get a special pin to wear with

your Rotary gearwheel. But

we all know that the job of

growing membership doesn't

end when a new member

joins. It ends only when a

new member is enjoying be-

ing a Rotarian and never

wants to leave! And making

sure that our clubs are enjoy-

able places to be is a key part

of growing membership.

People come into Rotary for

all kinds of reasons, but they

stay because Rotary is fun to

be a part of. So I want to

remind all of you to have fun

in your clubs and your dis-

tricts. Rotary is based on the

idea that our service is more

effective when we serve to-

gether with our friends. So

let's enjoy our Rotary ser-

vice, share it with others, and

Light Up Rotary together!

In Rotary,

we mark

August as

Member -

ship and

Extension

M o n t h .

There is a

good rea-

son why we remind ourselves of

the importance of membership

early in every Rotary year: be-

cause the job of growing our

membership is one that we can

never begin too soon. It is also a

job that we can never stop

working on. In order to keep

serving, Rotary always needs to

be growing!

We have talked for many years

about the importance of the

family of Rotary. In this Rotary

year, I want to make not just the

family of Rotary, but our own

Rotary families, a priority in

our membership. After 37 years

of following me in Rotary, my

wife, Corinna, finally became a

Rotarian last year. We attended

the chartering of a new club in

Taiwan together, and she said,

"It's time for me to become a

Rotarian too!" So she joined

that club. And soon, so did a lot

of other people. Now that club

has 102 members, and it's the

second-largest club in Taiwan.

Inviting our spouses into Rotary

isn't just about getting our num-

bers up. It addresses the reality

that Rotary still has far more

men as members than it does

women, and that is something

we need to work on. When we

bring more women into Rotary,

our clubs become more appeal-

ing to prospective female mem-

bers – and become more pro-

ductive as well.

This year we are going to have

something new in Rotary: a

membership support team pin.

This means that if you invite a

new member into Rotary, you

I would like

to convey

my warm

g r e e t i n g s

and best

wishes to all

R o t a r i a n s

and their

families and

especially to our Muslim

friends a “Selamat Hari Raya”.

While the holiday season has

helped most of us to rejuvenate,

our thoughts and prayers go to

the families and friends of those

innocent lives lost in the MH17

tragedy. We hope and pray that

the Almighty would give them

the strength to withstand this

tragedy and the loss of their

loved ones.

August is Membership and

Extension Month.

I have just completed my

first 40 days as your Gover-

nor and over the past several

weeks, I have attended many

Installation functions and

events of many Rotary Clubs

in our District.

RI President’s

Message

1

DG’s Message 1 - 2

Bulletin Editor’s Message

2

Rotary Regional

I-Quiz 2014

3

Induction of

Stephen Tan Kheng

4

Life & Experiences

in Australia by

Lloyd Yeoh

4

Roster on Wheels 5

Programmes Birthdays & Anniversaries

5

Message from PP

Jeffrey Tan

6

PRESIDENT

WILLIAM WEE

PP VINCENT LAI

LILY WONG

JASON NG

Membership retention is important although our mem-

bership turnover is not that critical. We still need to do

our best to ensure members have the interest to stay

and build on solidarity and good fellowship at every

club meeting.

This is the second month of the publication of our Is-

lander and we would certainly like to see more contri-

butions from the members to provide some articles of

interest to the club . The Bulletin Committee appreci-

ates members for their contributions, but we feel

more members can do more to bring forth improve-

ment for our own reading pleasure.

This August issue will have some more photographs

of the Charity Fine Dining Event, The District Inter-

act Quiz, the induction of a new member and also

some pictures of speakers in Club Meetings and also

a list of Anniversaries and Birthdays of our Rotary

Family in August .

August is Rotary Membership

Extension and Retention month.

Since the new Rotary year has

just started, it is also a time to

renew our energy to give the

club a new lease of life. One of

the ways is for the Board

members themselves to take the

lead to bring new members into

the club during their year of

office.

I am glad President William Wee himself had fulfilled

his promise by inducting Mr. Stephan Tan, as a

member of the club . Let us hope there will be more

from the Board members and I am also encouraging

members of the club to do the same. Remember by

doing so we are also helping the District Governor of

District 3300, to fulfill the District Goal on Member-

ship.

With the help and assistance of Com-

munications Committee, we have been

able to keep our members posted imme-

diately, through the social media, on the

Governor’s visit together with other

official functions and activities in the

District. I must acknowledge my appre-

ciation and thanks to all My Best Class

Presidents and the members, for the as-

sistance and the warm hospitality which

I received from all Clubs. You indeed

are helping me to “Light Up Rotary.”

