ROTARY CLUB OF MT ELIZA BULLETIN, Vol 50, No 39 (Apr 02, 2021)

The Rotary Club of

Mount Eliza

Chartered 1971

Service Above Self

Tuesdays at 6:00 PM

Dining Room, Toorak College

Mt Eliza
Mount Eliza, VIC 3930
Australia

Phone:

0419 386 900

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Dinner Meeting at Toorak College & Zoom Meeting Conference Number 826504424487

District Site

Venue Map

Chair

Juraschek, Hardy

Cashier

Selth, Maurie

Assistant Cashier

Miller, Rowan

Furniture

Welsh, John

Fellowship

Gilbert, John

3 Minute Speaker Suzie Adam

Sue Voss

Hi everybody

A big thank you to District Governor Mark for being our speaker this week on the topic of Rotary Fellowship & Action Groups. A most interesting talk and all members with hobbies and special interests are encouraged to explore whether Rotary has a Fellowship or Action Group which you can join.

On Tuesday 20 April we will be holding our Bowls Night at the Mt Eliza Bowling Club. Thank you to Bernie Edwards for organising what has become an annual event (except for COVID 2020).

Rotarians are encouraged to bring family and friends to what should be a great evening.

We are to arrive at 5.45 pm and bowl from 6.00 pm. A two course dinner will be provided in the Clubhouse at 8.00 pm (with a vegetarian option available). Reasonably priced drinks are available at the bar so no BYO thank you.

The evening will conclude around 9.00 pm.

No special gear is necessary and you do not need prior experience. Tuition will be available to novices on the night and bowls will be provided. You should be casually dressed and can be bare-footed or wear flat soled shoes on the green.

The cost of the evening is $28 per person. For catering purposes bookings are necessary through humanitx - http://events.humanitix.com/bowls-night-2021

Finally, another request to every member to step up and support our Club as the host of the District Mini-Conference on 1 May by ensuring that you attend and participate (please see story elsewhere in this Bulletin). A huge thank you to Rotarian Linda Morris for all of her work on this Conference.

Until next time

Yours in Rotary

Sue

District Governor Mark Humphries and Past President Linda Humphries

Greetings to all members of the Rotary Club of Mt Eliza and other readers of this Bulletin.

This week some exciting news from Linda. Across District 9820 we are looking for Membership VIP Champions

Next year Linda will be heading up our District Membership team. She will be looking for each club to appoint a membership champion and also each of our Clusters will be asked to have a champion to work with the clubs to assist in developing strategies, planning for attracting and retaining members.

Luckily, Linda knows District Governor Andy Rajapaksa of Queensland District 9640 and will be studying his success very closely.

Andy originally joined Rotary in Sri Lanka and was a charter member of the Rotary Club of Colombo Metropolitan. Upon migrating to Australia he joined the Burleigh Heads Club. He has introduced 12 members to his club to help become the fifth largest in the district. The RC of Burleigh Heads sponsors 2 Interact Clubs and a Rotaract Club. As DG, Andy has set an ambitious goal to grow the district to 1400 members by 1 July 2021.

Starting with a brainstorming event hopefully at a weekend retreat Linda wants to put together a plan that we all have input to and have ownership. It’s no longer someone else’s concern because in our wonderful and unique District we are at a crisis point however we have great opportunities to develop solutions.

Being a Rotarian has responsibilities, it is our greatest privilege to share our talents, pool our resources to serve communities in need. Our dedication to this ideal is expressed in our principal motto service above self . We owe it to our friends, partners and acquaintances to introduce them to our wide world of service and friendships. We will look for opportunities to reinvigorate existing clubs and develop new style clubs that will suit all ages and lifestyles and welcome like-minded people to our Rotary world.

Finally, a quick reminder. Please make every effort to attend our District Mini Conference on Saturday 1 May. (see full story elsewhere in this Bulletin).

Until next time

Warm regards

Mark & Linda

CLUB NEWS

Highly Successful Bunnings BBQ

Thank you to all Members & Friends who volunteered to work on the Bunnings BBQ on Easter Monday. Rotarian Bernie Edwards reports that the takings on the day were $1995.40, something of a record. A very big thanks to Rotarian Hardy Juraschek for an enormous amount of work organising the logistics of the day as well as actually working on the crew.

