Inspired by the likes of Washington, Lenin, Ben Gurion, Cecil Rhodes, and the other great founders of modern nations, CP Sonie and her first corps of officers and members lost no time establishing the foundations of the club. RCMBA’s infancy was thus spent in the cradle of dental/medical missions, parties, Interact and Rotaract Club formations, parties, GSE and Rotex hostings, parties, gift-givings at Brgy. Olympia and the signing of a match club agreement with RC Taipei Hwa Lee, parties, livelihood training and job placement projects, parties, fellowship activities (which bore a striking resemblance to parties), and parties.

As they were “founding’ the club, those original club members were also “finding out” several other things: that the 4 way test was not a diagnostic test procedure for gallstones, that the four avenues of service were not access roads to the South Superhighway, that “charging” did not always precede criminal prosecution, that Paul Harris did not design golf courses, and that “Discon” was not an antihistamine capsule. Slowly and inexorably the charter members were being “rotarized”.