Rotary Club of Cagayan de Oro Premier

Coming from different professional backgrounds, members use their resources and skills to help others through service projects and initiatives. The Rotary Club of Cagayan de Oro Premier is a dynamic group of young professionals dedicated to doing good. The club endeavors to make a positive difference in the community through local service projects and initiatives. Once a month, fellowships are hel

d in place of regular meetings to allow members to mix and mingle. New comers are encouraged to share new ideas and take leadership roles in club activities.

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The Rotary Club of Cagayan de Oro had long toyed with the idea of starting a young club, but it was not until the term of PDG Manuel “Manny” Along that the idea saw fruition. For a long time the idea of a Rotary club predominantly composed of men and women young enough to be Rotaractors was unpopular with the rest of District 3870. Though many skeptics raised their doubts about such a club’s sustainability, PDG Manny, aided by then governor’s special representative Alvin Benasa and then RC CDO president Jose Luis ”Luigi” Sarraga, persevered. Encouraged by his lady, Biema, PDG Manny extended the first invitation to Young Rotary to his daughter, Angel and her closest friends.
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This move prompted the rest of RC CDO members to invite their daughters around the same age who were ready, willing and able to contribute their time, resources and expertise to doing good in the world. Consequently, the Rotary Club of Cagayan de Oro—the Mother Club—became the Father Club.
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By the end of 2014, the RC CDO club extension committee had gathered 30 members constituting the core group of the young Rotary club. Many of these charter members were second, third, and even fourth-generation Rotarians. Owing to their being the youngest — therefore the most dynamic and vibrant — club in the district, the group unanimously agreed to call themselves the Rotary Club of Cagayan de Oro Premier.
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The Board of Directors of Rotary International approved the new club’s Charter on 7 April 2015. Subsequently, the Charter presentation was held on 13 June 2015 at the VIP Hotel, Don A. Ilya Kristine “Batin” Ravanera as President.

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Council of Past Presidents
Arrissa "Arette" Navarro (RY 2023-2024)
Maybelle "Dimple" Quilnat (RY 2022-2023)
Mae Allyn Linaac (RY 2021-2022)
Atty. Maricel "Macel" Seno (RY 2020-2021)
Maria Teresa "Maite" Sarraga (RY 2019-2020)
Anna Katrina "Tring" Sarraga (RY 2018-2019)
Marion Hazel Du (RY 2017-2018)
Dr. Dino Camonias (RY 2016-2017)
Atty. Ilya Kristine "Batin" Ravanera (RY 2015-2016)