Issue : 51Vol. : 33 Date : 25-06-2014 Pages : 04

Club assembly by Assistant Governor

Rtn. Jayaprakash aka JPRtn. M.S. Jayaprakash was born in 1969 to Late Smt.

Chandramma and Late Sri M.V. Shanthanarasimhaiah, leading silk cloth merchants of M/s M.V. Bhojayya & Brothers, Mysore. He is popularly as Jaypee among friends and Rotary. He was born and brought up in Mysore. He had his early education in Mahajana's High School and Mahajana PU College. He got his Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering and Masters in Engineering from The National Institute of Engineering, Mysore.

After his studies, he began his career as Engineer in Automotive Axles Ltd., WiltechIndia Ltd., Sipani Automobiles Ltd. and JSun Engineering India (P) Ltd. He has served both in Production Engineering line as well as Mechanical Machine Design Engineering. He is specialised in design of Material

Handling Equipments and Project Engineering. Ever since he started his career, he had a strong inclination to be independent and run own business. He started business in Hospitality Industry. He owns and runs M/s Hotel Dewan's Residency in Mysore and he is the partner in Technomatic Engineering Industries and Mathrushree Textiles in Mysore. He is also giving technical consultation to industries.

He joined Rotary Movement in the year 1997. He is the member and Past President of Rotary Central Mysore. He has served as Joint Secretary in the year 1999-2000, Hon. Secretary in the year 2000-01, Treasurer in 2002-03, Fund Raising Chairman in 2005-06, President in 2006-07, Director in 2011-12, Club Editor in 2012-13. Ever since, he has also served in District also every year in one or the other committees. A few of the posts he held in the District are: Vice-Chairman (Youth Exchange), Chairman (Functional Literacy), Chairman (Youth Welfare), Zonal Lieutenant of Zone-7 and as Zonal Co-ordinator in many committees.

During his Presidentship, the Club hosted District Sports. During his Secretaryship, the Club hosted District Vocational Meet by inviting Mr. Shiv Khera, an internationally known Human Trainer to conduct a workshop in Mysore. He has also successfully served as Co-Chairman (Accommodation) in District Conference 2006, Chairman (Accommodation) in RAHLA in 2007, District Assembly in 2009 and District Conference in 2014. He is the Secretary of Rotary Central Association; Secretary of Mysore Hotel Owners' Association, Mysore; Member of Bharat Vikas Parishad; Member of Mysore Chamber of Commerce and Industries. He is happily married to Smt. Joshila Jayaprakash, a B.E. Graduate. She is the President of Inner Wheel Club of Mysore Central this year and the couple are blessed with two talented daughters Kum. Jahnavi, studying in PUC and Kum. Namratha, studying in 9th Std. Both are 1st rank holders in Senior Grade Bharatanatyam.

His hobbies are playing cricket (has taken many wickets playing against Midtown too!!), swimming, reading magazines and watching TV. Midtown welcomes smiling Assistant Governor Rtn.JP.

Rtn.M.S.Raghu hosted a party to the board of directors and district level representatives of Midtown recently. He compared the achievements of the club to that of Halley 's Comet.Ÿ Midtowner Rtn.Nandakumar as District SecretaryŸ Midtowner Rtn.Bheemesh as Assistant Governor of Zone 7Ÿ Midtown bagging best club award at District level under able president ship

of Rtn.BhanuchandranŸ Midtown RCC Vinyas initiated & bags best RCC club in the districtŸ Midtown nominee Mr.Narayanan Krishnan bags second prize in

International Humanitarian award “The One”Halley's comet appears once in 75 years and is a lifetime opportunity which most of us were witness of, comparing to this Rajguru (newly acquired nomenclature!) Rtn.Raghu appreciated the phenomenal achievement and congratulated everyone for the feat.

Halley's in Midtown!!!!!

RIPE Gary Huang's Family

Friends, It is now time to say good bye! The year has gone by so fast, I am yet to

come to terms with the situation. I don't know whether you have noticed that I did not write too much nor spoke much - a very unlikely of me. It is a take home learning for me that you can achieve a lot more if you are a better listener than a speaker.

