It’s good to be back in New Zealand. In fact, it’s better than that. As Simon and Garfunkel said,

 

 

Rosemary caught up with me in Hawai’i, after I had spent time in Chicago (wonderful place), and Denver (interesting but ultimately unexciting) and Seattle (living on its memories). As for Honolulu, it is 32 years since we were last there, and I think it will be 32 years before we go back.  We enjoyed what we saw and did, but frankly the tourist product is tired and expensive – not a good combination.

 

The other great coming home song is from the American Civil War:

 

 

Often thought to be a Confederate song (the Johnny Reb connection may be an influence), it was written by an Irish-American bandleader called Patrick Gilmore, who said he took, ”a musical waif which I happened to hear somebody humming in the early days of the rebellion, and taking a fancy to it, wrote it down, dressed it up, gave it a name, and rhymed it into usefulness for a special purpose suited to the times."

 

In Rotary we have much to look forward to. There’s the NASA scientists evening on 20 June and then changeover on 2 July.

And at our meeting on Monday 11 June we welcome the Anglican Bishop of Wellington, Eleanor Sanderson as our guest speaker.

Rotaract is putting on a corporate sponsored Movie Night event on the 22nd of July, see details below, and at our last meeting we brought up the idea of involving our supporting clubs with this project. As most of our members are students we don't particularly have a wide net of business connections and although we are reaching out to Wellington businesses sometimes it helps to have a personal contact point. We were hoping you could help us with this, by distributing information about the evening to your members, giving us points of contact with businesses that might be interested or samples or products to raffle off/put in goodie bags for the event. Thank you for all your help, as it is our first real project of the year, and our first project with me as President we are hoping we can do all we can to make it a successful evening for everyone involved.

 

Any support you can offer would be greatly appreciated, and I am more than happy to come along to your club to chat about it with your members if you think that is appropriate.

 

Cheers,

President, Rotaract Wellington Club

Ph: 021 0811 6558