rdIssue: 39, 3 April, 2014

Charles L. Wheeler, Rotary Club of San Francisco, Californiard33 President of Rotary International, 1943-44

"If we ever reach the point where we can feel that the greatest and noblest things that Rotary could possibly do have already been done, at that very moment our organization will begin to disintegrate."

As is his wont, PP K.S.Chandrashekar was his usual straight-talking self. He

was speaking in the Life Perception series, during last Thursday's weekly meeting. First things first. His grandfather was a Senior Inspector in the Indian Railways, and was called “Trolley” Venkataramaiah, and the family was shifting frequently from different parts of the then Central Provinces to towns n e a r e r h o m e l i k e H a s s a n , Chamarajanagar, K.R.Nagar. Father Srinivasamurthy was a well-known advocate. In addition he was a Hindi enthusiast, and the powers-that-be gave him the responsibility of spreading Hindi in this region. Hence he initiated the Dakshina Bharath Hindi Prachar Sabha in Mysore and was actively associated with it for nearly 20 years. He was, along with Mr. Badri Prasad, responsible for the Hindi PG Deptt in University of Mysore, when Dr. K.N.Srimali was the VC. The family was a big joint one with the brothers staying together. Chandrashekar's mother was a product of the English-Scottish school and did all the right things of those times like needle-craft, embroidery etc. All this gave young Chandrashekar,

thborn on 11 Mar 1937 at Nagpur and brought up in Central Provinces, a pan-India perspective and fluency in

English and various Indian languages – but with a problem – lacking in Kannada. As is/was the norm, his parents were keen that he join an English medium school – one of either Theobold school or the Good Shepherd Convent – but due to force of circumstances, he joined the Sadvidya Pathashala. He was a scout leader those days. Later he joined Marimallappa's where D.Krishna Rao was the Head Master. Through all this, Chandrashekar had a penchant for reading books, which he had picked up from his father. After thinking of joining a veterinary course, Chandrashekar approached Prof. Seebaiah and joined B.Sc.(CBZ) course. After graduation, Chandrashekar went to Delhi in search of his first job. His attempts to work in a sugar mill at Iqbalpur near Roorkee did not fructify. Pharma company Sarabhai Chemicals (of Vikram Sarabhai fame) beckoned him. He was selected after an interview at Bombay and went to work at Solapur in 1962, thus getting an opportunity to work at the largest antibiotic manufacturing complex in India. Inspite of having to wear suits in the heat and moving around in public transpor t in the dust, Chandrashekar did well – being well-versed in Hindi and Marathi – and won a gold medal for marketing. He moved south with a posting requiring to spend 15 days a month in Gulbarga. He spent time in the evening playing shuttle badminton. His next job was with Abbot's India International where he had to tour 9 districts. It was at this time that he bought a Standard Herald car.

thHe joined Rotary on 7 Mar1964. He was invited to Rotary Gulbarga and introduced by Dr. TMA Pai. He was informed about the payment of dues and attendance to which he agreed. He was asked to attend the Manipal conference – the previous conference was at Mysore under the Governorship of Farrokh Irani – which he did. In 1967, he was asked to meet Mr. Farrokh Irani, which he did, after some hesitation, and that changed the course of his life and career. Mr. Irani asked him to join Ideal Jawa -

company. He never looked back and was with Jawa for 25 years in various capacities including that of General Manager. Chandrashekar recalled an incident when a Sardarji vendor of spare parts from Vijayawada offered him a bribe which he furiously refused. In the meantime, Chandrashekar got married in 1976 to Ann Kusuma. The couple has two children, Shishir and Oormila. Son Dr. Shishir is currently consultant paediatric anaesthetic at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children at London and is likely to return to India soon. Daughter Oormila, an M.Sc., was with CFTRI, and is the first lady to win a Manchester Fellowship in her field. She served in Hong Kong for 7 years before shifting to Bangalore. Chandrashekar fondly remembers his experiences at the Mysore Sports Club a n d h i s a s s o c i a t i o n w i t h P.R.Mahalingam, and with the head cook Natesan. The District Seminar was held at Sports Club in the company of N.R.Kulkarni, Gopalrajan,

"The forever bike, forever value"

