1. Vol 19 Number 3 SELAMAT PAGI 24 July 2010
Rotary Information
Benefits of Attendance
• Fosters fellowship
among club members
• Provides opportunities
to meet new people and reconnect
with long-time friends Highlights of activities of the REF for RY2009-10
• Keeps you current in club, district The REF has achieved its programme goals for the Rotary year 2009-10.
and Rotary International news and Since its official launch on 14 November 2009, the REF has already to date
events raised well over RM150K in funding. It has begun financing 15 students
under its financial assistance programme. Three students (of the 15 above)
Attendance requirement are currently funded by designated sponsors under the Sponsor-a-Student
Programme. The REF trained 38 mentors in January 2010 comprising
As explained in the Standard Rotary Rotarians and volunteers from the public. Twenty-four mentors have been
Club Constitution each member deployed to date, of whom 17 are Rotarians and 7 are non-Rotarian
needs to meet the following volunteers. The REF has also successfully organized a 4-day/3-night
requirements: Leadership Training Camp on 15-18 March 2010 and a 2-day Values
Education Workshop on 8-9 June 2010, for about 50 students. The first
• Attend or make up at 50% of your quarterly Mentor Group Support Meeting among mentors/future mentors
Rotary club meetings in each half
was held on 12 April 2010.
of the year
Besides the above, the REF has received recognition by featuring on the
• Attend at least 30% of your club's
8pm NTV7 News on 29April2010 and has won several Rotary District
meetings in each half of the year
Service Awards for 2009-2010. Donors can also now donate to the REF via
Attendance for a meeting CIMB Bank internet banking through the “CIMB Cares” community service
portal.
You should be present for at least
60% of a club meeting for it to count Challenges Ahead
towards the attendance's
requirement The challenges for the REF in the near term are:
Missed a meeting? • Members continued support and enthusiasm
You can make up 14 days before or • Increasing the mentor pool &
after the meeting you have missed supporting non-Rotarian mentors
by attending:
• Ensuring regularity of mentor visits
• a Rotaract or Interact club meeting and quality of mentoring
• a regular meeting of another club • Fund Raising
• a club project or a district event • Spreading the REF model to other
interested organisations –
• a board meeting or, if authorized replicability & scalability
by the board, a meeting of a service Interviewing potential candidate
committee to which the member is
assigned By PP YL Yee

2. ATTENDANCE LAST WEEK’S MEETING
Visiting Rotarian: 17 July 2010
AG Mani Raja, RC Bandar Sunway
Guests:
Koh Wing Cheong, guest of James
Mun Peck Pei, guest of James
Rtyann Kim, guest of Kong
Nancy Ong (volunteer mentor) Last week, a batch of REF awardees were given their certificates by
Samuel Lock, HELP University President Tan Poay Lim. The awardees were given financial assistance of
RM150 per month. The students can spend the amount on school fees,
Attendance: 67% Fines: Nil transport to school, canteen food, tuition, school uniform, books and other
education related expenses. This occasion also marked the first time the
new REF pledge was read by awardees. The awardees that took the
pledge were:
Announcements
1. Yee Voon Hoe of SMK Sri Permata, Petaling Jaya
President's Announcements: 2. Kannan Manogaran of SMK LaSalle Brickfields, KL
- There will be a Group 7 Intercity 3. Siong Chye Soon of SMK Taman SEA, Petaling Jaya
meeting on 17 August'10.
4. Harshini Pannir Selvam of SMK Bukit Bandaraya, Bangsar, KL
- Next week's speaker is Ms Freda Liu
from BFM. The REF Awardee Pledge reads as follows:
- 2 teams from the Interact club, SMK As a recipient of the Education Assistance Award of the Rotary Club of
Sri Hartamas will be participating in Bukit Kiara Sunrise Education Fund, in the presence of everyone here
the Interact Quiz on 25 July'10. today, I, _________________________________ promise that I will fulfill all
the obligations of the Award. I also promise that I will help myself by taking
- Need 6 volunteers to assist at the personal responsibility for my actions and for my future, and that I will do
Math Marathon organized by HELP this always with a concern for the well-being of others.
