Official e-Newsletter of the Rotary Club of Holy Spirit

The Dove
August 23, 2016

Rotary Club of Holy Spirit Club No. 69935 RI District 3780 Philippines

Vol. IX No. 06

Holy Spirit participates in 2nd Multi-club Membership Development Seminar

RC Holy Spirit joined 32 other D3780
clubs last August 17 in participating in the
2nd Multi-club Membership Development
Seminar organized by the District Membership Committee chaired by PP Bernadette BH Herrera-Dy. About 200 Rotarians listened intently as PDG Rolando
Oyan Villanueva of RC Baguio Summer
Capital D3790 animatedly talked about
how to motivate club members particularly

potential recruits. He also urged the ASPs to

lead with a heart and build relationships that
last. PDG Rufino Penny Policarpio acted as
Moderator in the ensuing open forum. LG Ric
Doria acted as the events night chair. The
multi-club meeting was capped by fellowship
and drawing of raffle prizes.

District Membership Development Committee Chair PP Bernadette BH

Herrera-Dy reports that 204 new members have joined Rotary, including 4
in RC Holy Spirit
From District Membership Chair BH Herrera:-Dy
This month of August has surely been a busy
month for the Membership Development Committee of District 3780. I must say we are off to a
good start! We have rolled out our Vision 20-20
Membership goals, started implementing the innovations we have made in the committee, prepared incentives to clubs who help us achieve
vision 20-20, jump-started the multi-club Membership Development Seminar series, began
preparations for the New Member Orientation
Seminar and the Membership Fellowship Night

and are continuously formulating our future plans

for membership growth.
As of August 26, 2016, I am also very happy to
update our district that we have a total of 204
registered new members coming from 41 Rotary
Clubs from our district. Alright!
The full update report of the committee to DG
Dwight Ramos may be read and downloaded
from this link:
MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT UPDATE August 26, 2016.

Holy Spirit is featured in UNTV Rotary in Action

On August 20, 2016, ASP Peth

Rivera and PP Marcia Salvador
were guests in the early morning
radio program of UNTV Rotary in
Action.
Anchored by PP Rey Rimonde of
RC Kagitingang Cubao, the program gave ASP Peth and PP
Marcia an opportunity to talk
about RCHSs signature and other
service projects.
The radio interview must have
been one the last interviews
hosted by PP Rey before he had
to be confined at the St Lukes
Medical Center within the next
several days.

Holy Spirit comes to the aid of habagat victims

When heavy rains and floods brought by the enhanced
southwest monsoon hit the metropolis, one of the hardest hit areas was Barangay Bagong Silangan.
D3780 Rotaractors and Rotarians immediately organized a relief and response team, collecting relief goods,
repacking them and bringing them to the flood victims
temporarily housed at the covered court of Barangay
Bagong Silangan, Bagong Sulyap evacuation site and
also at Barangay Tatalon.
The relief efforts of D3780 helped around a thousand
indigent flood victims. RC Holy Spirit donated 240 bottles of purified water. Also, ASP Peth Rivera of Holy
Spirit donated P3,000 for the relief fund.

The larger combined effort from August 15: Rotarys immediate response relieves suffering of 1,000 flood victims in Quezon City
From the Governors Monthly Letter (GML) August
2016.The district relief mission helped around 1,000
flood victims. Thanks to the efforts of DCOS Cecille
Rodriguez, District Community Service Chair Aiza
Remedios with Co-Chair PP Eren Tumali, PP Jun Zipagan of the Disaster Preparedness, Relief and Recovery
Committee, ASP Mustafa Al-sayyad, PP Andy Almendral
and LG Ric Doria. And, of course, special thanks to our
Rotaractors led by DRR Rachel Diano.
Thanks to the following Rotary clubs who generously
contributed their share for the relief mission: Bagong
Silangan, Camp Aguinaldo, Camp Karingal, Camp
Panopio, Cubao, Cubao Edsa, Cubao South, Diliman
North, Diliman QC, Eastwood, Holy Spirit, Kagitingang Cubao, Kamuning Central, Kamuning East,
Katipunan, Lagro Ascencion, Midtown QC, Neopolitan Fairview, New Manila QC, North Edsa, Quezon
City, QC Central, Quirino QC, Roces, San Bartolome,
SFDM, Sta Mesa, South Triangle, Valencia, West
Central QC, West Triangle.

