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‘LET US EMBRACE THE DIGITAL AGE’ ROTARY COORDINATOR’S TEAM
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From Rotary News, Feb 2021 Australia, New Zealand
Australia, New Zealand
Excerpts from the convocation address by RI President Holger and Pacific Islands
and Pacific Islands
Knaack, at the GETS event for RI zones 4, 5, 6 and 7. 9455, 9465, 9510, 9550, 9570, 9600, 9630,
9640 9650, 9670, 9675, 9685, 9705, 9780,
… Striking a pensive note, he said, “Rotary was founded in a world that 9455, 9465, 9510, 9550, 9570, 9600, 9630,
9640 9650, 9670, 9675, 9685, 9705, 9780,
doesn’t exist any longer, it is a different world now, which moves faster 9790, 9800, 9810, 9820, 9830, 9910, 9920,
9790, 9800, 9810, 9820, 9830, 9910, 9920,
and is harder to comprehend. And it is filled with crises to manage. 9930, 9940, 9970, 9980
And yet it gives us new opportunities.” 9930, 9940, 9970, 9980
He said even before this pandemic crisis, people were meeting and RI DIRECTOR ZONE 8
keeping connected to different friends in different ways. “Social media Surgeon Chi-Tien Liu
and online connections were already there but they have now become Email: chitienliu75@gmail.com

more important. We are all now used to working virtually. Most ROTARY COORDINATOR
important, the younger generation that has grown up in this world,
has a stronger desire for service and connections.” PDG Adrian Roach
Email: adrian@valleyfresh.net
But they didn’t want to wait for their time to lead. “They want to play
meaningful roles today. And if Rotary cannot provide them a platform, Assistant Rotary Coordinators
they will form their own types of connections and find opportunities. PDG David Egan
The world will not slow down for us, let us capture this moment to Districts: 9510, 9705, 9780, 9830
grow Rotary, make it stronger, more adaptable and more aligned to
our world as it is today.” Email: dcegan@esc.net.au

PDG Peter Frueh
… Calling upon the incoming governors to embrace the challenges the Districts 9790, 9800, 9810, 9820
post-Covid world is going to throw up, Knaack said that crucial values Email: peter.frueh@gmail.com
of Rotary, such as fellowship, integrity, leadership, service and PDG Ingrid Waugh
diversity “will remain constant. But Rotary has to change and will Districts 9910 and 9930
change and even if some fellow Rotarians complain that it doesn’t feel
like the old Rotary, we will change.” … Email: ingrid_waugh@rotaryoceania.zone

PDG Marion Johnston
… “it is up to all of us to remake Rotary for these new times, and to Districts 9920 and 9980
wholeheartedly embrace the ideals and commitments of younger Email: marionjohnstonlaptop@gmail.com
people eager to find an outlet for their idealism. We must become an PDG Karen Purdue
organisation that embraces the digital age, and make it a part of all Districts 9970 and 9940
that we do. It is important that we create a new Rotary for the new age.
Rotary is not just a club that you join, it is an invitation for endless Email: purdue.f.k@xtra.co.nz

opportunities in both big and historic projects such as ending polio as PDG Brian Coffey
well as small community projects at the club level.” … Districts: 9650, 9670, 9675, 9685
Email: brian@coffey.net.au

PDG Ida Portella

‘SERVE TO CHANGE LIVES’ Districts: 9550, 9570
Email: idaportella@bigpond.com
Extracts from an RI website, article by Ryan Hyland PP Damian Leach
Incoming Rotary International President Shekhar Email: youth@rotary9510.org
Mehta urged members to become more involved in PDG Doug St Clair
service projects, saying that caring for and serving
others is the best way to live because it changes not Districts: 9600, 9630, 9640
Email: dstclair@bigpond.net.au
only other people’s lives, but also our own.
PDG Linda McLerie
Mehta, a member of the Rotary Club of Calcutta Districts: 9455, 9465
Mahanagar, said “Rotary kindled the spark Email; lindamclerie@gmail.com
within me to look beyond myself and embrace
humanity,” he said. “Service became a way of Regional Membership Officer
life for me and I, like many others, adopted the Barbara Mifsud
guiding philosophy that ‘Service is the rent I pay Email: barbara.mifsud@rotary.org

for the space I occupy on this earth, and I want Newsletter Editor
to be a good tenant of this earth.’”
Issa Shalhoub drissa@bigpond.com
Mehta’s Each One, Bring One initiative asks every member to bring
one person to join Rotary by 1 July 2022.

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