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The Official Bulletin of the Rotary Club of
                                                   Freshwater Bay Inc.
                      PO Box 168, Nedlands, Western Australia, 6909    District 9455      ABN: 99 602 195 617

                      Volume 4, Issue 21                 25t h November - 2nd December 2011

        Meeting 23rd November              Community           /Vocational      ANZACS Tour
        Meeting 30th November              Meeting                              Ian Westoby
        Club        Christmas/Birthday     Items for Hamper                     D. 3310 Fundraising Walk for
        Function                           Pasta and Sauce for Manna            Polio
        Congratulations AG Simone          Update on Microscopes                Projects visited in Kota Kinabalu
        New Members                        RF Matching Grant for Maiti          Former Rotary Youth Exchange
        Elham Teimouri                     Nepal                                Student
        New Address for Gordon Hay         Claremont Christmas Activity         Attachment ‘IN THE CARDS”
        Board Nominations                  Christmas dinner for the lonely       Birthdays
                                           Quiz Night


 Meeting 23rd November                    pictures of the wild animals taken
                                          while working with their partners            Meeting 30th November
Dr. Helen Jones-Fairnie and PP            in Africa. The Save Foundation is a
                                          totally voluntary foundation.            The Annual Address on the Rotary
Dr. Ian Fairnie from the RC of
                                          Funds are raised through a variety       Foundation, the Dr Ken Collins
Perth and Executive Director of
                                          of events, trips and donations. All      Address, will replace the regular
Service Abroad Australasia, spoke
                                          funds raised are committed to            meeting of the Club.
about the Save Foundation of
                                          direct action on the ground in           Members need to have registered
Australia. Ian has lead more than
                                          Africa to support programs and           and paid on line for this.
50 study tours to Asia, however
                                          projects that stop poaching and          7.00pm for 7.30pm Laguna Veneto
this time he spoke on his recent
                                          educate on the importance of             Club, 49 Homer St, Mt Lawley
time in Africa and the problems of
                                          saving endangered species. We            Speaker is RI Pres. Elect Sakuji
extinction facing the rhinoceros.
                                          appreciate Helen and Ian taking          Tanaka from Japan.           Alumni
Founded in 1987, the SAVE
                                          the time to inform us of the plight      speaker is MP Ben Wyatt.
FOUNDATION of Australia
(Inc.) is committed to saving             of these animals with an engaging
Africa's endangered species from          presentation.
                                                                                   Club Christmas/Birthday
extinction, with the main focus of                                                             Function
their activities on the conservation
of the African Black Rhinoceros in
                                                                                   This event is booked for Thursday,
Zimbabwe. Dr. Helen spoke with
                                                                                             22nd December, 2011 at
us regarding the progress
                                                                                             the Nedlands Golf Club,
made on saving the
                                                                                             Melvisa Ave, Nedlands.
African Black Rhinoceros
                                                                                             Cost is $50 pp for a three
and the barriers and
                                                                                             course meal. Money for
struggles      in    saving
                                                                                             this is to be paid in
endangers          species.
                                                                                             advance and can be paid
Projects include small
                                                                                             into the Club’s Westpac
scale breeding ranches
                                                                                             Operating Account BSB
for rhinos, the painted
                                                                                             036-34 A/c 304015.
dogs project, projects for
                                                                                             Please include name and
the     conservation     of
                                                                                             event.
gorillas, hyenas, lions
                                                                                             Please put the date in
and       elephants      in
                                                                                             your diary and invite
Namibia,           Zambia,
                                                                                             friends and family to
Rwanda,       Zaire,   and
                                                                                             ensure a good number
Zimbabwe.              The
                                                                                             are present and that it is
presentation           was
                                                                                             a successful function.
enhanced by the lovely         Finish line for the End Polio Walk with PRID Ken Collins &
                                                 PDG George Kinikun



Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay, District 9455                                                                        Page 1
An entertaining speaker,                                                                   Fundraising             and
actor Faith Richardson,                                                                    Membership.
has been organised by Bill
Hassell.
                                                                                                 Community
                                                                                                 /Vocational
  Congratulations                                                                                  Meeting
    AG Simone
                                                                                            Dir. Wilma McBain has set
AG PP Simone Carot                                                                          a    meeting     for    the
Collins has been busy                                                                       Committee               for
using her IT and social                                                                     immediately     after   the
networking skills to update                                                                 regular club meeting on
and inform Rotarians in D.                                                                  Wednesday, 7th December.
9690, NSW.                                                                                  A Rotary Club is not able
Simone has been invited to                                                                  to function effectively
serve on the RI Sydney         Children   from the School for the Deaf in Kota Kinabalu     without regular monthly
Convention Committee for                                                                    committee meetings as
the Rotary Convention which will                                                   that is where direction and
be held in Sydney in 2014.                 New Address for Gordon                  projects are discussed and set.
Simone has also been invited to                           Hay                      Attendance at committee meetings
participate in a workshop on Social                                                should be treated as a priority.
Networking at the RI Convention
                                          This weekend Gordon will be
in Bangkok in May.
                                          coming onto dry land after living              Items for Hamper
Congratulations from all in the
                                          on a boat since his arrival in Perth.
RCFB Simone.
                                          Gordon’s new address is 6
                                                                                   Dir Jenny Gill has requested
                                          Archdeacon St, Nedlands, right
                                                                                   assistance in the form of a food
       New Members                        next door to our Treasurer Toni
                                                                                   hamper for a young lady with
                                          and Bill James.
                                                                                   advanced Alzheimer’s Disease.
Due to the next meeting being                                                      Dir. Wilma has asked that
transferred to the Dr KCA, new                 Board Nominations                   members bring in items to
members Pam Reynolds and                                                           contribute to the hamper. When
Vanessa Wood will be ‘officially’                                                  shopping, perhaps you can put a
                                          Nominations for the Board for
inducted the following week, 7th                                                   couple of extra items that may be
                                          2012-13 are being sought. If you
December.                                                                          suitable for the hamper in your
                                          are interested in serving as a
Delighted to have you both join the                                                trolley and bring them along to the
                                          Director, Secretary or Treasurer,
RC Freshwater Bay Pam and                                                          meeting 7th December.
                                          please have a nomination form
Vanessa.
                                          completed and returned to the
                                          Secretary by 7th December.                    Pasta and Sauce for
      Elham Teimouri                      Elections to take place at the Club
                                          meeting 14th December.                                 Manna
Elham, a frequent visitor and             Nominations have been received
                                          for    PE,     International     and     Carina Marshall and her friend Jo
‘Friend of the RCFB’ is a PhD                                                      collect packets of pasta and jars of
student with Prof Ralph Martins.          Community/Voc. Directors. Still
                                          required are New Generations,            pasta sauce each year and donate
Elham and her friend Maryam are                                                    them to Bev and John Lowe at
both from Iran          and                                                                Manna Industries.
interested in assisting the                                                                Once again, if members
club with its projects.                                                                    would like to assist Carina
Elham suddenly took ill                                                                    and Jo with their Pasta and
and has been diagnosed                                                                     Sauce project they would
with MS. She is currently                                                                  love your contribution.
in the Ramsay section of
Joondalup Hospital and no
doubt would appreciate a                                                                         Update on
visit from any member able                                                                      Microscopes
to do so. However, as she
may be discharged soon it                                                                  Gordon Hay has arranged a
would be advisable to                                                                      meeting with CS Lyn
phone first. The hospital                                                                  Beazley, Brett Sabien from
number is 9400 9400.                                                                       Royalties for Regions along
Gordon paid her a visit on                                                                 with Ken and Di Collins to
                                 Children from the School for the Deaf in Kota
Sunday.                                                                                    see if funds can be obtained
                                                  Kinabalu

Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay, District 9455                                                                   Page 2
for regional areas to advance the       David Brockway from Shelter box         like to join with others for a meal
Microscopes in Schools project.         for bringing it along for the Club      on 25th December. To date there
The meeting is taking place on          and also thanks to Mike Penny for       have been 5 interested people
Monday (28th) afternoon.                his attendance and bringing his         make contact.
Orders and enquiries continue to        money spinner machine for our
flow in. Three further orders are       use.
awaiting    payment     prior    to                                                       Quiz Night
distribution (Albany, Fremantle         Setting up commenced at 3:30 and
and Rockingham) plus an enquiry         then the streets were closed to all     The RC Joondalup is holding a
has been received from the Pres. of     traffic and the event got underway      Quiz Night on 21st January, 2012.
the RC of Tweed Heads South in D.       at 4:30pm with a street parade and      Cost $10 per person. Contact
9640, NSW                               the whole event went until              colin@connectedlearning.com.au
                                        8:30pm. It was a very friendly and
Hello Di,                               colourful night with all sorts                  ANZACS Tour
My name is Valerie Haywood,             of stalls and displays to be seen.
President of Rotary Club of Tweed       Stilt walkers, bungy jumps and
Heads      South    in    Northern      bongo drums for families to join        After the RI Convention in
                                                                                Bangkok, on 10th May, 2011, a trip
NSW, District 9640.                     in, to name just a few. Our tally at
While visiting family in Narrogin,      the end of the night and for            to HELLFIRE PASS has been
I was present at a school assembly      donation to Shelter box was             organised by PDG Jennifer Scot t
where the local Rotary Club             $171.90, this was nearly all five       E: scottadr@optusnet.com.au Cost
presented St. Matthews Primary          and ten cent pieces put in by the       is $100 pp and will be of particular
School with microscopes.                children having fun watching the        interest to members with an
This is a wonderful learning tool       money spin around and go into the       interest in the history of the
for young people. I would be            final                         hole.     ANZACS in the Second World
interested in exploring the              Thanks also go to Matt Milner          War.
possibility of starting such a          (Warren's son) and Andrew
project over here.                      Hassell (son of Sue and Bill) who                Ian Westoby
I would be grateful for any             lent their time and their muscle in
information you can provide             helping to set up and dismantle the     DG Liz has advised that Ian is
regarding the setting up of this        display...very much appreciated by      progressing well and it is hoped he
project.                                us                               all.   will be home in 3-4 weeks.
Yours in Rotary,                        Rotary members who attended             Good news for all concerned.
Valerie Haywood. President.             were Bill and Sue Hassell, Bryant
Rotary Club of Tweed Heads              Stokes, Margaret Stuart, Gordon
South.                                  Hay and Wilma McBain.                       D. 3310 Fundraising
                                                                                       Walk for Polio
 RF Matching Grant for                  Christmas dinner for the
                                                                                From 7-18th November two drivers
     Maiti Nepal                                lonely                          of support vehicles accompanied
                                                                                eight Rotarians who walked (and
Gillian Yudelman has prepared a        The Post Newspaper has run two           climbed) 340 klms from East to
RF Matching Grant application          articles on the RCFB coordinating        West Saba to raise funds for Polio
which is ready to be submitted to      a luncheon on Christmas Day for          Eradication.
the    Rotary    Foundation   for      people who are alone and would           It is the third walk to raise funds
equipment for Maiti                                                                        for Polio that PP Robin
Nepal Foundation.                                                                          Tay has organised. The
Look forward to hearing                                                                    first was two years ago
of the progress Gillian.                                                                   when Rotarians walked
                                                                                           from northern Malaysia
      Claremont                                                                            to KL, the second was
                                                                                           last year when they
      Christmas                                                                            walked from KL to
        Activity                                                                           Singapore and this year
                                                                                           it was from West Saba to
On     Thursday       24th                                                                 Kota Kinabalu. The next
November            RCFB                                                                   walk is planned to be
participated    in     the                                                                 from northern Thailand
Claremont      Christmas                                                                   to Bangkok in time for
Carnival by displaying a                                                                   the RI Convention in
Shelter box and had a                                                                      May.
money      spinner     for                                                                 Money was still coming
donations to Shelter           Walkers and drivers for the D. 3310 Polio Saba Walk         in and it is hoped that
box. A big thank you to
Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay, District 9455                                                               Page 3
Equipment from a Matching Grant for the School for the
                                                                       Deaf in Kota Kinabalu
                                                  of the visit on 17th          On a brief visit to Mulu a World
                                                  December which were           Heritage site in the Sarawak
                                                  gratefully received.          rainforests, Ken and Di chatted
                                                                                with a young recently married
                                                   The School for the Deaf      couple, Priska and Urs Burri-
 Oven from a Matching Grant for the School for     is another project of the    Muller.      Priska, from Bern,
          the Deaf in Kota Kinabalu                RC of Kota Kinabalu          Switzerland had been a Rotary
the amount this year will be                       which they started back      Youth Exchange Student to the RC
somewhere between $100 and             in 1978. As it is the end of the year    of Canberra in 1999-2000. Six
$150 thousand.                         and schools are breaking up until        couples from Canberra travelled to
Rotarians in D. 3310 walked the        early January, the end of school         Switzerland to attend Priska and
last leg either 11klms or 4klms.       final Assembly and Concert was           Urs wedding.
PRID Ken and Di were the               held over to the afternoon for the       Rotary touches the lives of
Representatives of RI Pres. Kalyan     benefit of the visit by Rotarians. A     countless numbers of people
and Binota Banerjee at the District    Matching Grant for an oven and           around the world and is without
Conference and Ken and his Aide        mixers is just one of the many           doubt the greatest tool the world
were amongst those who walked          projects undertaken by the Club.         has for uplifting humanity and
the last 4 klms.                       With this equipment biscuits etc         creating a better world.
An outstanding effort. Well done       are made and proceeds from the
to PP Robin and team!                  sale of the products benefit the
                                       School.                                     Attachment ‘IN THE
                                                                                         CARDS”
 Projects visited in Kota
        Kinabalu                                                                As members do not subscribe to
                                         Former Rotary Youth                    the    Rotarian     Magazine,   an
Don Bosco’s Orphanage near Mt             Exchange Student                      excellent article ‘In The Cards’ is
Kinabalu was one of the                                                         attached which it is recommended
projects visited by Ken                                                                  all members take the time
and Di. Both genders are                                                                 to read.
housed at the Orphanage
which receives assistance                                                                      Birthdays
from the Rotary Clubs in
Kota Kinabalu.
                                                                                        Birthday greetings go to
Currently there are 71
                                                                                        Gordon Hay for 29th Nov,,
orphans at Don Bosco,
                                                                                        Paddy Ramanathan and
which     is   down     (a
                                                                                        Rex Evans for 30th Nov,
wonderful sign) on over
                                                                                        and Mignon Shardlow for
100 previously looked
                                                                                        6th December.    A very
after. The children attend
                                                                                        Happy Day is wished to
local schools and are well
                                                                                        each one of you.
cared for by Brother Ben
and Sister Loretta. The
Rotarians donated a hose
and emergency lights to       Former RYE Student Priska and husband Urs
the Orphanage at the time
Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay, District 9455                                                               Page 4
Roster for Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay for Month of Nov/Dec 2011

