Last Week
It was also the week of the start of the Rotary Arts Festival so let's just have a number of photographs. On our Facebook Page I will put a slide show of lots of them so click on https://www.facebook.com/rosebankrotary/?ref=bookmarks
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| We presented Nombulelo Yena and Michelle Brook of Omnicom with Certificates of Merit for all their help. |
Frank Taylor
Frank is a member of the Rotary Club of Hatfield, our major partners in the Baragwanath Palliative Care Project and who approached us in the first place.
This is a
rare event, not being a District award, or even a RIBI award, but one from
“head office”, i.e. received out of the 1.2m Rotarians…
Many
congratulations to Frank, being seen here with The Rotary International
Representative Sean Doyle.
This Week
Our Speaker is Louis Nigrini, a motivational speaker...hence the joke about motivational speakers. He is going to talk to us about Volunteerism.
Public Speaking is not for the faint hearted. It takes a good mix of skill, courage and sheer stupidity to get on a stage and tell people all about your greatest moments of joy, pain and sometimes embarrassment. Louis Nigrini is a uniquely talented and budding speaker who has won the Afrikaans, Humourist, Impromptu Speaking and Evaluator’s categories in the Toastmasters Speaking competitions in Southern Africa.
He has spoken at ministry events, corporate functions, schools and community projects all over the country, performing in the capacity of Guest Speaker, Trainer or MC, before audiences ranging from 10’s to thousands. He is also an ATKV accredited judge for both Public Speaking and Debating and served as the chief judge in several School Public Speaking Competitions.
With his background of full time Ministry, being a parent, stage performances, broadcast television and Corporate Communication, Louis is sculpting the art of inspirational storytelling…with a few stories of his own. With the unique brand of “coming of age stories” and tales that shaped his life, Louis has left many a crowd laughing…sometimes at themselves, but mostly at him. He has the ability to capture the crowd in a unique way and leave them with such a powerful message that they will still be pondering about in the days to come.
Louis and his wife also enjoy writing school shows and have seen these creations come to life on several school stages. He is the Production Manager at a video production company in Johannesburg focussing on career advice. He currently lives in Randburg with his wife, Pauli and their two little boys, Luan and Reinhardt.
If you are attending the 2017 Rotary International Convention from 10 to 14 June, you should take time to reflect on the historic convention of 1917, also in Atlanta. There, Arch Klumph gave a speech calling for an endowment, a key moment in the origin of The Rotary Foundation.
Most sessions of the 1917 convention were held atthe Baptist Tabernacle on Luckie Street. The building, now known simply as the Tabernacle, is just a few blocks from this year’s convention home, the Georgia World Congress Center, so stroll across Centennial Olympic Park to Luckie Street and imagine what the convention was like 100 years ago.
Some of the speakers covered topics that were very much of the moment in 1917 (“The Creation of Public Sentiment to Demand and Construct Public Highways”) while others tackled subjects that would not be out of place today (“The Establishment of Vacant Lot Gardening”). There was a Special Assembly on the “Enlightenment of Non-Rotarians as to Rotary,” a subject of perennial concern.
Returning to Atlanta is an apt way to mark the centennial of The Rotary Foundation. It’s a powerful reminder of how far Rotary has come, and how important our core values and mission remain as we look to the next 100 years.
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