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from RI Director Guiller E Tumangan and Rotary Leaders of Zones 7A, 7B, and 8

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Vol. 2 Issue 5 November

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DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE

In Manila, RIPE John Germ, PRIP Wilf Wilkinson, PRIP Gary Huang and RIPN Ian Riseley facilitated a

workshop on “Transformation of Rotary”. The other RI General Officers participated in the breakout sessions

exclusively for past, present and future governors. While the topics were serious, the discussions were sincere,

deep, yet friendly and fun. If this kind of emotional climate can be transplanted to regular club meetings, I

believe, Rotary Clubs will be attractive, member engagement will improve and clubs can be more innovative.

The last thing that is written in nugGETs is the director’s message. So when I was reflecting on the role of

Rotary as a peace organization in relation to the first meeting of China and Taiwan heads of state as pointed

out by PRIP Gary, the APEC Leaders Declaration vis a vis RI/TRF areas of focus, the Philippine-China issue

before the United Nations, the US-France meetings and the defense summit elsewhere, and polio eradication

in conflict areas, I had an epiphany.

Rotary forces us to think bigtime. I was humbled when I learned that a team of middle schoolers spent the

APEC Summit week, when classes were suspended, studying the 17 UN Goals for Sustainable Development

for a school debate. In one week’s time, these kids will have to understand the far-reaching effects of the

decisions that we adults made. How many Rotary Club decisions consider what children think of, dream about

and aspire for?

It all came back to me – the speech in Melbourne of 20-year old Jordan Fallon, President of RC Kurri Kurri.

Rotary Tasmania’s fight against youth suicide, Red Hat Day, fundraisers for mental health research in Zones

7B and 8, and PRIP MAT Caparas’ request that July 1 each year be celebrated as Children’s Party where we

assure kids that we will protect them from violence. Why did these young people choose to rest in peace rather

than work for peace? What in the adult-managed system make them lose hope? We have to do something

big for them! Something big like End Polio, if not bigger.

Rotary - dedicated people in the people business. As leaders “We are not human beings having a spiritual

experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” In attracting young leaders, we have taken

the first step to assuring the youth: Forget suicide or despair. Live! Be a gift to the world. Worry not,

there are young Rotarians who understand you and are working to make each day a better day for you.

This month is one such time in a director’s life when you really feel the enormity of

Rotary. I mean, our global citizenship. My brain was in different time zones and

Rotary zones all at the same time. I was in Zones 6B, 10B, 7A for the Manila

Institute; Zone 8 for the Melbourne Institute, Zone 11 preparing as RIPR and back

to Manila preparing for the 2016 RI Presidential Conference on March 18-19, 2016,

and motivating the District Leadership for attendance to the 2016 RI Convention in

Seoul, Korea. The other part was thinking ASEAN because of the APEC held in

Manila. Still the other part of my brain felt elated and eustress-ed that several RI

General Officers came to both Manila and Melbourne Institutes.

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EXCERPT FROM NOVEMBER 2015 PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE

K.R. "RAVI" RAVINDRAN President, RY 2015-2016

Attended the 2015 Rotary Institute in Milano - 6 Zones with

73 Districts representing 4.881 Clubs and 191.944 Rotarians

from 27 Countries with sessions in 5 Languages (IT-FR-DE-EN-

ES). Convener & RI Director Giuseppe Viale

In Rotary, we believe in the possibility of peace – not out of idealism, but out of

experience. We have seen that even the most intractable conflicts can be resolved

when people have more to lose by fighting than by working together.

We have seen what can happen when we approach peace-building in ways that are truly radical, such

as the work of our Rotary Peace Fellows. Through our Rotary Foundation, peace fellows become

experts in preventing and resolving conflict. Our goal is that they will find new ways not only to end wars

but to stop them before they begin.

Among the hundreds of peace fellows who have graduated from the program, two from Sri Lanka, one

from each side of the conflict, studied together. In the first weeks of the course, both argued

passionately for the rightness of their side. Yet week by week, they grew to understand each other’s

perspective; today, they are good friends. When I met them and heard their story, they gave me hope.

