Speakers Program

Club Plans for 2013-2014

SUMMARY: Despite suffering deaths and departures from the school fcommunity ollowing the Kingslake fires in February 2009, Whittlesea Secondary College school maintains a positive profile. Its strength is through working closely with the local community. The Government either needs to invest more in education or pay later in more for welfare.

Speaker Ross Butterworth District Governor started his talk with a Rotary personal Moment. In 1994 he joined the Rotary Club of Melton Valley. Five years later he was asked if he would lead the International Service Committee. When he asked the President what he needs to does the president said go to the District Assembly?

Michael spoke about some of his work as Chair of a number of ethics research committees including The University of Melbourne and the Victorian Department of Health. The work of these committees carries enormous responsibility. The primary purpose of a statement of ethical principles and associated guidelines for research involving humans is the protection of the welfare and the rights of participants in research.

Fellowship Meeting

"The World Cruise of the Orion"

The story links a couple of wealthy industrialist families and a British army officer in Germany at the end of the 2^nd world war.

AG Heritage Cluster- Person behind the badge

Carlton Rotary Club's 2013-4 Police Mentoree

Philip Morrissey introduced speaker inspector Paul Binyon. Paul thanked the club for the next twelve months of mentoring which he hoped would help in a future management role and also develop community connections

A Brief History of Hang Gliding - and my part in it

Brian spoke on the future of Melbourne and Olympic Parks.  Melbourne Park will remain the home of the Australian Open for generations with a multi-million dollar transformation of the world class sporting precinct.

Reflections and travels following the Rotary Global Peace Forum in Hiroshima.

Roger Thiessen was this week’s speaker on the man behind the badge. He described how he grew up on a family farm in the Huon Valley in Tasmania. To complete his secondary education he was sent to a boarding school in Hobart where he first encountered the idea that he might have a different career to farming. He was awarded a scholarship to study Agriculture Science at the University of Melbourne where he was also a resident of International House. After graduation he returned to Tasmania where he had a job in Animal Research with the Department of Agriculture. At that time he also played senior football in the TFL and played in two grand finals to win a premiership.