Rotary D5000 Conference held at Turtle Bay May 17-19, 2013
Bill and Trudy attended the Rotary D5000 Conference held at Turtle Bay May 17-19, 2013. As Club President, Bill attended several special sessions, and received the 2012-2013 Club Awards on behalf of all of our Club members.
Bill got to meet the Rotary International Representative to D5000, PDG Pai-Chou TU, MD. The keynote speaker was Ramu Damodaran, Deputy Director for Partnership and Public Engagement at the United Nations. Ambassador Damodaran compared the history and work of Rotary since its founding in 1905 to that of the United Nations since 1945 and found that there are remarkable, thought-provoking similarities. We also loved the inspirational presentation by Shantell De Silva, from the Polynesian Voyaging Society, who has been a navigator on the Hokolea and now teaches voyaging. The Rotary Youth Exchange students made us appreciate how important our efforts are towards making Peace Through Service a reality around the world.
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Bill got to meet the Rotary International Representative to D5000, PDG Pai-Chou TU, MD
We thought the best speakers included Ramu Damodaran, Deputy Director for Partnership and Public Engagement at the United Nations. Ambassador Damodaran compared the history and work of Rotary since its founding in 1905 to that of the United Nations since 1945 and found that there are remarkable similarities.
We also loved the presentation by Shantell De Silva, from the Polynesian Voyaging Society.
The young Rotary Youth Exchange students were inspirational, too!
