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Japanese diplomat earns Rotary alumni award
By Sallyann Price
The recipient of this year’s Rotary Alumni Global Service Award
is Dr. Sadako Ogata, a former Ambassadorial Scholar
and a past United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Born in Japan to a family of diplomats
, Ogata was drawn to studying international relations
after Japan’s defeat in World War II.
When she began graduate studies
at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., USA, in 1951
, she was part of the second class of Rotary Scholars from Japan.
Rotary International has awarded Dr. Sadako Ogata,
a former High Commissioner for Refugees
with the UN's refugee agency, with the 2016-17
Rotary Alumni Global Service Award.
“During that period,
I also learned about the importance of community service
and broadened my perspectives and experiences thanks
to various exchanges with Rotarians,” she says.
“The Rotary motto of Service Above Self has left a deep impression
and has guided me ever since.”
After completing her doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley,
Ogata returned to Japan to teach at International Christian University,
which now hosts a Rotary Peace Center,
and Sophia University, where she taught until accepting
the post of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(head of UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency) in 1991
. She also represented Japan at the UN General Assembly,
served at the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations,
and chaired the UNICEF executive board.
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Soccer carnival D 4240 Brazil
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New Members
Rotary Club of Perth
Welcome to new Rotarian Frances
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Rotary Club of Hannans Kalgoorlie
Welcome to our newest Rotarian Kim Cooper.
The Rotary Club of Hannans-Kalgoorlie are very excited
to have you in our club.
Kim is pictured the DG Linda McLerie (proposer)
and President Samantha Duddy.
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Paul Harris Fellow
Rotary Club of Boulder
Our newest PHF recipient. Des Aitkin was awarded this for his
outstanding commitment to Probus and the community.
. Well deserved Des.
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Rotary Club of Elizabeth Quay
Chartered February 22
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New Club Promotions
Rotary Club of Northbridge
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Rotary Club of Mandurah City
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Rotary Club of Corrigin
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Rotaract Club of South Perth
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Rotary Club of Palm Beach
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Rotary Club of Ballajura-Malaga
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And don't forget next weekend also!!!
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Around the clubs
Rotary Club of Willetton
So proud that our support for 4 young RYLA students went well
for them and three of them came to club not only to thank the club
but to tell how it helped them , personally ,
develop a lot of their weaker skills to a point where
they are now more confident in those areas
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Rotary Club of Cockburn
The average age of the meeting certainly dropped today
with 4 Rotary exchange students present.
Teagan Judd returning from her year in Denmark.
Sae Kanda from Japan,
Vera Solmunde from Faroe Islands
, Dong Hua from Belgium.
Welcome back Teagan and goodbye Sae.
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Rotary Club of Cambridge
Jeanette and President Jeremy Wood entertained our RYE student
Juuso Leikola and his family and friends to a BBQ dinner
at their home on Thursday 23 February
Also attending were host families
, the Folkards and Teasdales as well as Juuso's mentor, Bill Richardson
and District 9455 RYE co-ordinator Jill Hanna.
Juuso can be seen in the pic with his parents,
Finnish friends and most of the other guests
Bill Richardson partly obscured.
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Rotary Club of Southern Districts
Short Term Exchange student Jardena Orr
did her thank you presentation at this weeks meeting
Jardena was in D2050 Italy over Xmas/New Year
pictured here with President Anita Diep,
New Generations Director Nancy Kilkenny
and Past District Governor Phil Cordery
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Rotary Club of Cambridge
An exchange of Banners between President Jeremy
and Juuso's father Jukka who is a member
of the Rotary Club of Lohjannummi, Suomi (Finland).
We were honoured to have the Leikola family (Jukka, Saja and Jenni)
visit us making this our third international visit of 2017.
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Rotary Club of Boulder
To the main business of the evening and that was awarding this years scholarships
This years winners were Luke Fox (JPC) Eloise Primrose (GBC)
and Hayley Shaw (KBCHS)
. All of the recipients showed a great sense of achievement
and look forward to successful academic career.
It was once again a pleasure to see these awards have gone to the right kids.
Congratulations to all
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Rotary Club of Heirisson
With regret we confirm that the Claisebrook Carnivale and Duck Derby
will not be held next month due to elections,
competing priorities and other events
. Follow this page or @ClaisebrookDuckDerby
for updates later in 2017 for information on possibilities in 2017-18.
Your interest in and support for these events
and other Rotary events and activities is greatly appreciated
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Rotary Club of Armadale
We had 3 delightful guests at our meeting this evening.
Aleysha, who works locally in the disability services sector
, Andres, a local chiropractor and
Durai, a visiting Rotarian from South India
with a banking background.
