Last Week's Proceedings
(6th Oct., 2004)
Last Week's Proceedings
(6th Oct., 2004)
Visiting Rotarian - A.G. Ada Cheng from the Rotary Club of Wanchai.
Visiting Guests - Our former member, PP Leslie Soltay introduced by PDG Peter. - Ms Ann Tze introduced by President Rudy LawSergeant-at-Arms - PP C Y Fu reported a total of HK$800 being the harvest of the day. As he was not aware of the new system we adopted since this Rotary year, he forgot to unlock the Red box to have the money counted before his announcement.
Announcement - President Rudy reminded members to attend the D.G. Official visit to the joint meeting of the five clubs under Area 3, namely, HK Island East, HK South, Victoria, Queensway and Quarry Bay at the Hong Kong Football Club, Happy Valley, Hong Kong at 7.30 p.m. on 7th October 2004. A.G. Ada Cheng also came up to the rostrum to urge our members to attend this new method of an official DG visit. DG Alex will touch upon many items relating to the administration of our clubs, especially membership.
Next Week Speaker- Mr. Raymond Tong on the topic of "Drafting a Will".
High light of the day - Director Eddy Wong officially introduced our speaker, Ms Joyce Chan, Senior Vice President, Business Development of UPS Capital (HK) Limited.Ms Joyce said that UPS was founded some 97 years ago with a staff of around 320,000 strong worldwide, mainly dealing on courier business. In recent years, it had extended to many fields, such as business expansion, financial institution offering exporters.
(a) 100% bad debt protection;
(b) receivable collection and
(c) trade finance without tangible security.
United Parcel Service otherwise known as UPS is a AAA credit Rating firm listed in NYSE. The only company linking courier, logistics and trade finance in a one-stop solution through UPS Parcel Delivery, UPS Supply, Chain Solution and UPS Capital.
With the help of her power point apparatus, a well defined informative talk was painted through the screen. Her interesting talk aroused many questions from the floor, viz, PP Desmond Cheung, Director Paul Chan and also our former member, PP Leslie Soltay. Joyce tried her best technique to answer all questions. Due to time restraint, President Rudy had to ask members to stay behind to exchange view with our speaker on further questions. He then adjourned the meeting with a toast to RI coupled with the name of the Rotary Club of Wanchai after PP Hubert Chan delivered his vote of thanks to Ms Joyce. While thanking the speaker, PP Hubert mentioned that he would be much appreciated if the UPS new scheme could cover his China trade for Debt Protection.
Rotary Information
Group Study Exchange
At the request of PP Lawrence Li of R/C of HK Bayview, chairman of Group Study Exchange of district 3450. the following Group Study Exchange programme is extracted for general information :
Applications are now invited for participation in the next Group Study Exchange (GSE) in the capacity of one Team Leader and four Team Members. The GSE Team will visit District 9470 (Perth, Western Australia) tentatively from 18th February 2005 to 26th March 2005. Transportation, accommodation and subsistence will be funded by Rotary International within the established rules and policy. Application forms are available from the Rotary Information Centre, 26 Leighton Road, 14th floor, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong and may be downloaded from www.rotary.org Completed application forms should reach the Rotary Information Centre on or before 30th November 2004.
The Team Leader must be an experienced Rotarian, especially in international service, well informed on the home country and on Rotary. He will assume complete charge of the team and remain with the team for the whole duration of the study tour.
Team Members must be currently employed in a recognized business or profession on a full-time basis, between 25 and 40 years age, work or live in District 3450 (Hong Kong, Macau or Mongolia) and able to travel for the whole duration of the GSE programme with their employers' consent.
Important Note : Rotarians, former Rotarians, employees of Rotary Clubs, their spouses, ancestors, lineal dependants and spouses of other team members are NOT eligible for team membership.
GSE is an educational programme that provides a unique cultural and vocational exchange opportunity for young business and professional men and women to develop their professional and leadership skills through staying with host families, club visits, vocational visits and touring of industrial, business and cultural establishments.
