March 7, 2013 Rotary Club of Holy Spirit Club No. 69935 RI District 3780 Philippines Vol. V No. 26

The Dove

Officers and Members RY 2012-13

MARCIA C. SALVADOR President

EUI BONG JUNG, OMD Vice President & PE Chair - Health & Wellness

FERNANDO M. DELGRA JR Secretary & Chair - Youth Development

MA. PERPETUAL S. RIVERA Treasurer & Chair - Fund Generation

MARITES L. NEPOMUCENO Auditor

CP LEONIDES S. RESPICIO Protocol Officer

RICARDO P. SALVADOR Chair - Club Administration & RI Associate Members Pilot Project

PP EMELINDA C. PALATTAO Club Trainor & Chair - Membership Dev

MARYLENE MARTINEZ, DDM Chair - Service Projects

IPP PEDRITO M. CONDENO Chair - The Rotary Foundation & RI Asso-ciate Members Pilot Project

EMMANUEL P. SOLIDUM Chair - Public Relations

PP DIOGENES S. OSABEL Chair - Networking and Community Dev

IN IL “David” KIM Chair - Sports

WILLIAM P. FABROA President-Nominee

BABES M. BACULA

PP ROGELIO B. BELLEZA, MD

ANGEL E. CASTRO

JOCELYN M FLORES

ROCA MARIE JURADO

JERRY SY

PP VIRGINIA ARDEN F. SY

FERDINAND VALBUENA

ANTONIO KENT VALDERRAMA

ESTRELLA C. VALMOCINA

PERCIVAL C. ZABALA

Associate Members (RI Pilot Program)

NENG ATENDIDO

LITO DELA CRUZ

LIZA FERNANDEZ

NELSON FRANCISCO

MALOU JOSE

TYRON KIM

Honorary Members

PDG DANILO V. FAUSTO

AG EDMUND CHIU

PDS SALVADOR VIARI

JOSE B DEL ROSARIO JR

FR STEVE TYNAN, MGL

AG PP BETH CONSTANTINO

AGR PP ERNIE PARANIS

O f f i c i a l N e w s e B u l l e t i n o f t h e R o t a r y C l u b o f H o l y S p i r i t

Service Above Self

Peace Presidents of 34 Rotary clubs convene Buntis Assembly, an

innovative maternal & child health initiative, last March 1st

With Rotary Clubs of Camp Aguinaldo, Cubao

EDSA, Metro SFDM and North EDSA as lead

hosts and Holy Spirit and 29 other clubs as co-

hosts, the “Buntis Assembly” was held last March

1, 2013 at the Barangay Multi-purpose Hall in

Project 6, Quezon City. The project has been con-

ceived for the benefit of pregnant mothers and

their yet unborn children, one of the areas of fo-

cus of Rotary. The attendees were given pointers

by resource persons, health center doctors and

by the Peace Presidents on proper maternal

health care practices. Each mother left with

packs of items they would need in connection

with child birth. RC Holy Spirit contributed health-

care items worth P8,000 that were included in

the kits given away. The co-host clubs were RC

Bagong Silangan, Camp Crame, Camp Panopio, Central Fairview, Congressional, Commonwealth, Cosmopolitan Timog, Cubao East, Cubao Sunrise, Diliman Central, Diliman North, Eastwood, Holy Spirit, Kagitingang Cubao, Malaya, Mega EDSA, Metro Diliman, Midtown Cubao, Midtown Diliman, New Manila, New Manila East, Paraiso, Pearl of the Orient, Prima Vida, QC Circle, QC South-east, Roces, Roosevelt, SFDM, and West Triangle.

Click on or tap the photo to view coverage of the event.

Oriental medical relief mission serves 71 indigent patients in Payatas

PE Dr Eui Bong Jung, youth volunteers from the Sion Oriental Medical Mission Center, and volunteer residents served 71 indigent patients, including 4 acupuncture cases, during the team’s second regular medical relief project in Payatas QC for 2013. Pa-tients from depressed areas in Payatas were given free medical consultations, medicines and vitamins at the Masaya CDP Center last

Sunday, February 24.

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March is LITERACY MONTH in the Rotary Calendar

RC Holy Spirit joins celebration of Rotary’s

108th birthday in District 3780

Five officers of Interact Club of Holy Spirit

National High attend RYLA Peace Camp

On the occasion of Rotary’s World Understanding Day last Feb-

ruary 23rd, Gov Penny Policarpio led District Officers, Peace

Presidents, and guests in simple yet meaningful rites at the Ro-

tary Peace Monument located at the Quezon Memorial Circle.

