Meeting 3 September 2026

Pres David then announced the apologies:

PP Tom Buxton, PP Julie Avery, David Finney, PP Ian Stacy, Bronwyn and Mark Stephens, PP Keith Cameron, Jo Kwok OAM, John Schmoll

and Glenys Hitchen.

 

 

Meeting Highlights

 

 

Announcements

Keiran Cromie

Vale Wayne Styles

Book Now for the Bayside Comedy Extravaganza

Wendy Davis: Fined for being the hostess with the mostess;

Graeme Watson: Fined for not being seen for a while;

David Smyth: Sarg fined him for no reason at all because she can;

Collingwood Supporters: Fined for being the first team knocked out of the finals;

Melbourne Supporters: Fined for playing "Highway to Hell" as they came out onto the ground;

Eric Barr: Fined for wearing a Western Bulldogs tie to the meeting;

PP Donna Wright: Fined for not being seen much this past year;

PP Norm Thomas: Fined for organising what looks like another great event in the Bayside Comedy Extravaganza evening;

Anyone who hasn't booked for the Comedy Night: All fined;

Seng Goh: Fined just so he didn't feel left out;

PP Pat Kearns: Fined for coming second in the Footy Tipping Comp;

Anyone whose team has not made the finals: All Fined;

Keiran Cromie: Fined for dyeing his hair last week;

Rob Pinchbeck: Fined for the tyres on his new Bentley not being up to scratch;

Max Martin: Fined for continuing to produce the best Club Bulletin in District 9800 and for having really shiny shoes;

Steve Wolf, David Smyth, Paul Laband, Roger Fairlam

& Aviv Palti: Fined for not coming often enough to be fined;

Maria Hicks: Fined for same as previous fine;

Brendan Kierce: Fined for not sitting with Maria;

Pres David: Fined the President as Club Rules prevented Sarg from fining Dee Dee.

 

Last week's Raffle Results

 

 

The raffle was run by PP Donna Wright with help from Roger Fairlam. The winners were PP Pat Kearns and Graeme Watson.

 

 

Speaker Dee Dee Dunleavy

 

 

About Dee Dee:

Dee Dee Dunleavy who was once crowned the Queen of Melbourne radio by Melbourne’s Lord Mayor.

She has worked 46 years in the media as a journalist, newsreader, radio host, and writer. 

Dee Dee started as a reporter with Standard Newspapers, moving into radio at  Fox FM, then Gold FM, and then 3AW, where she was chosen to host the Afternoon program.

But at the height of her success, in mid-2023, Dee Dee’s career in radio suddenly came to an end. It wasn’t the end of her career though.

She started researching a cold case, about a missing boy, and turned that into a successful true-crime podcast, “The Boy In The Gold Mine”.

 

A summary based on Dee Dee's talk

 

 

Pictured left: Terry Floyd     Pictured right: The service station where he was last seen

 

The Boy in the Gold Mine

Dee Dee spoke about Schoolboy Terry Floyd, 12,  who was abducted and murdered in 1975 while waiting for a lift in Victoria’s Central Highlands. The Labor government promised his family in 2017 it would fund the search for the boy’s remains. The family say both the premier and police minister have dismissed multiple requests for further funding over the past year. The brother of a schoolboy who disappeared 50 years ago has accused the Victorian government of breaking its public promise to fund the search for his remains. Terry Floyd was 12 years old when he went missing from the side of a highway in Avoca in the Central Highlands in 1975. A coronial inquest in 2001 found Terry was abducted and murdered, but his body has never been recovered. There is credible evidence to suggest his remains were dumped down a nearby disused gold mine. For more than a decade, volunteers have been excavating the site, which had been used as a tip by locals. In 2017, then-premier Daniel Andrews made a pledge to the Floyd family that the Labor government would fund their operation to “finally bring Terry home”.

But the victim’s younger brother, Daryl Floyd, has revealed to the ABC that he has been ghosted by former Premier Jacinta Allan and her police minister, Anthony Carbines, for the past year, putting a stop to the search. Daryl continues to search the old gold mine trying to find his missing brother's remains.

To find out more please look up Dee Dee's podcast:

"The Boy in the Gold Mine" - Dee Dee Dunleavy

 

2026 Rypen Camp

It's a wrap for 2026 September RYPEN Camp! This weekend 36 secondary school students from across Victoria were able to participate in this iconic leadership development camp at Camp Getaway. The Rotary Youth Program of Enrichment (RYPEN) for District 9800 is a weekend leadership camp for students aged 15–17 in years 9, 10, and 11. Facilitated by experienced camp leaders participants do team-building, problem-solving, goal-setting, and confidence-building exercises through a mix of lecture-style sessions and adventure-based learning

 

Thank you to all the dedicated volunteers who make this possible. A shout out for Keishan and President Pat for driving our students there and to Brighton Secondary College for the loan of your bus.

Report Jo Kwok

 

Science and Engineering Challenge 2026

The Victorian Finals of the Science and Engineering Challenge took place in Deakin Geelong last Friday (our winning schools Auburn High from Deakin Burwood and St Leonard’s College from Monash Clayton competed in the Top 8 - Congratulations to Auburn High for taking out the top VIC spot and who go onto compete at the 2026 National Science and Engineering Challenge in Canberra.

#togetherwemakeanimpact #rotarybrighton #youth #sciengchallenge

The 2026 Science and Engineering Challenge (Melbourne) have been supported by the Rotary District 9800 Foundation District Grant, Balwyn Rotary, Brighton North Rotary & the Rotary Club of Brighton. Report Jo Kwok