CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE

WHERE TO MAKE-UP
Monday
RC Metro Sta Mesa
RC Tomas Morato
RC Ayala Heights
RC Roxas
7pm Rotary Center
7pm Sulo Hotel
7:30pm Rotary Center
8pm Rotary Center
Rotary Club of New Manila Heights
Regular Weekly Meeting/Club Assembly
7:30 pm, May 17, 2011 (Tuesday)
Peñafrancia Hall, Mt. Carmel Shrine, 5th Ave., New Manila , Quezon City
P R O G R A M
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
RC Cubao EDSA
RC New Manila
RC Mega EDSA
RC Tandang Sora
RC Bagong Silangan
7pm Rotary Center
7:30pm Rotary Center
7:30 pm Rotary Center
7:30pm Rotary Center
8pm Rotary Center
RC Capitol Hills
RC Commonwealth
RC Kagitingang Cubao
RC Pag-asa
RC Paraiso
7pm Serye (QC Circle)
7pm Heat EDSA Shangri-la
7:30pm Camp Aguinaldo
8pm Jollibee East Ave/V Luna
8pm Rotary Center
RC Cubao East
7pm Tang Kang Resto, Roces Ave
RC Cosmopolitan Cubao 8pm Rotary Center
RC Metro Diliman
8pm Rotary Center
RC Kamuning West
8pm Rotary Center
RC QC Circle
7pm DAR FAPSO
RC SFDM Central
8pm Rotary Center
CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE
This certifies that Rotarian ___________________
attended the regular weekly meeting of the Rotary
Club of New Manila Heights on May 17, 2011 held at
Peñafrancia Hall, Mt. Carmel Shrine Parish Church,
5th St., New Manila, Quezon City.
_________________________
BERNADETTE REDUBLO
Secretary
Regular Meeting Proper
Call to Order
Pres. Ma. Elisa “Baby” Allado
Invocation
Dir. Josefina “Jpsoe” Ang
National Anthem
PN Alexander “Alex” Arrojo
Introduction of Visiting Rotarians
& Guests / Announcements Sec. Bernadette “Badette” Redublo
The 4-Way test
Rtn Warren “Bong” Domantay
Rotary Information
PP Floro “Jun” San Juan
Community Singing
Pres. Ma. Elisa “Baby” Allado
Club Assembly Proper
Call to Order
Pres. Ma. Elisa “Baby” Allado
Appointment of new Committee Chairs
Strategic Planning Meeting Schedule
District Induction 2011
Other Matters
RCMH Hymn
Rtn Roberto “Bobby” Ang
Adjournment
Pres. Ma. Elisa “Baby” Allado
Night Chair: Rtn. Perfecto “Jun” Quilicot, Jr.
Dinner Host : PP Elsa Unson
President’s Corner
Ma. Elisa “Baby” Allado
Letting Go
"As long as I was trying to anticipate what people wanted from me, as long as I was
trying to fulfill other people’s expectations, I was in a losing game," Shriver said in
2007, during her speech at the annual Women's Conference. "You can spend the
rest of your life trying to measure up, trying to figure out what other people expect
from you and trying to fulfill their expectations of you. Or, right now, you can make
a decision to let all that go." – Maria Shriver, former wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger
(the couple decided to separate after 25 years of marriage as they go through
“personal and professional transition”).
Letting go is always a difficult thing to do specially if the person, thing,
position, habit or whatever material thing has been with us for a long period of time.
Maria Shriver was a journalist (NY Times) before her husband became a politician.
She had to give up her job because it would meet with conflicts of interest, time and
attention. Recently, on television, I was shocked to learn that movie stars Yayo
Aguila and William Martinez have also parted ways after 25 years of marriage. I am
affected because after 25 years, you would expect couples to have overcome the
most difficult times in their marriage, have adjusted well to each other’s
idiosyncrasies and now look forward to spending their remaining years together. So
many years, intimate relationships and emotional investments gone to waste!
