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1. Issue : 4 Volume : 32 25-07-2012 Pages -6
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MIDTOWN reach-out to.....FORHD
gathering. Mr. Shambiah, gave a brief report of
the foundation and he appealed to all the
philanthropic Rotarians to donate liberally for this
cause. On this occasion our club donated two big
aluminium utensils and also a rack to be used in
the kitchen. 27 pairs of black and white shoes
with socks were also given away. Sunshine box
was full with spontaneous donations which
exceeded Rs.5,000/- and the club administration
decided to give white uniforms to all the inmates,
S erving the humanity at their doorstep, as a response to their request.
which was started last year, continued this
year also. This year's chosen destination The highlight of the evening was the beautiful
was Makkala Mane, by FORHD (Foundation for cultural programme presented by the children,
Restoring Human Dignity), which is situated in which comprised of melodious patriotic songs
Kuvempunagar near ISKCON temple. This and dances. It was a beautiful evening indeed
foundation was started in 2004 for the children of with mouthwatering ‘Channa Bathura’ to go well
convicts, who become homeless and orphans with the occasion and the weather.
and are deprived of social justice. This
foundation started with 6 children and slowly The attendance was fairly good, but those who
increased to 27 now. Former DG Mr. missed really missed something. Don't worry,
Revannasiddiah, IPS is the chairman and you can still make it up by visiting FORHD
managing trustee and former DCP Mr. (Makkala Mane) at #1795, Udayaravi road,
Rangappa is the chairman of Mysore chapter. K.Block, Kuvempunagar, Mysore-23, Phone
2463000.
On Wednesday, 18th July, the meeting started
with an invocation by the inmates and the Kudos to Viswa and team. Keep up the pace.
president, Mr. R.S.Viswanath, welcomed the ........Nandoo
CARDIAC CAMP
C ardiac camp was held at RMA on
18th July. 8 Doctors from Cauvery
Fortis Heart Hospital screened
around 85 people which included parents of
students in RMA. President Vishwanath,
Club secretary Manoj,Rotarians Alagappan,
Gopal, Dr.Raghu, Pavithran, Balakrishnan,
Narendra Babu, M.S.Raghu, Ramki, Umesh
and Aiyanna were present to assist in the
activity.

2. THIRD EYE VIEW by sini
18th Wednesday was a full ‘Rotary Day’ with
cardiac camp in the morning, Interact club
installation in the afternoon and community
center visit in the evening. Rare birds, brimming
We would like to thank the management and sunshine box and great attendance at 'Makkala
staff of Cauvery Fortis Heart Hospital for Mane' shows the change in our members after
successfully conducting a ‘Heart Checkup the visit of Madurai's hero to our club. Board
Camp’ at Rotary Mid Town Academy. meeting, jolly trip or management class ? It was
I take this opportunity to thank our senior all rolled into one at Ooty. Travel was fun and
members Rtn. Balu and Rtn. Raghu for their zeal meeting was serious. M.S.Raghu, the charter
and enthusiasm in conducting consumer bird gave us insights into management by
awareness and career guidance programmes conducting games. The beginning month's
for the children in different schools. Thank you activities are over successfully and everybody in
both. the board seems to be charged and ready for the
coming month's projects. ‘Operation Khedda’
The first board meeting at Ooty was very was successful in roping Mohan for secretary’s
soothing and relaxing after a hectic installation. post for 2014-15. Congrats!
We deliberated a lot of issues in detail and would
like to thank all the board members and also our KAKA is no more. He came, he saw, he
guests Rtn. Kumar and Rtn. Raghu for making it conquered & he left. What did he take with him?
to Ooty. Only his name stands. Friends, we have a
lesson to learn here. Let us all do good things to
The team building exercise conducted by Raghu the community because that is the only
was great fun. Thank you Rtn. Raghu for the satisfaction and name which will be
innovative programme. Let's deliberate remembered when we are not there.
important issues in the business meet today. So far only good under the leadership of
towering inferno Vishwa.
Vishu Cheers!!!
MATCHING GRANT #75571
ur matching grant project ambulance
O to SGDM Trust, fully equipped and
one of its kind in Mysore has started
its service to the community. The first
run was on 25 April, 2012 with a 70 year old
female patient from Mission Hospital,
Mysore to Nimhans Hospital, Bangalore. Till
20 July, 2012 fourteen people have been
benefitted by it and our Rtn. Narendra Babu is
volunteering himself to create awareness to
all hospitals’ about the availability of
ambulance with ventilator facility.
Appreciating the efforts of Rotary Mysore
Midtown and also realising the worthiness
and need of such an ambulance the Deputy Commissioner of Mysore has requested our Rotarian to
park the ambulance during daytime at the Royal Palace premises which is in the center of the city so
that in case of emergency service can be extended at the earliest. Indeed this is a great honour to get a
place in the Royal Palace premises. This service to the community was possible because of the good
wishes and support of Rotarians from Rotary Horizon-Chandler USA, RI Dists. 5490/5500/5510.
Special thanks to Rtn. Jim Freeman for his presence at our club to do the honours of dedicating the
ambulance to the community. Our thanks to Rtn. Ramki, the man behind this matching grant project &
sincere appreciation to Rtn. Narendra Babu for his selfless service in promoting the ambulance to the
needy. May their tribe increase.

