ROTAVATOR
THE MAGAZINE OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF PORTSMOUTH &
SOUTHSEA
1916 - 2017
Issue no 144
April 2017
Edited by Greg Russell; sponsored by Addison Law & printed by Portsmouth Rotary Housing Association Ltd.
In this issue….
Message from the President
A Presidential Plea
Centenary Dinner
Youth Speaks 2017
Global Grant for the Philippines
Vocational Training Team in Manila
International & Foundation Report
A Rotary Club Three Centuries Ago!
Famous Speakers at our Club
And Finally…..A Poem from David
What’s On
Our Team
President
David Collins
Imm. Past President
Nigel Brown
President Elect
Carey Bowker
Hon. Secretary
David Marshall
Hon. Treasurer
Barrie Davies
Hon. Charities Treasurer
Des O’Keeffe
Administration
David Collins
International & Foundation
John Bishop
Community & Youth
Bernard Parsons
Membership
John Cogley
Fellowship
Rob Cottee
Fund Raising
Tony Palmer
Public Relations
Caroline Gwatkin
FROM THE PRESIDENT
How time flies.
We are already
three quarters of
the way through
our Centenary
Year.
Many of our
projects have
already been
completed, with
the help of our hardworking Centenary
Committee and tremendous support from the
various committees of the Club. The
£20,000 allocated for Youth charities has
been distributed, the Tonda School project
in Manila has been completed with the
remaining funds entrusted to the British
Council who work locally, and we have
enjoyed two of our three Local Celebrity
Dinners. Our Archivist Reg Gardner has
completed and distributed our impressive
Centenary booklet.
marketing purposes. I am grateful to those
who sponsored the publication, resulting in
no cost to the club. The News has also given
excellent coverage to many of our other
projects as well. With Caroline and her
newly reconstituted PR committee, hopefully
we can continue to ensure promotion of
Rotary within the local community.
We have yet to achieve a lasting project to
commemorate the one hundred years of
service this Club has given to the community
of Portsmouth. We have had several false
starts which have collapsed along the way. I
am hopeful that the latest project involving a
tree planting at a peaceful leisure area on the
western side of Portsea Island will come to
fruition, although it will not be within the
Centenary Year.
We were privileged to have the use of the
Lord Mayor's Banquetting Suite for our
Centenary Dinner in November. Our
distinguished guests, including our National
President, "Essex Girl" Joy as she likes to be
known, were entertained by the Lord Mayor
to pre-dinner drinks in his parlour. Other
guests included six from our "parent club"
Edinburgh and many from our daughter
clubs. We have just entertained the Lord
Mayor on a return visit where he was
presented with a cheque for £500 for his
local charities.
Finally, my thanks to all our members for the
support throughout this year so far. Without
that, we could not have achieved so much.
Please keep it up!
David Collins
Centenary President
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I am trying to visit as many of our daughter
clubs as possible during the year. Some of us
have already been to Portsmouth North and
Gosport. Only yesterday we went to
Southampton and I hope to fit in the others
including Winchester, Guildford and
Chichester at some time. At all these clubs,
we have been well received. With some of
them having their own Centenary Year
coming up soon, they have been interested to
learn what we have been up to.
AN URGENT PLEA
Our hardworking Secretary, David Marshall,
has not been in the best of health recently,
and has also had to cope with looking after
Eileen following her hip operation and other
health problems.
Even before the start of this Centenary Year
he had indicated that he wished to retire
from his position as club secretary after
undertaking this for us for many years. He
WILL be retiring in June.
After many year's struggling to get publicity
for Rotary with the local press, we have
managed to achieve a breakthrough with the
Portsmouth News. With their help our
Centenary Newsheet was published in
September as a supplement to the edition
published on September 15th. We have also
been given a further 1,400 copies for future
Earlier this year, I said that the job could be
broken down into several parts. Reg Gardner
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has kindly volunteered to take over
responsibility for notifying attendance
numbers to the Mountbatten, and for some
months now, John Bishop has acted as
Minute Secretary at the Council Meetings.
the President of our Mother Club Edinburgh,
John Williams and their other halves. In
total, there were 106 attending which
involved a
substantial
amount of
However, we do still need to appoint
someone to the role of Secretary in July. I
have asked David to prepare a list of the
functions still remaining under the role of
Secretary. When this is available, I would
ask all members to seriously consider
whether this is something they could
undertake. Without a Secretary to coordinate
things, we cannot function.
