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. 

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.  

Thang Do is a registered architect and president of San Jose-based AEDIS Architects, which specializes in educational facilities.  His work has won local, state and national design awards.  His passion includes sustainable design and improving San Jose's urban experience.

He serves on the board of several non-profit and professional organizations, including VNHELP, the American Institute of Architects, Santa Clara Valley Chapter, and is a member of the SJDA Design Committee and San Jose Architectural Review Committee.  He is a past chair of the San Jose Planning Commission.

Thang received his architectural degree from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and spent a year studying architecture and language in Florence, Italy.  He is fluent in English and Vietnamese, and proficient in French, Italian and Spanish.

He lives in Saratoga with his wife Grace Liu and 4 children in a house he designed, which incorporates many green features.

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!!!

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.