Volume No : 17

Issue 2

August 2008

A Physicist by education, excelled as a marketing person is now into manufacturing of auto ancillaries. A first generation entrepreneur, Arumugham is always on his toes with a never say die attitude.

Whenever he steps into our meetings, his ever-smiling face radiates happiness and cheer in all of us. His subtle humor will ease any tense atmosphere, especially whenever there is any difference of opinions between members.

Easy going and friendly, Arumugham dreams, but is down to earth and straight forward enough and practical to make dreams real !!

His great grand father Sri. TS Chokalingam Pillai, who was a freedom fighter was also the founder editor of the tamil daily Dinamani. Inheriting his noble qualities ARU is always willing to help and serve.

Suba is ARU's arumaiyaana half. She is a silver medalist in Math, an excellent cook, a sudoko freak and a wonderful mother to the little hero and charmer --- Aditya.

Affectionately called ARU,

our

friend

My

club service director when I was president

And most important of all ARU is a

human being.

The installation of Rtn. M. Arumugham as the 17th President of the Rotary Club of Madras Cosmos - 6th July 2008

Sunday morning - the cosmonauts were up with the lark and gathered with their families at the venue of the installation function of Arumugham at Sangeetha Residency. After a sumptuous breakfast, the meeting was called to order at 9 am sharp.

Annet Sahaana Sekhar rendered the invocation song -

which was very much appreciated by our District Governor Rtn. Subu.

Rtn. G. Gnanavelan delivered the welcome address - Looking back on the by gone rotary year he also delivered the credits to all were pillars of support to him both in his family and outside. He was a happy man as the club under his leadership saw 13 awards.

Rtn. Selvam - who won the award for the best secretary for the year 2007-2008, presented his report. Selvam could give the powerpoint presentation or list of projects done.

Rtn. Sekhar formally introduced the new incoming President to the august gathering.

Rtn- G. Gnanavelan formally handed over the mantle to Rtn. M. Arumugham.

They exchanged collars in the presence of our District Governor Rtn. Subu.

The club charter was exchanged by the outgoing secretary Rtn. M. Selvam and Rtn. Sajjan Mathew.

The new banner with Make Dreams Real logo was unveiled by the Sergeant at Arms

The newly installed President M. Arumugham gave an inspiring acceptance speech and also introduced his new team of office bearers.

Rtn. G. Gnanavelan will now be called as Proactive Immediate Past President as he wished.

The District Governor assisted by his Assistant Governor Rtn. Saravanan and GGR - Rtn Radhakrishnan, pinned the new office bearers to their respective posts.

Rtn Radhakrishnan the GGR did the honors of releasing our e-bulletin - Star News
for the month of July.

The Projects of the day :

2 girls from the Corporation Girls' School Rotler Street were sponsored by the club to take up vocational training in the rotary nursing school.

Rtn. A. Sekhar contributed US$ 1000 to the RI foundation to open the club's account for the rotary year.

Rtn S. Suresh formally introduced Rtn. Dr. Veerabhadran our guest of honor for the day.

Dr Veerabhadran the guest of honour, greeted the new President of our Club Rtn. Arumugham. Looking back on his career, Dr Veerabhadran confirmed that he was the guest of honour just because of his service to humanity more than anything else. Dr Veerabhadran also mentioned that clubs should select an ongoing project - which will be continued by all the presidents who follow and reiterated the fact that service to humanity does not go wasted. He also briefly described the activities of the nursing school run by him

The District Governor - Rtn. Subu was formally introduced as per protocol and the ever smiling DG delivered his sensational and vibrant speech

The DG began in his usual style appreciative of the visiting real team the presidents and the district officials and went on to mention that peace was the need of the hour and that the invocation song was so apt for the moment. He expressed his happiness over the functioning of the club but went on to say that our only strength would lie in increasing its membership

As the birthday baby Shalu - d/o Navarathna Ganesh cut the cake, the newly elected Secretary Rtn. Sajjan Mathew made his announcements and also proposed the vote of thanks.

The function ended ON TIME with the national anthem. 