Potential New Member?

Great to see Leanne Trembath at our dinner meeting again this week.

District Mini Conference

As Secretary Pauline reported at this week's meeting, Mt Eliza is the host Club of District Governor Mark's Mini-Conference at Nossal High School on 1 May. Please make a special effort to attend and support our Club at this event.

Welfare Report

Club Welfare Officer, Rotarian George-Ann reported that PP Ross Schweitzer and Frank Flowers are both up and about. Good to see both at the meeting this week.

Thanks to Treasurer Chris Angerer

President elect Neil Heron placed on the record our Club's special thanks to Treasurer Chris Angerer for organising last week's International Meeting between the RC Mt Eliza and the RC Muehldorf Waldkraiburg in Bayern (Bavaria) Germany.

Successful Hot Cross Buns Fund-raiser.

Fund-raising Director Carolyn Such and all Club members thank Rotarian (and Presidential Nominee) John Welsh, supported by Rotarian Rob Cracknell, for the great effort in baking so many hot cross buns for sale just prior to Easter. Thanks also to rotarian George-Ann for being the coordinator of distribution. George-Ann was also thanked for all of the work that she does on Club rosters.

LAUGHTER THE BEST MEDICINE

Q. What has 36 legs and can't climb a ladder?

A. The Kangaroos.

A fish goes into a bar.

The barman says, "What do you want?"

The fish croaks, "Water!"

Two young antique dealers were checking out the junk at various stalls at a car boot sale when they noticed an old cat drinking milk from an 19th Century Royal Doulton saucer.

The nudged each other and went to find the owner of the stall.

Casually, one of the young fellows said, "My word what a lovely cat. Would you like to sell him?"

"Well", said the old codger who owned the cat, "I might be willing to sell him for $20."

"Done", said the young fellow and handed over twenty dollars.

His mate picked up the saucer and said, "We may as well the this old saucer, seeing that he is used to drinking from it."

"No way," said the old codger.

"But why?" asked the young chap.

The old man then replied, "Because thanks to that saucer, I have already flogged 92 cats!"

An old farmer was worried about his prized bull. It was ignoring the cows.

So he went to discuss the matter with the vet.

Next day he was talking to his neighbour and he told him that the bull had totally picked up his game.

"I gave him this stuff that the vet prescribed and with half an hour he'd serviced eight cows."

"Blimey," said the neighbour, "what's the stuff called?"

"Well," the farmer replied, "I can't pronounce the name but it tastes like peppermint!"

REMEMBER WHEN - FIFTY YEARS OF THE RC MT ELIZA

Unfortunately we have no contributions this week

DISTRICT MINI CONFERENCE

As the Home Club of our District Governor, Mark Humphries, we are the host club of this year's District Mini Conference.

All Members of the Rotary Club of Mt Eliza are asked to attend the Mini Conference to be held on Saturday 1 May. On that day, our mini conference will be held face to face following the online virtual 2021 Multi District Conference (information following).

Everyone is asked to meet at Nossal High School for an afternoon and evening of fun and entertainment.

This will be our first conference in two years. We have quite a lot to catch up, so we are breaking the conference into three components.

The Conference component will bring us together to pay our respect to those called to higher service, to celebrate and acknowledge award recipients, to hear presentations and to ratify some short mandatory business resolutions.
A friendship break in the foyer where we can socialise over finger food.
Conference Dinner and entertainment in the main Hall where you will enjoy time together over a two-course meal, beverages included, while being entertained by our Nossal High School students as they showcase their amazing musical and dance talents.

Venue: Nossal High School

100 Clyde Road

Berwick VIC 3806

Time: 3:30pm Start – Mini Conference

Cost: $70 per person

RSVP: 24th April 2021 including any medical dietary requirements to Jane Moore - jane.moore@rotary9820.org.au THEN make your payment as below

Payments: District 9820 BSB 633000 ACC 134811736

Your Name Conference eg: SmithConf

The transition of English

Ross Schweitzer presents.....

