2022-23 Rotary Citation
DG Ineke Oliver visited our club meeting on 16th August 2023 to present President Fiona with a 2022-23 Rotary Citation.
Category: Meetings
Sheila visits Singapore East
Freshwater Bay Rotarian Sheila Cheng visited the monthly meeting of the Rotary Club of Singapore East, District 3310m on 2nd August 2023 – their first meeting of the new Rotary year. Sheila spoke briefly about our club and projects. She also offered to bake for a Rotary event, and presented the…
Meeting 28th June: Cosmos Alliance
On 28th June 2023, Jason James from the Cosmos Alliance gave a wonderful presentation on the work he and his team are undertaking in countries such as Zimbabwe, Uganda and Papua New Guinea, particularly with providing training to community health workers. A health professional himself here in Perth, the work Jason…
Meeting 21 Jun: Alzheimer’s Research
On 21st June 2023, Freshwater Bay Rotarian Prof Hamid Sohrabi gave a fascinating update on his Alzherimer’s research. Prof Hamid R. Sohrabi is the Director of the Centre for Healthy Ageing and Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the School of Psychology, Murdoch University. He has two Honorary affiliations as Associate Professor…
Meeting 14th Jun: Don’t Meth With Us
On 14th June we had a surprise international guest speaker! Mario diGesu from the Rotary Club of Truth or Consequences in District 5520, New Mexico, has been travelling after attending the Rotary International Convention in Melbourne, and contacted us to attend our meeting while he was in town. With no other…
Meeting 7th Jun: PP Buff Wright
On 7th June 2003 we had an international guest as our speaker: PP Buff Wright from the Rotary Club of Claremont, California. Buff spoke on what got her into Rotary, and how in the lead up to her year as club project she decided to reach out to other Rotary Clubs in…
Meeting 26th April: Science Experience
At our meeting on 26th April 2023, we had presentations from two students we sponsored to attend the Santos Science Experience at Murdoch University from 13-15th December 2022. Sean Bolton and James Wrona, from Shenton College, came to our meeting along with their Science Master, Fiona Hassell, plus their mothers. Sean had attended the…
Meeting 12th April: Prita Asih
At our meeting on 12th April 2023, our member Dr Prita Asih, who is working in a team of Alzheimer’s Researchers at Flinders University in South Australia, gave an excellent presentation on her research with testosterone treatment for prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Venue Change for April Meetings
Please note that our regular meeting venue is not available for use for the time being as it is awaiting repairs to the floor after flooding. For at least the next 4 weeks we will instead be meeting at the University Club Business Lounge at UWA, which is to the…
Meeting 22nd Mar: Sam the Coffee Man
Our meeting on 22nd March 2023 was an onsite Vocational Visit from Sam the Coffee Man, which worked out perfectly as our meeting room ended up not being available to be used. Sam Bridle, a friend of President Fiona Tremlett, brought his coffee van along, and educated everyone thoroughly on…