Meeting No 3 - 25 April 2015
About an hour ago I returned from a shift selling RSL Anzac Day badges and decided to spend some time going through the suggested material. I was particularly keen on Nigel March’s Work Life Balance talk. Our President Kerrie Schmidt knows the story well, but many years ago I was working six days a week, running a sporting organisation, and studying for a Master’s degree. I paid for it, at age 44, with a major heart attack. Pity I hadn’t heard about Nigel Marsh and his ideas then. As someone who has been a Rotarian for many years it was also worthwhile looking at the other suggested material – well worth the revision.
I also watched the truckie exhorting us to go to Anzac services. Bit of “coals to Newcastle”, but worth watching. I guess that’s my “cause” for the week. Visit an Anzac service. Mine will be in Wycheproof where my father grew up. The local RSL and Lions clubs have planted an avenue of trees in memory of those who died in WW1. We, the Wycheproof Sayers lost one – Walter Sayers – my father’s uncle, my great-uncle. He died in the Battle of Broodseinde Ridge on 4 Oct 1917. An indication of the level of Australian casualties that morning is that on my mother’s side they too lost someone. Different battalion but he, Victor Leigh, also died that morning. So two, at the time unconnected, families grieved. There would have been many more, as one in six Australians was hit before they left the “start line”.
- Check out the Disaster Aid Australia site and the crowdfunding sites (see above)
- Two videos to watch. One on microcredit which is a possible project for our club.
- Two inspirational videos: one on a grain of sand and another to commemorate Anzac Day.
- This is Rotary
- The Power of One - Microcredit
Plus our regular weekly inspirational and educational features...
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