• Sue inducted her first new member for 2010, Suzanne Glennon-Martyn, and it is hoped that Suzanne is the first of many for the year 2010 – 2011.
• Gary Hart was the club’s guest speaker. Gary bought some ‘Rotary’ books from the website and basically gave a book review of them – they sounded very inspirational and once he has finished with them other members would like to borrow them. One of them was on the “Membership of Rotary”. Gary cited some interesting statistics from it – including 20% of members in Rotary have been in Rotary for less than 3 years; overall 11% are women, but in Australia/USA it is closer to 20%; Clubs lose 40% of their members in the first 3 years of those members joining. The other books were “Frank Talk” and “ Good Manners in Rotary “ (which John P pounced on and used it to great effect in the cross fines session!). If you would like your own copy they can be found here
• Guest speaker Mr. John Martin (Truthful) – spoke about a range of matters, but focused on local conflicts between early settlers and indigenous people – particularly tribal leader Windradyne (buried at property – “Brucedale”)…a real Peel underbelly story!
• Catering for the Worldriderz event
• Catering at the Oberon Farmers Markets
• Wood raffles
• Julie received a PHF
• Photos of all the above activities can be seen here
• Our club is often asked to do the catering at local farm clearing sales. This was one weekend where it certainly was ‘service above self’! Wet, windy and freezing! See the photos here

Guest Speaker Hans Guldberg
Hans gave us a well prepared presentation on the technologies available to counter climate change. There was no discussion as to whether climate warming was man-made but lots of discussion on the technologies that are now appropriate. Photos here.

Our Club’s Changeover - see photos here

BOARD FOR 2010 – 2011
President – Sue Arnison
Secretary – Gary Hart
Treasurer – John Philp
President Elect – John Philp
Club Administration – Bill Muldoon
Club Public Relations – Brenda Lyon/ Graham Parker
Membership – Bob Conners
Rotary Foundation – Malcolm Graham
Service Projects – Laurie Evans
Youth – Julie Stott

• Attended Rotary Club of Bathurst East’s club to hear their guest speaker. The Guest speaker was Dr Brendan Smith, Chairman of the Bathurst Medical Staff Council, in relation to the proposed closure of St Vincent’s Private Hospital.
• We watched a DVD that has been sent to all schools about Polio Plus. See http://www.schools-ending-polio.org.au/ for more details.
• Guest Speaker Bruce Fitzpatrick – Developments in Oberon during my period as General. Oberon Council General Manager who is retiring after 17years. Bruce outlined some developments in the Council area that had occurred while he was in the hot seat, without necessarily taking credit for the District improvements. A brief report of his talk is later in the Bulletin. Bruce was presented with an Oberon yellow shopping bag of Rotary and Oberon goodies – including the door stop (now his door may no longer be always open), A “Living Treasures Of Oberon’ book (Rotary project Bruce was instrumental in getting Council on board to buy an initial number (for reselling) to ensure the project’s success), and the Oberon Rotary banner!
• We hosted a group from the RC of Bellingen – Brian Beesley and Heather – RC of Gloucester; Dianna Christian – RC of Bellingen; James Christian – RC of Bellingen; Max Withers and Helen – RC of Parramatta (formerly Gloucester). The visiting Rotarians introduced themselves, and were on a motorcycle tour – obviously picked Oberon as a destination in late autumn to share some coastal rain.
• The PC of Bellingen members conducted a memorable rotary grace – which was sung beautifully by Club members – it looks like the club liked the idea – because we have been singing it ever since!

Photos of the events can be seen here