Fellow Rotarians and friends, welcome to RCSFDM’s website!
This is part of the club’s current Public Relations Plan. Notably, RCSFDM got, during the 2007-2008 term of PP Louie Pañgulayan, the RI’s Public Image Award, for all the publicity generated by the club’s Mobile Surgical Unit (MSU), the world’s first self-contained and complete surgery van capable of reaching remote areas where hospital facilities are not available. The club also received the RI’s Most Significant Achievement Award, a coveted award given only to a handful of deserving rotary clubs around the world. So far, the missions spearheaded by the MSU has benefited over 800 patients and the economic value of surgical services rendered is over P24 million – in two (2) years!
Last rotary year, among other awards, under the able leadership of PP Allan Asi, the club received the Most Outstanding Club in Public Relations and the Most Outstanding Community Service Award for the MSU. Our member, Rtn. Dr. Jim Sanchez , MSU’s team leader, received for the second consecutive year, the Most Outstanding Rotarian in the District Award.
Truly, our world has shrunk to a village with the advent of the “web.” It is about time we make full use of this technology in promoting Rotary and its service to humanity. Membership and resources have likewise shrunk amidst competition in a world economy that has spanned into recession, trying mightily from getting into deep depression.
No wonder this year’s theme is urgent as it is compelling. RCSFDM has to benefit by making available and known to the whole wide world, its excellent record of service. A good public image is an absolute necessity to get quality members, resources and partners in service. The quickest way to sell the club’s reputation as an outstanding and premier club is by its website. Now, introducing the club and making known its projects can instantly be done. We can be known by any other rotary club or service organization, with or without a formal notification. Anyone using the Google or any other search engine, wanting to know about rotary or a rotary club in the Philippines, can get into our website. Even our history and record of awards and achievements, our calendar of activities and news are available by a click of the mouse. Our Tambuli, the club’s weekly news bulletin, which is a repository of the club’s activities, will all be posted in the site. We of course know that the website is a work in progress. In the course of time, it will be updated, enlarged and improved.
I urge my fellow clubmen to join me in implementing our club’s program of action this year. I am aware of the daunting tasks ahead. I am however encouraged by the track record of excellent service and accomplishments of the club. I have a good and young team. The club has a deep bench, so to speak and the long list of past presidents gives me comfort that they are there to lend me a hand. The two living Past District Governors, Manoling Monroy and Tony Pascual and Charter member Louie Lopez are our inspiration. Our glorious history and rich tradition are our motivation to become a better club. Our five (5) Past District Governors who are prominently featured in the Homepage speak volumes of how we honor our great leaders and hold in high esteem what they have done for the club.
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THE FUTURE
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The challenge is therefore for us to keep the good name of the club. The first and foremost that I ask is your presence. Rotary is both service and fellowship. One without the other is no rotary. The glue that joins service and fellowship is your presence. Your absence makes rotary empty and meaningless. We cannot do a community service and have fellowship without your presence. I hope, and I am confident that, as Rotarians say, the “best is yet to be.”
