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Mildura Senior College student wins valuable Rotary scholarship

Buronga girl Tess O’Callaghan, a year 12 student from Mildura Senior College in 2021, has just been
awarded the inaugural Sunraysia Rotary River health scholarship.

The new $3000 scholarship will be awarded annually to one Sunraysia student beginning their first year
of Tertiary study. Tess O’Callaghan has just finished her first semester studying environmental Sciences
at Flinders University in Adelaide. Tess was presented with her certificate and $3000 cheque at the
Red Cliffs Rotary meeting on Wednesday 6th July. Tess was thrilled with her success and generous in her
appreciation of the assistance provided.

The scholarship, supported by Rotary Clubs across Sunraysia, and a project of The Rotary Club of Red Cliffs,
aims to raise the level of awareness and understanding of issues facing the Murray Darling Basin.

The scholarship is open to any Year 12 student in Sunraysia to follow a Tertiary course that will increase
this knowledge and understanding in the community. These young people will be the next leaders in our
community and it is important that the health of our river system is in good hands. There are few things
more important for Sunraysia than the continued health of our life blood, the rivers.

Andrew Banks, Assistant Principal at Mildura Senior College
replied to the news of Tess’s award by saying “this is fantastic
news. We can’t thank your organisation
enough for making this scholarship possible and with
such a poignant local theme, it will definitely have
impact for our region in the long term.”
Sunraysia schools with a senior year programme will
be approached in the latter part of 2022 with news
of application procedures for the next Sunraysia Rotary
River Health Scholarship.

Dennis Matthews
(secretary Sunraysia Rotary River Health Scholarship committee) Scholarship winner Tess O’Callaghan with
President of the RC of Red Cliffs John Hunt

Australian Honours

In the Queens Birthday Honours we can congratulate Dr Peter David Heysen AM of RC Glenelg. Peter
was President of the club twice in 2007/08 and 1984/85. Peter has been a member of Rotary and the RC
Glenelg for over 49 years.

We also congratulate Jon Harmer OAM RC Adelaide. Jon has been the official photographer at the last
two District Conferences.

Sailing Challenge in Rotary Magazine

The story we wrote on the Sailing Challenge for the D9510 feature in Rotary Down Under in April 2022 has
been chosen to feature in Rotary magazine August 2022 issue. Rotary (formerly the Rotarian) is the official
magazine for all Rotarians in the USA and Canada and is also subscribed to by Rotarians around the world.

This is the first story from all the district features from our Zone to be selected for republication.
Congratulations to David Binks and his team. Subscribers to Rotary will see it automatically but any
member can also access it through myrotary.org

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