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ROTARY CLUB of CLAYTON Inc.
District 9810 Victoria, Australia
Weekly Bulletin 2015-2016
Meets every Monday from 6:30pm at Clayton RSL 163 Carinish Road, Clayton (Melways 79C2)
(No meeting on public holidays)
9th May 2016 Volume 50, Number 38
In This Issue
Upcoming Club Program - (pg1)
Presidents Report – (pg1)
Last Meeting & Notes –
(pg2)
Foundation Facts – (pg2)
Important Club Dates – (pg2)
District 9810 News – (pg3)
Rotaract Club of Monash –
(pg3)
Upcoming Events in Monash – (pg4)
Upcoming Events in Kingston – (pg4)
Where other clubs meet –
(pg4)
Reminders – (pg5)
Joke of the Week – (pg5)
Rotary International News – (pg5)
Upcoming Club Program
To see upcoming guest speakers, use this link - http://www.claytonrotaryclub.org.au/program1.htm
Presidents Report
Hi Everyone, I have had another busy week with three nights out for Rotary. Wednesday I attended Rotaract this was a very interesting and fun night. Hearing about the things they are doing and how positive they are for future growth of Rotaract. Thursday night was also another great night joining with Huntingdale for their Mother’s Day Auction raising funds for The Family Room Monash Children’s Hospital. This was very well run and a very positive night as well as being enjoyable and fun. The speaker was from Tasmania speaking about life as a mother of a child with multiple health issues which she has been traveling to and from Tasmania to Monash with sometimes as an emergency. She has used Ronald McDonald house and the family room 260 plus days and nights over the last 6 or so years. She could not speak highly enough of these facilities. Friday night was the Presidents Night with again excellent speakers. The changes coming in from July 1 which I will discuss at our meeting. Well folks I think this is enough from me. Glenys
Date Speaker Chairperson Desk Visitors
9th May Club Discussion on new Rotary International Changes.
Glenys Pattison All Members All Members
16th May TBA Glenys Pattison All Members All Members
23rd May TBA Glenys Pattison All Members All Members
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Rotary Four Way Test
"Of the things we think, say or do: 1. Is it the Truth? 2. Is it Fair to all concerned? 3. Will it build goodwill and better friendships? 4. Will it be beneficial to all concerned?"
Last Meeting & Notes
Last Meeting (5th May): Apologies = Ed Allchin, John Goldspink, Bronwen Lamond, Bill Sides, Diane Sides and Tom Portelli. Make Ups = None. Leave of Absence = Heather Norling. Visitors = Gaye Barnes. This week our club joined together with the Rotary Club of Huntingdale to run and be a part of the Charity Garden Auction and Pre Mother’s Day Dinner at the Oakleigh-Carnegie RSL. Money raised on the night went to the Ronald McDonald House, Family Room at Monash Children’s Hospital.
Please note that until further notice our meetings will be held at the Clayton RSL.
Meeting Notes:
Lesley Zuccaro reminded the members that on Sunday 19th June there will be a luncheon to join Rotary International President Nominee Ian Riseley and Juliet to wish them well as they embark on Ian’s lead up year before coming President of Rotary International 2017-2018. If you would like to attend please contact Lesley. (Full details in this bulletin).
Ralph Zuccaro informed the members that the club changeover has been tentatively planned for Monday 27th June with the venue still to be confirmed.
Foundation Facts
Did you know that the Paul Harris Fellow is recognition not an award? It is a recognition that a contribution of US$1,000 has been given to the Rotary Foundation in your name.
Important Club Dates Thursday 19/05/16 – Mike Donson talk on Memories of an AFL boundary umpire at Oakleigh-Carnegie RSL. Monday 27/06/16 – Club Changeover – Venue TBA.
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THE OBJECT OF ROTARY
1. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service; 2. High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society; 3. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life; 4. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
District 9810 News
District Training Assembly
Sunday 22nd May 2016
Just a reminder that the 2016 District Training Assembly will be on Sunday 22 May at 9.00am at the Burwood Campus of Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood 3125.
District Changeover
Saturday 25th June 2016
District 9810 Changeover is to be held at Karralyka Centre, Mines Road, Ringwood (7.00 for 7.30pm). Details will soon be emailed to clubs.
Rotaract Club of Monash
Club Meeting Details: The Club meets on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the Month at 7:30pm for a 7:45pm start (Optional social dinner at 6:30, please order your meal by 7pm to ensure you can be there for the start of the meeting) at Waverley RSL (Upstairs in the Sunset Room) 161 Coleman Parade, Glen Waverley.
