Lae Rotary Club
Induction of new RC LHG club members Polly DeWindt and Wayne Blair (together with Aihi of course)
With more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide. Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto Service Above Self.
Members of the Rotary Club of Lae Huon Gulf gather to plan out another 12 months of Service before Self
With more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide. Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto Service Above Self.
Rotarian Rupert Dyer (left) was elected the 2012/13 president of the Rotary Club of Lae at the annual general meeting last night. The club also elected Larry Hulo ( right) as vice president. In the middle congratulating them is current president Anthony Whitfield.
With more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide. Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto Service Above Self.
From Lae to Bereina in Central Province is a long way. But in the city dubbed pothole capital of the world, there are some brave and kind hearted souls, who besides dodging potholes, also share in charitable causes.
With more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide. Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto Service Above Self.
The Rotary Club of Lae Huon Gulf wishes to sincerely thank the following companies for their support towards the successful staging of the club’s 2012 Black Tie Ball held at the Lae International Hotel Saturday evening.
With more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide. Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto Service Above Self.
THE guards have changed at the Rotary Club of Lae and a new team has now taken over the running of the club for the next 12 months.
Business executive Anthony Whitfield and a team of new executives on Tuesday night took over leadership of the club from Steve McNeilly and his team.
Mr McNeilly now resumes the role of Assistant District Governor for Papua new Guinea in Rotary District 9600 which covers part of Queensland, PNG, Solomon Islands and Nauru.
Mr McNeilly congratulated the new team and assured them of his support in the challenge of delivery charity help to the community.
Mr Whitfield also heaped praise on Mr McNeilly and his outgoing executive for their untiring efforts to move the club forward.
“Being a Rotarian is a tremendous commitment on your part, and I am confident the service you give to the community through this Rotary Club will be well worth it as we achieve the goals set for this year,” said Mr Whitfield.
“ I want to acknowledge and thank members’ partners and families for the support and the sacrifice they make as well. “ Your contributions are valued equally.
“Our 2011-12 club goals are part of a wider club leadership plan developed over the past six weeks and I want to thank all those members who have dedicated their time and their skills to this task. We will review these at next weeks meeting as the budget and board matters are finalised.
“This coming Rotary year presents a unique and, for many of us, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work alongside a diverse group of people from many different organizations and countries in such a unique environment.
“ It will be busy. It will be challenging. It will also be rewarding and fun,” Mr Whitfield told his fellow Rotarians, their spouses and guests who were mostly members of the Huon Rotary Club.
He added: “The impressive level of expertise, experience, and commitment to community service will ensure we reach our goals.
“Without question, the Club needs re-vitalization. There has been an exceptional amount of work done with our website, our plans, our systems and governance behind the scenes to ensure we are well on the way to revitalizing and sustaining the Club. But we must compliment that effort with more members and improved partnerships.
“It will be the task of all of us to identify and introduce prospective Rotarians to our Club. Throughout the first quarter of the Rotary year the Club is focused on its fundraising but at the same time I challenge you all to focus on increasing our membership.”
Photos from the Rotary Club of Lae changeover Dinner can be viewed by going here.
With more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide. Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto Service Above Self.
The Club got a nice mention in this week’s issue of the Lae Chamber of Commerce Newsletter:
The Society would also like to thank Anthony Whitfield and the members of the Rotary Club of Lae for their efforts in locating equipment shipped from
Rotary Australia for use in the Cancer Treatment Centre and also for their contribution in clearing the cargo through customs.Shelley Knox
President PNG Cancer Relief Society Lae
With more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide. Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto Service Above Self.
This past week the Department of Architecture and Building (DOAB) at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology held a design-build Master Class. Master Class 2012_1, Creating a Melanesian Place for Creative Play, is an intensive, one week project in which students, faculty and local professionals designed and built a much-needed, new and safe playground on campus next to the preschool. Eight design teams consisted of 10 to 11 Architecture students who are studying at the PNG University of Technology in their 2nd – 5th years in the program. The student teams were each responsible for designing and constructing one piece of ‘play equipment’.
This project aims to challenge the often pre-conceived notion that learning happens within the confines of the four walls of a classroom. The program included seminars on topics such as the link of education through play, community consultations with the local preschoolers, design crits, site analysis, and a three-day build period. Through this process students are able to learn from real-life experiences reinforcing topics taught throughout the curriculum. During the build process skills such as on-site problem solving, estimation, design safety, construction management, construction techniques, detailing were all built on; adding value to the students experience at Unitech.