President Marcia joined other Peace Presidents in calling the

anniversary program to order at the World Peace Bell site before

walking towards the Rotary Peace Monument for the short pro-

gram, wreath-laying and releasing of doves.

Undersecretary Dr Teodoro Herbosa of the Department of

Health graced the occasion.

The anniversary program was hosted by RC Quezon City Circle

led by Peace President Ramon Guiang. PP Butch Madarang

acted as emcee.

More coverage of the event on Page 4 of this newsletter.

RCHS sponsored five (5) officers of the Interact Club of Holy

Spirit National High School to the 24th RID 3780 Rotary Youth

Leadership Awards (RYLA) Training Camp that was held in the

historic Corregidor Island on February 24-25, 2013.

Interact President Lovely Rose Paalisbo, PE Hervey Kate Mag-

gay, Vice Pres Kier Berce, Secretary Renziel Joyce Candelario,

and Membership Chair Mikhaela Palmiano joined other Inter-

actors and Rotaractors of the District in the first-ever RYLA

Peace Camp.

Forty-three (43) youth leaders from the District participated in

the 2-day live-in leadership training camp. Undoubtedly they

all had a great time during the training sessions, team-

building activities and guided tour of the island.

Holy Spirit “Wheels of Hope” project gets support from three Rotary clubs

The Wheels of Hope, a continuing project of RC Holy Spirit, gets a

needed boost from three (3) cooperating Rotary clubs, namely:

RCs West Fairview, Balintawak, and QC Metro North Centennial.

Peace President Nestor Chua of RC West Fairview linked us up

with Peace President Ding Cayubit of RC QC Metro North Centen-

nial whose club is accredited to take measurements on patients

needing wheelchairs. Peace President Tony Atienza of RC

Balintawak is the authorized representative of The Church of Je-

sus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, the principal sponsors of the

wheelchairs.

Last March 2, President Marcia, together with Barangay Kagawad

Joemar Lagarto who had referred potential benefifiary-patients,

accompanied members of RC West Fairview and RC Metro North

Centennial led by their Presidents in visiting and taking measure-

ments on four (4) identified indigent patients in Barangay Holy

Spirit.

Since project launch last September 25, 2012, RC Holy Spirit has

already provided wheelchairs to two beneficiaries.

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First-Class PEs of D3780 clubs pose with

DGE Francis Rivera and district officers

Photo credit: PP John Ayson Simon (FB post)

Holy Spirit PE Eui Bong Jung on MD-PETS District Governors-Elect led 831 presidents-elect from all 10 Ro-

tary districts in the Philippines during the first-ever Multi-District

Presidents-Elect Training Seminar held in Cebu last February 14-

15, 2013. The MD-PETS was highlighted by the speech delivered

by Rotary International President-Nominee Mr. Gary C. K. Huang.

Due to be installed as RI President for 2014-15, Mr. Huang re-

minded the PEs about the need to make Rotary larger and

stronger, and to take Rotary to a new level which could only be

attained by adopting new ideas and new methods.

DGE Francis and Sp. RCHS Treasurer Peth Rivera treated the

club to dinner at their home during its 30th meeting last Febru-

ary 21. Happy birthday, DGE Francis!

President Marcia and Chair Ric Salvador jointly celebrated their birth-

days meaningfully last March 2 with a fund-raising dinner for the

benefit of RCHS’s community service projects. No less than Gov

Penny Policarpio joined the celebration. Thanks, Gov Penny!

RIPN Gary Huang cites Holy Spirit project in his speech to DGEs

and PEs during the MD-PETS

DGE Francis Rivera informed us that a project of RC Holy Spirit, the HIV/AIDS forum, had been given special mention by Rotary International President-Nominee Gary Huang in his Feb 15, 2013 speech during the Multi-District PETS in Cebu. RIPN Mr. Huang mentioned one laudable

project from each of the 10 districts, and for D3780, it was one of our projects. Congratulations!

