1. 4th June 2012
CROSSROADS
Rotary Club of Singapore Vol. 48 / 44
Lunch meeting of the 30th May 2012
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2. Introductory remarks Toast
President Tapan Rao opened the meeting and
advised that the Good Samaritan Award 2012 President Tapan called upon Rtn. Erich Vosshage to
Presentation was postponed to next week. raise the toast to Rotary International.
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3. District Awards 2012 As such, I would like to appeal for
Operation Theatre the Rotarians to support us in our
cause by purchasing tickets to our
Further to the Awards received at Operation Theatre 4 (OT4) : The
Gala Show on Saturday
the District Assembly held from Great Inspection'. It is a biennial
Afternoon.
23rd to 25th March, President production that is held by the
The Gala Tickets are priced at
Tapan announced that the Club medical students across all
$200 each for our Saturday
received additional Awards at the academic years, putting up a
show, 23rd June 2012. The show
recently concluded Pan Borneo show for a charitable cause, the
will start at 1:30pm.
District 3310 meet, as follows: Christine Chong Bursary Fund
which is a project for financially
For more information, check out
1. Outstanding Club [District needy students. Our senior,
our website at
Awards 2011-2012] - Citation: "In Christine Chong, passed away in
https://community.nus.edu.sg/m
recognition of your Club's 2009 after a long battle with SLE
edsoc/OT4/index.html
outstanding achievements To and lymphoma. After her passing,
Facebook:
Reach Within and Embrace the Medical Society set up a
http://www.facebook.com/opera
Humanity". bursary in her name aimed at
tiontheatre4
providing aid for medical
From Shariff Rizwan
2. Membership Award [District students. Through our
Immediate Past
Awards 2011-2012] - Club with contribution to the bursary, we
President, Rotaract Club of
the highest number of net hope to commemorate her spirit
Singapore (City) Executive
increase. of bravery and share similar
Committee 2011-2012
stories of role models among us
3. Outstanding President [District and in the medical profession.
Awards 2011-2012] The setting of "Operation Theatre Closed door meeting
4: The Great Inspection" is during
President Tapan thanked a dark period of Singapore's past -
members for their support and that of the Japanese Occupation At this point in the meeting, Vice
cooperation during the year. during World War II. President Ashi Sarwal was given
While our show is set in the past, the Chair and requested to
we hope that our show can moderate the proceedings. VP
highlight the timelessness of the Ashi invited President Tapan to
themes explored in our show - give an account of the events,
loyalty, friendship, love and and after which the floor was
sacrifice, but to name a few. opened for members to give their
This year, I [Shariff Rizwan] will be feedback, dialogue and
co-producing the musical questions.
together with Lee Koon and
Geraldine. We hope to pull off a At 2.15pm, the Chair was
spectacular performance this returned to President Tapan, who
year that surpasses the standards closed the meeting. on mass
of previous OTs. transportation.
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4. The Guide to Daily Living
MARK YOUR DIARY Before doing the things we COMING ROTARY EVENTS
Birthday celebrants want to do, consider first, the
RC wishes Happy Birthday to precept of the guide. Ask
celebrants this week: ourselves these 4 questions June
June 6th – Tan Ching Khoon and act upon them: Rotary Fellowships Month
First: Have I spent some time
June 8th – PP Stan Low June 2nd – 1300 to 1730hrs
in self-examination?
June 11th – PP Dr. Oliver Second: Have I spent quality District Vocational Service
Hennedige time with my family? Seminar at Rotary Family
Third: Have I given my best to Service Centre
Anniversary Celebrants my work?
RC sends best wishes to Fourth: Have I given some June 27th
time to someone near and Meeting Cancelled in view of
Wedding Anniversary
far?
celebrants this week the Installation Dinner on
The Guide, in fact,
June 9th – T K Neo & Siok encompasses the 4 parts of June 30th
Heang the Object of Rotary.
June 30th
June 10th – President Tapan &
Installation Dinner
Prabha Rao
Next week
June 13th 2012 July
This week July 4th
June 6th 2012 1st Club Assembly for Rotary
Reception Desk duty: Atul Year 2012/2013
Reception Desk duty: PP Stan Merchant, Jamshid Medora
Low, Bharat Mandloi Sunshine Box duty: Louis Lim,
Sunshine Box duty: Roland Noshir Mistri
The Four-Way Test
Jossi, Michael Boegli Of the Things we think, say
Speaker: Mr. Girija Pande
The Good Samaritan Award Chairman – Asia Pacific, or do:
* Is it the truth?
2012 Presentation Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. * Is it fair to all concerned?
Singapore * Will it build goodwill and
Vocational Service better friendship?
Date: Thursday, 14th June Topic: “Leadership in a * Will it be beneficial to all
Time: 7.30pm Interconnected World” concerned?
Venue: Tandoori Corner, 5 International Service Queries, comments and
Boon Tat Street, S069613 Date: Thursday, 21st June articles request can be
Hosts: Shamin Vaswani, Alan Time: 7.30pm
sent to
Tan, Dr. Irina Francken Venue: Rumah Rasa Jean-Philippe
Restaurant, Bay Hotel, 50 bulletin@rotary.org.sg
Telok Blangah Road, S098828
Hosts: Director Gary Goh,
Robert Craiu, Colin Miles, N
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