Date              Program            Duty                Attendance         Introduction         Vote of Thanks

30th November       RIPE Sakuji      Annual Dr Ken         Laguna Veneto    7.00pm for 7.30pm       Book on line
                      Tanaka         Collins Address      Club, Mt Lawley

 7th December       John Fleming       Gordon Hay           Ken Collins         Di Collins         Alistair Brown

 7th December     Comm/Voc Cttee      After Regular
                     Meeting          Club meeting

14th December      Bernard Bowen        Jim Gould           Sue Hassell       Jill Henderson          Paddy
                                                                                                    Ramanathan

22nd December     Faith Richardson      Rex Evans            Jim Gould         Bill Hassell         Sue Hassell


   NB: ‘Duty’ responsibility is to set up venue and to pack away venue after meeting.



  Board Rotary 2011-12
                                       Jim    Gould   – Membership             President-Bryant Stokes
Bryant Stokes – President              Director                                E-mail
bstokes@bigpond.net.au                 james@bizsuccession.com.au              bstokes@bigpond.net.au
                                                                               Mobile
Di Collins – Secretary                 Jenny Gill – Fundraising Director       0419 919 572
collinsd@bigpond.net.au                jennypgill@gmail.com

Toni James – Treasurer                 Bill Hassell – Vice President           Bulletin Editor
tonipjames@hotmail.com                 hassell@arach.net.au                    Clifford Yudelman/Di Collins

Rex Evans –Club Service Director,      Club Details                            Website
President Elect
revans@powerplus.net.au                The Rotary Club of Freshwater           www.rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au
                                       Bay, Inc.
Wilma McBain - Community/              PO Box 168,                             Facebook
Vocational Service Director            Nedlands,
williemac241@hotmail.com               Western Australia, 6909                 http://www.facebook.com/freshw
Ken Collins – International                                                    aterbayrotary
Service Director                       Meetings
collinsk@bigpond.net.au
                                       Wednesday 5:45pm to 6:45pm
Hamish     Mackie    –    New          Café, Bethesda Hospital
Generations Director                   Queenslea Drive
                                       Claremont, 6010                         Chartered 19 December
hamish.mackie@optusnet.com.au
                                                                                       2008




Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay, District 9455                                                           Page 5
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                                    IN THE
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                                            Major Donor
                                         Because
                              Bill Benter playedhis han d righr,
                               The Rotary Foundation won

                                             AS Tt)LIl Ttl STEPHEI{ YAFA




     was about to turn 40 when I joined Rotary. The timing        else,   Iii   discovered, so my business parulers ard I had packed
     was perfect, Id wandered into a profession, computer         up our primirive computer equipment and moved there.
     software developmenr, where I was disconnecced from          Our goal was to handicap every Hong Kong                    racehorse
     any communiry.                                               based on past performance, track conditions, and so forth,
        I was developing a somewhat complex database pro.         and place strategic bets based on the results, It was          a   huge
     gram for beming on horse races, based on 70 variables for    amount of work          -   but profitable and perfectly legirimate.
     each horse that enabled me and my colleagues ro derernrine        By 1996, thebusiness was becoming            a   substantial suc-
     its true odds of winning in any race, once we enrered all    cess,   I was now beuing my own money and doing quire
     the data and did our modeling. But we had ro key the         well but unless you're an extremely gregarious person,
     information inro our Kaypro compurers - this was way         which I'm nor, yolr dont make that many new friends in
     back when, and there were no available online racing dara-   foreign surroundings. Thar was the draw of Rotary for
     bases in the mid-'S0s.                                       me. Our business lawyer, Gilbert Collins, invited me twice
         My interaction was entirely with a compurer screen.      tojoin the Rotary Club of Kowloon North before I
     We didnt have cusromers or clienrs, so I had little oppor-   accepted. I must have had some rrepidation; I'm not a
     tunicy to connect with other humans. And I was living in     joiner by nature, But before I knew it, I was on my way to
     Hong Kong a long way from Pittsburgh, my home.There          becoming a member. Rotarians respect the digniry and
     were far fewer horses racing in Hong Kong rhan anywhere      usefulness of all professions. Mine didnt have a service