Honoured guests
organisation for which many thanks to all of
those who so kindly gave of their time to
ensure that the event went off so smoothly.
Although we have a President elect (Vice
President) in Carey, taking over as President
in July, and a presidential nominee (junior
Vice President) in John Bishop, we do not
have a president elect (senior Vice
President) to support Carey, and then to take
the Chair the following year, before John
Bishop takes over. It is important that we do
have seamless succession if Carey is to have
full support to build upon the progress we
have been able to make in our Centenary
Year. Whilst I will be happy to stand in for
him when necessary and give support, that is
not the same. Perhaps I could ask you all to
consider whether this is a gap you may be
able to fill
Attendees were greeted on arrival (or at least
those who climbed the 50 steps up to the
first floor of the Guildhall) by a steel band,
the distinguished guests then making their
way to the Lord Mayor’s Parlour for a
welcome drink and the hoi polloi assembling
in the Circle Bar below.
The Dinner took place in The Lord Mayor’s
Banqueting Suite with a three-course meal
followed by several speeches, the principal
Speaker, Max Craft giving a most amusing
speech.
All
concerned
felt that the
event was a
fitting
tribute
to
David Collins
Centenary President
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CENTENARY DINNER
the first 100 Rotarians and guests enjoy
years of our the meal
Club and could form the basis of a similar
event in 100 years’ time!
The formal Dinner to celebrate the
Centenary was held by kind permission of
The Lord Mayor Councillor David Fuller, at
the Guildhall on 18 November 2016. Apart
from the Lord Mayor and the Lady
Mayoress, distinguished guests also included
in particular the RIBI President, Eve
Conway, District Governor, Chris Slocock
Chris Halliwell
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We have
never made
the National
Final before
so good luck
to both our
teams for a
wonderful
day out at
All eyes on you, David!
Southampton
and they go with our good wishes for a
happy day and who knows what might
happen!
YOUTH SPEAKS 2017
Since November we have concentrated on
the Youth Speaks competition which was
held at Portsmouth High School on 23rd
January 2017. We had entries from
Portsmouth
High School,
both
Intermediate
and Senior
sections, and
Mayville High
School, Senior
section. We
Well done, ladies
had a new
panel of judges comprised of Rotarians
Caroline Gwatkin, Chair and Nigel Brown
and Des O’Keefe in support. All teams
presented well and the winners of the
Intermediate section were:
Bernard Parsons
Community & Youth
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VOCATIONAL TRAINING
TEAM IN MANILA
A series of articles on the progress made in
providing training to teachers at the Tondo
School in the Philippines. It includes an
article on the provision of a global grant by
Dennis Meadus, events in Manila from
Caroline Gwatkin who is head of the
training team, and a follow up report from
John Bishop of the International and
Foundation Committee.
PORTSMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL
Chair: Madelaine Oliver.
Speaker: Annallee Macfarlane
Vote of Thanks: Evie Thomas
Subject: “In their search for profits
companies are disregarding their ethical
responsibilities”
The winners of the Senior section were:
GLOBAL GRANT FOR
THE PHILIPPINES
PORTSMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL
Chair: Florence Smith
Speaker: Francesca McBride
Vote of Thanks: Milly Giles
Subject: “Everyone has a right to offend!
The primary objective was to provide
students from very low income households
with an education at the Tondo School in
Manila, a new Secondary School. To
achieve this end, all of the educational
materials required and approved as part of
this grant have been purchased.
The winners went on to present at Bay
House School Gosport and I am pleased to
report that both teams were successful!
They move on to the District Final to be held
on Saturday 11th March 2017 at Richard
Taunton Sixth Form College in
Southampton.
A condition of the grant was that a
Vocational Training Team (VTT) of three
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trainers, experienced in teacher training and
working internationally, attend the Tondo
School for two weeks to provide
concentrated training, having devised lesson
plans based on the results of a needs analysis
from all of their teachers, and also to
evaluate and organise future help.
Introduction
The feeling of deja vu was strong - the same
freezing cold morning, the controlled chaos
of Heathrow airport, and filling up with the
last full English breakfast for a fortnight.
The
Portsmouth
and
Southsea
Rotary
VTT
(Vocational
Training
Team), made New uniforms for all
up of Caroline Gwatkin, Joanna Glos and
Richard Shaw were off to Manila again, this
time to evaluate the Teacher Training
Project they had started in 2016 at the Purple
Centers School in the Tondo area of Manila.
