PRESIDENT Rtn. Dr. N.V. Arulmozhi Varman

HoNoRARy SECRETARy Rtn. Dr. R. Chandrasekhar

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Rtn. A.S. Venkhat Ramani

PRESIDENT ELECT Rtn. P N Mohan

PRESIDENT NoMINEE Rtn. Ranjit Pratap

Asst. SECRETARy / BULLETIN EDIToR Rtn. Mohan Raman

DIRECToR CLUB ADMINISTRATIoN Rtn. R. Rajenderan

DIRECToR yoUTH SERVICE Rtn. M Sesha Sai

DIRECToR PUBLIC IMAGE AND FUND RAISING Rtn. Harish K. Murthi

DIRECToR RoTARy FoUNDATIoN & INTERNATIoNAL SERVICES Rtn. M. Balasubramaniam

DIRECToR SERVICE PRoJECT 1 Rtn. R. Ravishankar

DIRECToR SERVICE PRoJECT 2 Rtn. K.M. Vinod Kumar

DIRECToR VoCATIoNAL SERVICE Rtn. S. Ravi

TREASURER (CLUB FUNDS) Rtn. Hemant Chordia

TREASURER (CHARITABLE TRUST) Rtn. Nimish C. Tolia

TREASURER (SPECIAL PRoJECTS) Rtn. Kishor Dandeker

The LighthouseBulletin of The Rotary Club of Madras

November 1, 2016 • 4 Pages

TRACKING A KILLER

Hot on the trail of deadly viruses such as HIV-AIDS and Hepatitis

C is Dr. Sunil Solomon, son of the legendary Dr. Suniti and Dr. Victor Solomon.

At his talk last week, he outlined the work being done by the Foundation that was started by his mother, the YR Gaitonde Foundation, in the fight for AIDS. This fight was not just a medical fight, but one of socio-economic significance.

YRG not only tests and treats patients, but also spreads awareness and educating them against the blind taboos when infected with HIV.

Today, under direction from Dr. Sunil Solomon, the Foundation has expanded its focus to the study of Hepatitis C, which he said is a silent, dormant killer, rearing up its head

only a few decades later, when it is already too late in most cases. As he explained, early detection is the best start to cure in any infection and if it is a deadly, fatal infection, then the earlier the better. He showed us how easy and prolific the tests are, how it is possible to test for the entire spectrum of infections and how - the first priority - should be to get oneself tested at least once a year, like a routine medical checkup that many of us are already doing.

He ended his eye-opener talk by urging us to be a part of their HepC-Free Chennai campaign by helping ourselves, our own home staff and our company employees get tested - with tests starting from as little as Rs. 150!

- Rtn. Shakthi Girish

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minutes1st NOVEMBER 2016

Sgt-at-arms Rtn PP NK Gopinath collared President Rtn Dr Arulmozhi Varman who

called the 18th meeting of RCM to order,followed by a silent invocation.

The minutes of the 25th Oct’16 meeting was duly confirmed.

President welcomed :• Visiting Rtn PP Rtn Balaraman &

Rtn Srinivas Rao of RCM East,PP DS Reddy of RCM Perungudi,Rtn Rishi Jalan of RCM NextGen

• Probus club Pres Namasivayam & Prob Annadurai

• Guest speaker Dr Sunil Solomon, Chairman, YR Gaitonde Medical Educational & Reseasrch Foundation, Chennai.Birthday & Wedding anniversary

wishes were extended by President to the respective Rotarians/spouses who celebrate that week and thanked for their sunshine.

Rtn Sumit Kumar Kalra was featured under the Know your Rotarian segment which had more information about him.

Rtn PP Balaraman, RCM East, requested members to participate in their fund raiser on 11th Dec’16 at the University Auditorium.Powerful speaker and life teacher TT Rangarajan (Mahatria Ra) will give a talk on Power of beliefs between 4 to 6 pm, on a topic which he had not spoken before. Passes ranges from Rs 1000 to Rs 25,000 and 1 Lac for VIP row. Requested RCM members for their support for the fund raiser.