I commenced my official Club Visits to

Clubs in August and by the time this

Monthly Governor’s Newsletter reaches

you, I am sure I would have visited at

least six to eight Clubs. I have wit-

nessed a number of Inductions during

the Installation Ceremonies. This is a

good start. Please encourage your

friends and families to join Rotary. I

hope to be witnessing more during my

many official Club visits. My goal is to

reach a total Membership of 2000 dur-

ing our Rotary Year and RI President

Gary Huang wants to take our Global

membership to 1.3 million. My friends,

I have no doubt that if each one of us

makes a commitment of bringing in one

new member, we would be able to

achieve our goal. I am told that our

Membership Growth and Retention

Committee has set some goals towards

Membership Growth. We are hoping to

form at least three New Clubs. There is

also possibility of setting up an E-Club.

Perhaps to some of our Rotary Spouses

may find the E-Club a good alternative

to join. While we are emphasizing our

Membership Growth, please remember

that we would also wish to retain our

existing members.

I am also reminded of the pledge that all

of us take, when we are inducted into

Rotary. “While we can just accept you

as a member of the Rotary Club, only

you can make yourself a Rotarian.”

With this, my Rotary friends, I would

urge you all to become “Rotarians” by

your own actions, words and deeds by

living up to the “4 Way Test.”

I am also pleased to inform that most

of our District Projects such as the

Essay Writing Competition, Rotary

Kasih, and Interact Quiz have all

taken off the ground. The Essay

Writing Competition was officially

launched by YB. P Kamalanathan,

Deputy Minister of Education on 10th

August 2014 in conjunction with the

3 Pillars Seminar.

We are also working hard to launch

“Our Journey Together… Rotary

D3300 Story” Coffee Table Book

project soon. I am hoping to receive

100% support from all Rotary Clubs

in our District Projects.

I am confident that with the support

of all Clubs, Rotarians and Friends of

Rotary, we will indeed “Light Up

Rotary”

In Rotary Service,

Kirenjit Kaur,

District Governor

On 2nd August 2014, The I-QUIZ 2014, for the

Interact Clubs of the Northern Region of Ma-

laysia, was held at SENTRAL College

Penang. It was based on general knowledge

and a wide range of subjects from serious

business to trivial stuff covering subjects like

Geography, History, Science, Films, Music

and Sports. Dr. Nagiah Ramasamy of Rotary

Club of Bandar Sunway Rotary International

District 3300, Mr. Shan Sundram, the Organiz-

ing Chairman and also many other Rotarians

were on hand to assist the smooth running of

the event which was organized by the Rotary

Club of Butterworth and sponsored by SEN-

TRAL College.

The IQUIZ event is a Rotary District 3300

event and was started in 2007 in Kuala Lum-

pur, and this year will be its 7th edition and in

the Northern Region, it will be its first. This first

general knowledge quiz which was held in

SENTRAL College, is meant to promote to

young people especially the young Interactors

the cause of Rotary, Rotaract and Interact, in

addition to instilling good values & ethics, in

order to promote healthy competition and to

enhance English language skills.

Since its inception 7 years ago, this competi-

tion has become a much looked-forward-to

event for our young Interactors. This is clearly

shown by the increasing number of teams par-

ticipating each year. In fact, this regional com-

petition saw 75 teams vying for the top posi-

tions. Other regional events were also held in

Selangor, Sarawak, Sabah, Johor and Melaka.

The First I-QUIZ in SENTRAL College gave the

Interactors in Penang the opportunity not only

to test their knowledge in a variety of general

topics, including on Malaysia, Rotary and Inter-

act. Winners at the Northern region level were

awarded full and partial tuition scholarships

worth a total of RM145,000 to pursue their di-

ploma studies at SENTRAL College, a Chal-

lenge Trophy and many attractive prizes for the

participants and their schools.

The champions were the Eureka Team from

SMK Tinggi Bukit Mertajam, whilst the 1st run-

ners-up were the MBS Team from Methodist

Boys’ School and in third place was Erudite

Team from SMK Convent Green Lane; fourth

place went to Bingo! Team from SMJK Keat

Hwa and fifth place was the Ruby Team from

SMK Convent Bukit Mertajam and in sixth place

was Hello Team from SMJK Heng Ee.

President William Wee proposed Stephen Tan Kheng Siong

and Vice Chairman Stephen Soon introduced Stephen Tan

during the induction. Induction and oath taking was conducted

by President William Wee.

Stephen Tan who is 47 yrs old was born in Ipoh, Perak. He

completed his education at Chung Ling High School, Penang.

He started his career with a local film production company

and then he went into Mass Communication. With his interest

in the field of Mass Communication, he went into Advertis-

ing. Later he switched to IT and the Digital Industry.

Now he has moved on to the Project Sales and Management

segment for the past 10 years.

With his vast professional experience, Stephen still finds time

to get himself very much involved in social and community

work. His hobbies are water sports, reading and jogging. Wel-

come to the club, Stephen.

