PRESIDENT Rtn. Dr. N.V. Arulmozhi Varman

HoNoRARy SECRETARy Rtn. Dr. R. Chandrasekhar

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Rtn. A.S. Venkhat Ramani

PRESIDENT ELECT Rtn. P N Mohan

PRESIDENT NoMINEE Rtn. Ranjit Pratap

Asst. SECRETARy / BULLETIN EDIToR Rtn. Mohan Raman

DIRECToR CLUB ADMINISTRATIoN Rtn. R. Rajenderan

DIRECToR yoUTH SERVICE Rtn. M Sesha Sai

DIRECToR PUBLIC IMAGE AND FUND RAISING Rtn. Harish K. Murthi

DIRECToR RoTARy FoUNDATIoN & INTERNATIoNAL SERVICES Rtn. M. Balasubramaniam

DIRECToR SERVICE PRoJECT 1 Rtn. R. Ravishankar

DIRECToR SERVICE PRoJECT 2 Rtn. K.M. Vinod Kumar

DIRECToR VoCATIoNAL SERVICE Rtn. S. Ravi

TREASURER (CLUB FUNDS) Rtn. Hemant Chordia

TREASURER (CHARITABLE TRUST) Rtn. Nimish C. Tolia

TREASURER (SPECIAL PRoJECTS) Rtn. Kishor Dandeker

The LighthouseBulletin of The Rotary Club of Madras

April 11, 2017 • 4 Pages

2016-2017 • Edition No.41

Kabadiwalla Connect is an award winning, technology based, waste management

solutions provider located in Chennai, India.Inspired by the local Kabadiwalla, who are

small scrap aggregators found in Indian cities & cities in the developing world, our ICT platform helps lower barriers that prevent residents from participating in recycling and composting— leveraging the informal waste ecosystem and helping divert waste from the landfill. For more information please visit www.kabadiwallaconnect.in

At the discussion, Siddharth Hande, founder and CEO of Kabadiwalla Connect spoke about the opportunity to leverage the informal waste sector that exists in cities

in the developing world through the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). They spoke about his experience in setting up pilot operations in Chennai, and his company’s roadmap in 2017.

Kabadiwalla Connect

RI President John F Germ and Judy Jerm with PRIP Rajendra saboo and TRF Trustee Susil Gupta called upon the President of India Pranab Mukherjee @ Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi recently.

Rotary international President elect Ian H S Riseley at Radisson Blu on 5th April when a function

was arranged by Dist 3230. President RCM being recognised for reaching Major Donor level II.

Rtn Jagdish and Rtn Harbinder Rattha were also recognised for becoming Major donors level I.

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Sgt-at-arms Rtn M Srinivasan collared President Rtn Dr Arulmozhi Varman, who called the 40th meeting of RCM to

order, followed by a silent invocation.The minutes of the 4th April’17 meeting

was duly confirmed.President welcomed the guest speaker of

the day Mr Siddharth Hande, co-founder of Kabadiwalla Connect, an technology based, waste management solutions provider in Chennai. He is the son of our Rtn Dr Krishna Hande who will talk to us on Waste Management and grandson of former Health Minister Shri HV Hande.

President welcomed guests introduced by members and Probus Club members.

Birthday & wedding anniversary wishes were extended by President to the respective Rotarians/spouses who celebrate that week and thanked for their sunshine.

PDG S Krishnaswami handed over flags to President collected during his visit to Kenya & Uganda. PDG said that he was invited for the inauguration of water supply and sanitation in RC Kampala and visit to other clubs. PDG explained the donations given from the Rotary clubs of Dist 3230 and Rtn Bill Gray& others for various projects in Kenya/Uganda. On attending the meeting in RC Kampala, PDG said that it is similar to our club Agenda but more participation from Interactors/Rotaractors for the rotary meeting. PDG informed that he had attended and exchanged flags with 12 clubs during his visit.

Rtn Nikhil Raj Secy 2017-18 requested members to send in their changes if any for

the club roster 2017-18. So far 76 members have responded to his request mail for the updation in the roster, he said and requested all to send in their datas, as we have plans to release in Mid May’17.

President Rtr Rehan Ahmed of Rotaract Club of Loyola handed over the copy of the Secretary report 2016-17 to Pres Dr Arul. He said that his club has done 22 events so far and thanked RCM for their support.

Secy Rtn Dr R Chandrasekhar announced that the next weekly meeting will be a dinner meeting on 21st April’17 at 7 pm, Friday at the same place. The 18th April’17 weekly meeting stands cancelled.

