1. M. Eugene Newsom, Rotary Club of Durham, North Carolina, USA
19th President of Rotary International
Issue: 25, 19th Dec, 2013
"Real genuine friendship and the laws governing friendships provide the truest basis for all
forms of enterprise. If Rotary can materially contribute to the development of friendship
between individuals, businesses, professions, and nations, and if the individual is willing to
make friendship the basis of his job or vocation, then we have an ideal of service being applied
in ways that should make all of us happy."
Today@Rotary Mysore
Annette Ajay Raghavendra will speak on his Educational experiences in the US, specifically his research topic on
Tropical Cyclones and his Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Rotary Center, Thursday, 19th Dec 2013, 6:30pm.
Guest Speaker of the Day
Son of Rtn.
B.M.Prakash
and Ann
S u m a
Prakash,
A j a y
Raghavendra is a Commercial
Airplane Single/Multi Engine
Instrument-rated pilot, flight
instructor and ground instructor
(Advanced and Instrument). He is in
his 3rd year of undergraduate studies
pursuing a double degree i.e. BS Applied
Meteorology (Atmospheric Science) and BS
Computational Mathematics at Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University (ERAU) Daytona Beach
Campus, USA. He is at present conducting
research on the “Structure and Evolution of
Tropical Cyclones in the Atlantic Basin” and
“Polygonal Shapes in Rotating Fluids”. Ajay is
part of the Embry-Riddle Honors Program,
member of the National Society of Collegiate
Scholars (NSCS), National Leadership Honor
Society (Omicron Delta Kappa) and, Treasurer
of the Meteorology Honor Society (Chi
Epsilon Pi). He also works as a tutor and
student assistant for the Honors
Program and the Weather Center in
ERAU. Ajay's passion is obvious when
you see him in the picture above. We
wish Ajay that he scale great heights in
his flying career.
Over to Ajay Raghavendra who will
take us through a bird's eye view of
what for us, grounded folks, will only
be a flight of fancy ! L
Support Farmers, appeals Keshavmurthy
Shri Keshavmurthy N.,
Agriculture Expert at
Akashavani, appealed
to consumers to avoid
middlemen and
suppor t farmers and
their produce directly,
during his talk on last Thursday 12th Dec at the Rotary Center. After a
brief introduction by Rtn. M. Shivanand, Keshavmurthy started by
saying how it is important to be internally rich even if simple on the
outside. Speaking in Kannada, he referred to his “Banuli Organics”
program, he asked us to support consumption of natural and local
food – even as our forefathers did - ragi, benne', thuppa, belada
hannu etc are all good in regular quantities. He lamented that the
same foods have dangerous chemicals added to them to look
good. We need to go back to our roots and re-connect with the earth
(marali mannige'), he said. The farmer has the potential to be an
alchemist(one who with his powers, turns everything into gold),
given proper support.
Quoting “An Agricultural Testament” by Sir Albert Howard, he
advocated natural processes rather than pesticides and other
chemical inputs as the better approach to farming. Collaborate with
farmers, was his mantra.
He wanted us to understand the plight of farmers by reading the book
“Everybody loves a good drought” by P Sainath. “Food be thy
.
medicine”, was the conclusion. While the talk was an eye-opener,
some Rotarians felt that the speaker could have given some more
practical inputs on organic farming and organic foods.
