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Continuity of Service through Effective Leadership

Rotary Club of Pudu 2017-18 Page 1



Programme / Diary of Events 3

Editorial / President’s Message 4

Club Proceedings, Minutes of Meeting 5

The Meeting in Pictures 6,7

Speaker’s CV, Text 8

Speaker’s Text—cont’d 9

Interact Activities 10

Visit to RC Mandaluyong 11

Visit to RC Singapore West 12

Announcements 13

District Governor’s Message 14

RI News 15,16,17

Thot’s for the Week—Membership 18,19

On the Lighter Side 20

Table of Contents



Date : 7th August 2017 Issue No : 1702

PROGRAMME FOR TODAY

NEXT MEETING — 21 AUG 2017

Speaker: Mr Chen Chee Fun Subject: “Total Cellular Wellness” Duty Table: Rtn Chee Tack Kong Fellowship: Rtn Kenneth Goh Finemaster: PAG Gary Lim Introducing: PP Michael Yeow Thanking: PP Ng Sim Bee

TBA

Date Time Programme Venue

Berita Pudu

Thurs, 3rd Aug Sat, 5th Aug Mon, 7th Aug Mon, 7th Aug Thurs, 10th Aug Tue, 15th Aug Tue, 15th Aug Sun 20 Aug Sun 20 Aug Mon 21 Aug Fri, 25th Aug Tue, 29th Aug

12.30 pm 7.00 pm 12.45 pm 2.00 pm 6.30 pm 6.30 pm 7.30 pm 9.00 am 6.30 pm 12.45pm 3.00 pm 6.30 pm

Community Service Committee Meeting 44th Installation of the Rotaract Club of Pudu Weekly Meeting International Service Committee Meeting Club Service Committee Meeting Youth Service Committee Meeting Vocational Service Committee Meeting District Membership Seminar Club Assembly Weekly Meeting Interact Coordinating Council Meeting Board of Directors Meeting

RSC Dataran, KL 1957 Café, De Centrum Shangri-La Hotel, KL Shangri-La Hotel, KL RSC, Bukit Kiara, KL RSC, Bukit Kiara, KL RSC, Bukit Kiara, KL Holiday Place (D’Villa) President Jeff’s Residence Shangri-La Hotel, KL SMK Methodist, KL President Jeff’s Residence

DIARY OF EVENTS—AUG 2017

AUGUST – MEMBERSHIP & EXTENSION MONTH



PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

F ellow Rotarians, how time flies! We are now into the second month of RY2017-18. The first month was so eventful. At the end

of June and during July the Club visited our sister clubs—the Rotary Clubs of Songkhla, Manda-luyong, Singapore-West and Dhonburi. We were happy, went in great numbers and had a great time. A special “Thank You” to PP Alex Chang and his family for holding the Club’s flag at RC Dhonburi. Then on 15th July we had our own Installation of the President and the Board of Directors. This time our sister clubs visited in great numbers, 30 of them. The transport logistics worked like clock work and members helmed by PP Gary Lim, PP Richard Liew and PE Heng CT and their committee worked overtime with quiet efficiency. No one was missing or got lost! Even Datin Esther (Dato Hoo Teong’s Ann) chipped in. We not only fetched them to and fro the airport but also treated them to breakfast, lunch and dinner. The Fellowship Dinner which took place a day before our Installation was a joyous occasion for renewal of friendship. Our 51st Installation was a grand, formal and pres-tigious event. Thanks to PE Heng CT and his hard-working committee everything went on fine; and to cap it all we were within budget. Rtn Tenny Lee led in the entertainment and this amateur singer who sang like a professional showcased the talents we have in the Club. IPP Sandy was regal and the ba-ton was passed by her to me in great fashion fol-lowed by the introduction of the Board of Directors RY2017-18. On Sunday 23rd July, we had a successful visit to the Jenjarom Old Folks Home by more than 20 Pudu Rotarians, their families, Rotaractors and friends. The old folks were happy to see us and we handed a cheque of RM3,000 representing our contribution for half year to help out the Home, to Mr Tia, the chief caretaker. Thank you Community Service Director Rtn Robert Tan. dishes and had good fellowship. In the meantime, please be aware of the Notice of Payment sent by the Treasurer some time back. Please make payment if you haven’t. Early payment is much appreciated as the Club has to make pay-ments to RI, the District and cover other expenses. Thank you in advance. We will be having a few inductions soon; so do keep posted and help to welcome our latest additions and friends. Best Regards.

