Secretary’s Report2010 - 2011

Presented By Rtn Saranathan Krishnan

Secretary 2010-2011

RC Madras Temple City

Summary of Meetings

Total 70 Meetings 20 Speaker Meetings 1 Joint Speaker Meeting 3 Club Assemblies 17 Fellowships 14 Board Meetings Special Meetings

Governor’s Visit Installation Meeting

Summary of Meetings (Cont)

Project Meetings Teen Seminar Blood Donation Camp Health Camps Dental Camps Interact Installation Community Rotaract Installation NID Polio Immunization MMR Camp Matching Grant Project (Saheli Computer Center)

inaugurated by IPDG Olivannan at NAF, Iledu village New bathroom for Saivite Middle School, Mint

Club Service

Installation of Temple Team 10-11 Installation on 8th July @

comfort Inn, Marina Towers. Outgoing President Rtn

Srinivasan giving a very emotional & inspiring speech.

Equally inspiring & promising was the acceptance speech of Incoming President, Rtn Dr. Ranjani Arumugam

Chief Guest IPDG Olivannan, gave a very humorous & insightful speech.

This was followed by a fellowship and dinner.

Interact Installation Installation of Interact

Club of Ganapathy Iyer Girls HSS

Rtn Anand Ram, Co-Chairman, Youth Services, Dist 3230, 2010-11 installed and presided over the function

Rotaract Installation Installation of

Community Rotaract Club of “Chennai Green City”

PDG Rekha Shetty installed the new Rotaract President

We had some excellent speakers who spoke on topics ranging from Culinary Trail in Chennai to temple festivals to lighter subjects like Humor in Medicine … Soumya Aravind Sitaraman spoke

on “Follow the Hindu Moon” Geeta Doctor spoke on “Southern

Spice - On the Culinary Trail in Chennai”

Dr Ganapathy spoke on “Marvels and Mysteries of the Brain”

Pradeep Chakravarthy spoke on “Temple Festivals – The Why and How”

Rtn Vijay Sambrani spoke on “Experiences of the GSE team in UK”

Sunil Bharadwaj spoke on “English Theatre in Chennai today”

Speaker Meetings..

K.Hariharan spoke on “Indian Cinema today”

M.R.Venkatesh spoke on “India’s illegal money abroad”

Priya.V spoke on “Experiences as a woman director in South Indian Cinema”

Dr. J.S.Rajkumar spoke on “Humor in Medicine”

Usha Kris spoke on “Trip to Tanzania with visuals”

Madhav Chari spoke on “Music and Culture”

Lalgudi G.J.R.Krishnan spoke on “Experiences as a Violinist”

Deva spoke on “Life as a RJ”

Speaker Meetings..

Sivaraman, former union revenue secretary spoke about the budget

D.K Mukundan spoke about “Palmistry for wholesome living”

Babu Seshadri spoke on “Mind Games”

Anu Oberai spoke on “Punjabi Dispora in Chennai”

Surekha Kothari spoke on “Hypnotherapy”

Badri Seshadri spoke on “Reading skills for children”

Speaker Meetings..

Our Fellowships

Car Rally Fellowship10 Cars flagged

off from Boat Club with clues

Followed by Lunch at the Boat Club

..Our Fellowships.. Fellowship

sponsored by Rtn Navneeth Held at Rtn.

Navneeth’s residence Funny and witty skit

played out by our Templers

Special thanks to Rtn Navneeth and Ann Shiela for their excellent hospitality

..Our Fellowships.. Diwali

Fellowship Held at Harrison

Hotel, Nungambakkam

Special thanks to Anns for organizing a grand Diwali Fellowship

..Our Fellowships.. R & B Blast

Fellowship Held at Beverly

Hotel An enchanting

evening of Music and Dance

Special thanks to Templers Akila, Asha, Viji, Jayanthy and Venkat

..Our Fellowships.. Fellowship

sponsored by Rtn Naren Held at Rtn.

Naren’s Farm House near Pondy

Special thanks to Rtn Naren and Ann Sunitha for their excellent hospitality

..Our Fellowships.. Fellowship at

Rtn. Lakshmi Prasad’s residence Special thanks to

Rtn Lakshmi Prasad for hosting this fellowship

..Our Fellowships.. Fellowship

sponsored by PDG Rekha Shetty Held at PDG

Rekha Shetty’s home

Special thanks to Rekha and Jai Shetty for their warm hospitality

..Our Fellowships.. Fellowship at Rtn.

Vijayalakshmi Hariprasad’s farm house Had a moonlight

dinner (Chitra Pournami Nila Saapadu)

Special thanks to Viji for providing the wonderful ambience

..Our Fellowships.. And the final

fellowship of the year sponsored by Dr.Ranjani Theme was swinging

sixties It was a fitting finale

to all the fellowships Thanks to

Dr.Ranjani and Dr.Arumugam for making this a memorable one

..Our Fellowships.. Internal

Fellowships 7 internal

fellowships Stress buster

organized by Anns, Another one

organized by Green Rotarians

‘Yellai Saapadu’

..Our Fellowships.. Internal

Fellowships Big Fight, debate

on bigger evil, corruption or intolerance

Short game on Sambar preparation and part of a car!

