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Jan. 14, 2025 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Come on out and join in some winter fun! Connor Grill will be hosting. You can reach Connor at 941-920-1858. Meet at the Ice Rink. You don't need to skate to join in the fun! PLEASE NOTE: All tickets must be purchased online. Tickets for general admission will not be available for purchase at the ice rink will-call window. Purchase Tickets |
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Jan. 15, 2025 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
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Jan. 16, 2025 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Join Virtually ===> January 16, 2025
Kenneth L. Mattox, M.D., is one of the most recognized surgeons around the world. He is Distinguished Service Professor of the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine and Chief of Staff/Chief of Surgery at the Ben Taub Hospital, Houston, Texas. He helped develop the internationally renowned Ben Taub General Hospital Emergency Center and its equally respected Trauma Center. His reputation as an innovator in trauma care is worldwide. He has made original and significant contributions in trauma resuscitation, trauma systems, thoracic trauma, vascular injury, autotransfusion, complex abdominal trauma and multi-system trauma. His research in preoperative fluid restriction for penetrating trauma shook the foundation of surgical doctrine in this area. His textbook, Trauma, is an international best seller, now in its 8th edition, and he is co-editor of the Sabiston’s Textbook of Surgery, recognized throughout the world. He is co-editor of the second edition of Rich’s Vascular Trauma. A fifth book, History of Surgery in Houston, recounts the last 50 years of Houston’s impressive and colorful surgical heritage. He co-authored the unique, international best seller, Top Knife, a practical guide to trauma care, translated into nine foreign languages. He frequently receives emails from physicians in war zones who refer to this “little book” as their Bible in the OR.
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Jan. 23, 2025 11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Terry R. Lord
Terry Lord, former federal prosecutor,
Mr. Lord, who spent almost 30 years as a prosecutor in the US Department of Justice, Criminal Division, was a member of a legal delegation to Ireland and Northern Ireland in September of 2024. The attorneys in the delegation visited law schools, legal societies, bar associations, media representatives and historians. The purpose of these meetings was to share information and lessons learned about how the legal system can promote the Rule of Law and work towards agreements to end political violence.
This presentation will be an important study of how the Irish have resolved their differences with the UK, dealt with long-standing religious discrimination and violence, and promote the Rule of Law throughout the world. Most significantly, the US can adopt some of these programs to diminish political violence and improve civility.
The Irish know that political and religious violence can erupt at any moment- their institutions are working to bring people together through sports, charitable organizations, and non-government groups. They are sending their own delegations to foreign countries facing war and civil violence to help bring about peace and human rights.
The story of the Irish pursuit for human rights and the Rule of Law is a never-ending journey, just as it is for every nation.
Full bio: Mr. Lord retired from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2004 after serving as a prosecutor in the Criminal Division for almost thirty years. He began as a Special Attorney in the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section in 1970 serving on Strike Forces in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas. The Assistant Attorney General (AAG) for the Criminal Division named him the Chief of the Las Vegas Strike Force in 1987.
Selected by the American Political Science Association in 1990 to be a Congressional Fellow, Lord spent a year in the US Senate as a Legislative Assistant to Senator Joe Lieberman (D-I-Conn). He aided the Senator with legislative hearings in the Governmental Affairs Committee chaired by the late Senator John Glenn (D-Ohio) and Senate floor debate on a variety of bills. Upon completion of the one year Senate Fellowship, Lord returned to the DOJ Criminal Division as the Principal Deputy Chief of the General Litigation and Legal Advice Section (GLLAS). This section, one of the largest in the Division at the time, prosecuted cases involving immigration and customs fraud, industrial health and safety criminal violations, bribery and graft not involving official corruption, Indian affairs, and many other federal offenses. From 1994 to 1996, Lord was the Acting Chief of GLLAS. The AAG for the division appointed Lord to be the Chief of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) in 1996. By this time, the use of the internet to distribute child pornography, and to commercially exploit children on a world-wide basis had become a major social and criminal law enforcement issue. CEOS led national enforcement initiatives against child pornography rings operating throughout the US while working with investigators from federal, state and local agencies. Attorneys from CEOS trained prosecutors in US Attorney offices, District Attorney offices and even prosecutors around the world in new techniques in the investigation and prosecution of child exploitation offenses. Lord was a member of theInterpol Committee on Crimes against Children and headed a sub-committee on Legal Training. This Interpol committee organized and conducted training on child exploitation enforcement for investigators and prosecutors throughout the globe.
