The Rotary Club of Oklahoma City met on May 21st at the PETRO CLUB... and YES they are taking contributions and Pledges to benefit the victims of the May 20, 2013 Tornado... Please send your contribution to the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City 119 N. Robinson #360 OKC OK 73102 -- checks made out the Rotary Club 29 FOUNDATION - ALSO they will process credit cards... Call their office for details 405-235-5100.

Shelter Box's response team is currently assessing the need on the ground and will focus on addressing shelter needs and supplying non-food items to impacted families.  

Leslee Hamilton

Lesslee is executive director of Guadalupe River Park Conservancy.  She earned a degree in business economics from UC Santa Barbara and served in the Peace Corps in Paraguay, where she worked in a rural cooperative and provided support and training to other Peace Corps volunteers. Leslee’s employment history includes extensive experience in transportation and environmental policy issues and political campaigns. She currently serves as a member of San Jose’s Parks & Recreation Commission and was a member of the Envision 2040 General Plan Task Force and the Diridon Station Good Neighbor Committee. 

Carl Salas

Carl graduated, with honors, from Virginia Tech in 1974 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a minor in Nuclear Engineering. He was recruited by General Electric’s nuclear division in San Jose and relocated from Blacksburg, Virginia to San Jose, in August of 1974.  

While working at G.E., Carl was awarded the Program Mangers award for his work at the G.E. Power Plant in Waterford Connecticut. In 1978, Carl met Dan O’Brien and co-founded Salas O’Brien Engineers.   

Since founding Salas O’Brien Engineers, Carl has been a significant force behind the company’s growth from three employees in downtown San Jose to five locations in California with over 80 employees.  During this time, he also leveraged his expertise to develop and present a nation-wide series of seminars regarding Energy Auditing, Energy Management Systems, Ozone Depletion, and Distributed Power Generation. In 2007 he went on to develop a 2-day seminar entitled:  Fundamentals of Sustainable Development and Carbon Reduction; and has taught this course nation-wide, for the past 4 years.  Carl and his wife, Marianne, also co-authored a book entitled:  Guide to Refrigeration CFC’s.  It was published by the Fairmont Press in 1992. Carl is also a past, national president of the Association of Energy Engineers, and has been the National Awards chairperson since 2000. 

Ali Barekat, Executive Director for Sunday Friends

Ali Barekat is the Executive Director at Sunday Friends.  The mission of Sunday Friends is to empower families in need to break the cycle of poverty.  Children and parents earn basic necessities while they contribute to their community, learn life skills and develop self-sufficiency.

Prior to working with Sunday Friends, Ali spent 25 years in business leadership, product development and executive management at high-tech companies.  He was a member of the founding engineering team at WebMD.  He holds a B.S. and M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana.

Ali serves as an Executive Board Member for the College of Adaptive Arts, a non-profit organization assisting adult students with differing abilities.

He is married to Kim Barekat, an Apple engineer, and has two kids, ages 21 and 19, both in college.

Ali has served as a Boy Scout Eagle Advisor for several years, and enjoys gardening and camping.

Gretchen Boger, Associate Attorney for Moreno Family Law Firm

Gretchen Boger is an associate attorney at the Moreno Family Law Firm in San Jose where she has worked for the past 3.5 years.

Prior to trying her hand at Family Law, she was a Deputy District Attorney in San Joaquin County for 3 years.  She also worked at the Sacramento U.S. Attorney’s Office prosecuting federal misdemeanors. 

Gretchen is an avid golfer and played on the UC Berkeley JV Women’s golf team. 

Gretchen is originally from beautiful Monterey, where her family still lives.  She earned her undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley in Cognitive Science and her law degree from University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento. 

She currently resides in San Jose with her Husband, Abram Watts.  They enjoy traveling, hiking, golfing, and good wine. 

Bob has more than 30 years of management experience and leads Gilbane's innovative bond program management delivery process through California's K-14 education market. 

Bob's education expertise includes planning, finance, oversight of design & construction, infrastructure, energy, land development, and technology.

He has also published a national magazine - Interactive Teacher - covering technology education trends for K-12 teachers while making contributions to a variety of other education-focused publications, including Facilities Manager, Science and Interactive Teacher.

Fred Maguire, Senior Vice President, Employee Benefits for CBIZ Benefits & Insurance Services

Fred Maguire is a lifelong Santa Clara County resident and attended Bellarmine High School and Santa Clara University. After receiving his MBA in Health Care Administration he has gone on to spend his entire work career in the health care field. The last 25 years as an Employee Benefits broker/consultant.

Fred has been married to his wife Holly for 18 years. They have two children, Lindsey and Connor who are twins.  He is an avid sports enthusiast now spending most of his time watching his kids play.

This year the North Gate (located by the Gordon House) will be locked, parking is available inside History San Jose entering from Phelan.

The deadline to make your reservation is Friday, May 31st, and any cancellations after Monday, June 3rd will be billed $25 per person.  Please contact Teresa McCarthy at the Rotary Office to make your reservation.

See you at the BBQ!!!

President Mike called the meeting to order and told us that this is meeting number 4,932.  He thanked the Executive Chefs who, with their chair, Rick Alpers,  made up the day’s reception line.
 
Ray Silva made some brief references to the talk he gave last week and then led us in singing America the Beautiful.
 
Brad Baron delivered the invocation, which consisted of a quotation from President Eisenhower.
 
President Mike talked briefly about the need for giving aid to the people who had suffered through the recent typhoon in Oklahoma.

Happy Hollow Foundation

Happy Hollow Park & Zoo exists to provide an affordable, sustainable, conservation-centered outdoor adventure for families with children.

The focus of Happy Hollow Foundation is to engage individual donors, foundations, corporations, and government agencies in helping to advance the park & zoo.

Click on the brown title below and read the entire story.

Rotarians all over the world have been working in unison to ensure that no child will ever again know the crippling effects of Polio. It has been twenty years since the last case was reported in the Americas. While India seems on track again for 2013 to achieve zero polio cases, frantic efforts are underway in the other polio-endemic countries. Let us all rededicate ourselves to the cause and keep fighting to eradicate Polio from the face of the earth. 

You can download Rotary International's "End Polio Now" bimonthly newsletter by Clicking On This Link. It was updated April 2013.

The bottom line is this: As long as polio threatens even one child anywhere in the world, all children – wherever they live – remain at  risk. You can track the progress on the internet of Polio eradication at this link. There is a Rotary International Link here. 

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