thIssue: 38, 27 March, 2014

Fernando Carbajal, Rotary Club of Lima, Perund32 President of Rotary International, 1942-43

"The prevailing Rotary attitude in rendering service is practicality. Its aim in performing a useful action is to be helpful and serviceable, not sentimental. As practical idealists, we temper the fanciful flights of the dreamer with the limitations of common sense."

This week @ Rotary MysoreLIFE PERCEPTION SERIES: TALK by PHF PP Rtn. K.S.CHANDRASHEKHAR,

thThursday 27 March 2014, 6:30 pm, Rotary Center.

Rotary Mysore is privileged to hear one of its stalwarts, PHF PP Rtn. K.S.Chandrashekhar, on his Life

thPerception, in continuation of the series of talks started last year. Born on 11 Mar th1937, Chandrashekar has been a Rotarian since 7 Aug 1964, and is celebrating his

Golden Jubilee at Rotary this year. Married to Ann Kusuma, he has two children, Dr. Shishir and Ms. Oormila. PP Chandrashekhar was Rotary Mysore President during the year 1976-77 with the theme “I Believe in Rotary”. And he has truly believed in Rotary and all it stands for over the last 50 years. It is not often that a Rotarian completes 50 years at Rotary.

ndRotary Mysore with great pride honoured Rtn. PP K.S. CHANDRASHEKHAR on 22 August 2013 for his contribution and commitment to Rotary and for his record 100% attendance over 50 years. PDG R. Vasudevamurthy did the honours on that date.Hats off to PHF PP Rtn. K.S.Chandrashekhar on this singular achievement! We Rotarians are sure to learn a lot from his Life Perception talk.

CreatingMagic,one Gameat a Time

CHAMUNDICHAMUNDI

Ms. Kusum Mohapatra had her education at Ravenshaw University Cuttack Odisha. With an established track record in setting up and managing organizations, she is currently

managing State Operations for Goa, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu Programs for Magic Bus India Foundation that includes Project Cycle Management, setting up systems and processes, Monitoring and Evaluation, Creating partnerships, Quality Assurance. Mr. Venkatesh N.T., District Manager was also present. He is working with

18000 Children and 800 Youths in and around Mysore.Last week’s Speaker

Rotary Mysore wishesHappy Married Life

Rtn. Prashanth K.N. tied the knot on the 8th of March to Ojaswini(Ruchi). She is a Senior Manager at Fortis Hospitals B'lore and hails from Chandigarh.The newly married couple has plans to invite us for a get-together at their new B'lore home on Bannerghatta Road.Rotary Mysore wishes Prashanth and Ruchi a great and happy married life

MARCH IS LITERACY MONTH– Engage Literacy

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations-- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own. - Katherine Patterson

Rotary International has stressed the importance of Literacy to Rotarians by establishing Literacy as a special emphasis on Rotary's ongoing commitment to promoting literacy and numeracy by designating March as the Rotary Club Literacy month. Literacy is about people's ability to read, write, speak, listen……and understand. Total Literacy will be possible only when it becomes a people's revolution.

Combating illiteracy has been a focus of Rotary International since 1986 - and for good reason. UNESCO estimates there are 862 million illiterate adults in the world and about two thirds of them are women. Millions more are functionally illiterate, without the reading and writing skills necessary for everyday life. Functional literacy is about people having adequate skills to function well in a literate society. The United Nations has identified illiteracy as a major obstacle to economic, political, and social development.

In March, Rotarians are encouraged to raise awareness of literacy issues and to organize literacy projects at home and abroad. Highlight successful literacy projects in your club/district or increase awareness of the area's literacy needs.

Mar 2014)(Source: The Rotarian's e-digest

PDG Guru donates First Aid kitsPDG R. Guru, through Rotary Mysore, donated Rs. 8000/= worth first aid kits to Magic Bus. A generous gesture indeed!

TRUSTEE CHAIR'S MESSAGE - MARCH 2014Inspire locally, grow globally.Since its inception, Rotary has striven to do the greatest good it can, wherever it can. L o c a l c l u b s w i t h i n a n international organization have meant that Rotary projects have both local and

global effects. But as Rotary looks ahead, and as The Rotary Foundation builds on the groundwork that already has been laid, we acknowledge the need for new, creative ways of addressing problems.Many clubs here in America provide dictionaries to schoolchildren, for instance, and this is a wonderful way to encourage and support literacy. But are dictionaries the best use of money, in a time and place where students are more likely to look a word up

online? What other projects could support literacy in a way that will make a greater and longer-lasting difference?Some exciting partnerships developed between clubs and other organizations during the pilot of the Foundation's new grant model. One that I am fond of is a collaboration that two Rotary districts in California and Uganda f o r m e d w i t h t w o n o n g o v e r n m e n t a l organizations in Uganda. These districts used the new vocational training team structure to send Rotarians and other professionals to Nkondo, where they helped establish a clean water system and a trained health clinic staff. The local government was so impressed, it also pitched in.Vocational training team inspired a partnership with a Ugandan NGO that provides microfinance training and oversight,

and another one that works with farmers to produce crops at a higher yield. Rotarians from Kenya and Uganda traveled to District 5340 in California to learn about sustainable agriculture and irrigation, as well as good business practices.In this case, our Foundation was able to provide service that not only meets the needs of a village but empowers and inspires local groups in ways that only Rotary can.Rotary always has engaged in strategic partnerships with other organizations and governments around the world. If it weren't for our global partners, the eradication of polio still would be just a dream. But as we implement our new grant model, strategic partnerships that take advantage of Rotary's global reach at a local level will become even more central to our success.

