As announced earlier, on Saturday 7 June starting at 18:00 we had our Ball in the Kempinski Hotel. It was a Black Tie event (or RED RED!!!). And yes, red it was.
I won’t try to give a full report. I only can say the ball room was pretty full, and I left around midnight. I had brought the Diamond Sponsor, Jiamei Dental. Jiamei had its table chaired by the chairman, Mr. Liu Jia, along with some of beautiful staff. We had another two tables dedicated to China State Grid, another of our main clients. We were honored to have diplomats from South Africa and Senegal.
There were many shows and performances, some you can see in the pictures. I was proud to have our Beijing Rotaract members in full action. Looking at the pics you can understand why I love to work with them… They successfully operated the PhotoBooth and helped out whenever needed.

The pics are just my personal choice! Biased, obviously!
Well looks like most people had big fun, that was the idea!
I finished the late morning in my karaoke, along with some of our clients and friends…

Call that a full day!

As we are all expats and “Old China Hands”, we also have to make our contribution to be part of the community and “give back”.
This can be done in a fun and sparkling way: THE BEIJING ROTARY BALL!
The full story: 2014 Beijing Rotary Ball

See here the main data:
Saturday 7 June starting at 18:00 – Kempinski Hotel
Black Tie (or RED RED!!!)
Individual tickets: RMB 1200
Orders & payment:
ticket[at]rotaryclub-beijing.org and/or admin[at]rotaryclub-beijing.org

We already have a series of embassies & ambassadors confirmed, such as Senegal, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany, Russia, Portugal, Sweden, Benin and others. We also have major corporations lined up such as HSBC, Audi, Daimler, Allianz, BASF, Deutsche Telekom, and more.
Join us all for an evening of red fun and entertainment!

On Saturday 17 May 2014 Rotary China (the “District 0052”) held its Training Assembly. With big thanks to BASF (China) who kindly let us use their office in Gateway Plaza.
The purpose was to train the incoming (2014/2015) club leaders for their year of office and let everybody understand better Rotary.

Attendees were Club President-Elects, incoming Directors, & Committee Chairs, Club Committee Members, New Club Members, Rotary China Team, Club Members, Visiting Rotarians, GSE team members, Rotary Alumni, Rotaract (11 attended) & Interact (2 attended) Club members as well as Rotary Family & Friends

The seminar was managed by Special Representative Randal Eastman and District Trainer, PP Simon Maguire.
We had a nice turnout and the meeting room was full.

On 12 May 2014, in the usual meeting place – The Local – we had a large turnout for the elctions.
See here the results:
Result of the elections for Board positions, Rotaract 2014-2015
President: Johanna Chen
Manage the Rotary Relationship, Meeting Preparation/ Leading, Meeting Location Coordination, Meeting Reminders, General Club Oversight and Management

Vice President: Blair Fox
Organize Speaker Events, Manage Rotary Relationship, Party Planning

Secretary: Cleopatra Wise
Take Meeting Notes, Prepare the Weekly Newsletter, Membership Management, Collection of Project Review Forms

Treasurer: Justin Maldegar
Financial Tracking, Project Budget Disbursement, Project Earnings Reconciliation, Charity Fund Disbursement, Membership Dues Collection

Marketing and Operations (MAO): Frederik Kerckhof
Website Management, Marketing Materials and Team Management, Social Media Management

Projects Coordinator: Position Open
Long-Term Project Coordination, General Project Monitoring