1. 9th Jan. 2012
CROSSROADS
Rotary Club of Singapore Vol. 48 / 25
“Boys’ Town and its Services”
SPEAKER: : Dr. Roland Yeow, Boys’ Town
Lunch meeting of the 4th January 2012
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2. Introductory remarks Banner Exchange
PP Bezan did not have her club’s banner,
President Tapan Rao extended best wishes for a
nevertheless, President Tapan presented her with
Happy New Year, and welcomed members to the
our Club banner.
first meeting of 2012 and of “Rotary Awareness
Our member, Rtn. Roland Jossi was pleased to
Month” celebrated by Rotary in January. He
present to President Tapan with a banner from the
quoted Rotary International President Kalyan
Rotary Club of Shanghai, after his recent visit to
Banerjee, who stated in his message for the
China. We celebrated Roland’s birthday at the time.
month of January - “Now is the time to focus our
energies on our clubs, and on the way people see
them. It is time to show our communities that the
Rotary of today is not the Rotary of their
preconceptions. Rotary is a way to connect, to do
more, to be more – it is a way to take our idealism
and our vision, and turn them into reality.“
President Tapan thanked Vice President Ashi
Sarwal for chairing the last weekly meeting of 21st 2
December 2011.

3. Welcome of visiting Speaker of the week and provided some statistics on
the family backgrounds, admission
Rotarians and guests reasons and other profiles. Dr.
Yeow also spoke on the challenges
Director Koh Juay Meng
Rtn. Irina Francken introduced faced by Boys’ Town, particularly
welcomed our guests and visiting
the Guest Speaker, Dr. Roland for its new building fund and the
rotarians
Yeow who is the Deputy steps being taken to meet these
Director in charge of the challenges.
- Guests :
Programme Development of President Tapan called upon PP
Ms. Sally Low
Boys’ Town. She advised that in Raymon Huang to extend the
Mr. Matei Iurascu
1992/93, Dr. Yeow stayed in Club’s vote of thanks to Dr. Yeow.
Mr. Antero Makinen
Boys’ Town as his parents were PP Raymon noted that Boys’ Town
unable to control him. However, had big plans for the expansion of
Visiting Rotarians :
with the advice and support its facilities as well as its various
AG Erich Schneider –
from Boys’ Town, Dr. Yeow outreach programmes for the boys
Queenstown
became a doctor of technical and their families. He added that
PP Bezan & Laurence Brandicourt
sciences. Rtn. Irina added that the Club had been helping Boys’
– Paris-Avenir, France
Dr. Yeow respected what Boys’ Town for a long time, and to this
Town had done for him, and end, he had proposed to President
returned to Boys’ Town as an Tapan to adopt Boys’ Town as the
Toast example of what was possible to Club’s Major Project for this Rotary
achieve with youths. Year. PP Raymon hoped that the
Rtn. Willi invited PP Bezan Dr. Yeow gave a brief Board and the general
Brandicourt from the Rotary Club introduction of Boys’ Town membership would support this
of Paris-Avenir to address the formation by the Catholic proposal. He added that President
Club. We learnt that the Paris- institution of the Brothers of St. Tapan had also proposed that the
Avenir club has 30 members and Gabriel, which oversees the New Generations Committee look
was formed 30 years ago. PP welfare of boys in the age group at forming an Interact Club at Boys’
Bezan advised that her club was a of 11 to 18 years old. He spoke Town.
mixed club, with an equal of Boys’ Town’s mission, vision
number of men and women and values imparted to the boys.
members. She added that the He showed photos of Boys’
club conducts an annual concert Town in the 1950s to its current
to raise funds for projects, which development. Dr. Yeow
were mainly for the handicapped highlighted the programmes and
and young adults. PP Bezan services offered at Boys’ Town.
warmly invited members to visit He described a typical day at
her club should they be travelling Boys’ Town and invited
to Paris. members to join the boys at
Rtn. Willi called on members to 4.30pm in their sports and
join him in raising a toast to games activities. He indicated
Rotary Club of Paris-Avenir the number of youths and
coupled with the toast to Rotary families assisted by Boys’ Town
International.
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4. Boys’ town collection New Member
PP Raymon called upon President Tapan called upon
President Tapan to present to Director Koh Juay Meng to
Dr. Yeow a cheque of $2,400 to introduce his candidate, Rtn.
