Members were very pleased to welcome the three new members who were inducted during the dinner meeting on 23^rd October.

The trio, Andrew Yeo, Max Lim and Lim Lye Huat, were themselves immensely happy because they and their sponsor, Lion Chey Chor Khoon, had been buddies since their national service days in 1970 at the old Central Manpower Base at Kallang. For them to come together to serve the community again, albeit in a different sort of way, was a twist of fate they had not foreseen.

Lion President Tony Tan and his Board of Directors have already got some specific ideas on assigning responsibilities to Andrew, Max and Lye Huat.

We wish them all a great time in Lionism.

Inducting Officer, Region Chairman David Kan said that he was impressed with our Club and felt sure we could gain more new members if we continued to be a well-managed Club with members who gave of their time for club activities.

Back in 1970, Max Lim, Andrew Yeo and Lim Lye Huat were already officers in the Registration & Recruitment Centre of CMPB when I joined them as a newly commissioned officer.

Max and Andrew were my immediate superiors, but they sure didn’t act like bosses. Instead, they were so friendly they taught me not only all the things a young man starting out in the world should know, but also what a good soldier should not do. Lye Huat was also fairly new, and because of his fair complexion, cheerful demeanor and slim build, was often bullied by the rest of us.

Max has always been the playful one. He was always looking for shortcuts and simpler ways of doing things. Inventive and resourceful, he was a smashing hit with all the girls in the camp. We were all no match for him. Today, he has lost little of his vitality and zest. As Human Resource and Admin Manager of Glenayre Electronics , his responsibilities are heavy, but one can never see them on his smiling playful face. His one great passion nowadays is his grandson. He and his wife, Doreen, have a daughter and a son.

Andrew is the eldest among the four of us. Although he is slight of build and has poor eyesight, he is a keen sportsman who plays a good game of golf. Not averse to jokes, practical or otherwise, he is always the livewire. He has a caring personality which makes him so easy to befriend. Ask him for help, and he will rarely let you down. He is married to Janice, and they have a young son.

Lye Huat is the "baby" of the gang, although he is only about a year or so younger than Max. Serious in whatever he undertakes to do, he is the ever-cheerful, ever-smiling organiser of dinner meets and doer of good deeds. As a Vice President in the Human Resource division of the UOB Group, he is always busy, but never too busy for old buddies. That he hotly pursued his wife, Selena, ever since our days in CMPB, is a characteristic of the singleminded seriousness of this smiling workhorse.

I am proud to have Max, Andrew and Lye Huat as my buddies, and I am fortunate to be able to sponsor them as members of our Lions Club of Singapore Serangoon Gardens. Our Club will find them Lions worthy of the high ideals of our movement.