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                                                       I have
                                        a   fondness anrj an
component, so       I fblt immensely        aptitude for                                I never made a serious career choice
honored to have been asked to join.                                                  to become a gambler. My only real
In the first year after I became a         numbers, and,                             interest has been to beat the system and
member, I learned more about the                                                     come out ahead, I have a fondness and
Hong Kong comrnunity than in all the       as I discove red                          an aptirude for numbers, which helps
time Id been living there. Looking                                                   -   and, as I discovered through Rotary,
back, its not surprising that I would
become deeply involved in the club's
                                          thror-rgh Rotary,                          a   passion for putting my skills to w,rrk
                                                                                     for causes I believe in, As I got to know
service projects.                                                                    the Chinese government officials in
    I soon became the club's inter-                  for
                                               a passion                             Du'an, my level of trust increased. They
national service director and was                                                    rurned out to be sincere and honesr and
charged with reaching out to join
forces with clubs in other locations.
                                          puttingmyskills                            grateful for our help. The governlnent
                                                                                     agreed to put up half the money if we
Bruce Stinson, past president of the
Kowloon North club, had already
                                            to work for                              put up the other half - a total cost of
                                                                                     about $60,000 to rebuild each school.
made friends with Sai-Hong Choi,                                                     To me, dris seemed like a slam-dunk,
past president of the Rotary Club of
                                                      CAUSCS                         and thanks to the sLrccess of my busi-
Macau, and had visited impoverished                                                  ness,   I   was able to donate a substandal
Du an County in southeast China in              I believe in.                        amount of those costs on my own'The
1999. Hed been moved to tears by                                                     Kowloon Nordr club teamed up with
the condition of rnany of the area's                                                 the Macau club on the first three
rural schools   -
               the roofs and walls had collapsed, and there    schools in the region, and since then, our districtt clubs have
were no desks or seats, he reported. The Macau club lacked     been able to fund many more, Putting the money into bricls
funding, and that's where we stepped in.                       and mortar assured us thar we were creadng something
    I knew that it would be something of a gamble to make      of lasting valug that the money wasnt being frittered away.
our way through the Chinese regional bureaucracy and           It was my kind of gemble,
ensure that the money we raised went where it was                  For me, one of the most rewarding results of these
intended, but I d been gambling successfully for most of       service projeccs is to warch my perceptions bump up
my adult life. In myjunior year,I had dropped our of Case      against rcality,I expected China to be a tyrannical place,
Western Reserve University, where I was studying physics       even brutal. But my Rotarian colleagues and I learned a
and philosophy, and gone to Las Vegas with my friends          few things as we watched the Longbn middle school in
to play blackjack. I remembered a sign Id seen as a teen-      Dubn beingtransformed from a dilapidared building into
ager in an Atlantic City casino: "Professional card counters   a functional structure, I asked the headmaster about dis'
are prohibited from playing at our tables." That always        cipline."Do you spank studentsi" I wondered' He looked
stayed with me; it meant that if you learned to count, you     at me incredulously."spank studentsi" He was shocked
could win. And that's what we did undl we gor bounced          at the suggestion, Teachers and administrators are forbid-
out of all the Las Vegas casinos. Card-counting improves       den to employ physical punishment, he expiained"'They
your odds and is complercIy legaI, but Nevada casinos are      do that in your councryl" It was inconceivable to him that
private property, and owners can bar anyone they want          we could even chink that was possible' So much for my
from entering, In our early 20s, we were averaging about       concern about social protectors.
$80,000 each per year atblackjack, which was pretcy good          Now about 11 years after the first schools were rebuilt,
back then for young kids.                                      Du'an has become a thriving region' When we visited in

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                                                        Who
                                               are we realy
2008, schoolchildren no longer looked
                                                    doing                                 For rhe RI Afghan Refugee Relief
                                                                                      Effort, which helped people iiving in
                                                  rhis farl
at our cameras in awe; they snapped
digital photos of us with their smart-                                                refugee carnps along dre Afghanisran-
phones. Thele had been an amazing                                                     Pakistan border, we raised over $2
                    Our first school
r-rpsurge in prosperiry.                       Is it to make                          rnillion; I contributed a lot myself
project was dwarfed, in a good way,                                                   Again, cherewas an open-endedueed
by high-rises a1l around.
    On rhat visit, I suggested that
                                                   ourselves                          created by internal conflict, and we
                                                                                      were able to adopt a few camps along
because the cicy centers were boom-                                                   the border to provide basic comforts
ing, perhaps we could help rebuild               feelsood,
                                                     o                                and food. But tfiere was another kind
schools in the surrounding mountain                                                   of reward, too. I visited P;rkistan,
                             primi-
villages, which are srill quite               or to Provride                          where there are nllmerous Rotary
cive. The local authorities told us                                                   clubs, and discovered that rnany of
thac they hoped everyone would be
able to move our of rhe villages,
                                              genuine help                            their problems are the senre problenrs
                                                                                      we deal with daily. Thatt nothing   Id
because there is no way people can                                                    ever have learned sirting in front ofa
live prosperous lives in those areas.              where                              comPuter screen.
The land is arid; they can raise only                                                     Because of the success of my
a few goats and not really grow any-           it's neededi                           business,I also was able co give a
thing. With a berter educacion ar one                                                 large gift recently to The Rotary
of the schools, the officials said, the                                                Foundation's Rotary Peace Cen[ers,
poor village children may be able to qualifr for betterjobs.   in support of programs leading to graduate degrees or
    Our Kowloon North and Macau clubs, wi# help from           professional certificares in peace and conflict resolution
other Rotarians, have been able to give children in rhat       at eighc universities around the world, Our goal on rhe
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region a chance to become educated in a safe environment.      Rotary Peace Centers Major Gifts Initiative committee is
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Duhn has been the perfecc project. We were able to launch      to help raise $95 million to fund the Rotary Peace Centers
it, chen eventually step away and applaud the success ofthe    program in perpetuity, in the hope that peace fellows will
schools from afar, Thac is an ideal scenario. And there was    rise to leadership positions in their respective counrries.
no donor fatigue, as there can be when funding seems to go     The idea is to create a community of graduates so that,                       I
                                                                                                                                             I
on ard on with no end in sight and no progress.                when conflicts arise between countries and cultures, these
    Thac brings up another point about philanthropy            former peace fellows can get rogether and use their skills
that I pay attention tor Who are we really doing this fori     co resolve them before che tensions escalate.
Is it to make ourselves feel good, or to provide genuine           Did I ever expecr to become involved in so rnany proj-
help where it's neededi I've been supporting a hospital        ects, or to meet my wife, Vivian, in rhe Rorary Club of                           ii
in Haiti that serves a region devastated by the 2010           Kowloon North - she is a past president of the Rotary Club                        I


