Report of Regular Meeting May 2006
Tetsugoro Nakamura, Vice-Secretary
The "YMCA Service Night" was opened in the appointed time, emceed by Ms. Shigemi Sato and progressed conforming to the regular meeting program. On our established custom, the President Mr. Matsuda presented to Mr. Arai, Secretary General of the Tokyo YMCA, the money to support the activities of the Tokyo YMCA and the Frost Valley YMCA, the various leaders training-up, etc. Mr. Arai stated his gratitude: "We appreciate your support. We use this money following your tendency."
[Presentation of 450,000 yen to support the summer camp in Frost Valley, etc]
Mr. Masanao Oyama, President of the Tokyo-Machida Club greeted as visitor and described his gratitude: "Yesterday, we held the 40th Anniversary Commemorative Meeting of our club. We appreciate that 4 members of the Tokyo Club attended it. We expect our development moreover. Please support us in the future."
The member speech is a report of the South America of Mr. Kenzo Sato, who visited Peru, Bolivia, Chile as the first BF representative with full grant of the Tokyo Club. He took 27 hours, transfering airplanes, from Japan to Lima, metropolitan of Peru in South America. We were anxious about his health because of the itinerary of the uplands, Lima, La Paz, the cities which are famous worldwide with their height. Moreover, we got the report of his sick there. In the regular meeting, the members of the Tokyo Club felt relieved with the fine state of Mr. Sato. Mr. Sato will report the knowledge gotten in his visit on the regular meeting of the other clubs in the future. First, he rehearsed in his home club.
Mr. Sato has no time to arrange 620 sheets of photograph which he took in South America because he has returned to Japan immediately. He achieved an important duty: the first visit from Japan for friendship as BF representative to the YMCA and the Y's men's clubs of Peru, Bolivia, Chile in South America. We listened to his pains, seeing his slides. In the Spanish area, he attended the regular meeting of the Y's men's clubs there with a Japanese interpreter. He told the welcome in the YMCAs, the association and the sightseeing in Indio's ruins Machu Picchu. We enjoyed his report.
In the future, he will arrange his photographs and play an active part as speaker in the meeting of other clubs.