David and Carmel Glanville and their three grown children are all musicians and now have a local family business: the Sydney String Centre. The members of the family are all highly trained, each one being at least one of: violinist, violist, cellist, luthier, industrial designer, teacher, lawyer. Their business involves the manufacture, supply and repair […]
Dr John Watson while a UNSW Senior Lecturer in mining engineering, visited North Korea as a United Nations Development Plan consultant in 1998 and stayed four weeks, lecturing on the information technology aspects of mining engineering. His visit was funded by U.S. sources on the understanding that North Korea would cease its nuclear weapons development […]
Millions of children around the world are trafficked and trapped in sexual exploitation. The organisation Destiny Rescue attempts to rescue them. It's sensitive and dangerous work with a host of political, legal, economic and ethical problems. Shelley Whittington will give us the inside story.
Lane Cove Rotary Presents: The September issue of Rotary Down Under contains at p. 35 an article by Evan Burrell in which he talks about social media and Rotary. “Learning what type of content to post that will engage an audience, or even how to handle a social media crisis are just two of the […]
Peter Watson is a personal trainer “helping leaders gain significant & measurable increases in leadership, joy and effectiveness”. He also feels strongly about rescuing children from sexual slavery. So what does he do? He runs from the Northern tip of New Zealand to the Southern tip. He hopes thereby to inspire people to donate to […]
Paulo Baglioni Ramos is too old to be an exchange student, but he wanted to have as much of the exchange experience as possible. So he has come to Sydney from Brazil and has visited us several times. He will talk to us about his native land. Bookings HERE
Associate Professor Geoffrey Painter AM is an ophthalmologist practising at the Sydney Adventist Hospital and privately in Gordon. This year he was made a member of the Order of Australia in connection with his service to ophthalmology, and to eye health in Asia and the Pacific. His speciality is cataract surgery. He will tell us […]
Celebrate our clubs successes for 2017-2018 under the guidance of Pres Harry and Liz and show your support for PE Hazel and Graham for the coming year. Guests and family welcome and our Changeover is Black Tie. 6.30 pm arrival for 7 pm start. Contact: Harry Clarsen, AM Fee: $55
Dr Carl Munoz-Ferrada will introduce us to some national and international security issues relating to nuclear disaster and nuclear contamination. How to detect the contamination? What are the consequences of contamination? The health effects, the environmental effects, the socio-psychological effects, the political effects. What planning is being done and what planning needs to be done […]
Patricia Garcia and Aime Saba are going to talk about the Rohingya situation. Aime has just returned from the Bangladesh camp with over 1M refugees and has been a part of the Rohngya Crisis Response. The present Rohingya crisis and broader Rakhine conflict are represented distinctly by different ethnic and political groups both within Burma […]