If 25 years of pain and bitterness could be overcome by Rotary, then what, indeed, is beyond us

You are probably wondering what President Ravi is doing. Or, asking where is he now? So, let’s follow him on

Facebook, Tweeter, Google and Viber. Sharing with you……

Answering personally hundreds of emails

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The KKL music hall, with an audience of nearly

1,500 in attendance in Lucerne, Switzerland

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EXCERPT FROM TRUSTEE CHAIR'S MESSAGE

The Rotary Foundation and Peace Initiatives

RAY KLINGINSMITH Trustee Chair, RY 2015-2016

The Rotary Foundation Month has been, and will continue to be, a critical factor in the

success of the Foundation. It is the month when our clubs and districts continue the tradition

of educating our Rotarians about the amazing quality of our Foundation Programs and

seeking the needed contributions to make the world a better place.

Our foundation is a premier organization and it owes its success to the support of Rotarians, many of whom

have gained their appreciation of the Foundation programs during the traditional emphasis on such programs in

November. The importance of Rotary Foundation Month should not be discounted, and I hope that all of our

clubs feature the foundation during the month of November. It is a significant and productive tradition, and I

encourage all Rotarians to take the time to attend their club and district Foundation events. Embrace the

tradition! Celebrate the tradition!

OUR PRAYER FOR FRANCE We join the world as we pray for stillness and tranquility so that we may find our inner strength, our capacity for selflessness and love, our freedom to discern what is true and just and our healing powers to forgive. Guide, Almighty One, each thought and word that as one family, we act with Spirit and Grace to the path of lasting peace for the world’s children. Touch the heart and will of those who are blinded and open their minds to choose the Greater Good and experience true joy and peace. We trust in Your time it will be so...

Arch Klumph

I acknowledge the very enlightening presentations of the Plenary Speakers and Workshop Panelists during

the Pre-Institute training programs and in the Manila Institute. We will soon be uploading the

proceedings. In the meantime, some powerpoint presentations are downloadable. Just visit the Manila Rotary

Institute website www.2015manilarotaryinstitute.org.

http://www.2015manilarotaryinstitute.org/

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We are people who are dedicated to the service of humanity. Rotary is the oldest service organization

dedicated to the commitment of service above self. We are a special family bound by a common trait of

service dedicated to people -- people who belong to Rotary all across the world and, more importantly, the

people we serve around the world for over 100 years. It is time that we capitalize on that service and our

success and carry us over in several years.

It is up to every one of us what our year will be. We accepted the responsibility to determine the future

of our organization. The most important is the Rotarian. Who asked us to be a Rotarian? Founded on

basic principles, classification and high ethical standards are maintained.

Rotary leadership is not about leaders. It is about the Rotarian….about the work we do in the community --

improving the lives of people everywhere. We do that work the way we always have done it -- we work as a

team. Leaders of the clubs and districts, I see individuals who we need to reach out to … Interact Clubs,

Rotaract Clubs. Reaching out, that is how we got started for Paul Harris believed that “the power of

combined effort has no limitations.”

We got to be thinking down the road. President Ravi,

RIPN Ian, and Vice Chair/Chair-elect Paul, and I have

been working together for continuity’s sake. The

Foundation is obviously a critical part of this

continuity. And a critical part of us being successful

in Rotary. Because if you think about it, we are ONE

Rotary. It is just that we have two separate

registered organizations. We are one voice.

Let us start thinking out of the box. Let us talk about

how to connect the dots. Talk about how we have to go outside and open up our mind. Look at things. What the person can conceive, we can achieve. It is about

initiative or the lack of it.

The most important thing is that the team is successful. Nobody is going to remember in the next 100

years or 2 years what you as an individual did but what Rotary did. Remember that we are a TEAM.

Together every one achieves more. Think of the vocations we have and every child vaccinated. The Rotary

wheel is what really matters. We are Rotary, in the people business. We cannot lose sight of this. This is

service above self, our gift to the world as we transform Rotary to the future.

RI President-Elect JOHN F. GERM speaks

“WE ARE IN THE PEOPLE BUSINESS”

At The Rotary Foundation Booth with Barbara Mifsud, Coordinator | Club and District Support

I collected excerpts from various speeches in the plenary and breakout sessions of the Manila and

Melbourne Institutes and re-organized them into one article that we can share to Rotarians who

have not heard him yet. I hope RIPE John will not mind.

