Foundation GSE Programme

As we say “Bon Voyage” to our team bound for
D 3150 India on January 2nd 2006 .......

.... we begin the preparation of our next team due to go to
District 7550 West Virginia USA from May 3rd to June 3rd 2006.
The selection of the team was completed on the 3rd December
and comprises:

Team Leader : Rotarian Lilian Janet Hammond

Janet, is a Founder Member of the Rotary Club of Derby Daybreak. She has served as Club Secretary and Treasurer and is currently Chairman of the Club International Committee and District Conference 2006 Registrar.

She is a Paul Harris Fellow.

Madeline Joy Salter

Maddy, is a Human Resources Administrative
Assistant at the YMCA, Derby.

She is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Derby South
 

Julie Ann Henson

Julie, is the Senior Sister in charge of the Minor Injuries Unit at Ilkeston Hospital.

She is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Amber Valley
 

Louise Helen Dalton

Louise, is a Senior Caseworker Auditor for the Legal Services Commission in Nottingham.

She is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Sherwood Sunrisers
 

Graham Charles Spencer

Graham, is a Policy Officer in Performance Management with Derbyshire County Council.

He is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Matlock.
 

We all wish them joy fun and fellowship in their preparation and a most successful and rewarding trip in May.

Compliments of the season to all.
 

Donald Mackenzie
D-1220 GSE Officer

Change as from October 26th to our District Team to Visit D-3150 India.

On Sunday October 23rd I posted a web update with the sad news that Rami Seth had withdrawn from the Team Leader Post on health grounds but that Terry Leivers was taking over. The team was now once again “all set and ready to go!”

Wrong again!! On Tuesday October 25th I received a letter from Becky Brown informing me that she had to withdraw from the team “for personal reasons”. I am truly sorry for Becky, but her reasons are perfectly valid and understandable. I am sure we would all wish her well in the future.

Fortunately one of the candidates, Hannah, for the exchange with West Virginia was also interested in the exchange with India and has agreed to join that team. Her details are below, replacing those of Becky.

I sincerely hope this is it!!

Don.
Donald Mackenzie-GSE Officer
26th October 2005.

Change as from Friday October 21st to our District Team to Visit D-3150 India.

I am sure that the whole of the district will join me in extending to Rami, Jenny and all their family our prayers and best wishes for strength in the days to come and a successful outcome to the treatment.

Rami was so looking forward to leading this trip and had already done much work in readiness for it. He is adamant, however, that although he will not be with the team in body he will be in spirit and that he will continue to help them in their preparation.

We are fortunate that the vice-chairman of the GSE Committee, Terry Leivers, who is to become GSE Officer from 2006-7, has been able to reorganise his personal commitments at short notice and take over the Leader’s role. Terry had been closely involved with the preparation of the programme for the incoming team and knows them well. He was also on the selection panel for our team and so knows their background. He is thus “well up to flying speed!”
 

Terry's details are below - replacing Rami.

Fond Farewell

Everyone, hosts and visitors alike, agreed that it had been a most memorable month in which we all experienced a new culture, learned a lot about each other’s country and enjoyed exciting and rewarding moments.
 

Before he left, Madhav wrote an article for the Derby Evening Telegraph, reproduced here with permission - it is a marvellous plug for GSE.

We wish them “bon voyage”, a safe journey home and every happiness and success in the future. We will meet again!

Don.
Donald Mackenzie-GSE Officer
23rd October 2005.

District 1220 Group Study Exchange Team
to visit District 3150 Andhra Pradesh, India
from January 3rd to February 1st 2006
 

Team Leader: Rotarian Terence Eric Leivers.

Terry, is a retired bank manager who now works part time as Examinations Officer at a local secondary School.

He is a member of the District Foundation Committee where he has been responsible for Ambassadorial scholars since 2003. He is currently vice chairman of the Group Study Exchange Committee and will become Group Study Exchange Officer in 2006-7.

He is currently Senior Vice-President of the Rotary Club of Sherwood Sunrisers

Terry replaces Rami in the original team.

Dawn-Marie Walker.

Dawn, Bsc. (Psychology), Msc. PhD is currently a Research Co-ordinator at the University of Nottingham where she promotes Research in the National Health Service, lectures, supervises research students and is a Hall Tutor.

She is also a fluent speaker of British Sign Language for the deaf.

Dawn is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Beeston
 

Hannah Lucy Mulcaster

Hannah, BSc.(Hons) in Optometry, McOptom, is currently employed as an optometrist with Pinders Opticians, Mansfield.

Her major interest is in sport, particularly Athletics. She was a keen member of the Pony Club, being placed 2nd in the National Tetrathlon Championships in 2002, and is currently Team manager of the Northern England Tetrathlon Team.

She is now a member of the Mansfield Triathlon Club and in 2004 represented Nottinghamshire at the County Triathlon Championships.

Hannah is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Mansfield.

Hannah replaces Becky in the original team.

