Honor Roll of Rotary e-club Houston Rotarians
Ruby Powers - Ruby is a Board Certified Immigration attorney, world traveler, past Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, wife, and mom who also finds time for Rotary. She is being recognized with the 2017 American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Advocacy Award which will be presented to her in June at the annual conference in New Orleans. She was selected from a pool of 14,000 attorneys. Congratulations, Ruby!
Michael Miller - Our club treasurer for three years, has been selected to Chair the Electrical Transmission & Substation Structures Conference 2018 to be held in Atlanta, Georgia. He is married to our club president, Dree, and they will both be in Atlanta this June for the Rotary International Convention. On a site visit earlier to Atlanta, they selected the site for our joint Rotary e-club party during the RI Convention. His work as Vice-President of Engineering gives him the responsibility for North America, Mexico and interfacing with his company's plants in Brazil and India. With 20 years of experience working for the Department of Energy, plus some 10 years in the private sector, he is one of the best in the world as a Civil Structural Engineer. Thank you, Mike, for all that you do for our club, and for being a leader in your chosen vocation!
PDG Ed Charlesworth and Robin Charlesworth - Returned to their alma mater, The University of Houston on April 28th, to present a the first awarded research grant to a deserving first year graduate student in the Department of Psychology at the Annual Psychology Research Showcase. The recipient, Liz Smith, B.A., presented her work on "Perceived Stress and Alcohol Dependence in Firefighters: The Role of Posttraumatic Stress". A synopsis of her study is shared below. Thank you, Ed and Robin, for supporting the next generation of research on stress with clinical applications!
RNASA - The prestigious awards night for honoring outstanding achievement in space which was founded by the Rotary Club of Space Center Houston in 1985. Our e-club member Philip Harris (a Systems Engineer with NASA) was in attendance as a supportive Rotarian along with our District Governor Eric Liu and First Lady Sandra Liu. The National Space Trophy is presented annually to an outstanding American who has made major contributions to our nation's space program. Dr. John Grunsfeld, NASA Associate Administrator of the Science Mission Directorate, received the National Space Trophy (NST) on April 28, 2017 at the Houston Hyatt Regency. See more in the video below.