T he new Council of Legislation (COL) changes to the Rules are penned down on page 15 for reading and digestion by all members, espe-cially the Board of Directors.

RI has made Rotary membership so easy that there’s little excuse not to be able to attract new members. Really? Unfortunately, it is still hard to bring in new dedicated members for the following reasons, I think:

From experience, the young people that came for-ward in the past soon left after one or two years. The usual excuse is “pressure of work” building their career.

Maybe some left because they got “burnt out” due to too much work in Rotary—too many committee meetings, project / events meetings.

It’s definitely costing them time and money.

And membership is still expensive considering the economic situation obtaining.

It is also not well understood what “corporate” and “senior exempt” members mean in the context of the Club image and contributions to society. (Perhaps the Membership Seminar his coming 20 Aug at Holiday Place will enlighten us.)

Meantime please ponder on this burning question. How could one get burnt out? Again, I think:

The “exempt members” category is causing the problem. For a Club like Pudu (with more than half its members being past presidents or many in the exempt category,) having eight Interact clubs, five sister clubs and one Rotaract, there’s really not enough manpower to do the project works, to attend to the Interactors and obligations to sister clubs.

The perception of exempt members is that they are not obligated to do anything other than pay their dues or be “cheque-book” Rotarians when ap-proached. They have done their part and now they want to relax.

What’s the solution?

As seniors or past presidents, if they are allowed to remain members because they qualify under this category of “exempt” — although with a tendency of not to be properly active, but still like to be Ro-tarians (albeit RINOs) — then they should be made “honorary or corporate members.”

This category should be abolished.

EDITORIAL

Jeffery Yap President RY 2017-18

Dato Muslim Ayob

Past President

Editor



PUDU NEWS

Visiting Rotarians Club

Record of Meeting on: 3rd July, 2017

Statistics

Guests Visiting Rotarians Club Members Total Present

2 - 23 25

Collections RM 36

Birthdays/Anniversaries Fines

39.00

Paying Diners

305.00

Raffles & Others

—

Total (RM)

344.00

Guests Host

CLUB PROCEEDINGS

drive and fellowship – (monthly fellowship funds to bear part of the cost.)

f. RI has been updated on the latest membership – 39 active and 2 honorary members

g. We have now only 26 full paying members and 13 exempt members, which is 1/3 of the club membership.

h. PP Alex requested to announce that he is late and that there will be the International Ser-vice Committee meeting after the regular meeting today.

4. Introduction of President Jeffery Yap to the club as the 51st President by PDG Dr Paul Lee. 5. Maiden speech by President Jeffery Yap to the club. 6. Thanking by PAG Gary Lim. 7. Cake cutting ceremony to usher in the new Ro-tary Year by President Jeffery Yap. 8. Meeting closed at 1.40 pm.

1. The meeting was called to order by Sgt-at-Arms, Rtn Tenny Lee at 1.20 pm followed by Negaraku anthem and a toast to the Yang Dipertuan Agong. 2. President Jeffery Yap welcomed all members and guests and passed on the mic to our Secretary. 3. Report by Club Secretary PAG Mohan Raj a. 5th July – Installation meeting at Presidents

house at 6.30pm b. 7-10th July – visit to sister club RC Manda-

luyong in the Philippines – 13 members and spouses will be travelling.

c. 14th July – Fellowship dinner at Marco Polo res-taurant with sister club members

d. 15th July – 51st Installation of the President and his board for RY 2017-18 at Shangri-la hotel @ 6.30pm

e. 23rd July – First biannual visit to our Jenjarum Old Folks home together with membership

MINUTES OF THE MEETING

Ann Lin Sekheng Mr Barth Rtn Kenneth Goh Mr Ryan Tiu PAG K H Low Veronique Pres Jeffery Yap Kah Yee pe Heng CT