earthquake, with no visible signs of improvement, Tire         of Peninsula Sunrise, Hong Kong - and to marry for th"
people are as poor as chey've always been; there's no end      first time at age 53? I wouldnt have laid odds on any of
to the deforestacion. They're mired, and the moment the        those things happening. But computer programs, even mine,
f-uncling stops, the hospital will shut down. If we can just   have serious limitations. They couldnt have predicted the
keep the hospiral going, isn't that enoughi I try to remem-    adventures I've had or the personal rewards rhat have come
ber that service is about serving, not getting something       my way through Rorary. I donate to The Rorary Foundation
back in retLrrn.                                               because I believc in irs mission.   r
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  • 1. The Official Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay Inc. PO Box 168, Nedlands, Western Australia, 6909 District 9455 ABN: 99 602 195 617 Volume 4, Issue 21 25t h November - 2nd December 2011 Meeting 23rd November Community /Vocational ANZACS Tour Meeting 30th November Meeting Ian Westoby Club Christmas/Birthday Items for Hamper D. 3310 Fundraising Walk for Function Pasta and Sauce for Manna Polio Congratulations AG Simone Update on Microscopes Projects visited in Kota Kinabalu New Members RF Matching Grant for Maiti Former Rotary Youth Exchange Elham Teimouri Nepal Student New Address for Gordon Hay Claremont Christmas Activity Attachment ‘IN THE CARDS” Board Nominations Christmas dinner for the lonely Birthdays Quiz Night Meeting 23rd November pictures of the wild animals taken while working with their partners Meeting 30th November Dr. Helen Jones-Fairnie and PP in Africa. The Save Foundation is a totally voluntary foundation. The Annual Address on the Rotary Dr. Ian Fairnie from the RC of Funds are raised through a variety Foundation, the Dr Ken Collins Perth and Executive Director of of events, trips and donations. All Address, will replace the regular Service Abroad Australasia, spoke funds raised are committed to meeting of the Club. about the Save Foundation of direct action on the ground in Members need to have registered Australia. Ian has lead more than Africa to support programs and and paid on line for this. 50 study tours to Asia, however projects that stop poaching and 7.00pm for 7.30pm Laguna Veneto this time he spoke on his recent educate on the importance of Club, 49 Homer St, Mt Lawley time in Africa and the problems of saving endangered species. We Speaker is RI Pres. Elect Sakuji extinction facing the rhinoceros. appreciate Helen and Ian taking Tanaka from Japan. Alumni Founded in 1987, the SAVE the time to inform us of the plight speaker is MP Ben Wyatt. FOUNDATION of Australia (Inc.) is committed to saving of these animals with an engaging Africa's endangered species from presentation. Club Christmas/Birthday extinction, with the main focus of Function their activities on the conservation of the African Black Rhinoceros in This event is booked for Thursday, Zimbabwe. Dr. Helen spoke with 22nd December, 2011 at us regarding the progress the Nedlands Golf Club, made on saving the Melvisa Ave, Nedlands. African Black Rhinoceros Cost is $50 pp for a three and the barriers and course meal. Money for struggles in saving this is to be paid in endangers species. advance and can be paid Projects include small into the Club’s Westpac scale breeding ranches Operating Account BSB for rhinos, the painted 036-34 A/c 304015. dogs project, projects for Please include name and the conservation of event. gorillas, hyenas, lions Please put the date in and elephants in your diary and invite Namibia, Zambia, friends and family to Rwanda, Zaire, and ensure a good number Zimbabwe. The are present and that it is presentation was a successful function. enhanced by the lovely Finish line for the End Polio Walk with PRID Ken Collins & PDG George Kinikun Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay, District 9455 Page 1
  • 2. An entertaining speaker, Fundraising and actor Faith Richardson, Membership. has been organised by Bill Hassell. Community /Vocational Congratulations Meeting AG Simone Dir. Wilma McBain has set AG PP Simone Carot a meeting for the Collins has been busy Committee for using her IT and social immediately after the networking skills to update regular club meeting on and inform Rotarians in D. Wednesday, 7th December. 9690, NSW. A Rotary Club is not able Simone has been invited to to function effectively serve on the RI Sydney Children from the School for the Deaf in Kota Kinabalu without regular monthly Convention Committee for committee meetings as the Rotary Convention which will that is where direction and be held in Sydney in 2014. New Address for Gordon projects are discussed and set. Simone has also been invited to Hay Attendance at committee meetings participate in a workshop on Social should be treated as a priority. Networking at the RI Convention This weekend Gordon will be in Bangkok in May. coming onto dry land after living Items for Hamper Congratulations from all in the on a boat since his arrival in Perth. RCFB Simone. Gordon’s new address is 6 Dir Jenny Gill has requested Archdeacon St, Nedlands, right assistance in the form of a food New Members next door to our Treasurer Toni hamper for a young lady with and Bill James. advanced Alzheimer’s Disease. Due to the next meeting being Dir. Wilma has asked that transferred to the Dr KCA, new Board Nominations members bring in items to members Pam Reynolds and contribute to the hamper. When Vanessa Wood will be ‘officially’ shopping, perhaps you can put a Nominations for the Board for inducted the following week, 7th couple of extra items that may be 2012-13 are being sought. If you December. suitable for the hamper in your are interested in serving as a Delighted to have you both join the trolley and bring them along to the Director, Secretary or Treasurer, RC Freshwater Bay Pam and meeting 7th December. please have a nomination form Vanessa. completed and returned to the Secretary by 7th December. Pasta and Sauce for Elham Teimouri Elections to take place at the Club meeting 14th December. Manna Elham, a frequent visitor and Nominations have been received for PE, International and Carina Marshall and her friend Jo ‘Friend of the RCFB’ is a PhD collect packets of pasta and jars of student with Prof Ralph