Vol: 70 No: 4 26th July 2018
President Biffy Danckwerts
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Secretary Monique Bayes
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Treasurer Rob Murphy
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Editorial Board Barry Cleveland, Lina Howard, Stephanie Thomas, Hugh Maunder, Stephen Bredenkamp
July in Rotary A New Year – Be the Inspiration
Wynberg Rotary meet every Thursday, 6 for 6.30pm, Palm House, Wynberg.
Let me stress before we go further that those who are tenacious learn early on the importance of mastering internal motivation
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If you’re fortunate enough to have forward thinking people in your support network, that’s great … however many find themselves faced with naysayers warning of the foolishness of attempting to achieve something so far beyond their current abilities or resources.
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The Thai divers and those that helped, are tenacious and passionate about achieving their aims so they are not easily distracted or discouraged.
The bottom line … Let’s be honest, this notion of going for BIG unrealistic dreams is not for everyone and that really is okay. But for those who dare, it’s also important to bear in mind that such adventures are rarely undertaken in a vacuum. How about you? Do you tenaciously pursue your dreams and goals? Do you ever set BIG goals that require you to reach beyond your comfort zone? Let today be the day you give up who you’ve been for who you want to be.
Submitted by Lina Godden
Minutes: 19th July 2018 Compiled by Stephen Bredenkamp
Attendance
From the chair of President Biffy
Fellowship
14 members and the following guests: ER Community Medics: Matthieu Snaith, Michelle Snaith, Kevin Lentin Rotaractors: Monique Ewen, Ryall Connor, Raiaanah Johnson, Rob Schreiber, Shaun Oberholtzer plus James Thom & Phil Peckett President Biffy welcomed everyone to the meeting. She brought up the following points:• Isiphiwo school needs a grader to level their playing fields. Looking for a volunteer .. • Thanks to all who helped on Mandela Day our ‘official’ activities included distribution of stationary to Isiphiwo: Rob Schreiber detailed the activities of Wynberg Rotaract, which included visit to Ilithwe creche, and gifts to patients at Victoria Hospital • Looking for a CD reader to copy a lot of old Rotary CDs onto a hard drive (new laptops no longer come with CDs/ DVDs) • Please be on the lookout for a scam seeming to target Rotary Club Secretaries / Treasurers (fraudulent request for payment). • Workshop for New Rotarians on Saturday 28th July.
Graham and Valda’s anniversary on 20th!
Member’s moments
Slots
Swindle
Speaker
Biffy: Sarah has been inducted as President of RC Chicago. Keela: now has work responsibility for both Western Cape and Eastern Cape. Mike: Subs – please pay! The club has to pay RI and district dues at the beginning of the Rotary Year (i.e. now!) so cash flow is an issue. Stephen: Lavender Hill High: just received a R150 000 upgrade to consumer studies classes. String: queried changes to meal formats etc. Response from Biffy – no change yet. Please continue letting Biffy know if you are attending meetings by Wednesday morning. Rob: Long delayed sweetie pie award for Graham (it was a swindle!). Monique: possibility of joining Rotaract in a bowling (not 10 pin) social. Biffy to speak to Dave. Justin: Reminder about quiz night (28 Aug), bringing in non-Rotarians. Michelle Snaith drew…. StephenvN, who could only draw the 4 of clubs. Shame. The attendance prize went to Ryall. Matthieu Snaith spoke about the work done by the ER Community Medics. This is a volunteer organization providing free first responder services to anyone involved in a medical emergency. They provide a number of direct benefits such as often arriving way before an ambulance and stabilizing the patient. There are also indirect benefits - one call to them and they will contact all the possible ambulance services while sending a paramedic, instead of you having to phone each in turn. They started in the North, expanded to City, and are now active in the South. The presentation is available as a downloadable pdf on the club website: http://wynbergrotary.org.za/wynpress-vol-70/ Ruth introduced (and subsequently thanked) Matthieu, as well as Michelle Snaith and Kevin Lentin who both attended.
President’s Words of wisdom
“There is a big difference between a human being and being human”
July
August
26
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16
Social
Schreiber
Todd
Barnard
XMAS
Maunder
Munday
Murphy
In
Cleveland
Howard
Thomas
Door Duty
July
Smith
Schreiber
Van Niekerk K
Grace
At
Gowdy
Cleveland
Dietrich
Loyal Toast International Toast Speaker Intro and Thanks Entertainment for the month
Biffy
O’Driscoll
Overbosch
Schonegevel J
So
Dietrich
Gowdy
Cleveland
No duties
Thomas
Smith
Schreiber
Duty Roster Sergeant Wynpress Editorial Wynpress Minutes
Dietrich, Munday, Schonegevel J, Jackson, Barnard
Dates To Diarise 26 July
Christmas in July: Biffy’s house
2 August
Club meeting – the budget
9 August 16 August
Rotary Womans Day (RC Blouberg) 10h00-13h00, at the Italian Club, Donegal Street, Rugby, Milnerton [No club meeting] Peter Thomas, a facilitation coach, will discuss how large corporates can reinvent themselves (Justin)
18 August (Saturday)
Race Day at Kenilworth (RC Signal Hill)
23 August
Speaker: Vince van der Bijl (Bruce)
28 August (Tuesday)
Quiz night
30 August
No club meeting: See you all at the Quiz Night!
29 September Last Night of the Proms (Saturday) 30 September Last Night of the Proms (Sunday)
Mandela Day – A Tribute Obama’s Mandela Lecture 17 July 2018 1.
“More and more peoples, having witnessed the horrors of totalitarians, the repeated mass slaughters of the 20th century began to embrace a new vision for the world, a new idea. One based on selfdetermination but also on the principles of democracy and rule of law and civil rights. And the inherent dignity of every single individual.”
“…through his sacrifice and unwavering leadership, and perhaps most of all through his moral example, Mandela and the movement he led would come to signify something larger. He came to embody the universal aspirations of dispossessed people all around the world.”
“During the last decades of the 20th century, the progressive democracy Nelson Mandela represented in many ways set the terms of the international debate.”
“It is in part because of the failures of governments and powerful elites to squarely address the failures and shortcomings of this international order that we now see much of the world threatening to return to an older, a more dangerous, a more brutal way of doing business.”
“We have to start by admitting that whatever laws may have existed on the books, whatever wonderful pronouncements existed in constitutions, whatever nice words were spoken these last decades at international conferences or in the halls of the United Nations, the previous structures of power and privilege and injustice and exploitation never completely went away.”
“The politics of resentment and fear and retrenchment began to appeal. And that kind of politics is now on the move.”
“On Madiba’s 100th birthday, we now stand at a crossroads. A moment in time at which two very different visions of humanity’s future compete for the hearts and the minds of citizens around the world. Two different stories, two different narratives about who we are and who we should be.”
“I believe in Nelson Mandela’s vision. I believe in a vision shared by Gandhi and King and Abraham Lincoln. I believe in a vision of equality and justice and freedom and multi-racial democracy built on the premise that all people are created equal and they’re endowed by our Creator certain inalienable rights. And I believe that a world governed by such principles is possible and that it can achieve more peace and more cooperation and pursuit of a common good.”
Submitted by Alan Jackson
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