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On August 24, 2010, RCMO had a very special guest. It was the first time that

Assistant Governor Chochit Tobias was visiting the Club.

Everyone was expectant of what it would be. As a baby club, only a few members

knew what and how the visit would be done. For one week, preparations were done for the

big day. AG Chochit gave an overview

of the visit and explained that he would be helping RCMO through the year by cascading

and guiding it to fulfill the thrusts of DG Ed Alvarez and RI. He promised to visit the

club often and to be there for the clubs for all of its concerns.

CP Rose Acoba presented the plans and programs of the

club. At the end of the presentation, a dialogue with the officers and members

ensued. DGSR Sue Sta Maria was also present.

AG Chochit was very happy with the plans and programs presented. He specially

commended Moving up, the Membership Development and Retention plan that the club

will be doing. He encouraged everyone to continue the great work that they have started.

He urged the members to have fun and develop and foster fellowship amongst each other

for he said that this would be the key to the growth and

development of the club RCMO looks forward to AG

Chochit’s future visits.

Message Message Message Message of the of the of the of the RCMORCMORCMORCMO PresidentPresidentPresidentPresident

My Dear Fellow Olympians,

A common reaction

that one gets when a

prospective member

is invited to join Rotary

is the initial hesitation

to have anything to do

with it because of the pre-conceived notion

that it is an organization for the moneyed

and financially endowed individuals. Truth

to tell, I felt like this too. Many of you did or

still do… I do not say that financial

capability is not important but there are

other considerations to being a Rotarian.

When Rotary Club of Makati Olympia was

envisioned, its founders thought that our

ideal will be to have a Rotary Club which is

accessible to everyone who has the passion

to serve. Our vision was to have a club

whose members have the heart who cares, a

mind who understands and makes possible

these desires of the heart and the body

willing to execute what the heart feels and

what the mind dictates. Service, after all, is

not limited to only a few. It is universal for

it is God’s divine gift to all. It is our

purpose of being in this world.

I guess even us in RCMO cannot quite

understand how we were able to get 54

different individuals to agree to be charter

members. I believe that many others

wonder as we do. Simply said, we saw in

each other that vision which our founders

had. The challenge now is to keep our faith

that no matter what difficulties we may face,

we have already taken the first step. We

may falter a little sometimes but there is no

going back. Our responsibility to each other

is see to it that as a family, we are one body

with many parts, a team that Cont’d at page 2…

The

OLYMPIANS The Official Newsletter of the Rotary Club of Makati OLYMPIA

VOL 01 NO 03 • AUGUST 2010

editorial team adviser Rose Acoba

editor Joel D. Adriano

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READ LAUNCHED IN PATEROS

By: Dir. Ju Abdulcadir

Pateros is the only municipality in Metro

Manila. A marginalized locality compared to

its booming urban neighbors, RCMO chose it

as one of it’s the beneficiary community for

its service projects. It coordinated with the

Local Government Unit through Mayor Boyet

Medina and Councilor Edgar Castillo on this

initial project for the said municipality. To

start this working partnership, CP Rose

Acoba together Dir. Ju Abdulcadir, DIR

Miguel Bermido and the Rotaractors and

Interactors of its sponsored clubs paid them

courtesy call and hosted the Flag Raising

ceremony last August 23.

Thereafter, it launched the READ (Reading

Awareness Drive) Project in two public

schools - Pateros Elementary School and P.

Manalo Elementary School. Books were

donated and reading sessions were

conducted. Also part of the project is to

conduct tutorials for non-readers. This will

be a year round project for the

beneficiaries.

The Logo of RCMO describes the aspirations of the club. It is motivated to do service globally, thus the circle that contains the mountain of Olympus and the Rotary Logo signifies the world. The RI Logo is placed to the on top of the mountain to symbolize the hope that

Rotary brings to the world. It is like the sun which lights the world. Mt Olympus is the home of the Olympians and the Parthenon is the most famous edifice to epitomize Greek Mythology. For RCMO, the Olympians symbolize the quest for excellence in service which is represented in the logo by the gold laurel leaves. There are 55 leaves joined together in the center to signify unity of the 54 charter members and the DGSR. Green color symbolizes abundance and a good harvest from the endeavors that it will do to serve humanity.

Message Message Message Message RCMORCMORCMORCMO PresidentPresidentPresidentPresident cont’d from p.1

cannot claim success through the effort of just

one or a few. This is our Club. It is our supreme

duty to see to it that we go the distance imbued

with this conviction.

Go, Olympia, Go!

ICT COMPETITION HELD AT UMAK

By: DIR Miguel Bermido

In partnership with the University of Makati's Supreme

Student Council, Rotary Club of Makati Olympia and

its sponsored Interact and Rotaract Clubs, held the ICT

competition for Computer Science Students last August 19,

2010. There were 5 categories in the contest - Flash

Animation, Quiz Bee, C++ Programming, Webpage

Designing and PC Trouble Shooting.

The top winners per category were: Allan Laurente, Mico

Gamoso and Marc Angelo Tubeio for Flash Animation,

Michael Lacanlale for the Quiz Bee, Arthur Belmonte, Jeck

Mabasa, Rafael Nico Domingo for C++ Programming,

Melven Enciso, Darwin Toledo and Elmer Paulino for

Webpage Designing and Jerry Tom Seredio, Ivan Jason

Alog and Marvin Ibadlit for PC Troubleshooting.

They were awarded medals and certificates.