RUNNER: Volume: XVII No. 19 Dated 17th November, 2009

RI President: Rtn John Kelly
Dist Governor: Rtn Utpal Majumdar
President: Rtn Kuldip Singh Virdi
Secretary: Rtn Sanjay Kumar Kanodia
Editor: Rtn Pradip Kumar Pal.

Bortika (District Conference for RY 2009-10)
Will be held at Nazrul Manch during 15, 16 & 17 th January, 2010

Registration forms are with Dist Conference Committee Chairman Rtn Sanjit Chatterjee.
Regn Charges Rs 1200 per Rtn or Anne. Please start immediately with your registration
Next Regular Weekly Meeting on Sunday, the 29th November, 09:

Members and all concerned please note that the next regular 750th Regular Meeting of our club will be held at the residence of PP Rtn Pulak Mokherjee on 29-11-09 at 11.30 A.M. onwards to be followed by Board Meeting and fellowship Lunch.

Address:
PP Rtn Pulak Kumar Mokherjee
B-14A, Diamond Park, Joka, ( Near: Siemen’s and Genex Valley Complex)
Kolkata-700104
Phone: 2497-5702 & Mob: 98304-51869

Rotary Club of Calcutta Charnock City (Prov) announced:

Our club R.C. of Calcutta South City has sponsored the new club Rotary Club of Calcutta Charnock City in our District 3291. GSR PP Rtn Sanjit Chatterjee was present in the provisional meeting of the new Rotary Club at Calcutta Club last Sunday morning on 15th November at 11 A.M. along with DG Rtn Utpal Majumdar, Dist Secretary General Rtn Uttam Ganguly and DRFC PDG Rtn Debashish Mitra. President Rtn Kuldip Singh Virdi and Secretary Rtn Sanjay Kumar Kanodia conducted the meeting. Ms Rema Chakraborty and Mr Suman Jain are Charter President and Charter Secretary of the announced Provisional Club. Our best wishes to all members of this club and their office bearers and Senior Rtn Deb Kumar Mitra. It was followed by fellowship and lunch.

Rotary Orientation Programme:

To acquire more Rotary knowledge, information and Leadership skill especially for new members, the very interesting programme was held at Rotary Sadan on Sunday, the 8th November, 2009 at 9 A.M. DG UtpalMajumder was one of the speakers of the orientation Programme.Lunch and Course materials were provided.Rtn. Tapas Mukherjee attended the programme.

Birthday Greetings:

13th November: Mt Abhinav Chaturvedi (S/o: Rtn Rajeev Chaturvedi)
Wedding Anniversaries:
27th November: Rtn Capt Gulshan Kumar Sehgal with Anne Nishi.
28th November: Rtn Kakoli Halder with Mr Joydeb Halder
29th November: Rtn Rajeev Chaturvedi with Anne Archana.

Scholarships for Students:
We have sponsored tuition fees of two students Mt Debashish Samanta and Mt Krishna Koyal referred by RCC Khandalia and both are brilliant students of Khandalia High School.
Rs 5000 was sponsored by PP Rtn Pramod for this noble cause. Well done Rtn Pramod.
Another very needy student Ms Puja Singh, from National High School was also sponsored Rs 5000 jointly by Rtn Kuldip, Rtn Harbhajan and Rtn Sanjay so that she can continue her Higher Secondary studies.

Rs 2500 as cost of one Computer has been sponsored jointly by Rtn Subhash and Rtn Kuldip for a very needy child.

Minutes of the 748th Weekly Regular Meeting held on Tuesday, the 10th November, 2009 at Metropole, 174 Sarat Bose Road, Kolkata-19 at 6.30 P.M.

