e last motto of Rotary International, "He Profits Most Who Serves Best" was approved at the second Rotary International Convention held in Portland, Oregon in August 1911.  The phrase was first stated by a Chicago Rotarian, Art Sheldon who made a speech in 1910, which included the remark, "He profits most who serves his fellows best."  At about the same time, Ben Collins, president of the Rotary Club of Minneapolis, Minnesota, commented that the proper way to organize a Rotary club was through the principle his club had adopted - "Service Not Self"  These two slogans, slightly modified, were formally approved to be the official mottoes of Rotary at the 1950 Convention in Detroit - "He Profits Most Who Serves Best" and "Service Above Self."  The 1989 Council on Legislation established "Service Above Self" as the principal motto of Rotary since it best explains the philosophy of unselfish volunteer service.

e 27^th meeting of RY 1999-2000 was called to order by Pres. ALBERT.  DC & MC DIEGO called on JERRY PARLAN to lead us in the  opening prayer and the recitation of 4-Way Test, followed by A/ Treas. ERNIE GALERA for the Pambansang Awit, in lieu of FREDERICK  SO.  VP ARNOLD IGNACIO welcomed visiting Rotarians from Rotary Club of Baguio North.  PP MARK GO ( Guest Speaker ), Pres. PAUL SIMPAUCO, PDG JESS TABORA, IPP JOHNNY REFE and Dir. OSCAR, RC Metro SFLU RHODA ALVAREZ ( ANN of ALLAN ).  Wedding Anniversary celebrants REGGIE CHAN and PP SILVER SARMIENTO were also greeted for their nth anniversaries, but, only REGGIE was present and treated us to 2 scoops of ice cream.  TERRY BUGARIN talked about his classification on Finance & Commercial Banking.  He, being the Branch Manager of the Far East Bank and Trust Co.  Sec/ PP TONY announced the following up-coming events, i.e. RYLA on Feb. 12-13 at Clarkfield, the visit of 17 Summer Youth Exchange from Saitama, Japan on March 28; GSE Team from Brazil on April 4, the holding of Rotary Academy on the last week of February to be participated in by all RCs in LA Union, being chaired by PDG CES, Valentine's Party on Feb. 8, with an attire of any print with colors yellow and blue and a ticket of P200 each at the Pindangan Ruins being chaired by EDWARD Gaerlan.  Millennium Induction Speaker, Hon. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on July 4 and attendance percentage for January 4 and all of 100%ers. DISCON on April 14-16 at the People's Astrodome in Dagupan City - with 18 Rotarians pre-registered from our Club.  A/Treas. ERNIE Galera made our club richer by P2,400 during his Fining on "what's new this millennium ?".  In his time, Pres. ALBERT reiterate payment of annual dues and other assessments to Rotarians with still unpaid accounts.  The club will remit to RI the 2^nd semester per capital dues on the last week January with an exchange rate of P40 to US$1.  He also mentioned about the club's participation in the Rotary Golfing Fellowship Tournament held in Baguio City last Jan. 21, 2000.

As everybody expected, PP ANDY Astom did an excellent job in his introduction to guest speaker, PP MARQUEZ "Mark" O. GO of RC Baguio North.  PP Mark spoke on the quantities/ characteristics of a leader.  Director REX Mendoza gave the response.  After the presentation of the Plague of Appreciation, Pres. ALBERT adjourned the meeting.