Meet
our 2009-2010 District Governor Nominee Edgart Sy
A
husband, a father, a brother, a son, a businessman, a friend and a
Rotarian…that’s Edgar T. Sy, a newly elected Dis- trict Governor Nominee
for RY 2009-2010. To be in his feet is not easy. He carries myriads of big
re- sponsibilities with great leadership, dedication and humor. But who
really is Edgar? Is it just enough to say that he is known as “Diotay” to
his family and friends? Read on.
Edgar is 50 years old and is happily married to Naty Ong Sy. His classifi
cation is Sugar Trader. Their marriage is blessed with 3 children namely
John Oliver, a graduate of De La Salle Uni- versity with a degree of
Bachelor of Science in Finance; Master Matthew, studying at De Paul
University in Chicago, USA; and Natalia Joy who is now an Inter-
Disciplinary student at De La Salle University. Edgar is a PHF+5 and all
the members of his family including his parents except Natalia Joy are
Paul Harris Fellow.
“I have always been an Entrepreneur. I worked for my father for a year,
and after that, I have been running my own business and with the Lord’s
blessings I succeeded.” That’s a quote from Edgar who fi nished his
primary and secondary education at St. John’s Institute and got a degree
of Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering at San Carlos University
. He passed the 1980 Board Exams making him a licensed Electrical
Engineer.
In 1988, Rotarian Koch who was working at Negros Navi- gation (NN) invited
him to join Rotary Club of Bacolod. At fi rst, Edgar’s reason for joining
is merely because he ships most of his sugar to NN, but later on, he
started to fi nd meaning in his being a Rotarian. The Rotary’s motto
“Service Above Self” and it’s 4 Way Test, have been his guide both in his
business and family life.
During his fi rst years as a Rotarian, he was appointed as a Chairman of
their club’s fl agship project “ Search for Outstand- ing City Government
Employees”. From then on, he became very active in Rotary and started
putting up projects for the club. One of these is the “Ilimnan sang
Katawhan” that provides free potable water to school children and teachers
under the Rotary Community Corps. This project also gave extra income to
the school by selling excess purifi ed water to nearby commu- nities.. The
overwhelming success of this project inspired him to upgrade the
facilities for even better service. He also headed in a project where he
donated a two-classroom building with toilet, chairs, two computers,
mimeographing machine and a deep well at Rafael Alunan Elementary School
situated at Brgy. Alangilan. Furthermore, he also chaired in the Nutri-Bread
Project in the same school as a response to malnutrition prob- lem among
school children with the cooperation of the Nutri- tion Center of the
Philippines . The mentioned project aimed to help the school children have
proper nutrition by introducing a Pandesal (bread) fortifi ed with vitamin
A and iron. In addi- tion to these, Edgar also donated a
two-storey-four-classroom building with toilets and equipped with chairs
and computers to Don Felix Robles Elementary School, La Castellana Negros
Occidental.
Despite his hectic schedules, he managed to chair with his club’s District
Aff airs such as the Extemporaneous Speaking Contest, Rotary Youth
Exchange Centennial Fellowship and in the Annual Gift-Giving. He was also
the Assistant Governor of Zone 6, and a Coordinator of GSE team in Negros
and of the Water Resource Program.He hosted Rotex thrice and GSE team six
times.
Aside from his active membership in Rotary he is presently the director of
the Philippines National Red Cross where he had been providing funds for
the poor who needs blood trans- fusion and those who cannot aff ord to pay
the processing fee. He is also the 1st Vice- President of the Bacolod
Filipino-Chi- nese Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc., a member of St.
John’s Institute Board of Trustees, Past Vice-President of Saint John’s
Institute Alumni Association and Past President of the Federation of Sugar
Traders Philippines Inc..When asked what Rotary has done to his life, he
proudly said, “My involvement with Rotary has made me a better person.”
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Rotary Club of
Pagadian Leads the Way In Promoting Literacy Through CLE
March 30, 2007 was a very special and
memorable day for the Concentrated Language Encounter Pilot Project in
the Philippines that has been implemented by the Rotary Club of
Pagadian though a successive matching grants (MG#11847, MG#23845 &
MG#55702). It was able to produce the fi rst batch of CLE graduates
with 590 students from the three Pilot Schools (Pagadian City Pilot
School, San Jose Elementary School & Tomas Sagun Elementary School)
after seven long years.
The perseverance and faith on the
project makes it worthwhile and lead the way for other clubs and
districts in the Philippines to adopt and implement the project in
their respective localities. The number of graduates will increase
next year when the stage 3 of the project will offi cially end in
2008. The Club is thank- ful to the Rotary Foundation and the diff
erent districts (D9800, D3800, D9690, D2840, D9700 and D3850) that
gave their trust in order to make this project possible and very fulfi
lling.
The project gave the Club the
opportunity to prove that indeed education is an investment and a
great equalizer as substantial number of the fi rst batch will be
enrolling in prestigious high school both private and public in nearby
cities as well as in big cities such as Manila, Cebu, Ilo-ilo and
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The graduates wait for their turn to
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The graduation was held on the
covered ground
of the Pagadian City Pilot School for the
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Supt. Erlinda C. Salera (in off
white dress),
over all technical oordinator presided in
giving out the Diploma while PP Jesus " Jun "
Bajamunde Jr. (in white short sleeve shirt)
represented the Club in the said closing
exercise while other Department of Education
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Governor's Japan
Visit
Upon the invitation of DG Mamoru Sato of D2820 Japan, Gov. Toto and Spouse
Arlene visited Japan last April 14-20, 2007. The visit coincided with
their District Conference where DG Toto was given the privilege to address
the Rotarian delegates. DG Toto was so elated and proud to see the
Philippine flag displayed in the center of the other four countries: USA,
Thailand, Japan and New Zealand.
The couple also took time to attend the regular club meeting and the tree
planting project of RC Itako. He also attended the membership meeting of
RC Tokyo Chuo, the second biggest Rotary Club in Tokyo.
Both clubs are international co-sponsors of our Day
Care Literacy Centers Matching Grant
Projects.
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