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issue No 455
September 2004

this month's cover

This month’s cover shows Rotary service old and new. The Rotary Youth Exchange Program in picture one is a long-standing success which allowed Loli Laire from Brazil to meet Australian aviation icon Nancy-Bird Walton, 90, who
was guest speaker at the Rotary Club of Castle Hill Apprentice Awards in Sydney, N.S.W. Her 20-minute address was an interesting tale. Picture Two shows Nast- assia Bondarenko Edwards, an exchange student sponsored by the Rotary Club of Healesville, Vic., who is in Brazil. She is a volunteer in a creche twice a week and has initiated a program to improve the lot of the children there. Picture three shows how Rotarians serving in Russia are making life happier for children. Picture four shows Rotarian Graham Hicks, from the Rotary Club of Canberra Sunrise, A.C.T., with Jean Giesler, at left, and Simone Gubler from Canberra, A.C.T., who attended the Hong Kong Model United Nations (MUNA) conference. Rotarian Graham accompanied the students as counsellor. Mark Schultz and David Brenneche, from Melbourne, Vic., also attended.
PHOTOGRAPH: One, courtesy, Geoff Duffy. Fo u r, courtesy, Ian Sayers

in this Issue

Russia's new volunteers ... Rotary is back	10
Your club can host a Youth Health Awareness Forum	14
New Generation Scheme ... don't let it be a secret	16
Albion says thanks with a chapel bell
Nastassia sees a need and acts	18
Cuddly toys a comfort and support to indigenous health project	21
Roll call for Centennial with Districts 9500, 9520 and 9550	22
All agree Yea has a better look	30
Seachange goes to Forster and Tuncurry	31
District Governors for 2004 - 2005	38
Being an Ambassadorial Scholar filip to career	40
Australia represented at Hong Kong MUNA
Olympic Flame unites Rotary clubs large and small	41
Rotary Fijian Health Festival wins long term sponsor	43
Rotary's HIV/AIDS efforts showcased internationally
Fellowships: Women play in Rotary cricket festival?	44
International service: Chance remark led to eye clinic project	46

Regular columns

President's Message 3; Bob Aitken's 'from where I sit' 4; News Bulletin, 4; Mailbox 7; Inviatin to Chicago 19; Inner Wheel 21; Gardening 42; What's On 48; This Rotary World 49: Obituaries, Called to Higher Service 52; Paul Harris Fellows, notices 53; Directory 55; Smiles 56;

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