Dong Kurn (D.K.) Lee Trustee Chair 2013-14

Earliest known instance of women's participation in Rotary

History Might Have Been Different. Other than Jean Harris, the earliest k n o w n i n s t a n c e o f w o m e n participating in Rotary activities occurred in 1911, with the founding of the Rotary Club of Belfast, where it was customary for members to bring their wives to a monthly meeting. Stuart Morrow, who was a member of the San Francisco club, started the Belfast club. In the first year of 1912, the club's Board of directors discussed the advisability of electing women to membership or allowing them to attend weekly luncheons.

The club records of that period indicate the board considered it undesirable to elect women to membership or have them at the weekly luncheons. What is not known is whether that decision was impacted by the possible admission into the National Association of Rotary Clubs. It was not for another 80 years after the founding of Belfast, in 1992, five years after the U.S. Supreme Court decision and three years after Rotary changed its Constitution at the 1989 Council on Legislation, that the first l a d i e s w e r e f i n a l l y e l e c t e d t o membership in the Club.

Had the Belfast Club admitted women in the summer of 1912, Rotary might have changed its policy when Dublin and Belfast were admitted, and the U.S. Supreme Court would never have had to render a decision.

(Source: The Rotarian's e-digest)

Rotary InformationRotary Information

A debate in Rotary has been going on for over a hundred years. Read what the Rotarian had to say in March 1914.

In March 1914, Straw Hat Day was observed by the Rotary Club of San Diego where all Rotarians marched on the streets wearing huge straw hats.

Rotary Club of Nashville Tennessee in one of their meetings at the Hermitage Hotel.

A n a d f r o m R e m i n g t o n Typewriters… Seeing is believing!– the typewriter was a wonder machine then.

Tomorrow morning, try this new health soap for 5cents, says this Lifebuoy ad of 1914 vintage!

RI President with thePresident of India

A Hundred Years Ago

Rotary's Historic Moments

VICTORY overPOLIO

CHAMUNDICHAMUNDI

The Four-Way Test“Of the things we think, say or do:

1. Is it the ?

2. Is it to all concerned?

3. Will it build

and ?

4. Will it be to all concerned?”

TRUTH

FAIR

GOODWILL

BETTER FRIENDSHIPS

BENEFICIAL

Quote HangerAnnets'

Corner

Wisdom:

Not to know certain things is a great part of wisdom.

– Hugo GrotiusHow prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

– HomerAfter the event, even the fool is wise.

– Homer

One may almost doubt if the wisest man

has learnt anything of absolute value by

.living.

- Thoreau

DID YOUKNOWDID YOUKNOW

• There are at least 6 people in the world who look exactly like you. There's a 9% chance that you'll meet one of them in your lifetime.

• A person's height is determined by their father, and their weight is determined by their mother.

• Right-handed people tend to chew food on their right side.

• Laziness and inactivity kills just as many people as smoking.

• Our body gives enough heat in 30 mins to boil 1.5 litres of water!!

Just before Christmas, an honest politician, a generous lawyer and Santa Claus were riding in the elevator of a very posh hotel. Just before the doors opened they all noticed a $20 bill lying on the floor. Which one picked it up?

Santa of course, because the other two don't exist!

•sperm is the smallest cell !!

• Stomach acid (conc. HCl) is strong enough to dissolve razor blades!!

• Try to make at least three people smile each day

• Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a college kid with a maxed out charge card.

• Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

• What other people think of you is none of your business

• Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

• Each night before you go to bed, pray to God and be thankful for what you've accomplish, today !

The Ovum egg is the largest cell and the

At an arm's length

The horse and the mule live for 30 years,And know nothing of wines and beers; The goat and sheep at 20 die,And never get a taste of Scotch and rye.

The cow drinks water by the tonneAnd at 18 is mostly doneWithout the aid of rum and gin

The cat in milk and water soaks,And then in 12 short years it croaks.

The modest, sober, bone-dry henLays eggs for others, then dies at 10.

All animals are strictly dry,They sinless live and swiftly die.But sinful, ginful, rum-soaked men

Survive for three score years and ten,And some of them, though very few,Stay pickled till they're 99.

(contributed by Rtn. Basu Rangaswamy)

An Ode to a Colorful Life

in a lighter in a lighter vein!vein!

Health BitesHealth Bites

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

- Norman WisdomA true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

- Doug LarsonA harmful truth is always better then a useful lie!

- Eric BoltonWe spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

- Phyllis DillerLaughter is the closest distance between two people.

- Victor Borge

Thoughts from Great Minds!

from Khushwant Singh (who died recently at 99)

(contributed by Rtn. Rajaram)