Upcoming Rotaract Events:
Wednesday 15th June - Days for Girls Kit Packing Evening at Waverley RSL from 7:30 pm
Rotaract Roster:
Date Rotarian to Visit
18th May Bill Sides
1st June Dianne Sides
If you cannot attend on the night you are rostered, please organise a replacement to take your place.
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Special Announcements
Upcoming Events in Monash
SATRANGI 2016 7 Colours Film & Arts Festival Sunday 22 May 2016 Clayton Hall, 264 Clayton Rd, Clayton 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Satrangi festival is dedicated to our beloved patron Bollywood Filmmaker Late Shri Yash Raj Chopra, who left us heavenly abode in 2012. We are greatly inspired from Yash Ji, for his feature film "Chak De India" shot in Melbourne, in which he has conveyed his soulful LOVE and patriotic message of showing the strength of uniting people of all cultures as one.
Satrangi 7 Colors festival incorporates the presentations of productions of all film makers, while recognizing their cast & crew and motivating them to promote the social, cultural and economic benefits of cultural diversity through their film and arts projects.
This festival also aims at strengthening Music, Film & Cultural ties of Victorian/Australian Film, Music & Arts industries with India and globally by recognizing the local talent and productions at this community platform.
It's Open to All Cultures, Origins, and Religions & Age Groups.
Upcoming Events in Kingston
National Families Week - Kidsafe Injury Prevention Talk Tuesday 17 May 2016 Aspendale Gardens Community Service, 103-105 Kearney Dve, Aspendale Gardens 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm Did you know that the home is the most common location where children are injured? During National Families Week, the Aspendale Gardens Community Service will be hosting a series of free talks on keeping family homes safe and harmonious. On Tuesday 17 May, Kidsafe Victoria will present practical advice and solutions for keeping kids safe at home. Hazards covered include burns, falls, poisoning and nursery and equipment safety. Perfect for new parents, grandparents and carers.
Where other Clubs Meet A Rotarian can attend the weekly meeting of any Rotary club around the world. This is a “make-up” and counts as attendance credit when you are not able to attend a meeting of your own club. Details for all District 9810 clubs can be obtained in the district directory or website www.9810rotary.org.au Details for clubs around the world are available in the RI Directory (held by the club secretary) and on the RI website (www.rotary.org)
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Reminders Please ensure that the club is aware if you will be missing a meeting. Contact Lesley Zuccaro on 0438 505 286 or at [email protected] by 4 pm on the day of the meeting, if you are not going to be present. Contributions for inclusion into the Bulletin should be passed to [email protected] by Thursday evening of each week. Please remember if you cannot perform your rostered job, it is your duty to find a replacement to take your place. Note: - Visit our new facebook page at: - https://www.facebook.com/Clayton-Rotary-1571452466502723/
Joke of the Week A new teacher was trying to make use of her psychology courses. She started her class by saying, “Everyone who thinks they’re stupid, stand up.” After a few seconds, little Johnny stood up. “Do you think you’re stupid, little Johnny?” the teacher asked. “No, Miss, but I hate to see you standing there all by yourself.”
Rotary International News
The Rotarian Conversation with The Edge and Garvin Evans By Julie Bain The Rotarian 01-May-2016
Photo Credit: Samy Mosher.
Editor's note: After the May 2016 issue of The Rotarian went to press, we were saddened to learn of the death of Garvin Evans, who along with his son, U2 guitarist The Edge, appeared on the cover of that issue. Evans was a longtime member of the Rotary Club of Dublin North. We are grateful that we were able to share his remarkable story with our readers.
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The boys of U2 are home. It’s Friday, 27 November, two weeks after the terrorist attacks in Paris. Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr. had been in Paris that terrible evening, rehearsing at the venue where they were scheduled to perform the following night. Instead, they had to be evacuated. This band has always been known for its political and social activism, and its songs’ messages against war and terrorism. Tonight, those themes feel particularly relevant.
At 3Arena, once a railway station in the Dublin Docklands, thousands of fans are happily mashed together on the standing-room-only floor. They’re drinking beer and buzzing restlessly as they wait for their hometown heroes, who are wrapping up their six-month iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour, to take the stage. When the plaintive opening “ohhh-OH-oh” notes of “The Miracle of Joey Ramone” sound, followed by The Edge’s scorching, staccato guitar riff – ba-DA-dah, ba-DA-dah – the crowd goes insane.
