Rotarian of the Week: Mohammad Rouf

Asbestos and lead abatement. Construction site safety. Field sampling. Environmental assessments. Industrial hygiene.

Who do you call? Mohammad Rouf.

Mohammad Rouf is president of Globeteck, a rapidly growing environmental company with offices in Hawaii and Guam, and contractors in Hawaii, Alaska, Korea and Japan.

In over-simplified terms, Globetech handles complicated environmental issues so your new development, construction site or business can continue working. Their expertise is both diverse and comprehensive, ranging from archeological surveys, soil sampling and environmental assessments to the identification, evaluation and elimination of hazardous materials and maintenance of healthy work environments. More importantly, Globetech helps companies adhere to the complex Federal and State regulations that governs these issues, thereby helping them avoid litigious situations and stay on track.

For the full environmental impact of all that Globetech can do, call Mohammad at 833-5787 or visit globeteckgroup.com.

LOCO FOR COCOA

This week, our dynamic programs co-chairs Mollie Sperry and Nancy Walden brought us Seneca Klassen, founder and managing partner of Kokoleka O’Ka Aina, LLC, a Hawaii partnership dedicated to creating the world’s first carbon-neutral “tree-to-chocolate bar” agra-tourism chocolate company. To learn more, email Seneca at seneca@kokachocolate.com or visit http://kokachocolate.wordpress.com.











Welcome to Guests
Asst. DG Liz Kane, returning guest and prospective member Kelly McCanlies; Bettie Bernie's guest Jack Ballentine, Kim's father Al Green, Mahalo to greeters Charlie DuBoyce and Joe Rice.







Merrymaker’s Boutique
This weekend marks Margit’s 28th annual Christmas craft fair boutique on Friday and Saturday featuring handcrafted gifts, jams, jellies and cranberry chutney. $100 will benefit the Rotary International Foundation. For details, email watts@hawaii.edu.

Aloha Dollars for JoJakarta
We collected aloha dollars for earthquake donations for “bentos” for needy volcano victims in Jojakarta. Each meal costs about 60¢.

Annual Fundraiser Means Fun


PP Bill Gaeth announced that in light of the economy, Business Gameplan will be replaced by a dining fundraiser. Stay tuned for delicious details.

Do it Anyway


Robert Wu presented this week’s inspiration, featuring the Ten Paradoxical Commandments by (former Sunrise member) Dr. Kent M. Keith, which are excellent words to live by:

1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

3. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

4. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

6. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

7. People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

8. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

9. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

10. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.

Rotarian of the Week: Joe Ferraro

In 1988, Joe Ferraro, FAIA, LEED AP, and Gerald Choi founded Ferraro Choi and Associates, Ltd., an environmentally-oriented architectural and interior design firm operating in Honolulu and New York. Joe and Gerald were Hawaii’s first LEED accredited professional architects and have been recognized for numerous sustainable designs. Among their most notable accomplishments are designs for the National Science Foundation’s Crary Science and Technology Laboratory at McMurdo Station in Antartica and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, a $200,000,000 research facility at the bottom of the earth.

Ferraro Choi is currently working on the new Pacific Regional Center for NOAA at Ford Island and the UH Information Technology Center, both LEED registered projects.

Joe is a Fellow of the Honolulu Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and Hawaii State Council and serves as president of the Hawaii Architectural Foundation. He is also a graduate of Pratt Institute and the UH School of Architecture, and remains active as a member of the UH School of Architecture Advisory Committee, an adjunct professor for the School’s doctoral degree Practicum program and advisor to UH’s Sea Grant College Program.

I SAY "BRITANNIA," YOU SAY "BERETANIA"

How did Beretania Street get its name? What happened to the ponds in Kapiolani Park? Where is the best petroglyph site on Oahu? Today’s guest speaker, Professor Willis H A Moore, gave us a taste of Honolulu’s fascinating history. He is a teacher at Chaminade University, former education coordinator at Bishop Museum, world traveler, author, lecturer with the Hawai’i Geographic Society and the National Audubon Society, founding member of the Sierra Club Hawaii Chapter, and walking encyclopedia. If you enjoyed his presentation, join him for a Hawaii Geographic Society Walking Trek through Honolulu (just $15 per person with a 2-person minimum) at hawaiigeographhicsociety@gmail.com or 808-538-3952.

New Friends



Today we were also glad to welcome three guests: potential member Kelly McCanlies, guest of President-Elect Amin Leiman; Al Green, father of Kim Green; and visiting Rotarian Mark Malculinski from the Rotary Club of Toledo, Ohio, the 13th largest Rotary Club in the world. Mahalo to Margit for inspiring us to live in the present and remember that “today matters.”


