Lambert Fellows

A Lambert Fellow is a person whose happiness grows from the soil of goodness, service, charity and generosity. To him one is happiest when he serves best. This is an award given on the occasion of the Centennial celebration of the Rotary Club of Manila on June 21, 2019, a singular club whose examples of good deeds were rooted in the noblest of human nature.

It is the logic of nature that good seeds grow on fertile soil, that when they put out shoots with the blessings of sunshine, they could become the trees that give comfort with their shades, or fruit that sustains, or flowers that give scent or beauty to the senses. Such was the natural evolution of the Rotary Club of Manila, and in time, it became a nationwide and undisputed primary movement of service in the Philippines and in Asia.

All that metaphor said above, we owe it to Leon J. Lambert, the first and Charter President of the Rotary Club of Manila, who hosted the first Rotary luncheon in his Pasay City home on January 12, 1919 with Roger D. Pinneo as his guest. The latter had been commissioned by the Rotary Club of Seattle to assist in the organization of the first Rotary Club in the Far East. Among those in attendance were Messrs. E. E. Elser, James Geary, A.W. Beam.

We wish to continue this metaphor through the living reality practiced by these chosen Lambert Fellows on the occasion of the 100 years of the founding of the Rotary Club of Manila and the Rotary movement of the Philippines and Asia. Let us meet the first batch of LAMBERT FELLOWS, as follows:

Rtn. Celso E. Abastillas; Rtn. Geronimo P. Bella, Jr.; Rtn. John Emyl C. Eugenio; PP Bienvenido E. Laguesma; PD Edgar L. Lee; PP Teodoro J. Ocampo; PD Abraham Pascual; President Jesus M. Pineda, Jr.; PVP Fausto R. Preysler, Jr.; DE/BLA Amado D. Valdez; PVP Benjamin E. Diokno; RID Rafael M. Garcia, III; Rtn. Abdulgani M. Macatoman; AT Reinerio C. Lonzaga & Femy Lonzaga