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Transcript of ISSUE 22
EditorialVol. LVIII No. 22 Friday,30 th Nov., 2012
Editor :Rtn. PP Ranjit PandaChaterjee lane, Near Old Bus Stand,Berhampur- 760001Cell : 9437011024
Co- Editor :Rtn. T. ParthasarathyS/o. T.V. RaoChurch Road, Berhampur- 760001Cell : 9583367444
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Rotary Club of Berhampur
“A Rotary club gives us an opportunity that no social,
political, or specialized business club can do. It is strong
on the human side; it stands for the individual, unfetters
him, appeals to his originality, brings out his latent
powers, and puts him at his best by extending him the
full measure of his confidence and appealing to the best
that is in him — ‘service not self.’ “
— 1912-13 RI President Glenn C. Mead
in The National Rotarian , January 1912
INDIVIDUAL RECOGNITIONIndividual donors
T he Rotary Foundation offers several ways to recognize
Rotarians and friends for their generous support.
Sustaining Member
Anyone who contributes US$100 or more per year to the
Annual Fund is automatically recognized as a Rotary
Foundation Sustaining Member.
Sustaining Members are critical to the Foundation. If
every club member contributed $100 every year, Rotary
could nearly double its efforts to help needy people
worldwide and support the continued growth of its
programs.
All gifts cumulatively count toward other Foundation
recognition programs.
Benefactor
You may become a Benefactor by making the Permanent
Fund a beneficiary in your estate plans or by donating
$1,000 or more to the fund outright. Benefactors receive
a custom certificate and insignia to wear with a Rotary
or Paul Harris Fellow pin.
Bequest Society
Couples or individuals who have made commitments of
$10,000 or more in their estate plans, such as in a will,
living trust, or through whole or universal life insurance,
can become Bequest Society members.
PROGRAM TODAY : Felicitation of PHF’s and MPHF’s.
PROGRAM NEXT WEEK (7th Dec 2012) : Inauguration of Family of Rotary month
All Bequest Society members receive recognition from
the Trustees of The Rotary Foundation. Donors may elect
to receive an engraved crystal recognition piece and a
Bequest Society pin. Unless you request to not receive
recognition you will be recognized automatically upon
notification of your bequest commitment.
Paul Harris Fellow
Donors of US$1,000 or more to the Annual Fund,
PolioPlus, or an approved Foundation grant, or people
who have that amount contributed in their name, can
be recognized as Paul Harris Fellows.
Major Donor
The Rotary Foundation recognizes couples or individuals
whose combined personal, or cumulative giving has
reached $10,000. All outright contributions made to the
Foundation are included in this total, regardless of the
gift designation.
Donors may elect to receive a crystal recognition piece
and a Major Donor lapel pin or pendant. Recognition
items commemorate giving at each recognition level:
Level Contribution (US$)
4 $100,000 to $249,999
3 $50,000 to $99,999
2 $25,000 to $49,999
1 $10,000 to $24,999
Arch C. Klumph Society
Donors whose cumulative gifts total US$250,000 qualify
for the Arch C. Klumph Society. Qualifiers are invited to
an induction ceremony at RI headquarters in Evanston,
and their pictures and biographies are installed in the
Arch C. Klumph Society interactive gallery. Arch C.
Klumph Society members also receive invitations to
special society events, along with membership pins and
crystals that commemorate giving at each level.
LEVEL CONTRIBUTION (US$)Foundation Circle $1 million and above
Chair’s Circle $500,000 to $999,999
Trustees Circle $250,000 to $499,999
The Rotary Foundation at workWith program awards totaling more than US$200 million
in 2009-10, The Rotary Foundation provides financial
support for a wide range of humanitarian and educational
programs initiated by local clubs and districts around the
world. The Foundation has earned a grade of A+ from the
American Institute of Philanthropy , a top rating of four
stars from Charity Navigator, and full accreditation from
the Wise Giving Alliance of the Better Business Bureau.
Only 2.3 percent of Foundation funding goes to
administrative expenses, and 7.3 percent goes to
fundraising. The Foundation focuses more than 90
percent of its spending on programs, far exceeding the
threshold of 75 percent that independent charity-rating
services view as a measure of high efficiency.