The Edge’s father, Garvin Evans, 84, was in the arena to hear his son play in the first of four Dublin shows earlier this week, and he will be here again for what was meant to be the final show of the U2 tour. (The band will return to Paris for two rescheduled shows.) The following day, Evans, a tenor, will be singing in a local production of Messiah.
Evans is a big fan not only of U2 but also of Handel, Welsh hymns, golf (he’s an honorary life member of the Royal Dublin Golf Club), really good claret, and Tuesdays, “when three or four of us go to a pub and have a Guinness.” He adores his three kids, six grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. He is secretary of his Presbyterian church and sings in the choir. He is also a longtime member of Rotary and the reason The Rotarian is visiting Dublin: to speak with him and his son about what they have in common and how they’ve inspired each other to try to make the world a better place.
Frequent Rotarian contributor Julie Bain meets them in the five-star Merrion Hotel in Dublin’s city center. Both men arrive early and looking spiffy, Evans in a black and red plaid
tie and The Edge, born David Evans, in his signature knitted cap and buttery-soft black
leather jacket. Evans, born in South Wales, displays a bit of the characteristic Welsh reserve, and so does his son, who was born in London in 1961 before his parents moved to
Dublin in 1962. (His mother, Gwenda, died in 2012.) The two don’t hug, but they are
clearly affectionate and loving. Here, they discuss the topics that are most meaningful to them.
On Irish priorities
EVANS: I’ll never forget my first day in Dublin. I arrived on a Saturday morning. Before lunch I had bought a house [in the northern suburb of Malahide], subject to my wife’s approval, which she gave. And then I did the important thing and went and watched the
East of Ireland golf championships up in Baltray. I tell you, it didn’t take us long to
integrate.
THE EDGE: Without doubt, Dublin is home to me. It’s pretty amazing I can still come home to the house I grew up in. That’s a great reflection on the Irish people, because they don’t really buy in to the celebrity system so much. Are you a person of integrity, and do you have a sense of humor? Are you good fun? Those are things that matter to the Irish, not how big your house or your car is. The Irish would never allow us to get too big for our boots.
EVANS: Dave was born with a smile on his face and was intensely curious about everything. He hasn’t changed a bit.
THE EDGE: We all drift off from time to time, but the healthy thing is to be purely yourself, meaning the same person you were as a kid. It’s consistency. I put a lot of effort into not allowing the success of the band to become in any way detrimental to my values or ideas. We try to avoid the excesses. And if you’ve been blessed, you do what you can to give back.
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On Rotary
EVANS: Back in the 1950s my late wife’s uncle was a Rotarian, and he arranged for Gwenda to go on an exchange program to Sweden. I found out a little bit about Rotary in those days and became intrigued. So when I was approached in 1968, when The Edge was just seven, to join this fledgling club to be known as Dublin North Rotary Club, I jumped at it.
I am, alas, the only founding member of the club still alive. I have been club president twice, been awarded two Paul Harris fellowships, served as district Rotaract extension officer, and two years ago as district secretary for Rotary Ireland, when Verity Swan became the first woman district governor for Rotary Ireland. [Evans’ two other children, Richard and Gillian, participated in short-term Rotary Youth Exchanges.]
THE EDGE: I was aware of Rotary, but I was quite ignorant about what was going on. I knew my dad wore this funny pin on his lapel from time to time. You pick up tidbits as you grow up, and I understood as time went on that it was mostly about charitable activities and outreach in the community and kind of general social enterprise-type activities.
My own world of involvement with philanthropy and activism started through the band. Having achieved a certain level of success, we had this platform and opportunity to do things. It was a very pleasant shock to see how my world and my dad’s world had come full circle when I discovered that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which our band has been associated with for a while, had partnered with Rotary to take on polio. I suddenly got a full sense of what Rotary was about. I went to a dinner with my dad [honoring his 40th year in Rotary] and saw the level of commitment and the immense value of Rotary that evening. That’s when I finally got it.
EVANS: As a child I was very aware of the dangers of polio. Every summer in Wales, it was dreaded. It wasn’t until Dr. Jonas Salk developed his vaccine that we were able to come to grips with it. And even then you had to get it to the people. That’s what Rotary is about.