Familiar Faces

Rotarian of the Week: Michael Doss

Michael J. Doss, M.S., MBA, is the YMCA of Honolulu’s Senior Vice President in charge of Membership & Healthy Lifestyles, reporting to the President and CEO Larry Bush. As part of the Association’s executive team, Michael has oversight responsibility for 7 the organization’s 10 branches. Prior to joining the YMCA of Honolulu, Doss, a 23 year YMCA veteran, served as District Vice President of the YMCA of Greater St. Louis, Executive Director of the YMCA of Hutchinson, KS, and Associate Executive Director of the YMCA of Greater Green Bay, WI.

You can reach Mike at mdoss@ymcahonolulu.org. To check out all of the great activities, swimming pool, work-out facilities and programs at the Honolulu YMCA, visit

RISE AND SHINE

Rotary gave thanks, books and dinner

Mahalo to Jan Taketa for organizing "Rotary Gives Thanks" reading night at Palama Settlement. 11 Rotarians gathered to provide dinner and support to children and parents. Jan even printed out Micronesian stories for the little ones. Thank you all for making a difference.

Monday, Monday!


Sunrisers greeted the morning with guest Fay Kauanoe from Prudential Financial and inspiration by Wendy Goodenow. Charlie Weemz from Honolulu Sunset brought UH Roteract president Tracy Sy who sold dangerously delicious home-made brownies for D5000’s Egypt Rotoplast project in 2011.

Why Indonesia? Ask guest speaker Kelli Swazey

Did you know that Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world? With 12.9% of the world’s Muslims, Indonesia is a multi-cultural and multi-religious country made of 17,5000 islands and over 500 dialects. To learn more, email Kelli at swazey@hawaii.edu, or just ask our President-Elect Amin Leiman.

Go Solar with Kim Green

In today’s vocational talk, Kim Green of RevoluSun and Distributed Energy Partners informed us that the combined state and federal tax credits on photovoltaic systems equal about 65%, making this a smart time to go solar. Non-profits and retirees can also benefit from PPAs (Power Purchase Agreements). For more, email Kim at kim@dephawaii.com.

Save the dates.
Mae Nakamoto announced 4 “read alouds” at Mayor Wright Housing and Kalihi Park Terrace on Febuary 4 and 11, and March 1 and April 8 from 3-5 pm. More at mei@nakamotolaw.com No excuses, she said.

Rotarian of the Week: Paul Sibley

Honolulu Sunrise President Paul Sibley grew up in southern Louisiana where he graduated with a B.S. in Finance from Louisiana State University then a M.B.A from the University of San Francisco with dual concentrations in International Business Management and Finance. Paul has worked for HMSA since 2002 leveraging his previous finance and consulting skills developed over the past 17 years in investment banking, IT consulting, real estate development and commercial lending. At HMSA, Paul is involved in most aspects of the company from payment reform models to community collaborative grant writing, and more.

Outside of HMSA, Paul is a board member of the Lyon Arboretum Association, active with the American Cancer Society and involved with endurance events while spending all available time with his lovely wife of 11 years and their two young boys.

Tourism, Tech and Giving Thanks

At Honolulu Sunrise, we started the week with some of our favorite people: Liz Kane, D5000 Assistant Governor, Central Oahu Clubs; Pete’s wife, Judy Van Zile; former member, Pastor Dan, who exchanged banners from Tiburon-Belvedere, California with President Paul Sibley and Russell Akamine who lead the 4-Way Test.



Vocational Talk: Jay Jurick

We all knew Jay Jurick’s business TurnOn Tech did “something” with computers… as it turns out, computers are just a means to an end. Jay’s goal is simplification. He helps companies create a single-solution for all their needs, including accounting, contacts, job tracking, inventory, delivery, etc. Or in Jay’s words, “One system to run a business—a single data set.” And while Jay’s been pushing this smart way of working long before cloud (Internet-based) computing became popular, the rest of the world is finally catching up. As for the photo, Jay started his presentation by talking about “questionable” influences in his young life… we think he turned out ok.

“Never let a good crisis go to waste.”

Monday’s speaker, Frank Haas, is the Dean for Hospitality, Business, and Legal Education at Kapi‘olani Community College. He has extensive experience in marketing and tourism—experience that’s coming in handy in these challenging years.

