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1 C rossroads Rotary e-bulletin published by Rotary Club of Singapore Proud of our Heritage, Committed to our Future 9 July 2018 Volume 55 Issue No. 1 Chartered 6 th June 1930 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner for Best Bulletin in District 3310 First Club Assembly for Rotary Year (RY) IN FOCUS Report on First Meeting/ Club Assembly for Rotary Year PHOTO ALBUM First Meeting/Club Assembly MARK YOUR DIARY What s ahead? Don t miss the forthcoming events and Birthday / Anniversary celebrants and more

2 In Focus Report on First Meeting/Club Assembly for Rotary Year held on 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. SAA Deblina President Mark then called upon Vice President (VP) Hassan Moosa to welcome Guests of members and Visiting Rotarians as President Mark addressing the Club 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. AG Karen (left) with Rtn Horst 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 1 C r o s s r o a d s

3 Report on First Meeting/Club Assembly for Rotary Year held on 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. Rtn Suresh 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. President Mark Major Project (RY ) 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: 1 st 4 & 11 July nd 18 September 2018 (District Governor Henry Tan s Visit will take place on Wednesday, 19 September) 3 rd 31 January th 20 June 2019 Other Events PETS/DISTAS, District Conference RI Convention 1 to 5 June 2019 in Hamburg, Germany 2 C r o s s r o a d s

4 Report on First Meeting/Club Assembly for Rotary Year held on cont d. 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. VP Raj 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. VP Hassan 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. PP Dr Shahul 3 C r o s s r o a d s

5 Report on First Meeting/Club Assembly for Rotary Year held on cont d. 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 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 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 CSC Director Dr Rupesh 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 Hon Secretary Connie 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! 4 C r o s s r o a d s

6 Photo Album of First Meeting/Club Assembly on 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: PPs J K Ong, Rtns Kimio Somemiya, Yong Poh Shin, SAA Deblina, PP Peter, PDG Dr Philbert Chin, PP Mohan From left: Rtns Jayant Gadgil, Bertrand De Mil, Suresh Keerthi, Uttam Kripalani, Atul Merchant, Vivek Chhabra, Deepu Joseph From left: VP Raj, Rtn Peter Koh, CSC Director Dr Rupesh From left: Hon Secretary Connie, Rtn Joseph Chia & Hon Treasurer Horst From left: Directors Drs Hoh Sek Tien, Chan Siew Luen & VP Hassan 5 C r o s s r o a d s

7 REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE AIR FORCE BRIGADIER GENERAL GAURAV YODA KEERTHI BG Gaurav joined the Singapore Armed Forces in 1998 and attained his wings in 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 He was the Top Graduate (Air Force) of the 42 nd 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 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 and 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. 6 C r o s s r o a d s

8 Mark Your Diary Birthday Celebrants This Meeting Next Meeting RC sends best wishes to Birthday celebrants next week: Willi Hess Reinhard Klemmer S Mali Malaiappan Anniversary Celebrants RC sends best wishes to Wedding Anniversary celebrants this week: Uttam & Laxmi Kripalani Raj & Melanie Vaswani Vocational Service Meeting 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 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 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 Coming Rotary Events July 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 11 July Continuation of 1 st Club Assembly July Interact Leadership Training Camp August Membership and New Club Development Month September Basic Education and Literacy Month October Economic and Community Development Month October Help the Children Project in Malang and Batu, Indonesia 7 C r o s s r o a d s

9 The Four-Way Test Of the things we think, say or do: The Guide to Daily Living Is it the truth? Is it fair to all concerned? Will it build goodwill and better friendship? Will it be beneficial to all concerned? 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. BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2018/2019 President Immediate Past President President Elect Vice President (Public Relations) Vice President (Membership) Hon. Secretary (Administration) Hon. Treasurer (Finance) Mark Wang Keith Harrison Deepak Nagrani Hassan Moosa Rajkumar Perumal Suppiah Connie Ho Horst Hagemann Directors Chair, Community Service Chair, Vocational Service Chair, International Service Chair, New Generations Service Director (Club Rotary Foundation) Dr Rupesh Agrawal Ronil Sujan Dr Chan Siew Luen Dr Hoh Sek Tien Manish Tibrewal 8 C r o s s r o a d s