Many of the parents I counsel find it difficult to let go of their children even
if they are adults already and have even married. They continue to treat them as
children and expect them to “obey and respect” as when they were younger. Hence
they blow their top, threaten to disown or drive them away from home when children
answer back or don’t follow their advice. I also struggled with this but found a
solution to the problem. Now, instead of scolding sessions, I call a meeting to
discuss issues. Instead of screaming or raising my voice, I talk with them as coequals and encourage them to explain their side and offer suggestions. But when I
treat them like adults they should act like adults and act responsibly.
Politicians run into trouble when they hold on to their positions too long.
Power corrupts and material possessions are addicting. So they find ways to stay in
power, sometimes involving even their children to continue their reign.
The most difficult thing to let go is measuring up to other people’s
expectations. Since we cannot please everyone, we end up frustrated and depressed.
Thus the Rotary motto of “Service above Self” is ideal because we do things to help
others without expecting praise or recognition and being contented with smiles of
gratitude from our beneficiaries.
I say ideal because many Rotarians violate the very essence of the motto.
You will encounter people who hug the limelight and grab credits because of
personal ambitions and ego trips. But it is not an excuse for us to back out of a
commitment we gave when we became Rotarians. In fact, it should encourage us to
do even better and succeed to prove that the Rotary organization continues to serve
its purpose.
Community Song
Kahit Maputi na ang Buhok Ko
(by Rey Valera )
Kung tayo’y matanda na
Sana’y di tayo magbago
Kailan man,
Nasaan ma’y ito ang pangarap ko
Makuha mo pa kaya
Ako’y hagkan at yakapin
Hmmmm
Hanggang sa pagtanda natin
Nagtatanong lang sa ‘yo
Ako pa kaya’y ibigin mo
Kung maputi na ang buhok ko
Pagdating ng araw
Ang buhok mo ay puputi na rin
Sabay tayong mangangarap ng nakaraan sa ‘tin
Ang nakalipas ay ibabalik natin, hmmmm
Ipapaalala ko sa ‘yo
Ang aking pangako
Na ang pag-ibig ko’y laging sa ‘yo
Kahit mabuti na ang buhok ko
(Instrumental)
Ang nakalipas ay ibabalik natin, hmmmm
Ipapaalala ko sa ‘yo
Ang aking pangako
Na ang pag-ibig ko’y laging sa ‘yo
Kahit mabuti na ang buhok ko
Kahit maputi o wala na ang buhok ko
Crossroads
Mario Nery
Rotary's One-Year Service Policy
For many Rotarians, their opportunity to become Club President
comes only once in their lifetime. That reality is both a strong
motivation to do the best you can, or for those of lesser stuff, merely a
time to acquire some measure of fame and popularity, usually at the
expense of the club.
Those who are highly motivated to do the best are normally people
who have a high regard of their own personal worth, and regard the
one year as a time to validate their humble judgement of themselves.
These are people who accept challenges for improving their
community gladly, and will not be deterred by any obstacle that come
their way. In Rotary, you will notice them by the seriousness and
intensity with which they prepare for their term of duty, and the high
level of responsibility that is the hallmark of their kind of work during
their term. These are the leaders who truly earn the respect of the
members.
The other kind thinks this is a joyride, and is direction-less, ambitionless and clue-less. Let's all have a good time. That's what Rotary is all
about, fellowship, isn't it? Yes, Rotary should be enjoyed, but it does
have a direction. It has a mission to do, and that mission is not a joke.
The mission is to help our poor and downtrodden achieve a better
quality of life. A member is invited and accepted on the assumption
that he/she understands this. That is why it is very important that
members are recruited not haphazardly or just to achieve a quota, but
because they possess the necessary qualities of leadership that Rotary
needs to fulfill its role and mission. To do otherwise endangers the
over-all quality of membership. To do otherwise is like stabbing and
bleeding your own club to death.
In less than two months, we will start another Rotary year. Let us
make sure that we are ready for it. Let us not make our club merely
good for laughs. Let us do some serious work also. That is the only
way to keep it alive, and a source of pride.
