The Rotary International Theme for 2008-2009
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The Rotary Club of Otorohanga, New Zealand
Rotary District 9930
Our Club meets at the Services and Citizens Club Inc., on Thursdays, at 5.45pm for a 6.15pm meal.
The venue is easy to find, it's on the East side of the main street in the most northern block, opposite the "Retravision" Store.
We welcome visitors at any time not just to the meetings, a number of our members have retired from full time occupations so generally we have a group of friendly hosts ready to entertain visitors from near and far.
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Rotary Club of Otorohanga
President's Report 2008-09
On behalf of the Otorohanga Rotary Club it is my pleasure to present the Annual Report for the 2008-2009 year.
Firstly I would like to thank all members for the contributions they have made to Club Activities. Without your support the Club would not prosper, everyone is important!!
I think we would all agree that it has been a successful year brought about by a change of venue at the start of my term.
In July Christian Tang arrived as our Exchange Student from Greenland.
The Rotary Wheels have been refurbished for each end of town.
We had another successful year with our Book Sale with $2,500.00 presented to the St John Ambulance Building Fund.
Dictionaries were presented to various schools within our district.
Two students participated in the Australian Matched Student Exchange program.
Wiremu Kawiti, the winner of our Art Contest spoke on his trip to the USA.
In March Rebecca Signal started up a Probus Club with 55 members present.
Samantha Wilshier and Nicholas Jones have been selected to travel overseas next year on International Student Exchange.
Debbie Loomans has been chosen to lead a GSE Team to Denmark.
Recently we have supported a Trade Training Centre request with $5,000.00 for the purchase of new welders.
The Club has had some very interesting speakers over the year and my thanks go to Lindsay Chitty and Trevor Coley for their work.
We have inducted four new members and I hope they have found their experience rewarding.
Lastly, but no least we have presented three Paul Harris Fellows: two within the community and one within the Club.
Once again thank you for your support, advice, and participation and I wish Lester and his team the very best for the coming year.
M. J. Clapcott
25th June 2009
Click here for the Arts Centre Home Page
At The Otorohanga Arts Centre
3:00pm Sunday 5th July 2009
Cynthia Fortitude
in
"A Vote for Cynthia"
with Helen Moulder
COMING SOON DETAILS OF THE 2009-2010
International
New Zealand Rotary High School
Student Art Contest
Full entry Criteria will be published here
before 30 June 2009
email: art@oto-rotary.org
to be placed on the mailing list
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"OTOROHANGA ARTS CENTRE" PAGE
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The International High School Student Art Contest
The traveller is home from his USA trip
Click here to go to Wiremu's Travel Itinerary
and emails from our traveller
Or click here to go to his Photo Album
Details of Wiremu's art work, the art contest and a gallery of pre-departure photographs can be found lower down on this page.
The Rotary Club of Otorohanga -
International High School Student Art Contest
Made possible with support from:
Thanks to the generous support of The James Wallace Arts Trust, Trust Waikato, Creative NZ and the members of the Rotary Club of Otorohanga High School Student Art Contest winner has completed his Award Trip to the USA
Wiremu Kawiti
Prior to his departure to the USA, Wiremu Kawiti, 19, the winner of the New Zealand section of the 2007 Rotary Club of Otorohanga High School Student Art Contest had been visiting Rotary Clubs and schools in and around the District of Otorohanga.
Sponsored by his High School Art Teacher at Wesley College at Pukekohe, where Wiremu was a boarder for 7 years, he recently finished his second year (of a three year course) at Auckland University's Elam School of Art. Wiremu is studying for a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree.
During the September University study break Wiremu visited Kio Kio Primary School where he spoke to Y6 -Y8 students and several classes in the Junior section.
At Te Awamutu and Otorohanga Colleges he met with High School students in several Art Classes.
The visit lasted several days and included two Rotary Club meetings where he spoke to Kihi Kihi and Otorohanga Rotarians. On 18th November Wiremu departed New Zealand on the first leg of his 27 day trip to the United States of America.
The first stop was in Los Angeles where Wiremu where he was hosted by the Westchester Rotary Club D5280, then on to East Coast where he stayed with members of the Rotary Club of Franklin Township New Jersey D7510.
From Franklin Township Wiremu commuted over to Manhattan and visited the wonderful Art Museums and Galleries in New York City.
From New Jersey Wiremu then travelled south to stay near Washington DC where he was hosted by Brian & Christine Lewis of Gaithersberg, MD in Rotary District 7620. Last year their son was a Rotary Exchange student who visited Japan.
From Washington, Wiremu went by train to Alabama where he is being hosted by David Burleson a member of the Rotary Club of Hartselle AL. D6860. It was the Hartselle Club that nominated Anna Yeager the fourth place getter in the International Section of the Student Art Contest.
Returning to New York by over-night train, leaving Alabama Friday 5 December, Wiremu was hosted by Rotarian David Del Monte. David is First Vice President of the Rotary Club of New York...#6 -
David generously provided tickets for Wiremu to attend the hit Broadway Show - "The Jersey Boys" along with Rotary companions who showed Wiremu the weekend sights of Broadway and Lower Manhattan.
Wiremu is currently enjoying a three day break in San Francisco hosted by the Rotary Club of Redwood City D5150 - the Club that provided, 40 years ago, the seeds that are now the magnificent Redwoods in our Otorohanga Rotary Park.
This story was updated 00:10 hours NZDT Thursday 11th November 2008
News Item 16 September 2008
Reprinted from the Te Awamutu Courier Newspaper
'I didn't think I could draw'
ELAM art student Wiremu Kawiti with his NCEA boards which feature the winning painting (bottom right) in the Otorohanga Rotary International High School Art Contest.
BY CATHY ASPLIN
Te Awamutu College art students would have received plenty of inspiration from artist Wiremu Kawiti during his visit to town.
The University of Auckland Elam School of Fine Arts student was the winner of the Rotary Club of Otorohanga , International High School Student Art Contest, which drew entries from 23 countries.
Wiremu (Nga Puhi, Ngati Hine) entered an oil painting taken from his NCEA boards entitled 'Te Ohaki o Nga Tupuna' (the dying words of my ancestor).
It shows his own face and one of his ancestors, both with moko, united by a hawk in flight.
Wiremu credits his artistically-inclined grandfather with encouraging his passion for art, but says he didn't really think he could draw.
"I grew up just doodling really, but I didn't think I was any good at art until the fifth form, when a teacher said my work was promising."
Since leaving school he has become a student at Elam. "I've learned heaps there and really enjoy realistic art.''
As winner of the Otorohanga Rotary Club's international art competition Wiremu will fly to New York, USA, in November where he will be the guest of a Manhattan Rotary Club.
Link to - An Historical Report on the 2007
International High School Student Art Contest
Welcome to New Zealand and especially Otorohanga :
Christian Tang, Rotary International Exchange Student from Greenland
Christian is being hosted by the Rotary Club of Otorohanga
and will be attending Otorohanga College until July 2009
Follow this link to Christian's own page.
Our club member Peter Signal is DG 9930 Nominee 2010-11
Peter Signal with Geoff Mathis DG D9930,
Rotary International World President DK Lee,
Bill Beihler AG Tauranga
Rotary International Presidential Membership Conference.
Auckland 11 July 2008.
Click here to go directly to the
picture Gallery of Members
Direct Link to the Club Bulletin
"The Pink-Un" - Click Here
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."
--St. Augustine
"In this age of mass communication, why do we need to take the time and money to move people across borders to increase understanding? ....
It is the difference between looking through a keyhole and walking through an open door for the whole view."
-- Harriet Mayor-Fulbright
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