For most Rotarians and Presidents, October is the time that mark a stable period into the Rotary year-after the installation in July and having had a few months of settling into the new roles in this Rotary year, all are surging ahead with their Club plans and service programmes/projects.

For me too, this month is a vigorous planning time. Searching and inviting the caring and conscientious experienced past presidents to serve on the district level indeed is a task that needs careful handling. Training future leaders is one of the vital goals. The Presidents Elect Training Seminar (PETS) will take place on 9 March, 2002; the Assistant Governors Training on 23 February, 2002 and the District Assembly on 20 April, 2002. Time has been spent on invitations to fill up the roles of the Chairmanship.

I believe once the various district team chairmen have accepted the invitations, plans and further recruitments will be carried out. And like those years past, Rotary will be running like clockwork.

On 17 October, I will start with the first part of my training in the role of a Governor in Kuala Lumpur, a few days before the start of the Rotary Institute. The second part will take place in Anaheim, USA in late January, 2002. I do hope by then I will be in a better position to bring back fresh ideas to inject into all the events I mentioned above.

With high hopes of learning new things and getting more information there upon having my new ideas developed, I am on my way to GETS in KL.....

from

Governor Elect,
Gloria Chan.