The VTT worked at the Tondo School
throughout the second and third weeks of
January, 2016. At a de-briefing and
subsequent presentation on their return, it
was most apparent that apart from the
continued assistance it would be most
advantageous to the teachers and students
for the three members of the VTT to return
after one year to the Tondo School to
provide another two weeks concentrated
training and to carry out a full evaluation.
The VTR will be travelling again to Manila
on 6th January, 2017 for this purpose. They
will also be using £2,500 obtained from the
St James’ Place Charity to equip a Teachers’
Resource Centre.
Voluntary Training Team, Second Visit
It has to be said, that it was with some
feelings of foreboding that the VTT team set
out again for Manila. Based on the limited
response to the online course offered to them
during 2016, would some of those in
positions of responsibility continue to see
them as a threat?
Dennis Meadus
International Primary Contact
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Welcomed Back
The teachers welcomed the VTT team with
open arms, proving that all their fears were
baseless! Iris Gokeelao (Education Manager)
together with Rocelle Malvar (Education
Director) and Melvin Soriano (Head), all
new in their posts, also seemed to be
delighted at the team's return. It was evident
at once that this new academic team is
professional and experienced. In the short
time they have been working in the school
they have made considerable changes, not
only in the teaching staff, but also revamping
the school's image.
TEACHER
DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
AT THE PURPLE CENTERS
FOUNDATION SCHOOL IN
MANILA
A full-length report from Caroline Gwatkin
on the Voluntary Training Team’s second
and final visit to the Tondo school in
Manila.
Making Changes
In order to encourage a sense of being part
of an up-to-date learning community the
Who said that teachers have an easy life?
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school uniform has been changed. Where, in
2016, the girls were dressed in below-theknee skirts and white shirts with Peter Pan
collars, now all the children have purple Tshirts with the school logo printed on them.
This renewed sense of identity has included
both the teaching and administrative staff,
with all of them sporting a deep purple polo
shirt with the school logo. The effect of this
small, but important change is evident in a
closer sense of community.
expected to prepare classes in cramped
conditions
with no
designated
work place,
they now
have
individual
work
stations,
That's my new work station!
each
equipped with a computer linked to a printer
bought with the monies donated in 2015/16.
This set-up is essential in order to facilitate
the major educational change that has been
made - the scrapping of slavish adherence to
course books, most of which did not serve
the children well. Teachers are now
encouraged to extend from these course
books by devising their own worksheets
tailored to their class's needs. Melvin
Soriano is working towards paperless
administration, so teachers now upload all
student results, attendance sheets and other
information directly onto the centralised
directory which is accessible to all
concerned.
However, it is the change in vision in the
pupil selection policy that will have far
reaching consequences. Up until this
reorganization, the school took just one child
from each family. When this approach was
evaluated it was found to lack the desired
effect, that is to say, by educating just one
child per family did not necessarily make
any difference to their siblings. Not only
that, but the parents and other adults did not
feel included.
Now the policy is to take not just one child,
but to work holistically by educating the
whole family. All the children in a family are
enrolled and assessed. The older adolescents
and young adults, including those who may
have fallen behind with their education, are
tested and join groups according to their age
and level. This new approach to grouping,
plus the reduction in the number of pupils
per class, have gone a long way to solving
discipline problems and other disruptive
behavioural problems stemming from mixed
age-groups that had been so evident during
the 2016 visit. As a direct result of this
change, the VTT team decided to drop the
programmed sessions on classroom
discipline. An adult literacy programme has
also been included to support the parents.
In an effort to support teachers in their
personal professional development, the small
methodology library has been moved from
almost unreachable low shelves in the library
to bookshelves incorporated into the
furniture near the individual workplaces.
The finishing touch to the new layout is that
each teacher now has a locker nearby where
their personal belongings can be kept.
In 2016 the VTT team had been concerned
that the school had been too focussed on the
extra curricula arts activities to the detriment
of the pupils' academic studies. Funds had
been used to equip ballet classes, an art club
and music groups. While these activities are
part of a balanced curriculum the team felt
that the standard core subjects for education
of language arts, writing, reading
Changes based on the VTT 2016 Report
The VTT team were delighted to hear that
where previously the teachers had been
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comprehension, mathematics, science,
geography, social studies and history had
been somewhat neglected. There had been
very little IT usage, both in the teaching
methodol
ogy and
in the
learning
strategies
as
evidence
d by the
produce them at different levels and in
different subjects.
To provide more personalised support the
VTT team decided to include more
individual classroom observations followed
by non-judgmental feedback discussions.
