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The Week That Was - October 18, 2006

Positive Endeavors of ECOP
By: PP Dieter Brueckner

We had an amazing joint meeting with the RC Makati Ayala and RC Makati Forbes Park. We heard several complements about the food.

We were pumped up in such a positive way, that Pres. Porong Herrera took the initiative and invited spontaneously Rtn. Eduardo Escaño (Director, Treasurer of RCMFP) to become our speaker for the meeting sometime in November. Additionally, but informally, the Presidents agreed to continue to hold such joint meetings once a Quarter.

On our table we commented about Rotary’ evolution for the last twenty years. Aside from having numerous more Rotary Clubs, the presence of women in Rotary may be the most significant development.

We experienced an original icebreaker practiced at RC Forbes Park. After the call to order, everyone is invited to move around and shake hands with all other attendees to the meeting. In such a way we introduced ourselves to everyone in a more personal way. Effective.

The speaker was cool. Very cool. Now we know a bit more about the influence specific fraternities at UP have on their members and we also learned about IPP Tony Pastelero’s new client, a very powerful politician in fact.

ECOP contributes strongly to nation building efforts, defending the point that labor and social issues should be under the exclusively private responsibility. Thanks to the efforts (and lobbying) of the ECOP, certain law initiatives were not approved. For example, to have an employee sitting on the corporate board or a compulsory profit sharing.

Some other positive endeavors of ECOP are directed towards updating the labor code, wage fixing should be based on productivity and competitiveness and not imposed by Government, foreign investors should be oriented on Philippine culture and it’s impact on the corporate world.

The guest speaker acceded graciously to answer questions from the Rotarian as long as the Rotarians would not question his answers (uuhh).

President's Corner

Your club is what you want to make of it

My dear fellow Rotarians with RC Makati North:

Let’s focus on the District’s Annual TRF Testimonial Dinner & Ball, one of the District’s premier Rotary event, that is fast approaching. Again —- the event date and time is Nov. 13, 2009, Friday at 6 pm and venue is at the Rigodon Ballroom of the Peninsula Manila. Tickets to the event: P1,000/guest to cover dinner, raffle, & entertainment.

The following information should give you an idea of the extent of RCMN’s participation, so far, in the coming days and up to the actual date of the event:

Member's Section

Work is My True Passion

KARL STUART McKINNON McLEAN

Born in Gibraltar , August 1, 1955 where my dad ran Shell refinery then moved with my family to Hamburg, then London , followed by Holland where I spent 8 years of my life as my father was on the main board of Shell in London.

I went to a Dutch school which was fabulous as the Dutch are the “freeist” nation in the world. As class prefect I sat on the school board with teachers and parents and my vote had the same power as the teachers.

I played a lot of soccer and earlier cricket.