From the Pen of our President......
Dear fellow Rotarians and friends,
Many thoughts have
come to mind since our meeting on Friday:
I have been putting together a history of the club for the
Rotary Club of Johannesburg (our mothership)– first thought, Rosebank Rotary
Club is AWESOME!!
I have gone through many photos and put them into a video,
there must be hundreds more – where are they? Lets get them all together.
I have been watching the fires raging in Cape Town with
great sadness – thought, we need to be grateful and enjoy what we have!!
I watched the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh on Saturday
afternoon – thought, we REALLY need to count our Blessings and enjoy what we
have!!
Who are you going to share the Ramble with this week?
Please join those of us attending the Centennial this coming
weekend – District is still offering tickets until Thursday.
President - Rotary Club of Rosebank
Johannesburg
Last Friday.....
- Attendance - monitored diligently by Pam Donaldson. On average we had 21 members attend the weekly meetings, a slight decrease from the previous month.
- Membership - David Bradshaw might have been on a well-deserved break in the Cape, but he did submit his report, which our Prez presented.
- Gareth Hood (Sonja's son, who teaches in China) has had his fireside chat and will be inducted on Friday the 30th of April. He will become our second e-member (unless we count Juanette, who is a bit of a hybrid)
- Rui Lopez, who was introduced by PP Jean will have his fireside chat shortly and will be next in line to be inducted.
- Roger Wedlake - used to be an Excalibur member and is very keen to join Rotary Club of Rosebank.
- David has been very busy drumming up enthusiasm at Dainfern with the aim of forming a satellite club. So far there are 8 potential members. He is also looking at Steyn City and Jackal Creek Estate.
- He visited Carol Lawrence, who has settled in nicely at Ekklesia Park in Blairgowrie.
- David plans on picking up Peter Margolius for our next hybrid social meeting at the end of the month, and reports that Hugh Rix and James Byrne are also looking forward to coming to the meeting at Wanderers.
- Jean and Ann visited Judy Powell
- International - James Croswell reported back that he had spoken with Dr Mpho, who heads up the Palliative Care Department at Baragwanath, and he is hoping that we will be able to do a formal handover of the refurbished container at the end of May. James also dispensed with an interesting snippet of information, that one no longer would have to pay a subscription to join an Action Group, and he is encouraging Rotarians to join an Action Group like HEWRAG
- Youth - AG Jean reported that the InteractClub of Highlands North Boys High School had voted for a President and Vice President, but that it was still quite difficult to arrange meetings as only the Matric class attends school daily. They are planning a Blood Drive and organizing a Blanket Drive at the Norwood Spar. They are looking for project suggestions for Mandela Day. District RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) will this year again be an online course
- Publicity - Thanks to our weekly Ramble going to Rotary Africa and also District we have been getting regular exposure in the monthly publications.
- Foundation - Les Short - Not much longer for the Grant reports to be finalized and ultimately submitted, which is a prerequisite if we want to apply for a further grant.
- Fundraising - Sonja Hood and a few others of us (over 200 people to be exact!) attended an enthralling Zoom presentation organized by the Rotary Club of Helderberg in the Cape - Clem Sunter - topic: Beyond 2021 - The World and South Africa - Latest Flags, Scenarios and Probabilities. She is exploring the possibility of inviting Clem to present to a Rotary Club of Rosebank fundraiser. Although our annual Quiz evening is still a few months off, please give some thought to donating prizes for the Raffle.
- Community Services - Sybille had done a sight inspection of the Durban Deep vegetable garden to determine where the JoJo water tank we are donating to the community will be placed.