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PROETAREY JCLAUB YOF PEPTAOLINGS JATYA MARCH. 2020 | Issue 9 District 3300 Rotary Club of Petaling Jaya inducted 4 new Rotarians The PeeJay Post is published by the Peejay Post is a monthly PUBLIC IMAGE publication featuring event COMMITTEE updates and current club EDITOR - news. If you wish to PUBLISHER : JOYCE LEE contribute articles, please email [email protected] CLUB INFORMATION Board of Directors (2020-2021) Chartered on the President 6th of January 1961 Victor Lee ___________________________________ [email protected] President Elect Correspondence Address: Melisa Francis [email protected] Rotary Club of Petaling Jaya Vice President No. 121, Block A, Nicholas Chan Kelana Centre Point, [email protected] SS7/19, 47301 Imm. Past President Petaling Jaya, Selangor. IPP Usha Gopalan Phone: +603-7491 1812 [email protected] Fax: +603-78052817 Email: [email protected] Hon. Secretary PAG Rianne Chin ___________________________________ [email protected] Hon. Treasurer Website Barry Tan [email protected] www.rotarypj.com Membership ___________________________________ Carrien Chong [email protected] Facebook Public Image Joyce Lee www.facebook.com/rotaryclubpj [email protected] ___________________________________ Club Administration Rajiv Mathews George Weekly Meetings [email protected] Community Service Every Tuesday of the week Datin Sivanes (1st Tues (off)/ [email protected] 2nd Tues 12:30pm/ 3rd Tues 12:30pm/ Rotary Foundation and Int's Service 4th Tues 7pm) Terence Tiew [email protected] Location of regular meeting: Youth Services Anushia Mariappan Dorsett Grand Subang [email protected] Jalan SS 12/1, SS 12, 47500 Subang Jaya, Board Advisors Selangor, Malaysia PDG David Ho PAG Dato Kevin Yong PAG H. S. Dharan PRESIDENT JOTTINGS March has delivered a mixed bag of happenings, evoking different feelings. Yet, collectively, they seem to share a common thread of purpose. Do join me on this short walk down recent memory lane. First, it was difficult to receive news from our sister club Makati West on the passing of Rtn Serge Arroyo and PDG Tony Rufino, both of whom were energetic and jovial characters. We saw PDG Tony in almost every activity, always in a party mood and the first to dance to music. He visited us in Malaysia just before the pandemic. We spoke of meeting again in the She also learnt to speak English and the Philippines, but we never thought this meeting confidence she displayed in addressing would be the last. Similarly, we also lost one of our Rotary Club was extremely our former Rotarian, PP Datuk Abdul Rahman impressive. I certainly respect what she Ramli, another jovial character with years of had accomplished. Even more so, I admire service in our Club. They shall be surely the valiant and missionary efforts of Alice, an angel and saviour to the many lives she missed! has touched, and continues to do so! Second, we had an interesting and good lineup Third, we were also delighted to induct of speakers on the “Fruits of RCPJ” series, four new members into our club. They organized by our Club Admin committee. We collectively add to the diversity of heard from Bibi Bong on her journey as a single experience and careers classification of mother in our SuperMum programme. The the club. We welcome them with an open arms and look forward to their potential baking skills she learned gave her a lifeline, a contributions to our club. source of income and motivation to face the challenges of life. Similarly, PP Alice’s perseverance in empowering Coline Jane Peter, an orang asal from Sabah, was equally inspiring. Bringing her out of her village and empowering her with fashion and tailoring skills were already quite an accomplishment. PRESIDENT JOTTINGS Fourth, we had a joint virtual meeting with As you can see, March is a month with a our sister club in Bangalore. The guest mixture of feelings. We mourn the loss of speaker was Rtn Ravi Dakoju, the second Rotarian. We celebrate the induction of highest donor to the Rotary Foundation, young energetic members. We see the fruits second only to the Bill and Melinda Gate of the projects we carry out as Rotarian. We Foundation, who spoke on the topic of are reminded by Rtn Ravi Dakoju to always “Giving while Living”. The most amazing give and never stop. Coincidentally, how thing was that, just before the meeting, we things happen seems to tell its own story. received word that his wife was tested Life can throw ups and downs at us. We positive for Covid-19, but that he would at briefly celebrate and mourn events that may least try to make a recording for the not be in our control. But, in Rotary, we have meeting. However, during the meeting, he chosen an organization that inspires us to appeared, remarking that a recording just continuously help those around us. Indeed, didn’t seem right. He himself was tested we profit most when we serve best! Covid positive and spoke to us from the hospital with an IV pole next to him. We are most honored and touched by this appearance and will always take his lessons to