District 9810 Vic Australia Date: March 28Th ,2007

BULLETIN
of the
The Rotary Club of
Nunawading Inc.

District 9810 Vic Australia Date: March 28th ,2007

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March is Literacy Month

Please note a change of venue on April 4th to Majenta Restaurant & Bar

Wednesday Mar 28th Speaker: Dr.Michael Rowe Director Cardio Epworth Eastern / Wednesday April 4th
Speaker: Graeme Shaw RC Monash: Planning Next Australian City / Wednesday April 11th
Fellowship
Peter Gowans / Wednesday April 18th
TBA

DUTY ROSTER

THIS WEEK

NEXT WEEK

HOST

CASHIER

RECORDER / Ian Armstrong
Bruce Atkinson
Wendy Bridgett / HOST
CASHIER
RECORDER / Bruce Atkinson
Wendy Bridgett
Sue Cross
ROTARACT ROSTER / ROTARACT ROSTER
28 March 07
Colin Taylor Kevin Thomas / 11 April
Dick Tregear John Vickers

CELEBRATIONS in February

Birthdays / Anniversaries / Inductions
25 Susan de Bolfo
30 Brian Fisher
31 Maria Pires / Mar 23 Kevin & Janne Thomas
Apr 04 John & Wendy Francis / 26(1975) John Francis
28(2002) W Willoughby
27(02) A SciborKaminski
Apologies:
Please note there has been a change in John’s E-mail & Phone Contact Details
All apologies are to be given to the acting attendance chairman John Munro before 8 am by e-mail and 10 am by phone or text on the day of the meeting.
You can register your apology (in order of preference) by:

Email:
Phone: 97294495
Mobile 0417 585 924
In writing or Deliver by hand to 7 Aringa CourtHeathmont3135

Please copy on any requests for Leave of Absence.

****Change in Venue to Start April 4th ****

Our New Venue as from April 4th will be

Majenta Restaurant and Bar

454 Whitehorse Road
Mitcham 3132
telephone 9873 0268

located on the right hand side (heading towards Ringwood) just past Rooks Road.

We need to transfer the Rotary cupboard and equipment Kevin has asked if some members can be prepared to do this after this weeks meeting

Last Week’s Meeting:

This weeks presentation was by Christopher Choy an Australian Rotary Health Research Foundation Student who is doing his PhD at the Mental Health Research Institute (MHRI) in Parkville investigating possible links to stress at critical times of the brains development as a cause of schizophrenia. His supervisor Dr Maarten van den Buuse RHSF Student PHD Mental Health and his girlfriend also attended the evening. Christopher immigrated from Hong Kong to Australia over 10 years ago and did his science degree at Monash before taking up the opportunity to research at

Christopher’s research uses rats which are randomly divided into 4 groups:

Group 1 have no stresses applied as part of the research in their lives
Group 2 are weaned prematurely from their mothers
Group 3 are stressed n their late adolescent development
Group 4 are weaned and stressed

Christopher Choy left and his PhD supervisor Dr Marten van den Buuse right attended the meeting and gave a presentation on Christopher’s PhD thesis /

Each group is followed up with a set of behavioural tests as a measure of the effect of these stressors on their “psychological development”. It would appear that group 4 struggled most with these tests. While a strong genetic component has been identified in that if one identical twin has it then approximately 50% of others will Christopher’s research may indicate that to develop schizophrenia individuals may need 2 significant stressors to occur at significant times in their lives. Christopher said that while one can theorise what this actually means it may be a model for the development of schizophrenia. John Munro our “resident” trick cyclist suggested another possible conditions could be post traumatic stress disorder.

Dr Maarten van den Buuse explained that research was often like this that our knowledge on many diseases was the collection of information from many different research projects and that knowing that this phenomenon occurs opens up more research questions which in turn expands our knowledge. He further thanked the club for its efforts in support of the foundation for without this many young researchers would not have the opportunity that Christopher has had. Christopher hopes to have completed his PhD by the end of the year. We look forward to hearing of his progress.

Schizophrenia is regarded as a condition that ranks amongst the top ten causes fro disease burden in both the developed and developing world so understanding what causes has the potential to greatly benefit our society. This is another example of how Australia’s largest non government research fund helps young researchers to get a start and develop the skills to go on and make those discoveries that benefit our community. Our club has consistently been the greatest supporter of this in our district

Inflatable donation gets Portsea Camp Directors smiling

Portsea Camp directors and Nunawading Rotarians (Russell, Sue, Glenys ans Len) came together last weekend to take receipt of a new 4.2 metre Zodiac inflatable. The boat was a donation from the club to the camp and, in the words of camp President, Geoff Secker (third from the left) “will improve the safety of large groups of children in the water and also allow us to take children for exciting rides out to Pope’s Eye”. The camp has committed to find funds for a motor and trailer but Mr Secker is confident the funds will be found. “Always when we are looking for support the community has been most generous”.

President of the Rotary Club of Nunawading, Len Brear, (fifth from the left) said the club had attended last years working bee at the camp and “became very enthusiastic about the camp’s work with disadvantaged children. We saw a list of things the camp was after and set about getting the funds together.”The club has also taken on raising funds for needy children from the Nunawading area to attend camps.

School interview dates
Forest Hill College – 9 May 90 students to interview with 6 Rotarians from Forest Hill Club helping.
Blackburn High School – 23 May 120 students to interview with 11 Rotaracts helping
Please Let Sue DeBolfo know if you your partner or acquaintances can help .

The Great Wine Auction for Interplast

Date:May 7, 2007

Time:6.30pm for 7.00pm start

Venue:Village Green Hotel

Cnr. Ferntree Gully & Springvale Roads,

MULGRAVE

Dinner: $25.00 Drinks at bar prices

Donations of wine to auction would be gratefully received.