These observation sessions were originally
scheduled for the teachers who had attended
the 2016 course but, as only 50% were in
this category, and at Iris Gokeelao's request,
some of the new teachers were also
included. Unfortunately, it proved to be
impossible to include all 23 teachers, but in
general these observation sessions proved to
be extremely helpful, and many commented
that they were the highlight of the
programme.
under
Joanna inspires
use of
the (permanently) locked computer room.
This situation has been completely changed the refocus is very much on the academic
skills, slowly reintroducing the extra
curricula activities to support them.
Based on the fact that the teachers had found
the online Training Programme intimidating
due to their lack of experience with online
distance learning and to ensure
sustainability, the British Council was
approached with the idea of continuing the
Teacher Training/Development Programme
face to face. The VTT team visited Mike
Cabigon at the BC offices in downtown
Manila and arranged for him to visit the
school with the view of giving a presentation
to all the staff. The resulting visit was a great
success, the school hosting the meeting in
typically Filipino fashion, with plenty to eat
and lots of enthusiasm. Luckily Charlie
Jorge from the Makati Uptown Rotary Club
(Portsmouth and Southsea's sister club) was
also able to attend, which strengthened the
bond between the school and their local
club.
It has to be said that it is a shame that due to
the fact that an extremely large open-plan
church has been built across the road, the
school has lost vital play areas.
The VTT 2017 Project.
Based on the 2016 Needs Analysis (online
SurveyMonkey), the experience and results
of the 2016 Training Programme and the
difficulties of running the 2016 online
Edmodo course, the VTT team focussed
Hard at work
their efforts in the second course on
providing support in Classroom
Management, CLIL (Content and Language
Integrated Learning) and practical material
writing skills. After learning about the
extensive use of worksheets extra sessions
were added to help the teachers create and
Making the Project Sustainable
After the teachers had given their final
presentations on how they now see their
Personal Development Paths and collecting
feedback forms and comments from
everyone involved in the Teacher
Development Project, the VTT team
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page” to raise money for their own
professional development.
unanimously decided that the funds for the
development of the teachers of the Purple
Centers Foundation school should be spent
on continued training from the British
Council. The monies donated for the second
part of this project together with the sum left
over from the original donation should
ensure that all the members of the teaching
staff will benefit from the British Council
course. Should there be any funds remaining
these will be used to buy methodology and
teaching skills books and journals to add to
their admittedly rather limited Teachers'
Resources.
With the inclusion of the British Council in
the Philippines, money left over from this
and the previous visits make this project
sustainable.
The VTT is now writing their final report
and Dennis is writing the reports to the
Rotary Foundation, District and St James’s
Place (which kindly provided £2500 to the
fund).
We look forward to the team’s presentation
to the Club in the near future.
Saying Goodbye.
And so it was with heavy hearts that the
VTT team took their leave, this time feeling
that they achieved what they had set out to
do - to make a difference.
Meanwhile, we have recently awarded a
sponsorship of £200 to a local student
reading Business Studies at Loughborough
University so that he can go to Uganda with
the registered charity ‘East African
Playgrounds’ to build playgrounds suitable
for the children there.
Caroline Gwatkin
Vocational Training Team & Public Relations
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John Bishop
International & Foundation
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INTERNATIONAL AND
FOUNDATION
COMMITTEE REPORT
A ROTARY CLUB THREE
CENTURIES AGO!
Since our last copy of Rotavator was
published, our intrepid Vocational Training
Team (VTT) has returned from their trip to
the school built on a rubbish dump in Tondo,
Manila. The team was impressed by how
well the School had put into practice the
items highlighted in the report from their
first visit. An example of this is the provision
of individual work stations, with computers
and lockers for each teacher. A small library
is currently being developed for the teachers
to use.
In a 1711 publication known as the
Spectator (not related to the magazine of
today which bears the same name), one of
its characters, “Sir Roger de Coverley” lists
a set of rules for a club made up of artisans
and mechanics. I think you will enjoy
reading them.
“I cannot forbear concluding this paper with
a scheme of laws that I met with upon a wall
in a little alehouse. How I came thither I may
inform my readers at a more convenient
time. These laws were enacted by a knot of
Amongst many other things, the VTT taught
the teachers there how to set up a “giving
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artisans and mechanics, who used to meet
every night; and, as there is something in
them which gives us a pretty picture of low
life, I shall transcribe them word for word.
FAMOUS SPEAKERS AT
OUR CLUB
As part of our centenary celebrations, our
club archivist, Reg Gardner, looks back at a
couple of notable speakers who addressed
our club almost a century ago.
