ISSUE 4 OCTOBER 2010BULLETIN OF ROTARY BANGALORE SOUTH

DISTRICT GOVERNOR'S HOME CLUB

THE

VistaPAUL HARRIS

MEETS EVERY WEDNESDAY AT VVN SCHOOL, VANIVILAS ROAD, V.V. PURAM, BANGALORE @ 7 P.M.

THE ROTARY FOUNDATION HALL OF HONOR CLUB

Rtn. M.N. SURESH

District Governor

Rtn. SURESH BHAT

District Secretary

Rtn. M.PRABHUDEVA

President

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Rtn. Dr. PRAFULLA THUMATI

Immediate Past President

Rtn. H.V.VEERESH

President Elect

Rtn. M.V.GOPALAKRISHNA

Vice President

Rtn. T.R.BALAJI

Secretary

Rtn. B.R.SRIDHAR

Treasurer

Rtn. S.R.BABUSHANKAR

Director- Club Services

Rtn. M.R.SHIVARAM

Director- Vocational Services

Rtn. JEETU MUTHA

Director-Community Services

Rtn. N. BALAKRISHNA

Director - New Generation

Rtn. Dr. B.S.JAIPRAKASH

Director- International Services

Rtn. PP. R.A.RADHAKRISHNAN

Additional Director

Rtn. PP.C.N.SHAMSUNDER

Additional Director

Rtn. B.J.RATHNARAJU

Joint Secretary

Rtn. D.V.Prabhu

Seargent At Arms

Rtn. S.RAMAKRISHNA

Chairman - Membership Committee

Rtn. M.G.NAGENDRA

Chairman - Public Relations Committee

Rtn. Dr.S.N.ANEGUNDI

Chairman - Service Projects Committee

Rtn. Md. MANSURUDDIN

Chairman - Club Administration Committee

Rtn. B.K.NAGARAJ

Chairman - Rotary Foundation Committee

Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan birth day which is also called Teachers Day was celebrated in Rotary South on 8th September, 2010. It was a joint program with Inner Wheel Club of Bangalore South. The chief guest for the program was Sri. G .Venka tasubba iah , no t ed litterateur retired Principal, Vijaya College and recipient of Gokak Award. He is a 98 years young man. He was introduced to the audience by Rtn. P.C.Balaraj. Prof. G. Venkatasubbaiah was felicitated by

Rotary Bangalore South was adjudged as the best club for the month of August in the major club category by District 3190. President Rtn. M.Prabhudeva received the award from District Governor Rtn. M.N.Suresh during New Generation ICGF held on 5th September, 2010. Congratulations to President and all the members of the Club for this achievement.

Best award Club

Teachers Day Celebration- 8-9-2010

Rotary South for his achievements and his contribution to Kannada.

Five Teachers were selected to confer vocational excellence award. Smt.Parvathy, Smt. Ravikala, Smt. Kamakshi,Smt.Saugandhika Pushpa and Sri. Prahalad Rao were the recipients of awards. Smt. Ravikala was from Yoga teaching and the rest are school teachers.

Speaking on the occasion, Prof G.Venkata subbaiah explained the importance of a teacher to the community and their great contribution in development of students to build the nation. Meeting ended with vote of thanks proposed by Rtn. D.L.Prakash.

Rtn. G.Muralidhar celebrated his 60th birthday and sponsored the dinner for the day.

Is it the TRUTH?

Is it FAIR to all concerned?

Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

FOUR WAY TEST

The weekly meeting started with introduction of chief guest Mr.Jaya Satishkumar an expert in Vaastu and Numerology by Rtn. Siva Prasad. Chief Guest explained about the importance of Vaastu in every body's life. He specially stressed the point on Vaastu compliance in construction of house. Meeting ended with vote of thanks proposed by Rtn. Babu Shankar.

FROM EDITOR'S DESK

Yours in Rotary

Babushankar

Month started with ICGF on New Generation which was enjoyed by all Rotarians. Entire month was buzzing with activities ranging from Installation of Rotaract and Interact clubs to celebration of teachers’ day and helping the needy. Biggest moment was when Rotary Bangalore South got best club award for the month of August from DG Rtn. M.N.Suresh. Well done President. Keep it up.

Our president will herald a new chapter in South history by completing the Hasiru Kranthi project to regreen Bangalore.

