April 4, 2001
This week's Bulletin was written by Tom Sayer.
THIS WEEK'S MEETING
The bell is back and Colette called us to order repeatedly with it! With a full meeting, we pledged the flag to Alan Talbott’s lead and bowed our heads for Pauline’s invocation of gratitude. Skipping the song, we went straight to Gary Green for introductions, including a guest from our sister-city of Campinas, Brazil (reportedly somewhere near Argentina).
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Sig offered a great stock tip to anyone who would like to support the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Pat Moore invited us all to join her at the 18th Annual Eggstravaganza, an auction to benefit the Big Sister League.
Philip Welp introduced Kingsley McClaren, the former voice of KFSD and the new Chairman of the Board of the Kids at Heart program. More will be revealed with regard to our hands on involvement with this group.
Reminder: Vocational Services Day is NEXT WEEK April 11. Click Here For Details. Some spots are still open, several are closed. Contact John Bruhn (by phone at 619-224-4082 or e-mail at jcbruhn@aol.com).
Rotarians
of the Month
For their tremendous work on this year’s Mardi Gras Fundraiser, Carol Jensen and Alan Talbott were honored as Rotarians of the Month. Pictured from left to right are Colette, Carol and Alan.
New Members
Colette
invited Jennifer Cusick and Melissa Blackburn to introduce our two newest
members. Left to right in the
photo are Lesley Knapp, Jennifer Cusick, Melissa Blackburn and Linda Fox. Lesley is an environmental lawyer with
Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch (Click Here
For Profile) and Linda is a bankruptcy lawyer with Sheppard, Mullin,
Richter & Hampton (Click
Here For Profile). Welcome to
both!
Students of the month
Hugh
Largey and Mike Whitehurst recognized the two most recent recipients of honors
from our Student of the Month program at San Diego High School. Pictured from left to right are Hugh
Largey, Gerardo Constantino, Casey Jones and Mike Whitehurst. Gerardo is currently involved in Upward
Bound and looks forward to attending SD City College and then SDSU. Casey has worked as a teacher’s aid at
Kimbrough Elementary School and, after college, hopes to work as an elementary
school teacher.
FINES! FINES? FINES!?!
Quick to the point, Sgt. Getz accepted some bragging bucks from Jose Hernandez (now in charge of all airport parking!), Tom Sayer (straight man to Jay Leno’s jokes in Vegas), Dave Archambault and Barry Tobias for the outcome of a Final Four bet, and Sig Weitzman for his wonderful grand kids.
PROGRAM
James M. Langley is the Vice Chancellor for External relations at UCSD and the President of the UCSD Foundation. He is responsible for the offices of Communications, Governmental & Community Relations, Science and Technology Policy, Development, Alumni relations, and Special Events & Protocol. In his first three years at UCSD, Jim has increased the university’s gift income from $58 million to $138 million, established a student foundation, and negotiated a new operating agreement with La Jolla Playhouse. In addition, units under his direction won numerous awards for publication design and production. The Office of Science and Technology Policy staged a national meeting of the Government, University, Industry and Research Roundtable – the first ever outside of Washington DC, and secured Federal funding for a number of critical projects including an advanced composite material bridge that will span I-5.
Jim’s discussion focused on the role of academia in the advancement of economic progress. Much as the educational mandate of the Moral Act in 1862 spurred America past Britain as the world’s greatest economic power, so has higher education (and UCSD in particular) turned San Diego into a fertile bed of corporate-college partnerships. Merck has moved her for the purpose of tapping into the resource of neuroscience knowledge unparalleled anywhere else in the world (except, perhaps, Cambridge). Knowledge is power – and not in any abstract way as might have been the case when Francis Bacon first uttered it. 150 for-profit companies have spun off from UCSD since its inception. And UCSD strives to continue to provide more opportunity to more people to continue the expansion of economic benefit through education. Climb High, See Farther, Be The First To Bring New Concepts of Knowledge.
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