Events Calendar
August 2007 Speaker Series
August 1
Speakers: Laurie Balmer and Gloria Brooks
Topic: New Help for Grieving Children, Ele’s Place & Arbor Hospice
You will be surprised to learn how many children in a typical elementary school have experienced the death of someone close to them. After 16 years counseling such children in the Lansing area, Ele’s Place opened a new healing center for grieving children here in May. Its executive director and Arbor Hospice CEO Gloria Brooks will explain how their children’s grief programs now complement each other in our community.
August 8
Speaker: Lloyd Carr, U-M Football Coach
Topic: Preview of the 2007 Season for the Wolverines and Big Ten
Buckle your chinstraps, Rotarians, and listen up to the annual Wolverine/Big Ten preview from one of America ’s winningest NCAA football coaches. Coach Carr will tell us whom to look for and what to expect from this season’s Wolverines on both sides of the line of scrimmage – and from the rest of the Big Ten football powers, pretenders and wannabes. A surprise or two will set this year’s football Wednesday apart from those in other years.
August 15
Speaker: John & Eileen Heasley, Troy Rotarians
Topic: Working for Clean Water in Developing Countries – The Biosand Filter
Increasing availability of clean water is one of the best ways to improve health in the developing world. According to WHO estimates, more than 90% of diarrhea cases are preventable through providing clean water and related sanitation and hygiene improvements. Rotary District 6380 has worked on this by providing BioSand filters in Nepal and other developing countries. Our speakers will bring a firsthand account of these efforts.
August 22
Speaker: Robert Dolan, Dean, Stephen M. Ross School of Business Administration
Topic: Some New Directions for Business Education at U-M
Dean Dolan, entering his seventh year with the Business Administration School , will tell us about new programs bringing its teaching and research functions into focus through field engagements with companies world-wide. He also will discuss progress on the School’s state-of-the-art complex under construction on central campus, made possible by a $100 million gift from alumnus Stephen M. Ross.
August 29
Speaker: Professor Sylvia Pedraza, U-M Sociology Department
Topic: Transforming America – Immigrants Then and Now
Professor Pedraza will shed light, not heat, on one of the hottest-button issues in American politics and policy. Author of Origins and Destinies: Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in America , she has been investigating the melding of immigrants and ethnics into the American labor market. She also will discuss one of the most persistent thorns in the side of the American body politic, drawing from the work behind her latest book, Political Disaffection in Cuba ’s Revolution and Exodus.