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Last Week's Proceedings
(27th Oct., 2004)

Pres Rudy welcomes our ex-member Joseph Chan who is our speaker for today. PP C.Y. then came up to welcome a visiting Rotarian Tony Luce from Princeton, New Jersey. We had a mysterious visitor who was invited by PE Robert but they both disappeared and nowhere to be found. He also announced that the Red Box collection is $600.

There were two announcements from Pres. Rudy. The first announcement is he received a souvenir paper holder from a lady visitor by the name of Patricia Shaw from Bristol, UK who is a retired teacher. This box bears the inscription of 1905 -1955 Golden Anniversary of Rotary (International), with the name of Rotary Club of Hong Kong Island East. Our club was only one year old at that time. She believes it must have come from our club. She said she received it from her father who was an Engineer who worked at the Old Kai Tak Airport. She believes that it should be returned to our club as a souvenir. She saw the name of our Rotary Club on the box and searched the Internet and found our website on it. She found out from this website where we meet and on which day of the week and the location of our meeting all from our website. So she came to the excelsior hotel just before our meeting and presented this box to Pres. Rudy. Conclusion: Our website do served a purpose. Right?

(Please see the photo of this souvenir in our photo section). This valuable item will be turned over to PDG Uncle Peter for safekeeping.

The second announcement came from PP Li who announced our PDG Uncle Peter's Golf Tournament would be played on the 19th of November. We will tee off around 1:00pm and hold a fireside dinner hosted by PP Li himself after the game. This event is opened to all Rotarians of HKIE even if you don't play golf.

He also noted that there is a golf quiz in the Tung Feng Bulletin. He said all Rotarians are welcome to participate on this quiz even if you don't play golf. PP John will donate some gift coupons for the most correct answers next week.

PP Li then introduced the speaker of the day. He is none other then our former member in Joseph Chan. Mr. Joseph K.N. Chan is presently the Director of the Student Development Services of City University of Hong Kong, with career service for post-graduate students as part of his portfolio. He has worked in Career Counseling in the University of Hong Kong, human resources management in Philips and rehabilitation in Civil Service. A graduate in history, he holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons), Diploma in Social Work, Certificate in Personnel Management from the University of Hong Kong, MBA from University of Strathclyde (U.K.) and MEd from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The title of his talk is " What is so High about Higher Education?" Please welcome Joseph to our club.

Mr. Joseph Chan thanked everyone for such a warm welcome. He said it was like coming home. He thanked the club for organizing the business orientation programs for the student Counseling programs, which were held together with our club. On the topic of his talk "What is so high about higher education?" He very humbly said that he is not qualified to talk about this subject. But his view is this:

With a mainly public-funded higher education system, it is natural that the community is genuinely concerned about the quality of our higher education and graduates. As a whole, it could safely be said that our universities ranked very high in the Asian countries of Chinese origin and between 200-400 in terms of worldwide ranking, which is very good for a city with so short a history in higher education. Our students are very well provided in terms of facilities, resources and opportunities for international exposure, familiarization with the latest technology and knowledge. However it is not meaningful to compare students of popular higher education with those of the 60's when only the two local universities only took in 1500 first year students annually. At the same time, it is useful to reflect on the role of university in society - manpower training or manhood development. After all university has a lofty mission of the uplifting of mankind, not just materially or technologically! Rotary can work closely with local universities through vocational service to enhance the career maturity of young people.

Dr. Tony thanked the speaker for a most interesting talk in a very eloquent way. Program chairman for November Jason Chiu announced that next week's speaker is Ms Barbara Seigrist and the subject of her talk is "Your Money Personality". Pres. Rudy then closed the meeting by proposing a toast to RI coupled with the Rotary Club of Princeton Corridor(New Jersy).

The Answers to Golf Quiz

November is good time for golf game and we are contemplating to play the Uncle Peter Golf Trophy Competition on the 19th November 2004 at The Hong Kong Golf Club. Before entering the course, we better brush up the Rules of Golf, especially on the green, though some of the rules are ridiculous to the non-golfers. A set of questions are reproduced hereunder for testing your knowledge in putting.

1. A caddie casts his shadow on the putting green for the purpose of indicating to the players the line for putting. The shadow remains in position while the stroke is being played. This is permissible.

True
Untrue ****

2. A player's ball comes to rest overhanging the edge of the hole. The player walks up to the hole and casts his shadow on the ball, believing that this will cause the grass to wilt and the ball to fall into the hole. This is permissible.

True ****
Untrue

3. A player's ball on the putting green. He brushes aside casual water on his line of putt with a towel without pressing anything down. Is this permissible ?

Yes
No ****

4. A player's ball lies on the putting green. He brushes aside some loose impediments on his line of putt with a towel without pressing anything down. Is this permissible ?