3. FUN UNLIMITED at OOTY
President Vishwa is a man with a difference - nobody will contend this
statement. But how he manages to do everything differently is BOARD MEETING
everybody's curiosity. This time it was board meeting at Ooty, which is UNBORED MEETING
going to be described. First board meeting, weekend, venue at Ooty, no
signs of rains in Mysore; all good reasons to escape from the monotony JOLLY MEETING
of daily routine and have some merry time and chill out. Even the Vice
president Bhanu, who initially gave reasons of busy
business schedules etc. to abstain from the trip, could not resist
the temptation and was the first at 'Manashanthi ' (Vishwa's
residence) where we all assembled to start our trip on Saturday
noon.
The journey started at 12 noon in four heavy vehicles
which belonged to four heavy- weights of Midtown. 15 members
including the board and guests, Kumaranna and Raghu mom,
started the journey. Enroute, the journey was interrupted manytimes for coffee, bhajji, and near
Gudalur we had our lunch- menu consisted of idlis, rottis, avarekal gojju, chutney, 2 non veg dishes
and not to forget the delicious mangoes from John's farm (we almost had mango toxicity in 32 hrs. of
the trip -thanks to Vishwa's obsession for mavinhannu). The convoy reached Ooty by 6 p.m and the
stay was at Fernhill Resorts – again Vishwa made this arrangement through his Timeshare Sterling
membership. 3 cottages each with a capacity of 6 members were hired. After a brief relaxation and
freshening up it was time to assemble for board meeting.
BOARD EATING
It was a marathon board meeting which lasted
nearly 2 hours and as the heat in the meeting itself was sufficiently
high we did not feel the necessity for a bonfire. After the meeting, the
members dispersed for dinner where the spread was sumptuous
and scrumptious. The Golden Motte of Midtown, Venky hosted the
dinner and the breakfast on Sunday and no words to describe his
large heartedness. When we returned to our cottages Thana Mohan
had entertainment for the members in his laptop by his collection of

4. amazing videos.
BOARD GAMING Whether it is Sunday, or it is Ooty, Vishwa does
not allow people to sleep after 6 in the morning. He
wakes up everybody for a morning walk. IPP Raaghu
says Vishwa suffers from insomnia as he is 50+. It
was chilling cold outside and whole of Ooty was
sleeping and Vishwa managed to pull up everybody
for the walk and the lady in the teashop outside the
resort started abusing when she could not manage.
8 a.m, it was time for breakfast and again everybody
enjoyed from bread toasts to masala omelettes to
puri bhaji, parathas etc.
After breakfast, Sundar, Raaghu and co.
wanted to go for the second round of nap but Vishwa
had other ideas. It was time for some games
exclusively designed for the board members by none
other than motivational guru of MT Raghu moms.
The three games we played were hilarious and
carried some message to take home. It was all about
communication, doing a project in an orderly way –all
important for the board members to conduct the
activities of the club in the coming year. After the
games, the golfers of the group separated for a round
of golf. Tennis enthusiasts had a round of tennis.
It was 2 p.m and time to check out. After a final
BOARD OPERATION KHEDDA
round of mangoes( 6th round! ), we started
off back to Mysore. Lunch was at a Chinese
restaurant and with some shopping of
handmade chocolates, broccoli, carrots
etc., the convoy returned back. Coffee and
bhajji was enroute (Sundar had only 5). The
finances and infrastructure of the trip was
excellently managed by the club service
director Umesh. Personally, had a great
weekend and was refreshening.
PEACE TEAM
...Dr. Prahlad
A nnet Manu Bharath, son of Rtn. Harish
and Amitha has earned his colours to fly
abroad for his Masters in Management at
Essec University, Paris which is one of the top
five B schools. Admission criteria is a herculean
Rtn. Narasimha and Nagamani doing her
Masters. She did her bachelors in computer
science at NIE, Mysore. She left India on 19th
July to realize her dream which is a 1 ½ year
course.
task and only 8 students have been selected from
India for Essec this year. Like father like son. NO! Masters in Transportation Engineering. Anybody
Better than father. heard of that? That is what Rtn. Srivatsa &
Sheela's son, Annet Shreyas is pursuing at
Rtn. Narendra & Meera's son, Annet Sumukh is in University of North Carolina, USA. We will have a
pursuit of his Masters in Embedded Systems at qualified engineer amongst us in 2 years' time
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. which is the duration of the course. He did his BE
He did his BE in Electronics and Communication in civil engineering from NIE, Mysore. He has
at JCE, Mysore. It is a 2 ½ years course and he is already left for his study destination.
flying on 20th August.
Department of Information System, Nanyang oo d A+
Technological University, Singapore. That is V.g
where you will find Annet Jyothsna, daughter of

