Great to welcome return guest and soon to be new member Jess Wilson along with her partner ...
Annie Houghton a friend of Canterbury Rotary who we have seen a couple of times during our hybrid meetings attending via Zoom
Wayne - Steve's next door neighbour and another returning guest
President Cathie started with a reminder that there will be no meeting next week as it is Anzac day and many of us are attending the Bring back the Buzz event on Tuesday 15th. She also asked the club to consider donations to the Rotary Foundation in response to the humanitarian crisis currently engulfing Ukraine.
On to Matters in the Interest of Rotary
David Zrna was pleased to advise that the lunches have returned with solid participation - hope they went well David
Val told the meeting that there is a packing event planned for Hawthorn Town Hall and to date it is at capacity with 120 students registered - FORaMEAL packing and schools are working really well together
In order to remind ourselves of times past and special moments, we often have what we call "keepsakes". Galleries, museums and historical societies maintain collections of items, often donated by individuals who want other people to understand what happened in their lifetime, or at a special moment in time.
This was the reason our speaker, Dr Ashley Robertson, from the Australian Museums and Galleries Association Victoria, so passionately and forcefully emphasised the importance of keeping items related to particular moments in history in a professional manner. Indeed, she reminded us of the national standards, to which organizations with collections needed to comply. The number of objects collected in Victoria is absolutely staggering - forty-four million. Much depends on our understanding of our past based on funds and access to adequate storage facilities. The variety of collections can be located in historical societies, school archives and sports centres.
METHODS USED TO STORE COLLECTIONS
In an age of computers, in order to engage and attract younger people to the stories that people have to tell, digital methods need to be considered. Furthermore, the ability to extract information online is top priority. Scanning objects from a collection ensures that history is open to all those who require a source for a back story about a member of your family, or a house in the street, where your grandparents may have lived.
Learning new methods, the standards to be applied, in implementing the maintenance of the collection - this is all part of the role of AmAAga. Teaching cataloguing, collection management and the specifics of photography is essential in ensuring the maintenance of historical records.
QUESTIONS RAISED
Some of the questions raised issues about the storage of artefacts. Dr Robertson agreed that any object of historical value should be stored in a way which prevents it from degrading unduly. When asked about a highlight, she remembered a more grotesque item, a book bound in human skin. Bob Lambert recalled the leftovers of a nuclear power reactor in Oakridge, California, USA, which did not use water, back in 1965. Stored in a local primary school, the same technology is now being applied in China. In reality, learning from history leads to progress.
FINALLY
The ultimate point of storage and maintenance of objects, is to inform us about people's personal journeys and more importantly, the basis of historical research. Without them, the task would be more difficult.
In the eight months since we opened the doors to RIMERN's (Rotary Inner Melbourne Emergency Relief Network) East Brunswick warehouse we’ve made enormous strides!
We’re a Registered Charity with full tax deductibility!
We have 14 member Rotary Clubs (more are invited to join - just ask for a presentation at your Club!)
We have 15 Welfare Agency members including Launch Housing, Melbourne City Mission, Wombat Housing Support, VincentCare, CoHealth, MiCare, Good Shepherd, Jesuit Social Services, Port Phillip Community Group and others referring bona fide clients in need.
We have regular Club working bees that everyone enjoys & we are getting so much done!
Several Clubs have gained new members from RIMERN volunteers!
We’ve supported nearly 200 people coming out of homelessness, domestic violence & jail, refugees, people with mental health struggles and older Australians doing it tough.
We’ve had wonderful donations of goods from individuals, companies and property managers so that what we’ve supplied to clients has been of amazing style and quality.
We’ve succeeded in gaining a few Municipal Grants for capital expenditure
We’ve had community groups fundraise for a commercial washing machine, dryer & Test & Tag unit
There are 6 quality Australian wines to order, choose one or all and delivery should take 4 – 7 business days.
Please share this link with friends, family, your social media networks (and anyone you know who enjoys a wine!), it’s all online, delivered to your door for $9 a dozen, the wines are top quality & very competitively priced so don’t visit your bottleo this month, please support RIMERN’s VAN!
As always David looks after the reservations for the lunch group. Please contact David at david.zrna@canterburyrotary.org or on 0467033092 to advise that you will be coming to a lunch.
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