Balwyn Centre, 412 Whitehorse Rd March 2018 The Probus Club of Glenferrie Inc. Incorporated - Registered No. A0032068N Next Meeting: All the News that’s received before the deadline - March 2018 16/03 at 9:45 am Bates Motel Speaker: Annual General Meeting Cheryl Williams, The Hope to see you all at the Annual General meeting on 16th March. Remember to arrive a Smith Family little earlier than usual as we commence proceedings at 9.45am. Please see the notice of the meeting on the last page of this newsletter. Happy Hour: Norfolk Island 18/3 at 5:00pm On the 4th March, thirty-one Glenferrie Probus members and friends commence an eight day tour to Norfolk Island. I’m sure this will be a wonderful trip for everyone going Bridge: along. Our club plans for one extended tour each year, last year to Newcastle and Port Gillham 20/03 Stephens and the year before that to Canberra. For the past 20 years or so each year an Weymouth 17/4 extended tour has been run. This year David Tennent has done a terrific job in planning and organising all details. Thank you David. Painters: I wish all on the trip a unique and memorable experience with fellow travellers to this Balwyn Centre historic location and a safe return home. Whitehorse Road Eric Bates, President 13/3, 27/3 Speaker Walkers: The Smith Family is a children’s education charity that helps disadvantaged young City Riverside Walk Australians to succeed at school, to prevent them from experiencing a lifetime of 15/03 poverty. www.thesmithfamily.com.au Last year 151,000 children, young people, parents, carers and community professionals Book Group: participated in programs run by The Smith Family across Australia. This included Camberwell Library 39,000 students on the Learning for Life sponsorship program. 06/04 Cheryl Williams, a volunteer, will share information about the cycle of disadvantage, how The Smith Family helps and the results. Cheryl worked as a primary teacher librarian and for the 14 years she was involved in The Smith Family literacy program student2student. Mike Macrow Brownies Bit www.glenferrie probus.org At our last meeting we had a presentation by Celia Cornick about a web site for our club which she had prepared with assistance from her teenage grandson. The address is www.glenferrie probus.org. Speaker Our speaker was Dr Kate Cornick who is CEO of Launch Victoria, a group to assist start-up companies. Her presentation was absolutely outstanding. She spoke amongst other thing of Unicorns, start-up businesses with a turnover of $1 billion plus. Happy Hour Our next Happy Hour will be from 5pm on Sunday March 18th at the home of Jock McKinlay, 49 Walpole St, Kew. We expect the evening will span an hour and a half or so. Please bring your drinks of choice and a glass. Newsletters: The Club will provide the nibbles courtesy of the generous grant from the Boroondara Past newsletters online at Council and the Rotary Club of Balwyn. Glenferrie Probus News Do come, the more the merrier. Peter Brown Outings Visit to Coombe Cottage This will be held in May. It will be a self-drive outing. Details to be finalized, but it will probably be a tour of the house and Morning Tea. If this is the case there will be a maximum of 12 people who can be accommodated, so it will be a case of first in, best dressed. Details in the April Newsletter. David Ferguson 0407128666 Walkers: City Riverside Walk Thursday 15 March, 2018 10.30 am. Meet at Flinders Street Station ‘under the clocks’. This is an easy 4 km, 2.5 hour walk including a coffee stop half way. Starting at Flinders Street Station, the walk will take us via Southbank, South Wharf and Docklands with the return journey to Flinders Street Station via the free City Circle tram. Discover some of our most recent development in what was Melbourne’s first settled area. Kay Edwards 0400 128 690 Gary Edwards 0428 533 977 Book Discussion Group Book Club held First Friday of the month, at Camberwell Library coffee shop at 1.30! Everyone welcome. Book to read in March is The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein. For those who like to keep ahead, book to be read in April is ‘In The Darkroom ‘ by Susan Faludi. Sam Shepherd 0402 317 413. Painters: Our year started with a very pleasant and interesting stroll along the Yarra Flats, in the Eaglemont area of the Heidelberg Artists trail. Gary Edwards, who grew up in the area, planned our route and provided detailed notes of the Artists and their work at many locations. The artists, including Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Frederick McCubbin who started the Australian Impressionist movement in the late 19th and early 20th Century in this locality. Gary’s input was greatly appreciated. William Winford, our “resident Art Instructor”, spoke on the development of Australian Impressionism by these Artists and others such as E Phillips Fox and Charles Conder which developed at Eaglemont and other localities around Melbourne and Victoria. William’s extensive knowledge and experience gave William talking to the group on the Artist’s trail all of us a good understanding of the work of these Artists. Keith Weymouth Topping off the stroll, was Kay Edwards and her delightful afternoon tea and cake for the group among the memories of our impressionistic artists. Bowls 13 members of our Club met with the MCC Bowls section in the second of our season matches on 21st February and upheld the reputation of our Club in these matches, which also included a team from Melbourne Probus Club. Glenferrie Probus fielded 3 rinks, two of whom played against MCC, with a win by two shots for Miller Goodwin’s team and a draw for a team led by Stuart Balding. Peter McCausland led a team to defeat a team fielded by Melbourne Probus by 4 shots, our best rink, which included, Peter McCausland, David Tennent, David Harrison and Bill Grano. Peter McCausland, David Harrison and Bill Grano The Probus Club of Glenferrie Inc. Incorporated Registered No. A0032068N Mike’s Mash Well, two more sleeps before the Probus trip to Norfolk Island. Canberra and Port Stephens will be hard to top but the special place in our colonial history is an added swing factor. My in-laws Norm and Joan are coming too, so I will be on my best behaviour. Our new president David Tennent is the joint organiser with club stalwart, Keith Weymouth at his side. Like Bligh they will run a tight ship...I hope we have no Fletchers in the group. Last Tuesday we heard from Gemma Sisia, founder of the School of St Jude in Tanzania. Jock was very impressed with the school on his visit last year. It depends entirely on donations mainly from Australians like you and me. See you in paradise or at the March meeting.. Mike Macrow Welfare Should any member be sick or unwell then call Graeme Edgoose on 9836 9854 or 0407836985 If you require a lift to the meeting we may be able to assist. Committee PRESIDENT: Eric Bates 9819 2870 VICE PRESIDENT: David Tennent 0411253633 SECRETARY: Peter Brown 98318702 TREASURER: Stuart Balding 93977036 ACTIVITIES: David Ferguson 9818 8335 Jock McKinlay 98534080 MEMBERSHIP: Celia Cornick 0403208940 SPEAKERS: John Bell 98502626 DINE OUT: Les Silagy 9041 2017 EDITOR: Mike Macrow [email protected] PAINTERS: Keith Weymouth 9817 1780 BRIDGE: Tom Gillham 9857 8347 WALKING: Kay Edwards 9813 2425 BOOK CLUB Sam Shepherd 9596 3049 The Probus Club of Glenferrie Inc. Incorporated Registered No. A0032068N 27th Annual General Meeting - 16 March 2018 Notice is hereby given that the 27th Annual General Meeting of the Probus Club of Glenferrie Inc. will be held on Friday 16 March 2018 at 9.45am at the Balwyn Community Centre, 412 Whitehorse Road, Surrey Hills. Business: 1: To confirm the minutes of the 26th Annual General Meeting 2: To receive reports of the Club activities for the year 2017/18 3: To receive and consider the Audited Annual Financial Report for 2017/18 4: To elect Office Bearers of the Club and ordinary members of the Committee of Management for the year 2018/19 5: To confirm Annual Membership Fees 6: To appoint an Auditor for 2018/19 Nomination forms for committee members are available from the Secretary, Peter Brown, 98318702 .