“LIFE AND EXPERIENCES IN

PERTH, AUSTRALIA” BY

EX-ROTARIAN LLOYD YEOH

ON 20TH AUGUST 2014

AT TRADERS HOTEL PENANG

Ex-Rotarian Lloyd Yeoh and his family

migrated to Perth, Australia in 2006.

His reason for migration was for the

education of his 2 daughters. As new

migrants, they were given government

assistance to start a new life including

help from “CentreLink” and

“Medicare”. The Local State Govern-

ment assisted them when they bought

their 1st home.

His wife, Joanne, and himself have

been very active raising funds for local

charities including “Lifeline” (Anti-

Suicide Help Line) and Harry Perkins

Institute of Medical Research

(focussing on breast and ovarian cancer

research for Western Australians).

Both he and his wife participated in a

Seven-Day 170km pilgrim walk from

Perth to New Norcia in late August last

year. Together with 4 other friends, they

raised above A$20,000/-.

They walked 60km in 2 days around Perth

this March for “A Weekend to End

Women’s Cancers”. The total collection

was @ A$2.2 million between 845 walk-

ers.

Even though Lloyd is not a Rotarian now,

he is a Rotarian at heart. He said he will

join Rotary again later when he is more

stabilised financially. He is now commit-

ted to finance both his daughters’ educa-

tion.

Thank you, Lloyd for sharing your life

experiences with us. You will always

remain a Rotarian at heart.

SAA Dr. Gill introduced IPP Arvind to our members.

RC Bandar Sungai Petani is the first Rotary Club in RI Dis-

trict 3300 to use this mobile application “Roster on

Wheels” (ROW) – Connecting Rotarians Globally. Yearly

the club has to pay USD100. This application can be

downloaded on to a SMART PHONE, TABLET and “I

PAD”.

To regularly update club and member data and club activities

there should be an Administrator with IT knowledge to assist

club members. This application helps us to remember birth-

days and anniversaries of fellow Rotarians and spouses,

search and connect Rotarians globally just by their Name,

City/Club or Classification, CLUB ROSTER etc.

A Certificate of Appreciation was presented by President

William Wee to IPP Arvind.

4/8 BOARD MEETING

6/8 LUNCH MEETING

13/8 LUNCH MEETING

20/8 DINNER MEETING

(INDUCTION OF NEW MEMBER,

MR. STEPHEN TAN)

SPEAKER: LLOYD YEOH

(EX-ROTARIAN OF RC PENANG

from PERTH, AUSTRALIA)

27/8 DINNER MEETING

SPEAKER: IPP ARVIND

GOPI KUMAR of RC OF

BANDAR SUNGAI PETANI

Topics: i) ROW (Roster on Wheels)

ii) RI Convention 2014 in Sydney

BIRTHDAYS

4/8 Daljit Kaur

(Ann of Rtn. Dr. Gurdev Singh Gill)

Carmen Chew

(Ann of Rtn. Lim Teck Seng)

17/8 Aldina

(Ann of Rtn. Michel Van Crombrugge)

27/8 Stephen Tan Kheng Siong

To:

President William Wee

The Organising Committee of the

Rotary Club of Penang Charity

Gala Dinner 19th July 2014.

Dato’ Seri Lau Wai Seang

(State Liason and Protocol)

PP Vincent Lai

PDG Dr. Khoo Boo Khean

PP Chuah Ah Bah

PP Dato’ Tan Gin Soon

PP Lee Li Fong

PP Francois Sigrist

Rtn. Stephen Soon Chee Leng

Sonny Yeoh Beng Hoe

On behalf of the participating

Chefs (Florent Gerardin, Markk

Normoyle, Ikuei Arakane, Pier-

rick Boyer), our Event Manager

(Roslyn Foo) and colleague

(Daniel Limmy), please allow me

to formally say ‘Thank you” for

your invitation and the opportu-

nity to participate at the recent

most successful, fulfilling and life

changing Charity Gala Dinner of

the Rotary Club of Penang.

Throughout the whole 5 days and

its entire journey, your support

and hospitality was simply the

very best and your friendship

which we have developed and

enhanced will always be treas-

ured.

On a personal basis, thank you for

being part of our ‘Cooking for Char-

ity Initiative’ in which just over A$2

million dollars have now been raised

for various charities including your

preferred charities such as:

Rotary Club of Penang Joblink Cen-

tre

The Penang Rotary Haemodialysis

Centre

The Penang Rotary Home Nursing

for the Elderly

It is an honour for us to meet so

many of you - Rotarians; each has a

golden heart making this world a

better place and thank you for the

opportunity to be part of this journey

through our sharing of Culinary

Creations.

I look forward to extend and recipro-

cate your kind hospitality to you and

your members in Melbourne soon

should you plan to come over for a

holiday.

Thank you and God bless.