Martins. Community/Voc. Directors. Still required are New Generations, pasta sauce each year and donate Elham and her friend Maryam are them to Bev and John Lowe at both from Iran and Manna Industries. interested in assisting the Once again, if members club with its projects. would like to assist Carina Elham suddenly took ill and Jo with their Pasta and and has been diagnosed Sauce project they would with MS. She is currently love your contribution. in the Ramsay section of Joondalup Hospital and no doubt would appreciate a Update on visit from any member able Microscopes to do so. However, as she may be discharged soon it Gordon Hay has arranged a would be advisable to meeting with CS Lyn phone first. The hospital Beazley, Brett Sabien from number is 9400 9400. Royalties for Regions along Gordon paid her a visit on with Ken and Di Collins to Children from the School for the Deaf in Kota Sunday. see if funds can be obtained Kinabalu Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay, District 9455 Page 2
  • 3. for regional areas to advance the David Brockway from Shelter box like to join with others for a meal Microscopes in Schools project. for bringing it along for the Club on 25th December. To date there The meeting is taking place on and also thanks to Mike Penny for have been 5 interested people Monday (28th) afternoon. his attendance and bringing his make contact. Orders and enquiries continue to money spinner machine for our flow in. Three further orders are use. awaiting payment prior to Quiz Night distribution (Albany, Fremantle Setting up commenced at 3:30 and and Rockingham) plus an enquiry then the streets were closed to all The RC Joondalup is holding a has been received from the Pres. of traffic and the event got underway Quiz Night on 21st January, 2012. the RC of Tweed Heads South in D. at 4:30pm with a street parade and Cost $10 per person. Contact 9640, NSW the whole event went until colin@connectedlearning.com.au 8:30pm. It was a very friendly and Hello Di, colourful night with all sorts ANZACS Tour My name is Valerie Haywood, of stalls and displays to be seen. President of Rotary Club of Tweed Stilt walkers, bungy jumps and Heads South in Northern bongo drums for families to join After the RI Convention in Bangkok, on 10th May, 2011, a trip NSW, District 9640. in, to name just a few. Our tally at While visiting family in Narrogin, the end of the night and for to HELLFIRE PASS has been I was present at a school assembly donation to Shelter box was organised by PDG Jennifer Scot t where the local Rotary Club $171.90, this was nearly all five E: scottadr@optusnet.com.au Cost presented St. Matthews Primary and ten cent pieces put in by the is $100 pp and will be of particular School with microscopes. children having fun watching the interest to members with an This is a wonderful learning tool money spin around and go into the interest in the history of the for young people. I would be final hole. ANZACS in the Second World interested in exploring the Thanks also go to Matt Milner War. possibility of starting such a (Warren's son) and Andrew project over here. Hassell (son of Sue and Bill) who Ian Westoby I would be grateful for any lent their time and their muscle in information you can provide helping to set up and dismantle the DG Liz has advised that Ian is regarding the setting up of this display...very much appreciated by progressing well and it is hoped he project. us all. will be home in 3-4 weeks. Yours in Rotary, Rotary members who attended Good news for all concerned. Valerie Haywood. President. were Bill and Sue Hassell, Bryant Rotary Club of Tweed Heads Stokes, Margaret Stuart, Gordon South. Hay and Wilma McBain. D. 3310 Fundraising Walk for Polio RF Matching Grant for Christmas dinner for the From 7-18th November two drivers Maiti Nepal lonely of support vehicles accompanied eight Rotarians who walked (and Gillian Yudelman has prepared a The Post Newspaper has run two climbed) 340 klms from East to RF Matching Grant application articles on the RCFB coordinating West Saba to raise funds for Polio which is ready to be submitted to a luncheon on Christmas Day for Eradication. the Rotary Foundation for people who are alone and would It is the third walk to raise funds equipment for Maiti for Polio that PP Robin Nepal Foundation. Tay has organised. The Look forward to hearing first was two years ago of the progress Gillian. when Rotarians walked from northern Malaysia Claremont to KL, the second was last year when they Christmas walked from KL to Activity Singapore and this year it was from West Saba to On Thursday 24th Kota Kinabalu. The next November RCFB walk is planned to be participated in the from northern Thailand Claremont Christmas to Bangkok in time for Carnival by displaying a the RI Convention in Shelter box and had a May. money spinner for Money was still coming donations to Shelter Walkers and drivers for the D. 3310 Polio Saba Walk in and it is hoped that box. A big thank you to Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay, District 9455 Page 3
  • 4. Equipment from a Matching Grant for the School for the Deaf in Kota Kinabalu of the visit on 17th On a brief visit to Mulu a World December which were Heritage site in the Sarawak gratefully received. rainforests, Ken and Di chatted with a young recently married The School for the Deaf couple, Priska and Urs Burri- Oven from a Matching Grant for the School for is another project of the Muller. Priska, from Bern, the Deaf in Kota Kinabalu RC of Kota Kinabalu Switzerland had been a Rotary the amount this year will be which they started back Youth Exchange Student to the RC somewhere between $100 and in 1978. As it is the end of the year of Canberra in 1999-2000. Six $150 thousand. and schools are breaking up until couples from Canberra travelled to Rotarians in D. 3310 walked the early January, the end of school Switzerland to attend Priska and last leg either 11klms or 4klms. final Assembly and Concert was Urs wedding. PRID Ken and Di were the held over to the afternoon for the Rotary touches the lives of Representatives of RI Pres. Kalyan benefit of the visit by Rotarians. A countless numbers of people and Binota Banerjee at the District Matching Grant for an oven and around the world and is without Conference and Ken and his Aide mixers is just one of the many doubt the greatest tool the world were amongst those who walked projects undertaken by the Club. has for uplifting humanity and the last 4 