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RI GENERAL OFFICERS AT WORK IN THE 2015 MANILA ROTARY INSTITUTE

The RI General Officers who attended the Manila Rotary Institute served as plenary speakers, break out

resource persons and facilitators, open forum panelists. In addition, they came together as one workshop

group and tackled the challenge “Transforming Rotary.”

It started with RIPE John asking in plenary: “What can we do to transform Rotary for the future?”

Sometimes we think we know what is best. But most of the time, we really don’t know because we are not

asking our customers “what do they want from us?” That is why I have a couple of questions: What do the

young people want? What do the retired people want? How do we broaden our horizons – think out of the box

– to improve Rotary?” A paradigm shifting exercise was given as pre-work and reflection questions during the

breakout meeting, then animated buzz group discussion.

L-R (seated): RID Peter Offer, PRIVP Anne Matthews, PRIP Gary C.K. Huang, RIPN Ian H.S. Riseley, RIPE John F.

Germ, RID Julia Phelps, RID Saowalak Rattanavich & PRIP Wilf Wilkinson

L-R (standing): PRID Jackson S.L. Hsieh, RID Eduardo San Martin Carreño, TRF Vice-Chair Paul Netzel, RID Guiller E.

Tumangan, PRID Ron Beaubien, PRID Paing Hechanova, PRID Noraseth Pathmanand, PRID Sangkoo Yun & RID Frederick Lin

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2015 Manila Rotary Institute Photo Gallery

At a Glance: ●19 Plenary Speakers and 14 Breakout Sessions ●5 Adjunct Meetings and 4 Breakout

Sessions ●5 Nights of Entertainment ●1 Convener and 63 Members of the Organizing Committee

Roll Call of country delegates (around 1,200)

Thought of the Day by Judy Germ

Entry of Colors (23 countries participating)

Entry of Dignitaries – PRIVP Anne Matthews

National Anthem of United States of America

Opening entertainment

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Cocktails Fashion Show

Luncheon Speaker – PRIP Wilf Wilkinson

Country Presentation - Taipei

Opera Belles & Philippine Ballet Theater All Night Dancing

Marcy David 26 Piece Band

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Rotary Zone 8 Institute 2015 – Melbourne

At a Glance: ●Royce Abbey Memorial Lecture ●RI President-Elect ●12 Plenary Speakers ●9 Adjunct

Meetings ●18 ‘Class of Governors’ Reunion Dinners ●1 Convener and Co-Convener ● 23-member

Institute Team of Volunteers plus the 2014-15 Districts Governors and partners who acted as Sgt-at-

Arms ● 10 Training Team Leaders ● Committee Reports ● World Class Entertainment cum Advocacy

RI President Nominee Ian Riseley delivering the inaugural Royce Abbey Memorial lecture

JORDAN FALLON, the young President of the Rotary Club of Kurri Kurri, joined

Rotary to make a difference within his local community The Hunter. He pointed out

that the suicide among young people is the biggest challenge we face. Not all incidents

are reported because of social taboos. His club is keen about establishing a program

that will raise student and public consciousness about mental illnesses and suicide

among the youth.

There is a need to prevent or break this mindset: “Where life has no purpose or

offers no escape other than through his death”

Plenary speaker MARCUS AKUHATA-BROWN, shared with Rotarians his personal

journey of empowerment. The first in his family to complete grade 10 and dreamt of

going to university, he believes that it is not program or policy but people who change

our world. He hopes to become the change that the youth at risk can emulate and be

there to influence the transformation.

“Recognize one’s potential and draw strength from within for self-empowerment”

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Rotary Zone 8 Institute 2015 – Melbourne Photo Gallery

At the Opening Ceremonies

Institute Chair PDG Jenny Coburn & sps. Roger,

Convener & PRID John Boag, sps. Seung Ja, TRF

Trustee Young Suk Yoon, sps. Letty & Co-

Convener & RID Guiller Tumangan, sps. Judy &

RIPE John Germ, sps. Juliet & RIPN Ian Riseley,

RID Jennifer Jones, sps. Vicki & PRID Ron

Beaubien, RIDE Noel Trevaskis & DG Julie Mason

Strategic Thinking among DGs, DGsE and DGsN facilitated by Training Leaders PDGs

Jessie Harman, David Anderson, Tim More, Cathy Roth, Graham Jones & Marie Dorrington

Fellowship Dinner among Classmates. Participants were organized by their year of service

and they chose their own venue for fellowship. I joined those who served in RY 2014-2015.

