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Report on First Meeting/ Club Assembly for Rotary Year 2018-2019

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Volume 55 Issue No. 1

9 July 2018

First Club Assembly for Rotary Year (RY) 2018-2019

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First Meeting/Club

Assembly – 4.7.18

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President Mark addressing the Club

SAA Deblina

AG Karen (left) with Rtn Horst

In Focus

Report on First Meeting/Club Assembly for

Rotary Year 2018-2019 held on 4.7.18

OPENING REMARKS Newly appointed Sergeant-at-Arms (SAA) Rtn Deblina Chatterjee called the meeting to order and thanked President Mark Wang for giving her the task to serve as the Club’s Sergeant-at-Arms. Rtn Deblina then called on members to extend a standing ovation to President Mark as he took the Chair.

President Mark then called upon Vice President (VP) Hassan Moosa to welcome Guests of members and Visiting Rotarians as follows: WELCOME Guests Visiting Rotarians Mr Ben Abbate AG Karen Kang, Dora Tong, Poh Ee Mei – Sentosa Mr Sergey PP Brown Pereira Mr Sandzher Tazhibaev TOAST

Later in the meeting, Toastmaster, Honorary Treasurer Horst Hagemann invited members to join him in raising a toast to AG Karen Kang’s club, Rotary Club of Sentosa coupled with the toast to Rotary International. AG Karen advised that her club has 16 lady members with a further 5 new lady members to be inducted shortly.

In Focus

From the Almoner Team: Rtn Mamta Shahani had a spinal surgery the last week of June and is now recovering well at home. On behalf of President and all Members of our Club, a bouquet of flowers was sent to her at the hospital with the message “Wishing you a speedy recovery”. Members are welcome to visit her at home after 10 July to allow her 2 weeks of maximum rest and recovery” time. Thank you!

- -PP Peter Tan

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Rtn Suresh

President Mark

Report on First Meeting/Club Assembly for Rotary Year 2018-2019

held on 4.7.18…cont’d.

HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS TO BG GAURAV KEERTHI President Mark was pleased to announce that Rtn Suresh and Meera Keerthi’s son, Gaurav, was recently promoted to Brigadier-General (BG) Commander Air Defence Operations Command / Air Defence Task Force. He called upon Rtn Suresh to say a few words and to accept the Club’s heartiest congratulations on his son’s promotion. For more details of BG Gaurav Keerthi and his promotion, please refer to Page 6 of this bulletin.

CLUB ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS President Mark introduced his Board of Directors, and noted that the Club’s fine traditions which would be continued and balanced with members’ preferences and ideas. He added that the Club would also support Rotary International and the District in executing their goals. PRESIDENT’S REPORT President Mark summarized his perspectives for the Club in the coming year as follows:

Service Committee Meetings - Members were invited to attend all Service Committee Meetings for the first two months of the Rotary year, in order to support and to find out more of the Committees’ activities.

Evening Meetings - To improve on the weekly meeting attendance, the Board will experiment with one evening meeting each month in lieu of the luncheon meeting. The evening meeting would be held on the first Wednesday of each month, starting on 1 August 2018 at the same venue, The Tanglin Club.

Major Project (RY 2018-2019) – A task force committee will be formed to source for the Club’s Major Project for vocational and/or community purposes which would be led by none other than Rotarian of the Year awardee, PP Peter Tan.

The late Rtn Dr Albert Wee – President Mark noted the passing away for our member, Rtn Dr Albert Wee, whom he wanted to acknowledge had donated US$10,000 to the Club’s GuiZhou project, prior to his demise.

Important Dates – Club Assemblies will be held as follows: 1st – 4 & 11 July 2018 2nd – 18 September 2018 (District Governor Henry Tan’s Visit will take place on Wednesday, 19 September) 3rd – 31 January 2019 4th – 20 June 2019 Other Events – PETS/DISTAS, District Conference RI Convention – 1 to 5 June 2019 in Hamburg, Germany





VP Raj

VP Hassan

PP Dr Shahul



MEMBERSHIP REPORT President Mark called upon Vice President (VP) Rajkumar Perumal Suppiah, to speak on his plans for the Club’s Membership goals. VP Raj highlighted the target set for this Rotary year as follows:

Increase in Young members Increase in Women members More fellowship activities (local and abroad) Getting current members more active Maintain last Rotary year’s success

VP Raj noted that the year’s plan was not only recruiting more members but growth in quality members. VP Raj assured members that he meets the parties interested in Rotary to ensure that they would fit in and that the Club’s guidelines were followed. PUBLIC RELATIONS REPORT Next, President Mark called upon Vice President (VP) Hassan Moosa, to speak the Club’s Public Relations plans for the year. VP Hassan noted the Public Relations objectives were to tell Rotary’s story to the public and promote the Club’s projects and activities. He highlighted the Committee’s key pillars as:

