Club History & Details

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Brief History
Our Club was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Hobart.
The Rotary International Charter was granted on the 2nd of January 1965 and presented as the "Rotary Club of Hobart South"
at the inaugural meeting on the 20th of February 1965 at Wrest Point Hotel.
Membership at charter was 28. One of those charter members, Dick Crawford, is still an active member of the club.
The club's current membership is 32 (28 males and 4 females).

Snapshot of some dates and activities in the Club's History. (extracted from "75 Years of Rotary In Tasmania 1924 - 1999).
 - The efforts of the late Jim Mason, Club Historian for many years, is gratefully acknowledged in the preparation of this history.

1966/67	Community	Florence Nightingale Home; Fencing project. St. Johns hospital; Supply of theatre equipment. Ferntree Progress Assoc.: Bushfire relief funds.
1969/70	Club	Club portrait of HM The Queen was painted and presented to the club by Rev. Alf Reynolds. This was damaged during moves between venues and Alf then painted the present portrait.
1970/71	Community Club	Rosny Children’s Choir; Financial support. Taroona Child Centre; Gift of playground equip. Name changed to "Sandy Bay".
1971/72	Community District	171 Christmas parcels distributed to Florence Nightingale Home, Manor Court, Mary's grange, Hathaway House & St. Joseph's Orphanage District Conference of old District 982 host by Sandy Bay Club. 346 Rotarians and 323 guests.
1972/73	Community	Christmas gifts distributed to children and wards of the State.
1973/74	Club Community	Sandy Bay Rotaract Club formed. Charter night on the 24th March 1974 at Beach House hotel. Craybake Fundraiser; $1000 raised to help the formation of Life Line Hobart.
1974/75	Club International Community	Meeting venue changed to 'Lenna', Battery Point. 50th anniversary of RI marked by tree planting in Princes Park. Plaque engraved by Hobart Rotary member Harold Sargison. Inaugural Lightning Football Premiership. Funds raised purchased a St. John's Ambulance and equipment for sporting events. Cyclone Tracey (Darwin); financial assistance
1975/76	International Community	Books for library collected & forwarded to Macassar. Working bees to assist cleanup of Mt. St. Canice boiler room explosion (8 deaths).
1977/78	Club International Community	Meeting venue changed to The Bay Inn. Donation to library in Natal. St. Johns Hospital; $1000 donation for furnishing a ward. Royal Tasmanian Society for the Blind; purchase of books.
1978/79	Club	Engel Sypkes donated a car (won by his wife in a raffle) to the club. Funds from the sale used for disbursements & projects.
1979/80	Community	Christmas gifts distributed to people in need.
1980/81	Community District International	Rescue boat donated to Sandy Bay Sea Scouts. Sandy Bay Senior Citizens Club building project. Bill Bale & Pat Mulquiny provided duties to District 983 as District Governor & Secretary respectively. Refrigerator donated to Mt St Canice for use in Vietnamese Refugee Surgery.
1981/82	Community	Contract signed for construction of Senior Citizens Club after 5 years of Club activity to end this. First of the annual Conningham Camps for Oakdale Lodge.
1982/83	Community Club	Opening of Sandy Bay Senior Citizens Club by Lord Mayor D.R. Plaister. RI President Hiroji Mukasa planted at tree & unveiled a plaque at the new clubrooms. Sandy Bay Rotary Club incorporated.
1984/85	Vocational International	Received State Govt. grant ($2250) for 'Pride of Workmanship Award'. Bill Bale appointed to 'World Community Service Committee' by RI President Carlos.
1985/86	Community Club	Charity Auction raises $2248 Working Bee, 2 tape recorders & $2500 donated to radio station 7RPH. Jim Grover organised a New Zealand tour for handicapped people statewide. First time such an international tour was undertaken. Debate arranged with Risdon Gaol inmates.
1986/87	Club	Sandy Bay Probus Club formed (16/9/86). Women members in Rotary debated.
1987/88	Community International Club	Harry Melling organised a re-enactment of the world's 1st ship-to-shore radio contact and response, at Blinking Billy Point (the location of the original event when the Duke & Duchess of York arrived in Tasmania) Club committed for $6930 for PolioPlus. Venue change to Royal yacht Club of Tasmania.
1989/90	Club	Club's 25th Anniversary Celebrations. Male-only requirement removed from Rotary membership. Christine Needham 1st female Club member.
1990/91	Community	Senior Citizens Club fair raised $1300. Sandy Bay Regatta stall raised $2000 for the profoundly deaf.
1991/92	Club	Venue change to Wrest Point.
1992/93	Community Club	Gala Concert for Hand Surgery 'Operation Paradox' raised $5200. Lower Sandy Bay Probus Club formed (27/4/93). Press Club breakfast for John Howard MHR.
1993/94	Community	'Breakfast with Boonie' fund raising.
1994/95	Community Vocational	Quiz night fund raising at Senior Citizens Club. Excellence on Workmanship Awards. Rotary Youth leadership Awards hosted (11/5/95).
1995/96	Club	Frances Farrington first female club president.
1996/97	Youth	New Generations Workshop. Fundraising-aid for Rock Eisteddfod. Peer support project - Taroona High School.
1997/98	Community Youth	Inaugural 'Dine With The Stars' fundraiser; plate auction raised $18500. Taroona Playgroup Assn. - working bees to construct playground. Senior Citizens Ball fundraiser. $2500 fundraising for Loui's Van.
1998/99	Community Youth International Club	'Dine With The Stars' raised $28000. Donations to Rock Eisteddfod, Rotary Youth Suicide and Inst. of Prevention of Youth Suicide. Donation to water project in Africa Club history recorded.
2000/01	Community	Club provided BBQ support for Inter-Hash 2000; Over 4,000 Hash House Harriers visit Tasmania
2001/02	Community Club International	Inaugural ‘Ride for Rotary’ Cyclathon event raised $1,000. Club established it’s first internet web site Tenzin Bhuchung was successfully nominated by our Club to be a Rotary Peace Scholar, the first one awarded in the Australasian region
2002/03	Community Club International	Dine-With-The-Stars event raised $46,000. This year’s project was jointly organised with the Variety Club of Tasmania and the proceeds split between the two service organisations. Master of Ceremonies was “Today” host Steve Liebman. Rotarian Helen Holmes received the Order of Australia Medal in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Club meetings moved from the Asian Room (closed by Wrest Point) to ‘Pier One’ Sir Guy Green, Governor of Tasmania was the guest speaker at the World Understanding Night held on the 24^th of February. The Club hosted the GSE team from Eastern Kentucky.
2003/04	Community International	$3000 donated to Southern Palliative Care for 3 wheelchairs. $5000 donated to Sailability to help construct 2 yachts for use by the disabled community. Foundation of a Mentoring Programme with Taroona High School for “at risk” students. $5000 donated to RAWCS housing project for participation in FAIM activities for construction of housing.
2004/05	Community International	Fortieth Anniversary celebrated with planting seven oak trees in Fitzroy Gardens with commemorative plaque. Marshalling duty at 3 triathlons raised $xxx for the Club. The Club supported the District’s Emergency Medicine Information Booklet project and distributed booklets in the Sandy Bay / South Hobart area through local businesses. Past President Arthur Orchard and wife Jill assist with building cyclone-proof housing in Fiji through FAIM.

