SILAG 1st Issue July 16, 2016 (Flip)

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 3800
OFFICIAL WEEKLY BULLETIN OF THE ROTARY CLUB OF MARIKINA EAST
Chartered May 25, 1993, No. 29495
Vol. 24 No. 1 Marikina City, Philippines July 16, 2016
RI PRESIDENT 2016-17
John F. Germ

1st REGULAR MEETING
July 16, 2016, 8:30 pm
Kainan sa Bahay Bahayan
Sumulong Highway, Antipolo City
Call to Order
Invocation
National Anthem
Rotary Pledge/ 4 Way Test
Welcome/Introduction of Guests
Finest Hour/Recognition Tme
Community Singing
Other Matters
Treasurer’s Report
Secretary’s Reminders
President’s Report
Adjournment
Fellowship
Programme
Pres. Boyet Rodriguez
Rtn. Nomer Castello
Rtn. Maurice Valenton
Rtn. Ramon Ancaje
PP Ric Nicolas
PP Joanne Felix
Rtn. Joey Mercado
Any Rotarians
PP Ellen Bonifacio
PE/Sec. Raquel Rivera
Pres. Boyet Rodriguez
Pres. Boyet Rodriguez
Night Chairman: Pres. Boyet Rodriguez
2nd REGULAR MEETING
July 23, 2016, 8:30 pm
Kainan sa Bahay Bahayan
Sumulong Highway, Antipolo City
Programme
Call to Order
Pres. Boyet Rodriguez
Invocation
Dir. Emily Tiozon
National Anthem
Rtn. Ruby Santos
Rotary Pledge/ 4 Way Test
Dir. Reggie Gloria
Welcome/Introduction of Guests PP Ramir Tiamzon
Finest Hour/Recognition
PP Nante Santos
Community
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Singing
PP Ferdie Jaraza
Other Matters
Any Rotarians
Treasurer’s Report
PP Ellen Bonifacio
Secretary’s Reminders
PE/Sec. Raquel Rivera
President’s Report
Pres. Boyet Rodriguez
Adjournment
Pres. Boyet Rodriguez
Fellowship
Night Chairman: Pres. Boyet Rodriguez
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President’s Message
By Pres. Teofilo Rodriguez
Greetings fellow Rotarians.
Happy New Year!
It’s another Rotary year, a fresh start of another year of service. Let’s
all welcome this new Rotary year as a new opportunity and more
eagerness to serve.
It’s now time to implement all that we’ve learned and look forward to be
felt more by our own community. And as we start the month of service,
let’s continue the same energy and perseverance as the previous
Rotary year.
I would like to take this opportunity to encourage everybody to support
our club activities, be involved in all its undertakings and observe the
importance of harmonious relationship, by understanding & helping
each other.
Throughr every member’s cooperation, I am optimistic that as one, we
can carry on in achieving our goals for a better Rotary year.
May God guide us, may all our visions materialize and may we always
be a Rotarian Serving Humanity.
Teofilo “Boyet” Rodriguez
President
“ROTARY SERVING HUMANITY”
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PresidentIAL MESSAGE
John F. Germ
President 2016-17
July 2016
Today, we look ahead toward a Rotary year that may one day be known as the
greatest in our history: the year that sees the world's last case of polio. Wild
poliovirus caused only 74 cases of polio in 2015, all of them in Afghanistan and
Pakistan. As we continue to work tirelessly toward our goal of eradication, we
must also look beyond it: preparing to leverage our success into even greater
successes to come.
It is tremendously important to Rotary's future that our role in the eradication of
polio be recognized. The more we are known for what we've achieved, the more
we'll be able to attract the partners, the funding, and, most important, the members
to achieve even more. We're working hard at RI headquarters to be sure
that Rotary gets that recognition. But it can't all happen in Evanston. We need
you to get the word out through your clubs and in your communities about what
Rotary is and what we do. We need to be sure that our clubs are ready for the
moment when polio is finally eradicated – so that when people who want to do
good see that Rotary is a place where they can change the world, every Rotary
club is ready to give them that opportunity.
We know that if we want to see Rotary Serving Humanity even better in the years
ahead, we'll need more willing hands, more caring hearts, and more bright minds
to move our work forward. We'll need clubs that are flexible, so that Rotary service
will be attractive to younger members, recent retirees, and working people.
We'll need to seek out new partnerships, opening ourselves more to collaborative
relationships with other organizations.
Looking ahead, we also see a clear need to prioritize continuity in our leadership.
We in Rotary are all playing on the same team, working toward the same goals.
If we want to reach those goals together, we all have to move in the same direction
– together.
