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The Week That Was
By: Dir. Tony Newnham
Nov. 15, 2006

We had a good turn out this week; maybe it was the subject of our guest speaker. Talking politics is always a crowd puller.

As is usual, in our August club, the topic on my table was relating to age and eyesight or rather lack of it, led by our eye guru Ed Sison. I have never seen PP Bert Lingad look coy except when Ed asked how old he was!

The reverie was broken with the arrival of Sal and the subject quickly changed to politics; US politics. Sal confirmed what we had always believed, that he was slightly to the right of Attila the Hun when he stated his solution for Iraq.” Either arm all groups and let them wipe each other out or drop a bomb on the country.”

The two Mikes arrived, Messer’s Clancy and Wotton, with our only guest this week Dr David Freeman. Another table had to be found to accommodate them. It was good to see them both after quite some time.

Chito reminded us that the Inner wheel Golf Tournament was being held the following day at Ayala Greenfields.

President Porong said that he was trying to arrange a party next week to celebrate his 60th and that on December 6th Sal would be introducing us to Illy coffee. What is Illy coffee, you have to be there on the 6th to find out. Eric Natividad was Rotarian of the week; he admitted a golf handicap of 18 and chose Ateneo by default!!

Our speaker was introduced by Daniel, who was responsible for Louis Perron being in the Philippines. He had been best man at Daniel’s wedding. Louis has lived here for two years and started his talk with the obvious question, why hire a Swiss political consultant in the Philippines? The main reasons he gave, new ideas and an outside-unbiased view.

He then treated us to some extremely interesting insights into the political scene here and how gradually the electorate is moving to issue based campaigns. How important or not a ‘name’ was, how early surveys were almost always wrong.

During question time PP Tony P asked how much Louis charged for his services, and more specifically how much he would charge PP Bert if he ran for Governor. PP Bert looked coy again!

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.