“RULES TO BE OBSERVED IN THE
TWOPENNY CLUB,
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Erected in this Place for the Preservation of
Friendship and good Neighbourhood.
1. Every member at his first coming shall
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
lay down his 2d.
Every member shall fill his pipe out of
his own box.
If any member absent himself, he shall
forfeit a penny for the use of the Club,
unless in case of sickness or
imprisonment.
If any member swears or curses, his
neighbour may give him a kick upon the
shin.
If any member tells stories in the Club
that are not true, he shall forfeit for every
third lie a halfpenny.
If any member strikes another
wrongfully, he shall pay his Club for
him.
If any member brings his wife into the
Club, he shall pay for whatever she
drinks or smokes.
If any member’s wife comes to fetch him
home from the Club, she shall speak to
him without the door.
If any member calls another a cuckold,
he shall be turned out of the Club.
None shall be admitted into the Club that
is of the same trade with any member of
it.
None of the club shall have his clothes
or shoes mended, but by a brother
member.
No non-juror shall be capable of being a
member.”
Arthur Conan Doyle visited us in September
of 1918. A Scotsman born in 1859, he
studied medicine at Edinburgh University
and after first working in Plymouth moved to
Portsmouth at the age of 23 to set up a
Doctor’s practice in Elm Grove, Southsea.
This was not a success and he found the lack
of patients gave him ample time to write
fiction, so perhaps the apparently excellent
health of Portmuthians indirectly gave the
world Sherlock Holmes, who first featured
in “A Study in Scarlet” in 1886. As Conan
Doyle did not leave Portsmouth until 1890,
he may well have written this whilst a
resident. It is as the author of the Sherlock
Holmes mysteries that we know him best.
All in all, with short stories as well as
novels, Sherlock Holmes appears in sixty of
Conan Doyle’s writings. He was a prolific
writer of other works, non-fiction as well as
his novels, perhaps the next most wellknown being the short stories about the
Napoleonic wars featuring Brigadier Gerard.
Contrary to what you may have thought, his
knighthood, awarded in 1902, was not for
his literary prowess. He had served in his
medical capacity with some distinction in
the Boer War and had written an important
Reg Gardner
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“adventures” being a huge understatement,
as the talk would have encompassed his
heroics in rescuing his crew when their polar
expedition vessel “Endurance” was trapped
in ice in the Weddell Sea in the Antarctic for
the winter of 1915. It had been hoped that
the thaw of the ice in the following spring
would free it and allow the expedition to sail
for civilisation, but the ship broke up from
the pressure of the ice.
The 28 members of the expedition were
marooned on ice floes until April, and when
the floes began to break up they were forced
to row 350 miles in the ship’s three lifeboats
before arriving exhausted at the inhospitable
and uninhabited Elephant Island. Here they
remained until Shackleton decided that an
attempt to get help was essential. He, and
five others, then rowed 800 miles in an open
lifeboat, the strongest of the three carried by
Endurance, for fifteen days in stormy seas to
reach South Georgia where there was a
whaling station.
The storm reached hurricane force and
forced the little boat to land on the opposite
side of South Georgia to the whaling station.
Rather than risk another sea journey in the
atrocious conditions, Shackleton with two of
his men traversed the 30 miles of frozen
mountains with their only climbing aids
being a carpenter’s axe and fifty feet of rope,
finally reaching help at the whaling station.
After going back to pick up the three men
left on the other side of South Georgia, he
tried to get a vessel through the ice to
Elephant Island to pick up the remaining 22
men he had left there. Three attempts failed
until, with the help of the Chilean navy, he
succeeded. The Elephant Island men had
been there for over four months. Imagine, if
you will, hearing this gripping story from the
man himself, as our predecessors were able
to do a century ago.
A few words on Shackleton the man. He was
an Irishman, born in County Kildare in
1874, and at the age of 27 had been Third
Officer on Robert Falcon Scott’s Discovery
and widely translated work justifying the
British role in that campaign and it was for
those activities he was knighted.
He was a very competent sportsman. Whilst
in Portsmouth he played in goal for
Portsmouth Football Club, under the name of
Smith. Later, whilst in London, he played
first class cricket for M.C.C. as a batsman.
As an occasional bowler, he only took one
first class wicket, but that was that of the
legendary W.G. Grace.
The war took a severe personal toll on him.
