Major Donor/Bequest Society and VIP Reception with Cash Bar 5:45-6:45 General Reception with Cash Bar 5:30 -7:00 Dinner and Presentation 7-9:30

West U Seniors Pancake Breakfast.

This is a great community event for our Club each year! 

When: Tuesday February 12, 2019.

Time: 6:30 A.M.  –  9:30 A.M.

Breakfast Volunteers: cooking, serving and cleaning.

Setting Up Volunteers: Monday February 11 at 5:30 pm

Where:   City of West University Place, Seniors Services   6104 Auden St.

West University Place, Texas 77005

Please contact Co-Chairs George Adams  at gbadams@gbadams.com and Irene Sadkowski at Irene@irenecosme.com

THANKS!

Fraud Prevention and Detection makes the business owner aware of internal and external fraud, corruption, asset misappropriation and financial fraud. We will also discuss the Fraud Triangle which are the components that lead to fraud. Steps to Prevention and Detection, (1) communication, (2) checks and balances, (3) follow through. Being aware of how and why fraud is committed can save the business ten’s if not hundreds of thousands of dollars. Fiduciary Fraud - Black's Law Dictionary defines fiduciary as, “a person who is required to act for the benefit of another person on all matters within the scope of their relationship; one who owes to another the duties of good faith, trust, confidence and candor; one who must exercise a high standard of care in managing another's money or property.” The presentation will (1) identify various contexts in which a fiduciary duty exists, (2) determine how the actions and inactions of a fiduciary can cause a breach of fiduciary duty, (3) recognize how breaches often lead to fraud, losses and damages, (4) recognize that civil breach of fiduciary duty claims can prove invaluable in preparing a criminal theft or embezzlement case. J. Richard Claywell, CPA, ABV, ASA, CBA, CVA, CM&AA, MAFF, CFD, ABAR richard@biz-valuation.com 281 488-7531

Join Rotarians (and their families), Interactors, and Rotaractors from around the Houston area to sort and palletize books for shipment to Rotarian led literacy projects in Africa and around the world. You are also welcome to bring gently used books of any sort to donate. 

We have shipped over 345 of large 40' shipping containers of books since 2000!

Lisa is the Director of Development for Shriner’s Hospital for Children in Galveston and has been an advancement professional in higher education, healthcare, community service and the arts for 30 years.  She is a graduate of the State University of New York at Oswego (Ah-swee-Go) and LeMoyne College in Syracuse, NY.

Lisa enjoys a long history in Rotary - Her father Richard was a Rotarian, her family hosted numerous exchange students and she too was a Rotary exchange student to Cape Town, South Africa.  Lisa was a member of the Cortland Rotary Club, co-chaired the youth exchange committee and subsequently served as club president in 2001.  She is now a member of the Galveston Rotary Club.  She moved to Texas nearly three years ago to join her brothers who have settled in Galveston.

Lisa is here today to share the powerful story of Shriner’s Hospital for Children and their mission of “Love to the Rescue!”

VISITING CONNECT COMMUNITY

Dear Fellows:

You are welcome to join me and other Community Service Committee members to visit Connetc Community. Connect Community is a collaboration of best-in-class organizations that builds healthy neighborhoods in Sharpstown/Gulfton by partnering with residents to advance their educational, economic, physical, and spiritual wellbeing and improve outcomes for every person, every step of the way.

When: Thursday February 21- 9:00-10:00

On Friday, March 1, 2019 West U Rotary will host another interviewing skills workshop for residents at The Women's Home.  This session there will be several women that need to be "interviewed" beginning at 7:45AM at 607 Westheimer on the second floor.  They are completing a series of vocational classes and are ready for the mock interview experience.  If you are a new member, you may not know that West U Rotary has supported The Women's Home for many years through various vocational service projects.  Our interviewing skills workshops are the most popular!  The Women's Home is an organization that supports women with substance abuse or mental health issues or issues of homelessness with an 18 month program that addresses the "Whole Life" of the woman, including vocational counseling.  The goal is for each woman to have employment when she leaves the program. We "interview" up to 14 women each session, giving them much needed one on one practice before they begin their search for permanent employment.  No experience is necessary (if you've ever held a conversation with a stranger, you can do this!).  Those of us that have participated before know that the women find this to be a very worthwhile experience. Please join us!  If you are interested, please contact Carol Gradziel at swkeystone@aol.com.  The more volunteers we have ensures that the women will have two interviews during our time period.  If you've never participated before, it's easy and fun so join us!  We are always finished by 9:30AM!

