Secretaries Announcements
Secretary Nicole Chong presented her segment and started with the apologies.
They were:
Brendan Kierce, PP Chris Tuck, Donna Wright, PP Norm Thomas,
Angela Biggin and PP Keith Cameron.
Graeme Watson spoke about Benji who advertises his computer support business in the Bulletin under the name of Maxwell Computing. Benji offers support in training, upgrades, data recovery, installation and email support. He also might be potential member of our club. Give him a call on 0449 960 240 if you have any computer problems. Graeme recommends him. See advert below.
Last week's Raffle results
The raffle last week was run by PP Alan Pinkus with help from Di Alan.
The winners were Kien Teh and Trent Alan.
More Meeting Highlights
Rotary Youth Sailing Challenge
As part of Rotary Club of Brighton’s commitment to Youth Services, our club sponsors a lot of young people with personal development programs and unique opportunities to optimise their potential. The Rotary Youth Sailing Challenge, is a new Youth program that was offered for the first time in 2023 by District 9800, to coincide with the 2023 Melbourne Rotary International Convention. This unique tall ship multi-day sailing program is designed to challenge participants in ways which they could not experience ashore, during which lifelong skills such as team building and leadership are learnt through this once in a lifetime adventure.
In May 2023, twenty seven students aged 15-17 years old departed from Prot Adelaide on a 7 day open water voyage from Adelaide to Melbourne on the tall ship the “One and All”, a tall ship based on the original rig of an 1850s brigantine. This trip involved these intrepid young participants (from across Victoria, South Australia and NSW) braving rough seas in an intensive work and social experience and surviving the challenges of sea sickness, living in close quarters aboard the ship for a week, to work as part of a team subject to nature’s elements, while living without electronic communications in a maritime environment. These trainees became part of a crew, joining one of three watches tasked with keeping the ship operational 24 hours a day and literally “learning the ropes” so that they were able to successfully achieve the responsibility of operating the ship and
taking command while the permanent crew keep a watchful eye. The Rotary Club of Brighton supported three students to take part in this unique sailing opportunity. Congratulations to the Bayside students Zoe, Kristen and Flynn who embraced this once
in a lifetime challenge!
In September 2023, our Club supported six local students with the launch of the District 9800 Rotary Youth Sailing Challenge on The Enterprize on a multi-day voyage sailing from Victoria Harbour, Docklands. The 27-metre topsail schooner Enterprize is a replica of the tall ship that brought the first European settlers from Tasmania to found the city of Melbourne in 1835. The students learnt the basics od setting and dousing sails, coiling lines, helming and bow watch, as well as sharing responsibilities such as cooking, cleaning, energy and water conservation and maintaining a night watch system. Congratulations to Brighton Sec students Mikaela, Isla, Abi, Fred, Zac and Nick who completed this trip and lived aboard ship for four days.
We were lucky enough to have Zoe, Mikaela and Nick come and share their experiences (and thank our members for their support) at the November 30 Club meeting. These young people shared that they not only enjoyed their voyage, how much they’d learnt about sailing but also about themselves through their extraordinary experiences from being stretched out of their comfort zones, and that they developed some amazing from their journey.
District 9800 and the Rotary Club of Brighton will look to offer opportunities to young people (15-17 years old) to sail on The Enterprize in 2024. For more information,
Brighton Secondary College Award Presentations
Nights like this are a brilliant thing for our community because they give us an opportunity to celebrate all the achievements of our wonderful students. Our students are central to everything we do – we hope to give them a school experience that they will remember forever.
The Rotary Club of Brighton have been incredibly generous in providing these experiences for our students. We have had students undertake 5-day voyages on boats, attend multiple camps, compete in public speaking competitions and a model United Nations and we will have three of our students attending the National Youth Science Forum in January.
None of this would be possible without the support of the Rotary Club of Brighton and I think it’s very important that we acknowledge that as we welcome Anthony Langley to the stage. (Anthony receives applause as he enters the stage).
Yet another example of their generosity are the bursary awards we will present tonight. The recipients of these awards are students who consistently model and live our BSC values, as well as the values held by the Rotary Club. These awards were given after a 3 stage process: Firstly, students were nominated by their peers for consistent demonstration of our College values before being shortlisted by their student managers, who agreed that these students would be worthy recipients. Finally, the shortlists were discussed by the College Leadership Team, who selected the following students for the bursary awards. This demonstrates the positive impact each of these students have had this year on our entire College community, and hopefully highlights to them that the small things they do are noticed by all around them.
Without further ado, I will now present the 2023 Rotary Club of Brighton bursary award winners:
Year 7 – Angelina Vlantis
Year 8 – Zara Reis
Year 9 – Isabella Kryebel
Year 10 – Nick Graham
Year 11 – Chloe Bocci
Danny Chalk, Brighton Secondary College
