ROTARY CLUB of CLAYTON Inc.

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1 ROTARY CLUB of CLAYTON Inc. District 9810 Victoria, Australia Weekly Bulletin Meets every Monday from 6:30pm at Clayton RSL 163 Carinish Road, Clayton (Melways 79C2) (No meeting on public holidays) 19 th September 2016 Volume 51, Number 12 In This Issue Upcoming Club Program Upcoming Club Program - (pg1) Presidents Report (pg1) Last Meeting & Notes (pg2) Foundation Facts (pg2) Important Club Dates (pg3) District 9810 News (pg3) About Rotary (pg3) Rotaract Club of Monash (pg4) Where other clubs meet (pg5) Reminders (pg5) Joke of the Week (pg5) Rotary International News (pg6) Date Speaker Chairperson Desk Visitors 19 th Timor Leste visit Ralph Zuccaro All Members All Members September Dianne Sides 26 th Board Meeting Ralph Zuccaro All Members All Members September 3 rd October Rotary Information Ralph Zuccaro All Members All Members Night To see upcoming guest speakers, use this link - Presidents Report Hi Members and Friends, Last Monday night was our committee meeting night. It was a very productive meeting and it was good to see all the committee's at work in their groups. looking forward to seeing their outcomes. On Wednesday night I attended a meeting at Dixon house with our Community Committee, Val and Dianne to discuss the up and coming Dinner function to be held for Dixon House next February. Further information will be forthcoming as the planning progresses. On Thursday night Lesley attended the Community Information night at Bunnings South Oakleigh where all community groups were given updated information on the requirements for running their Bunnings BBQ's and the other opportunities to raise awareness and funds for their community groups by holding street stalls in the foyer. Heather's jams and preserves stand was highlighted on the screen as Bunnings Activities Co-ordinator Saray Baselyous spoke to us all. There were also three officers from the Kingston Council explaining to all how to register on Street Trader and how to submit their activities on the site for registration. It was an interesting and informative night for all. Lesley will be resending the updated rosters for the four Bunnings BBQs as we are still needing assistance for some of the times. At present these BBQ's represent our only source of much needed income for a while. 19 th September 2016 Page 1 of 10 Volume 51, Number 12

2 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?" Tonight we have the pleasure of hearing from speaker Dianne Sides of her recent visit to Timor-Leste where she visited Anton and family. We are looking forward to hearing the update. Yours in Rotary. Ralph Last Meeting & Notes Last Meeting (12 th September): Apologies = John Goldspink, Sam Oddo, Tom Portelli, Jim Cochrane and Jean Cochrane. Make Ups = None. Leave of Absence = Bronwen Lamond. Visitors = None. This week we held our committee meetings where the club members split into their committee groups to plan for the year ahead. Please note that until further notice our meetings will be held at the Clayton RSL. Meeting Notes: Ralph Zuccaro reported that we received a thank you letter for DG Carol & Frank Lawton for the hospitality we gave then during their visit last week and also a comment on the service that our club provides. Ralph Zuccaro informed the members that the club now has four BBQ dates coming up during September and in October. The dates for the BBQ s are Friday 30 th September at South Oakleigh Bunnings, Saturday 1 st October and Sunday 2 nd October, where these two BBQ s will be held at Chadstone Bunnings. The BBQ on Saturday 22 nd October will be held at South Oakleigh Bunnings. A roster for the four BBQ s will be sent out soon. Please let Ralph or Lesley know if you can help out. Our meeting on Monday 7 th November will be changed to Thursday 10 th November so that the club can attend the RC of Huntingdale at the Oakleigh RSL to hear their guest Speaker Kathy Kaplin speak on Security Pendants. Ralph Zuccaro has informed the members that we have an opportunity to help out with the Golf car parking from the 24 th to 27 th Novembers. All members are requested to support this event if possible. On Sunday the 13 th November the club is hosting Lunch at the Vines at the Six Acres Winery in Silvan for Foundation, where funds raised will go towards the support of mobile medical camps in the slum villages of Moradabad, India. (see the flyer attached to this bulletin) Foundation Facts Did you know that a group of Rotarians can combine their points to make Recognition? The minimum transfer is 100 points and in denominations of 100 points. 19 th September 2016 Page 2 of 10 Volume 51, Number 12

