Rotary Presidential Citations

Cagayan de Oro Rotary Club Awards Night 2007-2008 Photo Gallery

Marissa earned herself a Rotary Ann Presidential Citation at our last regular meeting of the Rotary year of the Rotary Club of Cagayan de Oro, “The Mother Club”, which celebrated its 60th anniversary last April. She earned the citation because of her participation in numerous Rotary Club Projects, given to her By Rotary Ann President Bern Gabaon.

Marissa was also elected to be Director of Public Relations for the Rotary Anns, for the upcoming Rotary Year 2008-2009 that begins July 1.

I tend to be a night owl, and since most projects begin around or just after dawn, when I am most likely to be in my deepest state of sleep, I rarely get to attend such projects.

However, I also was awarded a Presidential Citation by Rotary Club of Cagayan de Oro President Ed Palad, for bringing in a new member, Gus Rodano. Getting Gus to join Cagayan de Oro Rotary Mother Club was not difficult, because his wife was a Rotary Club scholar of the Mother Club itself. So, while I did not have to do a lot to earn the citation, it was well deserved for bringing in a Rotary Ann, one that the Club years before had respected enough to finance her education at Xavier University, and I am sure Gus will make almost as good a Rotarian as his lovely wife will be a good Rotary Ann.

Gus was appointed to be Chairman of the Rotary Club Website Committee.

Leo Aba provided the entertainment for the evening with a rendition of two songs. I was able to catch the second song, “She’s a Lady”. 5 MB Video of Leo Aba’s She’s a Lady.

Engineer Bienvenido “Jong” V. Batar, Jr., Assistant General Manager of the Cagayan de Oro Water District (COWD), had previously been elected as Rotary Club of Cagayan de Oro Director of International Service, but because the COWD has its board meetings on Thursdays, it would make it difficult for him to attend the Rotary board meetings, thus he resigned the position and I was elected to the position in his stead.

(Thanks, Jong, for getting my water problem fixed. We had a water problem and someone from COWD told us the problem was in the service line that runs from the water meter to the mainline and that we would have to replace it. That did not make sense to me. If the problem was on the COWD side of the meter, then COWD should replace the line. So, I called Jong and asked him about this, and he said it didn’t make sense either. A few hours later our water meter got cleaned and the problem disappeared. Thanks, Jong.)

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