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Clive McLean
President 2009/10 |
Welcome to the official website of the Rotary Club of New Kingston,
where for this 2009/10 Rotary year, the club will celebrate 20 years of
sterling service.
Like so many charitable / not for profit service
organizations in these times of great economic uncertainty, our club is
not immune to the effects of these challenges and how they will affect
our ability to continue the Rotary tradition of service above self.
Nonetheless, we will not let the challenges prevent us from continuing
the work what is so necessary for the upliftment of our communities and
those who need our help.
So even as we celebrate our own milestone this year,
we will continue to our tradition of service projects -- establishing food
self-sufficiency garden; bring joy to the elderly; assisting the treatment and care of our young
children through provision of ventilators at hospitals and organizing
community health fairs and other service programmes to the wider community.
Ours is a commitment to serve and to make our communities and the
world a better place even as we recognize that the "future of Rotary is
in our hands."
As Rotarians, we are privileged to be part of the
oldest and largest service organization in the world and I know that
with your wholehearted support and commitment I am confident we will
have another successful year in the life of our club.
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New Administration Takes Charge |
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| From left: PP Lincoln Robinson,
Rtn Mark Nelson, Secy Derrick Thompson, Rtn Ossie James,
President Clive McLean, PP Danny Hayre, PP Athelstan
Bellamy, Rtn Carlton Scott and ADG Dennis Chong |
On Friday, July 03, 2009, the Rotary Club of
New Kingston engaged in its annual exercise of changing the
guards – a century old Rotary tradition of peaceful transition
of leadership.
It might not seem as any big thing; perhaps
just an exercise which most take for granted, but to be able to
change Presidents peacefully, without bullets or even ballots,
is not an everyday occurrence, certainly not at the level of our
politics and in so many other spheres. So, as Rotarians, we can
take pride in the fact that what we have been able to accomplish
in the peaceful and orderly transition of leadership, especially
in today’s world is not any ordinary feat.
(read more)
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Rotary’s Paul Harris
Award To Dr Minerva Thame |
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Dr. Thame
receives PHF Award from Asst. Gov. Clarence Clarke |
The Rotary Club of New Kingston has
recognized the outstanding work of Dr Minerva Thame of the UWI
with Rotary’s highest honour, the Paul Harris Fellow (PHF)
Award.
Dr Thame, Senior Lecturer in the Department
of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Child Health was presented with
the Award named after Rotary International’s founder Paul
Harris, at the Club’s recent Installation banquet, at which the
leadership of the club passed from outgoing President John Lindo
to the new administration headed by Clive McLean.
Immediate Past President of the Club John
Lindo said the award to Dr Thame was very much in keeping with
the mission of Rotary International to reduce child mortality.
Noting the Rotary theme for the 2008/09 administration was Make
Dreams Real Past President John said the “ Rotary Club of New
Kingston was proud to recognise the significant work Dr Thame
which has contributed to the better understanding of the
development of the foetus and the importance of foetal health to
child survival, growth and development.”
Dr Thame was also praised for her
groundbreaking research work on the contribution of maternal
nutrition to foetal and placental growth and its implications
for child survival and development.
“Taken as a whole”, Prof. Lindo continued “Dr
Thame’s work has far reaching policy implications for developing
countries which are working to improve child survival and
development,” adding: “In presenting her with this award the New
Kingston Club was bestowing this signal honour on a person who
has carried out the tenet of Service Above Self which is central
to the work of Rotary International.
For the 2009/10 administrative year, the
service emphasis of Rotary International will focus on disease
prevention and treatment, water and sanitation, maternal and
child health, education and literacy as well as economic and
community development.
Among some of the other recipients of the PHF
award from the New Kingston Club are Dr Peter Figueroa,
Ambassador Richard Bernal and the ScotiaBank Foundation. |
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