The Overseas Professional Training and Development Section (OPDAT) of the Criminal Division selected Lord to be the Resident Legal Advisor (RLA) at the US Embassy in Bucharest, Romania. From 2001 to 2003, Lord assisted the Romanian Ministry of Justice and the Prosecutor-General’s office in establishing new programs to combat human trafficking, organized crime and corruption. Training seminars and conferences were held in every part of Romania for investigators, prosecutors and judges. Lord completed his DOJ career as the Acting Regional Director for Central Europe, OPDAT, working in Washington, DC from 2003-2004. He supervised and directed RLA programs in eleven countries, although a majority of the efforts focused on the Balkans.
Lord now lives in Houston, Texas. He is a 50 year member of the State Bar of Texas, Vietnam War veteran and educated at Southern Methodist University (BA-1963) and the University of Texas School of Law (JD-1966).
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Jan 30, 2025 A Magical Ride on the Rotary Express All Club Gala Feb 4, 2025 Nice Winery Guided Wine Class Experience Feb 6, 2025 CRISES AND OPPORTUNITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST Feb 8, 2025 Heats for Children Festival Feb 13, 2025 Dr. Brian Butler, Chief of Radiation & Oncologiy |
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Jan. 27, 2025 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
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Jan. 30, 2025 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
NO LUNCHEON TODAY THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2025
Please come next week Thursday February 6, 2025 for David M. Satterfield: Challenges and Opportunities in the Middle East
SAVE THE DATES: Feb 8 2025 - Hearts for Children Festival |
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Jan. 30, 2025 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
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Feb. 04, 2025 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Rotary Club of Houston Social Nice Winery Guided Wine Class Experience Enjoy a fun and educational wine class featuring six of their highly rated, premium wines. Classes are led by one of their knowledgeable winery team members. Wines are served with 6 Chef-crafted accompaniments, specific to each wine. This class also includes a short tour of the winery. All wines featured will be available for purchase at the winery.
$115 per person
Limited to 24 people
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Feb. 06, 2025 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
David M. Satterfield The Honorable David M. Satterfield is the director of Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and leads the institute's Edward P. Djerejian Center for the Middle East. He is also the Janice and Robert McNair Chair in Public Policy. He has more than four decades of diplomatic and leadership experience, including service as special envoy for the Horn of Africa, assistant secretary of state, National Security Council staff director, and ambassador to Lebanon and Turkey and chargé d’affaires in Iraq and Egypt. From October 2023 to May 2024, President Biden appointed him U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Humanitarian Issues to lead U.S. diplomacy in addressing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Satterfield’s extensive bilateral and multinational negotiating background most notably includes the 1995 Roadmap for Israel-Palestinian Peace (with the United Nations), the 2000 withdrawal of the Israel Defense Forces from Lebanon and Blue Line boundary agreement (with the United Nations), and the 2008 Status of Forces Agreement between the U.S. and Iraq. As the State Department’s coordinator for Iraq, he managed the largest domestic staff in the department’s history and directed fundamental reforms to the Foreign Service. As director general of the Multinational Force and Observers, Satterfield conceived and directed the comprehensive modernization of military and civilian peacekeeping operations and led fundraising efforts with the U.S. Congress and donor governments. Among other honors, Satterfield is the recipient of the highest Department of State recognition as the Secretary of State Distinguished Service Award, the highest award for senior federal executives as the Office of Personnel Management Distinguished Federal Executive Rank Award, as well as the Secretary of Defense Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service. Satterfield is a graduate of the University of Maryland and speaks Arabic, French, and Italian. He is married to Elizabeth Ann Fritschle, a career Foreign Service officer. Chair of the Day SAVE THE DATES: Feb 08 2025 - Hearts for Children Festival |
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Feb. 08, 2025 8:45 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
The Rotary Club of Houston seeks up to 20 volunteers among Club members and their spouse/guest for The 13th Annual Rotary-Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Hearts for Children Festival. The Adoption Fair introduces children in the state foster care system availalbe for adoption with prosdpective parent(s) who have already completed the process to become an adoptive parent in a fun -filled and relaxed atmosophre. The Fair will include acitivity and game booths, a DJ, Photo Booth, Charicuture Artisit, Toro the Texans Mascot and lunch. Rotarians spend time playing games with the children starting at 9:00 AM and help prepare them to interact with prospective parent(s) who begin arriving after 10:00 AM. Over the past 12 years over 60 children have been adopted as a resiult of the first meeting at the Festival. All volunteers must be at least 18 years of age.