Rtn PP Indra Subramanyam introduced the guest speaker Mr Siddharth Hande, a geo-spatial analyst, and an urban studies researcher. He has been passionate about issues realting to waste and co-founder of Kabadiwalla Connect, an award winning technology based, waste management solutions provider in Chennai. Inspired by the local Kabadiwalla, who are small scrap aggregators found in Indian cities & cities in the developing world, their technology platform helps lower barriers that prevent residents from participating in recycling &

composting-leveraging the informal waste ecosystem and helping divert waste from the landfill.

Speaker Siddharth with a help of a PPT spoke on the waste accumulated and how it can be managed &used by using technology. This was followed by a interesting Q&A session.

President presented a memento and our clubs 80 year history book to speaker Siddharth on behalf of RCM.

Rtn Nikhil Raj thanked Speaker Siddharth for his interesting presentation on Waste Management which is very important for all to save the environment and about the technology in the recycling & garbage management.

The meeting was then adjourned.

The board approved the following proposals for membership of the Rotary club of Madras

Name Classification Proposed by

Dr Anisha Ashok Medicine – General Surgery Rtn PP.George B Cherian

Mr Pratish Devadoss Real Estate - Development Rtn Prashanth S Kharche

Objections, if any, may be sent in writing to the Secretary within 10 days- Secretary

NEW PROPOSALS

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In communities worldwide, Rotarians are finding creative ways to celebrate The Rotary Foundation centennial and showcase our Foundation’s century-long commitment to doing good in the world.

Rotarians have arranged for a commemorative postage stamp to be issued in Pakistan, sponsored a cruise on the Danube River with some proceeds going to our Foundation, and sold bottles of wine with “100 Years Doing Good in the World” printed on the label in Vancouver, B.C.

And, of course, there have been scores of centennial dinners. In Arch Klumph’s hometown of Cleveland, Rotarians gathered to celebrate the centennial and honor the father of The Rotary Foundation with a banquet and concert by the Cleveland Orchestra. In addition to raising more than $2.1 million for our Foundation, the event paid tribute to Klumph’s virtuosity as a flutist.

Some Rotarians are honoring the Foundation by sponsoring global grant projects. They are fighting dengue fever in Indonesia, providing sanitation facilities in Colombia, and promoting early detection of breast cancer in Turkey.

Rotaractors and Interactors have answered the call to perform 100 acts of good this year in honor of the centennial. They are donating blood, visiting the elderly, and volunteering at food pantries, to name just a few of the activities this challenge has inspired.

By celebrating this milestone, we are sharing our success stories with the world. In 2016, cable news channel CNBC named The Rotary Foundation one of the “Top 10 Charities Changing the World,” citing our PolioPlus program as well as our financial health, accountability, and transparency of reporting. In addition, the Association of Fundraising Professionals named The Rotary Foundation the World’s Outstanding Foundation for 2016.

Our centennial year is not over yet. You still have time to plan a special event, make a centennial contribution, and add more acts of good. In June, I hope you will join me for the biggest centennial celebration of the year at the Rotary International Convention in Atlanta.

Harris was born in Wisconsin to George and Cornilia Harris. He was the couple’s second child. At age 3, when his family fell on hard times, Paul was moved with a sibling to Vermont to live with his paternal grandparents, Howard and Pamela Harris. Harris would later write about his parents: “Of all charges which might have been made against George and Cornelia, parsimony would have stood the least chance. They were both royal spenders.”

While living in Vermont, he attended the famous Black River Academy in Ludlow, but was expelled after only a short time. At his secondary school in Rutland, he was known as a prankster. After secondary school, he attended the University of Vermont. In 1886, he was expelled in an incident involving a secret society. In the fall of 1887, he attended Princeton University.

Due to the death of his grandfather in the spring of 1888, he did not return to school the following fall. Harris soon moved to Des Moines, Iowa, where he was apprenticed at a local law firm. After completing his apprenticeship, he studied law at the University of Iowa. He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in June 1891. However, for the next five years, he worked odd jobs: for a newspaper as a salesman and a reporter, on fruit farms, as an actor and cowboy, and on cattle ships that traveled to Europe. In 1896, Harris moved to Chicago, eventually settling in the Morgan Park neighborhood, where he lived the rest of his life (except for spending summers in Michigan and winters in Alabama during his later years).

It was 2 July 1910 in Chicago that Harris married Jean Thomson, a Scotswoman whom he had met at a local nature club. Jean traveled the world with Harris in support of Rotary. She helped to make women an important part of Rotary, eventually leading to all Rotary Clubs admitting women as full members. The couple never had any children.