Internal debate on how Rotary can contribute to anti-corruption movement

Membership Development

Membership Development & Retention Current Membership

Strength – 52 Female – 24 (46% );

Male – 28 (54%) This includes 5 New

Members this year Long term target – in 4

years from now Total No of members to

reach 65 Membership proportion to

be made almost 50:50 between female and male

Service Projects

Operation Day Break Objective of the

endowment To provide monetary assistance

to meritorious but economically backward students to pursue their high education

One of the Anchor Project of the Club for the past 20 years

More than 100 students have benefited since the commencement of this project

Scholarships of about Rs.40,000 given this year as a continuing support

Corpus has been increased to Rs 7 lakhs from Rs 4.5 lakhs

EduServ.. Objective of the endowment

To assist and enable primary education for the underprivileged children

Assistance to schools Existing schools – Toraipakkam

PU School, Gopalapuram Girls High School & Saivite Middle School

Kind of support – Building, Nutritional food supplements, Text Books & Note Books, Foot Wear, Equipments & Furniture, based on needs

Fund Raiser “Five Point Someone” play

Chetan Bhagat’s “Five Point Someone” play by Evam Theatre Group

Collected Rs 12.5 Lakhs

Shop Till U Drop An unique fund raiser at Indy

Mall Collected Rs 1 Lakh Special thanks to Rtn Sheela

Sarath

Total Rs 13.5 Lakhs

SkillServ.. Objective of the endowment

To train and enable more and more underprivileged youth to take up some suitable vocation to take them economically forward

Projects Executed Community Health Volunteers Training – in

association with VHS Five Candidates were selected for Training. The

selected candidates underwent Training from 27.09.2010 to 12.01.11 at VHS, Thoraipakkam. They underwent Theoretical and Practical Training. They also undertook Field Visits in nearby Areas.

Following Four Candidates successfully completed the Course.

Ms. Manogandhi. A from Kallakurichi. Ms. Meenakshi. C from Perunagar. Ms. Dharmeswari.N from Perunagar and Ms. Poongodi.R from Anampakkam

Community Service Projects

Teen Seminar Teen Seminar held at

Ganapathy Girls HSS Dr. Yamuna, adolescent

physician, was the moderator

Two teams of students and teachers were formed and argued about teenage being rosy or turbulent

Dental Camp Dental camp at Karapakkam

middle school on 10-Jan-2011

137 students screened 15 Fillings done 20 scalings done

Dental Camp Dental camp at TTV (Shaivite

School) in Mint, North Chennai

153 students screened Dental extraction done for 13

students 3 students referred to Govt

Stanley Hospital for Root Canal treatment

Dental Camp Dental camp at GKS School

on 07-Feb-2011 and 21-Feb-2011

Total of 323 students screened

35 Fillings done 67 scalings done and 3 extractions

Health Camp Full day health camp at

Ganapathy Girls HSS, Gopalapuram

272 students examined General, Eyes and Dental

examinations done 27% required medicines

Blood Donation Camp Blood donation camp at Anna

University on 31st Aug 2010 Inaugurated by Dean Prof Dr.

M.Sekar Blood bank team came from

Institute of Child Health and Hospital for children

52 units were collected

Blood Donation Camp Another blood donation camp

at Air India Unity Complex, Pallavaram on 18-Mar-2011

86 units were collected

MMR Vaccination Camps We had a MMR and

Dental camp at G.K.Shetty Vivekananda Vidyalaya

Rtn. Nagendra Babu, District Secretary 2010-11 was the chief guest

We also had a MMR camp at TV Nagar Rotary School, Ambattur where 149 students were vaccinated

NID Polio Immunization We had two NID Polio

immunization camps One on 24 Jan 2011 and Another on 27 Feb 2011

Patriotic Song Competition As with previous years, we

conducted our annual patriotic song competition on 26-Jan-2011

23 schools participated Was a grand success

Vocational Service

Vocational Services Award We had our vocational

services award on 28-Apr-2011

Rtn. Srinivasan, Assistant Governor, 2010-11 was the chief guest

Recognized and awarded two genuine and outstanding blue-collar workers from our society

Special Projects

Computer Training Center, a Matching Grant Project IPDG Olivannan inaugurated

‘Saheli’ a computer training center at National Agro Foundation, Iledu Village on 7-Jan-2011

This is a matching grant project developed at a cost of Rs 5 lakhs

Build a new bathroom for Shivite Middle School, Mint Built and handed over a

new bathroom for school children of Shivite Middle School, Mint on 30-June-2011

Spent Rs 1.68 lakhs on this

International Services

International Services Hosted 5 GSE team members Rtn Lakshmi Prasad, Rtn Shanta Narayanan,

Rtn Satish, Rtn M.S.Srinivasan and Rtn Narendra Ghorpade hosted the GSE team members

Rtn. Sridharan & Rtn. Hemachandran co-ordinated the hosting of the GSE members

District Awards

District Awards Our club received totally 11 awards

and recognitions from the District this year One of the top 20 clubs Presidential Citation with Distinction International service Harishankar Mani in contributing as Regional Secretary Operation Day Break Overseas Club Project Joint Project with Interact Working with Sister Clubs New outstanding project GSE – Sponsoring, Hosting Best club secretary

Thank You