Reporter: Janna Malo
Thank you to Lori McLeod who emceed this meeting.
Lori opened by reminding us that the new Rotary theme month
(new rotary themed months took effect in July) is “Basic Education and
Literacy Month.” She gave us a few interesting facts to chew on:
Worldwide, 67 million children have no access to education
More than 775 million people over the age of 15 are
illiterate.
Rotarians worldwide support educational projects that
provide technology, teacher training, vocational training teams and student
meal and scholarship programs, to name a few.
Our collective goal is to
strengthen the capacity of communities, to support basic education and
literacy, reduce gender disparity in education, and increase adult literacy.
Lori then went on to talk about how the Oak Bay Rotary Club supports the Malawi Girls school and locally how we support the 1,000
by 5 Literacy program.
Her closing remarks were “As another school year gets
underway, let’s celebrate the positive impact WE as Rotarians, working together
worldwide, can effect ALL ages through education and literacy, both locally
and globally.”
Health of the Club:
Lynn Murray was absent. Hopes to
be back next week.
Announcements:
Mandy: The open house for disaster aid Thursday
Perry: spoke about Katie De Rosa, the global scholar to whom we
gave a scholarship for continuing her studies at the London School of Economics.
Pablo: Just returned from teaching master classes in Violin
and presented us with a beautiful flag from Zinacantepec (try and say that 5
times fast!)
Bob: Please requested that sign up for the social lunch at the Spaghetti Factory on September 22nd if we have not already
Celebrations Master: Joan Firkins
Today is Rotary day, so the fines levied today applied as
follows:
No rotary pin; if you did not say “hello” to everyone;if you did not show up for your duty
(the Greeter was late today); Jim Force was fined because he had quite the haiku poem on his Facebook page:
Naked at the summer cabin
She waters the flowers
I notice only her eyes
…Yeah, right Jim.
Steve S who usually has poor
spelling of other people’s names spelled Monica Lewinsky correctly so he was fined. Neil R, because he only has 27 friends on Facebook. The Toronto Blue Jays are doing very well (a
dollar for everyone) .
Go to the Rotary website and look for the following four
words, then next week tell her what they mean: Rotary; Global;Rewards;Moo
Happy and Sad dollars:
Lorna happy as she has 2 friends visiting from Australia and because she will continue to receive discounted flights through a friend's sister. She is leaving
for London and will be back in October.
Bob S sad because his wife is in the hospital; she
is on the mend but they had to cancel their trip to Ireland. John E. happy because he is going to Ireland! David – Spoke very passionately about his stance on teaching
math in schools being very important. Neil R. – Gave $22 to celebrate yesterday as his his last day
as a manager at his REal Estate Company and going back to sales.
Perry wanted to let Steve S. know that Monika Lewinsky
went to the London School of Economics. was that a happy or sad $?
Birthdays/Aniversaries:
Dallas C. celebrates 19 years in the club
Ron C. celebrates 19 years in the club
50/50 winner was Bob Schelle
Our speaker today was Pam Prewett from the Victoria
Conservatory of Music. She spoke to us about the many, many projects they run
in Victoria. After her short talk we listened to two very talented violinists
play several songs.
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