July 11, 2013

July 11, 2013 Regular Weekly Meeting

- PROGRAM -

12:00-1:00 P.M.                                    -          LUNCH / FELLOWSHIP

1:00 PM CALL TO ORDER            -          PRES. THERESE  MONTECER

INVOCATION                                       -          RTN. BENNY PE

NATIONAL ANTHEM                     -          DAY CHAIRMAN

4-WAY TEST                                          -          PP NONI TOPACIO

INTRODUCTION OF VISITING

ROTARIANS AND GUESTS          -           DAY CHAIRMAN

COMMUNITY SINGING                 -          PP NOEL MESINA

RECOGNITION TIME                      -          DAY CHAIRMAN

CHARGING OF NEW MEMBERS   -       AG GINA SANCHEZ

INDUCTION OF NEW MEMBERS  -     PRES. THERESE MONTECER

INTRO. OF GUEST SPEAKER         -       PRES. THERESE MONTECER

SPEECH OF GUEST SPEAKER    -          MR. JONATHAN CHUA

 

SECRETARY’S TIME                        -          PP JOVIE SISON

PRESIDENT’S TIME                          -         PRES. THERESE MONTECER

ADJOURNMENT                                -           PRES. THERESE MONTECER

Pres. Therese Montecer

DAY CHAIRMAN

FIRST CLASS PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE:

The first Rotary meeting last week for 2013-2014 was a good start. I hope this is not because of the bday celebrations of Papa Ver Farcon and yours truly but because we always look forward to Rotary meetings on Thursdays. I hope to see our other members who have not attended lately with special mention to TRF Director, PP Jimmy Ortigas, PP EG Lim, Rotarian Ompong Ordanes and PP Noel Mesina. as the saying goes, " Absence makes the heart go fonder "

I would like to thank our dear PDG Pepe Peralta and AG Gina Sanchez for being the " First Donors of TRF " This is truly " Engaging and Leading Rotary" We hope that our other generous Rotary members who made their commitment for TRF will do the same on our Induction Night.

We would like to acknowledge Our Club Service Director FDG Benny Pe for continuing the signature project of RCSJ " Wow City Harvest" The first donations of frozen meat, sandwiches, etc will serve as our " good luck" for this year. Thank you too to IPP Jojo and Sec PP Jovy for taking charge to get the donations.

The presence of our partner Interact and Rotaract officers for the new Rotary year is also good news. When the Presidents were given the chance to mention a few of their club plans, they were very candid and personal in voicing out their requests to RCSJ. We will take note and see how we will be able to help them in our own little way thus, changing and improving the communities we serve.

I am glad to know that majority of our members are starting to view our "E bulletin for RCSJ" and getting involved by posting their different views on certain aspects like club administration, invitation of guest speakers, topics for discussion etc. Thanks to Sec. Jovy for the "techie contribution" to the Club. To those who pledged to continue their support to our weekly bulletin thank you for your generosity.

Engage Rotary... Change lives!

Pres. Therese Montecer

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Secretary’s Corner_07112013

The re-scheduled Induction of new members happens today! We hope the inductees show up. They are Nani Madrasto, Gigi Rodriguez, and Sam Allege. AG Gina Sanchez will again set-up her materials for ‘Charging’ the candidates for membership.

PE Rose Caoc will also submit to AG Rueben Jarvina a hard-copy of our Club’s 2013-14 Plans and Programs as required for our coming Governor’s Visit on July 25. We hope all members have had their new uniforms made already.

Momentum is underway in our campaign to get at least 100 attendees for our October 12 Financial Literacy Seminar. We have made our ‘sales pitch’ last week in the presence of visiting Rotarians PDG Jun  Farcon, CP Manny Reyes, and PP Rick Yu in the hope that they will help us endorse our seminar to fellow members in their respective Rotary Clubs.

Thank you Pres. Tehrese Montecer and Papa Ver Farcon for last week’s birthday blow-out.

IPP Jojo Bacarro and I attended to the Wow City Harvest Project last Thursday where we picked-up bread and frozen meat from FDG Benny Pe’s residence and delivered the bread to the DSWD of San Juan City. The meats were temporarily stored in San Juan City Mayor’s freezer.

Wanted Sponsors! Our Weekly Pinaglabanan Bulletin is still “nude” and needs a cover. We need advertisers (sponsors) to defray cost of printing one-year’s supply of bulletin covers. Please help.

Cheers and enjoy Rotary J

Sec./PP Jovie

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Old Challenges Revived

New RI President Ron Burton has a beautiful message in the opening month of his term. It is well written obviously emanating from good thoughts. It is suggested every member read the message as published in last week’s issue of the Pinaglabanan Bulletin. It may be worthwhile for it to be republished in the bulletin on July 25 when the District Governor visits and graces our Induction meeting.

The other ideas proposed herein refers to two items of the Presidential Citation Program under the subsection Additional Activities falling under Promote Membership Growth, thusly :

-  Adopt a program for the leadership development of all members ......;
-  Encourage member engagement by ensuring that every member has
   participated in at least one service activity and one club social activity.

The above items are not new challenges. Thus they are pointed out not because the Club has not done anything in these directions. Actually these have been done unconsciously and at random The leadership development objective is one which deserves positive action. It used to be that presidents had serve as an officer as treasurer, secretary, or vice president or as avenue director. That way the president as he assumes office has good inkling of what needs to be done and which member to appoint for a particular committee or project. As it is now, the immediate past presidents pulls the incumbent through the new term. Theoretically, the immediate past president looks at the following RY as ‘restful” or move on to have district affairs responsibilities.

The other concern is equally worth looking at closely. By implementing this approach, it presents the new member opportunity to know better the running of projects and therefore moves towards being a club leader.  The other benefit for the new member is to imbibe in the fellowship of the club especially now that it is as strong as ever. A listing of members needing to be exposed in at least one service activity and social activity is recommended and then monitored..  This is another and effective way for members to feel part of the group and not just through fulfilling their financial obligations and attendance requirements.

PP Tony Abola

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