Bulletin – Dec 2011
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Vocational Awards 2011
Awardees of the year 2011:
Mrs.C. Prema Kumar,(right now only the name is there)
The Lady Andal Venkatasubba Rao School
Vocational Excellence-Education
Mr.C.Subba Reddy
Ceebros group of companies
Vocational Excellence-Coporate
Dr.Kamala Selvaraj
GG Hospital
Vocational Excellence-Medicine
Padmashri Mr.C.N.Raghavendran
M/s C. R.Narayana Rao
Vocational Excellence-Architecture/Design
Ms.Dipika Pallikal
World Ranking Squash Player
Young Achiever-Sports
Mr.Gautham Vasudev Menon
Renowned Film Maker
For the Sake of Honour
Padmashri Dr Vyjayantimala Bali
Legend of Bharatanatyam
Lifetime Achievement
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The RCCT Family in 2010-2011
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New Year Eve Party 2011
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We are already heading towards the end of 2010… December is round the corner! And time to welcome the New Year -2011
Acceding to the requests of a some of our members this time to celebrate and welcome the New Year together… A Gala New Year eve has been planned and put together for RCCT families and their close friends and relatives. The team New Year- Rajesh Narang, Urmish, Hamsa and Arundhati have come with a great offer so that all of us welcome the New Year with a Big Bang and ‘In Style.’
The team has put together an ALL INCLUSIVE awesome package for RCCT. Here is the package:
Rs 2500 per head (18 years and above)
Rs 1500 per Child (above 10 – below 17 years)
Rs 500 per Child (below 10 years)
This package includes:
Snacks, DJ Music, A Lavish Buffet spread- mixed Veg/Non Veg, A well stocked ‘bar’ with foreign spirits to keep the spirits high and much much more…..
All you have to do is to be there with your near & dear ones at Hotel GRT T Nagar on 31st Dec at 8 pm to welcome the New Year 2011 !!!
Medical Camp at Kanchipuram
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A medical camp is being held at Kanchipuram on the Saturday the 4th. Request all of you to particpate. The camp is followed by a factory Visit (Silk Saree Unit). This Project in coordination with Concern Chennai Foundation & M N Eye Hospital, Chennai.
Eye Camp – Kanchipuram
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RCCT did an eye camp on Saturday (4/12) in association with Concern Chennai Foundation and MN Eye Hospital at Kanchipuram. The camp was organised by Sri kanchi Arya Vysya Samajam at their own Kalyana Mandapam.
Three of us (Rajie, Sreekumar and self) represented RCCT. Sreekumar drove us down on a lovely morning with brief drizzles around and cool breeze. We had sumptuous breakfast at Motel Highway, Poonamalle and reached Kanchi at 10 am. The function was inaugrated by Rtn Chandrasekhar, District Chairman, Arya Vysya Samaj and founders of Kannika Parameswari Group of educational institutions.
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An eight member team from M N Eye Hospital came in at 9.30 am and went about in a professional manner registering the visitors and moving them from desk to desk for different tests. A total of 111 patients were screened and 15 were prescribed to change glasses. 5 of the patients were shortlisted for free surgery and brought back in the evening by the MN team to Chennai. 4 of them were successfully operated and dropped back on Sunday evening back in Kanchipuram while the 5th patient had many complications and was asked to come back after more tests and with family members consent as treatement would be expensive.
We moved out in the middle to visit Bommakara Street (about 2 kms away) where 2 streets are full of artisans who make dolls as a profession from their homes. All the dolls we buy during Navarathri near our homes are made by these kind of artisans right through the year. The artist explained to us the whole process very patiently without expecting us to buy or pay anything. He buys clay and kneads that with his legs. He plans which toys to make based on previous demand and orders for moulds accordingly. Each mould can be used to make about 300 toys. The moulded clay is then kept in kiln and dried and subsequently painted and finished. The craftsman has no monetary inflow right throught he year and borrows money for 10 months and his flow starts only 2 months before Navarathri. There are agents who buy in bulk locally from these artists and sell at different centers. We bought a Rama set for Rs.200 (4 pieces) which normally costs 500 to 600 locally. That is the spead which the middlemen get. It was a very interesting experience and opened our eyes to work done at villages. The same person also had a zari spinning unit at his house where he was spinning a silk sari.
