RUNNER, 28th July, 2009 Volume XVII No 4

Today’s Guest:
Sri Gobinda Koyal
President, R.C.C. Khandalia.
He will speak about the projects that can be undertaken at our RCC Khandalia this year.

Birthday Greetings:
1st Aug: Mr Tarun Bhattacharjee (H/O: Rtn Swati Bhattacharjee)
3rd Aug: Ms Sromona Ghosh (D/O: Rtn Chiita Ranjan Ghosh)

Board Meeting :

will be held on Saturday, the 1st August, 2009 at 7 P.M. at the residence of Vice President Rtn Harbhajan Singh Thethi at his residence at following address ( to be followed by fellowship and dinner ) :
James Residency
Flat - 5A & 5B, Block- III., 1, Motilal Gupta Road, Kolkata-700 008 (Phone: 2446-3447 & Mob: 98300-29093)

Get Well Soon…
Our PP Rtn Pulak is recovering satisfactorily from a Bye pass surgery he underwent recently.He has shifted back to his Diamond Park.
Our IPP Rtn Rathin is also going through eye ailment and is going for further treatment outside Calcutta.
We pray to the almighty and wish both of our senior members an early recovery and very good health.

Blood Donation Camps:

Second Blood Donation Camp for this Rotary Year was held on 21st July, 2009 (Tuesday) at 63, Padapukur Road, Kolkata-20 where 160 Persons donated blood voluntarily.

Third Blood Donation of this year was held on Sunday, 26th July, 2009 in association with Bagdevi Tarun Sangha at 3A, Nepal Neogi St,
Kolkata-5. Total 55 Persons donated blood in this camp. Health Check up was also arranged.
26th July being the Vijay Diwas in memory of Kargil Martyrs, very proper tribute was extended to the brave Capt Bhattacharyya, who was from the locality and laid his young life 10 years ago at Kargil war front for the country on this day. Rotary Club of Calcutta South City join with the entire nation in remembering those heroes.
Total blood donors till this date: 315 Persons (in three camps)

Rotary and the United Nations:
Rotary International as an organisation and Rotarians individually, played an important role in the formation of the United Nations. In April, 1945, Rotary was in the forefront to finalise the Charter of the UN in San Francisco, USA. 49 Rotarians helped draft the United Nations Charter.

Minutes of the 733rd Regular Club meeting of Rotary Club of Calcutta South City held at Metropole,
174, Sarat Bose Road, Kolkata-29 on 21st July, 2009 at 6.30 P.M.