That comes as no surprise to Foundation Trustee Steve
Brown, who expresses confidence that the organization’s
grant application and review process contains the
safeguards necessary to ensure that funds are used wisely.
Typically, Brown explains, international projects funded
by the Foundation involve a sponsor club or district, which
partners with an on-site host club or district. Funding
may go through the sponsor or host. To implement a
project, clubs must spell out what they plan on doing,
how they plan on doing it, and what Rotarians’ involvement
will be. All projects require a detailed budget and often
additional supporting documentation before receiving
Foundation approval.
Once an approved project is funded, says Brown, a
detailed progress report must be presented within one
year. The reporting includes verification of what has
happened (usually with photos) and requires copies of
bank statements showing the flow of funds. The
presidents of either the host or sponsor club must sign
off on the report.
The Foundation has a stewardship committee that can
review a project and impose a resolution if issues occur.
If money was improperly spent, a club can be asked to
return funds or even have its membership in Rotary
International terminated.
“You don’t want to have everything controlled from
Evanston,” Brown says. “We probably have more
complaints about our rigorous stewardship than applause
for it. But 99 percent of the time, things go the way we
expect.”
Global grant helps pediatric heart surgery project inIndia, Pakistan By Daniela Garcia Rotary News — 20
September 2012
A Rotary Foundation global grant of over US$54,000 is
helping to fund Heart to Heart, which provides surgeries
for children with congenital heart disease in India and
Pakistan. The project supports the maternal and child
health area of focus under the Foundation’s Future Vision
Plan.
Rotary clubs from districts 3240 (India) and 5340 (USA)
raised funds and sponsored children whose families could
not afford the life-saving surgery, which was performed
at Durgapur Mission Hospital in West Bengal, India.
During his term as governor of District 3240, Ashok Kumar
Agarwal learned that the Rotary Club of Imphal in Manipur
had sponsored 22 children for surgery. Among them was
Rishikanta, a 7-year-old boy whose story was turned into
the award-winning film Heart to Heart.
Agarwal took up the cause and decided to provide
surgeries to young children from poor families with
congenital heart defects. “I pegged the final figure at
100 children for this project,” he says.
Agarwal hopes that, in addition to improving the health
and quality of life for children with congenital heart
defects, Heart to Heart will help the children become
active members of their communities and the project
will improve India’s relations with the neighboring country
of Pakistan .
The Rotary Club of Vista, California, in District 5340 is
the project’s international sponsor. The club has worked
on similar efforts, including a mobile medical van project
that stemmed from a club member’s trip to India.
Past Vista president Matt Koumaras says it was important
to club members not just to help children “in such
desperate need, but also to bring some sense of
community.”
Past District Governor Larry Sundram, also a Vista club
member, helped promote and implement the project, and
five other clubs from District 5340 helped financially
sponsor children who qualified for surgery.
In 2010, District 3240 partnered with Korean districts
3660 and 3630 to establish Heart to Heart, and received
a $70,000 Foundation grant that helped provide surgery
to 46 children. Additional funds were raised for more
surgeries, with the project benefitting 56 children total
that year.
Agarwal says that with this second grant, along with
additional funds and contributions, he’ll be able to reach
his initial goal of helping 100 children.
The Barack Obama- Mahatma Gandhi
connectionIf the world’s most powerful man looks upon someone as
a hero, think the power that hero has on the minds of
people. That’s the power of Gandhi. And President Barack
Obama is a self-confessed fan.
Obama is such a fan that he prefers Gandhi’s company
to his other hero, another former American President,
Abraham Lincoln.
In 2009, when Obama was visiting the Wakefield High
School in Arlington, Virginia, a ninth grader had asked
him a tricky question. The student, named Lily had asked
the president: “And if you could have dinner with anyone,
dead or alive, who would it be?”
Obama chuckled and answered: “Well, you know, dead or
alive, that’s a pretty big list. You know, I think that it
might be Gandhi, who is a real hero of mine.”