In Frank’s talk titled “Hawaii tourism at a crossroads,” he explains that Hawaii lost 1 million in visitors in the last 2 years, but lost $2.7 billion in visitor spending. Trends in the economy have resulted in switching from “class to mass.” What does he hope for Hawaii’s future? Among many suggestions, Haas advocates increased measurement and accountability, defining Hawaii’s brand as the destination for niche markets and courting high-end tourists who can create sustainable markets, for example, the elite Chinese. To find out more, contact Frank at fhaas@hawaii.edu.

Reminder for Today: Rotary Gives Thanks
5pm at Palama Settlement. Thanks Jan for spearheading this great project!

Double Your Money for Polio
Make a $100 or larger contribution to Polio Plus this week at rotary.org and your contribution will be doubled for your Paul Harris. Also, the End Polio Now Sunrise Exercise will be held on Saturday 23 at 900 Fort Street Mall (Pioneer Plaza).

Rotarian of the Week: Wendy Goodenow

Want a carefree vacation or business trip? Call Wendy.


Wendy Goodenow was born and raised in Aina Haina. She graduated from Punahou School then went to Linfield College for a year. Fast forward to 2010 and Wendy has been in the service business for 39 years: Chuck’s Steak House from 1972-80 and the travel agency business since 1980, during which time she worked for her mother for 10 years, with her mother for 4 years and now her mother, age 88, works for her. Wendy lives her travel through the trips she plans for her clients and has been fortunate to go to many places on Earth because of her work. She owns HNL Travel Associates and together with her agents, they have over 300 years of travel experience.

For vacation tours, cruises or business travel, contact Wendy at 591-2011, wendy@hnltravel.com, or visit hnltravel.com.

Rotary changes lives because of you.

Rotary Foundation: Your best investment

The next time you’re asked to make a Rotary Foundation donation, think about 126 children who will remember Rotary and Rotoplast for the rest of their lives. This year, a Rotoplast medical team, including 10 members from Hawaii, performed 236 surgical procedures on 126 children with cleft palates in Sohag, Egypt.

This project was the brain child of Hawaii Past District Governor Ayman El Dakhakhni who participated by working 12 - 14 hrs a day. Through his vision and leadership, District 5000 stepped up to the plate and donated a total of $20,120, which was matched by Dedicated District Funds for a total project of $45,700.

The value of the surgeries and consultations: $614,485.



Walk To End Polio.

Join us at the "Exercise at Sunrise" event on October 23 to help end polio. The walk takes place at Fort Street Mall at 9:30 a.m. T-shirts for this event are $20.10 for adults, and $15.10 for children's sizes. Join the walk and make a difference.

Rotarian of the Week: Robert Wu

Mahalo to Robert Wu for starting off our new weekly vocational service feature.




Educated in China and Hawaii, Robert Wu brings to the Club extensive cross-cultural, professional and community service backgrounds. He is a registered representative servicing various carriers in life insurance, long term care insurance, annuities, retirement programs like 401(k)’s, IRAs, and others. His professional motto has been: Be of service to clients with high standards of integrity, ethics and professionalism, and to maintain clients for life. He works at John Hancock Financial Network/Hawaii Financial Partners (Registered Representative/Securities and Investment Advisory Services offered through Signator Investors, Inc., Member FINRA, SIPC, a Registered Investment Advisor.) 1601 Kapiolani, Suite 1200 Honolulu HI, 96814 808-979-3300, 146-20100617-54563.

You can reach Robert at 808-979-3300 or robertzwu@gmail.com.

Photo caption: Alan, Andrew, Xiaodu Hu and Robert Wu at son Alan's graduation from Carnegie Melon.

MEMBERS WHO PLAY TOGETHER, STAY TOGETHER

Sunday, Sunday

What a tough afternoon. Turquoise water. White sand. Not a cloud in the sky. Plus cold beer, glasses of wine, two tables of delicious appetizers and great conversation—all with the unselfish purpose of recruiting new Rotary members. Now that’s dedication! Mahalo Kim, Toni, Cole and Peri Green.

“I see my inspiration in every one of you.”

Joe Ferraro opened today’s meeting with an inspiration about the power of Rotary friendship.

Vocational Talk: Jim Dideon

Former member, Jim Dideon, is an experienced developer of single family homes and commercial space from raw land to the finished product. He has a contractor license. If you have leads, please contact Jim at jddidion@verizon.net.

The Cost of Fame
Joe Ferraro, Wendy Goodenow, Jerry Hofwolt and Joe Rice were recognized by PBN’s Book of Lists and Sunrise’s “book of donations.” Dave Mozdren also led a round of Happy Birthday for July through October birthdays.

