THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT 2005-2006
IT HAS been my very great
pleasure to serve as President of our club in the 2005-06 Rotary year. It has been a most enjoyable year for me in that I
have witnessed our club achieve many remarkable goals
for which all members may feel justly proud.
My role as President
began on 25 June 2005, at which time I expressed the desire for the club to
experience a proper balance between service and social related activities. I
believe it is important to always acknowledge that members give of their time
and effort in a kind and voluntary way and that good friendship and fellowship
as between our members will always shine through to bring about a greater level
of success in all our service related activities.
There were many
highlights throughout the year and I will not seek to restate details of the
many accomplishments which I know will be referred to in my fellow directors'
reports. It would, however, be remiss of me not to highlight some of the more
remarkable achievements.
Our club membership has
now grown to 45 active members and four honorary members. We remain a healthy
and vibrant club and I am indebted to Membership Director Dorothy Butterworth
for her contributions and tremendous efforts to increase our membership.
Club Service Director,
Trevor Styles, provided great service to the club on the many matters
encountered throughout the year pertaining to club activities, including our
successful venue change and the considerable functions run by our club. Tony
Chant and his International Service committee had a memorable year with great
successes achieved with the annual wine sales, International Night and airport
collections enabling substantial contributions to be made to Rotary International
for not only The Rotary Foundation but also the PolioPlus
campaign and the KOKI project in
Michael Robinson and his
Community Service committee again successfully operated our Christmas Art Union
at the Hypermarket raising in excess of $9,000 net proceeds. The highlight was
undoubtedly the donation of state of the art medical equipment, valued at some
$19,000 to the Burns Unit of the Royal Children's Hospital. Our club also maintained
its continuing support of NBSILS with a donation of $2,000.
Brian Sadler and his committee were instrumental
in providing a number of very worthy Vocational Service Awards during the year
and organising a most interesting visit to the
Surveyor's Museum. Jeff Shepherd and his team of helpers once again were
instrumental in putting together a very successful Citizenship Ceremony for
which our club received very favourable publicity. Our
Youth Service Director Michael Daubney and his
committee worked hard in their endeavours to promote
youth service and, once again, our club excelled in participating in the
International Youth Exchange Program by hosting Exchange Student Laureline from
I must also say that John Thompson has done a
tremendous job in his role as treasurer. It has always been a great relief to
me knowing of the absolute professionalism that he displays in that role.
Graham Brighton also provided a wonderful service to the club in his
secretarial role.
Our Editor, Bill Farley, continued in fine form
with the Aspley Post throughout the year and again I
express my sincere appreciation to Bill for the never-ending editorial duties
performed by him. Similarly, Tony Winter excelled in his role as Webmaster and
I do thank him for the many hours of work he devoted to the task.
It was also most pleasing to see the success of
the functions held by Wendy for the ladies associated with our club and
particularly the recent Fashion Parade where some $2,200 was raised and donated
to the Stroke Association of Queensland.
Throughout the year, I have endeavoured
to involve all members in the club's social and service related activities and
I thank all members for their respective participation and for the many other
tasks undertaken over the course of the year. We shared some memorable times
with some of the social activities such as the long weekend to the
I extend my very best wishes to President-Elect
Bruce and his board for the coming Rotary year. I believe that our club is in
fine form and that over the course of the past year we have, in some small way,
made our world a better place.
As my journey through the Rotary year as President
is now at an end, I conclude by saying that it truly has been one of the great
experiences of my lifetime. Thank you for the opportunity to have served as President
of this great club.
Wayne Stanton