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RY 2000 - 2001
Santi "Santi" Dapul |
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“Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. A good bottle of scotch has the very same effect on Rotarians.”
- Pres. Santi’s Leadership insight, misquoting from Lord Brougham’s 1828 speech before the House of Commons
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The mythology of President Santi’s year (in three easy steps):
First Myth: This year, the Club was balanced, diligent, industrious, and quiet achievement. It was a year of recruitment and enhanced membership variety, a year of mercy missions among the less fortunate, the neglected seniors and the impoverished young, a year of organizing rotaract and interact clubs, a year of full participation in district international service projects, a year of sustained environmental activism, a year of empowering those in the vocations and recognizing the outstanding amongst them.
Reality: The Club was balanced and mercurial, diligent and irreverent, industrious and adventurous and rebellious. It was a year of living dangerously, where the Club ventured into treacherous political and emotional waters, where it forayed into the fenced-off preserves of the high and mighty, where it reforged the bonds between members by first deconstructing old relations and old allegiance. And yes, there were moments of quiet especially when the members were busy conspiring...
Second Myth: The Flagship Project for the year was in Education. Akbay Aral, where the Club led several others and coordinated with government to systematically provide public school elementary graduates across Metro Manila with the intellectual grounding needed for them to pass the Science High School entrance tests and thereafter, to a subsidized Science education and a Science career.
Reality: The true Flagship Project of Pres. Santi was in Intoxication. The Johnny Walker Tasting Party, where the Club members were educated in appreciating fine single malts and blended whiskies from the Scottish moors and highlands. The members did manage to identify some dominant bouquets and the nutty-smoky-sea-freshness of some malts. But after the first five minutes, they gave up on being connoisseurs and settled to getting themselves well and beautifully tanked.
Third Myth: The members had a wonderful year.
Reality: The members had a wonderful year. |
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