More Member talks
The diversity in careers and skills of or members can be gleaned from short talks covering the years until joining Rotary; together with their motivations for choosing Rotary as a means to support or serve the community, or to make a difference and help to promote responsible and lasting change in other endeavours and vocations in the key avenues of service. Michael Brent Michael Brent gave a fascinating talk outline his family history and his education then interesting career in PNG and locally then the family passion with travelling and camping. He explained his paternal roots came from Normandy and the name ‘de Brente”. From there his ancestors went to UK, then generations later went to Tasmania as settlers. Michael’s father joined the Navy at age 13 and later met his mother in Sydney and they were married in 1954. A few years later, Michael was born in Perth, where his father was captain of a mine sweeper HMAS Karangi which spent t