(I have attached the original book on organic farming “An Agricultural Testament”
by Sir Albert Howard in pdf format, in my email, for those who are interested –
Editor)
(Contributed by Rtn. Manoj)

2. CHAMUNDI
30th MEGA BLOOD DONATION CAMP@INFOSYS
On 10th December 2013, Rotary Mysore Chandrakala Blood Bank in association with SOFTEN- Infosys and Rashtrotthana, Bangalore
conducted the 30th Mega Blood Donation Camp at Infosys. About a136 donors came forward out of which 113 units of blood were collected
at the camp. Thanks to all the Infoscions for the giving and the organizers for receiving! Thanks to Rtn. Prashanth K.N. for the effort…
We are aware
that the Rotary
South Asia
L i t e ra c y
Summit was
held on Dec 14 and 15. Convened by PRID
Shekhar Mehta, there was a series of talks
provided by luminaries like RID P T Prabhakar,
PRIP Kalyan Banerjee and Hon'ble HRD Minister
Dr. Pallam Raju. This was followed by plenary
sessions on Total Literacy – the need of the
hour, Happy Schools, e-Learning, Child
Development, Adult Literacy and Teacher
Support. These plenary sessions were
addressed by among others, PRID Ashok
Mahajan, PRID Panduranga
Setty, Advisor to PM Sam
Pitroda, and Round Table
India President & our own
Rtn. Harish Shenoy.
Way back in 1985, Rotary
International had promised
the future generations a Polio free world.
Rotarians across the globe have worked
endlessly in this battle against Polio. On 13th
January 2014, India will be declared Polio-free.
Not resting on our laurels, we have decided
upon a gigantic mission – that of eradicating
iiliteracy from South Asia. After discussions
with ministers, experts, activists, bureaucrats
about how we may tackle this tremendous task,
we have come up with the T-E-A-C-H
programme which represents a holistic
approach to this mission:
Announcement
Rtn. M.P.Ramesh Babu, President Rotary
Mysore South-East appealed to Rotarians,
Anns and Annettes to enjoy “Masterayana”
by Master Hirannaiah on 22nd Dec.
Contact for further details: 9845113195
T-E-A-C-H
the next big thing at Rotary
T eacher support
E – learning
A dult Literacy
C hild development
H appy Schools
We promise elearning in 10,000
schools to start
with. Our aim is to
develop at least 500 Happy Schools across the
country. We have resolved to set up more than
50 adult literacy centres across the nation. We
promise teacher training programmes too.
Excited and enthused at our new focus of
driving illiteracy out of the country and South
Asia as well, we have already received promises
from famous personalities in different fields to
be brand ambassadors of our TEACH
programme and our Literacy Mission.
Past Rotary International President Kalyan
Banerjee is Chair of the South Asia committee
and in his words, “We are in Rotary for one
simple reason, to change the world.” Convenor
and Past Rotary International Director Shekhar
Mehta says, “Let us Light up the path towards
total literacy and quality education in India and
in South Asia.”
As you can well understand, our dreams are
lofty and aim is high but we need a lot of
s u p p o r t i n ex p e r t i s e , f i n a n c e s a n d
management skills from other NGOs, activists
and in fact make Total Literacy a movement
each one has a role to play. We request you to
kindly give regular coverage attention to
Rotary's attempt at driving out Illiteracy
through its Total Literacy Mission and write
about it in your esteemed publication or talk
about it in your electronic medium, so that our
programme
gets more
and more
support from
the general
population of this nation.
Our Vision is a “Literate India”
Our Mission
– Advocacy for Literacy by developing
partnerships with Govt/ other NGOs
– Harness Information Technology
– Adopt Schools
– Strive to Improve Quality of Education
– Make Education inclusive by bringing
marginalised sections / children at risk to the
mainstream
COUNTDOWN TO
PARIVARTHAN
The D-Day is approaching fast. Only 21 DAYS to
go. The countdown to Parivarthan, our own
District Conference is well and truly on. Will
Parivarthan, the District Conference on Jan
10,11,12 2014 be the best ever? It is entirely in
our hands. Let us put our best foot forward.
Some key speakers at the conference are:
Swami Brahmanandaji of Chinmaya Mission
Master Hirannaiah, well-known dramatist
Dr. Gururaj Karajagi, Creative teaching expert
Vasanthi Hariprakash, journalist & TV show
host,
Basavalingiah Hiremath, Janapada singer.
A few other celebrity speakers are awaited for
confirmation.
Have you registered yet? With Anns and
Annettes? As members of the Governor's home
club, we have to have 100% registrations. The
th
last date is 25 Dec. Rush your registration to the
District Secretariat at the Rotary Center
immediately.