3 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. Important Club Dates Friday 30/09/16 Bunnings BBQ (Oakleigh South). Saturday 01/10/16 Bunnings BBQ (Chadstone). Sunday 02/10/16 Bunnings BBQ (Chadstone). Saturday 22/10/16 Bunnings BBQ (Oakleigh South). Sunday 13/11/16 Lunch at the Vines at Six Acres. Raising funds to support mobile medical camps in the slum villages of Moradabad, India. Catering by renowned Rotary Chef - Jeffrey Tan. To book a spot go to (see the flyer attached to this bulletin) Monday 14/11/16 Club AGM. District 9810 News District Community Seminar Friday 7th October 2016 Mt Waverley Youth Centre 45 Miller Crescent, Mt Waverley 6.30pm for 7.00pm Put it in your diary today!! Hear how clubs with work others in the community to make a difference. Tell us Who's Coming - by 2nd October 2016 Please RSVP to: shia.duncan@gmail.com Full Details click here About Rotary We are 1.2 million neighbors, friends, and community leaders who come together to create positive, lasting change in our communities and around the world. Our differing occupations, cultures, and countries give us a unique perspective. Our shared passion for service helps us accomplish the remarkable. What makes us different? Our distinct point of view and approach gives us unique advantages: We see differently: Our multidisciplinary perspective helps us see challenges in unique ways. We think differently: We apply leadership and expertise to social issues and find unique solutions. We act responsibly: Our passion and perseverance create lasting change. We make a difference at home and around the world: Our members can be found in your community and across the globe. How do we work? Our impact starts with our members people who work tirelessly with their clubs to solve some of our communities' toughest challenges. Their efforts are supported by Rotary 19 th September 2016 Page 3 of 10 Volume 51, Number 12

4 Special Announcements 5 th October Gaye Barnes Birthday 8 th October -Sam Oddo Birthday International, our member association, and The Rotary Foundation, which turns generous donations into grants that fund the work of our members and partners around the world. Rotary is led by our members responsible leaders who help to carry forward our organization's mission and values in their elected roles. Explore our structure How did we get here? We've been making history and bringing our world closer together for over 100 years. Since forming in 1905, we've taken on some of the world's toughest challenges and helped a wide range of international and service organizations from the UN to Easter Seals get started. Learn about Rotary's history How do we use our funds? Responsible leadership means more than just doing good work it means making the most out of every donation we receive. See how we maximize our impact What causes do we support? We have identified specific causes to target to maximize our local and global impact. At the same time, we understand that each community has its own unique needs and concerns. Through our network of resources and partners, we help clubs focus their service efforts in promoting peace, fighting disease, providing clean water, saving mothers and children, supporting education, and growing local economies. Learn more about the service projects that support our causes 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: Rotaract Roster: Date Rotarian to Visit 21 st September Warren Fricke 5 th October Bronwen Lamond If you cannot attend on the night you are rostered, please organise a replacement to take your place. 19 th September 2016 Page 4 of 10 Volume 51, Number 12

5 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 Details for clubs around the world are available in the RI Directory (held by the club secretary) and on the RI website ( Reminders Please ensure that the club is aware if you will be missing a meeting. Contact Lesley Zuccaro on or at info@claytonrotaryclub.org.au 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 michaele@netspace.net.au 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. Visit our new Facebook page or click Joke of the Week A paperboy enters a newsagent and his boss whispers to a customer, This is the dumbest kid in the world. Watch this. The owner puts a $5 note in one hand and two $2 coins in the other, then calls the paperboy over and asks, Which do you want, mate? The boy takes the coins and leaves. What did I tell you? says the owner. That kid is an idiot! Later, when the customer leaves, he sees the same young boy coming out of the ice cream shop. Hey kid! Can I ask you a question? he asks. Why did you take the four dollars instead of the five dollars? The boy answers, Because, once I take the five dollars, the game is over. 19 th September 2016 Page 5 of 10 Volume 51, Number 12

6 Rotary International News Ironman triathlete Minda Dentler challenges world to end polio As told to David Goodstone 9-Sep-2016 Minda Dentler becomes the first woman hand cyclist to complete the 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile cycle, and 26.2-mile marathon of the Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, USA. I was born in 1978 in Mumbai to a domestic worker and single mother. At six months old, I was paralyzed from the hips down by polio. The chances of surviving in India until your 18th birthday with a disability are very slim. My mother was unable to care for me and left me at an orphanage. I don't remember much about my time there because I was so young, but I know the conditions were primitive. I had no real hope that my life would become anything of note or that I would have the opportunity to be independent and overcome the burden of a very preventable disease. I didn't know it then, but several years after I was born, a revolution in the way the world approached polio prevention came to India. That revolution was the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which has reduced global polio cases by 99.9 percent since But like millions of others in India, I never received the two drops of oral vaccine that protect against the virus. In India, your health is vital to your social and economic opportunities. If you are healthy, you can get a job, and if you have a job, you can get married. Unfortunately, this simple passage of convention seemed beyond my reach. But then my life changed irrevocably once more. At age three, I was adopted by Bruce and Ann Dentler and joined their family of two children and another adopted son, from Korea. I moved to Spokane, Washington, USA, shortly after my third birthday. Over the next few years, I underwent a series of surgeries on my hips, legs, and back to straighten my body, and I could eventually walk with leg braces and crutches. My parents had the same expectations of me as they did of my siblings and set the tone that having a disability should not prevent me from doing whatever I wanted to do with my life. I had to do the same chores and do my homework. It was a very happy childhood. I loved to compete, so I threw myself into many activities, from debating at school to playing the piano. I graduated from high school and moved to Seattle to study business at the University of Washington. While in college, I interned at the White House and IBM. I studied abroad in Spain and backpacked through Europe by myself, wearing my leg braces and crutches. Upon graduating, I moved to New York City for a management consulting job. I pursued an MBA, got married, and now work at a large multinational insurance 19 th September 2016 Page 6 of 10 Volume 51, Number 12

