RCHS will be featuring a vocational fact sheet each month. This month’s fact sheet is the Declaration of Rotarians in Businesses and Professions. Adopted in 1989 by the Council on Legislation, the Declaration of Rotarians in Businesses and Professions can be used together with the Four-Way test, in defining the high ethical standards called for from a Rotarian in conducting their business and professional activities. Click here to view the declaration.
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December 19, 2011 ~ Thanks to coordination by Nancy Walden, donations of gift wrap and ribbons from Courtney Sibley’s mom, and boxes and boxes of food and toiletries from club members, Honolulu Sunrisers packed 165 gift boxes for needy adults at the Next Step Shelter. Every box was accompanied by a hand-written Christmas card. Many hands make light work. Mahalo to Christine Lanning, Courtney and Aiden Sibley, Nadine Ferraro, Ciera Young, Brandy Yeh, Anna and Ian Archibald and Grace Schnetzler. The boxes were delivered by Sunrisers in time for a party at the shelter on December 23rd. Merry Christmas to all.
Read more →Join us as we start 2012 with fabulous speakers. Mahalo to Program Chairs Nancy Walden and Mollie Sperry. If you have suggestions, please let them know. January, 2012 9 Mike Story, Sports Manager, HTA, Probowl and the business of sports in Hawaii 16 Martin Luther King holiday 23 Kim Genaula, President and CEO, Aloha United Way 30 Calabash February, 2012 6 George Kailiwai III, Director, Resources and Assessment, US Pacific Command 13 Donald Horner, Chairman, Board of Education and recently retired CEO of First Hawaiian Bank 20 Presidents’ Day 21 (Meeting changed to
Read more →December 12, 2011 ~ What do you do when the holidays come crashing in on you? Or when old baggage from the past creeps into the present? Dr. James Deutch, this week’s speaker, is a licensed clinical social worker and a lecturer at the University of Hawai’i in the areas of parenting, marriage and family, and relationships. He is also the Senior Counselor at the Family Education Training Center of Hawai’i, a family strengthening and counseling program located on the Manoa campus of the University of Hawai’i. So what did we learn in our 20-minute pre-holiday session? We learned that
Read more →December 10: Christmas Party at Joe Rice’s home, Mid-Pacific Institute, 5pm December 12: Dr. James Deutch, Families: How to survive the holidays December 19: Need all members to help with wrapping gifts for homeless and writing personal Christmas cards December 26: Happy Holidays! January 2: Happy New Year!
Read more →Rotary International District 3350 led by DG Supong, IPDG Suchada, District Secretary Duangta and Rotarians reached out to flood victims in Nonthaburi & Pathum Thani provinces with portable compact toilets, bottled drinking water, dry foods and other life support necessities on Sun Oct 30, 2011. PP Suphin provided a container trailer to transfer food and materials to hard-to-reach spots. The Royal Thai Army Development Command graciously provided army personnel, army trucks and boats to facilitate distribution to residents who choose to live in their houses submerged in flood water as high as two metres. Photos by Kasemxai Kasemchai
Read more →On the first Wednesday and Thursday afternoon of every month a couple of Honolulu Sunrisers head to Lincoln Elementary to read to students after school. This month, Joe Ferraro and Allen Kamemoto read to some of these kids with big smiles. Mahalo Allen and Joe, and to Jerry and John for setting up this rewarding program! If you’d like to volunteer for January, please let Jerry or John know.
Read more →We have an incredible opportunity to welcome Rotary International President Elect Sakuji Tanaka as he stops briefly in Hawaii. DGE Chet Dal Santo will host a luncheon on Saturday, January 17th from 11:30 am to 2:00 pm at the Academy of the Pacific. Cost is $25 per person. Valet parking will be provided. Free transportation will be provided from and to the airport. This is a rare chance to interact up close and personal with a Rotary International leader. If you are coming in from the neighbor islands, please provide your flight times. Please RSVP by reply to District Secretary, Laura
Read more →December 5, 2011 ~ Mahalo to guest speaker, Dr. Jan Huston, for his talk on The Emerging World of Augmented Knowledge. If you missed his presentation, Dr. Huston is a strategic planner and consultant with a 25-year career in business, government, and academia. He holds a Ph.D. (focused on how systems evolve), MA in alternative futures and has a unique grasp of the Internet and itsdirection, having authored numerous Internet related articles since the 1980’s. Dr. Huston’s prior experience includes media buying guide developer (targeting ads to niche media markets), a market research director, a writer and producer of national and local TV
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