You can reach me at srbabushankar@gmail.com

Vaastu & Numerology- 1-9-10

Installation of Interact Club President of VVN 6-9-2010

Installation of office bearers of

Interact Club of VVN was held on 6th

September, 2010. Itr.Shraddha D.K.

was installed as President in the

presence o f Pres ident Rtn.

Prabhudeva, Lt. Governor Rtn.

B.S.Arunkumar, Dist 3190 and

other Rotarians of Bangalore South.

On the occasion of Teachers Day, Vocational Services Advisor - Rtn. Dr. H.V.Rajashekara Setty ably supported by Rtn.Dr. Anegundi and Rtn. Dr. Prafulla Thumati organised a Health Care Camp for the teachers and other staff of VVN School. More than 100 teachers and staff were examined for diabetics, hypertension, dental check up, Cholestral, Obesity, etc. The free medicines and advise were given to the people who had problems. The program was supported by drug companies like US Vitamins, Abbot Laboratories, Micro Lab and Alembic specialities. Doctors from Dayanand Sagar College of Dental Sciences also participated in the camp.

Medical care camp for teachers at VVN 6-9-2010

GOOD things come to those who WAIT ; BETTER things come to those who TRY;

BEST things come to those who BELIEVE in their efforts

Club Roster was released by DG Rtn.

M.N.Suresh on 29th Sep 2010. The Roster

comprises all the contact details of

Rotarians which will be useful for all

members. Special thanks to Rtn.

D.V.Prabhu and Rtn. B.R.Sridhar for

compiling the Roster in a short period of

time.

Release of Roster

Installation of Rotaract Club of RVCE - 16-9-10

Rotary Bangalore South celebrated 150th birth

anniversary of genial engineer Sir M.Visveswaraiah on

15th Sept. The day is also celebrated as Engineers

Day. PDG Rtn. S.Udayashankar, President

M.Prabhudeva and other members of the South club

were present during the garlanding of the Sir

M.Visvesaraiah statue at VV Puram circle, Bangalore.

The bust of Sir M.Visvesariah was decorated with

flowers for the occasion. Sweets were distributed on

this occasion. The entire program was sponsored by

Rtn. M.G.Nagendra.

150th birth anniversary of Sir M.Visveswaraiah -15-9-10

World Ozone day was celebrated on 16th September,

2010 by Rotary Bangalore South along with

Maharani’s College for Women, Bangalore. Rtn. Ashok

Maheshwari, Chairman, Rotary District Environment

Committee, explained the potential dangers of losing

ozone layer due to pollution and the need to protect

ozone layer and balance the environment. Saplings

were planted on this occasion. Meeting was also

attended by local MLA, Sri Roshan Baig, Sri Suresh

Heblikar, Environmentalist, Prof Shakuntala,

Principal and Lt. Governor Rtn. B.S.Arunkumar.

World Ozone Day

RYLA was organised jointly with Rotary Bangalore

Megacity by Rotary Bangalore South at National High

school, Basavanagudi on 8th September, 2010. More

than 1100 students participated in the RYLA.

RYLA at National High School

New team of Rotaract club of RVCE was installed on

16th September at the college premises. PRID Rtn.

M.K.Panduranga Setty was the chief guest and he

installed new president Rtr. Abhishek Yadav along

with his team. New members to Rotaract club were

inducted by Rtn. M.Prabhudeva, Rotary South

president. DGE Rtn. Pandurang Potnis, DDR Rtr. Giri

Chittur also graced the occasion.

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after failure. Move and Work Hard until all our goals are achieved

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Rotary has satisfactorily demonstrated the fact that friendship can easily

hurdle national and religious boundary lines.

15-9-10- District Heart Surgery program

Health is one of the important avenues of service for Rotary. District 3190 planned to conduct 365 heart surgeries during the Rotary Year 2010-11. Rotary Bangalore South wants to participate in the program. Rtn. O.P.Khanna, Director for Health, Dist 3190 was the guest speaker for the day. Program started with invocation rendered by Ann Vijaya Puttaraju. Rtn. Dr. Kiran Shankar introduced the guest speaker. Rtn. O.P.Khanna made a PPT presentation about the District Heart Surgery program planned jointly with Needy Heart Foundation. He explained that each heart operation costs between Rs 2- 2.5 Lakhs. Club contributes about Rs30000 for each case, Hospital subsidises about Rs50-75K and rest is paid by District 3190.