PICTURES TAKEN AT THE MEETING ON 3 JULY 2017



PICTURES TAKEN AT THE MEETING ON 3 JULY 2017



SPEAKER’S CV

OUR 51st PRESIDENT……… …is Rotarian Jeffery Yap who lives by the motto “Do Good to Others.” Thus beneath this man is a man who likes to help others especially the disad-vantaged. Quietly he has helped raise funds for char-ity organizations and contributed efforts to improve schools’ facilities. He has a warm heart for animals too and currently he dotes on his Siberian husky which he takes for walks everyday. Jeffery is married to lovely Ann Catherine and they have a pretty daughter Karmern. He had his early education in the suburb of Kuala Lumpur. Jeffery is in the oil distribution business and has an interest in a company that does energy saving on air-con and refrigerator. Together with Catherine they promote the Malaysia My Second Home programme to foreigners. Jeffery likes to keep healthy and is careful in his food intake and exercise. He loves durian, rambutan and all sort of fruits. He likes to travel and has visit-ed many countries. He watches action movies and listen to motivational speeches. Reading is one of his main loves and he has taken into reading the bi-ble! He dislikes unfriendly people especially the in-sincere ones. Jeffery’s first taste of Rotary was in the RC Bukit Bintang where he was the Treasurer. Subsequently he joined Pudu and held many senior positions such as Club, Community and Youth Service Director, Vice President and President Elect. As President he hopes to promote his 3 Visions of friendship and fellowship, carrying out beneficial projects and in-spiring youth leadership. He lives by the philosophy of “Do good and help others.” His favorite quote is “Everyday is a new life for a wise man as he only lives once.” If you want to know more about this quote you can easily approach him and ask him. He will be glad to explain it to you over coffee or beer and a smile! Get to know Jeffery by talking to him! Introduction by PDG Dr Paul Lee

A very good afternoon to all our vis-itors, past presidents and fellow Rotarians!!!

Thank you for coming to our 1st regular meeting of rotary year 2017-18. Because it is the first meeting I am a bit nervous; so forgive me if I stammer a bit or speak a bit of bro-ken English or speak a bit of Can-tonese! Anyway I’ll try to make this an interesting meeting. As a start I would like to introduce to you the Board of Directors who will be run-ning the club for the year. As you all know I was elected the President, Vice President is Rotarian Patrick Lee, Honorary Secretary is Past Asst Governor Mohan Raj, Honor-ary Treasurer is Rotarian Laura Lee, Presi-dent Elect is Rotarian CT Heng and Imme-diate Past President is IPP Sandy Soh Helming club service is Rotarian Chee Tack Kong In vocational service is our rookie Rotarian Chinniah In community service is our ever green Rtn Robert Tan In international service is our Past President Alex Chang And in Youth is our Rtn Kenneth Goh It is a good and dynamic line up that was en-dorsed by the Club Assembly that we had re-cently. They will be seeking your help in their projects and in the culture of Pudu you will no doubt respond positively!!!

SPEAKER’S TEXT



SPEAKER’S TEXT

As I have said at the Club Assembly, we will support the RI theme of “Rotary: Making a Difference” and also provide support to the District as much as we can. Clubwise, I have told you my vision for the club during the year. Let me reiterate:

Vision 1 : to create better fellowship amongst our fellow Rotarians, Rotarian families, associates & friends of rotary

Vision 2: to carry out meaningful projects to help the community while enjoying Ro-tary and having fun

Vision 3: to help youths like our Rotarac-tors and Interactors to be effective leaders.

To meet our objectives and the vision the Board & I have planned a number of pro-jects. Briefly:

In Club Service we will carry out a number of fellowship projects eg visit to the Jenjarom old folks home and visits to our sister clubs. We will strive to be a computer savvy club and will use the computer to monitor our progress. In Vocational Service we will upgrade the computer room of the San Peng Tamil school to enable the teachers to teach in a modern method. We will upgrade the 3 science labor-atories of the SMK Dato Onn to enable stu-dents to learn science effectively. We will also be promoting the 4–Way Test to encour-age good corporate practices. In Community Service, hard working Rtn Robert Tan had already got cracking; and the upgrade of the 3 science laboratory at SMK Dato Onn is his baby. We will carry on our good work at the Jenjarom old folks home with our biannual visits. And not forgetting our PRCCF presentation at around January 2018. We will also be doing a clean water project.