klms. With this equipment biscuits etc creating a better world. An outstanding effort. Well done are made and proceeds from the to PP Robin and team! sale of the products benefit the School. Attachment ‘IN THE CARDS” Projects visited in Kota Kinabalu As members do not subscribe to Former Rotary Youth the Rotarian Magazine, an Don Bosco’s Orphanage near Mt Exchange Student excellent article ‘In The Cards’ is Kinabalu was one of the attached which it is recommended projects visited by Ken all members take the time and Di. Both genders are to read. housed at the Orphanage which receives assistance Birthdays from the Rotary Clubs in Kota Kinabalu. Birthday greetings go to Currently there are 71 Gordon Hay for 29th Nov,, orphans at Don Bosco, Paddy Ramanathan and which is down (a Rex Evans for 30th Nov, wonderful sign) on over and Mignon Shardlow for 100 previously looked 6th December. A very after. The children attend Happy Day is wished to local schools and are well each one of you. cared for by Brother Ben and Sister Loretta. The Rotarians donated a hose and emergency lights to Former RYE Student Priska and husband Urs the Orphanage at the time Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay, District 9455 Page 4
  • 5. Roster for Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay for Month of Nov/Dec 2011 Date Program Duty Attendance Introduction Vote of Thanks 30th November RIPE Sakuji Annual Dr Ken Laguna Veneto 7.00pm for 7.30pm Book on line Tanaka Collins Address Club, Mt Lawley 7th December John Fleming Gordon Hay Ken Collins Di Collins Alistair Brown 7th December Comm/Voc Cttee After Regular Meeting Club meeting 14th December Bernard Bowen Jim Gould Sue Hassell Jill Henderson Paddy Ramanathan 22nd December Faith Richardson Rex Evans Jim Gould Bill Hassell Sue Hassell NB: ‘Duty’ responsibility is to set up venue and to pack away venue after meeting. Board Rotary 2011-12 Jim Gould – Membership President-Bryant Stokes Bryant Stokes – President Director E-mail bstokes@bigpond.net.au james@bizsuccession.com.au bstokes@bigpond.net.au Mobile Di Collins – Secretary Jenny Gill – Fundraising Director 0419 919 572 collinsd@bigpond.net.au jennypgill@gmail.com Toni James – Treasurer Bill Hassell – Vice President Bulletin Editor tonipjames@hotmail.com hassell@arach.net.au Clifford Yudelman/Di Collins Rex Evans –Club Service Director, Club Details Website President Elect revans@powerplus.net.au The Rotary Club of Freshwater www.rotaryfreshwaterbay.org.au Bay, Inc. Wilma McBain - Community/ PO Box 168, Facebook Vocational Service Director Nedlands, williemac241@hotmail.com Western Australia, 6909 http://www.facebook.com/freshw Ken Collins – International aterbayrotary Service Director Meetings collinsk@bigpond.net.au Wednesday 5:45pm to 6:45pm Hamish Mackie – New Café, Bethesda Hospital Generations Director Queenslea Drive Claremont, 6010 Chartered 19 December hamish.mackie@optusnet.com.au 2008 Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay, District 9455 Page 5
  • 6. Rorenv SroRrES IN THE OA Major Donor Because Bill Benter playedhis han d righr, The Rotary Foundation won AS Tt)LIl Ttl STEPHEI{ YAFA was about to turn 40 when I joined Rotary. The timing else, Iii discovered, so my business parulers ard I had packed was perfect, Id wandered into a profession, computer up our primirive computer equipment and moved there. software developmenr, where I was disconnecced from Our goal was to handicap every Hong Kong racehorse any communiry. based on past performance, track conditions, and so forth, I was developing a somewhat complex database pro. and place strategic bets based on the results, It was a huge gram for beming on horse races, based on 70 variables for amount of work - but profitable and perfectly legirimate. each horse that enabled me and my colleagues ro derernrine By 1996, thebusiness was becoming a substantial suc- its true odds of winning in any race, once we enrered all cess, I was now beuing my own money and doing quire the data and did our modeling. But we had ro key the well but unless you're an extremely gregarious person, information inro our Kaypro compurers - this was way which I'm nor, yolr dont make that many new friends in back when, and there were no available online racing dara- foreign surroundings. Thar was the draw of Rotary for bases in the mid-'S0s. me. Our business lawyer, Gilbert Collins, invited me twice My interaction was entirely with a compurer screen. tojoin the Rotary Club of Kowloon North before I We didnt have cusromers or clienrs, so I had little oppor- accepted. I must have had some rrepidation; I'm not a tunicy to connect with other humans. And I was living in joiner by nature, But before I knew it, I was on my way to Hong Kong a long way from Pittsburgh, my home.There becoming a member. Rotarians respect the digniry and were far fewer horses racing in Hong Kong rhan anywhere usefulness of all professions. Mine didnt have a service 44 IHt ROTARIAN II{OVEMEER 2OII
  • 7. Rorenv StoRrES I have a fondness anrj an component, so I fblt immensely aptitude for I never made a serious career choice honored to have been asked to join. to become a gambler. My only real In the first year after I became a numbers, and, interest has been to beat the system and member, I learned more about the come out ahead, I have a fondness and Hong Kong comrnunity than in all the as I discove red an aptirude for numbers, which helps time Id been living there. Looking - and, as I discovered through Rotary, back, its not surprising that I would become deeply involved in the club's thror-rgh Rotary, a passion for putting my skills to w,rrk for causes I believe in, As I got to know service projects. the Chinese government officials in I soon became the club's inter- for a passion Du'an, my level of trust increased. They national service director and was rurned out to be sincere and honesr and charged with reaching out to join forces with clubs in other locations. puttingmyskills grateful for our help. The governlnent agreed to put up half the money if we Bruce Stinson, past president of the Kowloon North club, had already to work for put up the other half - a total cost of about $60,000 to rebuild each school. made friends with Sai-Hong Choi, To me, dris seemed like a slam-dunk, past president of the Rotary Club of CAUSCS and thanks to the sLrccess of my busi- Macau, and had visited impoverished ness, I was able to donate a substandal Du an County in southeast China in I