University on 10 August'10. Pls see
Graham for more info. I understand that how much I gain from this Award depends on how much
effort I put into my education. I further promise at all times, to conduct
- Members are encouraged to attend
myself honestly, to work hard and to be a person of good behavior in order
the TRF Seminar on 1 August'10.
to become an outstanding student and a useful member of society.
District Officers
RY 2010/2011
PP Graham Bennett
Special Membership Group -
Membership Development
Retention & Extension
PP Dr Kong Voon Sin
The Rotary Foundation Training -
Committee member
Service Committees RY 2010/2011
Club Service Community Service Vocational Service International Service New Generation Membership
Karen Angie Yau Thomas Ghaurry James Cheong
Abdul Ann Jeremy Ee Lay Graham CY
Cecelia Alvin Niklas Frankie Sunny Frances
James Lau Elsie Sanjay Grant Susan Steve
Siew Hwa Fang Keong Teng Yoong Kong Susanne
Yoke Leong Paul

3. Today's Programme NEXT CHANGE
Ms Freda Liu 31 July(Sat) 7.30am
'Malaysia, Machines, Modulations - Business meeting
you can do many things in life all at the same time!'
7 August (Sat) 7.30am
Speaker: Tbc
Member's Contribution
Membership Development &
Retention Seminar CALENDER of EVENTS
18 July 2010
Interact Club Installation/IU Day
14 members from all the Penang Rotary clubs attended the Date: 31 July 2010
membership seminar last Sunday. The difference this year was that rather than Venue: KDU, Bandar Utama
be a presentation, the seminar was a round table discussion on membership
development. The discussion focused on what was successful in 2009 and what District Governor's Official Visit
we should do differently in the coming Rotary year. Clubs in Malaysia outside KL Date: 28 August 2010
have difficulty attracting quality speakers due to distance and the local availability
of suitable speakers. It was decided that once a quarter these clubs would get President's Fellowship
together and try to get a very good speaker and make a concerted effort to ask as Date: 25 September 2010
many guests as possible. One club organised public seminar and attracted 150
people to attend from the local community but did not follow up so the opportunity
was wasted. There are very few female members in our sister clubs in the North. DISTRICT EVENTS
From the membership perspective I am pleased to report that we have obtained
a full page editorial in “The Expat” August issue which might assist in attracting The Rotary Foundation Seminar
more expat members.” ..... by Graham Bennett Date: 1 August 2010
Venue: De Villa Residence, Ampang
Host club: RC KL Di-Raja
e-NEWS Public Relations Workshop
Date: 14 August 2010
Venue: Royal Commonwealth Club
Rotary: Is it Time for a Re-Read? Host club: RC Central Damansara
”There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. 76th District 3300 Conference
That will be the beginning.” Date: 10 - 12 December 2010
-Louis L’Amour, Lonely on the Mountain Venue: Concorde Hotel, KL
Host club: RC Pudu
English was not my father’s first language. And like a lot of second language
learners, he was an avid reader. He especially liked Conrad and Melville and
read their bodies of work not once but several times during his life. As a young
man, it was not uncommon for him to drop my mother off at her home after a
date and head for a neighborhood diner, book in hand, to read and drink coffee Duty Roster
until the night waitress closed up and shooed him home. Later in life, he added
Louis L’Amour westerns to his list of favorites. One of the simple and great 24 July (Community Service)
pleasures of his day was to settle into a comfortable chair in the evening to
revisit a favorite read for a second or third time - or more. Sargeant-at-arms Elsie
Desk Duty Ann
Why did he prefer to re-read, rather than switch to something new? His Introducer Angie
answer, like him, was straightforward but not necessarily simple: it was a good Thank Speaker Fang Keong
book the last time, and he got something new from a book every time he read Fines Alvin
it. Lately it’s occurred to me that my father got something new out of old favorites
in part because his insights changed with his life experience. The books weren’t
different but what he brought to them each time was. 31 July (International Service)
As we enter a new Rotary year, let's think about what we each bring to our Sargeant-at-arms Frankie
Rotary experience, both individually as Rotarians and collectively in our Desk Duty Ee Lay
clubs. Beginning a new year brings with it an opportunity for all of us to take a Introducer -
“new read” on Rotary and on our clubs. Are we truly bringing new perspectives to Thank Speaker -
Service Above Self? Or are we operating from perspectives we’ve always held? Fines Kong
Maybe it’s time for a re-read. To gain something new from being a Rotarian by
bringing something new to the experience. And like my father reading in the
neighborhood diner, we can change our local perspectives and open ourselves Visit our Blog @
up to a whole new world of possibilities. http:// rotaryclubbks.
