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Club meetings for 2008 - 2009

4th February
Speaker:  Janet Leitch OAM

  Subject:  Walking in Southern France and Northern Spain

11th February
Speaker:  Professor Dean Jaensch, Flinders University
Subject:  Psephology - USA and Australia

18th February
Speaker:  Darren Fleming
Subject:  Get to the Point!  Speaking more effectively in public

25th February
Speaker:  Tony Ford
Subject:  Minor seige of Chitral

3rd March
Fellowship and Open Forum

Chairman:  President John Osborne 

10th March
Adelaide Cup Public Holiday  -  No meeting

17th March
Visit to the new Stirling Library
Meet at the Library at 6:00 pm

Dinner will follow at Siemer's Restaurant at 7:00 pm

Chairman:  Honorary Member David Wotton

24th March
Easter Monday  -  No meeting

 

31st March
Speaker:  Walter Stann, Civil Engineer
Subject:  Nuclear Energy and Australia

  Global warming - What should we do about it?  Is nuclear the answer?

Chairman:  Past President Don Reid

7th April
Speakers:  Meggan Keain and Rotarian Geoff Bailey
Subject:  Indigenous Health Scholarships

Chairman:  Rotarian Mike Steer

14th April
Speaker:  Michele Colmer
Subject:  Life's Goals

Chairman:  Past President Lynne Sowerby PHF

21st April
Speaker:  Phil Baker, Manager, Adelaide Airport
Subject:  Adelaide Airport Today and Tomorrow

Chairman:  Rotarian Trevor McGuirk

28th April
Speaker:  Annabel Price
Subject:  John William Billiatt - Explorer, Adventurer and Tutor

5th May
Speaker:  Past District Governor Terry Edwards AM
Subject:  RDU and ARHRF - Two Australian Rotary Winners!

Chairman:  Past President Owen Bevan

12th May
Speaker:  Hannah Gillies-Smith
Subject:  My Experience with RYLA

Chairman:  Past President Grant Andrew

20th May
Please Note:  This is Tuesday

The meeting venue is the Mt. Barker Golf Club

(No meeting at Stirling on Monday 19th May)

Speaker:  Mr. Tony Elliott

Subject:  The Somerton Beach body mystery of 1948

Chairman:  A member of the Rotary Club of Mt. Barker

26th May
Speaker:  Retired SAPOL Superintendent Terry Harbour
Subject:  The Whyalla Aircraft Tragedy of May 2000

Chairman:  Past President Owen Bevan

2th June
Speaker:  Rotarian Don Reid
Subject:  The Rise and Demise of WMC

Chairman:  Rotarian Ken Jeffery

9th June
Queen's Birthday Public Holiday  -  No meeting

 

16th June
Meeting held at Woodhouse Scout Centre, Stirling

23rd June
Speaker:  Sonia Bruno
Subject:  The Biscuit Business

Meeting held at Woodhouse Scout Centre, Stirling

Friday 27th June

President's Night

Changeover Dinner.  To be held at the Mt. Osmond Golf Club

Please note: This meeting is in lieu of Monday 30th June

 

    

                                                

                                                           President-Elect David and his wife,                             President John Osborne (left) presents Director

                                                                   Belinda, enjoy the dinner                                 Hugh Browell with the coveted Scott Hosking Memorial

                                                                                                                                          Award for outstanding service to the Club during 2007-08

    

                                      

                                                     New President David Clarke is invested                   (L to R) DGE Peter Shipp, President David, Immediate Past

                                       with his collar of office by Past President John Osborne              President John, and District Governor Peter Ochota

 

7th July
Speaker:  Rotarian Mike Steer
Subject:  Can we hear where our Garfish are coming from?