International Service will be busy first by visiting our sister clubs; and hosting them when they visit us especially for our Installa-tion. The tri-club project is managed by RC Dhonburi and they will give us the details lat-er. In Youth Service, we had successfully com-pleted the Interact Leadership Training and Motivation Camp (ILTMC) and our annual hi-tea between the Rotarian and Teacher Advi-sors. We will monitor the progress of the In-teractors and the Rotaractors. As we know all these need funds. I am pleased to say we have funds from our capital-ised funds to help out. Still we need to raise some more funds and in this respect VP Pat-rick Lee is very busy planning the most appro-priate fund raising project. Probably we will be having another premier show. One other aspect I wish to point out is Mem-bership Development. It is our Club’s duty to increase our numbers by at least nett 10% and I call upon all members to help put in some effort. During the year, some of us will have disa-greements and arguments. Lets us not be per-sonal about it, as all of us bring forward our points for the sake of the good of the Club. So far if I had offended anyone, in particular some past presidents, I wish to apologize and seek your forgiveness. As you know every-one have their own strengths and weaknesses and I am not excluded. My English is not good and sometimes I cannot express myself clearly. Finally I hope the Club will enjoy the year and all of us can become good friends!!! Thank you

Jeffrey Yap



INTERACT ACTIVITIES

Interact Club of SMK Dato Onn IU Day 7 Jul



MANDALUYONG VISIT

A big delegation (13 pax) from RC Pudu led by President Jeffery Yap, went to Manda-luyong , Manila, to attend our sister club in-stallation there. They left on Fri 7 Jul and came back on 10 Jul 2017. They were very well received by members of RC Manda-luyong, our sister club for 40 years (since 1977.) We reciprocated their kindness when they came over to attend our own Installation functions from Fri 13 Jul to Sun 16 Jul 2017.

Welcome dinner for Mandalyuong delegates in KL on Thu 13 Jul

Pudu delegates table at Mandalyuong President’s installation



SINGAPORE WEST VISIT

Our sister clubs representation to our Installa-tion events are as follows: Hong Kong Harbour - 5 Dhonburi - 2 Mandaluyong - 5 Singapore Wesy - 3 Songkhla - 12

A special programme has been arranged as follows: Friday night— Welcome dinner @ Marco Polo Sat morning— Lunch & Durian party Sat evening— Installation dinner @ Shangrila Sunday— Free time



ANNOUNCEMENTS

CLUB & ROTARY EVENTS Event: CLUB ASEMBLY Date: Sun , 20 Aug 2017 Venue: President’s house Time: 6.30 pm OC: Sec Mohan Raj Event: CHARITY PREMIERE ‘MENA’ Date: Saturday, 2nd September 2017 Venue: TGV Sunway Velocity, KL Time: 10.00 am OC: VP Patrick Lee

Event: ROTARY INSTITUTE 2017 - TAIPEI: ZONES 6B, 7A AND 10B Date: December 1st till 3rd, 2017. Venue: Grand Hotel, No.1, Sec. 4, Zhongshan N. Rd., Zhongshan Dist, Taipei City 10461, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

BIRTHDAYS

Name: Rtn Lawrence Kwan Date: 2 Aug Name: Rtn Tenny Lee Date: 12 Aug Name: Sannice Soh Date: 21 Aug Name: Suit Yong (spouse of PP Sam) Date: 1 Aug

ANNIVERSARIES

Name: Rtn Sarkunan & Devi Date: 27 Aug

CONDOLENCES PP Teoh Chye Kiat passed away on 22 July

2017. Wake was on Monday 24 & Tuesday 25

at Nirvana Memorial Hall in Kuchai Lama.

DONATION Lyn Teoh, daughter of our late PP Teoh Chye Kiat, has donated RM10,000 for a memorial scholarship under PP Teoh Chye Keat. The money was e-banked into Pudu Rotary Club account.

NEXT ISSUE 21 AUG 2017 Look forward for pictorial reports on the significant events of July namely: the Installation Dinner, the sister clubs fellowship and the Jenjarom visit



DISTRICT NEWS

I would like to take this opportunity to re-mind all Rotarians, especially those holding a position in Rotary, to register and get ac-quainted with Rotary Club Central for that is the way forward for all future dealings in Ro-tary. The Rotary.org website has been re-freshed and the Rotary Foundation grant application process has been made simple for your easy usage. We want to achieve a 100% registration rate in MY Rotary. The increase in the number of Rotaract clubs in our District augurs well for the fu-ture leaders in our District. We must engage these young leaders in all our projects and activities and continue to develop knowl-edgeable leaders for generations to come. Only then will they feel a sense of belonging and remain in the Rotary family. The Organ Donation Awareness team is working very hard to ensure that our aware-ness campaign will be a successful one by the end of this Rotary year. You will be hearing from us very soon. We Rotarians work and see differently: Our multidisciplinary perspective helps us see challenges in unique ways. We think differently: We apply leadership and expertise to social issues – and find unique solutions. We act responsibly: Our passion and perse-verance create lasting change.