Those among us who sat through ‘Love Story’ will note the anachronisms [Greek: ana - against khronos - time]. Neither of the key players spoke with Bostonian accents. The actor Ray Milland who played the father of Ryan O’Neill did; he had a head start because he’s English. [He was English]. There’s no way an ‘Old Money’ Establishment Bostonian would not.

The viewer also got to glimpse parts of Harvard University [HaHvaHd]. I’ve family within Greater Boston, Brookline and Framingham, Mass. Uncle Lou lived but two streets away from where JFK grew up [his house is well - maintained, JFK’s not Lou’s]. Except, Uncle Lou moved there post WW2 and brought with him his Brooklyn, NY accent. DAWG, KORFEE, GORE HEAD [go ahead] etc. Just like my Dad, who to our ears never had an accent! So........

Trash. Garbage. Rubbish. HaHvaHd Prepone.

I’ve heard it ever since I first visited to Boston: a supposed test of a true Boston accent. From we Australians who automatically have passed (or is it “failed”?) the test of a true Boston accent. It goes like this: “I pahk my cah on Hahvahd Yahd.”

But doesn’t everyone in Boston know you can’t park there? The Yard is a walled-off pedestrian zone, with gates that sometimes close. The Boston Globe, though, has lately shed light on this.

Harvard Yard is mostly a vehicle-free zone, yet the idea of ‘pahking’ there is intimately associated with the Boston accent. Locals, especially those with strong accents, know well how often outsiders ask to hear the phrase repeated back, unaware that it means nothing to anyone familiar with Cambridge’s parking options.

This accent test has annoyed Bostonians for decades. Linguist Ben Zimmer has found a written reference to the Famous Harvard Accent Test from 1946. If it was famous then, it obviously goes back even further.

Harvard ... once had its own dialect, distinct from the Boston accent.... Like the Boston accent, it was distinguished by the dropping of the ‘r.’ In 1940, an English professor* classified it as the result of mixing accents from New England prep schoolers, Greater Boston Irish-Americans, and Midwesterners. The result ... made the speaker sound vaguely British. (Think Franklin Roosevelt or Katharine Hepburn.)”

How the accent test moved from marking the Harvard accent to the Boston accent is less clear. In the 1960s, John F. Kennedy’s association with both Harvard and Boston, and his famous accent, appears to have blurred the lines between the two dialects, which may have helped.

Nice try, but he was incorrect. That part of the [now U.S.] was first settled by the English during the 1600s. That is how English was spoken. The cross -section of people was not dissimilar to those who landed in Australia almost 200 Years later, by which time some aspects of grammar had altered.

Remember that subsequent arrivals to the Americas were further south and from differing backgrounds. No TV or telephones to influence a commonality of pronunciation or newer words.

Witness: Trash and Garbage had become by the late 1700s, rubbish. [When secretary, by way of offering an excuse as to why they had ignored a request, a member wrote to me: Everything you write is rubbish]. I felt that remark was garbage.

We are not alone. Between 1490 and 1600 Italian then French [Latin based languages] deviated markedly from their Latin base in an effort to restore ‘classical pronunciations‘. Likewise Spanish, Portuguese, Romanisch and Romanian [VIN VINO VINHO].

Prepone Frowned upon by upper class Indians / South Asians.

The first person to use it in print, according to the OED, was Robert Crowley, a Puritan social reformer who wrote in 1549: “I do prepone and set the Lord alwaye before myne eyes.” After the mid-1600s, there is no record of the word for nearly three centuries.

The word is mostly attributed to Indian English, but it was first used in the 16th century, long before English spread in India. At that point, it meant “to place in front of.” It comes from the Latin praeponere.

The word entrée as a culinary term first appears in print around 1536, in the Petit traicté auquel verrez la maniere de faire cuisine, in a collection of menus at the end of the book. There, the first stage of each meal is called the entree de table (entrance to the table); the second stage consists of potaiges (foods boiled or simmered ‘in pots’); the third consists of one or more services de rost (meat or fowl roasted in dry heat); and the last is the issue de table* (departure from the table). These four stages of the meal appear consistently in this order in all the books that derive from the Petit traicté. Not le dessert*

In closing therefore: Why do UNITED, DELTA and AMERICAN et. al. insist upon asking, would I like a steak or lobster for my ENTREE? Even AIR CANADA for ***’* Sake.

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