Club History

In 1984, the Rotary Club of Marina City, the brainchild of the Rotary Club Singapore East, was organised under the guidance of the late PDG Dr. M.G. John.

1984-1986:
The Club received its Charter on 20th December 1984, with Hector Charles as its Charter President and 36 members. The same evening S$2,000 was donated to the Singapore Anti-Narcotics Associations (SANA) for its "Adopt an Addict Scheme". S$10,000was also raised that year from a High Tea cum Fashion Show and donated to Woodlands Home for the Aged for the renovation of its multi-purpose hall. The Interact Club of Dunman Secondary School was formed and a match-club arrangement was signed with the Rotary Club of Paraiso, Q.C. in the Philippines.

1986-1987:
Dr. John Chong becomes the second President of our Club. We jointly hosted the 53rd RI District 330 Assembly with the Rotary Club of Singapore East that year. S$9,000 were raised through a walkathon and the amount was donated to the Canossian School for the Hearing Impaired to purchase hearing aids for children. The "host Courteous Employee Award" was created that year and given for the first time to an employee of Singapore Air Terminal Services (SATS). A match-club arrangement was signed with the Rotary Club of Darwin South and a second Interact club, the Interact Club of St. Thomas Secondary School was formed.

1987-1988:
John Chan was President. We staged the play "Emily of Emerald Hill" raising $50.000. This was donated to SANA for its fight against drug abuse. We hosted the District 330 RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) and organised a "World Peace and Understanding Day" for the Rotary Clubs of Singapore. Our sister clubs increased to four when we signed agreements with the Rotary Club of Dusit in Bangkok and the Rotary Club of Osaka-Oyodo in Japan. The club was recognized that year with the N Presidential Citation.

1988-1989:
Our Club's fourth President was Dr Kwok Wai Mun. we sponsored a new Rotary Club, the Rotary Club of Serangoon Gardens. We raised $14.000 that year for the Computer Appreciation Programme of the Singapore Children's Society, and also participated in a World Community Service Project for the Salvation with Districts 94, 946 and 947 in Australia. Our Club Song was inaugurated that year.

1989-1990:
Lawrence Cheng as President. That year, we raised $10.000 for the Singapore Council of Social Services' Youth Volunteer Training Programme. The bulletin in its present form, was first published on a weekly basis and a Rotary Pen Set was designed and sold to raise funds.

1990-1991:
The 6th President ouf our Club was Dr. K.A. Abraham. That year, members together with Interactors painted Mother Teresa's Home in Jalan Seranggong. A job estimated at $20.000 was completed at below $4.000. We assembled 1.800 units of litter pickers and donated it to the Ministry of the Environment for "Adopt a Beach and Park" Day as part of our effort to Preserve Planet Earth. We raised cash and relief items (in a joint project with the Rotary Club of Osaka-Oyodo) for the earthquake victims in Baguio in the Philippines. A second Vocational Service Award "Excellence in Customer Service" was created for Changi International Airport Services (CIAS). A match-club signed with the Rotary Club of Pontian.

1991-1992:
Mr. Sim Teow Gok was President. A free medical check-up for senior citizens was the first arrangement that year for Kim Seng Constituency. $2.000 was raised and contributed for printing information leaflets to raise public awareness of autistic children. We assisted in the fund-raising project for Tampines East Community Centre. The Club's first Rotaract Club was launched that year and the Club won the District Best Bulletin Award.

1992-1993:
S.N. Samy was President in our 8th year. In that year we received two District awards - the Best Community Service Project for the Medical Check-up for Senior Citizens of Kim seng Constituency and for the 2nd year, we won the District Bet Bulletin Award.

1993-1994:
Sunny Bay was our Club's 9th President. We organized a charity dinner in conjunction with the "Miss Singapore Pageant Grand Finals' from which we raised $60,000 to purchase a specially fitted ambulance for the Handicap's Welfare Association. The Club, for the first time, emerged overall champion in the Annual Inter-Club Rotary Games. The Rotaract Club was revamped by the Youth Service Committee. We were again awarded the District Best Bulletin Award.

1994-1995:
N.T.Nair became our Club's 10th President. Community service projects included organizing a free medical screening for Senior Citizens of Marine Parade GRC and donating a pair of calipers to a polio victim. In December, the club celebrated its 10th anniversary, joined by several members of our sister clubs from Dusit, Osaka-Oyodo, Paraiso and Pontian. A new Rotaract Club, the Rotaract Club of Temasek Polytechnic was formed and we received 3 district awards, viz The President Citation Award for Community Concern, Significant Achievement Award for publishing "Basic Information on RI and the Rotary Foundation" and Best Bulletin Award

1995-1996:
The Club's President was Leong Cheng Chit. Together with two other Rotry Clubs, we continued free medical screening for Senior Citizens of Kim Seng Community Centre. We received a Presidential Citation and won the District Best Bulletin Award for the fourth time.

1996-1997:
Dr. Thomas Cherian was at the helm in the Club's 12th year. The Club raised enough funds to purchase a haemodialysis machine, which was donated to the RC of Pontian, Johore for their dialysis centre. A braille reading machine was donated to the RC of Dusit, Thailand for the Bangkok School for the Blind. We also organized the Inter-City Rotary Foundation Day meeting in Singapore and a New Generations Conference for the Rotaractors of Temasek Polytechnic. We won the District Best Bulletin Award for the 5th year runnin.

1997-1998:
Yong Teck Yu was the Club's 13th President. A sister-club arrangement was signed with the Rotary Club of Kuching Jaya. Funds raised were donated to the Riding Disabled Association (RDA). In his year, we admitted ladies to the Club for the first time.