We make a difference at home and around the world: Our members can be found in your community and across the globe. That’s the theme for this Rotary year – ROTARY: MAK-ING A DIFFERENCE. So , let’s make that difference.

Dr Manohur Kurup District Governor 2017/18.

Dear Fellow Rotarians, This new Rotary year began with the handover of the Governor’s jewel from IPDG Darul Ab-dullah to me on 30th June 2017. The event was hosted by the Rotary Club of Bandar Sun-way and was witnessed by Rotarians from clubs all across the Klang Valley, my friends and my family members. Several Rotarians and friends even stayed on past midnight to welcome me as the new District Governor on the 1st of July. I was very touched by the kind gesture. In Rotary, no one can hold on to the leader-ship seat no matter how good one is or how difficult it may be to vacate that seat at the end of the term. Yes, it is only for one short year. Hence, my dear Assistant Governors, District Officers and Presidents, we as a team have to execute our plans immediately as we only have 365 days to do so. The biggest problem in our District is that of membership. More than 25% of the clubs have a membership of less than 20 members. We must attempt to arrest this problem which has been constantly plaguing the clubs. All Rotarians, with the support of their Assistant Governors and Club Presidents, have an obli-gation to address this issue. I sincerely hope that all Presidents will recognize this as a problem and genuinely strive to have at least 20 members at any one time. With the right numbers, the clubs will be able to function more effectively to serve the community. One of the areas in membership that we have failed at is that of attracting Bumiputera mem-bers. This year, we have appointed Rotarians from the Rotary Club of Kg Baru City Center to attract and engage them in Rotary. We, at the District, will give them all the necessary aid to accomplish their mission. We have the dy-namic Past Presidents Natasha and Qamilee-ta who are enthusiastic about Rotary and they will spearhead this Bumiputera membership attraction program. Their first promotion will be at the Raya Get-together on 15th July 2017. I sincerely hope that many Rotarians will attend and support this event.



RI NEWS

Sam F. Owori

President Ian Resley an-nounced the sad news: "Sam had undergone some surgery in Texas that he had been planning for some time, and there were post-operative complica-tions from which he could-n’t recover. President-elect of Rotary International, Sam Owori, died last night. Sam was a special person in so many ways, and is a huge loss".

Owori was chief executive officer of the Institute of Corporate Governance of Uganda. Earlier, he was executive director of the African Development Bank, managing director of Uganda Commercial Bank Ltd., and director of Uganda Development Bank. He has studied law, employment relations, business management, corporate resources management, microfinance, and marketing at institutions in Eng-land, Japan, Switzerland, Tanzania, and the United States, including Harvard Business School. . Since becoming a Rotarian in 1978, Owori has served Rotary as regional Rotary Foundation coor-dinator, regional RI membership coordinator, RI Representative to the United Nations Environment Program and UN-Habitat, and RI director. He has been a member or chair of several committees, in-cluding the International PolioPlus Committee, the Drug Abuse Prevention Task Force, and the Audit Committee. Most recently, Owori served as Trustee of The Rotary Foundation, chair of The Rotary Foundation's Finance Committee, and a member of the Investment Committee. Owori is a Benefactor of The Rotary Foundation, and he and his wife, Norah, are Major Donors and Paul Harris Fellows. Sam was the first Ugandan and just the second Ro-tarian from Africa to be elected to the highest office of Rotary International.