All funds raised go to Interplast to send teams of Plastic Surgeons to South East Asia and the Pacific Islands. These surgeons treat people who have conditions generally untreatable within their own country.

Contacts:Sue Mills 03 8544 3162Peter Morgan 03 9560 4841

FUNNIES

Paddy was driving down the street in a sweat because he had an important meeting and couldn't find a parking place. Looking up to heaven he said, "Lord take pity on me. If you find me a parking place I will go to Mass every Sunday for the rest of me life and give up me Irish Whiskey!"

Miraculously, a parking place appeared.

Paddy looked up again and said, "Never mind, I found one."

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Father Murphy walks into a pub in Donegal, and says to the first man he meets, "Do you want to go to heaven?"

The man said, "I do, Father." The priest said, "Then stand over there against the wall."

Then the priest asked the second man, "Do you want to go to heaven?" "Certainly, Father," was the man's reply.

"Then stand over there against the wall," said the priest.

Then Father Murphy walked up to O'Toole and said, "Do you want to go to heaven?"

O'Toole said, "No, I don't Father."

The priest said, "I don't believe this. You mean to tell me that when you die you don't want to go to heaven?"

O'Toole said, "Oh, when I die, yes. I thought you were getting a group together to go right now."

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Gallagher opened the morning newspaper and was dumbfounded to read in the obituary column that he had died. He quickly phoned his best friend, Finney.

"Did you see the paper?" asked Gallagher. "They say I died!!"

"Yes, I saw it!" replied Finney. "Where are ye callin' from?"

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An Irish priest is driving down to New York and gets stopped for speeding in Connecticut . The state trooper smells alcohol on the priest's breath and then sees an empty wine bottle on the floor of the car.

He says, "Sir, have you been drinking?"

"Just water," says the priest.

The trooper says, "Then why do I smell wine?"

The priest looks at the bottle and says, "Good Lord! He's done it again!"

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Walking into the bar, Mike said to Charlie the bartender, "Pour me a stiff one - just had another fight with the little woman."

"Oh yeah?" said Charlie, "And how did this one end?"

"When it was over," Mike replied, "She came to me on her hands and knees.

"Really," said Charles, "Now that's a switch! What did she say?"

She said, "Come out from under the bed, you little chicken."

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Flynn staggered home very late after another evening with his drinking buddy, Paddy. He took off his shoes to avoid waking his wife, Margaret. He tiptoed as quietly as he could toward the stairs leading to their upstairs bedroom, but misjudged the bottom step. As he caught himself by grabbing the banister, his body swung around and he landed heavily on his rump. A whiskey bottle in each back pocket broke and made the landing especially painful. Managing not to yell, Flynn sprung up, pulled down his pants, and looked in the hall mirror to see that his butt cheeks were cut and bleeding. He managed to quietly find a full box of Band-Aids and began putting a Band-Aid as best he could on each place he saw blood. He then hid the now almost empty Band-Aid box and shuffled and stumbled his way to bed.

In the morning, Flynn woke up with searing pain in both his head and butt and Mary staring at him from across the room. She said, "You were drunk again last night weren't you?" Flynn said, "Why would you say such a mean thing?"

"Well," Margaret said, "it could be the open front door, it could be the broken glass at the bottom of the stairs, it could be the drops of blood trailing through the house, it could be your bloodshot eyes, but mostly.....it's all those Band-Aids stuck on the hall mirror.

Forthcoming Events

Wendy Bridgetts “Spa and Massage” Days have changed

Wendy would like to inform those that brought these items at the Auction that they will be held on:

Saturday May 27th for the Ladies and Sunday April 29th for the Men.

Time: 1.00 pm-5.oo pm.

Place: Wendys, 11 Walwa Street Mitcham

RSVP: 0425 711017

BYO: Bathers,towels and drinks.

Supplied: Nibblies, spa and massage.

The Rotaract Club of Lilydale, “Building Leaders for Tomorrow” ABN: A002672Z

Jeffrey Tan’s Gourmet Dinner to be conducted for Rotary Club of Nunawading

Fundraiser for Australian Foundation Trust

Saturday 21st July at John and Helen Munro’s Home in Heathmont cheches in to Roger ASAP

Snap to it and get set for the Rotary Photo Competition $1,000’s in prizes

COMPETITION OPENS 26th FEBRUARY 2007 ENTRIES CLOSE 5 APRIL 2007.

Exhibition & Awards held at the Forest Hill Chase Shopping Centre

Thursday 12th April – Sunday 15th April 2007

For Juniors & Adults

All participants will receive a $50 discount voucher to theRotary Digital Photography Course

Entry forms are available at: Rotary Web Site: .

Forest Hill Chase Centre Management, Rotary Information Stall at the Whitehorse Farmers Market.

Or by contacting Rotary Photography at Email:

‘PIRATES OF PENZANCE’StateTheatre, Arts Centre Melbourne

ON The dates and with the number and location of reserved seats as follows:

Thursday 29th May Stalls: Rows B 24-32, C 27-30 and D 27-30

Wednesday 30th May Stalls: Rows M 32-48 and N 34-49

Thursday 31st May Stalls Rows C 3-37, D 3-18 and row N 3-19

COST $82.00 Plus we ask that you favourably consider giving a Donation of a suggested $20 per ticket, made payable by a separate cheque to ROMAC. TOTAL of $102 Larger donations gratefully received. Official ROMAC receipts for donations provided with tickets. (Group booking price to our Club is $81 but Box Office price is $95 each plus booking fee of $7.15 for one or more tickets).