President Rtn. M.Prabhudeva informed that South will sponsor 6 heart surgeries. Rtn. Jeetu Mutha, Rtn. M.G.Nagendra, Rtn. T.R.Dwarakanath, Rtn. S.A.Gopalakrishna, Ann Lakshmi Krisnamurthy and Rtn. Dr.H.V.Rajashekara Setty agreed to sponsor one surgery each by contributing Rs30000. Meeting ended with vote of thanks proposed by Rtn. P.S.Ramesh.

Teachers Training Program

Rotary Bangalore South and Sankya- Rotary Computer Project

together organised a training program for the teachers in teaching

of computers. Many teachers attended the program and

certificates were distributed after completion of training program.

Cultural evening was

held as a month end

program. Gana

Vinodhini Thanda

performed humorous

skits and entertained

all the members

present.

Rtn. T.R.Dwarakanath identified a blind girl who is very keen to

complete music course which costs Rs20,000. He explained the

keen interest of the girl Ms.Kusuma who is blind to complete the

course but cannot afford. Many Rotarians came forward to help

her to join the course.

Subhadra Tallam Charitable Trust Rs5000

Rtn. Krishna Murthy Rs5000

Sri Laddulal Mehta Rs5000

Ann Vijayalakshmi Bhargav Rs2500

Rtn. N.Balakrishna Rs1000

Rtn. S.G.Subbarama Setty Rs1000

Rtn.B.R.Sridhar Rs 500

The Vista Thank all of them for their liberal contribution and

helping a poor girl to accomplish her dream of completing music

course.

Sponsoring of Blind Girl for Music course

Cultural Evening -29-9-10

Induction of new Members New Members

Rotary Bangalore reached the magic number of 100 by inducting 5 new members on 29-9-10. DG Rtn. M.N.Suresh, Rtn. K.T.Shetty,Chairman-Membership Development &Retention Committee RI Dist 3190, Assistant Governor Rtn. Kumar Ankalkoti and PDG Rtn. S.Udaya Shankar inducted these 5 members to club.

R.RamachandraPublic Service

K.G.SubbarajPharma Distribution

T.Srinivas Agharabathi Manufacturing

D.S.Ladhulal MehtaRetail Medicals

J.VenugopalReal Estate Consultant

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any and all measures to enforce his views upon others.- Paul Harris

Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticise others

Rotarian B.C.Parthasarathy and Ann Kalyani hosted the weekly meeting at their home. This coincided with the celebration of Anantha Padmanabha Vratha. Meeting was celebrated in a different way by rendering of devotional songs by Rotarians and Anns. Rtn.Dr. Anegundi was the lucky Rotarian at the draw held.

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Rotary Meeting at Rotarian’s Home 22-09-10

Vasavi Medical Trust, Rotary Bangalore South and Lions Club organised free Prostate medical check up for the members of Rotary Bangalore south. Many members utilised this opportunity and underwent check up.

Prostate Check up camp-26-9-10

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P.A.Ashok Kumar 9th

K.G.Subbrama Setty 17th

P.S.Satish 24th

Dr.H.V.Rajashekara Setty 25th

Jawahar S. Nagpal 25th

C.R.Subramanya Gupta 30th

Kamala Balasubramanyam 3rd

Pavithra Rakesh 4th

Anupama Nagaraj 5th

Varsha Singh 11th

Jayalakshmi Gopinath 12th

Archana Anand Setty 15th

Kalyani Parthasarathy 19th

Sangeetha Prasad 20th

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Dr.Prafulla Thumathi Suma 1st

Srinath Setty Adity 4th

K.G.Shekar Lakshmi 18th

Raja Udayashankar Chandini 18th

K.N.K.Swamy Rukmini 23rd

T.Srinivas Gowri 23rd

S.Ramakrishna Shylaja 31st

Wedding Anniversary

6-10-10 Talk on Financial Crisis in Europe and its effects- Rtn. Babu Shankar

13-10-10 C h a n g i n g p h a s e s i n G o v e r n m e n t Communications- Mrs. Maya Chandra

20-10-10 Our Experiences in LEH LADAK- Bike Tour-AG. Rtn. Anil Kumar & Group

27-10-10 Cultural Program

03-11-10 Kannada Rajyotsava Celebration.

Programmes - October 2010

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