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Sitting from L to R: Pramitha Ramesh, Rtn. Dr. Raghu, Mr. Sunny Francis - Dean C T
of Academics, Rtn. R.S.Vishwanath-President Rotary Mysore Midtown, Rtn.
Manojkumar-Club secretary, Rtn. Raju Baliga-Director youth service. L I
Standing from L to R: Sagar Philip , Jerry Wilson, Daniel Robin, Vinay Swami ,
Nathash Betts , Vaibhav Singh, Miss. Mamatha, Emilda, Sabha Naz, Raksha,
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activities.
Gopikas @ Udupi We foursome Midtowners (PDC Chandrika
Raghu, President Anupama Ravindranath,
Anuradha and myself) traveled the long 8 hours
journey from Mysore to Udupi and beating the
heavy downpour made it to the abode of Udupi
Krishna for his 'darshan'. Chandrika Raghu who
is always young at heart and playful like a
teenager, was reminded by her age to take care
of her body which caused a little imbalance. Due
to her ill-health we had to leave the assembly
midway and start for Mysore. Leaving the wet
Malnad behind, we arrived at dry Mysore at 9
p.m, and reached Mrs. Chandrika safely to her
husband Rtn. Raghu who was anxiously waiting
Humidity is the identity of Udupi, and on 22nd
July, amongst perspiration and torrential rains,
the 43rd District Assembly of IW 318, “Sneha
Sinchana”, was held at Ananthashayana Hall,
Hotel Kediyoor, Udupi. Association President
for IW clubs of India, Mrs. Sarita Lunani
inaugurated the event by churning butter for
Lord Krishna of Udupi. “Rukmini” alias Mrs.
Suma Krishna was installed as the District
Chairman for the year 2012-13. The “Chutuku”
queen introduced her team members with
humorous, rhyming “Chutukugalu”. Mrs. Sarita for her. Humid weather, good darshan of Lord
Lunani, coming from a traditional, conservative Krishna through the 'Kanakana Kindi'
and huge Marwari joint family, inspired the IW (nevertheless we were fully drenched in rain),
members with her own story of how she grand installation ceremony, safe and timely
introduced her mother-in-law to IW, handled return was the experience of the Udupi trip.
family pressures and devoted her time to IW ....Lavanya

6. T he Rotary Foundation inducted five
couples from India into the Arch C.
Klumph Society on 19 June. The
society honors those who give at least
US$250,000 to the Foundation. Attendees
at the ceremony, held at Rotary
International World Headquarters in the Rotary Club of Bombay West and a past
Evanston, included the consul general of district governor.
India in Chicago, Mukta Tomar, and several
Rotary senior leaders with their spouses. 2. Sudhansu and Mina Bhattacharyya -
India is the second-largest Rotary country in member of the Rotary Club of Bombay
the world, with more than 121,000 Central.
Rotarians. “As we induct our friends as 3. Habil F. and Nafisa Khorakiwala -
members of the Arch C. Klumph Society, we member of the Rotary Club of Bombay
salute their generosity in putting India North.
among the top-giving nations to The Rotary
Foundation,” said Foundation Trustee 4. Rajju and Sandra Shroff - members of
Ashok Mahajan. the Rotary Club of Vapi.
The members inducted are : 5. Surya and Foram Varsani - member of the
Rotary Club of Victoria, Mahé, Seychelles.
1. Sajjan and Chanda Goenka - member of
R Take a five-letter sign on a
certain door, remove its first
letter, and you’ll have a
word meaning SIGN.
Remove the new word’s first
letter and it's a sign on the
nearby door. Find all three words.
H A PPY
BIRTHDAY
Rtn.M.N.Bheemesh
26/07/2012
Rtn.Narendra Babu
31/07/2012
(Correct answer wins a prize.
E-mail your answer at mallige3180@gmail.com)
Rtn.Dr.Raghu
31/07/2012
In Brief
Mrs. Vanitha Bhat, principal of RMA has Today’s tea host
donated one computer to the school for
students’ benefit. Rtn.P.Sanjay
Rtn. Balakrishnan conducted consumer
awareness programme at Bagini Seva
Samaj on 20th July 2012.
1. Is it the TRUTH ?
Rtn. M.S.Raghu conducted career 2. Is it FAIR to all concerned ?
guidance programme for the students of 3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS ?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned ?
RMA on 21st July 2012
Q uiz
NEXT WEEK IN MIDTOWN Q.: Rotary celebrated 100 years of
SPEAKER MEET service in the year ________.
Venue: RCL Hall, JLB Road, Mysore a) 2004 b) 2005 c) 2006 d) 2007
Date : 01.08.2012, Time : 6.30pm (Last week’s answer : Birmingham )