RCB Bulletin Thursday 29 February 2024
President's Message
 
Dear Club Members,
 
Our Judge and Jury session was really enjoyed by the small number of Rotarians who attended last Thursday. Our thanks go to Phil Rowell for the evening. Also thanks to PP Julie Avery who presented an interesting Q&A.
 
We had the pleasure or meeting our new Exchange Student Mariah Iporto who joins us from Brazil. Mariah has been attending Brighton Secondary School and enjoying the experience and she is the younger sister of former exchange student Marcella. Please join me in making her feel really welcome.
 
Congratulations to PP Julie Avery and John Schmoll who are being appointed to assist manage the Club’s Charitable Trust. This is one of the Club’s gems, so it’s important to have members who are the calibre of Julie and John join with the current members, namely John McKell, Geoff Cunningham, Geoff Shaw, PP Ian Stacy and Paul Laband.
 
On the not so good news, I received the resignation of PP Chris Tuck during the week. A copy of his letter follows:
 
Dear President Arthur,
 
When I joined the Rotary Club of Brighton in 1995 I never would have imagined the high level of fun, fellowship, friendship, camaraderie and sense of achievement that I was about to enjoy within a group of great people, nor the longevity of that enjoyment.
 
I was lucky when I joined the club that existing members encouraged me to get involved in both Fellowship and Fundraising. In short time I understood it was the convergence between these two service streams that gave Rotary it’s strength and built the significant character that was the Rotary Club of Brighton.
 
Since I have retired I have never been busier and so with the club in good hands with you, Narina and Colleen it is with some sadness I am writing to advise you of my resignation. My aspirations for the future include the vain hope of reducing my golf handicap, improving my cooking skills and travel, especially a trip to Gloucester and the Cotswolds where Katherine and I met, followed by Spain and Portugal where a very special Brazilian exchange student ex Darwin now lives.
 
Many thanks to the  members of the Rotary Club of Brighton for their great support over the years, in particular, Max Martin, Alex Spear, Alan Pinkus, Roger Fairlam, Cameron Ward and my Board of 2009/10 when I was President. I fondly remember Michael Rundle who as Director of Meetings did such a great job.
 
My wish is that both Katherine and I can maintain some connection with the club and I shall definitely read the Bulletin with great interest. I am also looking forward to assisting Des Thomas to again serve sausages at the swim and to attending the opening night of the Art Show.
 
All the very best to you and all members of the Rotary Club of Brighton and thanks for all those happy memories.
 
Kind Regards
Chris Tuck
 
President Arthur Hubbard
 
Highlights of last week's meeting
 
 
 
Secretaries Announcements

Secretary Nicole Chong presented her session.

Apologies were:

PP Alan Pinkus, Jo Kwok, Glenys Hitchen, PP Ian Stacy, Roger Fairlam and PP Norm Thomas.

Max Martin: Max mentioned that the Member's Directories were available again to Members and copies would be at the front table at $5 a copy. It was strictly one copy per member at this stage. He also mentioned that the RCB History Book had been reprinted and a limited amount had been produced. Any Member who had approached Max for a copy previously were asked to contact him and reminded them it was $20 a copy.
 
Colleen d'Offay: Colleen said they were looking for a BBQ and helpers to work on it for the Brighton Classic Car Show on Sunday 17 March. Interested people to contact Colleen ASAP.
 
Last week's Raffle results
Last week the raffle was run by Stuart McIntyre with help from Doreen Stockdale. The winners were Anthony Langley and President Arthur.
 
 
Geoff Bransbury, Vice President of Neighbourhood Watch 3193 sends an invitation to Club Members to attend the following "Art Retrospective".
 
What I have Learned and Joined in February  
An update from Cambodian Student Eam Hot who is an Active Member
Rotaract Club of Siem Reap and who our club supports.
 
Hello Colleen and the Members of the Rotary Club of Brighton
 
I believe this email finds you having a good time there.
 
Welcome to the new month of February in 2024, and I am really excited with what I have done and planning forward to enjoy the next course in the new term. In this month, I had some fantastic time with CRST students and I will share with you about joining a workshop with Bong Soma, joining a sports activity, and studying at PUC.
 
First of all, I had the incredible opportunity to join a workshop with Bong Soma and Mss. Nina about TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE. We spent 4 days together for this class. This class caught my attention as there were many enjoyable moments when we were in class and also had many interesting games, testing, and other competitions. More than that, every session goes on a really smooth flow with practices by Bong Soma and Mss. Nina guided us. I gained many great insights from this interesting workshop. Firstly, I have taken myself with a changing mindset that was a very powerful message to remind me to always cheer myself up and always take myself to improve. Besides that, I got to know more about SWOT analysis of working and also about our own self. 
 
Continuing what I think of this class, I have learned from stakeholders, values and other topics. Last but not least, during the workshop I also got the new and different environment of class where bong Soma and Mss. Nina provided. It was a brilliant technique that they used to grab our students' attention, including me, to learn and have an enjoyable time playing various types of games. I also could access myself faster on getting and flexibly about playing games as a group and to find out what my team and I are unique, learned from working with different types of people and find some creative things while having gameplay. My team and I also played roles and showed to other groups and I was really proud that we won the vote as everyone appreciated our group effort. I was very excited and thanks for giving me this brilliant opportunity to join this workshop. 
 
Another thing, in February I decided to take some time to play football with CRST students on the weekend. It was not my first time but I hardly ever play football with them. On that day, the reality was out of my expectations which was very awesome for me that I could not express when joining to play football. 
 
 
I just recently finished courses in this term. As I took 4 courses at PUC, I have more school work to do than my friends because they took only three. I spent more time doing research as professors allowed me and other students to do research projects and other tasks. I had 2 subjects which were really more busy than other 2 that I needed to do more research and make sure I understood. It was Fiscally taxation and Leadership & Management.
 
I hope you enjoy reading my email and I wish you all the best and I am looking forward to hearing from you.
 
Best Regards 
Eam