Date: Friday, 11 July 2003
Time:
6.15 pm
Members
present at the meeting:
Mr
Bernard Sin
Mrs Georgina Koh
Ms Karen Tan
Mr Clarence Tang
Dr Mohd Effendy
Mrs Iris Geddis
Mr Mario Bernasconi
Mrs Siang Goh Bernasconi
Mrs Sofield Künzi
Mr André Künzi
Dr Pierre Schifferli
Mrs
Doreen Schifferli
Mr Cecil Ee
Mrs Liew Sok Mun
Mrs Lai Mei Sum
Mr
Renaud Joly
1) Bernard Sin, President Temasek Club in his
opening remarks welcomed the members to the meeting.
He also thanked the mission for allowing the club to hold the AGM and missions hospitality in making all arrangements for
the meeting.
2) The meeting approved the minutes of last
year minutes.
3) Bernard informed the club that about the
recent article on The New Paper in Singapore mentioning
overseas Singapore clubs. Many readers misread
the newspaper as Temasek Club being a headhunter. All those who had send their job applications to the club email address,
will receive an auto reply directing them to the correct channels or source. Hence, the Exco need not worry about individual
reply. He stressed, the club is not a headhunter but merely a social club helping newly-arrived Singaporeans navigating in
Switzerland.
4) Bernard informed members that the club funds now stand at CHF 1,807.42
in the bank. The club had recently received donations from SIF (CHF 760.75) and Contact Singapore (CHF 530.00) for the running
of the administrative aspects of the clubs activities.
5)
Bernard explained the club challenge to have some Exco to be based in Zurich or other cantons as well as the idea to
move the club around Switzerland.
Matters arising
Co-Hosting National Day Celebration
6) Bernard briefly informed the meeting of using
CHF 500 from the club funds to co-host the National Day Celebration with the Singapore Mission.
Fund Raising Event
7) Bernard also briefly informed the members
the TCS Golf Tournament was not well subscribed but it will proceed just as a friendly game instead of a fund raising event.
Club News letter - Editor
8) All members agreed that the club can do without
any Newsletters. The club website is more than sufficient.
Club Logo
9) Bernard announced current logo is not an
official club logo. The new Exco can organise a Logo Competition that the winner would be awarded a prize. He revealed that his employer was willing to present the winner a silver bar (100 grams) if a competition
is held.
Election of the Executive Committee for Y2003/4
10) The following office bearers were re-nominated/nominated
and supported:
Mr
Clarence Tang - President
Mrs
Liew Sok Mun - Vice-President
Mrs
Georgina Koh - Secretary
Mrs
Sofield Kunzi - Treasurer
Ms
Karen Tan - Events Head
The
Singapore Mission would continue to give their support to the Club.
Any other Business
11) Mrs Iris Geddis informed the meeting that the National
Day celebrations would be held at the Singapore Residence on Saturday, 16 August 2003 (7 to 9 pm). Invitations will be sent
to Singaporeans who have registered with the mission.
12)
The meeting discussed the various activities of interest
to the club. It was a good 2-way feedback. Members
wanted to have more of meetings with VIPs. However, Mrs Iris Geddis stated it was not possible to invite every member to meet
Singapore every VIPs who visit Geneva. She also mentioned about the VIPs tight schedules and thanked the meeting for the feedback.
The
meeting ended at 8.00 pm