ALL YEAR Dinner Out 1st Tuesday of each month 7 pm at a restaurant
Meetings Tuesday 19.00 - 21.00 @ Millennium Hotel in Jungceylon Rat-U-Thit Road Patong Beach
Visitors Welcome
registration mandatory
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Dress code
Members shall be dressed appropriately in a manner
that shows their respect for the club and its members
Dear Rotarians and Friends of Rotary,
This was a difficult year, but because we are a strong club we still had many successes.
Let's start with projects:
Larry Amsden Swim Safe programme, our first. We arranged for 94 kids from a Patong school to learn to swim and water safety. 90 of those could not swim prior to this 10-week course, all could afterwards. A life-saving and life-changing project for these kids and their friends.
We joined the other Rotary Clubs in Phuket to support the annual Vegetarian festival by providing plates to a Temple so they can serve food to the poor.
We supported the Andaman club in a dental clinic at the BanYa school which lead to discovering a little girl who needed a simple medical procedure to allow her to talk normally. At the meeting this was discussed, the money was raised and within the month she was able to talk normally for the first time in her life.
We helped kids at the Temple school in Patong by providing them plates on which to eat.
With the Phuket Club and the Andaman club, we supported a road safety day where kids of all ages learned basic road safety and the importance of wearing helmets. We provided large and small helmets to all the kids and their teachers. They all road with the mayor in a procession to Cape Promthep.
We provided over 100 scholarships to students and 6 graduate scholarships to students studying environmental science. An ongoing project.
We started year 2 of the swimming programme.
We should be proud of these projects!
In fellowship, it was a sad year for us.
Losing both PP Larry Amsden and my husband VP Gary Eidsvik-Moody.
But we had many well-attended dinners across the island. We had a great day at Karon Sea & Sand discussing the future of the club and how to keep improving its service to the community and its members. We also learned how to play an Indonesian instrument that I can't recall the name of, but it was fun! It is sad to lose Rotarian Nils to e-clubs this year. I am sure he will continue to serve with vigour!
PP OB and PP David organized a brilliant fundraising weekend adding over THB 500,000 to our charity account. Excellent fundraising! PP Denis produced our 580th newsletter -- great work!
As planned, it has been an introspective year. We still have to work on the community assessment to help guide our project planning.
I leave Jonathan with a strong board and big ideas and wish him all success!
PE Jonathon - only for two more days & then President.
President's Message
A new Rotary year begins; I am honored to serve as the 19th President of the Rotary Club of Patong Beach.
RI President Mark Daniel Maloney, from the Rotary Club of Decatur, Alabama, USA, has chosen the RI theme for 2019-2020 “Rotary Connects the World”. Rotary is built on connection. Through its distinct mission and structure, Rotary International provides a way to connect to our communities, to network professionally and to build strong and lasting relationships.
As you all know I have taken over the position as President on a very short notice just a few weeks ago and therefore the preparation time for this year was short.
The board and I shall work hard to come up with a proper plan and goals on how to make this year another successful year of this Rotary Club.
I have to express my sincere thanks to the previous board members, especially IPP Karen. I learned a lot from her last year during board meetings and I’m happy she is serving on the board this year too as the IPP.
Only together we can be strong and I, therefore, count on every one of you. Having a club with less than 20 members whereas 2 of the members a permanently living far away from Phuket, the workload needs to be shared among all of us.
That is why our biggest goal for this, and maybe the next 2-3 years too, is to become attractive for new active members. Only if we grow we will have a chance to survive.
The Rotary Club of Patong Beach is a very active club. Through fundraising efforts and member participation we provide the needed support for our local projects; especially our children focused projects, like the Learn to Swim Project, scholarships, as well as many other local projects we shall prepare as discussed in Karon on May 18th
As President, I am looking forward this year to continue our community service and to reinforce to the people of Phuket that Rotary cares.
The members of the Rotary Club of Patong Beach thank the outgoing President Karen Eidsvik-Moody for her leadership this past Rotary year July 2018 to June 2019.
President Karen was always present and spent countless hours to keep this Rotary club a vibrant one. Together with her husband Gary Eidsvik-Moody, who was serving as President-Elect and sadly passed away on January 10th. Together they were a perfect team and despite the huge loss Pres. Karen completed her Rotary work in a fantastic way.
During her year we switched back from a lunch meeting to dinner meetings.
Under her leadership, we conducted several projects successfully and she hands over a healthy club to incoming President Jonathan Russell.
President Karen will always be remembered as the first female President of the Rotary Club of Patong Beach. Thank you, President Karen, for a great Rotary year!