Rtn R Ravishankar, Director, Community Service reported on the ground breaking ceremony for

our sanitation project, which was on the 27th Oct’16 at Paiyanoor village, where DG Nagoji Rao was the chief Guest. The work will begin in the next few weeks.He was also please to inform that 60 out of the 175 toilets have been completed at the periyapuliyur village. The replacement of the roof at our Rotary Nagar project was done recently. We hope during the monsoon season,there will no leakages in the project site, he said.

Requested members to attend the Combined Community service meeting will be on the 15th Nov’16, Tuesday at the first floor Sapphire hall, Presidency Club at 6.30 pm.

Secy Rtn Dr R Chandrasekhar announced that the next weekly meeting is on the 8th Nov’16 at the same place same time.

Program: Joint meeting with the RC Chennai Spotlight.

Speaker: Rtn S Sekhar from RCM Bay City.

Topic: India’s Maritime Security.Rtn Shakthi Girish introduced the

guest speaker Dr Sunil Solomon,an Associate Professor of Medicine in

the division of Infectious diseases, at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine USA.

Speaker Dr Sunil Solomon spoke on silent killer – Hepatitis C and YRG Care’s response (his family foundation) with an aid of a PPT,and later took questions from the floor.

YRG provides awareness & treatment for AIDS, Hepatitis C and other such infectious diseases.

President presented a memento and our clubs 80 year history book A Timeless legacy to Dr Sunil.

Rtn Dr Krishna Hande said that Dr Sunil ‘s father legendary Dr Victor Solomon, known for his tireless work in preventing rheumatic heart diseases in children, being the surgeon behind the first open heart surgery in India. His Mother Dr Suniti Solomon, India’s pioneer of AIDS research and treatment and founder of the YRG Centre for AIDS Research and Education. Dr Krishna said that he was proud to see Dr Sunil an expert in Hepatitis C. His talk highlighted about the Hepatitis C and how to protect it.

The meeting was then adjourned.

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Fellowship in the bushOUT OF AFRICA – 2

There is something about the Rotarian, even in the wild. There is also something

about taking the Rotarian out of his comfort zone and dropping him in another culture. Such scene changes don’t faze him at all.

Give the Rotarian a bush breakfast, and he will open champagne. Give him a balloon ride, and he will make it an international soiree with the Russian pilot. Give the Rotarian a dinner, and he will exchange a flag!

Champagne before breakfast!

Believe me, it was a trip that made Fellowship its running theme song. And if

you thought I was saying any of the above for effect, perish the thought! Being Rotarians, we have photographic evidence :).

Receiving the flag from the Nairobi Utumishi Rotary Club Kenya.. Our Rotarians!

Soiree in the sky!; Thalaivargalae! Welcoming us for a South Indian breakfast

So as we criss-crossed our way past the equator this way and that, hitting new resorts, fresh wildlife parks and new experiences, there was great bonhomie and cheer, ensuring that not a minute was rendered boring.

As one travelling spouse said in hindsight, “This really was a wonderful experience. I got to know the Rotarians and families so much better – there was conversation, and there was fun!”

Cell-phones were put away for the time when wifi would offer connection – but the bliss of being disconnected and in wonderful company was unsurpassed.

Needless to say, age and adventure can throw up surprises – with the oldest

Rotarian in the group gung-ho and raring to go, come each morning.

Songbirds in the wild!And come evening, out came the log fires

and the mikes, with wonderfully synced but impromptu performances by our Anne Shanthi Suresh and Rtn. Ilankumanan ¬– in the middle of the wild.

The log fires crackle...

We became the Masai, we became the wild, and of course, we became the fellows in friendship, as always, in Rotary.

Spot the Masai!

Next issue: Eat, drink and be merry – as the Masai can be!

Where the Rotary spirit remained indefatigable, even as cross-country jaunts, safaris and balloon rides called for high degrees of resilience...

