Events

Our September 11 Community Service Event

Tabitha Branum is an experienced leader and motivated educator with 25 years of experience. She served as a classroom teacher, assistant principal, principal, technology leader, and curriculum leader prior to joining RISD eight years ago. In August 2022, Branum was named RISD Superintendent.

She is passionate about public schools and knows what it takes to ensure all students graduate prepared to navigate a future they create.

Today's meeting is our club's 85th anniversary celebration, closest to our "Birthday," September 14.

Come to the meeting and celebrate with enchiladas and cake!

Saturday, September 30

90 - minute sessions

Choose the time slot which works best for your
Saturday morning schedule. Options are

Early Bird Special 7:30 to 9:00

I need Coffee first  9-10:30

Just in Time 10:30 to Noon

Flag Storage Warehouse

3369 W Campbell Rd, Garland, TX 75044

RSVP for your time slot to Ginger Mayo

 ginger@lwmayoappraisers.com

Wear your Rotary Shirt

As Senior Strategy officer for Tyler Technologies, Graham works with other Tyler executives in shaping vision and strategy while also pursuing his passion of working with nonprofit organization Both Ends Believing. Tyler partners with Both Ends Believing to provide Children First software to manage cases, plan outcomes, and place children with loving families.

Registration for any Blood Drive with Carter BloodCare is through their website. Click here to sign up.

https://ww3.greatpartners.org/donor/schedules/drive_schedule/142930

Thank you in advance!

Celebrate our 85th at the Family & Community Fall Picnic!

Bring your own snacks and libations...Birthday Cake Provided!

UT Dallas and Richardson Rotary Club are hosting a three-part series at the Richardson Innovation Quarter (IQ). Attendees are learning more about research that takes place at UTD as promnent researchers showcase their science and centers located at the IQ.

The speaker at this session is Dr. Baowei Fei.

Dr. Fei is Director of the Center for Imaging and Surgical Innovation, a Full Professor of Bioengineering and Cecil H. and Ida Green Chair in Systems Biology Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is also a Full Professor of Radiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Before he was recruited to Dallas, Dr. Fei was Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences and Department of Mathematics & Computer Science at Emory.

Dr. Fei has received numerous awards at the national and local levels and is a national leader in quantitative imaging and image-guided interventions. He served as Principal Investigator (PI) of more than 20 research grants from the National Institute of Health, Department of Defense, foundations, industry, state and local programs, and other agencies. He also served as co-investigator for more than 20 other funded grants.

Dr. Fei enjoys mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and visiting scholars when they undertake research projects in his research lab. His trainees have become faculty members in academic institutions in the USA and other countries.

Walter Everett Voit is a Dallas-based serial entrepreneur and the SVP for Polymer Materials at Desktop Metal, which acquired his startup company, Adaptive3D for $65M in 2021. Voit and his team of polymer chemists, materials scientists, computer scientists, hardware engineers and business development experts work within Desktop Metal to help serve more than 6,000 customers around the world.

Voit received tenure from UT Dallas in the Materials Science and Engineering Department in 2017. Voit graduated high school valedictorian and was recruited to UT Dallas through the Eugene McDermott Scholars Program. As a McDermott Scholar, Voit worked at Los Alamos National Labs and at Dallas nanotechnology startup company Zyvex.

Voit enjoys basketball, soccer, snowboarding, rafting, hiking, reading, parenting and travelling. The joys of his life are his family: wife Felicity and children Margaret (7), Kepler (3) and Wolfgang (almost 1).

The University of Texas at Dallas Chamber Singers is the premiere vocal ensemble on campus. This is an auditioned SATB choir composed of outstanding undergraduate singers reaching across all academic majors. The ensemble performs a challenging and varied repertoire, both accompanied and unaccompanied, in an energizing and educational setting. The UT Dallas Chamber Singers is directed by Associate Dean of the Arts and Director of Choral Activities, Dr. Jonathan Palant. 

Call Jimmy Doty at (214) 773-2806 to sign up.....

We are planning to paint on Friday, February 2, with two shifts from 9:00 AM to noon and 1:00 PM until 4:00 PM.  The rooms, yes, there are two, are not that large and we should be able to wrap it up in one day.  The first shift will, of necessity, be doing prep work taping, drop cloth placing, etc., prior to starting painting.  The second shift will be all painting with some clean-up.

Parking is available in the big lot off Campbell Road or in a smaller lot off Municipal Drive.   The sign at the entrance to the lot off Municipal still says “Physician Parking,” but it is no longer used for that and we are welcome to park there.  Enter through the door to the office area on the northwest corner of the lot.  Wear old (painting) clothes and come ready for a good time working to help the community.

Thank you!

Philip Hiatt Haigh is the Executive Director of The Loop Dallas, a visionary initiative recognized as the 2023 D CEO Organization of the Year (midsize). The Loop Dallas is dedicated to uniting neighborhoods in the heart of Dallas and transforming the city into a hub of walkable green spaces.

Under Philip’s management, The Loop Dallas has achieved significant milestones including the successful completion of its inaugural project, opening the North Phase of the Trinity Forest Spine Trail. The Loop Dallas is currently on track to deliver all projects needed to complete the 50-mile circuit: the long-awaited Trinity Forest Spine Trail, the Hi Line Connector, the Discovery Gateway, and the Skyline Trail Link. 

Dr Kumar finished his Neurology residency from the University of Missouri in Columbia Missouri in 1988 and did his fellowship from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Georgia.

Before moving to Dallas in 2006 as the director of stroke services at Baylor Garland, he was Associate professor of neurology and medicine at University of Illinois.

Currently Dr. Kumar is semi-retired and works with patients with concussion and traumatic brain injury. He has a special interest in brain health and dementia prevention.

Dr. Kumar has been Rotary club member for several years and is a Paul Harris fellow. He and his wife, Vandana, have hosted Rotary international fellowship and Rotary youth exchange participants.