Greater details of the GSE programme are available from the Rotary Information Centre and may be downloaded from www.rotary under "GSE materials for download".
For further details, please contact our President Rudy Law or our Vocational service director, Stephen Liu.
Special Rotary News
From reliable source, the nominating committee for RI President for the Rotary year 2006-2007 had met in USA and decided to nominate the following Past RI Director as the successful candidate :
William B. Boyd of Auckland, N.Z.
William B. Boyd
William B. Boyd, of the Rotary Club of Pakuranga, Auckland, New Zealand, is the selection of RI's Nominating Committee for President of RI in 2006-07, which met on 13 September. He will become the president-nominee on 1 December if there are no challenging candidates.
A former member and past president of the Rotary Club of Wellington South, New Zealand, Boyd has served RI as district governor, director, treasurer, member and chair of regional and international committees, group discussion leader and moderator at the International Assembly, and RI presidential representative to local and international conferences. As a Rotary leader, he has conducted training seminars in New Zealand, as well as Cook Islands, Fiji, and Western Samoa.
Devoting much of his time to supporting Rotary's PolioPlus program, Boyd has served as a member of the PolioPlus Task Force, coordinator in the PolioPlus Partners program, and consultant to the International PolioPlus Committee. He also chairs the management committee of Rotary Down Under, a Rotary regional magazine. He is a recipient of The Rotary Foundation's Citation for Meritorious Service and Distinguished Service Award.
Before his retirement in 1995, Boyd was general manager of Gordon & Gotch (NZ), Ltd., New Zealand's largest magazine distributor. He is a trustee of New Zealand's Trees for Survival Trust. He was an RI representative to the National Kidney Foundation and Intellectually Handicapped Society, and is a former elder and youth leader in the Presbyterian Church and a warranted Scout master. He was also a rugby referee for 31 years.
The nominating committee members are Keith Barnard-Jones, England; Peter Bundgaard, Denmark; Moses Mo-Chi Cheng, Hong Kong; Hipólito S. Ferreira, Brazil; Jack Forrest, USA; William G.B. Gant, Canada; Samuel L. Greene, USA; S. Aaron Hyatt, USA; Umberto Laffi, Italy; Hans J. Müller-Rech, Germany; W. Grattan O'Connell, New Zealand; Donald E. Osburn, USA; Louis Piconi, USA; William T. Sergeant, USA; Antonio M. Serrano, South Africa; Fumio Tamamura, Japan; and P.C. Thomas, India.
District News
District Vocational Service Luncheon Meeting
Thursday 21 October, 2004
Registration: 12:30 pm
Meeting: 12:50 pm
Venue: The Ritz-Carlton Hotel
Harbour Room, 3/f, Chater Road, Central
Fee: Earlybird ( on /before 30/9) : HK$280
Late registration: HK$300The guest speaker for this function is Mr. Anthony Neoh, SC, JP, the Chief Advisor of the China Securities Regulatory Commission.Mr. Neoh is also the visiting Professor at Peking University. He hold various adjunct academic appointments in universities in China, including Hong Kong. He was chairman of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) from 1995 to 1998 and chaired the Technical Committee of the International Organisation of Securities Commission (IOSCO) from1996 to 1998. Prior to his appointment as Chairman of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, he had been in various directorate position in the Hong Kong civil service (1955-1979) and was at the private Bar from 1979-1995
Members of the Rotary club of Hong Kong Island East are encouraged to join and support this function. Please send an email to Hon Sec. John Kwok to sign up for this very informative session.
News Abroad -
Our 50th Anniversary programme reached far and near. One of our former members, Richard Yau in New York, U.S.A. read the brochure with delight and emailed us his comment as follows"
"Hi, Peter, Thank you ever so much for sending me a copy of the HKIE 50th Anniversary Souvenir Programme. It is extremely well put together ! HKIE has quite an impressive history. I read the congratulatory letters from the current and past officiasl with great interest. The great collection of photographs through the years most certainly confirmed that you are quite a man-about- town ! It was great to see the familiar faces in the souvenir programme !
