Social media hasn’t helped the status of ‘good’ either. How do you get more twitfacechat followers if you rate your morning Weet-Bix as ‘good’? Despite being less appealing than the card board box in which it is presented, it just has to be an ‘OMG!’ ‘Totally awesofrickintastic fo shiz!’ or ‘YOLO’ – or nobody will give a hoot what happens after you have shovelled down your bowl of mega-crunch, splendiferous, brainstorming vuvuzela flakes. How long we continue to say ‘good morning’ is questionable, as it might just as well mean you woke up with cat sick on your face just before you fell down the stairs and were run over by someone who achieved a ‘good’ pass. So rather have a funtabulously gloriforous extratastic day! (and a supercalifragilistic turbocharged 2018 – Ed)
Vol: 69 No: 17 11 January 2018
President Rob Murphy 0837267060 Secretary Keela van Niekerk 0720401131 Treasurer Mike Schreiber 0834140462
Editorial Board Barry Cleveland, Lina Howard, Keela van Niekerk, Hugh Maunder, Stephen Bredenkamp
January Rotary Theme Vocational Service Month
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Duty Roster
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Schreiber
Cleveland
Hovstad
Jackson
Danckwerts
Dietrich
Howard
Hovstad
Bredenkamp
Maunder
Gowdy
Van Niekerk K
Door Duty
Maunder
Munday
O’Driscoll
Overbosch
Grace
Todd
Van Niekerk K
Barnard
Bayes
Loyal Toast International Toast Speaker Intro and Thanks
Howard Schonegevel R
Jackson
James
Maunder
Barnard
Bayes
Bredenkamp
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James
Maunder
O’Dricoll
Sergeant Wynpress Editorial Wynpress Minutes
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Barnard, Bayes, Gowdy, Danckwerts, Thomas
Schonegevel R, Hovstad, Howard, James, Maunder
Dates To Diarise 14 January 18 January 25 January
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Our STEP student, Liam Lotz returns from Germany Lion Geila Wills, DG of Lions International will address the club regarding possible closer working relationships between the two service organizations Noeline de Goede of the Kay Mason Foundation, which supports deserving young pupils in their high school years in greater Cape Town, will talk about the organization’s work and overall vision The Long Term Exchange Student from Belgium, Vincent Vermeersch, currently hosted by WRC, will tell us about his programme. PLUS our STEP student, Liam Lotz will report back on his recent visit to Germany Warren Witte, who has a PhD in Marine Conservation and is a drone pilot, will tell us about his ambition to use drones for ocean monitoring, and will show us a video of his current work TBC: Visit by our Interact Clubs
Rotary International News Rotary has added two service partners that offer clubs new ways to collaborate with other organizations and strengthen their projects: Habitat for Humanity and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB). Habitat for Humanity has a long history of working with Rotarians and Rotaractors to build the types of lowcost shelters that now qualify for global grant funding, under a recent Board decision. It’s also a natural fit for Rotary’s approach to vocational service, which encourages members to use their professional skills to help others. Rotary’s values are also closely aligned with IAPB, a membership organization that brings together government and nongovernmental agencies, academics, and private providers to plan and implement sustainable eye care programs. “We seek to encourage both organizations (Rotary and IAPB) to promote greater awareness of the need for eye clinics and blindness prevention activities, to develop projects together, to consult, and to work together with their constituents,” says Peter Kyle, a member of the Rotary Club of Capitol Hill (Washington, D.C.), and Rotary’s Joint Committee on Partnerships.
Tailpiece Some years ago, there was a Mensa convention in San Francisco. Mensa, as you know, is a national organization for people who have an IQ of 140 or higher. Several of the Mensa members went out for lunch at a local cafe. When they sat down, one of them discovered that their salt shaker contained pepper, and their pepper shaker was full of salt. How could they swap the contents of the two bottles without spilling any, and using only the implements at hand? Clearly this was a job for Mensa minds. The group debated the problem and presented ideas and finally came up with a brilliant solution involving a napkin, a straw and an empty saucer. They called the waitress over, ready to dazzle her with their solution. “Ma’am,” they said,” we couldn’t help but notice that the pepper shaker contains salt and the salt contains pepper.” But before they could finish, the waitress interrupted, “Oh – sorry about that.” She leaned over the table, unscrewed the caps of both bottles and switched them…..