Report of Regular Meeting August 2005
Tetsugoro Nakamura, Vice-Secretary
The "summer wellness" regular meeting was held in midsummer, when the sun continued to burn us from 3.00 pm to 5.20 pm Saturday August 6th. We aggregated in Niwanoyu(garden spa) of Toshima-en to which we could reach on foot 1 - 2 minutes from Toshima-en Station at Nerima. Its catchphrase is a Bade(pool in german) and a crude spa.
The President greeted in the opening of meeting: "Let's have a regular meeting with relaxing pleasant atmosphere." According to his words, we put on the casual uniform which we have borrowed from Niwanoyu in the Japanese-style room with the tatami mats and we had the regular meeting in a relaxing feeling.
According to the regular meeting program, we had the sign up ceremony following the business committee report and the YMCA report. We got two new members in July, we had the sign up ceremony of Mr. Li-Han Huang in August, too. He signed up with the speech of signing up, attended by Mr. Masanao Oyama, inspector of the Japan-East Region, Mr. Kazuyuki Itami, director of membership business of the Toshin District and Mr. Katsumi Tsujimura, inspector of the Tokyo Club. Congratulations, Mr. Huang! He came from Taiwan; now, he is a researcher in the Tokyo University; he have our relationship that his grandfather, Mr. Tu-Ying Huang, member of the Taipei Club, our IBC, had a deep association with the Tokyo Club. He commented for his signing up: "I inherit the Friendship of my grandfather. Thank you." We expect his activity in the Tokyo Club.
[sign up ceremony of Mr. Huang]
The IBC committee reported: "Mr. Milton Hakoda died; he was a influential member of Hawaii Hilo Club, our IBC, with which we have a deep friendship. He was 77 years old this year. They proposed to send a card with messages of all of the regular meeting participant members. We wrote a few lines of greeting and mourned for his death.
According to the program, we ended the regular meeting. After that, the supper started at 4 p.m. The President greeted for toast: "Today is the atomic bomb anniversary. Let's appreciate for the peace." The presider, Mr. Mochida said: "Today, let's drink slowly with relax." Presided by him, we began a feast when the sun was still high in summer. Drinking, we enjoyed the game and the quiz which Mr. Hiroyuki Tanaka planed for attraction. We spent a time of friendship.
We broke up at 5.20 pm. Each participant entered the Bade(pool) using the water pressure and the watercourse for health maintenance or the spa. We enjoyed the day of the hot summer.