Our own mini world conference!!….Alan and Sue Page from England; Wato, Enno and family from Germany; Audrey Williams and Brian Jackson from the South Coast; local Guildbrothers and our beautiful harbour as a backdrop. Kirribilli 10.3.2012

GUILDMASTER’S MESSAGE

Greetings All.

To everything there is a season,
a time for every purpose under heaven.

It seems that the season of the new Guild year starts with the central chair at the management table still occupied by a seat warmer.

This time last year I stated that I was the interim measure until a true leader with vision, ideas and energy emerges: I re-state it. The Guild will not flourish until the central chair at the management table is occupied by someone who has the gifts to nurture and build it.

Guildmaster’s message to open the new Guild Year? – bring that person forward.

Sincerely, for the good of the Guild,

Phyllis Berger, Interim Guildmaster

Ryde St.George’s Guild Meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at Addington, 813 Victoria Road, Ryde, commencing at 7.30pm.
The Guild is open to anyone 18 years & over, & visitors are most welcome -
(please let us know, for catering purposes).

ADDINGTON: Next OPEN DAY 15th April, 2012. 2pm to 4pm.
ALL Visitors Welcome. Enquiries: DORIS Carrall 0425 223 628

OFFICE BEARERS 2012/13

Guildmaster: Phyllis Berger

Chancellor: Brian Harris

Treasurer: Judy Harris

1st Herald: Margaret Barton

2nd Herald: (Flag) Bob Hill

Mooca Mag Editor: Eva Maxted

2012/13 PROGRAM Duty Team 5 Minute St,George

May 9 Guild Meeting New 2

June 13 Guildhall 2 Margaret Brummell

July 11 Guild Meeting 1

August 8 Guildhall 1 Eva Maxted

September 12 Guild Meeting 2

October 10 International Guildhall 2 Bob Hill

November 14 Guild Meeting 1

December 12 Christmas Guildhall ALL Margaret Barton

2013 Jan. No meeting

February 13 BP Commemorative Guildhall 1 John Booth

March 13 AGM 2

April 10 Changeover Guildhall 2 Margaret Brummell

This month, as we commence our new Guild year with the Installation of new Office Bearers we celebrate St.George’s Day which is 23rd April. Lord Baden Powell chose St. George to be the Patron Saint of Scouting and we proudly carry his name forward as the name of our Guild.

 

WEST RYDE EASTER FAIR Saturday 30th April 2012 Another smash success for the second year and this year it didn’t rain on our Parade ! Local churches, schools,scouts joined in the parade and activities helped along by great community suport Congratulations to the small organising committee for a great result.

BANGLADESH is the exotic location for the next Asia/Pacific Gathering
November 6-11th 2012 Interesting optional tours post Gathering have been organised, plus flights and travel arrangements have been made. Registration forms are available, bookings to be in by 31st July 2012

NSGFA – AGM will be held on Sunday 21st October 2012 Details of times and venue in Victoria will be advised later. The NJC is now located in Victoria and will be for the next three years. Each state takes a three year term in rotation.

ST.PATRICK’S DAY CELEBRATION Ryde Lions Club again organised a special night and, as usual, guildbrothers were there. Good food, good company and…..lots of corny Irish jokes and good fun.

Guild Contacts:

PHYLLIS Berger, Guildmaster, 9624 5136
email: Phyllber@yahoo.com.au

BRIAN Harris,Chancellor 9808 1016
email: spiderharris@optusnet.com.au

April—May: Happy Birthday Wishes to:

1st Apr. AUDREY Williams

25th Apr. HM Queen Elizabeth II

4th May. PHYLLIS Berger

Happy Wedding Anniversary to
Ted and Alice Painter on 8th May

 

HAPPY ST GEORGE’S DAY

St George’s Day is the start of a New Year for us in the St George’s Guild as we install our new Guild officers in our St George’s Festival Guildhall every year to celebrate the start of a new Guild Year.

Some of our readers may not realise that we call ourselves the St George’s Guild because our Founder Lord Robert Baden-Powell venerated St George as the Patron Saint of Scouting and this was the name the founders of the international Guild movement in Denmark gave it in 1933, just 25 years after the birth of Scouting in England.

This year will be significant for the Movement as we have the Asia Pacific Gathering in Bangladesh for the first time in November and we plan for the next Guilds World Conference in Sydney in 2014.