Every day that you serve in Rotary, you have the opportunity to change lives.
Everything you do matters; every good work makes the world better for us all.
In this new Rotary year, we all have a new chance to change the world for the
better, through Rotary Serving Humanity.
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Treasurer’s Report
By PP Ellen Bonifacio
Your Financial Obligations
(All amounts are effective as of July 1, 2016)
Fulfilling the financial obligations of membership is an important part of being
a member of the Rotary Club of Marikina East. Below is a list of the financial
obligations of club membership:
Club Dues:
The New Club Annual Dues to be collected from every member of the club for RY
2016-17 shall be Twelve Thousand Pesos (P12,000.00) to cover for the Mandatory
Dues (P8,000.00) and The Rotary Foundation (P 4,000.00) to cover the Yearly giving
to RI of $ 100.00/member The Every Rotarian, Every Year (EREY) Campaign.
The Annual Dues is payable in full (P 12,000), semi-annual (P 6,000), Three (3)
quarterly (P 4,000) or monthly (P 1,333.33) payment plan, whichever is most
convenient for you or your company and shall be due as follows:
Quarterly Months Amount RI Due Dates Club Due Dates
1st July-Sept. P 4,000.00 July 1, 2016 On or before July 2016
2 nd Oct.-Dec. P 4,000.00 On or before Sept. 2016
3 rd Jan.-Mar. P 4,000.00 Jan. 1, 2017 On or before Jan. 2017
To provide an easy and painless method of supporting the foundation, the Rotary
Club of Marikina East allow members to pay P 4,000.00 as part of the Club Annual
dues. Club members become Rotary Foundation (TRF) Sustaining Member once a
minimum of $100 annually is contributed in their name to TRF.
Mandatory RI Dues include:
a. 1 st Semi Annual Dues of $ 28.00 (P 47:$1) P 1,316.00
b. Council on Legislation of $1.50 (July SAR) invoice 70.50
c. District Governor’s Fund of P 600.00 600.00
d. Philippine Rotary Magazine Subscription (Annual) 540.00
e. 2 nd Semi Annual Dues of $ 28.00 (P *48:$1) 1,344.00
f. Paul Harris Sustaining Member of $100 (P 48:$1) 4,800.00
g. Operation of the Club P 3,329.50
Total - P 12,000.00
* Estimated Exchange Rate
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No.
Treasurer’s Report
By PP Ellen Bonifacio
STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT
ROTARY YEAR 2016-2017
As of July 15, 2016
CLUB DUES
NAME 1st 2nd 3rd TOTAL
4,000 4,000 4,000 PAYMENT
1 Abellar, Jun -
2 Abellar, Nora -
3 Ancaja, Ramon -
4 Banzon, Jojo 4,000 4,000 4,000 12,000
5 Bernardino, Tess 4,000 4,000
6 Bonifacio, Ellen 4,000 4,000
7 Nomer Castello -
8 Lorna Cosep -
9 Cynthia DG Cruz 4,000 4,000
10 Mary Jane Z. dela Rosa -
11 Armando F. Ezpeleta -
12 Ma. Luisa Joanne VC Felix -
13 Armand Galindo -
14 Regina Gloria 4,000 4,000
15 Arsenio Nicanor J. Hechanova -
16 Rey Ferdinand M. Jaraza -
17 Analyn Mendiola-Lim -
18 Jose J. Mercado -
19 Ricardo Q. Nicolas -
20 Ma. Socorro A. Ramirez 4,000 4,000
21 Raquel T. Rivera 4,000 4,000
22 Teofilo M. Rodriguez -
23 Renato V. Santos 4,000 4,000 4,000 12,000
24 Ruby R. Santos -
25 Ramiro J. Tiamzon -
26 Emily M. Tiozon -
27 Richie Valenton -
TOTAL 32,000 8,000 8,000 48,000
TRF PAYMENT: $300 (P14100) - PP Jojo Banzon
Reminders: Please!
1. Start paying your dues and other unpaid obligations.
2. Make pledges to the TRF/Polio Project
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Secretary’s Report
By PE/SEC. Raquel Rivera
SAVE THE DATE & GET INVOLVED
JULY
Start of new Rotary officers’ year of service
2 July - No Meeting in lieu of 2016 District Handover, Crowne Plaza, 6:00 pm,
Attire: Men - Barong, Ladies Filipiniana
8-9 July - No Meeting in lieu of Trip/attendance of RC Midtown Iloilo (Sister Club) Charter
Anniversary Celebration, Iloilo City.
