District 5000 Club of the Year!

Thanks to all of you, we ran away with Large Club of the Year this morning at the District awards luncheon. That included first place in 6 categories: Membership Development, Membershp Net Increase, Club Service, Youth Service, Vocational Service, and Community Service. We also were 1st Runner up in International Service, Received the Rotary Foundation EREY award, the District Governor's Citation, and the RI Presidential Citation.  And, we received Rotary International's Significant Achievement Award for our Royal Scholar program! 

Congratulations to you all. You are the very best, and it was an honor to serve as your president.

PP Carolyn H 

2010 Asia-Pacific Clean Energy Summit and Expo (APCESE)

We wanted to inform you of the upcoming 2010 Asia-Pacific Clean Energy Summit and Expo (APCESE) from August 30-Sept. 2, at the Hawaii Convention Center. We anticipate over 1,000 energy industry, business, government, military, non-profit, and education leaders will attend APCESE. Phone: 587-9006

First Day as President

It's my first and very humble day as our club's president. So with this, just a friendly reminder that on July 10th at the Ala Moana Hotel is our District's New Governor Installation and Club Recognition. Registration begins at 9am and the actual installation is closer to 1:30pm. Details can be found here: http://district5000.clubwizard.com/IMUpload/Salute.pdf

Aloha and Have a Wonderful Day!

Mahalo President Carolyn

Honolulu Sunrise celebrated the close of Carolyn Hiatt’s term as president with a sounding rendition of “Teacher’s Pet” by Doris Day. (Carolyn is a 5^th grade technology teacher at Le Jardin Academy.)

Inspiration was provided by Rev. Kyle Lovette. President-Elect Paul Sibley announced the Relay for Life coming up in July. Mei Nakamoto congratulated our second Rotary Youth Scholarship finalist, Haley Esaki, also from Mid-Pacific Institute. Haley will be attending Chapman University in Los Angeles. Pearl Harbor Rotarian Ken Brown brought President Carolyn a USC Trojans baseball cap in a friendly rivalry. Congratulations to Amin Leiman for receiving his Paul Harris Award. Go Amin!

The impact of this Rotary year was evident when President Carolyn thanked her board and supporters, which numbered over a third of the club. In return, club members took turns giving President Carolyn an apple for the teacher along with their thanks. Assistant DG Del Green and former members Joey Char and Linda Dias joined us to honor President Carolyn.

President Carolyn’s most memorable moment? Seeing Joe Rice, President of Mid-Pacific Institute, wearing a Le Jardin nametag.

To see all the photos, click here

President Elect Test Post

Just testing out the new blog pushing ability to our wonderful website. Carolyn is almost a past president, and I am a couple days closer to becoming president of what is most likely the greatest group of people I've ever met.

A Holiday Sunrise Vocational Breakfast

Hats off to Amin Leiman for orchestrating a holiday Sunrise vocational breakfast this morning at Zippys on Vineyard Boulevard/Maunakea Street. Eleven members attended including President Elect Paul Sibley, Past President Allen Kamemoto, Stan Jacobs, Amin, Melissa Reed, Charles DuBoyce, Bill Anderson, Kim Green , Kristine Lim , Robert Wu and myself. We shared fellowship time over coffee, French toast, eggs, and Allen’s toasted corn bread then each gave a three minute talk on our vocation. It was surprising to find that 40%of the group were financial planners! We should have voted on who of the four gave the best sales pitch.

Alan pointed out that get-togethers like this one bring together not just business people but business people who share the ideals of the Four Way Test. That in the end produces the best business relationships.

We agreed to meet again in the future under the auspices of President Paul’s Vocational Services Committee Chaired by Kim and myself. I invite anyone in the Club to join us.

Aloha

Past President Joe

Business Game Plan 2010

February 18, 2010 —Business Game Plan, a fundraising event of the Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunrise, features best selling author Noah Blumenthal, business executive David Heenan, and broadcast journalist Leslie Wilcox.

What's New at the Honolulu Sunrise?

Introducing the Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunrise.

Paul Sibley Runs to Benefit Hawaii Children's Cancer Foundation