1998-1999:
Jagjit Singh Bajaj was the Club's 14th president. During his term, the venue for the weekly club meetings was changed to the Conrad International. HE Mr. Raymond Loretan, the Swiss Ambassador to Singapore became our Honorary Member. we received a Presidential citation together with an award for jointly holding the convention's inter-city meeting at the Conrad. We continued being patrons of RDA and saw the completion of the matching grant tubal ligation project in the Philippines.

1999-2000:
The 15th President of the Club was Roberto Fabbri. Marina City participated in a joint community service projct with our sister Club of Dusit in starting a 'chicken and fish' project in  Bangkok, Thailand. The revenue obtained from selling the eggs and the fish was used to assist poor students in their school fees and to subsidize their lunches. A Christmas party was organized at the Conrad Hotel (with kind courtesy) for 40 children from our Rotary Family Centre. The elderly from the Rotary Family Centre were also treated to the 'Hong Bao Show' by the Singapore riverside during the Chinese New Year period. The Club continued to support the RDA in their Barn Dance Event and Flag Day. We also presented $2,000 to the RDA.

2000-2001:
The 16th President was our Charter President Hector Charles. Our bulletin got us an award. Members gave wholehearted support for the RDA Flag Day and Carnival. We gave $2,000 from our sunshine box to the Gujarat Earthquake victims, and donated US$1,000 to the Leukemia Children's project by awarding a PHF to our program director, Vijay Menon. We also participated in sending a group of college students to Kuching for community service, a meaningful projct for both club and students. Our President also led a GSE  team to Oregon USA.

2001-2002:
Dr. Kwok Wai Mun was the 17th President of the Club. Marina city was awarded the Distinguished Club Presidential Citation as well as the Distinguished Club President Presidential Citation by R.I. President Richard King. Seven new members were inducted and we won the District Best Bulletin Award for the year. Three new PHFs were added to our list. We donated $1000/- each to the flood victims of Northern Thailand, the Afghan refugees, and the Career Guidance Seminar of Dunman Secondary School. A Charity Walkathon and Treasure Hunt was organized and our club raised more than $11,000 for the Rotary Family Service Centre.

2002-2003:
Jimmy F. Doctor was the 18th President of the Club. During his term of office, our Club was awarded the 2002-2003 Presidential Citation by R.I. President Bhichai Rattakul. Five new P.H.F.s of US$1,000.00 each were added to our growing list of donors, out of which three were used for a Matching Grant with the R.C. of Delhi Safdarjung in India, where we helped to donate an instrument costing US$12,000 fo performing cataract operations on the poor villagers in Northern India. The other two were use for POLIOPLUS. We donated S$1,000 to our sister club R.C. of Dusit in Thailand to buy 25 bicycles for the poor villagers from North of Chiang Mai. We donated S$750.00 each to the Rainbow Club and our sister club, R.C. of Pontian and we donated S$500.00 to the Bali Fund. We also donated S$1,500.00 to the Dunman Secondary School. And, we added one more Interact Club to our list, when we chartered 'SAINTS INTERACT CLUB' at St. Andrews Secondary School, Singapore.

2003-2004:
The 19th President of the Club is Madhusudan M. Patel.
Awards during the year, apart from the Presidential Citation:
1. RI & District Award for inducting the highest number of members
2. Rotary Foundation 2003-2004 Annual Giving per Capita Award
3. District Award for the 2nd highest number of Paul Harris Fellow despite club size (11 PHF)
Fund raising event - Fiesta Latino MardiGras Nite - held in support of Autism Association of Singapore. Amount raised was S$ 25,000. 350 rotarians and friends attended the event. The club hosted a day out including lunch for 150 children from Canossian Sisters Orphanage & Hari Prasad Children's Home at Pasta Fresca @ East Coast Parkway.
Indonesia being our largets neighbour, we signed a sister club relationship with Jakarta Central. Together with 5 other clubs, Rotary Club of Marina City hosted the World Understandung and Peace Day Forum cum lunch on February 23rd 2004.
Some of the projects include S$8001 & S$5000 to the Family Service Centre, S$5075 to our sister Pontian Club Dialysis Centre, S$4000 to Dusit Club Projects, S$5000 to Dunman Secondary School needy students, US$500, S$801, US$500+S$500, S$801, S$2001 to Batam Seaweed plot, Sabah Ambulance, Phil Housing/Landslide, Iran Earthquake & Golden Triangle Akha Hill Tribe Children respectively. Rotary Club of Marina City total projects and cash contributions for the year amounted to about S$80,000.

2004-2005:
The 20th President of the Club is Lee Lye Wah.
We baought and donated a S$14,000 tonometer, an eye machine for early detection of blindness to the Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped. To our sister Rotary Club of Dusit, Bangkok, we contributed S$4000 for their "Magic Eye" project for the blind. we also gave S$1000 to our sister Rotary Club of Jakarta Central for their "Aid" project. In Phillipines, we donated S$4000 for "Build a Home" project ad another S$500 for a "Pump" project. In addition, we sponsored US$2000 through a private bank for a charity golf tournament organised by Rotary Club in Jakarta in aid of the needy and poor in Indonesia. During the Tsunami disaster, we donated 10,000 'body bags' and medical supplies to the victims in Ache, Indoesia - a financial disaster relief project with our sister Rotary Club of Jakarta Central.

2005-2006:
The 21st President of the Club is David S. Scott.
President's Report 2005/2006