President Rtn Kuldip Singh Virdi:
# called the 733rd Meeting to order. National Anthem was sung by all members present led by Rtn Rajesh Jaiswal.
# requested to please switch off their mobiles during the meeting.
# welcomed our former member Mr Ranajit Sengupta for being our guest today.
# extended heartiest thanks to our Charter President, Rtn Sanjit Chatterjee for sponsoring this regular meeting at new venue.
# minutes of the regular meeting No: 733 held on 21st July, 09 was confirmed after rectifying the no. of regular meeting in the The Runner.
# informed the members about the 14th Installation meeting of our Rotaract Club at Star Theater banquet hall., which he attended alongwith
Rtn Swati Bhattacharjee.
# also informed members about the 2nd Blood Donation Camp that morning at Paddapukur Road, where 160 persons donated blood.
# welcomed DGE Rtn Rajendra Khandelwal and DG Rtn Utpal Maujumdar to our new venue and requested them to speak to the members.
DGE, Rtn Rajendra Khandelwal:
# expressed his happiness to be there when we have shifted to a new venue at Metropole and wished good luck to all club members.
# he recalled his long and excellent association with many members of our club. He also recalled how he joined as a new member as Rotarian and how it is important to take care of new members joining any Rotary club. To attract new members, the regular meeting venue and atmosphere should be friendly and of involvement in the club activities. In the event of a good speaker, some friends of the members and other neighbouring club members should be invited, so that speaker also feel properly honoured. Special steps should be taken to invite former members to weekly club meetings, who due to some reasons left the Rotary earlier. To honour him a flower bouquet was presented to him by our President.
# a very suitable vote of thanks was extended to him by our Club Director, Rtn Chitta Ranjan Ghosh.
President requested DG Rtn Ut5pal Majumdar also to say few words.
DG Rtn Utpal Majumdar:
# expressed his happiness for the new venue and hoped that it will add to the prestige of our club.
# he also mentioned that member retention is very important and should be taken care of. He welcomed our former Charter member Mr Ranjit Sengupta who has very kindly attended today’s regular meeting as our special guest. He hoped that more such well wishers of our club should be invited to attend our meetings.
President also extended him a heartly thanks for attending the meeting inspite of his busy schedule.
# requested all members to kindly pay their club dues including advertisement charges and Installatrion dinner charges immediately to our Treasurer Rtn Sanjit. as we are sending District dues, RI Half Yearly dues and The Rotary News Subscription in time, positively within
July, 2009 We need cooperation of each and every member of our club in this matter.
# requested Club Secretary, Rtn Sanjay Kumar Kanodia to conduct regular club business.
Club Secretary, Rtn Sanjay Kumar Kanodia:
# extended birthday greetings to:
Shri Joydeb Halder (Husband of Rtn Kakoli Halder, for 22nd July
And our PP Rtn Sukhdev Singh Flora for 25th July
# informed the members that Matching grants for IOL at Murshidabad and Computer Literacy Projects at Rotary Computer Centre are under process and soon it may be approved by RI
# announced the club statistics and requested the members to attend next regular club meeting at our new venue METROPOLE on 28th July between 6.30 P.M. to 8.30 P.M. in time.
President, Rtn Kuldip Singh Virdi terminated the regular meeting and announced the members to enjoy fellowship.
CLUB STATISTICS:
Total Members: 28
Members Present: 11
Guest: 1

Rotafact:

Rotary International was the first organization to be awarded UNICEF’s Audery Hepburn Child Advocate Award in 1995
Dr Albert Sabin, who developed the oral polio vaccine live in Cincinati where he was an honorary member of the Rotary Club. He was often invited to speak at club meetings and district conferences. In 1980, he addressed the Rotary International convention in Chicago. During his speech, he urged Rotary to become involved in mass immunisation against polio. The Chicago convention in 1980 marked a special occasion. It was Rotary’s 75th anniversary. That year was also the United Nations International Year of the Child. The RI board decided to celebrate its 100th anniversary,
25 years later in a polio free world. After, 29 years, polio is still around, but it proved Rotary’s tenacity to strive to fulfil its commitments.

ROTARY AT GLANCE:
Rotarians: 12,21,880 Clubs: 33,334 Districts: 531
Rotaractors 1,74,271 Clubs: 7,577
Interactors 2,74,160 Clubs: 11,920
Community Corps: 1,52,214 Corps: 6.618
( As of March, 2009 )

Modern Math's

Equation 1
Human = eat + sleep + work + enjoy
Donkey = eat + sleep
Therefore, Human = Donkey + work + enjoy
Therefore, Human - enjoy = Donkey + work
In other words, Human that don't know enjoy = Donkey that work
Equation 2
Men = eat + sleep + earn money
Donkeys = eat + sleep
Therefore, Men = Donkeys + earn money
Therefore, Men - earn money = Donkeys
In other words, Men that don't earn money = Donkeys
Equation 3
Women = eat + sleep + spend
Donkeys = eat + sleep
Therefore, Women = Donkeys + spend
Therefore, Women - spend = Donkeys
In other words, Women that don't spend = Donkeys
To Conclude:
From Equation 2 and Equation 3
Men that don't earn money = Women that don't spend.
So, Men earn money not to let women become Donkeys! (Postulate 1)
And, Women spend not to let men become Donkeys! (Postulate 2)
So, we have…
Men + Women = Donkeys + earn money + Donkeys + spend money
Therefore…from Postulates 1 and 2, we can conclude Man + Woman = 2 Donkeys that live happily together!
Courtesy: N Nevatia