We welcome friends and visitors to our meetings and events and I would especially like to invite you to our St George’s Festival Guildhall on Tuesday April 3 at our Guild headquarters historic Addington 813 Victoria Road Ryde from 7.30pm and to our Combined Dinner and Campfire with our daughter Ryde Guild on Saturday April 28 at Marsfield Scout Hall.

Hope to see you or hear from you. Have a Happy St George’s Day!

Interfel: We welcome your contribution! Contact Doris Carrall 9817 7470
PO Box 123, Ryde NSW 1680 or doriscarrall@live.com.au

St George’s Guild of Ryde meets on the second Wednesday of every month at 8pm at Addington.
Contacts:

Guildmaster Phyllis Berger 9624 5136 or email HYPERLINK "mailto:Phyllber@yahoo.com.au" Phyllber@yahoo.com.au

Chancellor Brian Harris 9808 1016 or email HYPERLINK "mailto:spiderharris@optusnet.com.au" spiderharris@optusnet.com.au

Cheers. Yours in Fellowship.

- John Booth. Keep Smiling.???

 

An extract from John Booth’s Guildmaster’s message December 2011 on
William Booth and the St Vincent de Paul Society

“We can look at William Booth who established the Salvation Army which now does great work around the globe, started by an individual.

And tonight we can especially look at Frederic Ozanam a Frenchman who was born in French occupied Milan on St George’s Day April 23, 1813, two years before the Battle of Waterloo. Perhaps he should have founded the St George’s Guild but instead he started the St Vincent de Paul Society which we honour and pay our respects to tonight.

Frederic Ozanam established the St Vincent de Paul Society in Paris at the age of just 20.

At this time the people of France were experiencing tremendous political and social upheaval with changes of government, the Industrial Revolution and the consequential unjust employment practices.

Frederic was a university student who gathered some colleagues and began to respond in practical ways to the poverty and hardship he saw in the lives around him.
They visited people in their homes and offered friendship and support. This practice, known today as “home visitation” remains a core activity for St Vincent de Paul Society members and volunteers.

The group formed by Frederic Ozanam and his friends later became known as the first “conference” of the St Vincent de Paul Society.

They met together regularly as a group to go to Mass, to pray and to share ideas about how they could best assist others.

Frederic Ozanam died on September 8, 1853 at the age of 40. He was beatified in Paris by Pope John Paul II on August 22, 1997 and today is known as “the blessed” Frederic Ozanam while his cause for canonisation to sainthood is being investigated by the Vatican.

Ozanam named his society after Vincent de Paul who was born in a small French town of Pouy the day after St George’s day in 1581 and was ordained as a priest in 1600 at the age of 19.

As a young priest he ministered to the wealthy and powerful, however, an appointment as chaplain to a poor parish and to galley prisoners inspired him to a vocation of working with those less fortunate and powerless.

Vincent urged his followers to bring the Lord’s love and compassion to people who were unable to live a dignified human life.”

FRIENDS OF ADDINGTON

The first open day for 2012 Sunday 19th February was a very good day with just over 60 people going through ‘Addington’, people inspired to get on a lovely sunny day. Next open day is 18th March – please check your diary.

Historic “Addington”
813 Victoria Road Ryde

For further information on Friends of Addington contact: Doris Carrall (Mobile) 0425 223 628 or email doriscarrall@live.com.au or Lyn Donald (Mobile) 0402 256 920 or email Charles.donald@optusnet.com.au or check www.weeklytimes.com.au

Future open days for 2012 are: 18 March, 15th April, 20th May, 17th June, 15th July, 19th August, 16th September, 21st October and 18th November – let Lyn/Doris know if you can help..

Celebrating January birthdays at RELC on 31st January – lunch for Neita, Norma and Phyllis (90th birthday for Phyl!) and dinner in the evening for Neita, Norma and Doris who celebrated with fellow members of St George and Friends of Addington members!

2011 Christmas Guildhall presentation to Kevin Nelson-Smith and Cathy Connery from St Vincent’s de Paul by Howard Blair and John Booth on behalf of Sydney Guild .Howard also presented a cheque.