On philanthropy
THE EDGE: It’s hard to differentiate between activism and philanthropy, because whether you’re giving your time or money, you want to take advantage of whatever platform you have to get the best results. For me that often turns out to be music-related, obviously. And it’s often very personal. That’s why after Hurricane Katrina I was co-founder of a new charity called Music Rising that was focused on preserving the music culture of New Orleans. I had met so many of the musicians from that area, and we were able to get a lot of them back to work by replacing their equipment and instruments. Then the next phase was to get the schools and churches re-equipped. Then we managed to establish a new course of study at Tulane University focused on the music of the area, which I’m extremely proud of. It’s a legacy project because it means that these great musical traditions are being documented and understood in a much more in-depth way.
EVANS: Incidentally, I had the interesting experience of playing golf with Bill Clinton in 2009. We shared a buggy, and he talked a lot about Music Rising. He was quite aware of it and very impressed because he said he used to go to New Orleans in his younger days and jam with the musicians. So it got through to the presidential level! You never know.
On music
EVANS: I’m a tenor, and I still sing in choir, although I don’t do as much solo work as I used to. But I really enjoy most types of music, apart from country and western. And traditional Irish music doesn’t send me wild.
THE EDGE: I remember growing up, there were a couple of standout musical experiences that I associate with home and my parents. We had a piano and a record player in the living room, so that room was infused with music a lot of the time. We had a collection of my dad’s classical records, some great Frank Sinatra records, and some obscure things
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like Herb Alpert. Then at a certain age, my brother and sister and I started to acquire a couple of our own LPs. Our very first purchases were the Beatles. We bought A Hard Day’s Night and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Those are the early influences that I associate with home.
But the other one that made a huge impact was church singing. We had a decent enough
set of voices in our Presbyterian church in Malahide. But it was when I would go with my
parents back to Wales, we would go to chapel and have this experience of hearing an
entire Welsh congregation singing hymns in perfect four-part harmony. Literally the hairs
on the back of my neck went up because it’s so unbelievably powerful.
On cancer
THE EDGE: Not many people knew that my youngest daughter was diagnosed with leukemia when she was seven. There are certain personal things that you just don’t want to bring into your public life. At that time, it was extremely difficult for the family, and I did not want to add any sort of media coverage around it. We met many families in far worse situations. Our daughter’s chances of survival were always very high. But it was an ordeal nonetheless. She had a lot of chemo over a very long period of time.
When your child is ill, as a parent the first thing you try to do is fully understand what’s going on. So I dove into the science of cancer treatment. I stumbled upon the Angiogenesis Foundation through a friend who told me about William Li, the CEO. So initially I was just asking Dr. Li a thousand questions about everything he knew about cancer treatment and how angiogenesis inhibitors could be part of a cure. [A new class of cancer drugs starves cancerous tumors of oxygen and nutrients by blocking angiogenesis, the growth of blood vessels.]
As time went on, I got more and more impressed by what they were doing and decided to commit to being a board member. I’ve been on the board for almost 10 years now. About 100 drugs are in the R&D pipeline now. It’s a revolution in medicine.
EVANS: I have a spinoff of this, because I’ve had cancer for the last 10 years. I had chemotherapy yesterday, actually.
THE EDGE: Dad is here in part because of the revolution in angiogenesis treatments.
EVANS: Absolutely. I’ve had, let me see, colon cancer, liver cancer twice, lung cancer,
and, at the moment, pleural cancer. I’m living with it. And I’m fortunate that the anti-
angiogenesis drug I’m on is keeping the cancer at bay, and it has very little side effects.
On parenting
THE EDGE: The thing about a father-son relationship is that you often end up not exactly doing what you were told but imitating what you saw happen. My father’s instinct for philanthropy, for activism and engagement, had an effect on me. And he definitely influenced what I do and say to my kids. When it comes to parenting techniques and philosophy, it’s funny to observe the echoes of what my mom and dad were like as parents reflected in me. I recognize that influence in tiny, trivial things. That’s the moment when it crystallizes and you think, “Oh, wow! There’s a lineage, a heritage here, and I’m part of that.”
EVANS: Well, Gwenda and I were never Victorian parents. When Edge wanted to choose
the band over college, we talked about it and we said, “Let him do it, let him get it out of his
system. If it works, great. If it doesn’t work, at least you can never turn around and say we
thwarted his ambitions.” So we were pretty laid back about it. I think I could sum up our
approach in these words, as advice to all parents, really: Never stand in the way of your children’s dreams – they might just come true.
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