President Elect Mandy Van hosted the last Zoom Board meeting this Rotary year. It was a full house with Pete and Bernie Mason and Juliet Chen joining us.

 

I expressed my gratitude to board members and all club members who deserve all the credit for our achievements, especially Past President (PP) Pam Wood who assisted in various activities in spite of her heavy family commitments.

 

The caronavirus has resulted in unfinished business for this Rotary year. This includes the cancellation of membership drives and invitations to guest speakers, Dr Wendy King of MQ Health and David Romanowski, President of Ryde Toastmasters  Club. Also we have been unable to promote Corporate Membership as we had hoped.

 

Other issues discussed at the Board meeting were:

1 . PP Victoria Crawford  will assist in preparing club bulletin.
2 . PP David Martin will follow up  social gathering at Tilt Cafe / Old Paint Shop, Blenheim Rd North Ryde in July. There is also a possibility of commencing Club meetings again at Dunmore Lang College from August. This will be discussed further at the next Board meeting in July. 
3 , Peter Mason has been nominated and accepted to be the President-elect for 2020-21.
4 . A brief handover will be held at the social dinner on Friday 26 June at Basils Seafood Restaurant. The Celebration dinner for 2019-20 has been proposed for Friday18 September at Basil's, circumstances permitting .
5 . Membership fees will increase from July to $300 payable once in July or on 2 instalments July/January. Treasurer Sandeep Rathi will email payment details to members in July.
6 . Zoom Club and Board meetings will continue from 3 July until face to face meetings can be resumed.

 

PP Pat Perrin will retire from Rotary from 1 July. Pat has served Rotary for 27 years at club level as well as at District level in 2001-2002.  We wish her well and hope to continue to see her at our meetings and functions from time to time as a great friend of the Rotary Club of North Ryde. We hope to officially thank and farewell Pat at our Celebration dinner which will hopefully be scheduled in September.

 

As this is my last message as the 42nd president of the club, I would like to thank you all for your fellowship.  The next message will be from President Mandy Van. I wish her and our club a year of good fellowship and achievements.