From the Rotary Club of Howick bulletin:
Our speakers tonight needed little introduction as they are heavily
involved in District 9920 committees, and “Rotary Down Under”. (RDU).
Assistant Governor, Colin Robinson, and Past District Governor, Beryl
Robinson, from St. Johns Club, spoke about the numerous benefits that
could be obtained from the information presented each month via RDU.
“We subscribe to RDU, we should support RDU, we should use RDU,
because we own RDU.” Colin spoke of the links to Facebook, the changes to
the publication over the years, and the electronic interface now available to
everyone. Beryl, as New Zealand’s voice to the RDU, asked us to
ensure that we use this medium to get our Rotary Success stories in
front of thousands of readers in this part of the world.
These Rotary successes could be used, or adapted, to meet our own Club plans, and
the opinions of the many contributors could act as a catalyst to broaden
our own views on selected issues. Colin gave an example of an article
in August’s edition when two Australian Clubs had a joint meeting at the
Queensland/Northern Territory borders. His message was basically, to
step outside the traditional protocols that we have always followed!
This was a very interesting and refreshing look at RDU, so instead of just
throwing RDU in the corner, how about going through the magazine and
see if there are some good ideas that could help our Club?
To arrange for a RDU representative to speak to your club about the benefits of RDU to your club and the recent innovations that you can enjopy go to www.rdu.rotarysouthpacific.org