16 July - 1st Regular Club Meeting, Kainan sa Bahay Bahayan
18 July - Cluster 4 Grand Induction & Fellowship, Marikina Convention Center
23 July - 2nd Regular Club Meeting, Kainan sa Bahay Bahayan
29 July - Board of Directors (BOD) Meeting, Venue and Time: TBA
30 July - 3rd Regular Club Meeting and Spouse Night, Kainan sa Bahay Bahayan
AUGUST
Membership and New Club Development Month
6 August - 4th Regular Club Meeting, Kainan sa Bahay Bahayan
13 August - 5th Regular Club Meeting, Kainan sa Bahay Bahayan
20 August - 6th Regular Club Meeting, Kainan sa Bahay Bahayan
26 August - Board of Directors (BOD) Meeting, Venue and Time: TBA
27 August - 7th Regular Club Meeting and Spouse Night, Kainan sa Bahay Bahayan
JULY
Birthday Celebrants
July 1 - PP Ferdie Jaraza
July 11 - Sps. Rolly Cruz
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KNOW THE NEW
RI President
John F. Germ
President 2016-17
Rotary Club of Chattanooga
Tennessee, USA
John F. Germ is board chair and chief executive officer of Campbell and
Associates Inc., consulting engineers. He joined the firm as an engineer
in 1965 after four years in the U.S. Air Force. He serves on the boards of
several organizations, including the board and executive committee of the
Public Education Foundation, Orange Grove Center Inc., and as board chair
of Blood Assurance Inc. He also is founder and treasurer of the Chattanooga
State Technical Community College Foundation and president of the Tennessee
Jaycee Foundation.
He was Tennessee Young Man of the Year in 1970; Engineer of the Year,
1986; Volunteer Fundraiser of the Year, 1992; and Tennessee Community Organizations
Volunteer of the Year, 2009. He is a recipient of the Boy Scouts
Silver Beaver Award and the Arthritis Foundation Circle of Hope Award. In
2013, the White House recognized him as a Champion of Change.
Germ joined Rotary in 1976 and has served Rotary as vice president, director,
Foundation trustee and vice chair, aide to the Foundation trustee chair,
chair of Rotary’s US$200 Million Challenge, RI Board Executive Committee
member, RI president’s aide, Council on Legislation representative and chair,
membership zone coordinator, chair of numerous committees, area coordinator,
RI training leader, and district governor.
Germ has received RI’s Service Above Self Award and The Rotary Foundation’s
Citation for Meritorious Service and Distinguished Service Award. He
and his wife, Judy, are Benefactors and members of the Arch Klumph Society
of The Rotary Foundation. They have four children and six grandchildren.
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CLUB PLANNING SESSION
June 25, 2016
Alexa’s Secret Garden
Brgy. Cupang, Antipolo City
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DISTRICT HANDOVER 2016
July 2, 2016
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Mandaluyong City
Photos: AG Cynthia Cruz

May 2016 | A roundup of Rotary news
PASSING THE BATON
LEADER
A strong succession plan ensures that your impact as a leader will continue
beyond your term. During your year in office, you’ve developed strategies for
achieving your goals. But as 1 July approaches, your impact on your club, district,
and zone will be enhanced if you focus less on the achievements you’ve
made and more on working with your successors — as well as your predecessor
— to build on longterm goals included in a multiyear strategic plan.
By taking this approach, you can create a smooth and simple transition.
Here’s advice from several leaders, based on their own experiences:
Peter Roaf, president of the Rotary Club of Ladner, British Columbia, Canada,
says his first transition step was to meet with the president-elect and the president-designate
to develop next year’s slate of officers. He also involved his
successor early on in decision making, correspondence, and discussions, and
has provided opportunities for this person to chair club and board meetings.
“I regard my successor with respect, as not just somebody who needs to be
trained but as a wise and experienced leader who has a considerable contribution
to make in leading the club,” Roaf says. “That collaborative work involves
not only the presidentelect but the president-designate and past president. As
we work our way through year two of a fiveyear strategy, my successors and
predecessor [and I] are, in effect, a strategic leadership team with a shared
vision, prepared to keep a focus on the momentum needed to achieve what we
planned by the end of five years.”
Marty Helman, a past governor of District 7780 (parts of Maine and New
Hampshire, USA), said club visioning and other programs that promote continuity
and strategic planning have been helpful to clubs in her area. “It’s not a
silver bullet, because there’s a long way from planning to implementation,” she
says. “But it does provide a way for a club to come up with a three-year plan
that includes the ideas of everyone in the room.”
Inger-Britt Zeiner, a Rotary public image coordinator from Norway, involved
incoming coordinator Leif Fritsdal of Denmark early on, co-hosting virtual and
face-to-face meetings with all the coordinators in zones 15 and 16. Zeiner says
it’s been important to work side by side in selecting Fritsdal’s assistants, to
ensure team continuity.
