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Regular Weekly Meeting

Date
Venue
 June 16, 2005 (Thursday)
Marikina Rotary Youth Center



Valley Wheel Vol. 40 No. 48
CLUB ASSEMBLY PART I

President's Current Account by Pres. Kiko Pe Benito

Tonight�s meeting and next week will be dedicated to the Club Assembly of our Serving President Fabi Cadiz. These assemblies will prepare us for the next Rotary Year 2005-2006 � �Service Above Self�.

Like last year, our plans and programs had been laid out a month before the Rotary Year starts and we know where we are heading. It is now up to us for its implementations. But sometimes along the way, we change course to what is more appropriate and feasible that at the end we would still achieve our goal.

This coming Saturday, June 18, 2005, Sec. Doy Smith, Treas. Ronie Masangkay, Dir. George Ty and Rtn. Manolo Favis will be flying to Chicago, USA and represent the Club in the Centennial R.I. Convention from June 18-22, 2005. They will be joined by PDG Ting Tanco, PP Al Ancheta, PP Boy Ong and Dir. Vincent Santos who left last week for the States. Good luck to all of you and Thank You.

Again to Incoming President Fabi Cadiz, Congratulations and Good Luck!

Let us CELEBRATE ROTARY!!!


Touching Lives by Sec. Doy Smith

DISTRICT AWARDS
Rotary Year 2005-2006

I. BASIC QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

A club must meet the following requirements to qualify for the District 3800 Awards:
  • Club must be in good standing with no past RI/District obligations
  • Club must have qualified for the RY 2005-2006 Presidential Citation of RI President Carl-Wilhelm Stenhammar. To qualify for the presidential citation, the RI President ask each club to complete the membership goal and one activity from four of the five categories (letter of President Stenhammar to all Club Presidents).

II. DOCUMENTARY REQUIREMENTS

  1. Duly accomplished Club President�s Monthly Report with supporting documents, write-up and photos to be submitted not later than every 10th day the following month.
  2. Proof of payment (RI and District OR) of all Rotary monetary obligations.
  3. All required documents must be with the District Awards Committee by May 10, 2006. The above documents must be submitted to the District Governor�s office located at E-203B East Tower Philippine Stock Exchange Center, Pasig City.

III. COVERAGE PERIOD

July 1, 2005 to April 1, 2006

IV. CATEGORIES OF AWARDS

A. AWARD OF RECOGNITION FOR OUTSTANDING CLUB PROJECTS/ACTIVITIES

  1. Award of Recognition for organizing a new Rotary Club, new Rotaract Club, new Interact Club and new RCC
  2. Best Club Bulletin � top five clubs
  3. Best in Attendance � top five clubs
  4. Award of Recognition for top five club contributors to the Rotary Foundation in three categories � total contributions, per capita contribution, and 100% club members contributing to TRF
  5. Outstanding Literacy and Education Projects � top five clubs
  6. Outstanding Water Management Projects � top five clubs
  7. Outstanding Health and Hunger Projects � top five clubs
  8. Outstanding Public Image Projects � top five clubs
  9. Most Number of Attendees in the Rotary Academy � top five clubs
  10. Most Number of New Women members Inducted � top five clubs
  11. Highest Net Membership Growth (%) � top five clubs
  12. Highest Number of New Rotarians Inducted � top five clubs
  13. Most Impressive Public Image Project � top five clubs
  14. Most Number of Attendees to the DISCON � top five clubs

Rotary Information by PP Eric Ignacio

"CHAPTER 14 - SERVING THE WORLD COMMUNITY"

On the drought-stricken plains of East Africa, Swedish pediatrician Hakan Simonson sends a dust trail high into the sky as the pickup truck speeds him toward waiting patients in remote Masai villages. In other communities, Ulmka Lid�n restores sight to a blind mother who now sees her child for the first time. Dentist Ingvar Persson examines 3,500 children during the three weeks he spends at a Kenyan orphanage, and Gunnar Isabsson teaches Zambian health-care workers how to treat and care for AIDS patients. These volunteers for the Rotarian-supported Doctor Bank, founded in Sweden, represent scores of Scandinavian health-care professionals who devote countless hours each year to fighting disease in developing nations. On the other side of the world, a group of Australians are laying down their tools after a day of backbreaking work building a school in Indonesia. At the same time, a larger group of their countrymen are constructing and equipping a health clinic in a mountain village of Papua New Guinea. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, California, USA, plastic surgeons are boarding their flight for Santiago, Chile, where for the next 10 days they will perform surgery on children with facial deformities.

On the surface, these people have nothing in common. Yet they are Rotarians, joined together by the bonds of international service, giving a week or more of their time for a vacation with a purpose. Many Rotarians hear the call to service in their home communities; others feel drawn to programs for which they have a special interest, such as The Rotary Foundation�s Ambassadorial Scholarships. Others seek projects beyond their own national borders. �Never has greater need existed for cooperation and goodwill. If selfishness, distrust, and fear prevail, disaster is the inevitable result. The welfare of the world demands that the facilities for better conditions of living and health � be shared by all peoples in a spirit of mutual helpfulness.� Those are stirring words as Rotary celebrates its centennial, yet General Secretary Ches Perry first wrote them more than 70 years ago, shortly after International Service became a part of Rotary�s Object.