President, Rtn Kuldip Singh Virdi:

• called the 748th Regular Meeting to order.(The number of this meeting is being corrected)
• National Anthem was sung by all members led by PP Rtn Harbhajan Singh Thethi.
• Welcomed Rtn Deb Kumar Mitra who announced that the Provisional Meeting of new Rotary Club of Calcutta Charnock City (Prov) will be held on 15th November,09 (Sunday) at Calcutta Club at 11 A.M. He requested GSR & our CP Rtn Sanjit, President Rtn Kuldip and Secretary Rtn Sanjay to attend.
• Also welcomed PP Rtn Sujay Moulick and recalled his close association with our club in 1993-94 when it was formed as Provisional club with 52 members.
• Also welcomed Dr Binayak Deb, prominent Cardiologist at Rabindra Nath Heart Centre and friend of our PP Rtn Tarun Bannerjee.
• Welcomed District Chief Counselor PDG Rtn Ravi Sehgal. He was presented with a flower bouquet by CP Rtn Sanjit and Getanjali, a book with collection of poems by Kabi Rabindra Nath Tagore by President Rtn Kuldip.
• When requested to speak about our proposed Crèche Project, he advised that it can be forwarded as District Matching Project. But in such projects, the construction of buildings is not encouraged for matching by Rotary.
  
• PP Rtn Pulak proposed a hearty vote of thanks to PDG Rtn Ravi for being very kind to visit our club and deliver his words of wisdom regarding Rotary Foundation and our Crèche Project.
• requested Shri Gobindo Koyal, President RCC Khandalia to speak about Thelesemia awareness and check up programme. He informed members that he has arranged for free check and detection for Thelesemia patients for about 100-125 persons at RCC Khandalia. We assured him that for printing flexi banners with Thelesemia awareness information, our club will sponsor such project.
  

President requested Club Secretary Rtn Sanjay Kumar Kanodia to conduct regular club business.

Club Secretary, Rtn Sanjay Kumar Kanodia:

Extended birthday greetings to Ms Anubhav Chaturvedi (S/o: Rtn Rajeev Chaturvedi) for 13th November.

• informed that some of our members are yet to pay their 1st Half Yearly club dues and advertisement charges for Installation Souvenir. They are requested to clear their dues immediately.
• informed about the current status of our Matching grant projects. informed that next regular club meeting will be held on Tuesday the 17th instant at Metropole between 6.30 PM and 8.30 PM. And there will be no Regular Club Meeting on Tuesday the 24th November, 09. That meeting has been postponed to Sunday, the 29th November, 2009 at 11.30 A.M. to be held at the residence of PP Rtn Pulak Mokherjee to be followed by Board Meeting and fellowship Lunch.
  

President, Rtn Kuldip announced the club statistics and terminated the regular club meeting.

Club Statistics:
Rotary World Statistics:
Total Members: 26 Total No of Rotarians: 12,34,527
Members Present 15 Rotary Clubs: 33,790
Guests 4 Rotaract Clubs: 7,741
Total No of Rotaractors: 1,78,043
Interact Clubs: 12,097
Total No of Interactors: 2,78,231
RCC Clubs: 6,725
Total No of RCC Members:1,54,675
( As on 30th June, 2009 )

Nice Old Grannies…
A tour bus driver is driving with a bus load of seniors down a highway when he is tapped on his shoulder by a little old lady.
She offers him a handful of peanuts, which he gratefully munches up.
After about 15 minutes, she taps him on his shoulder again and she hands him another handful of peanuts.
She repeats this gesture about five more times.
When she is about to hand him another batch again he asks the little old lady,
"why don`t you eat the peanuts yourself?".
"We can't chew them because we've no teeth", she replied.
The puzzled driver asks, "Why do you buy them then?"
The old lady replied, "We just love the chocolate around them."

THOUGHT….
“ At the beginning of the last decade, 10.7 million children died every year. Malnutrition and the lack of access to sanitation and safe water were behind more than half of these deaths.
Today….. child mortality is down by 27%.
I believe with all my heart that Rotary’s work has played a role.”
---- 2008-09 RI President Rtn Dong Kurn Lee
At the RI Convention in Birmingham, England.