Rotary Connects The World

The Original Rotary Club of Houston founded in 1912

Rotary Houston proudly stands with the 1.2million Rotarians World Wide

When we come together as #PeopleOfAction, there’s no limit to what we can achieve to make our world a better place.

Rotary Connects The World…because Rotarians are PEOPLE OF ACTION. 

Interested in Rotary? Look at our orientation power point presentation featuring information about Rotary International and the Original Rotary Club of Houston founded in 1912. Visit one of our meetings to get to know us better.

Rotary Club of Houston & Rotary International Overview
Thursday, August 29, 2019

Susan Dio 

Chairman and President of BP America

HESS Club

5430 Westheimer Ct., Houston, TX 77056

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Susan Dio is chairman and president of BP America, providing leadership and oversight to BP's U.S. businesses, which employ around 14,000 people. These businesses include oil and gas exploration and production, refining, petrochemicals, supply and trading, pipeline operations, shipping, retail, and alternative energy.

Susan also serves as chairman of the BP America Board of Directors.


Since joining the company in 1984, she has held key operational and executive positions in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia. Before assuming her current role, Susan served as CEO of BP Shipping, where she managed the fleet of BP-operated and chartered vessels that move more than 200 million tons of products across the globe each year. 

She also previously served as head of audit for BP's Refining and Marketing segment, as business unit leader of the Bulwer Island Refinery, and as plant manager of Texas City Chemicals.

Beyond BP, Susan is a member of the American Petroleum Institute Board and Executive Committee, the Greater Houston Partnership Executive Committee, and the Ford's Theatre Board of Trustees Executive Committee.

Thursday, September 5, 2019

John W. Diamond
Director, Center for Public Finance
Edward A. and Hermena Hancock Kelly Fellow in Public Finance
Rice University's Baker Institute

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HESS Club

5430 Westheimer Ct.

Houston, TX 77056

 

John W. Diamond, Ph.D., is the Edward A. and Hermena Hancock Kelly Fellow in Public Finance and director of the Center for Public Finance at the Baker Institute, an adjunct professor of economics at Rice University and CEO of Tax Policy Advisers, LLC. His research interests are federal tax and expenditure policy, state and local public finance, and the construction and simulation of computable general equilibrium models. His current research focuses on the economic effects of corporate tax reform, the economic and distributional effects of fundamental tax reform, taxation and housing values, public sector pensions, and various other tax and expenditure policy issues.

Diamond is co-editor of "Pathways to Fiscal Reform in the United States" (The MIT Press, 2015) and “Fundamental Tax Reform: Issues, Choices and Implications” (The MIT Press, 2008). He has testified before the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, the U.S. House Budget Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, the Joint Economic Committee and other federal and state committees on issues related to tax policy and the U.S. economy. Diamond served as forum editor for the National Tax Journal (2009-2017) and on the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, U.S. Congress (2000-2004). He has also served as a consultant for the World Bank on the efficacy of structural adjustment programs.

He received his Ph.D. in economics from Rice University in 2000.

Thursday, September 12, 2019

Joe Gamaldi 

Houston Police Officers’ Union FOP Lodge 110 President

Hess Club 

5430 Westheimer Rd. Houston, TX 77056

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Houston Police Officers’ Union, FOP Lodge 110 President Joe Gamaldi was born and raised on Long Island, NY. Following high school he attended the University of Hartford, where he earned a degree in Criminal Justice, with minors in Political Science and Sociology. After graduation, Officer Gamaldi was hired by the NYPD in 2005 where he worked as an officer for approx. 3 years. He then transferred to the Houston Police Department in 2008 and graduated from Class #197. 

Shortly after graduation from the academy, he completed his Masters Degree from Long Island University in Homeland Security Management. Officer Gamaldi then went on to serve as a Board Members of the HPOU, before being elected the Second Vice President from 2012-2017 and was elected President of the Houston Police Officer’s Union in January 2018. Officer Gamaldi is the chair of the Labor Relations Committee, the Ways and Means committee, has served on the bargaining team for several contract negotiations, and served as lead negotiator for the most recent negotiations. He also coordinates the Safe Ride Home program, founded the Houston Officers Peer Assistance (HOPA) a stand alone non-profit dedicated to providing per assistance to police officers, assisted in the creation of the HPOU mobile app and runs all the social media platforms for the HPOU. 