This page of The Dove e-bulletin serves as home page

of the virtual website of
ROTARY CLUB OF HOLY SPIRIT
Rotary International District 3780
Officers &
Chairmen

Members

About the
Club

Service
Projects

Classification talk by former Central Banker Percy Zabala during fellowship-meeting

Gallery

What is
Rotary?

Club
Bulletin

It was also an occasion to have Rtn Percy Zabala,

formerly a regional director of the Bangko Central
ng Pilipinas (Central Bank of the Philippines), talk
about banking. Joining the fellowship was Spouse
PDG Francis Rivera, himself a retired banker.

August 16, 2016 was a night of fellowship cum

meeting for seventeen (17) RCHS members who
came together at the McDonalds store along Holy
Spirit Drive for some burger, fries and chicken.
Plus sweet pomelos and mangoes brought by ASP
Peth Rivera straight from the Rivera farm in Bulacan.

PP Eui Bong Jung attended the meeting which

was held one day prior to his departure for Korea
to join up with family.

RC Holy Spirit is on . .

Watch THE BOYS OF

1905 History of Rotary
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D3780
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MESSAGES FROM ROTARY LEADERS

RI Presidents August 2016 Message

Forty years ago, a man named George
Campbell, the owner of the company I
worked for, invited me to join Rotary.
Back then, that was a common practice
in the United States. Your boss invited
you to join Rotary because he thought it
would be good for business and good
for the community, and you said yes. Its
not surprising that our membership
surged during that period.
George warned me not to use Rotary as an excuse to
slack off at work. Even so, I always had time to attend
lunch meetings and serve on committees. I never had to
worry that taking a long lunch once a week would hurt my
advancement, or what my boss would think about the occasional Rotary phone call at work.
Today, things are different. Companies are less generous
about time, and not every manager looks favorably on
community service. Its hard to enjoy a Rotary meeting
when youve got emails piling up on your phone. Its
harder than ever to balance work with Rotary and the
model that gave us so much growth a few decades ago is
part of whats holding back our growth now.
Thats why the recent Council on Legislation adopted
some innovative measures that allow clubs to vary their
meeting times and expand their pool of prospective members. Clubs have more flexibility now to respond to the
needs of their members and to clear away as many barriers to membership as they can. But theres one barrier to
membership that only you can remove, one thing that
every prospective member needs to become a Rotarian:
an invitation to join a Rotary club.
Whenever I tell a group of Rotarians that we need more
willing hands, more caring hearts, and more bright minds
to move our work forward, everyone applauds. But those
hands, hearts, and minds wont magically appear in our
clubs. We have to ask them to join. And an invitation to
Rotary is something that only you can give. An invitation is
a gift. Its saying to someone, I think you have the skills,
the talent, and the character to make our community better, and I want you to join me in doing that.
Im the president of Rotary International, but the only club
I can invite someone to join is the Rotary Club of Chattanooga, Tenn. I cant make your club or your community
stronger. Only you can do that by inviting the qualified
people you know to join you in Rotary Serving Humanity.
JOHN F. GERM
President 2016-17

Foundation Chairmans August 2016 Message

More members mean a stronger
Foundation
Our Rotary Foundation depends on a
strong and thriving Rotary membership.
It is, after all, our members who provide
the generous support that enables our
Foundation to tackle some of the
worlds most pressing problems. As important as that support is, its not the only contribution Rotarians make to our Foundation.
The Rotary Foundation has an unusual business model.
Like many charities, we receive donations that we use to
address a host of critical issues. Unlike most other nonprofit organizations, we depend on our members to develop relevant and effective service projects. Your volunteer labor stretches our contribution dollars and helps The
Rotary Foundation to do much more with less.
The typical global grant requires hours of planning and
budgeting before even one dollar is received or spent.
Then the sponsors must purchase supplies, seek donated
goods, set up bank accounts, organize volunteers, write
reports, and monitor the projects progress, all while working with Rotarians in another part of the world. Fortunately, our clubs have a wide variety of professional skills
and talents to call upon throughout this process.
Smaller clubs may not have the financial or human resources to sponsor a global grant, even if their members
share a strong commitment to the Foundations mission.
Imagine what those clubs could accomplish with two or
three times as many members.
As we celebrate Membership and New Club Development
Month in August, lets not forget the importance of quickly
engaging new members in Rotary service. Make sure
they know about the many opportunities our Foundation
offers members to pursue their service interests, from
promoting better health to providing training and education to bringing peace and stability to communities in
need.
Through The Rotary Foundation, our members have a
chance to use their skills to make a real difference. First,
we need to bring those talented people into our ranks and
engage them in our Foundations vital work to create a
better world. And only we, the Rotarians, can bring in
those new members. So it is up to us, really, isnt it?