believe in. amount of those costs on my own'The 1999. Hed been moved to tears by Kowloon Nordr club teamed up with the condition of rnany of the area's the Macau club on the first three rural schools - the roofs and walls had collapsed, and there schools in the region, and since then, our districtt clubs have were no desks or seats, he reported. The Macau club lacked been able to fund many more, Putting the money into bricls funding, and that's where we stepped in. and mortar assured us thar we were creadng something I knew that it would be something of a gamble to make of lasting valug that the money wasnt being frittered away. our way through the Chinese regional bureaucracy and It was my kind of gemble, ensure that the money we raised went where it was For me, one of the most rewarding results of these intended, but I d been gambling successfully for most of service projeccs is to warch my perceptions bump up my adult life. In myjunior year,I had dropped our of Case against rcality,I expected China to be a tyrannical place, Western Reserve University, where I was studying physics even brutal. But my Rotarian colleagues and I learned a and philosophy, and gone to Las Vegas with my friends few things as we watched the Longbn middle school in to play blackjack. I remembered a sign Id seen as a teen- Dubn beingtransformed from a dilapidared building into ager in an Atlantic City casino: "Professional card counters a functional structure, I asked the headmaster about dis' are prohibited from playing at our tables." That always cipline."Do you spank studentsi" I wondered' He looked stayed with me; it meant that if you learned to count, you at me incredulously."spank studentsi" He was shocked could win. And that's what we did undl we gor bounced at the suggestion, Teachers and administrators are forbid- out of all the Las Vegas casinos. Card-counting improves den to employ physical punishment, he expiained"'They your odds and is complercIy legaI, but Nevada casinos are do that in your councryl" It was inconceivable to him that private property, and owners can bar anyone they want we could even chink that was possible' So much for my from entering, In our early 20s, we were averaging about concern about social protectors. $80,000 each per year atblackjack, which was pretcy good Now about 11 years after the first schools were rebuilt, back then for young kids. Du'an has become a thriving region' When we visited in THE ROTARIAN I I{()VEMEER 201,|
  • 8. i .l Ror.q. nv Sro Rr Es ;1 ll I rir rl il Who are we realy 2008, schoolchildren no longer looked doing For rhe RI Afghan Refugee Relief Effort, which helped people iiving in rhis farl at our cameras in awe; they snapped digital photos of us with their smart- refugee carnps along dre Afghanisran- phones. Thele had been an amazing Pakistan border, we raised over $2 Our first school r-rpsurge in prosperiry. Is it to make rnillion; I contributed a lot myself project was dwarfed, in a good way, Again, cherewas an open-endedueed by high-rises a1l around. On rhat visit, I suggested that ourselves created by internal conflict, and we were able to adopt a few camps along because the cicy centers were boom- the border to provide basic comforts ing, perhaps we could help rebuild feelsood, o and food. But tfiere was another kind schools in the surrounding mountain of reward, too. I visited P;rkistan, primi- villages, which are srill quite or to Provride where there are nllmerous Rotary cive. The local authorities told us clubs, and discovered that rnany of thac they hoped everyone would be able to move our of rhe villages, genuine help their problems are the senre problenrs we deal with daily. Thatt nothing Id because there is no way people can ever have learned sirting in front ofa live prosperous lives in those areas. where comPuter screen. The land is arid; they can raise only Because of the success of my a few goats and not really grow any- it's neededi business,I also was able co give a thing. With a berter educacion ar one large gift recently to The Rotary of the schools, the officials said, the Foundation's Rotary Peace Cen[ers, poor village children may be able to qualifr for betterjobs. in support of programs leading to graduate degrees or Our Kowloon North and Macau clubs, wi# help from professional certificares in peace and conflict resolution other Rotarians, have been able to give children in rhat at eighc universities around the world, Our goal on rhe l region a chance to become educated in a safe environment. Rotary Peace Centers Major Gifts Initiative committee is li Duhn has been the perfecc project. We were able to launch to help raise $95 million to fund the Rotary Peace Centers it, chen eventually step away and applaud the success ofthe program in perpetuity, in the hope that peace fellows will schools from afar, Thac is an ideal scenario. And there was rise to leadership positions in their respective counrries. no donor fatigue, as there can be when funding seems to go The idea is to create a community of graduates so that, I I on ard on with no end in sight and no progress. when conflicts arise between countries and cultures, these Thac brings up another point about philanthropy former peace fellows can get rogether and use their skills that I pay attention tor Who are we really doing this fori co resolve them before che tensions escalate. Is it to make ourselves feel good, or to provide genuine Did I ever expecr to become involved in so rnany proj- help where it's neededi I've been supporting a hospital ects, or to meet my wife, Vivian, in rhe Rorary Club of ii in Haiti that serves a region devastated by the 2010 Kowloon North - she is a past president of the Rotary Club I earthquake, with no visible signs of improvement, Tire of Peninsula Sunrise, Hong Kong - and to marry for th" people are as poor as chey've always been; there's no end first time at age 53? I wouldnt have laid odds on any of to the deforestacion. They're mired, and the moment the those things happening. But computer programs, even mine, f-uncling stops, the hospital will shut down. If we can just have serious limitations. They couldnt have predicted the keep the hospiral going, isn't that enoughi I try to remem- adventures I've had or the personal rewards rhat have come ber that service is about serving, not getting something my way through Rorary. I donate to The Rorary Foundation back in retLrrn. because I believc in irs mission. r NOVEMBER 2OI1 I THE ROTARIAN 47