Source - Wikipedia

Trustee chair’s message

Paul Harris birthday

Rtn. Kalyan BanerjeeTrustee Chair 2016-17

April 2017

Paul Percy Harris (April 19, 1868 – January 27, 1947) was a Chicago,

Illinois, attorney. He founded Rotary International in 1905

EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY: Rtn. Asst. Secretary, Rotary Club of Madras, ‘Rayala Towers’, 2nd Mezzanine Floor, 158, Anna Salai, Chennai - 2, Ph: 28591020.Contact the editor at: mohanraman@gmail.com. Design: www.studiodescience.com

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The Lighthouse - Bulletin of The Rotary Club of Madras • April 11, 20174Birthday20th April – Rtn Bharat Shivkumar20th April – Rtn VS Narasimhan21st April – Rtn PP K Gopal Ratnam22nd April – Rtn PP NK Gopinath23rd April – Rtn PP Paul K Jacob20th April – Ann.Selvi (Rtn Dr K Rajan)20th April – Ann.Nanda (Rtn S Suresh Kumar)22nd April – Ann.Meenakshi (Rtn Shivkumar Eashwaran)24th April – Ann.Shalini (Rtn Biswajit Babu)24th April – Ann.Preethi S Sharma (Rtn TV Sai Srujan)

19th April – Rtn PP SL Chitale Ann. Sushila19th April – Rtn Shoukath Sherif Ann. Dr. Rubia20th April – Rtn PP George B Cherian Ann. Karina22nd April – Rtn Punkaj Sachdev Ann.Anuradha

Wedding

Rtn PB Prasad – `1000Rtn Ashok Bajaj – `2000Rtn Bharat M Pujara – `1000Rtn Dr Anuradha Ganesan – `2000Rtn Dr B Ramachandran – `1000Rtn Aditya Agarwal – `1000Rtn Manish Kawlra – `10,000 (RCMBTS)

Sunshine

EDITORIAL COMMITTEEAdvisors: Rtn. PP N.K. Gopinath,

Rtn. Sunita SureshChairman: Rtn. Mohan Raman

Rtn. Shaan Katari Libby, Rtn. Bhaswar Mukherjee, Rtn. Shakthi Girish,

Rtn. Biswajit Babu, Rtn. Sandhya Sridhar, Rtn. R. Ravishankar, Rtn. Hiren B. Shah,

P.S. Sridharan

Secretary Rtn Dr R Chandrasekhar

announced that the next weekly meeting is on the

21st April’17 at 1 pm at the same place. The Speaker is

Mr Ram JethmalaniTopic: Deception Thy

Name is Politics

April is Magazine Month, a time to celebrate the global network of Rotary’s official magazines,

which provide valuable information to 1.2 million Rotarians. The Rotary World Magazine Press consists of 32 magazines from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe that inform, inspire, and entertain in 23 languages. In addition to The Rotarian, Rotary’s English-language flagship publication, it offers magazines such as Vida Rotaria (Argentina), Rotary in Bulgaria, and The Rotary-no-Tomo (Japan). The RI Bylaws require all club members to subscribe to The Rotarian or a Rotary regional magazine. Rotary leaders, district governors, and club presidents are encouraged to support magazine editors in their country or region by submitting story ideas, promoting readership, encouraging timely subscription payments, and assisting with other communication efforts. -

Humanitarian news from around the world, with the latest on health, education & poverty. The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International.

Readers of The Rotarian are a selected audience involved in business and the

professions. They include established business leaders who are passionate about changing the world for the better. Many are part of the baby-boomer generation with a disposable income that allows them to spend on family, travel, entertainment, and plenty of hobbies.

The magazine features articles on business, travel, health, education, the environment, management and ethics, sports, and adventure.

The Rotarian challenges its readers to become more involved in service to their neighborhoods and to the global community by establishing a context for Rotary’s initiatives in polio eradication, disease prevention, maternal and child health, literacy, peace and conflict resolution, economic development, and clean water.

Our readers are members of Rotary International, a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace all across the globe. Approximately 1.2 million members, called Rotarians, belong to more than 34,000 Rotary clubs worldwide.

Regional magazines

More than half of Rotarians worldwide receive a regional magazine instead of The Rotarian. These publications are produced independently by Rotarians, distributed in more than 130 countries, and published in 24 languages. They have a combined circulation of 872,000. Each magazine has a regional point of view but also includes articles and photographs of international interest from The Rotarian.

In addition, Rotary International publishes Rotary Canada, a quarterly supplement to The Rotarian with a circulation of 28,000.

For more information about the Rotary World Magazine Press or to request sample copies, send an email to rwmp@rotary.org.

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April is Rotary Magazine Month