RC Holy Spirit, the Rotaract & Interact Clubs of Holy Spirit, six co-host clubs, and the QC Red Cross organized the 2nd Youth Forum on Anti Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS Prevention to achieve ZERO new incidence. The forum was participated in by Rotaractors, Interactors and Rotarians. President Marcia Salvador of RC Holy Spirit is pleased to share the distinction bestowed by RIPN Mr. Huang with our co-hosts who supported the goal of having ZERO new HIV incidence in QC: the Rotary Clubs of Camp Aguinaldo, Loyola Heights, New Manila East, Pag-asa,

SFDM, and Timog.

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Congratulations to MARCH Celebrants

Birthday Anniversary

March 1 Marcia

March 2 Kent

March 8 Ric Joy & Ed F

March 9 Ped

March 15 Ped & Irma

March 15 Peth & DGE Francis

March 17 Marites

March 20 Roger & Dra Fe

Gov Rufino “Penny” Policarpio III and Spouse Joan lead commemoration of World Peace and Understanding Day in RI District 3780 at the Rotary Peace Monument

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the event at the Quezon City Memorial Circle

last February 23, 2013

ROTARY LEADER for March 2013 is here

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Australia

Craig Alford, a member of the Rotary Club of Armadale, Australia,

rode more than 400 miles across Western Australia, from Perth to

Kalgoorlie, on a Hustler Super Z lawnmower last spring, raising

close to US$70,000 along the way.

Proceeds benefited Australian Rotary Health for Mental Illness

Research and Wheels of Hope, a nonprofit provider of free wheel-

chairs in developing nations. Alford rode for six days, arriving at

the Kalgoorlie Golf Course in time for the District 9465 Confer-

ence.

Côte d’Ivoire

Since 2004, the Rotary Club of Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, has

vaccinated more than 50,000 children under age 10 in Côte

d’Ivoire against meningitis B and C and typhoid fever. Twenty-five

clubs have joined the effort and raised close to US$262,000 for

immunizations in the West African nation. During a regional men-

ingitis outbreak early last year, Côte d’Ivoire had the highest fatal-

ity rate among the affected countries.

FYR Macedonia

The Rotary clubs of Clearwater Beach, Fla., USA, and Bitola Shirok

Sokak, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, worked together

to promote peace and express creativity in September for the

United Nations International Day of Peace. The clubs worked with

Rotary Youth Exchange participants and local high school students

to paint messages of peace in their towns. In Clearwater Beach,

students decorated storefront windows. In FYR Macedonia, the

paintings went to a school for children with special needs, along

with crayons, paints, and other art supplies.

Great Britain

Roll Out the Barrel is a charity that provides women and children

in developing countries with rolling barrels that they can use to

transport water. The rugged 30- and 50-liter barrels, which can be

pushed or pulled, are manufactured in the United Kingdom and

cost about US$50 each. Bill Leslie, of the Rotary Club of Ellesmere

Port, Wirral, and Adrian Brewer, of the Rotary Club of Vectis Sun-

rise (Newport I.O.W.), run the organization with help from women’s

and church groups, schools, and other Rotary clubs. The barrels

are already helping families in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, and Sierra

Leone.

Mexico

When it comes to spreading the word about polio eradication, Dis-

trict 4170 Rotarians aim high. To celebrate the start of the 2012-

13 Rotary year, District Governor Ernesto Benitez and José

Clemente Álvarez Soto, president of the Rotary Club of Teoti-

huacán, flew over the historic Pyramid of the Sun in a hot-air bal-

loon emblazoned with the End Polio Now logo. The pyramid, one of

the largest buildings in Mesoamerica, and surrounding archaeo-

logical sites are popular tourist destinations.

Philippines

At the Southern Philippines Medical Center in Davao City, impover-

ished children with cancer often stop receiving treatment when

their families cannot afford to stay nearby. House of Hope, the

signature project of the Rotary Club of Waling-Waling (Davao), pro-

vides accommodations for up to 25 pediatric cancer patients and

two caregivers each. The program, housed on the medical center’s

campus, has accommodated more than 1,800 patients since

2007.

Russia

As part of the Young Talent in the Open World project, the Rotary

Club of Moscou-Pokrovka supports underprivileged child musi-

cians through opportunities to tour and to receive high-level music

education. Last year, the club partnered with Italian clubs to ar-

range events at prestigious venues in Padua, Cagliari, and Cre-

mona for three musicians: a 22-year-old mezzo-soprano, a 15-year

-old pianist, and an 11-year-old pianist, violinist, and composer.