Shortly after he visited our Club he lost his
son who had been two years convalescing
from wounds received at the Somme, and his
brother-in-law, the creator of “Raffles”, and
two nephews also died in the conflict. Some
feel the huge number of soldier’s deaths led
him to spiritualism, in which he was a great
believer, and even in fairies. To a degree his
credulous acceptance of what were obvious
frauds might well have ruined his wellearned reputation. At his funeral, a séance
was held, but he did not appear.
What did he speak to our Club about? It was
a rather mundane subject. His talk was “War
debt and how to meet it”. We can only guess
that with the end of the First World War
approaching, thoughts of what it had cost
were exercising the minds of prominent
people. Conan Doyle was then nearly sixty
and deeply into spiritualism and to promote
it he travelled to Australia not long after his
visit to us.
Sir Ernest Shackleton
In October 1920, the
Club
organised
a
dinner in aid of the
British Red Cross
Society to hear Sir
Ernest
Shackleton
speak
of
his
“Adventures in the
Antarctic”, his title
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Expedition. He led the Nimrod Expedition in
1907-09, which got to within 100 miles of
the South Pole and for which he received his
knighthood. His third foray was the Imperial
Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914-17, the
one which suffered such heroic failure. He
died in January 1922 from a heart attack
whilst at South Georgia when commencing a
fourth expedition. He had a bad heart
throughout all his Antarctic days, and it is
astonishing that he could achieve so much
with such a disability.
With his reputation and the magnificent tale
he had to tell, Sir Ernest Shackleton might
be regarded as the finest speaker we have
had in our hundred years.
It lists the vehicles just in front, and all
those to the rear.
And taking this into account, it specifies
my gear.
I'm sure no other driver, has so helpful a
device.
For when we leave and lock the car, it still
gives its advice.
It fills me up with counselling, each
journey's pretty fraught.
So why don't I exchange it, and get a
quieter sort?
Ah well, you see, it cleans the house,
makes sure I'm properly fed.
It washes all my shirts and things, and
keeps me warm in bed!
Despite all these advantages, and my
tendency to scoff,
I only wish that now and then, I could
turn the dratted thing off.
Reg Gardner
Club Archivist
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AND FINALLY…..A POEM
FROM DAVID
David Thomson
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A Satnav is a driver's friend it tells you
where you are.
I have a little Satnav, I've had it all my
life.
It's better than the normal ones, my
Satnav is my wife.
It gives me full instructions, especially
how to drive.
"It's sixty miles an hour", it says, "You're
doing sixty five".
It tells me when to stop and start, and
when to use the brake.
And tells me that it's never ever, safe to
overtake.
It tells me when a light is red, and when it
goes to green.
It seems to know instinctively, just when
to intervene.
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WHAT’S ON
2017
APRIL
Tue 4th
13.00 – Lunchtime
meeting: Presentation
‘Operation Smile’
!
2017
JUNE
Tues 6th
13.00 – Lunchtime
meeting
17.30 – Club Council
meeting at Portsmouth
Water, Havant
17.30 – Club Council
meeting at Portsmouth
Water, Havant
Tue 11th
Wed 12th
Tue 18th
Tue 25th
Tue 13th
18.30 – Evening
meeting: Speaker - Thea
Noli
17.00 – PRHA Board
Meeting at Rotary
House
NO MEETING
19.30 – Centenary
Celebratory Event at
the Naval Club
Wed 14th
Tue 20th
Tue 27th
MAY
Tue 2nd
Tue 9th
Wed 10th
Tue 16th
Tue 23rd
Tue 30th
18.30 – Evening
meeting: Elizabeth
Foundation
Presentation
10.00 – 14.00 – Kids Out
at Marwell Zoo
NO MEETING
18.50 – Club Assembly.
Presentation of club
plans and aims for the
next year
JULY
13.00 – Lunchtime
Meeting
Sat 1st
17.30 – Club Council
meeting at Portsmouth
Water, Havant
18.30 – Evening
Meeting: Speaker – Reg
Gardner “A Day in
Virginia”
12.00 – PRHA Annual
General Meeting at
Harrison House,
Stamshaw
NO MEETING
18.30 – Evening
meeting: Rowan House
Presentation
18.30 – Evening
Meeting and Centenary
Quiz
Tue 4th
Fri 14th
Wed 19th
12
START OF NEW
ROTARY YEAR (20172018)
13.00 – Lunchtime
meeting:
INSTALLATION OF
NEW PRESIDENT
CENTENARY SAFARI
SUPPER – details to
follow
17.00 – PRHA Board
Meeting at Rotary
House