DISTAS 2011 POSTS RECORD ATTENDANCE
The District Assembly (DISTAS) held last May 14 at the Valle
Verde Country Club recorded an attendance of 806 delegates
including more than 60 Spouses. This is the highest recorded
so far in the 25 years of existence of RI District 3780.
The program started with the traditional march starting with
dignitaries, host clubs, district officers, Silver presidents with
some Spouses, PDGs and their spouses, the DGN Designate
& Spouse and DGE Jess Cifra and Spouse Helen.
The Plenary Speakers and their topics were:
PDG Gil Divinagracia – Our Purpose Today
DGE Jess Cifra – RI Theme & District Vision & Thrusts
DSD Jess Tanchanco – District Organizational Structure
PDG Willy Segovia (D3830) – Fulfilling your Club Goals
PDG Sonny Coloma (D3830) – Leadership Begins with You
In the afternoon, the delegates were divided into 3 breakout
groups: the PEs, PNs, AGs and AGRs in Session A, the other
delegates in Session B who were further divided into 6
breakout rooms (covering the 6 Avenues of Service) while
the Spouses had their own workshop in Session C.
Resource persons in the breakout rooms were a mixture of
RI District 3780 PPs and PDGs with discussion leaders from
other Districts: 3830 (PDG Sid Garcia and DGND Robert
Kuan), 3810 (PDG Paco Atayde & PP Magic Ong), 3820 (PDG
Chit Lijauco).
The delegates then congregated once more in the plenary
hall to listen to Guest Speaker Fr. Rocky Evangelista who
challenged everyone with his talk on “What are We, You,
Doing for the Next Generation?”
RCNMHers present were: Pres Baby, PE AlexB, PN Alex A,
IPP Boone, PPs Boy, Boyet, Elsa & Raffy, Rtns Irma and
JunQ.
PRAYER
You have been good and faithful to us all these years, O Lord.
Without You to guide and direct us, without You to provide for
the basic needs of life, without Your love and constancy, we
would all be nothing.
Greetings to our Birthday Celebrants!
May 1 – Elsa Unson
May 13 – Robert Ang
May 15 – Inday Nery
May 18 – Annabelle Jereza
May 19 – Janice Adolfo
May 24 – Rhose Montreal
CALENDAR OF ACTIVITIES
MAY
May
May
May
May
May
May
May
May
May
27
14
17
21
21-25
24
29
31
- EEPD Orientation for RID 3780, Rotary Center
- Operation Tule (Circumcision)
- DISTAS, Valle Verde, Pasig City
- Club Assembly
- Rotaract DISCON, Philips Sanctuary, Antipolo
- RI Convention, New Orleans, USA
- Out-of-Venue Meeting
- Start of ROBOT bowling tournament
– Orientation and Induction of New Members
We thank You, Lord for the blessing of life and love...for the
blessing of friends and family...for the blessing of provision...for
the blessing of health...for the blessing of education...for the
blessing of Rotary. All of these help to make us Your
instruments to make this world a better place, a place of blessing
to others. May others see Your face in us as we go about doing
Your will. Amen.
THOUGHT OF THE DAY
"Don't lower your expectations to meet your
performance. Raise your level of performance to
meet your expectations. Expect the best of
yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it
a reality."
~Ralph Marston
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the
unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."
~Hans Hofmann
From Motivation in a Minute
Historic Moments: Origins of Group Study Exchange
By Susan Hanf and Lauren Kalal
Rotary International News -- 16 March 2011
Group Study Exchange team members visit a nuclear research
project near Geneva, circa 1967. From the November 1967 issue
of The Rotarian.
In January 1964, the RI Board of Directors & The Rotary Foundation Board
of Trustees approved Group Study Exchange as an official Rotary program. Thirtyfour teams from 17 pairs of districts participated in the first round of exchanges
during the 1965-66 and 1966-67 Rotary years.
But young people had been travelling the globe with support from Rotary
clubs well before this decision. In 1950, six young men from England went to New
Zealand, led by English Rotarian Geoff Morton and financed by clubs in Yorkshire.
They travelled the country, staying with Rotarians along the way.