Promoting Rotary Club of Singapore Establish a clear and precise public image of Rotary and the Club Key Points for talking about Rotary and the Club – VP Hassan noted that the

deliverables must be Engaging, Effective, Efficient, Expressive and Enhancing VP Hassan added the importance to create different content in order to reach out to the public and to get the Club’s stories out. CLUB ROTARY FOUNDATION REPORT President Mark invited Club Rotary Foundation Chair, PP Dr Shahul Hameed to share his report. PP Shahul advised that the Committee’s representative to the Board is Director Manish Tibrewal. He advised that the Club has always tried to do at least 10 Global Grants during the year with at least 1 Global Grant (GG) for the Singapore community. He reported that there were currently about 13 GGs in the process. PP Shahul called on members’ support and hoped to demystify the Foundation’s work. He advised that the Committee comprised of PP Tapan Rao, Rtns Robert Craiu, Suresh Keerthi and James Lee, including ISC Director Dr Chan Siew Luen and Hon Treasurer Horst Hagemann.





CSC Director Dr Rupesh

Hon Secretary Connie



COMMUNITY SERVICE REPORT President Mark called upon Community Service (CSC) Director Dr Rupesh Agrawal to highlight his Committee’s plans. Rtn Rupesh introduced his executive committee and was pleased to advise that as of 2 July, there were 27 CSC members. CSC Director Dr Rupesh’s report comprised of the following topics:

Review and continuation of the 2017-2018 projects such as the Kopi Friends, Laughter Yoga, FootballPlus, Eye Rehab, as well as collaborations with APSN, Society for the Aged Sick and Red Cross Home; and the Empower through Art – Club HEAL project.

Focus for 2018-2019 – would be on the “3M” i.e. Member, Minute, Motivation Key Projects – Rtn Rupesh explained the concept of every member, every minute

counts which was in collaboration with Hourvillage E-meeting – through Zoom cloud meetings

HONORARY SECRETARY’S REPORT Following Rtn Dr Rupesh’s report, President Mark invited Hon Secretary Connie Ho to address the Club. Rtn Connie highlighted Rotary International’s definition of the Club Secretary’s role was to “help your club run well. Watch its trends to identify, what works well and what doesn’t, and share this information with club and district leaders.” She spoke of the year’s priorities as follows:

Improve the way we communicate Fix broken processes Accelerate the flow of information Collaborate with the Board

PRESIDENT’S CLOSING REMARKS Prior to closing the Meeting, President Mark warmly thanked the Club’s Installation Dinner Committee, particularly Rtns James Lee, Uttam Kripalani and Shamin Vaswani, for making the installation dinner such a success. He added that feedback received from Sister Clubs’ members and even from the Guest of Honour were all very good. President Mark acknowledged the presence of PDG Dr Philbert Chin, whom he added was a pillar of the organisation, and his mentor who introduced him to Rotary. He also thanked Honorary Members (HM) PP Bhagwan Melwani for his support; PP Raymon Huang who despite suffering a fall, showed his support and attend the installation dinner. President Mark advised members that following the installation dinner, HM PP Raymon suffered another fall. President Mark added his thanks and appreciation to HM Mohan Vaswani who not only sponsored the wine for the installation dinner but has provided office space for the Secretariat. President Mark also thanked Rtn Joseph Chia who has taken care of the Club’s speakers’ programme, which was a daunting task. Lastly, President Mark thanked birthday celebrant PP Dr Yap Lip Kee for so kindly sponsoring the champagne for the first toast in the Rotary Year!





From left: PPs Peter Tan, Dr Yap Lip Kee, Dr Shahul Hameed, AG Karen Kang, President Mark, PPs Brown Pereira, Tan

Chin Ngiap, Paliath “Mohan” Mohandas

President Mark flanked by IPP Keith Harrison (right) and PP Brown Pereira

From left: Rtns Jayant Gadgil, Bertrand De Mil, Suresh Keerthi, Uttam Kripalani, Atul Merchant, Vivek Chhabra,

Deepu Joseph

From left: PPs J K Ong, Rtns Kimio Somemiya, Yong Poh Shin, SAA Deblina, PP Peter, PDG Dr Philbert Chin, PP Mohan

From left: VP Raj, Rtn Peter Koh, CSC Director Dr Rupesh

From left: Directors Drs Hoh Sek Tien, Chan Siew Luen & VP Hassan

From left: Hon Secretary Connie, Rtn Joseph Chia & Hon Treasurer Horst

Photo Album of First Meeting/Club Assembly on 4.7.18





REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE AIR FORCE

BRIGADIER GENERAL GAURAV “YODA” KEERTHI

BG Gaurav joined the Singapore Armed Forces in 1998 and attained

his wings in 2004. Over the past 20 years of his military career, BG

Gaurav held a diverse range of senior command and staff

appointments in MINDEF/SAF and the RSAF, including Commanding

Officer 127 Squadron, Head Air Plans, Head Joint Plans and

Transformation Department before assuming Commander Air

Defence and Operations Command.