Boys’ Town. Members were Winston Khoo, who is 33 years
informed that the cheque was old and in his family business of
from the Patrick Hernon Trust freight forwarding. Director
towards two bursaries for Boys’ Juay Meng added that Rtn.
Town. Winston, after some
deliberation, advised his
commitment to be a member.
Rtn. Winston’s classification is
“Freight Forwarding: Logistics”.
Upon his induction, President
Tapan invited Rtn. Winston to
address the Club. Rtn. Winston
advised that he was the second
generation in the family’s
business of 27 years. He added
that he was schooled in
Australia. Rtn. Winston
mentioned that he was not
previously involved in social
work, however after meeting
with Director Juay Meng and
learning about Rotary, he was
interested in joining the Club.
SACA Report : December 2011 at SACA, 81 Dunlop Street, Singapore By Rtn Gerald Abeyawardena
Similar to the previous year, this was a VSC October 2011 (Vocational Month) Project which was delivered in
December 2011 to suit the availability of participants. Sergeant-At-Arms Rotarian Gerald Abeyawardena, a
Partner & Senior Management Consultant of Leadership Development specialists Sensei
International, carried out the programme as a joint project between VSC & Sensei International, assisted by
Linda Teo, Manager - Customer Care. The participants were a fresh batch of volunteers, mainly
counsellors, on the SACA “Befrienders” programme, providing emotional support & guidance to offenders.
Despite the good feedback last year, the second programme was revised to further increase its
effectiveness.
The objectives were to familiarise Befrienders with coaching skills & give them a practical framework they
can apply in their work & personal lives. They saw the application of coaching skills & critical techniques like
Active Listening, Non-verbal communication etc. before practising these hands-on in pairs, against the most
popular coaching framework, the GROW model.
The SACA Programme Coordinator said that participant feedback obtained after the programme was very
positive. Participants found the programme useful & relevant, enjoyable & practical.
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5. The Guide to Daily Living
MARK YOUR DIARY Before doing the things we COMING ROTARY EVENTS
Birthday celebrants want to do, consider first, the
RC wishes Happy Birthday to precept of the guide. Ask January
celebrants: ourselves these 4 questions Rotary Awareness Month
January 9 – Suresh and act upon them:
Hathiramani, Kawata Nobuhiro First: Have I spent some time January 19th
January 12 – Florian Edelmann in self-examination?
Club Assembly
January 13 – Suman Aggarwal Second: Have I spent quality
time with my family? January 25th
Anniversary Celebrants
Third: Have I given my best to Meeting cancelled in view of
RC sends best wishes to
my work? the Chinese New Year
Wedding Anniversary Fourth: Have I given some festivities
celebrants: time to someone near and
January 13 – Willi & Hannelore far?
Hess February
The Guide, in fact,
January 15 – Gerald & Binali encompasses the 4 parts of World Understanding Month
Abeyawardena the Object of Rotary.
January 16 – Kavita Sing h & Karam February 23rd
Butalia World Understanding and
Next week Peace Day
This week January 18th 2012
January 11th 2012 March
Reception Desk duty: Haider
Reception Desk duty: Joseph Nawaz, Brian Jones March 22nd – 25th
Chia, Win Lu Htut Sunshine Box duty: T K Chew, District Assembly and PETS at
Sunshine Box duty: PP Philip Jean-Philippe Lionnet Grand Paragon Hotel, Johor
Leong, Director Koh Juay Bahru
Meng Speaker: Our very own The Four-Way Test
member, Rtn. Rewa Mirpuri Of the Things we think, say
or do:
Speaker: Dr. Peter Topic: To be advised * Is it the truth?
Goh, Advance Surgical Group * Is it fair to all concerned?
Topic: “Can Type II Diabetes * Will it build goodwill and
Melitus be cured?” better friendship?
* Will it be beneficial to all
concerned?
Committee Meetings Queries, comments and
articles request can be
There are no Committee Meetings in view of the sent to
Club Assembly which will be held on Jean-Philippe Lionnet
Thursday, January 19th 2012 at 6.00pm at Holiday bulletin@rotary.org.sg
Inn Singapore Orchard City Centre
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