EMERGENCY AID COALITION & WEST U ROTARY CLUB

 Volunteers of West U will be supporting Spanish Speakers families to register to recieve bagpacks and uniforms in the Summer

When: March 4th, 2019

Time: 8:30 am - 12:30 pm

Where: EAC

          5401 Fannin
          Houston, Texas 77004

Thanks!

Margarita E. Hernandez

Community Service Chair

meliza_leon@yahoo.com

JuliAnna Jelinek serves as Executive Director of The Arbor School. Previous to assuming this role, she served as The Arbor’s Chief Development Officer for two years. As Executive Director, Ms. Jelinek is responsible for overall management of The Arbor including operations, brand management, business development, and public engagement. Prior to joining The Arbor, Ms. Jelinek spent over seven years in business development and fundraising for public policy and advocacy groups in Arizona, California, and Washington D.C.

The HAY Center, a program of Harris County Protective Services for Children and Adults, a public/private partnership, provides much needed services to foster youth transitioning to adulthood in our community. Our employment, education, housing, mental health and life skills programs empower current and former foster youth to be successful productive adults.

Join us for flag repair this Sunday March 17, at 1pm. Terry L. will be leading us in repairs. Thanks for your support

Dr. Nash grew up in Northwest Houston, attended Klein High School and swam for The Woodlands Swim Team. After clocking the 10th fastest 200 yard breastroke in 1993, he was offered a scholarship at The University of Tennessee, an NCAA Division I top 10 swimming program. Despite the excitement of competition at the highest level, he chose to focus on academics in hopes of attending medical school. He transferred to Texas A&M University, where he graduated Cum Laude with a double major in Biology and History, and a minor in Chemistry. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Texas-Houston. Dr. Nash was accepted to the prestigious Baylor-University of Texas Allied Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency program. The first year known as internship, was spent working in the Internal Medicine Department. The next three years he honed his skills working with many world-renowned professors. He next joined KSF Orthopedics after residency training. Dr. Nash lives with his wife and six children in The Woodlands. He enjoys swimming, surfing, backpacking.

Dr. Nash provides non-operative, personalized treatment options to patients suffering with acute and chronic pain. Dr. Nash strives to provide compassionate care which begins with listening to the patient.

Come help staff the Concession Stand for Challenger Baseball!

Join Rotarians (and their families), Interactors, and Rotaractors from around the Houston area to sort and palletize books for shipment to Rotarian led literacy projects in Africa and around the world. You are also welcome to bring gently used books of any sort to donate. 

We have shipped over 345 of large 40' shipping containers of books since 2000!

Come help staff the Concession Stand for Challenger Baseball!

Sheridan Gabrisch is the Development Director of Connect Community, a ‘community quarterback’ organization that uses the power of community to revitalize the Gulfton-Sharpstown neighborhood. Basing its efforts on the national Purpose Built Communities model, Connect, along with founding partners, KIPP Houston Public Schools, Legacy Community Health, St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, and the YMCA of Greater Houston, works with residents to bring wraparound wellness services, assemble a high quality cradle through college education pipeline and build mixed income housing in the Gulfton neighborhood.

VISITING THE HAY CENTER

Houston Alumni Youth

The HAY Center, a program of Harris County Protective Services for Children and Adults, a public/private partnership, provides much needed services to foster youth transitioning to adulthood in our community. Our employment, education, housing, mental health and life skills programs empower current and former foster youth to be successful productive adults.