BG Gaurav is also a member of the Singapore Administrative Service.

Between 2008 and 2010, he served as Senior Assistant Director in

Ministry of Trade and Industry.(Dual Career)

BG Gaurav lived in India, Nigeria and Germany before coming to Singapore to study his Secondary school

at Raffles Institution and A levels at Raffles JC. He was then awarded the SAF Overseas Scholarship in

1998 and graduated from Stanford University in 2002. He was the Top Graduate (Air Force) of the 42nd

Goh Keng Swee Command and Staff Course. BG Gaurav was awarded the SAF Post-Graduate Scholarship

and Lee Kuan Yew Scholarship and graduated with a Master’s in Public Administration from Kennedy

School at Harvard University in 2014. He did the TED TALK at Harvard on “Disagreement”

Outside work, he enjoys reading, jogging, playing guitar, and programming. He volunteers actively with

the debate community and was the founder & President of the Debate Association (Singapore). He wrote

a best-selling book on Amazon on Debating,” Think, Speak and Win”. He also co-created and judged in the

Emmy-nominated TV debate show The Arena, and is the founder of both www.dialectic.sg and

www.confirm.sg. He was also the moderator, judge and host for Channel New Asia program called

Bridging Asia Season 2, a Singapore Debate .

BG Gaurav is married to Peggy Pao, a lawyer and an Oxfordian graduate and a President Scholar and they

have one son, 15-month-old .



http://www.dialectic.sg/



RC sends best wishes to Birthday celebrants next week:

Willi Hess Reinhard Klemmer S “Mali” Malaiappan

July 11 July – Continuation of 1

st Club

Assembly 27-29 July – Interact Leadership

Training Camp

August Membership and New Club Development Month

September Basic Education and Literacy Month

October Economic and Community Development Month

12-14 October – Help the Children

Project in Malang and Batu, Indonesia

Coming Rotary Events

RC sends best wishes to Wedding Anniversary celebrants this week:

Uttam & Laxmi Kripalani Raj & Melanie Vaswani Gunter Stockmann

Anniversary Celebrants

Birthday Celebrants

This Meeting

Next Meeting

Vocational Service

Meeting

Mark Your Diary

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Pres Garry hands a Club banner to Rtn Rodrigo

11 July 2018

Reception Desk duty: Hon Secretary Connie Ho, VP Hassan Moosa Sunshine Box: YSC Dir Dr Hoh Sek Tien, CSC Dir Dr Rupesh Agrawal

Continuation of the First Club Assembly for Rotary Year 2018/2019 to be chaired by President Mark Wang.

International Service

Meeting

18 July 2018

Reception Desk duty: ISC Dir Dr Chan Siew Luen, Joseph Chia Sunshine Box: Adnan Ansari, Jayant Gadgil Speaker: Dr Lo Swee Won, Singapore Management University Topic: Introduction to Blockchain

International Service Committee Meeting will be held as follows:

Date: Thursday, 19 July Time: 7.30pm Venue: Spoon Room, Singapore Island Country Club, Sime Road, junction of Lornie/Adam Roads Hosts: ISC Dir Dr Chan Siew Luen, Dr Rupesh Agrawal & Pia Bruce

Vocational Service Committee Meeting will be held as follows:

Date: Thursday, 12 July Time: 7.00pm Venue: Draycott Room, The Tanglin Club, 5 Stevens Road Hosts: VSC Dir Ronil Sujan & Dr Irina Francken





BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2018/2019

President Mark Wang

Immediate Past President Keith Harrison

President Elect Deepak Nagrani

Vice President (Public Relations) Hassan Moosa

Vice President (Membership) Rajkumar Perumal Suppiah

Hon. Secretary (Administration) Connie Ho

Hon. Treasurer (Finance) Horst Hagemann

Directors

Chair, Community Service Dr Rupesh Agrawal

Chair, Vocational Service Ronil Sujan

Chair, International Service Dr Chan Siew Luen

Chair, New Generations Service Dr Hoh Sek Tien

Director (Club Rotary Foundation) Manish Tibrewal

The Guide to Daily Living

Before doing the things we want to do, consider first, the

Precepts of the guide. Ask ourselves these 4 questions and

act upon them:

First: Have I spent some time in self-examination?

Second: Have I spent quality time with my family?

Third: Have I given my best to my work?

Fourth: Have I given some time to someone near and far?

The Guide, in fact, encompasses the 4 parts of the Object of Rotary.

The Four-Way Test

Of the things we think, say or do:

Is it the truth?

Is it fair to all concerned?

Will it build goodwill and better friendship?

Will it be beneficial to all concerned?



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