- Rtn. Sandhya Sridhar

Photo credit: Anita Yashwanth

Photo credit: Anita Yashwanth

Photo credit: Anita Yashwanth Photo credit: Anita Yashwanth

Photo credit: Anita Yashwanth

Photo credit: Anita Yashwanth

8th Nov – Rtn PP V Raja9th Nov – Rtn Nalli Kuppuswami Chetti11th Nov – Rtn A Namasivayam11th Nov – Rtn Dr Vijayabharathi Rangarajan9th Nov – Ann.Ratna (Rtn Sunjae Sharma)8th Nov – Ann.Meena (Rtn Sarath Naru)10th Nov – Ann.Vasanthi (Rtn PP KN Raja)11th Nov – Ann.Somasundari (Rtn A Namasivayam)14th Nov – Ann.Sushma (Rtn Nimish C Tolia)

8th Nov – Rtn D Harikrishna Ann. Smitha12th Nov – Rtn Linesh Sanatkumar Ann.Rajshri13th Nov – PE Rtn PN Mohan Ann.Janaki14th Nov – Rtn Shaan Katari Libby Spouse: Dr James F Libby

Birthday

Wedding

EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY: Rtn. Asst. Secretary, Rotary Club of Madras, ‘Rayala Towers’, 2nd Mezzanine Floor, 158, Anna Salai, Chennai - 2, Ph: 28591020.Contact the editor at: mohanraman@gmail.com. Design: www.studiodescience.com

Visit: www.rotarymadras.in Contact club secretariat at: office@rotarymadras.in

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Rtn Harbinder Singh – ` 3000Rtn.Jayant Hemdev – ` 2000Rtn Nikhil Raj – ` 1000Rtn Sunil Sudhakar Shanker – ` 2000Rtn.Vikram Jalan – ` 1000Rtn.Nalini Radhakrishnan – ` 1000Rtn.Hiren Shah – ` 1000Rtn.Deepak Chander – ` 1000

Sunshine

EDITORIAL COMMITTEEAdvisors: Rtn. PP N.K. Gopinath,

Rtn. Sunita Suresh Chairman: Rtn. Mohan Raman Rtn. Shaan Katari Libby, Rtn. Bhaswar Mukherjee, Rtn.

Shakthi Girish, Rtn. Biswajit Babu, Rtn. Sandhya Sridhar, Rtn. R. Ravishankar,

Rtn. Hiren B. Shah, P.S. Sridharan

president’smessage

RIJohn F GermPRESIDENT 2016-17 NOVEMBER 2016

Looking back at the momentous 1917 Rotary Convention in Atlanta, it is difficult to see what could have been contentious about the words of then-President Arch C. Klumph: “It seems eminently proper that we should accept endowments for the purpose of doing good in the world.” Yet, at the time, support for the idea was far from unanimous. Some thought an endowment fund would create more trouble than it was worth. But Klumph’s idea received the support it most needed in the form of an initial donation of $26.50 from the Rotary Club of Kansas City, Mo.

Nearly 100 years later, we recognize Klumph’s idea as not only visionary, but revolutionary: It set in place the mechanism that allowed Rotary to become the vast force for “doing good in the world” that it is today.

In many ways, our Rotary Foundation is the foundation of Rotary as we know it. It has created a mechanism for cooperation and partnership among clubs and between Rotary and other organizations; it has enabled us to be ever more ambitious in our work and to reach for goals of historic proportions, such as the eradication of polio. It is impossible to quantify the good that has been done over the last century as a result of The Rotary Foundation. All we can know for sure is that Arch Klumph, if he could see it, would be proud.

I am looking forward to seeing many of you at our international convention in Atlanta: the city where our Foundation was born. I hope a record number of Rotarians will be there to celebrate the centennial of our Foundation. In the meantime, there are plenty of other ways to celebrate! I encourage you to read more about the Foundation centennial at centennial.rotary.org. There, you’ll learn about the history of our Foundation and find ideas for events and projects in your clubs and your community.

One of the most important ways we are celebrating the Foundation centennial is with a fundraising goal of $300 million. Your gift to your Foundation is the best way of ensuring a strong second century for Rotarians Doing Good in the World and for Rotary Serving Humanity.