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SYDNEY PASCALL, RI President in 1931 was the first president to plant a tree during a

presidential visit. In “The Rotarian” in July 1932, PRIP Sydney wrote “Before I left London for

my round the world club visitations”, Paul Harris, revered founder of Rotary, suggested the

most appropriate way of symbolizing the Rotary idea would be the planting of trees.

I started this observance in the National

Botanical Gardens at Cape Town, and since then, I have

planted more than 30 trees, while 22 others have been set

out by Mrs. Pascall, our daughter, mayors and Rotary

Leaders. Let us hope that our active pursuit of friendship

among nations may be symbolized by these trees. We recall

the saying “and the leaves of the tree were for the healing

of the nations. May it be so”.

Rotary Global History Fellowship

Paul Harris plants a tree with members of the

Rotary Club of Göteborg, Sweden in 1932

And so we offer this series of photos as our collective

expression of empathy with our Rotarians and volunteers

now beset by violence and conflict. With it go our prayers

for inter-generational healing of nations and for children to

grow in friendly and conflict- free neighborhoods.

RIPE John Germ and spouse Judy

plant a tree at Rotary Park

Melbourne Victoria

In 1934, at the request of the Rotary Club

of Melbourne, the City of Melbourne

Council made available a small area in

the King’s Domain for a Rotary Park of

Remembrance, where trees could be

planted or ‘dedicated’ to honour

distinguished Rotarians or mark

significant Rotary occasions.

The Park was inaugurated in March 1935

by Paul Harris and spouse Jean and with

then, Governor Angus Mitchell, the first RI

President from Australia

A red granite seat has been erected as a

memorial to the work of Paul Harris and

Angus Mitchell

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ROTARY CLUB CENTRAL MONITORING