What is Rotary?

The Rotary Club of Houston is a group of business leaders working together collaboratively to impact positive change in our community and around the world, operating consistently with Rotary's motto of Service Above Self. Some of our service projects include:
 

  • Rotary Distinguished Citizen Award is presented annually to someone in Houston who exhibits high ideals, leadership and philanthropy. The funds raised support the club’s on-going service activities.

 

  • Camp Enterprise is an annual activity that introduces business and business ethics to 75 high school juniors.  The funds for this event are raised with an annual golf tournament.

 

  • Burnett Bayland Outreach has delivered personal support and mentoring to at-risk children at the county run resident.


The club also works actively in many other areas including mentoring elementary school youth, giving assistance to ex-offenders, and international projects, including Polio Plus.

Object of Rotary

 

 

The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

 

  • FIRST - The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service; 
  • SECOND - High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
  • THIRD - The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;
  • FOURTH - The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

4-Way Test

From the earliest days of the organization, Rotarians were concerned with promoting high ethical standards in their professional lives. One of the world's most widely printed and quoted statements of business ethics is The Four-Way Test, which was created in 1932 by Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor (who later served as RI president) when he was asked to take charge of a company that was facing bankruptcy. This 24-word test for employees to follow in their business and professional lives became the guide for sales, production, advertising, and all relations with dealers and customers, and the survival of the company is credited to this simple philosophy. Adopted by Rotary in 1943, The Four-Way Test has been translated into more than a hundred languages and published in thousands of ways. It asks the following four questions: "Of the things we think, say or do:

1. Is it the TRUTH?

2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?

3. Will it build GOOD WILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

AND AS THE ROTARY CLUB OF HOUSTON SAYS

5. Will it be FUN!

 
Club Information
 

RSVP by noon Tuesday.7/1/19: on line reservation is $40 and walk in price is $45 for all who do not have a meal plan or punch card.

Houston
We meet Thursdays at 12:00 PM
HESS Club
5430 Westheimer Ct.
(REGISTRATION DESK OPENS AT 11:30)
Houston, TX  77056
United States of America

Phone:
(713) 973-9936
Email:
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Officers & Directors
President
Kathy Fenninger
Secretary
Natalie Wriston
Treasurer
Bob Seekely
Sergeant-at-Arms
Robert Adams
President Elect
Mel Gross
Treasurer Elect
Jim Behrmann
Past President
Larry Meeks
Rotary Foundation Chair
Mel Gross
Director 2017-2020
Dorothy Beeler
Director 2017-2020
Stephen Cooney
Director 2017-2020
Robert Eckels
Director 2017-2020
Jill Mazur
Director 2017-2020
Graham Sharp
Director 2018-2021
Mercedes Harris
Director 2018-2021
Clint Laechelin
Director 2018-2021
Richard Meek
Director 2018-2021
Monique Johnson-Garner
Director 2018-2021
Nicholas Hosn
Director at large 2019-2020
Judy Lee Gardiner
Director at large 2019-2020
Richard Kuriger
Director 2019-2022
Dan Clinton
Director 2019-2022
Lauren Walters
Director 2019-2022
Charlie Ewing
Director 2019-2022
Bob Wells
Director 2019-2022
Charles Dabney
Club Administrator
Deanna Belford
Burnett Bayland
Mercedes Harris
Camp Enterprise
Trina Fowlkes
Classification Committee Chair
Richard Meek
Fresh Start Co-Chair
Phil Hampton
Fresh Start Co-Chair
Nicholas Hosn
Interact & Rotaract Co-Chair
Hussain Ali
Interact & Rotaract Co-Chair
Huzaifa Sadiq
International
Demir Karsan
Literacy-First Book
Sheila Armstrong
Membership Chair
Bob Wells
Polio Chair
Larry Meeks
Programs
Joe Colangelo
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Dorothy Beeler
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Ian Hirtz
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Phil Hampton
Veterans Chair
Orlando O'Neill
Youth and Education Co-Chair
Monique Johnson-Garner
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Joel Levine
 
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