14th July
Club Assembly and Open Forum
Chairman:  President David Clarke

21st July
Official Visit by District Governor Peter Shipp
Chairman:  President David Clarke

28th July
Speaker:  Past President Peter Budini
Subject: Peter Budini's Italy

4th August
Speaker:  Rotarian Bob Bratchell
Subject:  Travels in India, Nepal and the Himalayas

11th August
Speaker:  Rotarian Trevor McGuirk
Subject:  Peru Challenge

Chairman:  Rotarian Ken Jeffery

18th August
Speaker's Subject:  The Gift of Hearing - Cochlear Implants
Chairman:  Past President Isobel Redmond PHF MP

25th August
Speaker:  Paul Makin

Subject:  Aviation - The Ups and Downs
Chairman:  Past President Dick Wilson PHF

1st September
Visit and Dinner at Heathfield High School Skills Centre

NB:  No meeting at the Crafers Inn Hotel

8th September
Club Forum

15th September
Speaker:  Director Ian Cogdell

Subject:  The Next Fifty Years - What's in Store?
Chairman:  To be advised

22nd September
Speaker:  Bob Geary, Project Manager, Adelaide Hills Regional Development Board

Subject:  Wireless Broadband in the Adelaide Hills
Chairman:  Past President Owen Bevan

29th September
Speaker:  Shelley Dunstone, Legal Practitioner

Subject:  Innovative Speaking
Chairman:  Past President Paul Willoughby

No meeting on 6th October

Labour Day Public Holiday

13th October
Speaker:  Professor Don DeBats, Head of American Studies, Flinders University of SA

Subject:  Beyond the Spin - Making sense of the of the US Presidential elections
Chairman:  Past President David Muscio

20th October

Speaker:  Bob Pamment

Subject:  Guide Dogs for the Blind
Chairman:  Rotarian Dean Foote

27th October

Speaker:  Dr. Peter Mayer, University of Adelaide

Subject:  "The Battle of Pakistan"
Chairman:  Director Bob Koehne

3rd November

Speaker:  Immediate Past District Governor Peter Ochota

Subject:  The Timor Leste Water Project
Chairman:  Director Bob Koehne

10th November

Speaker:  Assistant District Governor John Osborne

Subject:  Across Europe by River
Chairman:  Rotarian John Stoddard PHF

17th November

Speaker:  President David Clarke PHF

Subject:  Recent impressions of China

Chairman:  Rotarian Mike Steer

24th November

Speaker:  Director Hugh Browell

Subject:  Recent experiences in Britain

Chairman:  Past President Garry Thomas PHF

1st December

Speaker:  Bill Wigzell

Subject:  Speedway Legends

Chairman:  Rotarian Dean Foote

8th December

Election of Club Leaders for the Rotary Year 2009-10

Chairman:  President David Clarke PHF

15th December

Speaker:  Marjolein Verhoeven

Subject:  Where are all the Children going?

Chairman:  Past President Dick Wilson PHF

22nd December

Family Christmas Celebration Meeting

Venue: Home of Ken Jeffery and Pauline

Time:  6:30 for 7:00 pm

29th December

No meeting on this Monday

5th January

Club Forum

Chairman:  President David Clarke PHF

 

Important Future Events

 

Great Australian Bike Ride

The Australian Rotary Health Research Fund (ARHRF)

is planning a Great Australian Bike Ride.

to commence in Melbourne on Thursday 2nd April 2009

and visiting all 23 Rotary Districts throughout the country.

The proposed route will pass through South Australia and

exact plans will be posted on this page as soon as they are available.

In the meantime, enquiries may be directed to the Stirling club.

 

Past District Conferences

   
Beautiful Port Lincon

       

       
The Presentation Forum

 

MOUNT GAMBIER IN 2008

      

                                                At a splendid locale                                  Trevor McGuirk, Bob Koehne, Ian Cogdell, Gareth Bevan,

                                                                                                                                          Dick Wilson and John Osborne share a fellowship lunch                                                                                   

      

                                                          The Presentation Venue                                          The House of Friendship

 

      

                                        Gill Osborne and Assistant Governor John Osborne                          The Founder of Rotary, Paul Harris,

                                               are into the spirit of the Conference Dinner                             oversees the success of a great event

 

      

AG John Osborne proudly displays a special trophy awarded to the Stirling Club,

accompanied by first-time Conference Attendees Bob Koehne, Ian Cogdell and Trevor McGuirk

 

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