Well it’s a great honour to be your new president and I am looking forward to working with you all to better our local community, the world community and our humble club of Crows Nest.
I respect greatly those who have come before me and look forward to the continued mentorship from you all you. Thank you to Peter and Mark for your help in the leadup to change over and thank you to my board and all the members in advance for the good we are going to do.
When I think about our club and what I can bring to it, the most obvious point of difference is youth. From all of you, I have learnt that does not mean more energy, it doesn’t mean more drive and passion but I think it brings a different perspective.
I want this club to grow and want this club to flourish. For us to do that we need more members and we need them to be able to be as involved as possible. With said we need to work towards making membership more accessible to our time-poor generation. Through tech and through more lore local community work and consultation and through allowing people to help in their own way, within reason.
We have a new home for our Monday lunches and I think it is a good one. Now we need to go outside these walls and start finding local causes that need our help. Harold mentioned to me the idea of working closely with North Sydney police to determine the areas they need help. I think this is something we need to start right away.
We need to continue the good work we already do in our local community and overseas, working with our corporate partners and fellow rotary clubs. we will be working on continuing the global grant for Kenya and the local grants with Talldumunde and or the butterfly foundation.
There are big shoes to fill in the international, vocational and foundation portfolios but we will look to broaden those too.
I am open to suggestions and any help I can get. Most of you have been doing this a lot longer than me and I will continue to look to all of you for guidance and ideas.
Let’s continue to do good things
With that, let me introduce the new board for 17/18 and again thank you in advance:
SECRETARY – Mark Staples
TREASURER – Simon Babbage
ADMINISTRATION – John Saunders
FOUNDATION – George Condell
COMMUNITY SERVICE – Sue Raveane
INTERNATIONAL – Ian Pocock
VOCATIONAL – Tom Sweeney
Still to be filled – YOUTH, MEMBERSHIP and SERGEANT-AT-ARMS