Next Talk:
2025
April
This month’s meeting will set a new foundation for our shared understanding through participation in a Club Survey and Forum. We’d like to know your preferences on some key elements of our existing Activities program – Tours and Lunches - and also some of the things that you might bring to enhance the Club.
March
Christian Janson: Christian is a Mosman Rotary Exchange student from Germany, who is spending one year living in Sydney. He gave an interesting talk in impeccable English using colourful overheads, commencing with some of his own family. His family had recently hosted an Australian Rotary Exchange student from Maclean, NSW.
Christian is very enthusiastic about the Olympic team sport of Handball, which dates back to Ancient Greece. He said that he has played Handball since the age of 4 and is a goalkeeper. He enjoys the sport because it has enabled him to make so many good friends since he commenced playing it.
As part of his Rotary Australia and Australian high school experience, Christian travelled to Timor-Leste with Mosman Rotary. This, he said, was one of the highlights of his visit to Australia because there was such a stark contrast between Germany, a developed country, and Timor-Leste, a relatively-poor developing country. He found the Timorese students and all of the Timorese people with whom he interacted to be both friendly and delightful. Christian said that he took part in two Rotary programs with Timorese participants while in Timor-Leste: RYPEN and RYLA. The former, the Rotary Youth Program of Enrichment, is focussed on youths aged 14-16, aiming to improve all aspects of their life’s journey while the latter, the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, is designed to develop leadership skills in somewhat older participants. He also attended the opening ceremony of a highly-regarded Timorese preschool that had been sponsored by the Mosman Rotary Club and cofounded by Barry Starr.
Second Talk: Cara Ghassemian: Cara said that her Aussies in Morocco Tours (AIMTours) company has offered tours in Morocco (and Sicily) since 2019. AIMTours offers six different signature tours in Morocco but Cara only had time to speak about two: one that tours the Imperial Cities of Morrocco (Casablanca, Marrakech, Rabat, Fez, etc) while the other, which tours the Desert Patterns of Morocco (this tour starts and finishes in Marrakech and visits ancient bazaars and traditional markets). AIMTours are of 4, 7 or 10 days duration. Further details from aissiesin m oroccotours.com.au/tours/.
February 26 - Mercy Ships Hospitals. - Monica Prugue Mercy Ships is an international non-governmental charity that operates the largest hospital ships in the world to provide surgical care and medical education in Africa. This presentation will outline the history of Mercy Ships and highlight the urgent need for surgical and medical care in Africa.
January 22: Dr Peter Abelson – The Mosman Story
2024
November 27: The Voice of White Xmas
October 24: Iconic Inventions of our Time: Ian Thompson
September 25 Alcohol - I'll drink to that: Dr Rosemarie Einstein
August 28 Advances in Physiotherapy: Winsome Baker
July 24 Sleeping and Your Wellbeing: Gayle Nelson
June 26 Living in Retirement: Cameron Kirby
May 22 Travelling in Japan: Jeff Burgess
April 24 The Barn Whaling Station: Colleen Godsell AM
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