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Pres. Dante Verano
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Valley Wheel Vol. 38 No. 25
President's Message
by Pres. Dante Verano
As the New Year unfolds its new promises to all of us, let me start it by expressing my heartfelt gratitude to all of you who have continually support to make our club still a strong and formidable one. As I recall when we first start my term in the cool environment of Lake Caliraya before I officially assumed my presidency, all of you were very supportive, enthusiastic and committed to make this term a success for everybody. At this very moment, I can honestly say that I can still feel that same support, enthusiasm and commitment not only for me but to our club. But we know that nothing we plan is possible without the skill and dedication of the people who work in them, the chairman of the committees, the directors in charge and all members who have attended in one way or another in our entire accomplished project. To all of you, a very BIG THANKS for a remarkable job.
I am looking forward to the second semester of my term with a big HOPE. I believe we have done a great deal to reach our goal in the first semester but there is still more to be done. Despite some difficulties which I believe you and I can overcome, I am optimistic that our club can maintain its good standing in the district. With your continuous commitment nothing is impossible.
We can only undertake our remaining projects with your full support. In our effort to make both ends meet, I and my board has decided to do away with the discount incentive for those who will pay in full their semester dues before the deadline only this semester. This small sacrifice will make a lot of difference in accomplishment of our projects.
So this year, as every year in Rotary, huge challenges for us and for the Club. But on our strong foundations, with proper outlay of our energies going into committed service above ourselves, I am confident that we are well placed to meet them.
Let me close this message with RI President Bhichai Rattakul exhortation in his January Message of The Rotarian:
�As we enter the second half of the year, I would like to ask Rotarians to look within themselves and ask, "Can I do even more?" I would like to ask members to challenge themselves to achieve an even higher level of service. Such a commitment reflects the very essence of a Rotarian.�
Secretary's Corner
by Asst. Sec. / Dir. Val Barcinal
January is Rotary Awareness Month. After our very brief vacation from the weekly grind this Christmas break, this month is an appropriate time to remind us of our situation; what has been done and what else to be done. This is also the time to pay our semiannual dues to RI, to prepare for the Midyear Reports, to keep stock of our remaining final months before we moved on to the next Rotary Year. And there is still the Discon of 2003. There are still lots to be accomplished. But let us not forget that a �good Rotarian is a well-informed Rotarian�. RI has produces a wealth of informational and promotional materials. We all receive The Rotarian which gives us the monthly RI President�s Message, the status of Rotary International in details. In the Web, we have the RI Site which would link us to unlimited bank of information about Rotary World Wide. All we have to do is read them, surf the net and you will get your dose of updated Rotary Information.
It was a fruitful & dynamic semester that we had. This was climaxed by the �unforgettable� Special Christmas Presentation that we staged plus the very successful Club Gift Giving Project dubbed �Pamaskong Handog kay Toto at Nene�. I wish we could always have project of this caliber this coming semester. I believe, our club has all the talents and manpower available to make it happen. Right Sir?
We have a new member in the person of Baby Rotarian Rodolfo �Udy� Enriquez. He was the lone inductee during our final meeting of the year last December 19 with our Governor Efren de Guzman witnessing the induction. PP Jun Farcon was still his usual best in Charging the Baby Rotarian Udy after he was briefly introduced by proposer Rtn. Eduard Farcon. His classification is under Insurance, sub classification Life. To Baby Rotarian Udy, Welcome to the Rotary World!
On Rizal�s Memorial Day, last December 30, President Dante together with IS Val Barcinal, Dir. Pons de Leon, Rtn. Charlie Dy Tan, PP Jimmy Capco paid their respect to our National Hero Jose Rizal by laying a wreath on his monument beside our City Hall. That was a pleasant morning to remember our national hero who have gave up his life in a non-violence advocacy of freedom. Everything he did was a best example doing �Service Above Self�. So there you are fellow Rotarians, let us make our Rotary Pledge �Service Above Self� true to life.
Rotary Information
by IPP Tony Fidelino
"A BRIEF HISTORY"
The world's first service club, the Rotary Club of Chicago, Illinois, USA, was formed on 23 February 1905 by Paul P. Harris, an attorney who wished to recapture in a professional club the same friendly spirit he had felt in the small towns of his youth. The name "Rotary" derived from the early practice of rotating meetings among members' offices.
Rotary's popularity spread throughout the United States in the decade that followed; clubs were chartered from San Francisco to New York. By 1921, Rotary clubs had been formed on six continents, and the organization adopted the name Rotary International a year later.
As Rotary grew, its mission expanded beyond serving the professional and social interests of club members. Rotarians began pooling their resources and contributing their talents to help serve communities in need. The organization's dedication to this ideal is best expressed in its principal motto: Service Above Self. Rotary also later embraced a code of ethics, called The 4-Way Test, that has been translated into hundreds of languages.
During and after World War II, Rotarians became increasingly involved in promoting international understanding. A Rotary conference held in London in 1942 planted the seeds for the development of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and numerous Rotarians have served as consultants to the United Nations.
An endowment fund, set up by Rotarians in 1917 "for doing good in the world," became a not-for-profit corporation known as The Rotary Foundation in 1928. Upon the death of Paul Harris in 1947, an outpouring of Rotarian donations made in his honor, totaling US$2 million, launched the Foundation's first program � graduate fellowships, now called Ambassadorial Scholarships. Today, contributions to The Rotary Foundation total more than US$80 million annually and support a wide range of humanitarian grants and educational programs that enable Rotarians to bring hope and promote international understanding throughout the world.
In 1985, Rotary made a historic commitment to immunize all of the world's children against polio. Working in partnership with nongovernmental organizations and national governments thorough its PolioPlus program, Rotary is the largest private-sector contributor to the global polio eradication campaign. Rotarians have mobilized hundreds of thousands of PolioPlus volunteers and have immunized more than one billion children worldwide. By the 2005 target date for certification of a polio-free world, Rotary will have contributed half a billion dollars to the cause.
As it approached the dawn of the 21st century, Rotary worked to meet the changing needs of society, expanding its service effort to address such pressing issues as environmental degradation, illiteracy, world hunger, and children at risk. The organization admitted women for the first time in 1989 and claims more than 90,000 women in its ranks today. Following the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Rotary clubs were formed or re-established throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Today, 1.2 million Rotarians belong to some 30,000 Rotary clubs in more than 160 countries.
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