When: April 4, 2019

Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 AM

Where: 1216 West Clay Street

Houston, Texas 77019

Please contact Rick Spencer at 832-628-8988 or by email at rspencer@fbfk.law for more information and if you are planning to attend. You may also register online.

This is a team leadership training for all 2019‐2020 Club Officers and members.  Each officer will receive training on their specific officer duties as well as a "Rotary 101" class for new members.  This is your chance to hear about all of the exciting things that will be happening in the Rotary world for the Rotary Year of 2019‐2020.

Join District Governor Elect Gary Gillen as he unveils Rotary International President Mark Maloney’s Theme for the new Rotary Year and his goals for District 5890.

Registration begins at 8:00 am, Continental Breakfast and Networking.  Training begins at 8:30 am and should conclude around 12:30 pm.

Come help staff the Concession Stand for Challenger Baseball!

Barry Ward, the Executive Director of Trees for Houston since 2008. Founded in 1983 as the Live Oak Society, Trees for Houston has expanded to plant, protect, and promote all of Houston’s urban forest. Growing with the city of Houston, they have worked to see that trees shade neighborhoods, clean air, beautify streets, and slow runoff – all vital to the beauty and well-being of our urban environment. Barry manages all conservation, project and administrative aspects of the organization which now has a 1.5 million dollar annual budget. He established and manages their 20,000 tree nursery operation.

From 1999 to 2006 Barry served with the Battleship Texas / San Jacinto Battleground Historic Park, Texas Parks and Wildlife, first as Curator and promoted to Director. In 2006 he because the Executive Director of the Battleship Texas Foundation where he served until taking the helm at Trees for Houston.

Barry’s background includes serving as Head Archivist, Assistant Curator, and Development Officer at The Haggin Museum in Stockton, CA from 1988-1995 and as part-time Historical Consultant and Site Manager if the historic Klamath Ferry Center in Stockton from 1993-1998. He served as Assistant Curator of the Houston Cultural Heritage Society from 1998-1999.

Barry has done guest appearances on PBS, the Discovery Channel and the History Channel.

Barry is also author of Stephens Brothers: A Century of Shipbuilding, published in 2002 and is a freelance writer, with articles published in the Wooden Boat Magazine, The Central Valley Harvester, Touchstone, The Caravan magazine, and others.

Join Rotarians (and their families), Interactors, and Rotaractors from around the Houston area to sort and palletize books for shipment to Rotarian led literacy projects in Africa and around the world.  You are also welcome to bring gently used books of any sort to donate. 

We have shipped over 345 of the large 40' shipping containers of books since 2000! 

Come help staff the Concession Stand for Challenger Baseball!

Please come welcome the new Red Badges (current and past year) into our Club!

We invite you to participate in the Rotary Club of West U 23rd Annual Spring Golf Tournament to be held on Monday, April 22, 2019, at Riverbend Country Club.  This year's tournament benefits the HAY Center Foundation and the West U Rotary Club Foundation.  The HAY Center provides transition services for youth aging out of foster care.

Nicole Normandin currently serves as the Executive Director for Stuff the Sleigh, a nonprofit organization that supports the psychosocial and emotional needs of pediatric cancer and hematology patients and families. Over the last ten years, Nicole has worked with vulnerable populations in several capacities – most recently as a Clinical Social Worker at Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers and as a Community Outreach Specialist with the American Cancer Society.

Nicole has a Bachelor’s of Arts in Psychology and a Masters of Science in Social Work, both from the University of Texas at Austin. In May 2017, she completed the Rice University Leadership Institute for Nonprofit Executives. She has extensive work volunteering and serving others, including time as the President of Student Hope, a pilot program through the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.

What she loves most about her role in Stuff the Sleigh is the ability to give each patient, sibling and parent a little something to make them smile despite the devastating circumstances around them. When Nicole’s father lost his 7-year battle to pancreatic cancer, her personal and professional passion for positively impacting the lives of cancer patients was reinforced, allowing her to lead the efforts made by Stuff the Sleigh.

