HCC Seeking Community Input

Dr. Scott Gehman, Special Assistant to the President for Workforce Visioning for Houston Community College, Northwest, was our guest this week. He is seeking community input from area residents on how the HCC system can assist the business community by providing educational programs to make the workforce more productive and profitable.

Our members rose to the occasion and provided possible program ideas for things such as maritime training for future officers; language training (not only ESL but training in how to overcome accents) to assist the medical industry and retail; and a number of other ideas.

If you have other ideas on how HCC can better serve the Houston business community by offering educational programs to help develop a better workforce, please contact Scott. His contact information is:

Scott Gehman
Office: (713) 718-5612
Mobile (713) 851-9375
Email: scott.gehman@hccs.edu

Guests Visitors and Other Good News

We were delighted that Tammy Lin (our Rotary Exchange Student) was able to join us this week! See - Spring Break is good for something! Tammy is so busy with school and sports that it's a wonder she has time to participate in the trips Rotary sponsors and the excursions offered by our Club Rotarians and others. But she IS doing it all! Way to go Tammy!!!

Also visiting this week was Lawrence Sims, a guest of Jerry Hobby. Lawrence is actively working to develop a program which will help train the unemployed and underemployed - especially those with disabilities - so that they can be a productive part of the American workforce.

The Check Dam Project Has Been Approved

Chuni Vyas reported to the Club at the meeting that the Rotary Foundation has approved the Matching Grant tat was submitted by our club along with the Rotary Club of Mumbai Borivali East in India. The project is to build a number of checks to catch and retain the water during the rainy season - so that the population will have water during the balance of the year.

This project is a wonderful example of why Rotary works so well!

Both Rotary Clubs will contribute $1,000. Their Rotary Districts will contribute in support of the project, and Rotary International Foundation will support the project with it's own contributions. The results being that from a $1,000 contribution made by the Sharpstown club, there will be about $25,000 available to fund building the check dams.

Have you made your contribution to the Rotary Foundation this year? EVERY ROTARIAN, EVERY YEAR means that all of us need to plan on contributing a MINIMUM of $100 to the Foundation every year. Our Club has the distinction of being a Paul Harris Club. This means that ALL members of the Club are Paul Harris Fellows...having donated or had donated in their name $1,000 to the Rotary Foundation. And...that every year each member continued to donate a minimum of $100 to the Foundation.

Way to go people!