introduce them to Rotary and also conduct the final draw for the competition.
Please join me in making them all welcome.
Don’t forget that tonight is a “scatter night” so there is no meeting at the club.
Southern Districts Rotarians are encouraged to visit other clubs this week and report back on how we could improve our club with innovative ideas “researched” from other clubs.
A quiet meeting tonight, with committee meetings on the agenda. The club was delighted to welcome along pp Ray Smith who brought us a visitor in Marje Kaspar.
Marje is a fellow Rotarian from Richland in Washington State, USA. Marje is a landscape designer and had some interesting stories to tell us. A very friendly and charming lady.
Marje was kind enough to present the club with a banner from her home club which was gratefully accepted by Pres, John.
Marje Kaspar presents her club banner.
For those of you who didn’t attend the Facebook Seminar, I have included a link to the slideshow which was presented at the seminar. Very successful, with over 150 Rotarians in attendance. A good 50% of whom did not know anything about Facebook, but were keen to get connected.
| Roll Call Dec 2011 | ||||||||
| Club | Meetings | Members | Month % | Months Rank | Prog % | Prog Rank | ||
| M | F | Tot | ||||||
| Albany East | 3 | 14 | 2 | 16 | 68.6% | 39 | 74.1% | 22 |
| Albany Port | 4 | 20 | 3 | 23 | 76.1% | 19 | 81.0% | 6 |
| Applecross | 3 | 32 | 7 | 39 | 72.4% | 31 | 74.5% | 20 |
| Armadale | 2 | 24 | 5 | 29 | 80.0% | 12 | 78.9% | 10 |
| Ascot | 3 | 19 | 14 | 33 | 73.5% | 28 | 67.9% | 41 |
| Attadale | 28 | 6 | 34 | 0.0% | 51 | 19.8% | 51 | |
| Bentley Curtin | 4 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 70.0% | 36 | 65.7% | 45 |
| Booragoon | 2 | 7 | 13 | 20 | 69.4% | 37 | 72.3% | 30 |
| Boulder | 3 | 22 | 0 | 22 | 72.7% | 29 | 73.7% | 23 |
| Bridgetown | 2 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 80.0% | 12 | 79.6% | 8 |
| Bunbury | 3 | 50 | 6 | 56 | 57.0% | 46 | 70.7% | 38 |
| Bunbury Leschenault | 2 | 18 | 4 | 22 | 75.0% | 25 | 62.3% | 46 |
| Busselton G’Bay | 3 | 29 | 2 | 31 | 75.2% | 24 | 71.7% | 32 |
| Byford & Districts | 2 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 50.0% | 49 | 57.5% | 49 |
| Canning Bridge | 2 | 12 | 8 | 20 | 84.5% | 7 | 74.4% | 21 |
| Cannington | 2 | 11 | 4 | 15 | 81.0% | 11 | 72.6% | 28 |
| Cockburn | 4 | 18 | 7 | 25 | 84.3% | 8 | 75.0% | 19 |
| Collie | 4 | 30 | 4 | 34 | 67.8% | 41 | 75.4% | 18 |
| Como | 3 | 35 | 11 | 46 | 82.0% | 10 | 71.7% | 33 |
| Esperance | 3 | 38 | 0 | 38 | 75.0% | 25 | 71.3% | 35 |
| Esperance Bay | 4 | 30 | 6 | 36 | 86.8% | 5 | 82.3% | 4 |
| Fremantle | 3 | 22 | 7 | 29 | 70.1% | 35 | 71.4% | 34 |
| Fremantle Port | 3 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 72.0% | 34 | 78.3% | 11 |
| Gnowangerup | 3 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 78.2% | 17 | 79.2% | 9 |
| Gosnells | 3 | 16 | 2 | 18 | 92.6% | 3 | 81.0% | 7 |
| Hannans-Kalgoorlie | 3 | 6 | 14 | 20 | 65.0% | 43 | 61.0% | 48 |
| Harvey | 3 | 13 | 4 | 17 | 75.8% | 21 | 69.0% | 40 |
| Kalgoorlie | 3 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 72.6% | 30 | 73.7% | 24 |
| Katanning | 2 | 21 | 6 | 27 | 90.8% | 4 | 77.7% | 12 |
| Kenwick | 3 | 17 | 2 | 19 | 76.1% | 19 | 76.6% | 16 |
| Kojonup | 4 | 32 | 0 | 32 | 94.1% | 2 | 91.6% | 1 |
| Kwinana | 3 | 21 | 2 | 23 | 78.8% | 16 | 83.8% | 2 |
| Mandurah | 3 | 30 | 3 | 33 | 72.1% | 32 | 71.8% | 31 |
| Mandurah City | 2 | 15 | 9 | 24 | 55.0% | 47 | 66.6% | 43 |
| Mandurah Districts | 3 | 19 | 5 | 24 | 53.0% | 48 | 62.3% | 47 |
| Manjimup | 3 | 33 | 8 | 41 | 74.0% | 27 | 71.1% | 37 |
| Margaret River | 3 | 27 | 5 | 32 | 68.8% | 38 | 66.6% | 42 |
| Melville | 2 | 25 | 8 | 33 | 75.8% | 21 | 73.0% | 25 |
| Mill Point | 4 | 56 | 18 | 74 | 63.0% | 44 | 66.3% | 44 |
| Mt. Barker | 2 | 9 | 9 | 18 | 94.8% | 1 | 83.2% | 3 |
| Narrogin | 3 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 68.6% | 39 | 72.8% | 26 |
| Palm Beach | 2 | 36 | 1 | 37 | 85.1% | 6 | 81.4% | 5 |
| Pinjarra | 4 | 33 | 3 | 36 | 79.0% | 15 | 76.7% | 14 |
| Rockingham | 2 | 22 | 13 | 35 | 62.4% | 45 | 70.2% | 39 |
| Rossmoyne | 3 | 37 | 8 | 45 | 77.0% | 18 | 72.6% | 27 |
| South Bunbury | 3 | 60 | 3 | 63 | 72.1% | 32 | 71.2% | 36 |
| South Perth-B/wood | 3 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 80.0% | 12 | 76.3% | 17 |
| Southern Districts | 3 | 34 | 8 | 42 | 75.4% | 23 | 76.7% | 15 |
| Victoria Park | 3 | 16 | 4 | 20 | 34.5% | 50 | 52.6% | 50 |
| Wagin | 3 | 12 | 4 | 16 | 83.3% | 9 | 77.1% | 13 |
| Willetton | 3 | 31 | 4 | 35 | 67.5% | 42 | 72.3% | 29 |
| Membership Summary | 1146 | 284 | 1430 | |||||
| Nov total membership was 1435 giving Dec a net loss of 5 members | ||||||||
| Attadale is not participating — RI Pilot club — last known membership used | ||||||||
Last night we heard in a club assembly from all the directors and club service directors what each of their avenues of service have been doing on behalf of the community, Rotary and the club.
We have every reason to feel proud of the work that has been carried out by the Directors and their committees on behalf of the club.
PE John Simpson reminded everyone that the first bell sounded by the sergeant is the call to move to your seats and that two bells signifies the start of the meeting.
Several suggestions were made regarding some activities that the club could get involved in. These will be discussed at the next board meeting.