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Feb. 11, 2025 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. UTC-06:00
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Feb. 11, 2025 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
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Feb. 13, 2025 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Dr. Edward Brian ButlerHouston MethodistChairman, Radiation Oncology Department"A vision for the evolution of Robotic surgery utilizing AI and novel imaging" After completing his postdoctoral training in 1987 at Stanford University, Dr. Butler arrived at the Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center in San Antonio where he became both the chief of radiation oncology and the chief of brachytherapy. He also joined the faculty at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio as a clinical assistant professor that same year. Dr. Butler would later join Baylor College of Medicine where he eventually became a full professor and chief of radiation oncology for both the medical school and the VA Hospital. In 1991, he became the medical director of radiation oncology at what was then The Methodist Hospital, and received his faculty appointment at the Weill Medical School in 2006. In 2008, Dr. Butler became the chairman of radiation oncology at Houston Methodist. In 2016, he was appointed to the Jim and Joan Harrell Chair in Radiation Oncology endowed position. Dr. Butler has published 249 peer reviewed articles. Dr. Butler's research centers on preclinical and clinical studies that combine radiation therapy and gene therapy for the treatment of prostate cancer. In recent years, he has extended these successful studies to other cancers, notably prostate cancer. His research interests also include three-dimensional reconstruction of body organs to assist in better localization of radiation therapy. He also has developed a Nano release device to place directly into the tumor to help turn on the patient’s immunological system. Houston Methodist. Leading Medicine. Houston Methodist Hospital has been named the Best Hospital in Texas for 13 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report and recognized on the Honor Roll eight times. For more than 100 years, we have provided patients with the highest quality care, the most advanced technology and the best patient experience. That’s the difference between practicing medicine and leading it. houstonmethodist.org SAVE THE DATES: Feb 19 2025 - Rotary House Reception |
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Feb. 19, 2025 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
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Feb. 20, 2025 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Jay S. Zeidman is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Altitude Ventures, a healthcare investment firm. Before starting AV, Mr. Zeidman was the Director of Business Development for U.S. Capital Advisors and served as an aide to President George W. Bush at the White House. Mr. Zeidman serves as Chairman of the Board for Houston First Corporation in addition to serving on the Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission, UT Health Science Center of Houston, and the Emancipation Park Conservancy. Mr. Zeidman was named to the Houston Business Journal’s “40 under 40” class in 2014. He received his undergraduate degree in Economics and Political Science from TCU, where he also served as Student Body President, and his M.B.A. from the Jesse Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. |
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Feb. 27, 2025 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Orchids in Houston and Texas? Wildflowers? Joe Liggio From a rare native orchid in Memorial Park and other native Texas Wild Flowers, join Joe Liggio, a Texas botanist and environmental scientist, nature photographer, and writer as he shares his insights and photos. He and his wife Ann wrote Wild Orchids of Texas published in 1999 by the University of Texas Press. His photos and writing have been published in various magazines, including Texas Highways, Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine, Science, Orchids (The bulletin e of American Orchid Society), Earth Magazine, Texas Mushrooms, and the Illustrated Flora of East Texas. |
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Mar. 06, 2025 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Tony Payan Issues of Discussion:
Biography Tony Payan, Ph.D., is the Françoise and Edward Djerejian Fellow for Mexico Studies and the executive director of the Center for the U.S. and Mexico at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. He is also a professor of social sciences at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, where he directed the Social Science Doctorate Program from 2009 to 2012. From 2001 to 2015, Payan was a professor of political science at The University of Texas at El Paso. Payan’s research focuses on border studies, particularly the U.S.-Mexico border. He examines daily life in liminal spaces, cross-border flows—both legal and illegal—and border governance issues. He also explores various topics affecting the U.S.-Mexico relationship. He has authored, co-authored, or edited nearly 20 volumes on his research, in addition to numerous book chapters, monographs, white papers, issue briefs, and journal articles. Payan has served on several boards, including the Camino Real Regional Mobility Authority, the Cross-border Relations Committee in El Paso, Texas, and the Plan Estratégico de Juárez in Ciudad Juárez. He is a member of the Greater Houston Partnership’s Immigration Advisory Committee and previously served on its Mexico Energy Task Force. He was president of the Association of Borderlands Studies from 2009 to 2010 and has been involved with multiple journal editorial boards. Payan earned a B.A. in philosophy and classical languages and an MBA from the University of Dallas. He received a doctorate in international relations from Georgetown University in 2001. Joe Colangelo 713-412-1875 |
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Mar. 11, 2025 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. UTC-05:00
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Mar. 19, 2025 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
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Apr. 04, 2025 7:00 a.m. - Apr. 06, 2025 12:00 p.m.
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Apr. 16, 2025 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
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