Speaker: PDG Lucinda General
Date: Feb 01, 2010
Our speaker today us Past District Governor Lucinda General of the Rotary Club of Mesa West.
Lucinda served as Mesa West president in 2001-2002. In district 5510 she has served on the district ethics committee, as Group Study Exchange Chairman, Membership Development chair, and as an Assistant Governor.
Lucinda was Rotarian of the Year in 2001-2002, District Governor in 2005-2006 and was honored with Rotary International's Service Above Self Award in 2008. She currently serves on the Youth Exchange, Ambassadorial Scholar, District Finance and District Conference committees.
Lucinda is a member of the Paul Harris Society, a Benefactor and Bequest Society member. If the economy improves and business picks up, she will soon become a Major Donor.
Additionally, all of us in 5510 elected her to be our 2010 Council on Legislation representative. Today she will do her best to tell us a little about the Council.
Speaker: Joe Kagle
Date: Jan 25, 2010
This week's program is by Joe Kagle, a teacher of art history Lone Star College in Kingwood, Texas, and the president-elect of our E-Club. Joe's artwork has been featured in many places, including the Upstream People Gallery (www.upstreampeoplegallery.com). His collection, "A Spiritual Odyssey," is also available online (www.wacoart.com). One account of his history is simply, "He was the last person in Waco to drive through traffic in a yellow Volkswagen Beetle, and the first to wear bright neckties splashed with reclining figures from famous museum masterpieces."
I think of Joe as a guy having fun with life, much more so than the average six people I know.
Speaker: Rushton Hurley
Date: Jan 18, 2010
This week's program looks at what Rotarians and others have done to help the people of Haiti, and draws some conclusions for E-Clubs and Rotary's future.
Speaker: Dr. Francine Hardaway
Date: Jan 11, 2010
In addition to her work to promote entrepreneurship as a way to help young people with serious challenges, Francine is a columnist who has recently done plenty of research on health care reform options. She shares her views with us today in her own, anything-but-boring style - enjoy!
Speaker: Bob Hand
Date: Jan 04, 2010
Bob Hand's primary working life in the USA was as research engineer in microelectronics, first with IBM and then with the IIT Research Institute. Later he sold computers and then electronic components, finally becoming a consultant in Lean Manufacturing techniques. About eight years ago he founded a non-profit organization, BizKidz of Brazil, to help street kids there develop legitimate business skills.
Why Brazil? Many years ago, as an amateur radio operator, Bob became interested in Brazil through a ten-year long series of contacts with a particular amateur operator in Garça, SP. During those contacts he gradually learned to speak Portuguese. His first visit to Brazil (and his first Rotary Club meeting) was in 1973 to visit his friend in Garça. In 2000, a chance contact with someone in MInas Gerais on the Internet led to a visit to their town and an agreement to help sponsor a project there, and BizKidz of Brazil was born. The organization now is BizKidz International, and Bob expects to find and support projects in other countries in addition to Brazil.
This story is about Bob's move to Brazil, but hopefully we can get a program about BizKidz sometime in the coming months!
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