KALYAN BANERJEE
Trustee Chair 2016-17
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District Governors Message

By Governor Dwight Hilarion M. Ramos, Rotary International District 3780

Let us lead the way in carrying forth the tradition of ROTARY SERVING HUMANITY

We should have more Rotarians who

can achieve more good work, and who
will become the Rotary leaders of tomorrow. And so it goes back to what
Paul Harris has said about members
combining all their effort in order to
serve humanity together: This is Rotary
Serving Humanity!
This calls for all our Clubs to chart a
seamless and smooth segue from
membership to TRF to public image
and back.

The recent Council on Legislation adopted

some innovative measures that now give Clubs
more flexibility to respond to the needs of their
members and to clear away as many barriers
to membership as they can. Clubs can already
vary their meeting times, can have in-person or
online participation, and can expand their pool
of prospective members.
Now in explaining the RI Presidential Citation
for RY 2016-17, President John Germ said that
there is no better path to meaningful service
today than Rotary membership as we rely to
our members in order to be able to make a
real and positive difference in our communities.
Through the members, Rotary has the capacity, the network, and the knowledge to change
the world. Thus, our goal is to have more people join us and become members of Rotary.

From the Governors Monthly Letter (GML) August 2016

We start by getting our members'

ideas organized into projects and then
apply for a TRF grant to fully or partially fund
these Club Service Projects. We successfully
implement our service projects then let everyone know of what our Club has done through a
PR program. The community sees, reads and
hears about our Club projects, thus membership recruitment is enhanced. Donors, both
here and abroad, hear and read about them
too and soliciting funds for future Club projects
will be easier. This cycle goes on and on and at
the end of the day, what you actually have is a
proven formula for having an effective Club.
This is our commitment, both a responsibility
and an opportunity, to lead the way in carrying
forth the tradition
of "Rotary Serving
Humanity" this Rotary Year 2016-17.

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ROTARY LEADER July 2016

Online magazine for District and Club Leaders

District 3780 GOVERNORS MONTHLY LETTER

July 2016

The Gyrator of RC Chicago

August 14, 2016

THE DOVE of RC Holy Spirit D3780

Issue No. 5 of Year 9 August 16, 2016

RC Holy Spirit D3780 has been on Rotary SHOWCASE since 2012.

A number of service projects of the Rotary
Club of Holy Spirit District 3780 have been
posted on the Rotary Showcase of Rotary International since the Showcase was launched
GLOBAL GRANT PROJECT MODERNIZES
COUNTRYS FIRST HUMAN MILK BANK in
Philippine Childrens Medical Center
The GLOBAL GRANT funded project, applied
for by host club RC Holy Spirit D3780, District
3780 and primary international sponsor District 3710 Korea, was submitted to and approved by The Rotary Foundation in 2014-15
and implemented & turned over by donation
to the PCMC in March 2016.

CHESS BUILDS SPORTSMANSHIP, ENHANCES IMAGE OF ROTARY

The 4th annual chess cup dubbed CHECKMATE held on May 29, 2016 was participated in by 186 chess enthusiasts (including
62 players in Kiddie Division). The event
featured Asias 1st Grandmaster Eugene
Torre. Rtn. Eugene thanked RC Holy Spirit
for promoting chess and exhorted all players
to use the discipline they develop from playing chess in their everyday lives. .

HOLY SPIRIT SMILES

Hope is shared with baby and parents
when RC Holy Spirit D3780 launched
HOLY SPIRIT SMILES Project last August
14, 2012. More children from poor families
are expected to benefit from free surgical
operation.