We came back to the camp venue at 1.30 pm to have a great lunch arranged by the hosts and drove back to the city. It was a lovely trip which would have been better with more participation.
Inauguration of New Interact Club at Porur School
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A new Interact Club at Govt Girls Higher Secondary School, Porur sponsored by Rotary Club of Chennai Towers was inaugurated on the 1st December 2010 at 4.30 pm at a function held at the School premises. The inauguration was blessed by rain God as it was showering and pouring heavily all thru. The heavy rains did not stop or deter the proceedings and the enthusiastic bunch of students stayed on just for this occassion which they have been looking forward to.
The event was attended by President Rtn Rajie, Secretary Rtn Shreelekha, Rtn Aarthi Varanasi and New Gen Director Rtn Satish Jupiter. The Chief Guest was Rtn Gnanavelan, District Chairman Intereact. The function commenced with an invocation followed by a crisp and thought provoking welcome address by our President Rtn Rajie who narrated a short story which had the moral that explained the value of things and about giving respect to the people and things around us. Rtn Rajie also spoke about three things namely Mistakes, Failures and Rejections and said that these are part of progress and nobody every achieved anything without facing these things in life.
Followed by the President’s speech was our Secretary Rtn Shreelekha who explained to the students about the Interact Club both in English and Tamil. Shree mentioned about the importance of the Interact Club and their role to further the cause of community service and projects. She said that the first Interact Club was started in the year 1962 and the second club was started in Thanjavur, Tamilnadu.
After this was the introduction of the new President of the Interact Club Miss Murugeswari of Class XI who was installed. After the installation she gave a bold and very brief acceptance speech where she thanked all for choosing her as the President, she said that she will motivate, encourage all Intereactors and carry out her repsonsibilities to the best of her ability. The Secretary Miss Radhika and Treasurer Miss Bhagyalakshmi were also pinned and welcomed to the new Board. New Gen Director Rtn Satish Jupiter unveiled and presented the 4 way test board and also explained the same to the students in detail about the 4 way test. He requested the School authorities to display the board in a prominent place.
The Chief was introduced prior to his speech, Rtn Gnanavelan, District Chairman Interact spoke and explained the purpose of an Interact Club and what needs to be done to carry out the routine functioning of the Club. He mentioned that Interact is International action, empowering youth and developing them as future leaders, he also said that that there interact clubs in over 10000 schools presently and is still growing day by day, the main focus is to lead, to connect and to serve. He urged the students to have 2 meetings in a month and take projects that do not involve much or any financial expenses. He too narrated a story which explained about problems in life and how to overcome them. Followed by his address was the vote of thanks by the Interact Secretary Radhika.
The function concluded with the National Anthem. The strength of the new Interact Club is 40 students as on date, I hasten to add that even before formal inauguration we had taken an approval for them to participate in the District Interact week celebrations held in Nov 2010 and they did take part actively.
The formalities such as the required forms duly signed and other documentation were completed and handed over to the District Chairman. A new banner, gavel, office bearer pins, 4 way test board etc were handed over to the new Club. Also present in the function were Asst HM Ms Kamala Rani and the Interact Coordinator from the School Mrs Joyce Balaselvi.
We wish the new Club all the very best and look forward to work with them jointly.
3-month report card of our Rotaract Club
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Pls find below the 3 months report from our Rotaract Club at KRMM college. We have planned many more activities in the next quarter. The Rotaractors have done quite a lot of projects in 3 months.
