On April 6 in 2007, RIP Boyd and his wife Lorna visited our club meeting, which was attended by many distinguished visiting Rotarians. In his speech, he emphasized the importance of leading the way in Rotary and praised the vision and action of our special representative, RI Director Elect Kazuhiko Ozawa, who created the first alumni club in Japan.
RIP Boyd gave his Rotary pin to our new member in his induction, talked with one of our members who was in France through the Skype connection, met our outbound GSE team to Brazil led by our club member, Hiroaki Tokunaga, who once was a team member to Brazil himself. The English version of our club song was presented to the RIP Boyd by our President Nozomu Mochizuki, and we all sang the song togeher.
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On February 6 in 2005, many distinguished Rotary leaders, including RI Director Sakuji, Takana, celebrated Rotary by joining the presentation of our charter singed by RIP Glenn Estess and DG Takeshi Matsumiya. Charter Presidet Naoyuki Takagi expressed the charter members’ determination for Service above Self in his speech.
All the members sang the club song “Centennial Oath” together, led by Yukiko Yanagimoto, our Diva, accompanied by composer Hiroaki Tokunaga on the piano. Attraction included Chopin's "Revolutionary" played by Ari Kani, an ambassadorial scholarship alumna who studied the piano in Germany.