“Every
Rotarian, Every Year” Open Forum
Panelist : Fumio Tamamura,
TRF
Trustee
1030-1200, Saturday, 7 May 2005
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主席 Presider :Gary C.K. Huang, TRF Trustee Co-Chairman, 2005 RI Presidential Celebration, Taipei 主講人Keynote Speaker: Frank J. Devlyn, TRF Chair-elect |
引言人 Panelists (5 min. each):Fumio Tamamura, TRF TrusteeDavid Linett, RI DirectorDong Kurn Lee, TRF TrusteeWilliam G.B. Gant, RI Past DirectorNorbert Turco, RI Past DirectorMoses Mo-Chi Cheng, PDG, D.3450 |
President
Glenn and our first lady Mary, incoming foundation Chairman Frank,
Distinguished Rotarians and their family members.
It is an honor and a privilege to be given the opportunity to speak to you as a trustee of the Rotary foundation.
The Rotarians of Taiwan have been exceptionally generous in their support of the Rotary foundation for which we are deeply grateful. It is your money which pays for The countless service activities, which are being rendered throughout the world.
The thousands of ambassadorial scholars who go abroad to study and to open new horizons for themselves, the hundreds of group study exchange teams which discover New worlds, new peoples and new cultures to enrich themselves enabling themselves to become citizens of the world. And of course, the greatest worldwide project ever undertaken by a private organization- polio plus for which Rotary has already spent more than 5 million US Dollars and today polio cases are down 98.2% from what it was 20 years ago.
It was our last council on legislation last year which voted for conducting a $100 A year campaign for the foundation. Our board of trustees acting on this decision.
Formulated an every year every Rotarian theme to be promoted to celebrate our centennial year.
However this program will not end this Rotary year but hopefully will be carried on into future years by your enthusiasm and generosity.
My Rotary club of Tokyo is not only the oldest club in Japan with 350 members but also its largest.
Last June, 1 spoke to the incoming president of our club and he agreed to increase the annual $50 collection which we had been doing for the Rotary foundation to $100 or $50 every six months when members pay their club dues. So our club is a 100% club.
I hope this may give you an idea of what a forward minded club president can do.
As you are aware, there still is much poverty, diseases and illiteracy among our brothers and sisters in foreign lands. If we are to hope for a better world for our children please help the Rotary foundation who is working night and day for this cause.