7 company. Through my example, I hope people can see that a disability shouldn't hinder someone from living a full and productive life. While living in New York, I met Dick Traum, the first amputee to complete the New York City Marathon in Dick later founded a nonprofit, Achilles International, which provides free training and support to help people with disabilities participate in sports. He gave me a hand cycle, which is a three-wheeled recumbent bicycle propelled by the arms, and encouraged me to train for a marathon. This opened up a new world of opportunity for me, and I completed the New York City Marathon in my hand cycle in My next challenge was thought to be impossible for a female wheelchair athlete: The Ironman Triathlon. I made the transition to triathlon and finished my first Ironman in Louisville, Kentucky, USA, and qualified for the world championship in Kona, Hawaii, in The Ironman Triathlon requires a wheelchair athlete like me to swim 2.4 miles, hand cycle 112 miles, and push a racing wheelchair 26.2 miles, all within tight time limits for each stage of the course. But at the Kona Ironman, I failed to make the 10½-hour cutoff time for the cycling portion. I was disappointed, but I'd faced harder setbacks before. The failure steeled my determination, and I decided to regroup and try again the next year. By October 2013, I was back at the starting line for the Kona Ironman in Hawaii for the second time. I was bidding to become the first woman hand cyclist in history to finish the Ironman World Championship. Just as my parents had insisted that I complete the same chores as my siblings, the Ironman event demanded that I complete the course within the same strict time limits as every other able-bodied competitor. I had qualified for the race and earned the right to compete on a level playing field, but if I did complete the race, it would mean something more than achieving another personal goal. Every stroke in the water and crank forward on my hand cycle were movements for those who could not lift limbs paralyzed by polio. With every rotation of the wheels on my racing wheelchair, I was moving forward for the millions of polio survivors who would never get this opportunity. When I finally crossed the finish line 14 hours and 39 minutes after I started, I was overwhelmed with joy and excitement. It was a storybook ending and the realization of a dream that seemed impossible to achieve. I'd followed Rotary's polio eradication efforts for some time when I had the honor of being invited to speak at a World Polio Day event in Since then, I've been one of Rotary's polio ambassadors, helping to raise awareness for the End Polio Now campaign. In this role, I was offered an opportunity to return to India for the first time since I was a child. Last year I set off for the country where most people said polio could never be eradicated. But against the odds, one year after my first successful Ironman World Championship, India did eradicate polio despite the challenges of crowded slums with poor sanitation, the second largest population in the world, the weakened immune systems of millions living in poverty without proper nourishment. Despite all this, Southeast Asia was certified polio free in The enormity of this achievement is clear if you consider that less than a decade ago, India reported almost half of the world's new polio cases. But until the disease is eradicated everywhere, it could easily return. So on my trip, I participated in a National Immunization Day, when 172 million children through age five are immunized against polio. One of the most memorable moments for me was meeting a polio survivor named Parveen at St. Stephen's Hospital in New Delhi. It was a stark reminder of a tale of two worlds. Here she was, the same age as me, but we are living very different lives. I was adopted and catapulted into a life of privilege. At age 37, Parveen is illiterate, without resources, and has been a burden on her family. I do not want to see other children become victims of polio and suffer the lifelong effects of a preventable disease. It was heartbreaking to me, and, as a mother, I want for her and all 19 th September 2016 Page 7 of 10 Volume 51, Number 12

8 children in the world, no matter their circumstances, to have a chance at a healthy life. Rotary is changing the world, one child and two drops of vaccine at a time. I've had good fortune at various stages of my life. I was adopted by a loving family after three years in an orphanage. I was given my first hand cycle by Achilles International in New York. I had the support of my family to push me across the finish line in Hawaii. But I hope readers realize that my story is also one of empowerment and personal choice. Whether you are a polio survivor, a supporter of the polio eradication effort, or even someone who is surprised polio is still a threat we all have an important choice to make. We can choose to have our children vaccinated and ensure that other parents in our communities do the same. I know what it is to miss out on this life-changing vaccine, as my childhood wasn't the same. In India, I also met Rukhsar Khatoon, the country's last documented polio victim, and it made me realize that when we finally do end polio, our work will not be over. There are 10 million to 20 million polio survivors worldwide, and they need more than physical rehabilitation. It will be another lifetime's work to ensure that every polio survivor has access to a good education and to prevent stigmatization in communities or the workplace because of a physical disability. The least we can do in the present is to make the choice to prevent more needless suffering by vaccinating our children. And soon, our children, and their children, will live in a world without polio. Just imagine. 19 th September 2016 Page 8 of 10 Volume 51, Number 12

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