The playground was constructed from locally available materials like timber, soil, gravel, cement, as well as recycling materials from various sources, such as old tyres, Tuffa Tanks and leftover construction materials from local construction sites. This, in addition to the social aspects of the program, reinforces sustainable practices emphasized in the DOAB.
It is hoped that one of the outcomes of this project will be an increased community dialogue on the importance of education and alternative methods of teaching and learning. Many of the play structures have been designed with this aspect of creating a learning environment in mind.
The project was coordinated by Mr. Chris Dobunaba, Ms. Molly Felde under the tutelage of Dr. Andrew Sariman, Course Director. We would like to thank the following for the donations, energy, and time in supporting this program and the opportunities they have helped to create. The Department of Architecture, led by Professor Cletus Gonduan, HOD, the faculty of the DOAB, the Unitech Projects office who has worked alongside the students and helped by providing materials, the Lae Rotary who has shown their support as well as the individual members and companies they represent. The following companies for their support and donations in kind: Seeto Kui, ITWProline, K.K. Kingston, Timber and Forestry Training College, Dulux, Colorpak, Dunlop, Crosbies, Bridgestone, Nuigini Builders; as well as, SVS and Boinamo for providing transportation of materials to our site. Finally the students of the department for their energy as they worked until well past midnight all three nights in order to finish the playground along with the staff and faculty who voluntarily worked alongside them beyond all expectations. The success of this project would not be possible without all of this support.
With more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide. Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto Service Above Self.
CALOUNDRA’s tourism industry will benefit when 600 delegates travel to The Events Centre for the annual Rotary International District 9600 Conference from March 23 to 25.
With more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide. Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto Service Above Self.
TOP Rotarians from around Papua New Guinea have just completed a special course aimed at helping them to lead their service clubs over the next few years.
The course was led by prominent Queensland Rotarian Carolyn Krueger who is the District Governor-elect for Rotary District 9600 which covers four countries in the South Pacific area – part of south-east Queensland in Australia , Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Nauru.
Ms Krueger will step into her new role on 1st July 2011 along with new office bearers for rotary clubs all around the world.
Rotary office bearers hold office for 12 months and do the changeovers on 1st July every year.
Ms Krueger and a team of experienced Rotarians from Australia flew to Lae to conduct the course for 15 current and incoming rotary leaders from clubs throughout PNG.
She told the Post-Courier the purpose of the forum was to prepare people stepping into new roles in Rotary clubs around PNG.
“Rotary encourages people to go beyond their comfort zones and the important thing is to prepare them correctly for their new roles.
“Training, knowledge, giving them confidence in the new roles they are going to take in,” said Ms Krueger.
Ms Krueger will undertake her first official visit to Papua New Guinea in July where she will attend the most important annual fund raising event for the Rotary Club of Lae – the Black Tie Ball – on 23 July 2011.
She will also meet with leaders and members of the two Lae clubs- the rotary Club of Lae and the Huon Gulf Rotary Club.
Following the Lae event she will visit Rotarians in other clubs around PNG.
“We have 1.2 million Rotarians, over 543 districts and it all changes on the 1st of July.
“So the forum here has been to train, to teach and then to discuss other information these incoming presidents of rotary clubs in Papua New Guinea need to know.
Ms Krueger also expressed her delight at the extent of the work being done by Rotary Clubs in PNG.
“ Before I came up here I thought the role of our clubs here was to open up donations in kind containers (DIKs) and it wasn’t until today ( Saturday) when each of the presidents got up and spoke about the work, the projects, the fund raising that each of the clubs have done up here that 12 months ago it was so much more beyond my expectations.
“I am very proud of the achievements and the interactions that the PNG clubs have with the mainland clubs in Queensland,” Ms Krueger said.
Ms Krueger was asked about her main message to clubs in Rotary District 9600 which she will now lead over the course of the next year starting 1st July 2011.
She replied: “ I think the whole under writing thing with Rotary is that so many of us in business reach a stage in business that we feel that we want to put something back. Rotary gives a very ethical basis of being able to do that because to become part of the Rotary family there are certain undertakings that business people do need to vow and promise and that is high ethical standards in both their personal lives and their business lives. So to me my goals are then for those people who are at the stage of giving back that they get a great deal of satisfaction from doing that – they form new friendships, new fellowships and at the same time have an awful lot of fun doing it.”
Photos from the PNG Forum weekend can be viewed by going here.
With more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide. Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto Service Above Self.