Once again, thank you and I owe you a dinner.
Best,
Richard Yau"Address: The Richmond, 201, East 80th St. # 15F, New York, NY2001, USA, Email: m2tryau@att.net
District News
A joint meeting of the five Rotary clubs in area 3, namely
R/C of HK Island East
R/C of Hong Kong South
R/C of Victoria
R/C of Queensway &
R/C of Quarry Baywas held on the 7th October 2004 from 7.30 p.m. at the Hong Kong Football Club, Happy Valley, Hong Kong. There were around 60 participants, including the club presidents, DG Alex Mak, DGE Peter Wan, Assistant Governor Ada Cheng, District Secretary Tony Wong, PDG Peter Hall and PDG Vincent To were also present. President Derek Roberts of R/C of Queensway acted as chairman of the meeting which started on time according to schedule.
To start the ball rolling, D.G. Alex Mak delivered his key note speech which lasted for half an hour touching on various clubs projects, recruitment of potential members, Rotary Foundation, Interact and Rotaract, etc., covering the four avenues of service. After his inspiring talk, Question & Answer time was arranged for the audience. Funny though, no questions were raised. Were they all shy away or they must have fully understood what the D.G. had explained in brief. The next item was a video show on the history of Rotary of the by gone days to be followed by a slide show and report on Rotary Centennial Gobi Race 2004 by AG Ada. The Gobi race was a Fund Raising event and the proceeds would go to the PolioPlus Programme expecting to totally eradicate Polio in the surface of the earth in the year 2005.
Before adjourning the joint meeting, President Angela Yeung was invited to give a vote of thanks to D.G. Alex for his effort to make his official visit to all the five clubs in this new system.
Joke
Two alligators are sitting on the edge of a swamp. The small one turns to the big one and says; I don't understand how you can be so much bigger than me. We're the same age, we were the same size as kids... I just don't get it."
"Well," says the big alligator, "what have you been eating?"
"Lawyers, same as you," replies the small alligator. "Hm... Well, where do you catch'em?"
"Down at that law firm on the edge of the swamp."
"Same here. Hm... How do you catch'em?"
"Well, I crawl under a BMW and wait for someone to unlock the door. Then I jump out, bite'em, shake the shit out of 'em and eat'em!"
"Ah!" says the big alligator, "I think I see your problem. See, by the time you get done shakin' the shit out of a lawyer, there's nothing' left but lips and a briefcase..."
Photographs of Our Meeting
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6th October, 2004
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Our speaker today was Ms Joyce Chan, Senior Vice President of UPS Capital HK Ltd. who spoke to us on bad debt protection, trade finance without tangible security. |
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PE Robert reminded us to join in our club function
on Friday the 8th of October which is our IPP night with games and entertainment
for FREE..
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AG Ada also reminded us to support the Area 3 joint
function which will take place on the 7th of October
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(L to R) PDG Uncle Peter, our gueest speaker Ms Joyce
Chan of UPS Capital HK. Ltd.& Pres Rudy, at the left head table.
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(L to R) Hon Sec John, former member Leslie Soltay,
& guest of Pres Rudy,
Ms Ann Tse of Wing Hang Bank Ltd. |
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Acting SAA PP C.Y. doing a great job.
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(L to R) PP Tim, Rtn Sam, & PP Hubert.
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(L to R) PP's Stephen, George & Dir Heron.
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(L to R) PP C.Y., Hon Tres. Laurence, & Dir Eddy.
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(L to R) Rtn Kenny, Dr Tony, Dir Paul & standing
is Rtn John V.
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(L to R) AG Ada, PE Robert, & PP Desmond.
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PP Hubert thanking the speaker.
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Pres. Rudy giving the speaker her photo of herself.speaking
to us.
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Group Photo of PDG Uncle Peter, guest speaker, Pres.
Rudy, visiting Rotarian & guest and our members on the 6th of October,
2004.
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