District Six, Neil Butcher, a Little Education, Interact and a Little History!

DISTRICT SIX EATERY

Call 011 486 7226
Physical address: Corner Greenhills and Barry Hertzog Road, Emmarentia

There is no Wednesday Breakfast Meeting on Wed 30th March.
As it is the 5th Wednesday we will be meeting at 19,00 at District Six Eatery. Here is the menu!

Starters:

Samoosas – meat or veg R6.50

House salad – mixed veg and fruit R30 for 2/3 people

Mains:

Ouma onder die Kombuis. (Frickadelles wrapped in cabbage leaves) R75.00

Denning Vleis (Slow-roasted lamb) R100.00
Lamb Curry R85

Chicken Curry R80.00
Bobootie R75

Tomato Bredie (with beef) R75
Green bean Bredie R75

Smoorsnoek R75

Vegetable curry (chic peas, sweet potato and butternut) R55

Dessert

Melk tert R38.00

Pumpkin fritters R18

Cheesecake R30

Malay style koeksisters R18

Hertzoggies R10

They have NO WINE LICENCE, so do bring your own tipple.

Many thanks to Allan Beuthin for arranging this.

Please let him know if you are coming and what you intend ordering.  allan@backabuddy.co.za

Here's last week's speaker, Neil Butcher, who spoke to us on his observations of Education throughout the world and comforted us by saying that our problems in SA were common to just about everyone. He also pointed out the problems of educational consumerism that plays on parents' guilt. Very interesting.

Don Lindsay was asked to introduce him, that was a mistake. As you can see, top left, he is unfortunately threatening him with dire consequences should his talk not be of a sufficiently high standard!  Fortunately for us and particularly for him, it was.

Most of us were worried that the talk might not be up to Don's exacting standards and you can almost hear Julian Nagy's sigh of relief when the Rack was not wheeled in.

Joan Donet sent me this note about Interact and the Induction of our second Interact Club at McAuley House School.  Congratulations, Joan, you have really worked hard at sorting this one out!  I have added a place for Interact Dates in the left hand column.

Dominican Convent School - The office bearers for 2011 will be inducted at school assembly on Tuesday, 5 April. The current office bearers, now in Grade 12, are unable to devote 100% of their time to club activities, so it has been proposed that a request be directed to RI for a change in period for this school based club (and McAuley House) to January to December. In future the office bearers for the ensuing year, will be inducted before school closes for the December holidays.

Please diarise - 5 April, School Assembly at Dominican Convent School (time to be confirmed)

McAuley House - The club originally inaugurated by Blackheath Rotary club is listed as "active" by RI, so we will be submitting a request to take over sponsorship of the club. Plans for the induction of the office bearers for the current year are progressing well, and it is envisaged that the induction will take place on Saturday, 16 April at 12:30 (at the school).

Please diarise - 16 April at 12:30, Induction Lunch at McAuley House.

Historic Moments: The first four Rotarians

By Susan Hanf and Jason Lamb
Rotary International News – 10 February 2011
 

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The first four Rotarians -- Gustavus Loehr, Silvester Schiele, Hiram E. Shorey, Paul P. Harris.

On 23 February 1905, Paul P. Harris, Gustavus Loehr, Silvester Schiele, and Hiram E. Shorey gathered in Loehr’s office for what would become known as the first Rotary club meeting.

Harris’s desire for camaraderie among business associates brought together these four men and eventually led to an international organization of service and fellowship.

Read about each of the first four Rotarians below, and about Harry L. Ruggles, who is often called the "fifth Rotarian."

Rotary’s founder, Harris , was born in Wisconsin, USA, on 19 April 1868. He was raised by his paternal grandparents in Vermont and attended the University of Vermont, Princeton, and the University of Iowa. He was Rotary president from 1910 to 1912 and a member of the Rotary Club of Chicago until his death on 27 January 1947. Learn more about the founder of Rotary in “ The Life and Times of Paul Harris.”

Loehr , a mining engineer, was born on 18 October 1864 in Carlinville, Illinois. He was a Rotarian for only a few years, never holding office at the club or international level. But that first Rotary meeting was held in his office, Room 711 of the Unity Building in downtown Chicago. He died in Chicago on 23 May 1918.

A Rotarian for only a few years, Shorey served as recording secretary during the club’s first year. He was born in Maine in August 1862 and died in March 1944.

Schiele , a coal dealer, served as the Chicago club’s first president in 1905 and Rotary International’s third treasurer in 1945. Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1870, Schiele attended Terre Haute Business College and served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War. He was president of the Schiele Coal Company from 1902 until his retirement in 1939. He and Harris became lifelong friends and lived near each other on the South Side of Chicago. Schiele died on 17 December 1945 and is buried near Harris at Mount Hope Cemetery.

Originally from Michigan, Ruggles was a graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and joined Rotary at its second meeting. He was treasurer of the Chicago club during its first year, president from 1908 to 1910, and a Rotary director from 1912 to 1913. He is known for having introduced singing to Rotary club meetings. His printing company, H.L. Ruggles & Co., printed the first issue of The National Rotarian and the first Rotary songbook. He died on 26 October 1959, an honorary member of seven clubs in addition to his home club, the Rotary Club of Chicago.