(All three seen here with President Joe K.)
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Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay
Pres. Liz Hollingdale and member Petrina Bishop
recoginsing Rotary's 112th Birthday,
Rotary Vocational Training Team to D. 3261, Raipur, India.
The team, PRID Dr.Ken Collins, Rtn. Dr. Barry Mandelawitz,
Dr. Catherine Douglass, Midwives Clare Davison and Belinda Jennings,
the training and the childbirthing facilities at the hospital.
A very successful Team with the Government now wanting
A very successful Team with the Government now wanting
to expand the training to all of the 200 health workers in the District.
Aaron Chinyimba, from Zambia,
former RF Ambassadorial Scholar, Helen McBride, George Georgiou,
WA Consul to Zambia, Dr. Patrick Nkoma
, Saul Radunski and Victoria Wyatt
at meeting 22nd February
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Rotary Club of Applecross
Thank you for the sponsors
of the Jaccandra Festival
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Rotary Club of Belmont
We had a wonderful social meeting at 300 Acres at the Wembly Golf Course
. Thanks PE Peter Anderson for organising it
and the food was wonderful, highly recommended
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Rotary Club of Perth
Amazing day at Rotto yesterday with a dozen of us Rotary of Perth / IFYR members
joining Pat Luca & Lou Magro's annual Italian Club Telethon Rotto Charity Lunch
together with 17 other boats and 260 members of the Italian community
- great day with a huge amount raised for Telethon and MS.
We are already looking forward to next year -
well done Pat & Lou!!!
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Rotary Club of Kenwick
Seen at D9465 RYLA Seminar
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Rotary Club of Byford and Districts
Our new business and invitation cards have arrived!
Look out for our team in your local community
Look out for our team in your local community
to find out how you can be invited into our club as a new member,
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Rotary Club of Scarborough
Alan Bennet introduced our special guests,
a young lad called Tom and his sister Emily Woodall
who donated a cheque of A$14,200.55 dollars to WFK.
They, with the help of their neighbour Scarborough Rotarian Alan Bennett
, instigated a fund raising project and funds were mainly raised by a donation box
outside the home of Alan and Tookta Bennett
whose home was magnificently decorated
with thousands of Christmas lights and figures
. What a fantastic effort from these two young kids
and from the Bennetts.
This money will benefit 71 unfortunate children around the world.
Tom and Emily’s parents were also guests at the meeting.
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Rotary Club of Willetton
Tele Tan associate professor and director of AASQA
of the Willetton Senior High School updated the Rotary Club
on the progress of the Autism Academy at tonight's meeting.
The academy is working with the strengths of students with Autism spectrum ,
being attention to detail and the ability to focus on tasks ,
software checking skills
. By developing these skills the academy is ensuring students
have a bright employment future in this exacting profession.
The club presented Tele Tan a cheque for $5000.00
from our Rotary Foundation District grant to further the work
of the Association and support youth with Autism.
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Rotary Club of Batavia Coast
What a terrific meeting last night.
we were bursting at the seams with 9 guests.
Delighted to welcome some of our Interact club exec members,
co-ordinator Amanda Burges
and Prinicpal Nick Johnson to our meeting.
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Rotary Club of Karrinyup
Instead of our usual meeting at Carine this week,
a small band of members and partners headed south
all the way to Point Peron to share a social evening
with the Rotary Club of Palm Beach WA Inc.
President Trish drove the rented minibus for our joint meeting
at the Rockingham RSL, where our hosts made us most welcome
. It was good to hear about the work of the Palm Beach club
and a great night was had by all.
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Rotary Club of Como
Tonight's meeting had Debbie Mason from Starting Over Support (SOS)
give us an update on their project.
To date SOS has helped to rehouse over 450 families.
.she is pictured with Host Mardi Briotti.
...Deb was recently awarded Citizen of the Year
by the Shire of Bayswater.
Cameron Smart Principal at Ray White Cannington
received a Certificate of Appreciation from Community Director John Dodman
for his support of the Christmas Gift project started by their office.
The recipients of the gifts were clients of SOS..
.THANK YOU Deb and Cameron for your support of our community.
THANK YOU RC Como members for helping to spruce up
the containers for Timor on Saturday morning.
Kingsley, Andy, Sak, Adelaide, Clementine and Marielle
scraped and scrubbed the 40 ft sea container
to remove all signs of rust before applying the anti rust treatment.
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Rotary Club of West Perth
A full house today with visiting members and guests
from Nedlands and Subiaco clubs to listen to Michael Downes
present on the All Ability Play Space
and its progress
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