blogspot.com
.... excerpt from RC Kirksville, Missouri newsletter

4. Around the
Board of Directors 2010/11 Rotary World
President
Tan Poay Lim On World Water Day in 2009,
77277127(O) Rotary International launched an
alliance with USAID to implement
President Elect long-term water, sanitation, and
Steve Robinson hygiene projects in the
+66818336310 (BK) Dominican Republic, Ghana, and
the Philippines.
Immediate Past President
Rotary club and district water
Frances Po
projects worldwide:
21731618(O)
• 36 clubs in District 9210 (Malawi; parts of Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe)
Vice President have 86 ongoing or recently completed projects to provide wells, water storage
Alvin Tan and purification, irrigation, and toilets for improved sanitation. These projects are
77275822(O) mostly at schools, clinics, or homes for children or the elderly.
• Rotarians in District 3160 (India) handed out water filters to schools in seven
Honorary Secretary villages after flash floods in October polluted wells, causing high alkaline levels.
Ghaurry • In the Dominican Republic, members of 120 Canadian, Caribbean, and US
23003757(O) Rotary clubs have helped bring 19,000 bio-sand filters to homes, schools, and
clinics in 300 communities, providing clean water to 100,000 people. The filters,
Honorary Treasurer which cost about US$60, can reduce the incidence of pediatric diarrhea by up to
PP Sunny Khoo 45 percent.
22849089(O) • Since 2006, Rotary clubs in Canada, Ghana, Switzerland, and the US have
worked with the Ghana Health Service and the U.S.-based Carter Center to drill
Club Administration boreholes and install wells in more than 75 towns and villages in Ghana, greatly
PP Karen Chong reducing the incidence of waterborne diseases nationwide. The cases of Guinea
012-2893380 worm have dropped from 4,136 in 2006 to 242 in 2009. ·
• Rotarians from districts 1620 and 2170 (Belgium) have collaborated with Rotary
Service Projects clubs in District 9100 (West Africa) since 2005 to support a water project that is
PP Graham Bennett benefiting 20,000 residents in Niger’s Tchin-Tabaraden area. 80 clubs from the
012-2918619 Belgian districts contributed more than •370,000 (US$503,000), with additional
support from two Rotary Foundation Matching Grants. Eighteen wells were
The Rotary Foundation renovated and two new ones drilled for health centers and schools. Toilets were
PP Jeremy Ng built for seven schools and three health clinics.
012-2186660
Membership Development District 3300 Sister Clubs
James Cheong
78803333(O) District Governor K B Lim RC Bugis Junction [D 3310]
03-21630292(O) Saturday, 08:00 am
New Generation limakbmy@gmail.com Hotel Inter-Continental
Ghaurry 80 Middle Road, Singapore
23003757(O) Assistant Governor Mani Raja
03-79805529(0) 03-79813514(Fax) RC ChiangmaiThinthaingam[D 3360]
REF Chairman Thursday, 12.00 noon
PP Dr Yee Yoke Leong International Center
22824602(O) Rotary Clubs in Group 7 Chiangmai University, Thailand
Bandar Sunway
Bernam Valley
Bulletin Committee Bukit Kiara Sunrise
RC Chungli Chung Shing [D 3500]
Thursday, 12.00 noon
Kong (Editor) Karen (Production) Danau Desa No 4, Ln 10, Gwo-Ti Street
Abdul/Kong (Speakers Programme) Petaling Jaya Chungli, Taiwan