1982 - 83: President Late) Rtn P.M. Muthiah
Theme: Mankind is One – Build Bridges of Friendship
Ann: (Late) Rajammal Governor: Rtn. R. Ratnam
- Parent club: Rotary Club of Madras West
- Initiated by PDG Bhoja Shetty, who later became the GSR (Governor's Special Representative) of the club
- Started with 32 members.
- Received Charter: April 12th, 1982
- PP Muthiah was the Charter President & Rtn Shivshankar (later known as Shivshankar Baba) was the first Secretary.
- Venue for Regular Meetings: Queen's Hotel, Nungambakkam Later shifted to Hotel Connemar
- Yearly subscription: Rs 400
- Presented Food and Clothes to Balavihar
- Each member paid only Rs.5/- towards cost of each meeting before the formal Charter!
- Charter Nite was celebrated at the Taj Hotel
- First fund raiser was a movie at Ega Theatre starring Rajesh Khanna. Total collection, a whopping sum of Rs.11,000/- in 1982!
- First fellowship outing was to a private farm house on OMR
1983-84: President (Late) Rtn M.L. Shroff
Theme: Share Rotary – Serve People
Ann: Mrs. Shanthi Governor: Rtn. Bhoja Shetty
- Installed by the then Vice Chancellor of Anna University, PP Mohan Shroff, was known as the "Man in White" from Bihar
- He took pride in the fact that he was expelled from College for taking part in the Quit India Movement. A true freedom fighter!
- We are indeed honoured to have had him as one of our Presidents
- Medicare centre started on March 4th, 1984. Inaugurated by then Health Minister Dr. Hande
- First Interact Club of Jaigopal Garodia Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Anna Nagar started
- “For the Sake of Honour” Award presented to Cricketer K. Srikanth
- Active participation of all the Anns
- Received the Best Bulletin Award and His "Smile a While" column in the Tower Talk won him and the club many accolades.
- Introduced the novel idea of "Fire Side" meetings to improve bonding between members.
- Has left a behind a legacy of service in his sons, who are now pioneers in Organ donation.
1984-85: President (Late) Rtn M.K. Unnithan
Theme: Discover a New World of Service
Ann: Mrs. Sridevi Governor: Rtn. P V Purushothaman
- Provided Drinking water facility to Thiruvalleswarar Nagar
- Won First Prize in Attendance and 5 other awards
- Appointed RI Chairman for 3H Measles Project in South India
- Hosted PDG Paul McKelvey & Ann Marjorie at the club meeting
- Pres. Unnithan organised the Rotary Youth Forum which was very well attended and brought many laurels to the Club.
- Conducted “The National Quality Management “seminar for the Auto Industry. Nearly 200 Delegates from all over India attended. Club collected a whopping amount of Rs.4 lakhs nett. A major Fund Raiser indeed!
- Had the honour of leading one of the largest contingents to the District Conference held in Salem - nearly 80 Rotarians & Anns from our club attended.
- For the International Students Exchange Program, our club's candidate was selected to study at the Ohio University for two semesters.
- Trip to Trivandrum to attend Pres Unnithan's daughter's wedding was most memorable.
- After Presidentship, the District recognised Pres Unnithan by making him District Director - Community Service. Definitely an honour for a Club which was only three years old!
1985-86: Rtn. President M Cherian
Theme: You Are the Key
Ann: Mrs Geetha Governor: Rtn Dr. Sundararaman
- Consolidated Medicare Centre and the Drinking water project.
- Formed Corpus fund of Rs.50,000Inaugurated Interact Club of KPCVSS Became Paul Harris Fellow – First Rtn. M.K. Chetty and Second Rtn. Muthaiah Received 5 awards from the District
- Pres Cherian conducted an All India Two Wheeler Exhibition for 4 days at the Abbotsbury Hall (currently, the Hyatt Hotel) on Mount Road jointly with Rotary Clubs of Madras West & Ambattur.
- The exhibition was inaugurated by Mr. N.D. Tiwari, then Cabinet Minister. Our club was able to generate a sizeable amount as a fund raiser.
- Completed the Thiruvalleswarar Nagar Drinking Water Distribution System which provided water for West Madras & Anna Nagar neighborhood.
- The layout of Anna Nagar was unveiled at Roundtana by Thiru. P. H. Pandian, Speaker of the Tamil Nadu Assembly.
- PP M.K. Chetty became the *first PHF of our club during this year.
- First Lady Dr. Gita excelled by organising a memorable *Charter Nite celebration. 12 Ethnic Brides of India were showcased by our Anns.
- Crowning glory of Pres Cherian's year was the starting of the Rotary Club of Anna Nagar Charitable Trust along with the Medicare Trust.
- The corpus has grown from Rs.11,000 in 1986 to Rs. 40 lakhs today!!!
1986-87: Rtn. Dr. President Chidambaram
Theme: Rotary Brings Hope
Ann: Meenakshi Governor: Rtn Ramakrishna Raja
- Organized Gangai Amaran’s Musical Nite as a major Fund Raising Programme
- Five needy children trained in Television Repair and Course on Public Speaking conducted for Interactors
- Youth Merit Award presented to Mr. Stephen Vidyasagar of Udavum Karangal
- Registered the Rotary Club of Anna Nagar Charitable Trust
- Dr. Chidambaram is an alumnus of Manipal. First Lady, Ann Meena used to be a culinary expert specialising in baking
- The Rotary Youth Merit Award was given to Mr. Vidyaakar of Udavumn Karangal
- High point of the year was the Grand Fund Raiser- *Gangai Amaran Musical Nite, organised by PP Radhey Mohan & team at Music Academy.
- Artists of the movie "Samsaram Adhu Minsaram" were all honoured making it a Star studded nite.
- As part of the International Service Project, free books were sent to Australian school children
- Rotary Village Core (predecessor to RCC) was started at Pammadukulam in the neighbourhood of Red Hills
- Dr. Chidambaram was the GSR of our sponsored club - Rotary Club of Madras North West