THE Chelsea Rotary Club has joined with the Rotary Club of Mt Druitt and a family from the Boronia Rotary Club to make a $36,000 donation towards Australian Rotary Health.
The donation was funded in part by the estate of Chelsea Rotary Club’s longest serving member, George Malone.
Mr Malone, who passed away on 3 May 2016, left behind money to be donated to Australian Rotary Health, with the hope that the money would be used to fund skin cancer research.
His son Robert, daughter in law Jane, and granddaughter Emily were present to hand over the money to Australian Rotary Health district representative Glenn Tippett at the most recent Rotary changeover on 29 June.
“The donation is part of a partnership between Chelsea Rotary Club, Mt Druitt Rotary Club in Sydney, and a family called the Henrys. Between the three of them they are sponsoring a PhD scholarship for skin cancer,” Mr Tippett said.
“When George passed away he left money to Chelsea for the use of the medical research that we fund. The money that he left to the club, plus money from the Henry family and the Rotary Club will be used to fund one scholarship.”
Chelsea Rotary Club spokesman Kevin Harrison said that Mr Malone was a “perfect Rotarian”.
“The Rotary Club started in 1954, and George joined in around 1956, so he was almost there since the start of the club.
He was a thorough gentleman,” Mr Harrison said.
In 2017, Australian Rotary Health donated more than $2 million to a variety of health-related causes.
First published in the Chelsea Mordialloc Mentone News – 15 August 2018