CHANGES IN COL

1. Minutes must be taken for all weekly club meetings and Club assemblies

2. No limitations on Members with same classification

3. Two meetings a month:

a) Need not be at same venue

b) Need not be on same day***

c) Projects can be considered a meeting

d) Fellowship can be considered a meeting

4. Various categories of members are considered eg

a) Ordinary member

b) Honorary Member

c) Corporate Member

d) Senior Exempt

5. A member is considered active if he pays his dues and is able to support the club financially / assist in funding (although he does not attend regular meetings)

6. A member is considered active if he pays his dues and attends projects and club fellowship (not necessarily to attend regular meetings)

7. RI dues must be paid by 31st January and 31st July of each half of the RY

8. A member terminated / leaves the club with dues outstand-ing will not be able to join another club (Secretary to update RI list with the reasons - it's in objective form)

9. Clubs can pay/subscribe to “The Rotarian” and have it post-ed directly to potential and or ex members who are interested or assists the cub in various methods - ( notably financially)

10. President / Secretary to engage the PPs to ensure they are active by inviting them to do the following:

a) Make announcement on their behalf at weekly meetings

b) Organising DG's visit

c) Others like fining session, introduction & thanking of speakers etc

11. Club projects to be posted on Rotary Club Central which will act as an archive

12. Attendance to be submitted as usual to District Attendance Secretary

13. Membership growth - 10% net

14. Clubs to make use of District and Global grants as D3300 has the least requests annually .



RI NEWS — TRF

Extracted from Annual Report RY 2015-16



RI NEWS — MEMBERSHIP COURSES

These online courses are available at RI. Register here http://learn.rotary.org/Pages/Catalog/coursecatalog.aspx?subject=111

http://learn.rotary.org/Pages/Catalog/coursecatalog.aspx?subject=111



THOTS FOR THE WEEK — MEMBERSHIP

100 WAYS TO RECRUIT NEW MEMBERS: Clubs are always looking for ways to grow and recruit new members, There are many things club members can do in order to attract new members. Here, you’ll find a hundred viable approaches that one could use in order to recruit more members. 1. Ask someone 2. Bring a guest to meetings 3. Advertise in newspapers & cable TV 4. Have a clear club goal & a strategic plan 5. Letters or personal contact with local businesses 6. Contact with Chamber of Commerce 7. Place customized bookmarks in library books 8. Have public meetings at malls, outdoors, etc 9. Have a booth at malls, fairs, festivals etc. 10. Place pamphlets in doctors’ offices, hospitals, cafe-terias, libraries, etc. 11. Host an Open House 12. Hold a club assembly only on membership 13. If you have a Rotary Club, ask Rotary Foundation alumni to join 14. Give the membership chair one minute at every club meeting 15. Make the membership chair a club director 16. Put together guest information packets 17. Service projects that serve a need in the community 18. Invite family members to join 19. Send letters to people in the news with an invitation to visit the club 20. Print club business cards with club meeting location and time 21. Distribute extra copies of magazines that relate to your club in waiting rooms, etc (ie Rotarian) 22. Hold high-profile meetings 23. Hold wine and cheese receptions for prospective members 24. Ask for help from RIMC/RIMZC 25. Have a special guest day 26. Send club members to district membership seminar 27. Make prospective members feel important 28. Honour outstanding community members with awards 29. Don’t take age into consideration 30. Make some meetings social events 31. Build a club website 32. Use group email to promote your club 33. Put posters in public areas 34. Ask corporations and employers to sponsor or sub-sidize membership 35. Have a reward program for those who bring in new members 36. Create more fun 37. Give a money back guarantee—if after 3 months a new member does not want to be a club member, return their fees 38. Invite the media to cover well-known speakers 39. Use word of mouth