Communication from our mouth piece 'About Us' was very effective and you were fully informed on all the activities of the club. 'Innovation' was the Mantra when we took our office in early July'13. Our aim was to keep ourselves and the club busy with continuing the good work done by our predecessors and creating new benchmarks. Our 'Mission' was to accomplish our goals for the year through active participation from all the members of our club and our associate organizations. We believe we were fairly successful in our tasks. Our community oriented projects found sustainability and evoked great response from the beneficiaries and general public. Our club activities remained vibrant all through the year earning appreciation from the entire Rotary District. Overall it was a very satisfying year to 'Engage Rotary' and 'Change Lives'.

Our club won several accolades in the process. We were adjudged the best club in the District. Mr Narayanan Krishnan from Madurai won the second place and USD 70000 from 'Rotary One' and was nominated by us. Our Students of X Standard at RMA came out with flying colors again with a 100% pass result. Our members were part of the successful District team which efficiently supported the DG and conducted the District Conference. Successful ongoing projects like SAMARTHA, BANDHAVYA, DIKSOOCHI AND BHAGAVAN MEMORIAL DEBATE found new directions of sustainability. SWASTHYA and several other new projects took shape as continuing community oriented projects. Club hosted a Multi District Rotary Leadership Training Program in Mysore. The list goes on.

All this would not have been possible without proper planning, effective execution and appropriate use of Human Resources in and out of the club. The entire credit goes to Team Midtown. We as a club today have built such a cohesive network amongst ourselves that we can achieve anything under sun in our pursuit of realizing Rotary Dreams.

Friends, me and Ann Kamalakshi are simply overwhelmed by the gesture we have received from each and every member of Midtown family. Our heartfelt thanks to you for all the support you have extended in our endeavor in

thRotary. On this joyous occasion we would like to host a Dinner Get together for Midtown family on Saturday 28 June 14 at Hotel Grand Maurya, Hunsur Road, Mysore from 6.30 PM onwards. We welcome the entire Midtown family to join us and share the joy of success.

I take this opportunity to wish Rtn Venkatesh and his team all the very best in the 'Light up Rotary' Year. I am confident that Venky and his team would take Midtown flag even higher and would make the year most memorable.

Warm Regards- BHANU

Managing “E-waste”

Community Service Project

Rtn.Venkatesh, Rtn.Mohan, Rtn.Srivatsa, Rtn.Azeezulla and others seen at Family Planning Association's program “Saheli” recently.

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Rtn.Gopal spoke on “E-waste” in last week's meeting. Rtn.Gopal, having involved in

various activities on educating about “E-waste” came to the meeting with a lot of data.

Having educated more than 8000 school kids and arranging various events to spread

awareness on perils of “E-waste”, he came in with a neatly formatted presentation to be

shared with Midtowners. Rtn.Gopal explained various aspects of E-waste and unfolded the

dangers posed if we do not take preventive steps. He gave startling statistics to prove his

point. He also mentioned about the norms set by government. A couple of videos were beamed showing the

pathetic systems adopted by many petty traders to extract metals from e-waste. It was a thought provoking

session. To top it all Rtn.Gopal came up with a Pop quiz and gave gifts to Rotarians with correct answers.

1. Is it the TRUTH ?2. Is it FAIR to all concerned ?3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned ?

RotaryInformationPracticalInnovation

Next Week

Rtn. Harish K.Bst01 July

nd02 July 2014

Venue: RCL Hall, JLB Road Time: 6.30 pm

Please Attend

Birthday Wishes

Doctors’ Day Celebrations& Honoring AG & Dist. Secretary

Wedding Anniversary Wishes

Rtn. Naveen Chandnd2 July

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Lighting up Easter Island with an “End Polio Now” message

The stone statues are known as moai, the living faces (aringa ora) of deified ancestors of the Rapa Nui who inhabited the island. The Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen came upon the statues on Easter Sunday in 1722. The island has several ceremonial platforms, called ahu, upon which statues are displayed, and each is associated with a family of nobility.

The gigantic, brooding monoliths of Easter Island have been impressing visitors to the remote island, 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile, for years. We wanted to illuminate some of these statues with an End Polio Now message, but it proved to be no easy task.

More details at: http://blog.rotary.org/ 2014/05 /27/moai/