LIVING BY THE 4-WAY TEST OF LIFE– a talk by PHF PP Rtn. K.S. Chandrashekar

CHAMUNDICHAMUNDI

Sitaram and of course Farrokh Irani. Chandrashekar was one of the founding members of YMCA and MDFA in Mysore. He was Chairman of MDFA in its heydays during 1970-75 and had organized a number of key tournaments of the time. He also remembers his association with CFTRI and HAB Parpia among others. He has widely travelled to a number of places in India and abroad. PHF PP Rtn. K.S.Chandrashekar has always lived by and abided by the 4-way test. He thoroughly enjoys his days at Rotary. Those days they had members only by invitation, he said. Unlike these days, attendance was very strict then which laid the basis of his record 100% attendance at Rotary. He remembered his mentors Farrokh Irani, Narayanaswami, K.M.Subba Rao, P.R.Sitaram, Vasudevamurthy among others. His theme during his Presidentship in 1976-77 was “I Believe in Rotary”. Celebrating his Golden Jubilee at Rotary now, he concluded that if there is a next birth, he would like to continue as a Rotarian. File photo: With the IJRS staff and children

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Rtn. Dr. B.R.Pai donated Rs. 1,00,000/= to the Integrated School Project at Dattagalli. Our VP Rtn. H.S. Venkatesh advanced a soft loan of Rs. 2,00,000/= for the same cause.Rotary Mysore thanks the donors.

Free Angioplasty CampI am happy to inform you that we have in Association with Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology, Bangalore conducted a 2 day free Angioplasty camp on 28th and 29th March at the Jayadeva Hospital, Bangalore where 45 patients were implanted with Drug eluting stents free of cost.

We are proud to be part of Rotary Mysore.

Rtn. Badari Narayan and Rtn. Mrs. Kalindhi Narayan

Way to go, Narayan couple!

2. Collaborate for service projects – share and exchange ideas – they can even be online - have re-orientation sessions - with Rotarians of different clubs across the district for mutual benefit. Discuss and successful initiation, completion of projects in different Areas of Focus and Avenues of Service. Have more joint sessions with Rotarians of other clubs. After all putting in time is the highest form of service.

3. Empower youngsters – guide youngsters, rotaractors and interactors towards their career goals and professional development in chosen areas. When one acts with compassion, lives are transformed. They will become Rotarians for life.

4. Unique focus project – What is the one project that would uniquely define our club? Go for one defining area of focus to be implemented collectively. One that would create a paradigm shift for the people in the area. This will strengthen bonding and fellowship.

5. Go for one Intra-service organization project – for eg., Lions have a great impact on Eyesight Projects whereas we in Rotary have a major impact on Eradicating Polio. If such organizations can get together, surely sky is the limit.

6. Publicize – the good work done. Publicity can be handled at all levels. Provide publicity in different forums and media.

The Rotary Wheel is a symbol of progress. Let us grow with Rotary and

together scale greater heights. - Arun B.R., Editorarunbelawadi@gmail.com, 98452 72343

Dear Rotarians,

April is the Rotary's magazine month. From time to time, in our daily routines, we tend to forget what our relationship with Rotary is. In this context, the words of our RI President provide the reminder. “Rotary magazines remind us that as Rotarians, we are all part of something larger than ourselves.” This is as good an occasion as any to submit some points I had penned down in one of my essays to Rotary. Here goes…

A glance at the list of our members indicates that every possible classification, skill-set and vocation is covered. Each one of us has innate abilities and skills. Apart from our core competency, we have our strengths – some are good at interpersonal skills, some at intrapersonal – the strong and silent types, some are good at getting the job done, some at hands-on skills, some speak or write well and some are creative visualizers. It is therefore necessary for us to collaborate and engage with one another in order to do a successful project in any area of life or work; more so in Rotary. This engagement can be both face-to-face and online.

Here are some points whereby we can Change Lives and Light up Rotary:1. Engage public – invite interested like-minded people – Rotarians

and others - to our weekly meetings. There need to be brainstorming sessions rather than monologues from the speaker. Involve the public. Provide publicity to these discussions. Some of the invitees may even become members!

Thank YouThank You IDA Mysore bags National AwardIndian Dental Association Mysore has bagged two awards – Dr. C.S.Raman runners-up trophy for Scientific Activity and Dr. S.T.Rai runners-up trophy

thfor Rural Activity for 2013-14, at the recently concluded 67 Indian Dental Association National Conference at Hyderabad. Kudos to Rtn. Dr. K.P.Mahesh and his team. Surely marriage has brought him luck!