KUMARARANI MEENA MUTHIAH COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCE
(Sponsored by Rotary club of Chennai Towers)
ROTARACT CLUB-1ST 3 MONTH REPORT
25th August 2010: Club Installation:
Rtr.P.Ram Kumar has been installed as the President of Rotaract Club of KRMMC along with his team of office bearers.
We had the District Chairman of New Generation Rtn Sayeeram as the Chief Guest for the function. Our parent Club President Rtn.Rajie Vijay Sarathy, along with New Gen Director Rtn Satish Jupiter enlightened the Function. We also had the College Principal Mrs PT Vijayshree, the Vice Principal, KRMM Co-ordinator Mrs Sangeetha at the function. Rotaract District Zonal Representative Rotaractor Hari Kumar at the Installation
29th August 2010: District Rotaract Assembly
30 Rotaractors along with Board members took part in the District Rotaract Assembly “AWESOME”.Green Rotaractors came to know more about Rotaract as a Movement and there were class room session for the President, Secretary and the office bearers to plan their tenure in Rotaract.
1st September 2010: Temple Cleaning
We the Rotaractors went for temple cleaning at “Arulmigu Sri Aerikarai Maariyaman kovil” in Nungambakam , Chennai. Itz an on going yearly project and we have taken a step ahead to continue this service Once in 2 months.
17th September : Light the Community
25 Rotaractors From our College took part in the Human Chain program to create awarness on “Blood Donation” Organised by District Rotaract which In Marina Beach.
17th September 2010: Fellowship
We had our first Club Fellowship in Marina Beach and Citi Centre. Rotaractors took part in it and had great time.
19th September 2010: Phoenix
Its an Cultural Event Organized by Rotaract Club of C.E.G and W.C.C. We had 50 Rotaractors who joined in it and our college Dance team perfomed in the event.
24th September 2010: Blood Donation Camp
The Rotaractors conducted blood donation camp in partnership with NSS unit of our College. Nearly 200 donors donated their blood in this camp at our College premises.
24th, 25th & 26th September 2010: “AURUM” – District Rotaract RYLA
Rtr.Srinivasan, Rtr.P.Ram kumar, Rtr. Sesha Sai and Rtr.Akilesh , Participated in RYLA(Rotary Youth Leadership Award) at Crenieo – Mutukkadu ECR.
October 10th-2010: Octofest
A cultural event this time by R.C of A.M.Jain, RC of DRBCCC. Hindu, Dr.MGR.Janaki College. Our Rotaractors took part in the event.
24th October 2010: Raksha Rally
Our first project with our parent club was held on 24th October. We KRMMC Rotaract Club with our Annets Club of Chennai Towers and Interactors from our KRMM school conducted a worthy project ,Rally against Domestic child labour. It took part in Marina Beach. The rally was from Labour statue to Gandhi statue. The flag off was done by Film Actor & MLA Mr S Ve Shekher.
24th October 2010: End polio Awarness
Rotary International in hands with District Rotaract organised a Rally to create an awareness on Polio and to eradicate it. It happened in marina beach and our Rotaractors Joined in for the cause.
31st October 2010: Sweet Edu Kondadu
District Rotaract Organized Diwali celebration In Rtr.Subhadhra’s hosue and the District officials and members had great fun.
4th November 2010: Anbu Illam
It was diwali around the corner and we wanted to spread our joy and enlighten few other life and spend some time with them.So We Rotaractors Visted Anbu Illam in Virugambakam, Chennai.We Provided them 1day food, Sweets and Crackers and also made them smile and happy.
This year never than before we have been very much closely associated with District Rotaract Council and helping them in many ways.
We have been shining throughout and emerging as an Formidable club like never before this year.
22nd Oct, 30th Oct and 14TH November 2010: Schools into Smiles
Schools into Smiles Program By Cherian foundation, Rotary and Rotaract.Its an Cultural event for Government aided schools in various Districts.We went to Thiruvanamaalai, Vellore to help them in Organizing the Event and Decide the Finalist.