Early Rotary activities focused on club and community service. Then, in 1914, eight Rotary clubs in Britain and Ireland helped house refugees who had fled from the impending war in their native Belgium. In 1919, a hurricane and tidal wave struck Texas, USA, causing widespread death and destruction. Rotary clubs in other countries responded with donations to the Rotary International Relief Fund. When an earthquake in Japan destroyed vast sections of Tokyo and Yokohama in 1923, Rotarians from other countries quickly collected US$40,000 to help. It was a gesture that the Rotary Club of Tokyo willingly reciprocated when two years later it sent $25,000 to help U.S. tornado survivors.

When World War I ended and Rotary began its global expansion, this informal international fellowship exchange spread further; and some clubs even arranged exchange visits. When the conflict ended, it was only natural that RI President Estes Snedecor and delegates at the 1921 convention in Edinburgh, Scotland, wanted to further emphasize this trend. They adopted International Service as the sixth Object of Rotary�although it was later changed to the fourth Avenue of Service in the Object of Rotary. International Service thus became the last plank to be added to the platform of the programs of Rotary International. Danish Rotarian and educator Dr. Sven Knudsen launched a youth exchange project in 1927 between Danish and American teenagers. The idea spread quickly across the borders of many other nations to become one of Rotary International�s most cherished and enduring programs: Youth Exchange. Clubs in Nice, France, inaugurated Youth Exchange the same year. Today, more than 7,000 young people annually exchange visits for up to a year, studying in another country while living with Rotarian families. The program is a powerful lesson in cross-cultural understanding�part of Rotary�s objective of bringing about world peace.

In 1927, two Rotarians each from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden formed the first Rotary intercountry committee to promote fellowship on an international scale. Rotarians in France and Germany�enemy countries during the Great War�formed petits comit�s to exchange club visits, home stays, and promote better understanding between their citizens. These exchanges spread beyond Rotary, and the idea blossomed around the world. In Rotary�s first century, hundreds of thousands of Rotarians, students, and community leaders have participated in exchanges. Some of these are formal programs of The Rotary Foundation; others happened due to chance meetings at an RI Convention or when traveling Rotarians made up at club meetings.

The two elements that drew Rotarians into international service were warm fellowship and compassion for the needy. Rotarians tend to be gregarious, inquisitive, and interested in things beyond their own daily routine. Small wonder that they responded enthusiastically to the opportunity to learn about and socialize with Rotarians from other nations. To some, these were little more than opportunities for fun, to share sports or hobbies such as golf or sailing with Rotarians from another country. The Rotary Fellowships were formed to bring together Rotarians from around the world who share such diverse interests as golf, skiing, and stamp collecting, and many get together throughout the year in regional and international gatherings. Over the years, some have questioned Rotary�s emphasis on international service, especially between citizens of hostile nations. Rotary has answered by pointing out that the goal of all Rotarians is to advance world peace and understanding between all people, and the work of individual Rotarians in international service is the fuel that powers that engine.

There have been many occasions during wars or border skirmishes when Rotarians of both sides of the conflict have worked for resolution of the dispute. Rotarians from Argentina and Chile helped broker an end to the longstanding border dispute between their countries in 1936. The Rotary Club of Buenos Aires took the cannons that had been facing one another and melted them down, ordering that the iron be recast into a statue of Jesus. When they erected the enormous image on the border, high in the Andes, their friends from the Chilean Rotary clubs placed a plaque on it that reads, �May these mountains crumble into dust before Argentineans and Chileans shall break this peace.�

�The Fourth Object of Rotary neither states nor implies any direct connection of Rotary with the relations between the governments of two or more countries,� Ches Perry wrote in 1938. �It has rather to do with friendly relations between individual persons or small groups of persons.� Frequently, while governments of nations such as Britain and Argentina, India and Pakistan, and Bolivia and Paraguay were lobbing shells at each other, Rotarians from those countries met to celebrate what they had in common, using that as the starting point in their quest for peace.

As the 20th century progressed, Rotarians were at the forefront of those who suggested that environmental, business, and public health actions should have a global outlook. �A world-minded Rotarian looks beyond national patriotism and considers himself as sharing responsibility for the advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace,� advised one Rotary International leader in the 1950s. This led, in 1957, to a new approach to international service. Rotary convened a series of Into Their Shoes conferences at which speakers from other countries would discuss topics of international interest at community gatherings, often introducing a perspective that the local citizens had not previously considered. The RI Board even designated each February as World Understanding Month and 23 February�Rotary�s anniversary �as World Understanding and Peace Day. During this time RI encourages clubs to arrange activities that can bring about better understanding among people of differing political, religious, or cultural viewpoints. The 1961 Rotary Institute for present and past RI officers recommended to the incumbent RI Board a �world community service� program. The original proposal was for teams of Rotarians with expertise in education, public health, agriculture, and industry to travel to developing countries to share knowledge. The Board adopted the proposal at its January 1962 meeting. The World Community Service (WCS) program began that year and probably did more to bring international service to local clubs than anything in the 57 years that preceded it. Suddenly, here was a vehicle through which single clubs�even individual Rotarians within a club�could become actively involved in serving mankind in a distant community. WCS helped clubs in developing countries launch service projects in their local communities and paired them with other clubs in the developed world that had the desire and the resources to help.

To facilitate exchanges between clubs, Rotary International established a project library. Those clubs and districts with a WCS project would file a report with RI, describing the idea and outlining their needs. Meanwhile, Rotarians or clubs in other countries would offer their talents, financial gifts, or supplies. Most projects were planned well in advance, but World Community Service also helped clubs respond to natural disasters, such as the devastating 1970-71 fl oods in Bangladesh, the 1973 Nicaraguan earthquake, the 1975 cyclone in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, and the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch in Central America in 1999.



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