{"id":48608,"date":"2021-07-01T13:34:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T11:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/rotary-club-welcomes-new-president-20210630-4\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T09:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T07:49:09","slug":"rotary-club-welcomes-new-president-20210630-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/rotary-club-welcomes-new-president-20210630-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotary club welcomes new president"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KNEE jerk actions brighten lives for a short while, but they don\u2019t produce a future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"left\" id=\"embed_81d773a7\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/11317\/9795ce2bb5924addafd40470b2711e32.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/11317\/81e3a2fd88274b4f998804bb42d77b25.jpg\" title=\"Clive Hassell, new president of the Rotary Club of Uitenhage South. Photo:SUPPLIED\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Clive Hassell, new president of the Rotary Club of Uitenhage South. Photo:SUPPLIED<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the philosophy of newly inducted president of the Rotary Club of Uitenhage South, Clive Hassell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI believe in the basic principle which is purported to have its roots in an old Chinese proverb, but has been modified many times, the most common being \u2018If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, if you teach him how to fish you feed him for a lifetime\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOut are the days of buying minibuses, but in are the days of education in all its forms,\u201d said Hassell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incoming president quoted the first line of The American Declaration of Independence: \u201cWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rotary International equally holds these sentiments close, and Hassell personally has always held progression of the younger generations close to his heart, believing that education and mentorship offers a way out of the incessant circle of poverty, into which so many of our youth are born. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hassell was upbeat in laying out the basis for the club to move forward in planning to provide multi-faceted vocational guidance to large numbers of our disenfranchised youth as soon as COVID-19 restrictions allowed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo this end the Rotary Club of Uitenhage South would need to attract assistance from the younger skilled sectors of the community, and make the club an attractive conduit to allow the many community minded people already out there to join with it,\u201d said Hassell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the Corona virus still with us, the Rotary Club of Uitenhage South again held its annual gala dinner for the induction of the new president on-line. 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