Upcoming Events
All meetings (Except Dinner Outs) @ - Millennium Hotel
July
Tuesday 2nd - CLUB Assembly - President Jonathon Russell
Friday 12th - Installation night @ the Holiday Inn
Tuesday 16th - No Meeting - Asanha Bucha Day Holiday
Tuesday 23rd - PP Best
Tuesday 30th July - Stewart Petersen
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July 4 - Sam Fauma
Tuesday 2nd July
We welcome our new President - Jonathon Russell
& a CLUB ASSEMBLY
25th June, 2019
It was officially the last meeting under the reign of P. Karen who gladly gave a 100 THB into the
happy hundred box for having completed her year as President
The meeting was organized by PP. Sam and he also acted as Sergeant at Arms.
During the evening PP. Sam slipped in and out of the SAA Sash many times, depending on the position he was in at that moment.
Attendance: P Karen, PE Jonathon, PP Arnaud, PP David, PP O.B., PP Walter, PN Dr. Johan,
Dr. Frank Suenneke (guest of PP Sam,)
Rtn. Pascal de Corte who will go back to Belgium until October this year, and will return and rejoin our meetings.
2 Guests Mr. Dieter and Claudia Dratwa were re-visiting, and their application to become members will commence within our clubs rules.
Update from P. Karen and Rtn. Dr. Johan on the installation night on the 12th of July.
It will be a fun party with live band paid for by PP Arnaud, who also will make up for any shortfall on
income (if any). A special thank you to PP. Arnaud was given
A great set Dinner preceded the meeting and after opening and the national anthem the guest speaker was introduced. PP. Sam Fauma, by Rtn. Dr. Johan.
here he is again !!
PP Sam took off the SAA Sash.
The presentation given was about the District Designated Funds our club has available to spend for projects under the rules and conditions of The Rotary Foundation.
As Foundation Chair of our club and District Global Grant Committee member PP. Sam went through the requirements and possible projects our club can use the money for, and also talked about the past experience we had.
All the funds we having available now are due to the generous donations made by
PP Arnaud for his Arch Klump Society Membership- total U$ 250.000.
The presentation was closed with questions by members and
PP O.B. thanked the guest speaker of the evening.
Happy hundreds and a toast by P. Karen to PE Jonathan and the new Rotary Year. Chai Yo!
Munkhtuul Nyamdorf, from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, checks out the four priorities of Rotary’s new strategic plan in the Future of Rotary Booth during the 2019 Rotary International Convention in Hamburg.
Photo by Monika Lozinska/Rotary International
By Jessie Harman, chair of the Rotary International Membership Committee and a member of the Rotary Club of Wendouree Breakfast, Victoria, Australia
Rotary’s new strategic plan is underpinned by four key priorities – to increase our impact, expand our reach, enhance participant engagement, and increase our ability to adapt. The emergence of new club models is evidence that Rotary clubs and districts are working actively to advance these priorities.
These new club models represent an opportunity to connect with a more diverse group of individuals – particularly those who are unable or unwilling to join our traditional clubs. While new club models have been emerging for some time, the 2016 Council on Legislation decision to promote flexibility and innovation has arguably accelerated their development.
At the present time, it’s possible to recognize at least seven different types of clubs:
Traditional clubs – at the heart of Rotary: a group of professionals and aspiring leaders who meet regularly for service, connections and personal growth
Satellite clubs – sponsored by a traditional club, but with their own meetings, projects, bylaws and board
Passport clubs – that allow members to attend other Rotary club meetings and service projects, so long as they attend a specified number of meetings in their own club
Corporate clubs – whose members are employed by the same employer, but who have different roles in their workplace
Cause-based clubs – whose members share a passion for a particular cause and whose service projects and activities center around that cause, and
Rotaract clubs – sponsored by Rotary clubs, whose members are aged between 18 and 30 and who meet together for service, friendship, and connections
Amid this landscape there are also hybrids of these types – adding further to the diversity of Rotary, and there can be little doubt that new club models will continue to emerge – including the possibility of a model of participation which is not club-based.
Development of new club models and new ways to engage with Rotary is a healthy sign – indeed some would say a critical ingredient – of our ongoing sustainability and success.
Our challenge is to continue to evolve – to meet the needs of our members and our communities and to ensure Rotary stays relevant, innovative,and engaging long into the future.
A man and his wife walked into a dentist's office.
The man said to the dentist, "Doc, I'm in one heck of a hurry.
I have two buddies sitting out in my car waiting for us to go play golf, so forget about the anaesthetic, I don't have time for the gums to get numb. I just want you to pull the tooth, and be done with it!
We have a 10:00am tee time at the best golf course in town and it's 9:30 already...I don't have time to wait for the anaesthetic to work!”
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