Pres. Henry opened the meeting by welcoming everyone to the meeting. He said now that we are on the last two months of his year in office he is ready for the final charge. He then made some reminders for all members.
- The District Installation-RCHKIE will reschedule the luncheon meeting of July 7th (Wed) to the evening of July 5th (Mom) to coincide with the District Installation which will take place at the Miramar Hotel (Tsimshattsui) and members will only be required to pay our normal lunch fee of HK$240 for the function, the club will make up the difference. (Deadline June 15th and you must let Hon Sec Eddy know your intentions).
- Joint Board Meeting -June 10th (Thurs) evening will be a joint board meeting of this year's board and the next year's board to be held at the RIC. After the meeting we will hold a dinner at CCC where the 50th Anniversary Committee members are also invited.
- 15/6/2004 District Award during the Past Presidents' Night at the Hotel Nikko announced that our club won the awards for:
Community Service & Club Bulletin (English).
- June 23rd, 2004 President Chain Handover Ceremony by Pres. Henry will take place. At this meeting he will also present the 100% attendance award. You must be present to collect your gift which Pres. Henry will give to all who are 100%er. He gave us a warning that if you do not show up at this meeting you will not receive your present. He also proposed to auction off all the collected gift items of this year.
- July 16th (Fri) - July 18th (Sun) Zhaoqing School Visit- The board of directors has approved HK$20,000 budget for a Lingnan Rotaract summer project in the Dao Tu School between July 13-18.
VP Robert & Rtn Andy are organizing a school visit as a family event. You are cordially invited to attend.
- July 21 (Wed) - Makati North induction ceremony invitation - PP John Kwok is considering to take the lead for visiting the Rotary Club of Makati North. Those who are interested please contact PP John as soon as possible. So far we have three members who are showing interests. They are PP Taj, Li & John.
- May 21st a delegate of around 16 Rotarians & their family will leave for Osaka to joint the 35th Anniversary Celebration of our sister club the Rotary Club of Osaka-Jonan on May 21st-22nd. Then most of them will attend the Rotary International Convention in Osaka from 23rd to 26th of May. We will return on the 26th.
Acting Sergeant-at-arms Eddy then reported a collection of $1,000 from members.Rudy, Andy, PP George, Eddy, John, Kenny, Robert, PP Li, Pres. Henry all contributed. This amount includes the cost of books offered by Dr Stephen who gave all the cost of his book to the red box. Thanks a lot Stephen.
PDG Peter then introduced Mr. Charles H.Y. Yeung a solicitor who is also a golfer. He is going to talk to us about the "Rules of Golf".
In this year 2004 there are now maximum size of club heads & maximum length of driver shafts that we must all adhere to after Jan., 2005 These limits are 470 cc for the driver heads and 48 inches for the maximum length of drivers. However there are still no agreements on the trampoline effect of the driver head that is the coefficient of restitution effect of the driver heads.
Mr. Yeung started by explaining that there are two ruling authority. One is the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews and the other one is the Golf Association of USA. The R& A was established in 1754. by 22 nobleman of the Kingdom of Fife. Whereas the United States Golf Association was founded in 1894. Most of the world's golf association are affiliated with the R & A. Only one country which is affiliated with the USGA is Mexico. These two authorities governs the whole of golf in the world. They meet every four years to update the rules of golf. The most recent version of the rules of golf was published on January 2004. In addition to this there is another publication called the Decision of Rules of Golf which is published every two years. This second publication updates the Rules of Golf. This is published every two years.
Then Mr.Yeung proceeded to talk about the lost ball situation. There were lots of differences of opinions on what constituted a lost ball. and how to determine what is a lost ball. He proceeded to explain all in a very amusing way. There were a lot of opinions on this subject. Mr. Yeung gave out sleeves of golf balls for the correct answer. In the end everyone enjoyed his talk. Mr. Yeung showed us a video of some very interesting rulings especially the Tiger Woods hitting his ball which landed behind a huge rock that blocked his next shot. Since the rock was not imbedded he was allowed to move the rock with the help of many spectators. He then played his next shot to the green. The ruling on this situation is that of definition of loose impediment. As long as the object is not growing or imbedded it is not an immovable object and it does not take in consideration the size of that object. Therefore Tiger Woods got the assistance from his substantial gallery in moving a loose impediment. Mr. Yeung then showed us the video of that situation. As we were running out of time, Pres. Henry thanked the speaker for a very interesting talk and presented the speaker with a picture of himself in action.
Pres. Henry then closed the meeting and proposed a toast to RI coupled with the Rotary Club of Hong Kong Island East.
The Past Presidents council of this club was established some four decades ago on an advisory capacity to unsolved matters of the club and had been operating smoothly ever since. According to the articles in our club's By-Laws, all past presidents of the club are automatically invited to join the council. The council members should meet at least once a year for fellowship and discussion of club's affairs.
On the 50th year of our charter, we have elected at open meeting, PP Tim Lui as our council chairman. As a knowledgeable person in social affairs, it is considered a right choice to lead the council.
During his year as chairman, PP Tim Lui called the first meeting of all the members and families for a buffet dinner held at his residence with plenty of delicious food and well-matured wines. The gathering ended near mid-night. A group picture was taken to memorize those present as follows:
PDG Peter Hall & daughter Emily
PP John Kwok
PP George Leung & Rtynne Cynthia
PP David Li
PP Desmond Cheung & Rtynne Donna
PP Hubert Chan
PP John Luk & Rtynne Andy
PP Tajwar Shadikhan & Rtynne Christina
President Henry Chan & Rtynne May;while our hosts are PP Tim Lui and his Anne Grace as per photos appear in this bulletin.
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