30/06/2026
What did Rotary Club of San Juan North do in the last months of the Rotary Year 2025-2026?
As the book Remains of the Day had it: โThe evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.โ
In the POV of outgoing Good President Jojo, enjoying the remaining days of his Rotary year means:
1. Supporting SIC 19: Let there be Drag, a Drag for a Cause fundraiser for iRead: 2027 by being a guest speaker on basic education.
2. Supporting newly organized Advocates for the Rights of Children - ARCh by inviting them as our last guest speaker of the year.
3. Supporting incoming President HIP Wyden in his Strategic Planning and Club Assembly to kickstart the next Rotary Year
4. Recognizing each and every club member who made this year memorable; and
5. Penning one last Presidentโs Message, as abridged here:
โโฆ. Together, we see a world where people unite and take action to create lasting change โ across the globe, in our communities, and in ourselves. Nothing encapsulates this better than our theme: โUnite for Good.โ
I used to think "Good" was the opposite of โbadโ or โevilโ. But in my year as your good president, I realize that Uniting for Good is really a quiet rebellion for the obsession to be โGreatโ.
I know this idea is controversial for a club that prides itself on certificates and victories, and one who calls itself โmagnanimousโ. Hence, I invite everyone to look closely at the communities under our care for a sobering reflection.
To have a โGoodโ life is really the humble goal of Rotary's seven areas of focus. When we provide clean water or basic education, or community economic development--- greatness is not being chased. We are simply meeting the basic, dignified necessities of a good life. And everyone deserves a good life, but we are a long way from this dream.
Greatness cannot be the mission of life, when we have not yet achieved a good life for all. Greatness is inherently competitive. It lives in a world of winners and losers, of advantages and disadvantages, of victors and vanquished.
Why must we Unite for Good instead? Because we live in a community of shared, but limited, resourcesโand the painful reality is that not everyone has access to them. And those that do have access to these resources do not always exercise the value of stewardship we so dearly practice here in Rotary.
If we are to be true to our mission, we must accept a simpler truth: we must live simply so that others may simply live. And if we aspire to live a great life, let it be one that goes to great lengths to ensure the least of our neighbors have a good and dignified lifeโฆโ
Happy last day of the Rotary Year!
GP Jojo,
Signing off