Rotarian Ralph Vernon proposed a similar endeavor in 1955 to clubs in
northern New Zealand, who wanted to commemorate Rotary’s golden anniversary
with a district-wide effort. District 39 (now districts 9910, 9920, 9930, & 9940)
created the Rotary Overseas Travel Award program, & John Ledgerwood, of the
Rotary Club of Hamilton, led the first team on a trip to Great Britain.
The program was so successful that district leaders in New Zealand decided
to continue it after the anniversary celebrations had ended. Over the next few years,
teams from New Zealand travelled to Canada, India, Japan, Sri Lanka, & the United
States. New Zealand Rotarians welcomed visitors from these countries as well as
from Pakistan.
In the early 1960s, the Trustees began considering programs for nonRotarians that would promote international goodwill & understanding. One plan was
for small groups of young business & professional men to travel from one Rotary
district to a district in another country.
Harold T. Thomas, a New Zealand Rotarian who served as RI president in
1959-60, shared information about the Rotary Overseas Travel Award with the
Trustees. Soon after the Board & Trustees approved Group Study Exchange, Vernon
& other Rotarians with experience in group exchanges & vocational training were
invited to finalize the details of the new Foundation program.
In the nearly 5 decades since, more than 70,000 young men & women have
travelled the globe as part of Group Study Exchange teams.
Matching Grant #72391 – Haemophilus influenza B Immunization
This matching grant has been released recently and will be launched as
st
soon as the list of beneficiaries is completed (tentatively 1 week of June)
.
The Hib Immunization project aims to reduce morbidity and mortality
rates attributable to H. influenzae type b and its complications. Based on
records of the Cubao Health Center 1,259 indigent children, aged 0 to12
months from 5 Barangays in the area, were immunized for free under the
Phil. Department of Health-Expanded Program of Immunization in 2008.
However, the program excludes Hib vaccination due to its prohibitive cost.
If we can provide the vaccines for free to Area 20 (Barangays Horseshoe,
BL Crame, Valencia), approximately 50% of these infants will benefit from
this project. With 4 doses given to infants below 6 months old (3 at 4-week
intervals + booster shot 12 months after 3rd dose), and 3 doses to infants
above 6 months (2 at 4-week intervals and a booster shot at 18 mos. old)
the project will be completed in about 15 months. Expected results are a
decline in the incidence of invasive Hib disease up to 90% in the area.
A supplementary multivitamins program will also be implemented for
health promotion and disease prevention in the area.
The Kalusugan Center (a permanent free clinic jointly operated by the
Rotary Club of New Manila Heights, Philippine National Red Cross Quezon
City Chapter and the Barangay Horseshoe Council) in cooperation with the
Cubao Health Center (run by the Municipal Health Office) will monitor the
health status of the infants during the immunization period and thereafter.
Health education and disease prevention will continue.
The Rotary Club of New Manila Heights (host club) will purchase the
needed vaccines, supplies and refrigerated storage facility. It will engage
the services of nurses to administer the vaccines according to predetermined
schedules. Records keeping will be done at the Kalusugan Center with the
help of community volunteers. Monitoring and progress reports will be
prepared on a monthly basis until the project is completed.
The international partners will conduct ocular inspection of the
communities to be served (Horseshoe, Valencia, and Bagong Lipunan)
and provide technical expertise in the development and implementation
phases of the project.
PHOTO GALLERY
*May 10 Regular weekly meeting – PP Ed Aguila gives Rotary
Information regarding the qualities of an effective Night Chair as
RCNMHers listen intently, sleepily and seriously.
*2 Dinner Hosts for the evening – Rtns Bobby Ang and Jun Quilicot
lovingly prepared by their spouses Josie (menu with meat) and Alice
(purely vegetarian vegetarian menu), respectively
*IPP Boone briefs RCNMHers on District Induction 2011 plans
*May 7- Operation Tule at Barangay
Horseshoe sponsored by Councilor Bong
Suntay. Close to 50 patients were served
from Barangays BL Crame, Valencia,
Horseshoe and Kaunlaran
*Pres Baby, Kapitana Josie and Kagawad
Anzeng pose with Councilor Bong Suntay
and his staff