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WHY THE ROTARY YEAR BEGINS 1 JULY
Rotary's first fiscal year began the day after the first convention ended. The convention
of the Rotary Clubs of America was held in Rotary’s birthplace, Chicago, in 1910.
Ever wonder why the Rotary year begins 1 July? The international convention initially
played a key role in determining the start date of our fiscal and administrative
year.
Rotary's first fiscal year began the day after the first convention ended, on 18 August
1910. The 1911-12 fiscal year also related to the convention, beginning with the first
day of the 1911 convention on 21 August.
At its August 1912 meeting, the Board of Directors ordered an audit of the International
Association of Rotary Clubs' finances. The auditors recommended that the
organization end its fiscal year on 30 June to give the secretary and treasurer time
to prepare a financial statement for the convention and board, and determine the
proper number of club delegates to the convention.
The executive committee concurred, and at its April 1913 meeting, designated 30
June as the end of the fiscal year. This also allowed for changes to the schedule for
reporting club membership and payments. Even The Rotarian changed its volume
numbering system to correspond to the fiscal year (beginning with vol. 5, July 1914).
Rotary continued to hold its annual conventions in July or August until 1917. Delegates
to the 1916 event in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, approved a resolution to hold
future conventions in June, mainly because of the heat in cities where most of them
occurred. The next one was held 17-21 June in Atlanta, Georgia.
The term "Rotary year" has been used to signify Rotary's annual administrative
period since at least 1913. An article in The Rotarian that July noted, "The Rotary
year that is rapidly drawing to a close has been signalized by several highly successful
joint meetings of Clubs that are so situated as to assemble together easily and
conveniently."
Since the executive committee's decision in 1913, the end of the Rotary year has
remained 30 June.
(Source: https://www.rotary.org/myrotary/en/why-rotary-year-begins-1-july)
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Statement Of Account As of June 4, 2016 "3 in 1 Event"
Name of Rotarian & Spouse
1 Abellar, Jun
2 Abellar, Nora
3 Ancaja, Ramon
4 Banzon, Jojo & Sps Lani
5 Bernardino, Tess
6 Bonifacio, Ellen
7 Nomer Castello & Sps Grace
8 Lorna Cosep
9 Cynthia DG Cruz & Sps Rolly
10 Mary Jane Z. dela Rosa & Sps CJ
11 Armando F. Ezpeleta & Sps Yolly
12 Ma. Luisa Joanne VC Felix
13 Dennis Gallardo
14 Armand Galindo
15 Regina Gloria
16 Arsenio Nicanor J. Hechanova
17 Rey Ferdinand M. Jaraza
18 Analyn Mendiola-Lim & Sps Edward
19 Paul Zeta Mallare
20 Jose J. Mercado & Sps Pen
21 Ricardo Q. Nicolas & Sps Carmen
22 Ma. Socorro A. Ramirez
23 Raquel T. Rivera
24 Teofilo M. Rodriguez & Sps Aldalyn
25 Renato V. Santos & Sps Amy
26 Ruby R. Santos
27 Liberty S. Tabuno & Sps Boy
28 Ramiro J. Tiamzon & Sps Alma
29 Emily M. Tiozon
30 Richie Valenton
Club Subsidy (anniv/awards)
RCMI (Car Raffle)
Total
Payment
1,500.00
3,000.00
1,500.00
1,500.00
10,000.00
1,500.00
3,000.00
1,500.00
3,000.00
3,000.00
3,000.00
1,500.00
1,500.00
1,500.00
1,500.00
1,500.00
1,500.00
3,000.00
1,500.00
3,000.00
3,000.00
1,500.00
1,500.00
10,000.00
3,000.00
1,500.00
3,000.00
3,000.00
1,500.00
1,500.00
20,000.00
40,000.00
138,500.00
126,500.00
12,000.00
OR
Number
3163
3163
3154
3185
3160
3186
3188
3183
3137/39
3180
3138
3158
3190
3187
3157
3153
3155
3139
3176
3166
3177
3169
3196
3143
3156
5/12/2016
3161
* Paid with OR
bal sps
* Balance collectibles
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ROTARY CLUB OF MARIKINA EAST
RY 2016-2017 Officers and Board of Directors
President-Teofilo M. Rodriguez
VP-Joseph B. Banzon
PN/Sec.-Raquel Rivera
Treasurer-Ellen C. Bonifacio
Sgt. at Arms-Ramir J.Tiamzon
