CLUB NEWS JULY 2009

Our new leadership

President Willie du Plessis was inducted on 22 June 2009 as the 23^rd President of the Rotary Club of Bonza Bay at an auspicious occasion at the Blue Lagoon Hotel. At the same time Past President Martin Kuchler was awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship for the stirling work in leading our Club for the past year. Well done Martin.

Marguerite du Plessis was inducted as the President of the Anns Club for the ensuing Rotary year. The Rotary Club of Bonza Bay are looking forward to a wonderful working relationship to realize both their and our projects.

President Willie has named his Board for the 2009/2010 Rotary year:

Vaughan Thorndike: Vice President
Martin Kuchler:         Immediate Past President
Christo Theart:          Secretary
Pierre van Wyk:        Treasurer
Service Projects:        Simon Kirk
Foundation:                Colin Richter
Membership:              Walter Tessmann
Public Relations:        Craig Martin
Fundraising:               Hans Stolp
Club Administration: Bhagy Ramdhin

People coming and people going

Our membership has gone down to 18. How ever, all is not lost. Most of the members we lost will return in a year or two when circumstances at their workplace improve. We have appointed  all of them as Honorary Rotarians so as to keep in touch with them as we all know, out of site is out of heart, and that is not what we want to happen. Adv Tops Sishuba , currently a member at Mthatha Club , will join us soon as hopefully will Dave Roux.

We have lost our inbound exchange student, Lukas Jung , who has returned to Germany after a year with us. How quickly a year can pass! We have seen Lukas growing as a person over the last year and we are sure that the year spent as an exchange student will stand him in good stead in the future. We are sad to see him go but we are sure his family is glad that he is back.  Charlene Donald, our outbound exchange student will still be in Switzerland for some time to come and she is enjoying every minute of it.

Activities

June is a month of rounding up the old Rotary year and ringing in the new Rotary year, So very little else happened.

July will kick off with a bang:

• On the 18^th we will have our Christmas in July function for the aged
• Alan Beaumont of Arcadia Club will speak to us on fundraising on the 20th
• Our own Matt and Bhagy will speak to us on their occupations on the 27th
• On the 30^th we will resume with our Bingo evenings at one of the old age homes