WEEKLY FEEDING-READINGLEARNING
Weekly learning-feeding program motivates interest to learn and consequently
raises literacy of 40 young children living in
a depressed dumpsite area.. The continuing program was first rolled out in early
August 2012 in Payatas, Quezon City by
Rotarians and Rotaractors of RC Holy
Spirit D3780.
PEACE & UNDERSTANDING
To help build international peace and
understanding, PE Dr. Eui Bong Jung,
OMD, and RC Holy Spirit D3780 hosted
the educational-cultural visit in the Philippines of eleven Korean college students
last July 16-20, 2012.
07-15-2016

in RY 2011-12. Click on the photos to view

Showcase projects of Holy Spirit, and click
this link to view other Rotary clubs in the
world.
ANNUAL MILK-FEED PROGRAM SAVES
CHILDREN FROM MALNOUTRITION
After 100 days of feeding, the nutritional
status of 50 malnourished school children
have all improved dramatically to Normal.
In its recently concluded 5th year, the nutrition program for 50 selected wasted & severely wasted pupils of Dona Juana Elementary School, a public school, featured
daily intake of fresh milk, snack food and
multivitamin syrup. The 6th annual program is
due to be launched in September 2016.
YOUTH FORUMS ON HIV/AIDS
RC Holy Spirit D3780 with the Rotaract &
Interact Clubs of Holy Spirit organized the 2nd
annual youth forum on Drug Abuse and
HIV/AIDS Prevention last October 28, 2012 in
cooperation with the Philippine Red Cross.
The outcome desired is to help achieve ZERO
new incidence among the youth in Quezon
City. RC Holy Spirit and partners organized
the 3rd, 4th and 5th forums on September 22,
2013, September 21, 2014, and November 8,
2015, respectively.

QUICK DISASTER RESPONSE

RC Holy Spirit D3780 responded quickly to
help alleviate hunger among 200 flood
victims sheltered at the Bagong Silangan
Elementary School evacuation center last
August 8, 2012, one day after the deluge.
An example is set.

ORIENTAL MEDICAL RELIEF

Regular monthly Oriental medical relief missions organized by RC Holy Spirit D3780 and
conducted in Barangays Holy Spirit and
Payatas in Quezon City have been serving
indigent patients from urban poor families
since 2012.

BRIGADA ESKWELA PROJECT

RC Holy Spirit, Interact and Rotaract Clubs
of Holy Spirit D3780 helped two adopted
public schools with combined student population of nearly 12,000 prepare for the opening of 2012 classes by performing repair &
housekeeping tasks.. These pre-school
opening service activities have since been
done annually.

Service opportunity: Rotary members link Love of Beer, Clean Water Crisis
By Arnold R. Grahl, Rotary News, August 24, 2016
Beer festivals have a strong fellowship component. When people are
sampling beers, they are socializing and having a good time. Founders of the Beers Rotarians Enjoy
Worldwide maintains a list of Rotary-sponsored beer festivals and
encourages clubs to hold them.

Rotary Club. It's been so successful, the club added a home-brew

competition and cornhole tournament this year, and plans to expand
the event to two days next year.
Other growing festivals include the
Weed Brew Fest in California and
Brew on the Bay in Key Largo, Florida. The beer fellowship promotes a
list of brew fests sponsored by Rotary clubs.

When you sit down to enjoy a beer,

you probably don't spend a lot of
time thinking about one of its main
ingredients water. Or the fact that
3,000 children die each day from
diseases caused by unsafe water.

