I have very little to report this week as we have had no meeting.
Please remember to bring socks for the homeless on Monday night - either good quality second-hand pairs or preferably new ones.
18th June
An Introduction to the New Epworth Hospital – CEO Damian Armour
This is a high-profile speaker so we would like a good turn-out. Please bring along spouses and other guests (Don’t forget to register them in Whoozin!)
Please also to bring along any socks that you may have available for the
Here is a Trivia Quiz pilfered from “Lara Hearsay”:
ROTARY TRIVIA
1 How many people attended the first Rotary meeting on Thursday evening, February 23, 1905?
2. What was the first Rotary Club community project?
3. Who was the first president of a Rotary Club?
4. At the first Rotary Convention in 1910, keynote speaker Daniel Cady of the Rotary Club of New York told the audience that Rotary, then with 16 clubs, would have 1,000 clubs around the world within 80 years. When would Rotary add it’s 1,000th club?
5. Where were the first five Rotary Clubs
6. What is the greatest distance from Chicago that a Rotary Club banner has been displayed?
7. In what country was the first Rotary Club outside of the United States?
8. Young Exchange is one of Rotary’s most popular and successful programs. When and where was the first exchange?
9. How many Rotary clubs in our District?
10. Which was the first Rotary club in Australia?
ROTARY TRIVIA ANSWERS
1 Four: Paul Harris, Silvester Schiele and Hiram Shorey met in Gustavus Loehr’s office.
2 A “comfort station” in downtown Chicago. Public restrooms were typically found only in saloons at that time, and unaccompanied women were not permitted to enter saloons.
3 Paul Harris nominated Silvester Schiele because Paul preferred to work behind the scenes to attract new members.
4 The 1,000th Rotary Club was added in 1921, only 11 years after Cady’s speech.
5 Chicago, San Francisco, Oakland, Seattle and Los Angeles.
6 Astronaut Frank Borman, of the Rotary Club of Space Center Houston, took a club banner on his orbit around the moon in Apollo 8.
7 The first non-USA Rotary Club was in Winnipeg, Canada, in 1912.
8 The first youth exchange was when the Rotary Club of Copenhagen (Denmark) arranged to host several American boys in 1921.
9 59
10. Rotary Club of Melbourne