heart. BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES MARCH BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES Rotarian's Birthday Spouses' Birthday Siti Haslindah 08 Nancy (Goh Seng Chuan) 01 Rianne Chin 21 Yoon Fong (Tarcisius Chin) 14 Sathish 23 Harjit Singh 25 Sivanes 27 Wedding Anniversary Lam Shen Fei 28 Siti Haslindah & Roslan 03 Terence & Susan 08 Teo Woon Hud & Karen 14 Victor & Min Si 21 Happy Birthday and Happy Anniversary!! I hope your day is filled with lots of love and laughter! May all of your wishes come true. CLUB MEETING On March 30th , 2021 during our club meeting , we inducted 4 members to or club. It been a while since we had 4 inductions of new members at the same time. Rotarian Thiam Kit, Kasey, Louise and Hui Li induction ceremony CLUB MEETING Welcome to the Rotary World, Rtn Thiam Kit, Rtn Kasey, Rtn Louise and Rtn Hui Li. CLUB MEETING Guest Speaker: Coline Jane Peter Topic: A Life Empowered CLUB MEETING CLUB MEETING CLUB MEETING CLUB MEETING CLUB MEETING CLUB MEETING ROTARY HISTORY Rotary’s response to the 1918 flu pandemic An estimated 500 million people worldwide John Napier Dyer, then governor for District 11 became infected. Many cities closed theaters and (Indiana), also saw Rotarians stepping forward cinemas, and placed restrictions on public to help during a time of need. Although gatherings. Rotary clubs adjusted their activities traditional Rotary activities practically ceased while also helping the sick. in his district for several months, he said “many Rotarians gave themselves to the combating of This is how Rotary responded to the influenz a the disease as directors of hospitals, visitors to pandemic that began in 1918 and came in three the sick, or by liberal assistance to the stricken waves, lasting more than a year. ones.” In the United States, the illness was first Just like during the COVID-19 pandemic, clubs identified in military personnel in the spring of were inspired to adapt and act. They adjusted 1918. The second, deadliest wave peaked how they met, following local guidelines of the between September and November of that year time, and took action to help give local — the final stages of World War I. governments and health providers necessary services and support. Much of this activity Hospitals in some areas were so overloaded with occurred in the United States, since Rotary’s flu patients that schools, private homes, and international presence at the time was limited. other buildings were converted into makeshift Our response to the coronavirus is global. hospitals. In Chicago, where Rotary World Headquarters was then located, the number of new cases reached 1,200 a day at one point. Several district governors reported at the June 1919 convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, that war work and then the flu greatly interfered with club activities and their club visits — but not with the spirit of Rotary service. Illness and upheaval “prevailed all over the world,” Charles H. Brown, then governor for District 10 (Ohio), told the convention. “But throughout Ohio you will find the Rotary clubs, in every city where a Rotary club exists, in the foremost ranks of civic and social work, doing their full share toward serving our government and humanity.” ROTARY HISTORY Rotary’s response to the 1918 flu pandemic In 1918, Rotarians in Sacramento and Berkeley, In 1918, Rotarians in Winston-Salem, North California, USA, held their meetings outdoors to Carolina, USA, secured beds for emergency comply with a local restriction on enclosed hospitals, volunteered as ambulance drivers, meetings. In 2020, clubs have adapted by and assisted with a health survey of the city. The Rotary Club of Waterbury, Connecticut, holding their meetings online to stay connected. USA, took similar steps, making a canvass of local flu cases and helping create a hospital. In In 1918, the Rotary Club of Kankakee, Illinois, 2020, Rotarians in Makati, Philippines, funded USA, helped raise funds to buy a car for a Red the construction of several emergency Cross social worker to use in her trips around quarantine facilities, including a recovery the country during the 1918 pandemic. In 2020, center for COVID-19 patients from the Pasig Rotary Clubs in District 3700 (Korea) donated City Children’s Hospital who no longer need $155,000 to the Red Cross. Then and now, our intensive care. These recovery facilities help capacity to make a difference is larger when we make space in hospitals for people who require work with others to create change. more monitoring. In 1919, The Rotarian magazine reported that In 1918, more than two dozen Rotarians in a “Rotary flu squad” in Great Falls, Montana, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, worked with USA, “fought the ravages of the epidemic, not members of the Boy Scouts organization to by hiring people to do the work for them, but quickly and effectively distribute flyers with by actually doing with their own hands guidance on how to prevent the spread of whatever work needed to be done.” In 2020, influenza.

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