Come help staff the Concession Stand for Challenger Baseball!

Please go to the District 5890 website to get all the details about the conference including hotel and conference reservations.

ROCO is a dynamic and innovative professional music ensemble that flexes from 1 to 40 players from all over the US and Canada, with guest artists from around the world. Performing intimate concerts in dozens of venues, ROCO’s musicians don’t just give concerts – they challenge preconceptions, create extraordinary experiences, and foster new relationships with audiences through the language of music.

Expanding the repertoire, ROCO has premiered over 65 commissions from living American composers. ROCO embraces technology, with free worldwide concert livestreams and real-time artist commentary via a smartphone app, as well as on-demand recordings of past concerts via the Listening Room. A vital part of the community, ROCO concert DVDs are sent to nursing homes and hospitals to bring music to those immobile communities, and their music education/childcare program attracts multigenerational audiences.

Join Rotarians (and their families), Interactors, and Rotaractors from around the Houston area to sort and palletize books for shipment to Rotarian led literacy projects in Africa and around the world. You are also welcome to bring gently used books of any sort to donate. 

We have shipped over 345 of large 40' shipping containers of books since 2000!

Come help staff the Concession Stand for Challenger Baseball!

Dr. Rachel A. Meidl, LP.D., CHMM, is the fellow in energy and environment at Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute of Public Policy. She was previously appointed by President Obama to the U.S. Federal Government Senior Executive Service to lead the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration as Deputy Associate Administrator, an agency of the U.S. Department of Transportation in Washington, D.C. Meidl led development of domestic and international policy interests and oversaw the department’s delegations to the United Nations International Civil Aviation Organization, the United Nations Transportation of Dangerous Goods Council and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Her research and teaching portfolio focus on domestic and international policy and law as it relates to imports and exports of hazardous wastes; upstream and end-of-life management of byproducts and wastes; alternative and renewable energy and energy recovery technologies; chemical safety reform; and safety and environmental regulations of the treatment, storage, disposal, and transportation of chemicals within and outside the U.S.

Prior to her public service, Dr. Meidl was the director of regulatory and technical affairs at the American Chemistry Council in Washington, D.C., where she advanced a broad range of regulatory and policy issues that involved enforcement, compliance, investigations and litigation on behalf of the chemical and petrochemical industries. She has more than 20 years of experience in industry, academia, government, politics and international relations, managing the entire life cycle of hazardous waste operations and emergency response to chemical, explosive, radioactive and biohazardous materials.

Dr. Meidl holds a Ph.D. in law and public policy from Northeastern University, a master’s in environmental policy and management with a concentration in environmental chemistry and international law from the University of Denver, a master’s of education in applied science and technology with certifications in chemistry and physics from National University, and bachelor’s degrees in conservation biology and zoology & animal physiology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Flag Repair in preparation for our Memorial Day Flag Launch.

Join others in donating blood on November 8. The Blood Center mobile donation crew will be at Pico's from 6:30 – 9:45 AM. Contact Bob Geary to schedule a time: rjgeary@swbell.net or 713-446-8245 . . . Don’t worry if you forget to schedule a time, they will take walk-ups.

https://www.commitforlife.org/donor/schedules/drive_schedule/282421

By the way, you know you can tell friends about this don’t you?

Our very own Gil Jackson will be speaking about Global Health and Surgery Training in Ethiopia in 2020 as well as his recent return from his Ethopia trip.

Join Rotarians (and their families), Interactors, and Rotaractors from around the Houston area to sort and palletize books for shipment to Rotarian led literacy projects in Africa and around the world. You are also welcome to bring gently used books of any sort to donate. 

We have shipped over 345 of large 40' shipping containers of books since 2000!