Dear fellow Rotarians,

This year, we have set ourselves an ambitious goal: to Make Dreams Real for the world's children by reducing child mortality. I believe we can achieve this goal, if we focus our efforts and work together. But I also know that at the end of this year, there will be a great deal left for us to do to bring health and hope to all of the world's children.

If we are to reduce child mortality, in this Rotary year and for many years to come, we need to have Rotarians to do it. Every project we do in water, health and hunger, and literacy helps create a better world. Every project helps change the world, a little bit at a time.

And every project needs caring and capable Rotarians.

Each new Rotarian we bring into our clubs helps to Make Dreams Real . That is why, this year, I am asking Rotarians everywhere to meet bold membership goals: first, to increase membership by 10 percent and, second, to create two new clubs per district.

Like the goal of reducing child mortality, these are ambitious goals that we can achieve ? if we set our minds to them. If we look for new Rotarians only among our friends and family, we may not be able to find enough qualified new members. But if we reach out to community leaders who are of a different profession, or a different generation, we will find many potential Rotarians.

It is natural to want to invite people into our clubs who are like  ourselves, but that limits the diversity and talent of each club. We must welcome younger members to our clubs, or we will have not only lost an important source of energy and expertise but also failed in our duty to our organization to train the next generation of club presidents, district governors, and senior RI leaders.

Remember: Membership is the responsibility of each of us. Every one of us has an obligation to keep Rotary strong, active, and growing. If we hope to Make Dreams Real for the world's children in a meaningful and lasting way, we must ensure a new generation of Rotarians to continue our work.

Dong Kurn (D.K.) Lee
President, Rotary International

Ms. Padmini Ramesh explained the art of Pranic healing and how this science could provide great relief to people who suffer from ailments such as migraine, arthritis, and even hypertension and diabetes. The speaker herself had taken to Pranic Healing after finding relief for her own migraine headaches thru this method. This method originated in Philippines and is gaining importance all around the world. She even demonstrated the effects to some of our members at the meeting hall.

Mr. MR Venkatesh a practising Chartered Account and a columnist for Business Line, spoke on the effect of US Economy on the globalised world. Contrary to the popular belief that the US economy theory which is supposed to be a very sound one, the speaker could give a very logical and practical understanding how hollow the US economy is, based on pure consumption without any regard for the amount of damage they could do to the eco-system and also their huge trade deficits with every country. The US country being geographically insulated, believes in its military might in enforcing trade regulations which suit only them, and how they are able to camaflouge their efforts as a genuine global trade under the name of being a free democracy.

The other powerful industrialised nations like the G8 are also forced to tow in line with the US thought process. The speaker also highlighted that the developing nations like India and China should co-operate along with the gulf countries and help each other so that there is true trade balance and all round development in the world.

Dr. SK Diwedi who heads the National Equine Research Centre of Haryana spoke on the equestrian upkeep and how growth of horse breeding could be a great commercially viable project in rearing horses. He also explained the various types of horse breeding in India and how the Rajasthani equestrians have markets all around the world. The commercial rearing can be even in very small scale and how the rural population can also benefit were explained. He also elaborated the process of rearing the race horses and how different they are from others.

This was a joint meeting along with the RC MCC who joined us in this. Rtn Panchanathan President of Rc MCC gave Vote of thanks and Mr Vaikunth former DG of Police gave the memento to the speaker.

In all the 3 meetings, which were in arranged in July, the speakers were excellent and varied in diverse subjects and threw a lot of light on these subjects and all our members attended in large numbers and were highly impressed with the quality of speakers provided at the club meetings.

Whenever I find the key to success, someone changes the lock.

To Err is human, to forgive is not a COMPANY policy.

The road to success?? Is always under construction.

Alcohol doesn't solve any problems, but if you think again, neither does Milk.

In order to get a Loan, you first need to prove that you don't need it.

All the desirable things in life are either illegal, expensive, fattening or married to some one else

Everyone has a scheme of getting rich?.. Which never works.

If at first you don't succeed?. Destroy all evidence that you ever tried.

You can never determine which side of the bread to butter. If it falls down, it will always land on the buttered side. 

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