Club Event News: DK Lee Evening Surprise! The Weeks Speaker is Chief Judge Joe Williams Presidents corner 5 Minutes With... Club Member Tim Belcher Club Birthdays and Anniversaries Date for the diary Thought for the week Club members duties
Well this is it. Your New Weekly Club Newsletter! After weeks of research and hard work from everyone involved, I think we have something to be really proud of. Have a good look around, check out the new features and let me know what you think. Richard.
World President DK Lee presents PHF to Adrienne Manthel
After becoming involved with Riding for the Disabled over 23 years ago Adrienne Manthel has been President and Vice President of the Hutt Valley branch for many years, as well as serving as the local rep on the NZRDA Board.
She was instrumental in fundraising for purchasing land for Hutt Valley RDA in Silverstream and the covered arena.
Last Wednesday night Adrienne was surprised to be awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship for her RDA work. She was one of only three people who were awarded a PHF by World President DK Lee on the night.
Adrienne and DK Lee
Happy PHF receipients
This weeks speaker is Chief Judge Joe Williams
Chief Judge Joe Williams of the Māori Land Court is the Chairperson of the Waitangi Tribunal. He is an internationally recognised expert in indigenous rights law and one of New Zealand's leading specialists in Māori issues. As well as being the youngest person to have been appointed Chief Judge of the Māori Land Court, he was the first Māori lecturer in law at Victoria University in Wellington and he established the first unit specialising in Māori issues at a major law firm.
Judge Williams gained his law degree from Victoria University and his masters from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Upon returning to New Zealand from Canada in 1988, he worked for the
Auckland office of law firm Kensington Swan, establishing the Māori issues unit and developing a large environmental law practice. He became a partner in 1992, but left in 1994 to become one of the founding partners of Walters Williams and Company, where he specialised in environmental, public, and Māori law. In 1999, he was awarded the Māori students millennium prize as a former student of Victoria University.
Judge Williams was sworn in as Chief Judge in December 1999, and in 2004 he also assumed the position of Chairperson of the Tribunal (he had been acting Chairperson since 2000). He remains determined to ensure that Māori value systems are recognised within the judicial system.
President Linton`s Corner
What a proud moment at the World President D K Lee dinner when I read the citation for a Paul Harris Fellowship Award to a surprised and stunned Adrienne Manthel.
It certainly was an historic night when President D K Lee presented Adrienne with her medal in front of over 200 Rotarians from District 9940 including 25 Members and friends from our Club. The Club can be justly proud of its latest PHF recipient.
Congratulations Adrienne.
Simon Edwards is organising a book sale to raise funds for his Cambodian School Appeal and the Board has agreed that it would be very appropriate for our Club to support Simon`s project.
Coincidently,last week the Club received a large
number of second hand books from an Estate and so these will be forwarded onto the Hutt News.
In addition I ask that Club members donate books for this cause and bring them to our Wednesday luncheon. The Youth Committee will arrange delivery of the books to Simon. Thanks, Linton.
5 Minutes with .......
This week is Club member Tim Belcher
- Club classification: Real Estate
- Member since: 1997
- Occupation: Real Estate consultant and manager
- Family: Wife Shona and 3 daughters 24, 22, & 18
- Hobbies: Golf
- Favourite food: Roast pork
- Favourite drink: Whisky
- Best holiday destination: Mooloolaba, Australia
- Whats on your CD player right now: Leanne Rimes
- Favourite website:www.stuff.co.nz
- What book would you take to a desert island: Golf instruction for lefties
- Scariest moment: Being asked to fix anything mechanical or electrical
- Recent interesting experience: Attending the "World Lefties Golf Tournament"
- Fun fact about me: Ask me to juggle!
Club Birthdays and Anniversaries
Birthdays
19th Brian Ross
23rd Sue Colson
24th Penny Grigg
27th Malcolm Watson
Anniversaries
25th July 2001 Sue Mills
Date for the diary
Sunday 3rd August
Hutt River Trail walk
10:10am Hikoikoi Reserve
Thought for the week
To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition, to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded.
