Some things are made by pressure and time.
Forty years of service, compressed into something rare.
THE COFFEE TABLE BOOK
THE RUBY YEAR · RY 2024–2025
Counted from the club's Ruby Year, RY 2024–2025.
40
10,000+
Acts of Service
Years of Service
Excellence Awards
Lives Touched
80
40
What began as magic became magis.
For its 40th Charter Anniversary, the Rotary Club of New Manila East pledged 40 Acts of Rotary Magic, one for each year of service. It finished with 80. “What began as a celebration of magic became a movement of magis, a call to serve beyond expectations.”
The fortieth award, and the loudest.
A Silver Anvil for our coffee table book, the first ever won by a Rotary club in the Philippines for such a publication.
THE 40TH AWARD
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An ISBN-registered chronicle of four decades, and the first Anvil-winning coffee table book by any Rotary club in the Philippines.
40 Years: The Rotary Club of New Manila East 1984–2024 tells how a 1984 gathering of friends became one of the most decorated Rotary clubs in the Philippines. It follows the club's history, its presidents, its enduring service projects, and the Ruby Year 2024–2025, when the club pledged 40 Acts of Rotary Magic and delivered 80.
“What began as a celebration of magic became a movement of magis, a call to serve beyond expectations.”
ISBN 978-621-02-3014-7
Publisher & printer: Central Book Supply, Inc.
Design: Karlo Benjamin Nisce
Editorial team: President Karlo Benjamin Nisce · PDS Bong Cruz · Dir. Dave Buenviaje · Dir. Jullian Anisco
Honor: Silver Anvil, 61st Anvil Awards (PRSP), Coffee Table Books & Print Publications
Format: Hardcover
Editions: First printing 2025 · Anvil Edition 2026
The book that keeps the years.
The 40th award of our 40th year.
On January 28, 2026, at the 61st Anvil Awards Recognition Night at the Solaire North Grand Ballroom, the book won a Silver Anvil in the Coffee Table Books and Print Publications category. RCNME became the first Rotary club in the Philippines to win an Anvil for a coffee table book, and only the second Rotary club to receive an Anvil in the awards' 61-year history. It was the club's 40th award in its 40th year.
“We set out to honor our past and inspire our future.” Karlo Benjamin Nisce, 40th President
“This was not a campaign created for awards consideration. It was a deliberate effort to document our legacy for future generations.” Jullian Anisco, Ruby Year Public Image Chairman
Some things are made by pressure and time.
One honor for every year of service.
Rotary District 3780 Excellence Awards: 34
Rotary Zone 10A Public Image Awards: 2
Rotary International Club Excellence Award: 1
DepEd Gawad Kaagapay Award: 1
DOH–QMMC Service Award: 1
Silver Anvil Award (the 40th): 1
Total: 40
Forty for forty.
From the first gathering of friends to the Ruby Charter Anniversary.
1. Messages: p.7
2. About Our Club: p.11
3. Club History: p.20
4. Building a Legacy of Service: p.24
5. 40 Acts of Rotary Magic: p.54
6. Enduring Acts of Service: p.66
7. Testimonials: p.80
8. The Ruby Charter Anniversary: p.83
Eight chapters. Forty years.
A glimpse of the stories inside.
From the pages.
"A printed heartbeat of Rotary's spirit, elegant and enduring."
Efren Yambot, Author & Professor, Charter Member and Past President
"This publication deepens our institutional partnership by affirming our shared mission."
Aniceto Sobrepeña, President, Metrobank Foundation
"The book displayed a magnificent project in the service of the underserved urban patients."
Dr. Hildegarde Cabrera, Chairperson, Dermatology Department, QMMC
In their words.
Design: Karlo Benjamin Nisce · Editorial team: President Karlo Benjamin Nisce, PDS Bong Cruz, Dir. Dave Buenviaje, Dir. Jullian Anisco · Published and printed by Central Book Supply, Inc.
Ruby Anniversary Committee: PP Chitong Rivera (Chairman-Emeritus) · PDS Bong Cruz (Executive Chairman) · PE Majumi Borlaza (Deputy Executive Chairman) · Dir. Jian Anisco (Communications) · Dir. Dave Buenviaje (Editorial) · Dir. Bryle Mendoza (Treasury) · PP Wil Pamintuan (Ways & Means) · PN Jan Cabugawan (Program)
The hands behind the book.
Download the electronic edition of 40 Years: The Rotary Club of New Manila East 1984–2024. It includes selected pages from the Messages, Club History and the Ruby Year projects. Selected pages are redacted. The full book is a printed hardcover.
Read the electronic edition.
Forty years of Magic. A lifetime of Magis.
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