3. Rotary
Information
This is to inform that the NID for Pulse Polio Immunization will be held on
19.01.2014. The date for the February NID is yet to be decided by the Government
of India. Please inform to all concerned and gear up your preparations for the D Day.
Dr. P. Narayana, Vice-Chairman, India National Polio plus Committee.

4. CHAMUNDI
Annets'
Corner
Good to
Know
(contributed by Rtn. Raghavan)
• When you wake up in the morning, Pray to ask God's
guidance for your purpose, today..
• Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat
less food that is manufactured in plants.
• Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and
dinner like a college kid with a maxed out charge
card.
• Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
• However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
• Time heals everything.
• Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
Quote Hanger
Religion:
Religion is the best armour, but the worst
cloak.
– Thomas Fuller
What mean and cruel things men do for the
love of God.
– Somerset Maugham
Men never do evil so completely and
cheerfully as when they do it from religious
conviction.
– Pascal
In matters of religion, it is very easy to
deceive a man, and very hard to convince
him.
– Pierre Bayle
Health Bites
• What other people think of you is none of your
business.
• Try to make at least three people smile each day.
• Drink green tea and plenty of water. Eat blueberries,
broccoli, and almonds.
• Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
• You don't have to win every argument. Agree to
disagree.
• Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the
present.
• Frame every so-called disaster with these words: 'In
five years, will this matter?'
• Help the needy, Be generous! Be a 'Giver' not a 'Taker'
• Your job won't take care of you when you are sick.
Your friends will. Stay in touch.
• Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day
• Each night before you go to bed, pray to God and be
thankful for what you'll accomplish, today!
in a lighter
vein!
What is confidence?
20 CEOs board an airplane and are told
that the flight that they are about to
take is the first-ever to feature pilotless
technology: “It is an non-crew aircraft.”
Each one of the CEOs is then told,
privately, that their company's software
is running the aircraft's automatic pilot
system.
Nineteen of the CEOs promptly leave the
aircraft, each offering a different type
of excuse.
One CEO alone remains on board the jet,
seeming very calm indeed.
Asked why he is so confident in this first
non-crew flight, he replies: “If it is the
same software that's developed by my
company's IT systems department, this
plane won't even take off!!!!"
That is called Confidence!!!
The Four-Way Test
“Of the things we think, say or do:
1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it build GOODWILL
and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?”
time to
celebrate
Birthday
Prakash B.M.
Dinesh Kothari
13th Dec
19th Dec
Wedding Anniversary
Lakshminarayan M.
& Sunitha
17th Dec
Rotary Anniversary
Sanath Kumar S.G.
Vasudev Bhat
Dec 19, 1968
Dec 19, 1985
Rotary Tidbits
(source: http://www.rotaryfirst100.org)
1927-The A&O
Committee:
While the Aims
and Objects
Plan was
adopted by
R o t a r y
International
at the Ostend, Belgium, Convention in 1927,
its history goes back several years to one
Sunday morning. Sydney W. Pascall, then
President of Rotary International in Great
Britain and Ireland, and Vivian Carter were
walking through a woods in Surrey, England,
and the discussion turned to Rotary
education. Sydney deplored the Rotary
ignorance of the average Rotarian, and
outlined a plan to make the Rotary Educational
Committee more effective.
These two men later exchanged letters which
led finally to the putting down on a half sheet
of paper what became known later as the Aims
and Objects Plan. The scheme was tried out for
12 months in the Rotary Clubs of Britain and
Ireland and more than half the Clubs adopted
it. Later Vivian came to Chicago and, using a
blackboard, explained the plan to the Board,
which submitted it to the Ostend Convention.
It is interesting to note that the original A&O
Plan contemplated only three lines of activity:
Club Service, Community Service and Boys
Work, and Vocational Service. In 1928, at
Minneapolis, International Service was added.
At Nice, France, in 1937 the Bylaws were again
amended to do away with the separate
Committees for the Services. Now one
member of the Aims and Objects Committee is
responsible for each of the four.