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Past Presidents:

1964/65   Ray Lighton 1965/66   David Lawrence 1966/67   John Allen 1967/68   Arthur Winter 1968/69   Alan Jack  1969/70   Greg Ramsay 1970/71   George Fletcher 1971/72   Alf Reynolds 1972/73   Charlie Hay 1973/74   William Bale 1974/75   George Wade 1976/77   John Baily 1977/78   Geoff Sherlock 1978/79   Trevor Nicholson 1979/80   Engel Sypkes 1980/81   David Martin 1981/82   Eric Bradford 1982/83   John Robertson 1983/84   William Mirrams 1984/85   Robin Ormond 1985/86   Frank Gough

1986/87   Wayne Wallace 1987/88   Harry Melling 1987/88   Jim Burns/John Robertson 1989/90   Norton Grey 1990/91   Jim Grover 1991/92   Tom Jones 1992/93   Alan Reid 1993/94   David Skillington OA 1994/95   Geoff Gosden 1995/96   Frances Farrington 1996/97   Chris Holloway 1997/98   Rod McInnes 1998/99   Margaret Hyland 1999/00   Helen Holmes 2000/01   Philip Le Grove 2001/02 Arthur Orchard 2002/03 Arthur Jones 2003/04 Malcolm Portwin 2004/05 Josie Saxon-Keith 2005/06 Richard Crawford 2006/07 Ian Johnson

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Paul Harris Fellows:

1993   (PP) Ivan Pearson 1996   PP Alan Reid 1996   PP Wayne Wallace 1997   Trevor Young 1999 Dick Crawford 1999   PP Norton Grey

2000   PP Chris Holloway 2000   PP Helen Holmes 2001 Bill Ewen 2004 PP Philip Le Grove 2006 PP Arthur Orchard 2007 PP Malcolm Portwin

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Honorary Members:

PP Alan Reid

Trevor White

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Current Members:

Booth, David Brearley, Andrew Carlyle, Ross Clutterbuck, Stuart Cook, Charles Crawford, Richard Crawford, Richard 'Dick' Demeyer, Dean Doyle, Richard Duncan, Ross Fisk, Biddy Flett, Peter Forbes, Donald

Grey, William N. 'Norton' Hine, Maurice Holloway, Chris Holmes OAM, Helen Ibbott, Roger Johnson, Ian Jones, Arthur Joyce, Peter Le Grove, Philip Macleod, Don Murfett, David Orchard, Arthur Pangas, Peter

Pearson, Ivan Portwin, Malcolm Robertson, Christina Shoobridge, Jane Smith, Vince Southwell, Garry Wallace, Wayne Wright, Sally

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