For this meeting we welcomed Fran Taylor who came along to speak to us about her life long love of the sea, her extensive experience on the Sail Training Ship Leeuwin and her books Wind In My Wings in which she records her sailing experiences on various tall ships and Ships That Pass In The Night about the Titanic and the Past Revisited. We report below.
We were also delighted to have our new inbound exchange student Anna Longlune from Belgium back with us again and enjoyed her first report. Apart from catching up with three other exchange students from Denmark, Germany and Italy respectively, she is right into her French lessons at school and has even been teaching others.
Our retrospective International toasts come from John Erkins, Glenn Trim and Stuart Diggins and range far and wide from the Netherlands and onto Canada and New Zealand.
But closer to home District Governor Robyn has asked us to throw our support behind The Fighting For Our Farmers 2018 Drought Relief Fund which is an initiative of Rotary Australia in partnership with the Channel 9 Today Show and the National Farmers Federation. See all the details in the right column.
And even closer again, the Club Director for Vocational Service, Kevin Baruffi, has undertaken to provide lunch in support of the Kulbardi Indigenous Open Day on Friday 24 August 2018 at Murdoch University involving up to 150 participants. I will be assisting him and would be grateful of the help of a couple of volunteers.
Monday was also the evening after the night before when apart from the very unpleasant incident behind the play, the West Coast Eagles emerged victorious from the Western Derby It was therefore entirely appropriate to present the "punctured pill" to chief cheer leader for the Fremantle Dockers, Simon Cubitt, for safe keeping.
Simon also featured promoting the Rotary Shopping Bag, an initiative of District 9455. These bags have been produced as a fund raiser and the Club will order a quantity for on-selling.
Finally I spoke with Erwin during the week. He has commenced treatment and preliminary results are encouraging although it makes him susceptible to infection. As always he will appreciate contact from us whenever possible.
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