Pennies for Polio
Sunrisers used their engineering skills to fold and decorate boxes for loose change. Rotary’s goal: raise $200 million to secure a $355 matching grant from the Bill and Linda Gates Foundation.

WE’VE GOT TEAM SPIRIT

“The tougher it gets, the better we play.”
Former UH Rainbow Warrior Head Coach Dick Tomey shared lessons about motivation, bringing people together and taking responsibility to become stronger together. “If we’re all part of the problem, then we’re all part of the solution.” Thanks Mollie and Nancy. Contact Dick at dhtomey@aol.com

At a Glance
PP Dave Mozdren shared the inspiration of fatherhood. October is Vocational Month and we’ll be featuring our members. Welcome to Liz Kane, District 5000 Assistant Governor, Central Oahu clubs, who joined us today. Pete Van Zyle invited Sunrisers to support the Sex Abuse Treatment Center at their fundraiser luncheon October 19. Email Pete at pzile@pixi.com.


Sunrise Beach Party
This SUNDAY 3-5. Invite new members. Bring beach attire, drinks and a dish to share. 562E N. Kalaheo

Rotary Gives Thanks
We still need volunteers for Oct 20, 5-8pm. Contact Jan Taketa at janicehtaketa@mac.com

Rotary Opens Eyes
Five Rotary Clubs are donating $500 per club to provide cataract surgeries for 10 needy people in Surabaya–Selatan, Indonesia, the hometown of President-Elect Amin Leiman. In addition to Honolulu Sunrise, participating Rotary Clubs are East Honolulu, Essendon (Australia), Wanganui (New Zealand) and the host club of Surabaya–Selatan, Indonesia.

eGlobal Family Brightens Smiles
Sunrisers Rob Hail and Masa Edamura visited Future Light Orphanage in Cambodia to celebrate high school and college graduations. They took older kids to the beach and mountains, while younger kids (including Rob) went to the water park. eGlobal Family was started by Rob Hail and is now expanding to Indonesia and the Philippines. eglobalfamily.org.

Can foreign students help balance our state's budget?

How much do foreign students bring into Hawaii’s economy? According to guest speaker Dr. Joel Weaver, Director of the Hawaii English Language Program-HELP at the University of Hawaii, their net contribution to our local economy nets at more than $160 million in tuition, fees, room and board. Now that’s something to think about.

(Joel assisted Nancy Walden in coordinating FLO student Phearun Chhorn’s visa and enrollment into UH. Nancy described Phearun’s excitement at attending UH, “Everyday I have homework! I’m learning!”)

Sunrise Beach Social, October 3
Bring friends and family to our new member social at Kim Green’s home on Kailua Beach. Bring beach attire, drinks and a dish to share. October 3, 3-5pm, 562E North Kalaheo. Email kim@dephawaii.com to rsvp.

Rotary Gives Thanks, October 20
Mark your calendars for our Palama Settlement Reading Project
on October 20th. Volunteer with janicehtaketa@mac.com and dawns@cbpacific.com

The Price of Fame

Dave Erdman, President of PacRim Marketing Group, Inc. and PRTech, LLC was featured by PBN on the front page, inside front page and an inside spread in PBN. Dave has graciously agreed to donate $300 for his “priceless” publicity.

Life is like a bowl of pasta

This week’s meeting opened with an inspiring story by PP Jerry Hofwalt about his trip to Italy and a magnificent pasta sauce which was made perfect by many loving hands. He likened it to the way friends and family touch our lives, each adding their special “seasonings” that make it richer.

Banner Exchange

President Paul Sibley welcomed visiting Rotarians, Cesar Cabrera and Nancy Sumrall from Five Points Rotary Club in El Monte, California.

District Conference Report

PP Joe Ferraro reported on the inspiring speakers, including Rotary International President's Representative Brad Howard, and events at the Rotary District Conference held on Kauai.

October 20 - Palama Settlement Community Service Project
Following last year’s successful reading/dinner project, we’ll be back at Palama Settlement with books for children to read to their parents. The reading event will be from 5:30 -–7:30, with helping hands needed from 5–8pm for set up, reading and clean up.

Mahalo to Kau Kau Cuisine Author, Arnold Hiura

Did you know Salon Pilot crackers are what sailors called hardtack, and that SPAM was introduced to Hawaii (and other countries) by the US Military? For the history behind our local kau kau, pick up a copy of Arnold’s book, or email him at ano@hawaii.rr.com.

Welcome to the Cajun kid
Mom Courtney and Grandma Teresa came to last week’s meeting bringing a very sleepy and cute Tristan Sibley.