D I S T R I C T

No. of

clubs

Mem-bers to

date-

CLUBS

WITH

Mem-ber- ship

goals

% female members

% of unre-ported members’ ages

% Mem-

ber Under

40 Yrs old

Mem bers who

spon-sored a new mem-

ber

with PresI- den-tiall Cita-tion

goals

Clubs with ser-vice

goals

No of

Rotaract club

No. of

InterAct club

R Y L A

YEX Pax

% of Clubs with

TRF goal

% of Clubs

Partici-pating in TRF Giving

3410 59 1282 17% 40% 65% 9% 10% 17% 22 7 - 17% 25%

3420 53 1117 58% 50% 50% 10% 38% 40% 19 17 - 54% 38%

3770 67 1873 6% 29% 82% 3% 3% 2% 20 70 - 2% 45%

3780 100 2389 14% 27% 76% 4% 7% 5% 38 50 - 9% 47%

3790 104 2858 13% 29% 74% 4% 7% 7% 49 121 262 9% 52%

3800 96 2570 80% 29% 64% 8% 78% 70% 44 133 27 61% 47%

3810 101 2900 73% 35% 64% 7% 60% 60-% 81 119 12 58% 57%

3820 105 2942 13% 29% 72% 7% 13% 12% 65 105 67 10% 60%

3830 90 2990 98% 33% 55% 8 % 90% 84% 76 170 24 94% 68%

3850 53 1343 66% 25% 77% 5% 58% 51% 30 61 - 60% 47%

3860 99 2559 4% 38% 64% 7% 23% 15% 54 67 1 18% 27%

3870 46 1317 19% 30% 64% 7% 5% 7% 17 17 - 7% 21% D I S T R I C T

No. of

clubs

Mem-bers to

date-

% CLUBS

WITH

Mem-ber- ship

goals

% Female Mem- bers


% of Mem-

ber Under

40 Yrs .old

Mem bers who


ber

with PresI- den-tiall Cita-tion

goals

Clubs with ser-vice

goals

No of

Rotaract club

No. of

InterAct club

R Y L A

YEX Pax

Club with

TRF goal

% of clubs


9910 41 1099 39% 21% 79% 0% 10% 7% 4 4 - 49% 24%

9920 54 1548 53% 25% 83% 2% 21% 21% 9 21 8/1 98% 23%

9930 55 1704 35% 23% 77% 1% 20% 15% 2 13 1 38% 55%

9940 54 1760 17% 23% 86% 0% 4% 2% 4 7 - 4% 61%

9970 33 1224 15% 16% 85% 0% 0% 6% 1 3 - 12% 58%

9980 29 1253 24% 21% 85% 0% 10% 14% 3 6 - 7% 0%

Key Performance Indicators

Rotary Club Central 30% of clubs in a District with 15 goals or more

Zone membership 35,000 members per zone

Gender Diversity 2% points increase in female members

New member sponsors 1% point increase

Clubs contributing to both Annual Fund (3% increase per district) /Polio Plus

Recruitment of young members:

Status:

Still many with low percentage

Almost there!

Most districts increased

Cannot monitor yet

Very encouraging

Cannot accurately determine because of unreported ages

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D I S T R I C T

No. of

clubs

Mem-bers to date-

CLUBS

WITH

Mem-ber- ship goals

% female members


% Mem-

ber Under

40 Yrs old

Mem bers who


ber

with PresI- den-tial

Cita-tion

goals

Clubs with ser-vice

Goals

No of

Rotaract club

No. of InterAct club

R Y L A

YEX Pax

% of Clubs with TRF goal

% of clubs


9455 50 1265 44% 25% 71% 4% 8% 34% 7 5 - 34% 30%

9465 49 1282 24% 22% 76% 0% 6% 16% 8 12 1 20% 39%

9500 44 1166 23% 23% 76% 0% 9% 9% 3 5 - 20% 43%

9520 50 1333 23% 23% 81% 1% 8% 10% 11 3 2 16% 36%

9550 44 987 24% 28% 63% 2% 9% 18% 6 13 1/1 43% 43%

9570 49 1140 34% 26% 74% 4% 53% 51% 7 17 4 47% 47%

9600 67 1554 16% 27% 78% 0% 9% 6% 21 34 1 36% 25%

9630 50 1153 42% 22% 73% 2% 12% 12% 12 22 9/1 22% 46%

9640 53 1261 58% 28% 74% 2% 21% 36% 8 22 1 51% 38%

9650 56 1551 77% 22% 60% 2% 20% 18% 0 3 1/1 27% 46%

9670 51 1235 12% 27% 85% 1% 10% 6% 3 1 2 8% 53% 9675 67 1691 18% 26% 73% 2% 12% 10% 14 26 7 10% 30%

9685 74 2103 26% 25% 66% 1% 8% 11% 15 13 2/3 55% 70%

9700 40 1143 3% 21% &&% 1% 0 3% 1 1 - 3% 73%

9710 47 1367 36% 29% 68% 2% 9% 9% 11 15 - 100% 53%

9780 59 1859 25% 26% 79% 1% 17% 9% 9 7 4 19% 36%

9790 64 1795 27% 23% 70% 2% 16% 14% 4 3 1 17% 34%

9800 70 2456 19% 25% 75% 1% 10% 6% 7 9 1 13% 64%

9810 47 1209 64% 25% 47% 2% 19% 15% 16 8 - 62% 74%

9820 49 1383 10% 22% 79% 1% 2% 2% 8 2 3/2 98% 49%

9830 47 1340 26% 28% 79% 1% 9% 9% 6 9 1 13% 32%

RYLA – black ink Youth Exchange –red ink

Congratulations to all district governors! There was a marked increase in the reporting of goals for both Zones 7 and 8. A district

executive secretary or training for club secretaries will be a big help to club presidents. This is a task that young Rotarians find

fascinating. There was a slight increase in the number of clubs participating in the Presidential Citation Program.

Key Performance Indicators

Rotary Club Central 30% of clubs in a District with 15 goals or more

Zone membership 35,000 members per zone

Gender Diversity 2% points increase in female members

New member sponsors 1% point increase

Clubs contributing to Annual Fund (3% increase per district) /Polio Plus

Recruitment of young members:

Status:

Still many with low percentage

Need a strategy to accelerate growth

Most districts increased by 1% point

Cannot monitor yet

Very encouraging

Cannot determine because of unreported ages

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