The Finals took place in Anna Adarsh College,Chennai. KRMMC club Rotaractors were present there to organise and volunteer it.
30th November 2010: Infotract-Informative service
As a new initiative by our Rotaract club, We started a new Professional service project nd more informative project Named “INFOTRACT”. It sends the Rotaractors a new word 2 lrn weekly twice.,Informs them about various job vaccancies 2 their level and mainly as an dictionary. Rtr’s who wants to know the meaning of a english word can send in their word in a format, and the meaning will be sent to them immediately.
PHFs from RCCT
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I am extremely happy to announce that this year “11 persons” from RCCT have contributed to The Rotary Foundation towards Paul Harris Fellow…. for the first time we have 3 Annets as PHFs.
PP Rtn. Sriram, the Major Donor set the ball rolling….
1. Rtn. Deepika
2. Rtn. Murali
3. Rtn. Binoy
4. Rtn. Mahesh Pillai
5. Ann. Priya Sabu
6. Ann. Manasa
7. Ann. Hamsa
8. Spouse Ravi
9. Annet Arjun Sarathy
10. Annet Rohit Sabu
11. Annet Siddharth Sagar
Thank you each and everyone for your contribution……Really appreciate it.
Kudos to Rtn. Deepika, Chairman Foundation for deligently following up and co-ordinating with our members and the Dist Chairman.
Rtn. Veeramani, District Chairman Foundation was all appreciation in particular for our Annets who have come forward to become PHFs this year..
BBC – Beer Biryani Cricket
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The beautiful but threatening weather on Saturday cocooned into a balmy sunny Sunday thanks to the prayers of Rotarians from 4 city clubs…. Chennai Towers, North, Galaxy and Meenambakkam. Perfect setting for a game of cricket at KRMM grounds. As usual RCCTians were on time and in full strength… planned their strategy and practiced enough before the other Clubs ambled in at 10 am. Thanks to the last minute preparations were the winners in game 1…thanks to the efforts of PP.Rtn. Sriram Raju. We won against Meenambakkam comfortably. Thought the man of the match went to Meenambakkam we played well as a team. Great camaraderie on and off the ground followed.
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The next match was between Galaxy and North which witnessed great batting and fireworks on the ground !! 48 runs in 6 overs was the score by North…. The people in the gallery almost wrote of Galaxy….surprise surprise Galaxy won comfortably helped by North’s mediocre bowling and fielding at the time after much drama. Apparently Galaxy is made up of many cricketers of yester years. We had only President Rajie and Spouse Vijayasarathy as ex-cricketers in our team and hence we decided to use the Australian pressure tactics and let Eashwar loose on them …..Much of the psychic pressure was coming from behind the stumps thanks to Eashwar and his encouraging words 
we know how good they can work on new comers !!
So the finals were cast in stone…RCCT vs RCCG…. Great beginning by Raaj and Vijay….excellent 50 partnership….well almost !! splendid innings by Sriram who literally got carried away running when there were no runs to run for….we amassed 84 in 10 overs…..decent score to defend given that Galaxy were just coming into the second match immediately after their game. It went to the wire…last over 18 runs to win…last ball 3 runs to win and the better team of the day won…..RCCG walked away with the trophy.
It was 1 O clock…we were all fried by the sun by now and needed to get our palms around that cool cool beer and the delicious biriyani. All teams assembled at the Gandhi Nagar Club….great air conditioning and fantastic fellowship. Overall and super Sunday – could have only been better had we won!
But here is to Eashwar, Raaj, Gita, Prithvi, Sabu, Arjun Vijay and everyone else who were a part of this BBC for having given us a great time and kept track and tab of the proceedings so much so that the other Clubs are planning to emulate us with BBC Season 2….and I was like … yeah right !! Emulate RCCT …. Dream on buddy.