A brief history of OdissiOdissi dance originated in the temples of Orissa ( East
India) and was performed as an offering and means
of worship. This devotional danceform has been
passed on from guru to disciple for over 2,000 years.
Odissi was performed by Mahari, female temple
dancers, in front of the presiding deity of Orissa, Lord
Jagannath.
The practice of temple dancing sufferded a decline as
the Mughals invaded former Orissa and the temple
dancers lost their financial support. Dancers were also
taken to the courts to perform as mere entertainment.
The dance lost its spiritual status and finally dancers
were unjustly seen as almost equal to prostitutes.
During the 1930s and 1940s the Mahari and odissi
dance were practically extinct.
Instead another type of dance was performed by boys
dressed as girls. These young boys, Gotipua, were
trained in a more acrobatic and theatrical variant of
odissi. The Gotipua toured villages and they never
performed inside the temples as the Mahari.
Odissi as it is performed today at dancestages all over
India and the world is the fruitful product of a
reconstruction made during the middle of the 2000th
century. A group of dedicated scholars, enthusiasts and
dance gurus earlier trained as gotipua dancers did
careful researches in old scriptures and studied the
rich heritage of sculpture, painting and poetry of
Orissa. They also observed and did interviews with
the few numbers of Mahari still alive and found a lot
of material in the steps and movements from the
gotipua dance. In this way a dance form was created
which is believed to be close to the original dance of
the Mahari. Today odissi is a very popular and
wellspread danceform and is given the status of one
of the eight classical dances of India.
The President and members throughChilka presents their warm wishes andwishes many more happy returns of theday to the following Birthday Rotariansof the last week :Rtn. K. Raj Kumar Senapati – 25th NovRtn. K.Prasant Kumar – 27th Nov
Rtn. PP Dr. D.J.J.Swamy – 29th NovRtn. M.Kameswari – 29th Nov
The President and members through Chilka presentstheir warm wishes to the following Rotarians whocelebrated his wedding anniversary in the last week :Rtn. Pradyumna Bisoi – 26th NovRtn. PP V.V.R.N Rao – 28th NovRtn. D.Praveen Kumar – 29th NovRtn. V.Srinivas Rao – 29th NovRtn. Er. S.N.Sahani – 30th Nov
The President went on to say: “Now, it would probably bea really small meal because, he didn’t eat a lot. But he’ssomebody who I find a lot of inspiration in. He inspiredDr. (Martin Luther) King, so if it hadn’t been for the non-violent movement in India, you might not have seen thesame non-violent movement for civil rights here in theUnited States.”
The Obama-Gandhi connection goes back a long way.When he was contesting for the post of the US president,Obama’s slogan, that won him votes as well as hearts,was “Be the change.” It was inspired by one of Gandhi’smost famous quotes, “Be the change you want to see inthe world.”
Obama makes it a point to invoke Gandhi on numerousoccasions. When praising the people of Egypt last yearfor their peaceful protests and welcoming the end of HosniMubarak’s 30-year-rule, he said, ‘’While the sights andsounds that we heard were entirely Egyptian, we can’thelp but hear the echoes of history: echoes from Germanstearing down a wall, Indonesian students taking to thestreets, Gandhi leading his people down the path ofjustice.’
At his old Senate office, there were three framedphotographs behind him - Martin Luther King Jr, AbrahamLincoln, and of course, Gandhi. ‘The impression on theIndian side is every time you meet him, he talks aboutGandhi,’ the editor of an Indian newspaper had onceremarked rather unkindly.
A large part of his visit to India was dedicated to exploringGandhi. ‘He is a hero not just to India, but to the world,’the president wrote in a guest book when he visitedGandhi’s modest former home in Mumbai, now the ManiBhavan museum. He also remarked that it was a ‘greatbook’ because he read out the entry made by anotherone of his heroes, King, when the latter had visited ManiBhavan in 1959. Unlike Obama’s more presonalisedremark, however, King’s entry was a general, ‘Pretty cool.’Obama had also visited Rajghat during his stay in India.
Even during his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Obamahad invoked Gandhi, calling himself the ‘living testimonyto the moral force’ of the nonviolent movementembodied by Dr. King and Gandhi.