Andrew Hill

Andy, joined the National Coal Board in 1980 as an underground worker and Supervisor. In 1993 he began a new career in Insurance where he obtained “A Financial Planning Diploma” and developed an interest in Customer Services. In 2002 he obtained a post at the West Nottinghamshire College where he now lectures in Customer Services, Call Centre Techniques and Retail services.

Andy is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Mansfield
 

Simon Mark Keeling

Simon, first spent 16 years in the Family Catering Business. Interested in children, he worked voluntarily for six months at the Royal School for the Deaf, supporting himself by working in a nightclub. In 2002 he obtained a post at the Bladon House Residential School working with children with special educational needs. In 2003 he moved to the YMCA where he is currently Childcare Development and Special Educational Needs co-ordinator.

Simon is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Derby Daybreak
 

Donald Mackenzie
D-1220 GSE Officer

The Team from District 3150 Andhra Pradesh India will be with us from
Saturday 24th September until Saturday 22nd October

The Team comprises:

Team Leader
Rotarian Rajeev Puri

“Rajeev” B.Com., M.B.A. F.C.A is an accountant by training, now turned “technocrat”. He is currently Vice-President of The Sukhit Starch and Chemical Ltd.
He joined Rotary in 1996 and is a Paul Harris Fellow.

Josephine Aparna Gorrepati

“Aparna” has a BA in History and Political Science.
She began her career as a teacher of English and Social Studies and then moved to General Electric as a trainer in call handling, oral and written communication, etiquette and assertiveness. She is now a freelance trainer

Gnana Prasuna Muktevi

“ Prasuna” has an M.A, M.Phil. and a Ph. D in various aspects of English, her special subject being D.H.Lawrence.
She is now Principal of the Sharada Vidyalala College which specialises in educating underprivileged girls from kindergarten to Post graduate studies mainly in vocational and commercial subjects.

Srinivasa Shivaram Vinjamuri

“Shiv” has an M.A. in Psychology and a Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management. After some time in sales and marketing, he joined the Birla Sunlife Insurance Company Ltd as a trainer in Company Products and in Personality Development Programmes.

Venkata Sethu Madhav Kara

“Madhav” has a Master’s degree in Mass Communication and Journalism. From college he joined “The Hindu”, India’s largest single edition multiple publication English daily. After a number of very successful years reporting on a wide variety of social, cultural and political issues, this being his mainstay, he is now Deputy City Editor handling a team of a dozen reporters.

Group Study Exchange

Good News and Double Opportunities

The Rotary Foundation has announced the return to exchanges being completed in One Rotary Year.

Exchanges had always been concluded in one Rotary Year up to and including 2002-3, the year we received a team from Brazil in September 2002 and sent our team back to Brazil in April 2003. Straightforward and easy to understand and organise!

But then it was announced that because of the shortage of funds, from 2003-4 onwards, exchanges funded by the “World Fund” - the central funding of GSE by Rotary Foundation which entitles every district to an exchange irrespective of their contributions - would be every other year, with a team visiting another District one Rotary Year and the return taking place the next. Still with me?

So in September 2003, the Rotary year 2003-4, we received a team from District 6800 Mississippi-Tennessee, USA, comprising leader PDG George Rosentreter , Cynthia Stanley, Debbie Stevens, Wayne LeeLoy and Robert Skelton. Remember them?

Our team, comprising leader Rtn. David Hagues, Charlotte Kerry, Helen Ryder, Mathew Mitchell and Stephen Wilson is thus scheduled to visit District 6800 in the Rotary Year 2004-5 and in fact is due to depart on Saturday April 9th and return on Sunday May 8th this year. We wish them bon voyage and an exciting and rewarding trip.

We were thus not entitled to a world funded exchange for 2004-6, but District 7550 West Virginia was! As we were, however, entitled to “buy” our part through our DDF using the credit from the cancelled trip to Israel, District Governor Elect John Kirkland agreed an exchange with D-7550 for 2004-6.

Thus in September 2004 we received a team from West Virginia comprising leader Rtn. Ted Williams, Michael Christie, Amber Hoback, Julie Johnson and Leah Spencer.

We were not expecting an exchange in 2005-6 until the announcement of the return to annual exchanges.

In consequence, an exchange with District 3150 Andhra Pradesh, India has been agreed for 2005-6, with their team visiting us from Saturday 24th September until Saturday 22nd October.

All clubs have been contacted to ascertain their interest in taking part in the visit here. Our team will return to India from January 3rd to February 1st 2006, before we complete the exchange with D 7550.

And so the double opportunity to be a team leader or a team member as we recruit the teams for India and West Virginia at the same time. Applicants will be asked to indicate whether they wish to be considered for one team or the other or for both.

Team Leader applications should be in to me by July 8th latest!

Interviews will be held on Saturday and/or Sunday July 30th/31st.

Team member applications should be in to me by September 1st latest!

Interviews will be held on Saturday and Sunday September 17th/ 18th.

Application forms for both leaders and members may be obtained from me or downloaded from the Rotary Website www.rotary.org

Interested in being a team leader? Then why not apply?

In any event, I am sure your club knows of potential team members, who must be between the ages of 25 and 40. Contact them now! Further information is available from me.

Donald Mackenzie District GSE Officer.