The concerts drew nearly 1,200 attendees. The Rotary Club of

Cremona presented the Moscou-Pokrovka club with three Italian-

made violins and a viola, which project organizers plan to use for

continuing music education in Moscow.

Sri Lanka

In the northern regions of Sri Lanka, mothers and young children

must travel long distances to reach one of the few government-run

hospitals. With those mothers in mind, the Rotary Club of Colombo

Regency has hosted more than 20 daylong health camps in the

last decade to provide basic medicines and health information. At

a recent event in Jaffna, five volunteer doctors and a pharmacist

gave out US$3,000 worth of multivitamins, folic acid, iron tablets,

and worm treatments, along with more than 200 pairs of reading

glasses, to 500 patients.

USA

For the sixth year, Rotary clubs in suburban Detroit competed in

a Jeopardy!-style competition, hosted this time by the Rotary Club

of Royal Oak. Five players on three teams, representing the Royal

Oak club and the Rotary Clubs of Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills,

duked it out over answers and questions pulled from recent issues

of The Rotarian. The event raised $600 for PolioPlus. The winning

Birmingham club will host the 2013 event.

Rotary news in brief from around the globe The Rotarian -- March 2013

Rotary clubs around the globe have many things in common, including a commitment to service. All year long, clubs are taking action to make a difference in their communities. Here’s a roundup of recent club activities.

District Governor Ernesto Benitez and club president José

Clemente Álvarez Soto flew over Mexico's Pyramid of the Sun in

a hot-air balloon to spread the word about polio eradication.

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Rotary Club of Holy Spirit RI District 3780

AGENDA for March 7, 2013 32nd Meeting

7:00 PM Assembly-Dinner-Fellowship

Call to Order Pres Marcia Salvador

Opening Rites

Invocation

National Anthem

Rotarians’ Pledge

Introduction of Guests

Club business:

Highlights Feb 28 meeting

New business

Development on Holy Spirit Wheels of Hope Project

Hosting of inbound GSE team from District 1280 (Northwest England & The Isle of Man)

Date for RCHS—March 25 (Monday)

Activities, roles & assignments

Discon

Other matters

President’s Time Pres Marcia

Adjournment Pres Marcia

Night Chair

PE Dr Bong

108TH CELEBRATION OF ROTARY To Benefit

Easter Seals of Metropolitan Chicago

Easter Seals and Rotary share more than a devotion to improving the lives of the disabled and disadvantaged – they share a 90+ year relationship! The history of Rotary and Easter Seals have been inter-twined since 1919. Easter Seals' founder, Edgar F. "Daddy" Allen, was a Rotarian from Elyria, Ohio. Allen met Rotary founder Paul P. Harris, both sharing a common passion for service, and inspired Harris with the work he was doing for children with disabilities. Paul Harris became the charity's first chairman, and one of The Rotary Foundation’s first grants, in 1930, went to the International Society for Crippled Children, Easter Seals' precursor.

EARLY ROTARY HISTORY The founder of the organization to be known as Rotary

International was Paul Percy Harris, born on April 9,

1868 in Racine, Wisconsin. Born of humble beginnings,

Paul spent most of his childhood with his grandparents

in Wallingford, Vermont and was educated at Vermont

Military Academy, The University of Vermont, and

eventually, at prestigious Princeton University. He then

began law school in 1889 at the University of Iowa in

Des Moines, where he earned his law degree in 1891.

Paul was the keynote speaker of his graduating class.

Thus began one of he most exciting and transforming

periods in Paul Harris’s life. By 1896 Paul was settled in

Chicago where he practiced law and was a member of

the Chicago Association of Commerce. He was ad-

versely affected by the commercial exploitation, social

unrest and political corruption that was the business and

political melting pot of Chicago in the early 1900’s (and

beyond). In the autumn of 1900

Paul was invited to dinner by

attorney, Robert Frank. After

the dinner they strolled thru

Rogers Park, a Chicago

neighborhood, where they

stopped and spoke with store

and shop owners. The friendli-

ness and trust of the owners

and proprietors differed from

the indifference, and at times,

rudeness of the downtown

community leaders. This was

the oasis of which first seeded

the idea for Paul for the need

for a social and business organization where strangers

could bond together in commerce and friendship. The

first seed was planted on that day in 1900 for the birth

of the organization known as Rotary.