BBQ lunch at ‘Addington’ followed the Church Parade 2011 St Anne's Anglican Church Ryde

 

TRUST SHOULD BE THE BASIS FOR ALL MORAL TRAINING.
- ROBERT BADEN-POWELL

St George’s Guild of Sydney
GUILD PROGRAM YEAR 2012-2013

6 Mar AGM Guild meeting
4 Sept Guild meeting
3 Apr Festival Guildhall
2 Oct International Guildhall
1 May Guild meeting
6 Nov Guild meeting
5 June Guild meeting
4 Dec Christmas Guildhall
3 July Guildhall
5 Feb BP Guildhall
7 Aug Guild meeting

Group 1

Rusty Russell
Neita Matthews
Margaret Blair
Howard Blair
Norma Notley

Group 2

John Booth
Ulrike Eichmeyer
John Morrisby
Charlie Donald
Lyn Donald

Happy Birthday

Neita Matthews on Jan 21
Phyll Russell Jan 30
Norma Notley Jan 31
Doris Carrall Jan 31
Olave & Robert Baden-Powell Feb 22
John Booth Feb 23
Rusty Russell Feb 24
We wish you all the Best!

St.George’s Guild of Sydney meets on the 1st Tuesday of each month at historic Addington, 813 Victoria Road, Ryde, commencing at 7.30pm.

The Guild is open to anyone 18 years and over. Visitors are most welcome.

Why not come along for an enjoyable, obligation-free evening!

(Please let us know, for catering purposes).
Contacts: John F Booth, AM, Guildmaster, 9807 6666
Howard Blair, Chancellor, 9798 4060
Ulrike Eichmeyer, Treasurer, 9807 6666

Baden-Powell Commemoration

In 1938, Sir Winston Churchill published Great Contemporaries - a book in which he compiled a series of newspaper and magazine articles he had written between 1928 and 1937 on the lives of “The Great Men of our Age.” One of those Great Men was Robert Baden-Powell, and Churchill’s chapter on him opens thus: THE THREE most famous generals I have known in my life won no great battles over the foreign foe. Yet their names, which all begin with a B, are household words.

They are General Booth, General Botha and General Baden-Powell. To General Booth we owe the Salvation Army; to General Botha, United South Africa; and to General Baden-Powell, the Boy Scout Movement.

In this uncertain world one cannot be sure of much. But it seems probable that one or two hundred years hence, or it may be more, these three monuments that we have seen set up in our lifetime will still proclaim the fame of their founders, not in the silent testimony of bronze or stone, but as institutions guiding and shaping the lives and thoughts of men.

Churchill was right!!

Guildmaster’s Message

Greetings all,

Welcome to the 2012 Baden-Powell Commemorative Mooca Mag, and the last 2 months of the Guild year.

I trust that the blessing and refreshment of the Christmas season may carry each of us into a year of innovation and growth, and what better example of innovation and growth could there be than Lord Robert Baden-Powell, in both his military career and the Movement to which we all ascribe, the philosophy and methods of which he was the instigator, teacher, and mentor for the rest of his inspiring life.

Scouting was only 7 years old at the start of World War I. In his Great Contemporaries article on B-P (refer page 1), Sir Winston Churchill wrote in 1938:
:
The Great War swept across the world. Boy Scouts played their part. Their keen eyes were added to the watchers along the coasts; and in the air raids we saw the spectacle of children of twelve and fourteen performing with perfect coolness and composure the useful functions assigned to them in the streets and public office.

Many venerable, famous institutions and systems long honoured by men perished in the storm; but the Boy Scout Movement survived. It survived not only the War, but the numbing reactions of the aftermath. …it flourished and grew increasingly. Its motto gathers new national significance as the years unfold,,,. It speaks to every heart its message of duty and honor: “Be Prepared” to stand up faithfully for Right and Truth, however the winds may blow.

I have no doubt that when writing those words in 1938, Churchill was well aware of developments in Europe that were to then lead to WW2, but that makes them no less relevant: may we always emulate B-P and “Be Prepared” to stand up faithfully for Right and Truth, however the winds may blow.

Yours in Fellowship,
Phyllis Berger, Guildmaster.

 

In December 2011, with very great pleasure we again welcomed Ryde Salvation Army Majors Topher and Sandra Holland to our Christmas Guildhall, when we were delighted to once more contribute to their Christmas Ministry with gifts of food, toys, and a cheque: our thanks to all who made this possible.

Photo: TWT.

RETROSPECT

Photos: Phyllis Berger.