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

Email id :

chilka.rotary@gmail.com

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

1. Team Anna has a Rs 1-lakh-a-month donor, but won’treveal his identity

2. Colleague alleges molestation, Religare VP arrestedin Noida

3. Before FDI vote, govt faces FEMA rules roadbump4. Man murders girlfriend, arrested while dumping body

– New Delhi5. Gutkha worth Rs 14 lakh seized, sent to generate

electricity – Pune6. Naveen Jindal case: Subhash Chandra says can’t join

‘investigations’7. CAG pulls up DRDO for irregularities in new projects8. Indian couple arrested in Oslo for disciplining son,

claims family9. Braveheart mother turns in rapist father to police –

Kerala10. India to issue 3,000 visa to Pak cricket fans; 300

for VIPs

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