Even during his campaign, in one of his most memorablespeeches, the US President had said, ‘Gandhi helped those‘who thought they had no power realise that they hadpower and then helped people who had a lot of powerrealise that if all they’re doing is oppressing people, thenthat’s not a really good exercise of power’.
Well, there’s one powerful fan of the Father of our Nation.
Source: India Syndicate
All members are requested to participate in our Club’s
2nd Industrial Visit to “Mayfair Palm Beach Resorts”,
Gopalpur-on-sea on 2nd December. For details contact
– Rtn. K.Prasant Kumar
2ND INDUSTRIAL VISIT
Invitation
* PP.Rtn.Dr.Subhadra Mangu thanked all forattending house warming ceremony on 19th Nov.* Rtn A.Anil thanked all for attending the Prasadsevan at Venkateswara temple on 22nd Nov.*Rtn B V Kumar drew attention of all to the ongoingbirthday celebrations of Sri Sathya Sai baba anddistributed chocolates and vibhuti and soughtblessings for all.* Rtn Santosh Sahu announced the gathering of 5rotarians at the 12th day Prasad sevan ceremony ofRtn.Surendra Ku.Padhy’s mother.* Rtn. Lalit Mangaraj has cordially invited all themembers to attend his brother’s marriage ceremonyon 2nd December.
11. Secretary’s announcements :*Hony Secretary announced the conduct of districtseminar ‘Future Vision Plan & New Grants model’at Bhubaneswar on 1st Dec’12,for president electand his team.
12. President invited PP Rtn.Dr.S.Manmadha Rao tostart discussions on topic “ MembershipDevelopment & Retention”
13. PP Rtn DJJ Swamy during his talk said “Retaining a member is like gaining a newmember” PP Rtn.KK Mishra, PP Rtn.PK Acharya PPRtn V.Santosh Kumar with their immenseknowledge in club administration suggested waysby which club attendance can be improved andmembers can be retained,PP Rtn.Dr.S.ManmadhaRao assigned names of irregular members to befollowed up by senior Rotarians to attendmeetings and club activities regularly.
14. President announced to present rotary pins tomembers who would take interest to getmaximum irregular members to regular meetingsin the next 100 days.
15. President thanked Rtn.E.Narasimham,Honytreasurer birthday boy for hosting fellowshipsnacks.
16. The attendance analysis of the meeting was readby Rtn. E.Narasimham, as ;
Total members :135 Effective Members :135 Members Present :52
Guests :03% of Attendance :39%
17. President adjourned the meeting.
Rtn.E.Siva Prasad Rao
President (2012-13)
Rtn.R. Murali Krishna
Hony. Secy (2012-13)
Minutes of the 21st meeting held
on 23rd Nov’12Proceedings of the 21st regular meeting of Rotary Club ofBerhampur for the RY 2012-13 held on 23rd Nov’12 at7.00pm at Rotary Centennial hall, Berhampur ;1. President called the meeting to order.2. President welcomed all present to 21st regular
meeting of RY 12-13 and PP Rtn.Dr.S.ManmadhaRao-Chairman,Standing committee -MembershipDevelopment
3. President welcomed the speaker on to the dais.4. President appealed to all to invoke the national
anthem5. Minutes of the 20th meeting held on 16th Nov’12 were
confirmed .6. Rtn.Gopiram Agarwal,Chairman Greetings
Committee felicitated the birthday boys &memberswho celebrated their wedding anniversaries duringthe week
7. PP Rtn.E.Chandramohan Rao continued with hisongoing exercise of imparting Rotary Information.
8. Rtn Silla Rama Rao,Chairman, Attendance committeegave gifts to 16 Rotarians who maintained 100%attendance in home club meetings for quarter Julyto Sept’12,everyone present gave a big round ofapplause for the 16 Rotarians.
9. President announced the postponement of 14th dec’12regular meeting to 15th dec’12 for OCV of DistrictGovernor.
10. General Announcements :
Published by Rtn. R. Murali krishna, Hony. Secy. Rotary Club of Berhampur, Edited by Rtn. PP Ranjit Panda Printed by Ravi Graphics.
Meets every Friday at 6.30 P.M
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