Rotary InformationRotary Information

RI President's April MessageLike attending a Rotary club meeting, reading Rotary magazines is an essential part of the shared experience of being a Rotarian. When you pick up a Rotary

publication, whether it's Rotary Down Under in Australia and New Zealand, or The Rotary-No-Tomo in Japan, you'll find that every single one does just what it's meant to do: It informs, and it inspires. It keeps you up to date with Rotary news, brings you new ideas for your Rotary service, and tells stories that are relevant and meaningful to you. To me, these publications around the world are a tangible representation of Rotary's greatest strength: that each club is a local, community-based entity, engaged in a truly global network. This organization is incredibly large and diverse, and as much as we all have in common in Rotary, we are not a place where one size fits all. Our expectations of a magazine, both culturally and linguistically, are naturally going to be different. With our regional publications, Rotarians in Bulgaria can find out what's going on in Rotary in Bulgaria, and what's going on elsewhere in the Rotary world, along with the latest news from Evanston. Because each one of our Rotary publications belongs to the family of Rotary magazines – each one is, like every Rotary club, both fully local and fully part of our international identity. One of the greatest privileges of being RI president is the ability to speak directly, every month, to every one of our 1.2 million Rotarians. It's awe-inspiring to me, as I write this, to think of all of you, sitting down in your living rooms or at the breakfast table or maybe on the train to work, reading these words, and then turning the page to f ind out what 's new in Rotar y. And overwhelmingly, that is exactly what each of you does. Not just because your Rotary magazine turns up in the mailbox, or because you feel you have to – but because Rotary magazines are good magazines. I hope that when you pick up your publication – whichever one you're reading right now – you get the same feeling of pride, and ambition, that I do. Rotary magazines remind us that as Rotarians, we are all part of something larger than ourselves. They show us just how much we can achieve through Rotary. Through them, we see what our Foundation dollars do, we see what our fellow Rotarians are doing, and we are inspired to Engage Rotary, Change Lives even more.

Ron Burton, President, Rotary International

President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee addresses the Rotary Polio Free Conclave 2014

A P R I LMAGAZINE MONTH

Have you explored the rich world of Rotary Media information? April is magazine month and may be just the time to find on the RI web site links to "The Rotarian", "Rotary World" and details of the 27 regional magazines published for Rotarians all around the world.

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The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee addressed the Polio Free Conclave 2014 organised by the Rotary International. He also presented mementos of appreciation and recognition to the former Health Minister Dr. A. Ramadoss and Sh Ghulam Nabi Azad, Union Health Minister for Health and FamilyWelfare.

Unprecedented programme to eradicate the polio virus from the country was taken up by the central and state governments supported by several national and international agencies such as Rotary International, UNICEF, WHO, CDC and Melinda and Gates Foundation, he said. Present at the occasion were Shri Lov Verma, Health Secretary, Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Mr. Gary Huang, Rotary International

President Elect, Mr. D. K. Lee, Chairman, Rotary Foundation, Sh Rajendra Saboo, Conclave Chairman, Sh P T Prabhakar, Rotary International Director and Sh Kalyan Banerjee, Conclave co-chairman.

A Hundred Years AgoThe issue of the Rotarian exactly a hundred years ago shows a sketch of exchange of ideas at a round-table. Another pic shows a street car that Rotary of Columbus Ohio owned.

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The Four-Way Test“Of the things we think, say or do:

1. Is it the ?

2. Is it to all concerned?

3. Will it build

and ?

4. Will it be to all concerned?”

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If you are looking for a career in technology, these are the defining ones. See where your interest lies, and choose carefully.

Youth:Not cared this body for wind and weather,When Youth and I lived in it together.

- ColeridgeYouth enter this world with very happy prejudices in their own favour.

- Samuel JohnsonWhat's to come is still unsure, In delay there lies no plenty;Come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.

- ShakespeareYoung men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

– Philip StanhopeWhen one is twenty, ideas of the outside world and the effect one can have on it take precedence over everything else.

Stendhal

Think out of the boxYou are driving along in your car on a wild, stormy night, it's raining heavily, when suddenly you pass by a bus stop, and you see three people waiting for a bus:

An old lady who looks as if she is about to die.An old friend who once saved your life.The perfect partner you have been dreaming about.

Which one would you choose to offer a ride to, knowing very well that there could only be one passenger in your car?

* You could pick up the old lady, because she is going to die, and thus you should save her first; or you could take the old friend because he once saved your life, and this would be the perfect chance to pay him back. *However, you may never be able to find your perfect mate again...Here's an out of the box answer.

“I would give the car keys to my Old friend and let him take the lady to the hospital. I would stay behind and wait for the bus with the partner of my dreams."

time to celebratetime to celebrate

Birthdays

Vasudeva Murthy R.Basu Rangaswamy

Rotary Anniversary

Prashanth M.P. 14 Mar 2013Ravishankar D. 14 Mar 2013Shivanand M. 14 Mar 2013Vinoda Patel 14 Mar 2013Suchendra B R Urs 15 Mar 2012Sunil Kumar A. 27 Mar 1997

th28 Marth30 Mar

Wedding Anniversary

Manjunath G. &Vijaya Kumari

Mar 30

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