Yes ****
No

5. A player strikes a short putt into the hole and removes the ball from the hole whilst the ball is still bouncing inside the hole but below the lip. The ball is nevertheless considered holed.

True ****
Untrue

6. A player's ball at rest is ½ inch from the hole. He holds his putter with one hand, taps in the ball and use the other hand to catch the ball after it falls below the level of the lip of the hole. He then walks away from the green. The ball is nevertheless considered holed.

True
Untrue ****

7. A player's ball lies just off the putting green and there is a ball mark on the fringe on his line of play. He is entitled to repair the ball mark.

True
Untrue ****

8. A player's ball lies just off the putting green and there is a ball mark on the line of play. Such ball mark is partially on and partially off the green. He may repair the entire ball mark.

True ****
Untrue

9. An old hole plug is raised on the player's time of putt. The player repairs it and steps on the hole plug to make it lever with the surface of the putting green. In doing so, he presses down a spike mark within the hole plug. This is permissible.

True ****
Untrue

10. The caddie of a player who is preparing to play a chip shot from off the putting green, touches the green with a club to indicate the line of play but the club is lifted before the chip shot is played. This is permissible.

True ****
Untrue

11. A player rotates his ball on the putting green to line up the trademark with the hole. He does not lift the ball, mark its position or change its position. There is one stroke penalty.

True ****
Untrue

12. A player replaces his ball on the putting green but does not remove his ball marker. Subsequently, whilst he is reading the green, the wind moves his ball to a new position. What is the ruling ?

The ball must be played from the new position *****
The ball must be replaced at its original position at the ball marker and be played from there.

13. A ball mark has been repaired by player A. He then holed his ball. The ball mark (Still identifiable) is on the line of putt of players B. May player B further repair the ball mark

Yes ****
No.

14. In a match play between A and B. A putts and his ball apparently comes to rest, but is overhanging the hole. Within 5 seconds, B concedes A's next stroke and knocks his ball away. B is entitled to do so.

True
Untrue ****

15. After the player's fourth strokes, his ball overhangs on the lip of the hole. He addresses the ball and then it falls into the hole. What is his score for this hole ?

4,
5,
Over 5 ****

Correct Answer is marked with ****

Rotary Information

RI Highly Praised District 3450 for its Hepatitis B Program

The following article appearing in the Rotary World is reproduced for your reading and information :

"District 3450 (Hong Kong, Macau and Mongolia) is funding a project to immunize one million newborns in poverty-stricken communities in mainland China against hepatitis B within a decade.

Established in 2001, the HK$20 million (approximately US$2.6 million) initiative is aimed at demonstrating Rotary's concern for the people of China and earning goodwill for the organization. In the past decade, clubs in the district have raised more than US$10 million to support humanitarian program in China.

More than one-third of the world's hepatitis B carriers live in China, making immunization against the disease one of the country's top public-health priorities. About 127 million residents, or roughly 10 percent of the population, are infected. Some 280,000 Chinese die of the disease each year.

'We estimate at least 10 million people will benefit directly or indirectly from this initiative,' says Jones Wong, immediate past governor of District 3450. The vision and magnitude of this project is comparable to Rotary International's pledge…..to eradicate polio.

The initiative took off on 2003 with the massive immunization of more than 60,000 babies in Handan, an underserved city of 4.8 million in Hebei Province.

The seed money for the project has come from individual donations, as well as club and district level fundraisers. District officials estimate the project will require a target contribution of HK$100 per month from each District 3450 Rotarian for the next 10 years."

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27th October, 2004

Mr. Joseph Chan of CitiU talking to us about Higher Education system in Hong Kong.


PP Li announcing our PDG Uncle Peter's Golf Tournament.	Acting SAA reporting on our intake for today.

Dr. Tony thanking the speaker in a very
eloquent way.


Pres. Rudy showing us the Golden Anniversary Souvenir box for the Golden Anniversary of RI ( See above text).	Pres. Rudy receiving the souvenir paper box from Ms Patricia Shaw (Bristol, UK).

The souvenir paper box with inscription of The Rotary Club of
Hong Kong Island East with the year of 1955.

(L to R) Dir Jason, guest speaker Mr. Joseph Chan,& Pres. Rudy at the left head table.

(L to R) Hon Sec John, PP C.Y. & Dir Paul Chan at the right head table.

Two PP's & an IPP (L to R) IPP Henry, PP's Andrew & Li.

(L to R) Hon Tres. Laurence, PP JL, Visiting Rotarian Tony Luce (Princeton Corridor)
& Dir Eddy.

Two very hansome members of our club (L to R) Dr. Tony, & PP Hubert.

(L to R) Hon Tres. Laurence, Rtn John V, & PP JL.

(L to R) IPP Henry, PP Andrew, guest speaker Mr. Joseph Chan, & PP Hubert.

Group Photo of Pres Rudy with our guest speaker & members of our club
on 27th October, 2004

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