Thank you to the 21 Members, Honorary Members and Friends who have submitted their memories of our great Club.
Unfortunately a number of people have not yet been able to provide their stories. Hopefully they will be able to so do in the near future.
In the meantime, thank you to a much loved Club Member who has, anonymously, provided the Editor with a copy of our Club's Bulletin for the 2000/01 Rotary Year.
From that Bulletin, the following has been obtained:
* The President was Malcolm Hull with Alex Pigdon the Incoming President. Vice President was Keith Burren, Alex Pigdon was Secretary and Ray Manchester was Treasurer. Harry Macdonald was the Club Service Director and Elizabeth McCormick was Vocational Service Director. Ric Berg was Community Service Director while Judy Coultas served as International Service Director and Neil Heron was our Youth Service Director.
Other Club Members in 2000/21 who are still active Rotarians include David Rew, Maurie Selth, Graham Reid, Brendan Hoban, Trish Stamp, Rob Cracknell, John Gilbert, Frank Flowers, Carolyn Such, Rhonda Vincent and Karina Webb. It is wonderful that twenty years later these members are still active contributors to the Rotary Club of Mt Eliza.
* A very interesting article in the 2000/01 Bulletin was headed "Champagne". The article reads as follows:
"A letter from the Bishop, being the last as Treasurer Peter (of the Pearly Gates) naturally has to be about liquid assets.
The method of making Champagne was originally discovered by Dom Perignon, a Benedictine monk who died in 1715, (maybe Rev James in a prior life). Champagne is sold in a half bottle, sometimes called a pint, a standard 750 ml bottle or a magnum which holds two bottles.
Bigger bottles have Biblical names ... no-one knows why: it is simply an old custom carrying on from wine lore of the past.
JEROBOAM - after the first King of Israel. A double magnum! 4 bottles
METHUSELAH - defeated Jeroboam in a war 3000 years ago - 6 bottles
SALAMANZAR - a warrior king of Abyssinia - 12 bottles
BELSHAZZAR - the last king of Babel, grandson of Nebuchadnezzar - 16 bottles
NEBUCHADNEZZAR - a king who re-built Babylon - 20 bottles".
* The District Governor was Ian Pickering and the World President was Frank Devlyn
* The Bulletin also provided the Rotary Invocation, The Four Way Test, the words to the second verse of Adnace Australia Fair and a list of district club meetings where members could attend for make-up purposes.