Gyrator History Edition February 23, 2013

Rotary Club of Chicago

Making Business Leaders Community Leaders Since 1905

Meetings: Tuesday’s @ Union League Club of Chicago

ABOUT THE FOUNDERS

On 23 February 1905, Paul P. Harris, Gustavus Loehr, Silvester Schiele, and Hiram E. Shorey gathered in Loehr’s office for what would become known as the first Rotary club meeting. Harris’s desire for camaraderie among business as-sociates brought together these four men and eventually led to an international organization of service and fellowship. Read about each of the first four Rotarians below, and about Harry L. Ruggles, who is often called the "fifth Rotarian." Rotary’s founder, Paul Harris , was born in Wisconsin, USA, on 19 April 1868. He was raised by his paternal grandparents in Vermont and attended the University of Vermont, Prince-ton, and the University of Iowa. He was Rotary president from 1910 to 1912 and a mem-ber of the Rotary Club of Chi-cago until his death on 27 Janu-ary 1947. Gustavus Loehr , a mining en-gineer, was born on 18 Octo-ber 1864 in Carlinville, Illinois. He was a Rotarian for only a few years, never holding office at the club or international level. But that first Rotary meet-ing was held in his office, Room 711 of the Unity Building in downtown Chicago. He died in Chicago on 23 May 1918. A Rotarian for only a few years, Hiram Shorey served as re-cording secretary during the club’s first year. He was born in Maine in August 1862 and died in March 1944. Silvester Schiele , a coal dealer, served as the Chicago club’s first president in 1905 and Rotary International’s third treas-urer in 1945. Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1870, Schiele attended Terre Haute Business College and served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War. He was presi-dent of the Schiele Coal Company from 1902 until his retire-ment in 1939. He and Harris became lifelong friends and lived near each other on the South Side of Chicago. Schiele died on 17 December 1945 and is buried near Harris at Mount Hope Cemetery. Originally from Michigan, Harry Ruggles was a graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and joined Rotary at its second meeting. He was treasurer of the Chi-cago club during its first year, president from 1908 to 1910, and a Rotary director from 1912 to 1913. He is known for having intro-duced singing to Rotary club meetings. His printing company, H.L. Ruggles & Co., printed the first issue of The National Rotar-ian and the first Rotary songbook. He died on 26 October 1959, an honorary member of seven clubs in addition to his home club, the Rotary Club of Chicago.

1910-1947 – Paul Harris’ Legacy

Paul Percy Harris instituted an important Rotary tradition during his term as the first president of the Rotary National Association. In 1911 Paul asked Chesley Perry, the first gen-eral secretary of Rotary (National), to mimeograph and mail a 6,000 word Paul Harris – written essay titled, “Rational Ro-tarianism” to all 2,000 Rotarians in the 23 clubs nationwide. After discussions, Harris and Perry decided to produce the essay in a pamphlet in which they paid for the venture by including sold advertising. The first issue of The National Ro-tarian pamphlet was mailed in January of 1911. Thus Paul

Harris led the groundwork for the present-day “The Rotarian” magazine. Paul Harris also was instrumental in designing the first Rotary em-blem, initially a simple wagon wheel which eventually evolved into today’s Rotary pin. Thus Paul added two of our club’s traditions to his Rotary resume – and what a resume it is. As the father of Rotary, Paul Harris believed in the Rotary model. He brought together men and later women from various professions under one roof and helped establish an organization that believed in service to its fellow men in community both nationally and internationally.

The “Paul Harris Fellow” title is given to members who con-tribute $1,000 or more to the Rotary Foundation. In the be-ginning, Paul Harris was merely a lonely Chicago lawyer with an idea to build a club to satisfy a need that seemed to be lacking in Chicago for honest fellowship, more sincere busi-ness relations, and service to community. That he helped to do and now Rotary has spread throughout the world.

ROTARY CREED From the earliest days of the organization, Rotarians were concerned with promoting high ethical standards in their

professional lives. One of the world’s most widely printed and quoted statements of business ethics is The Four-Way Test, which was created in 1932 by ROTARY/One member Herbert J. Taylor (who later served as RI president) when he was asked to take charge of a company that was facing bank-ruptcy.

This 24-word test for employees to follow in their business and professional lives be-came the guide for sales, production, adver-tising, and all relations with dealers and cus-tomers, and the survival of the company is credited to this simple philosophy. Adopted by Rotary in 1943, The Four-Way Test has been translated into more than a hundred languages and published in thousands of ways. It asks these four questions.

The world’s first service club founded in 1905.