Eric Edward Schell is the Founder and Sole Photographer of the National LGBTQIA+ visibility campaign, Pride Portraits. The campaign has cultivated relationships with 4,000 participants across the country providing visibility, representation and humanization for the LGBTQIA+ community and our allies, most importantly always representing Houston where the campaign is headquartered. In addition to being the President of the Board with, Pride Portraits he sits on the Board of Directors for the Transgender Education Network of Texas. He previously sat on the board of Montrose Grace Place. His work as an activist and with Pride Portraits has included partnerships with the following entities and organizations. Facebook, Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD, Equality Texas, NASA, FBI, SXSW, Chevron, Legacy Clinic, The Montrose Center, University of Houston, Gender Infinity, The Mahogany Project, Tout Suite, Houston Chronicle, GLSEN, ObjectRocket, Rackspace, TechBloc, Pride Houston Inc, Pride Center - San Antonio, RuPaul's Drag Race, TransMilitary, Story Hole, PFLAG, Fringe Salon, Houston City Hall, Point 5cc, Austin Pride, AIDS Foundation Houston, Pride Superstar, #DearPride, Spectrum South, Victory Fund, Houston Police Department, ACLU of Texas, Rice University, HEB, Transgender Law Center, Planned Parenthood and many others.

Flag Repair in preparation for our July the Fourth Flag Launch.

Join us for our June Scial!

WEST U ROTARY CLUB PUB CRAWL

When: June 25, 2019

What time: 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM (you can leave event at any time)

Where we start at : Barringer  Bar 

Address: 108 Main Street  Houston, Texas 77002

Where we end at: Dean's Downtown

Address: 316 Main Street Houston, Texas 77002

Cost: $40.00 (includes the drinks).

Reservations: please sign in during our meetings or contact Event co-chairs Irene and Margarita for registration. Registration is available through clubrunner. We also will be collecting $40.00 during our meetings (cash or check). Last date for registration June 20.

Carpooling: we will meet at Skeeters Grill. Will send a confirmation with time. Uber/Lyft  is also an option for those really enjoying the tour. 

Get to know Houston through its charming pubs.

Hear the stories behind the bars set in historic Houston buildings.

Thank you!

In honor of July 4, No Club Meeting today.

In honor of Juy 4th, no Club Meeting today.

INDEPENDENCE DAY PARADE

Fundraiser Event

All proceeds will go to help the Challenger Baseball West University Little League

Sponsorship: $350.00 (Banner size: H24 x W 48. We will have a table set up your business flyers, giveaways, t-shirts, whatever you want us to give away, and you are welcome to be there too and join us).

This is a great opportunity to support the Challenger Baseball Little League and to expose your business within the Community. 

Donations: all donations are welcome.

We will be collecting checks/credit card payments on Thursdays.

DEADLINE FOR ART. For sponsors, last date we can accept logos/taglines of your business is June 26,

PARADE

When:   Thursday, 4 of July, 2019

Time:   9:00 am – 12:00

Where:   Colonial Park

               4130 Byron
              West University Place, TX 77005

Participants: do you want to have fun?  Come and join us! Bring your family members and enjoy this beautiful celebration. I promise, no storm that day. It will be sunny!  We will need also volunteers to decorate the float the day before and also we will meet earlier to line up. We will make announcements during our meetings with more details. 

4 of July Champions/Contacts:

Kazoo Band:  Bob Geary

Float/Trailer: Gene McFaddin

Challenger Baseball: Dick Cancelmo

Sponsorthips and Donations: Margarita Hernandez and Cecile Schutter

Parade Giveaways: Lisa Bunse

Snow Cones: Cecile Schutter

Banners Designer: Sharon Williams

Power Point Presentation/ Club Display: Joe Rivers and Suzanne Biggs Diecks

THANK YOU! 

Volunteer to help out with The 9th Annual Back-2-School Jamboree and Family Expo!  The largest Backpack Give-away in North Houston, the event also includes medical screening, community resource access, groceries and more!

Contact Joe Rivers for more information.  We will carpool from Skeeters at 8:45 AM that morning.