GOOD FOR CLUB MORALE

When Lenie Jordan, president of
the Rotary Club of Franklin, North
Carolina, and part owner of his
A group of innovative Rotarians aren't just
town's
microbrewery,
heard about the fellowtions to society.
thinking; they're doing something about it.
ship, he got 20 members of the club to sign
Their group, Beers Rotarians Enjoy Worldwide "We are very enthusiastic about the opportuni- up.
(BREW), has organized events around the
ties to work together," says F. Ronald Denworld and is working to raise hundreds of
ham, a past chair of the Water and Sanitation "It has been a point of interest for many of our
thousands of dollars for Rotary's global water, Action Group and a member of the Rotary
members, and an opportunity to come tosanitation, and hygiene efforts.
Club of Toronto Eglinton, in Ontario, Canada. gether in a more casual environment," says
Jordan. "I would attribute at least one new
"By drinking a beer, I can help bring fresh wa- "On our side, we can present and describe the member to the fellowship. She attended one
ter to a village in Africa," says Steven Lack, a projects. BREW will establish relationships
with the breweries. And some of the members of our field trips and said she wanted to join.
member of the Rotary Club of Pleasant Hill,
are senior executives in breweries. It's a won- It's had a positive effect both on membership,
California, USA. "If you can drink beer and
and on general morale."
some of the money goes to doing good in the derful synergy."
world, that is something you can feel good
The fellowship's interest in beer gives memA BLUEPRINT FOR FUNDRAISING
about."
Lack and Aryee founded the beer fellowship in bers an opportunity to share insights and to
learn on an international scale. For instance,
2014 after reaching the same conclusion at
Fellowships like BREW are Rotary's way of
members recently heard how the composition
roughly the same time: Beer is fun and probringing together members who share a parof water can determine the type of beer an
motes
fellowship,
both
of
which
make
Rotary
ticular passion. Rotarian Action Groups unite
more appealing. And by bringing together peo- area is famous for. According to All About
members who have expertise in a specific
Beer magazine, Dublin became known for its
ple who share an interest in beer, you can
service area. The beer fellowship's leaders
darker beers because of its water's high alkaunite
them
for
the
purpose
of
doing
good.
realized that joining forces with an action
line content. Since yeast doesn't perform as
group dedicated to providing access to clean
"We're always talking about making Rotary
well with high alkalinity, brewers gradually
water would create a sum larger than the two fun," says Lack. "When people drink beer,
discovered they got better results by roasting
parts.
they are socializing. It's one of those things
the barley, which both lowers the alkaline level
that
brings
us
together,
that
makes
us
equal."
and makes a darker beer. Similarly, the soft
"Beer and water have a natural affinity; you
water in the Czech town of Pilsen made it
need water to brew beer" says Moses Aryee,
In addition to working with the action group,
ideal for the world's first pilsners.
past president of the Rotary Club of Accrathe fellowship promotes the idea of good times
West, Ghana, and co-chair of the beer fellow- and service by helping clubs organize beer
Another useful fact: Beer has historically proship. "Our vision is a global approach to fresh festivals. These events appeal to younger
vided a safe drinking alternative when clean
water around the world, because beer is
people, raise money for club projects, and are water is in short supply, because of the boiling
around the world."
easy to plan. According to Lack, all you need
step in the brewing process. "We've all been
is
to:
to places where we wouldn't drink the water,"
The fellowship members are working with
says Lack, but where "they make a heck of a
the Water and Sanitation Rotarian Action
Approach a microbrewery or two to donate beer
beer."
Group to identify specific water projects to
support by funneling 25 percent of the fellowship's dues to those projects, says Lack, the
fellowship's vice chair.
The members also plan to approach major
brewers on each continent to seek financial
support for water projects, much as the nonprofit Water.org is receiving $1.2 million from
Stella Artois.
These projects have the potential to improve
people's quality of life in several ways.
Every day, 8,000 people die of waterborne
disease. In addition, women in many parts of
the world spend hours a day fetching water,
time they could spend caring for their families,
generating income, or making other contribu-

Bring food or secure a food truck

Line up a band
Pitch a tent

"Microbrewing has become a huge industry,

and this is definitely a way to capitalize on the
popularity of that," notes Lack, who emphasizes that these fests aren't about getting
drunk. The events typically last only a few
hours and distribute small sampling cups that
hold only four to six ounces. And standing in
line limits the amount of time that people have
to drink.

In May, more than 60 members of the fellowship, including beer lovers from Russia, South
America, Australia, Japan, India, Europe, Africa, and North America, gathered at the
Devil's Door Brew Pub in Seoul during Rotary's annual convention, to sample what was
on tap and to socialize. Lack says plans are in
the works for a brewery tour every night in
Atlanta, Georgia, during Rotary's 2017 convention.

"There are all kinds of microbreweries around

The State of Jefferson Brew Fest in Dunsmuir, the city, some owned by Rotary members," he
California, attracts 1,500 people every August says. "We're also looking to be able to pour
and last year netted $15,000 for club projects, beer in our booth (in the House of Friendship).
says John Poston, a member of the Dunsmuir You lose some credibility as a beer fellowship
if you aren't pouring beer."

About THE DOVE

THE DOVE is the official newsletter of
the Rotary Club of Holy Spirit, Rotary
International District 3780.
The digital publication features
hyperlinks or web-links which make it
a true electronic newsletter/e-bulletin.
Distribution:
THE DOVE is published in 3 versions: printed, digital PDF, and
online.
PDF version sent by email to
nearly 1,000 addressees, Rotarians and non-Rotarians in the club,
in the district, in Philippine Rotary
and outside including RI.
Posted on social media networks
and groups
Printed copies for meetings
First issue of THE DOVE: 4 June 2009
(Vol I, No. 1)
Editorial team:
Marcia Salvador - Editor
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Contributors
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