Few days from now and our dear club, RCSFU, will embrace a new leadership. As if it were our tradition, as every Rotary Year ends we witness the culmination of many great dreams, and a history is always created. On June 30, our 40^th President Alberto Ting Liu Dy will graciously and impressively step down with 13 of the 15 District 3790 awards, all first placers, tucked in his sleeves. These included the most coveted Rotary International recognitions namely, Significant Achievement Award and Club Retention Award; and the District Achievement Award. Indeed a feat! To this date we've remained to be the benchmark of success amongst the 80 others in all the avenues of service, and have set sundry a glowing trend for others to follow. This year will surely be one of Albert's best times, and one of the club's finest years.

No one would suppose that Amboy, to relatives and friends, was novice in heading a club. Apparently, he barely had the technical competence and skill, neither the much-needed preparation. His only involvement was mainly in various family businesses, which were all quite far different from community-based works. This was why, he claimed, that he was a reluctant president. All he had were unbridled dreams, visions, sheer selfless dedication and courage to move on. Yet, he led us to a triumphant year. Inspiring? Yes. Magnificent? No.
With Rotary's meticulousness in choosing members everyone had the character and disciplinary potential to help, and lead. The elite brotherhood maintain, at least in our club, that each one was uprooted from his craft as the best, bar none, making it an honor and privilege to be counted as Rotarian. The choice of the presidency for the proper man was a matter of timing, destiny. Each one was a right chap for the position and at that time Albert was it for Rotary Year 1999-2000.

Albert was never a stranger to the world of Rotary. Virtually, he once ate and slept with it being the eldest son of PP Aldy and Rosita Dy. Lest we forget that PP Aldy is one of the highly respectable past presidents, a true-blue Rotarian, an institution who has created his own legacy in his legion. Albert must have prematurely imbibed the beautiful precepts of Rotary, but he was also a precocious first-hand witness to how taxing, precious-time consuming,  attention-grabbing the involvement was. PP Cres Fernandez began in 1993 to reassure and reaffirm him of his inaccurate sentiments about Rotary in the hope to get him into the club. It was only through the prodding of PP Ben Ang in 1994, at his age of 27, did Albert finally succumb to the call of the circle.