Auditor-Ricardo Q. Nicolas
Ex-officio-IPP Tess Y. Bernardino
Club Admin.-Arnie J. Hechanova
Membership-Lady Nora Abellar
Service Projects-Lorna Cosep
TRF-Ma. Socorro A. Ramirez Public Image-Emily Tiozon New Generation-Reggie Gloria
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ROTARY CLUB OF MARIKINA EAST
Chartered - May 25, 1993
ROSTER OF MEMBERS
RY 2015-16
NAME SPOUSE CLASSIFICATION
Alfredo “Jun” T. Abellar, PHF +1 Nora H.R. MGT. Consultancy
Nora “Nora”F. Abellar Jun Steel Manufacturing
Ramon “Ramon” Ancaje Ramon Printing Services
Joseph “Jojo” B. Banzon, PHF+1 Lanie Gen. Merchandising
Teresita “Tess” Y. Bernardino, SM
Trading
Ellen “Ellen” Bonifacio, PHF
Food Catering
Nomer “Nomer” Castello Grace Construction
Lorna “Lorna”Cosep-Mendoza
Party Planning
Cynthia “Cynthia” G. Cruz, SM, PHF+1 Roland Medical Serv. - Sales
Mary Jane “Jane” Zubiri-Dela Rosa, SM CJ Gov’t Service
Armando “Boyet” F. Ezpeleta, SM Yoli Shoe Marketing
Ma. Luisa Joanne “Joanne” V.C. Felix, PHF Sonny Advertising & PR
Arman “Arman”O. Galindo
Education-College
Regina “Reggie” G. Gloria, SM
Education - Private Tutor
Arsenio Nicanor “Arnie” J. Hechanova, PHF
Food Catering
Ferdinand “Ferdie” Jaraza, SM
Food Retailing
Analyn “Anna” Mendiola-Lim Edward Insurance Underwriting
Jose “Joey” J. Mercado, SM Penelope Civil Engineering
Ricardo “Ric” Q. Nicolas, SM Carmen Food Condiments Mfg.
Ma. Socorro “Socky” A. Ramirez, SM
Gov’t Service, Medicine
Jose Dionas “Jonas” T. Roces Hazel Artist-Sculptor
Raquel “Raquel” Rivera
Freight Forwarding
Teofilo “Boyet” Rodriguez Aldalyn Electrical Engineering
Renato “Nante” Santos, PHF Amy Steel Fabricating
Ruby “Ruby” R. Santos, SM
Shoes Manufacturing
Ramiro “Ramir” J. Tiamzon, PHF Alma Gov’t Service-Eng’g.
Emily “Emily” M. Tiozon, SM Raymon Medical Equip. Services
Maurice “Richie” Y. Valenton Diane Businessman
Martin “Virtudz” Virtudazo (Honorary)
Military Service (Retired)
PDG Rodolfo “Rudy”San Felipe (Honorary) Lady Edith Private Tutoring
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RCME PRAYER
Lord, teach us to be generous,
Teach us to serve you as You deserve,
To give and not to count the cost,
to fight and not to heed the wounds,
To toil and not to seek for rest,
To labor and not to ask for reward,
Save that of knowing
That we are doing
Your most Holy Will,
Amen
THE ROTARY PLEDGE
I do solemnly promise
To help advance the Object of Rotary
Comply with the Constitution
and By-Laws
Of Rotary International
and the Rotary Club of Marikina East
Ever putting into practice
the Rotary’s Motto:
Service Above Self
THE FOUR WAY TEST
of the things we think, say or do;
1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it build GOODWILL and
BETTER FRIENDSHIP?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all
concerned?
VISITING ROTARIAN
_______________________
NAME
___________________
CLUB
__________________
DATE
________________________
SECRETARY’S SIGNATURE
R.I. District 3800
ROTARY CLUB OF
MARIKINA EAST
Teofilo “Boyet” Rodriguez
President
Dir. Arnie J. Hechanova
Director-Club Administration
PDG Jun Abellar
Editor-in-Chief
IPP Tess Bernardino
PP Joanne Felix
Associate Editors
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THE OBJECT OF ROTARY
The object of Rotary is to encourage
and foster the ideal of service as a
basis of worthy enterprise and in particular,
to encourage and foster :
FIRST. The development of acquaintance
as an opportunity for service;
SECOND. High ethical standards in
business and professions; the recognition
of all useful occupations; and
the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation
as an opportunity to serve
society;
THIRD. The application of the ideal
of service in each Rotarians personal,
business, and community life;
FOURTH. The advancement of international
understanding, goodwill,
and peace through a world fellowship
of business and professional persons
united in the ideal of service.
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