40. Network with co-workers, friends, and family 41. Follow up with guests 42. Place a coloured dot on the watch of every member to remind them to bring a guest 43. Lead by example—how many members have you re-cruited? 44. Have members give talks at other organizations 45. Provide guests with free meals 46. Update your clubs classification survey 47. Look for members in ethnic groups not represented in your club 48. Provide brochures for new employee packets in mem-bers companies 49. Advertise at sports events 50. Ask the district for help 51. Hold joint meetings with other groups 52. Share your club experience with others 53. Participate in community events 54. Write letters to the newspaper about the campaigns your club is working on 55. If a prospect can’t attend your meeting due to time, suggest another club 56. Publicize club successes, elections, events, in local newspapers 57. Circulate the club newsletter widely 58. Design a club brochure 59. Hold recruiting events with two or more clubs 60. Form/join a speakers’ bureau 61. Wear your club's pin 62. Mention your club at meetings of other organizations during announcements 63. Send newsletter to guests 64. When asked about your leadership skills & career suc-cess, tell them about your club 65. Ask the AG to attend a board meeting to talk about membership 66. Ask every member to submit 3 prospects to the mem-bership chair 67. Make it FUN 68. Give every member a club decal or bumper stickers for their car 69. Give testimonials about your club while guests are at the meeting 70. Repeatedly invite prospective members 71. Practice selling your club at Club meetings—have a one-minute elevator speech ready 72. Conduct a Membership Satisfaction Survey (RI Publi-cation #417) 73. The club president asks three club members as a per-sonal favour to each recruit one new member 74. Bring your boss to a club meeting 75. Make direct contact with women’s business associa-tions 76. Bring your co-workers to a club meeting 77. Bring your subordinates to a club meeting 78. Have new member kits 79. Use books, brochures, videos and posters from RI 80. Hand out invitation cards for a “Free” lunch (breakfast, dinner)



THOTS FOR THE WEEK

81. Have members constantly promote and rave about your club 82. Meet at a good location 83. Assign every member to a 5 person recruitment team—each team brings in a new member every six months 84. Develop a strategic plan of membership is a year-round priority and needs to be planned 85. Have incentives for recruitment 86. Have a large poster that lists all the members who have sponsored a new member in the past year 87. Select a missing classification and work on filling it 88. Display a thermometer showing progress towards club goal 89. Feature a member’s “benefit of the month” in the club newsletter 90. Induct new members with piazzas & invite spouse/partner 91. Develop a welcome letter from the president for all new members 92. Contact all members who have resigned in the past three years 93. Use billboards at bus stops and road-sides 94. Ask club members to put club ads on their com-mercial trucks 95. Recognize new members in newsletters 96. Regularly check the RI website for ideas 97. Subscribe to the Rotary Membership Minute on the RI website 98. Invite spouses to social functions 99. Ask recipients of Rotary service or donations to speak for Rotary 100.Pass out M & M candy to remind members that “Membership Matters” and that we need “More Mem-bers” Article originally appeared in November 2004 issue of Membership Matters, written by Chris Offer. Source: Membership Matters, Vol. 4 No. 5 November

2004. Sent by Whatsapp by President Jeffery Yap.

So, what are we going to do about it. The old meth-ods didn’t work. How about trying out a completely different method, viz: 1. Membership Chair to be upgraded to Director,

as recommended by RI under CLP, and empha-sised at every District Training Assembly.

2. Research the number of students, Interactors,

Rotaractors, GSE, IYE and Peace scholars that have benefitted from our Rotary largesse.

3. Compile the number of scholarship awardees

over past years. Any of them joined Rotary? 4 Try out a few of the above 100 ways — the

ones marked in red.

OXYMORONS 1. Is it good if a vacuum really sucks? 2. Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand? 3. If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? 4. If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words? 5. Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack? 6. Why does "slow down" and "slow up" mean the same thing? 7. Why does "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing? 8. Why do "tug" boats push their barges? 9. Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game" when we are already there? 10. Why are they called " stands" when they are made for sitting? 11. Why is it called "after dark" when it really is "after light"? 12. Doesn't "expecting the unexpected" make the unexpected expected? 13. Why are a "wise man" and a "wise guy" oppo-sites? 14. Why do "overlook" and "oversee" mean oppo-site things? 15. Why is "phonics" not spelled the way it sounds? 16. If work is so terrific, why do they have to pay you to do it? 17.. If all the world is a stage, where is the audi-ence sitting? 18. If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? 19. If you are cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right? 20. Why is bra singular and panties plural? 21.. Why do you press harder on the buttons of a remote control when you know the batteries are dead? 22. Why do we put suits in garment bags and gar-ments in a suitcase? 23. How come abbreviated is such a long word? 24. Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them? 25.. Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?



ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

A MAN SEES THINGS DIFFERENTLY THAN A WOMAN DOES! For all men and women who remember the past: How different we are! A wife was curious when she found an old negative in a drawer, so she had it made into a print. She was pleasantly surprised to see that it was of her at a much younger, slim-mer time. It was taken many years ago on one of her first dates with her hus-band.

When she showed him the photo, his face lit up. "Wow! Look at that!", he said with appreciation. "THAT’S MY OLD FORD!!!”

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