August 2016 Speakers

Posted by suguna alluri on Aug 02, 2016
 
Aug 04, 2016 Michael Kevane Economics

 

Michael Kevane is Associate Professor of the Economics Department at Santa Clara University.  He is past President of the Sudan Studies Association, and co-director of Friends of African Village Libraries.  Recent research focuses on how libraries promote reading, with articles published in Libri, World Libraries and Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France.  He is co-editor of Kordofan Invaded: Peripheral Incorporation and Social Transformation in Islamic Africa (Brill, 1998) and author of Women and Development in Africa: How Gender Works (Lynne Rienner, 2014, 2nd edition).

 

Aug 11, 2016 Nick Leon
 
Rotary and San Jose East/Evergreen Rotary Youth Services
 
Our club has been very active working with the interactors of the East Side Union Schools. Nick will enlighten us about his extensive work with the Youth, and how as club members we can be more involved with the activities and projects of these youngsters and to be mentors.
 
Aug 18, 2016 Lucia Maria Calve - San Jose Public Library Foundation
 
It’s Not your Grandmother’s Library.
 

Lucia will give a brief history of how our  library has changed, She will describe surprising new programs at the library which help our community members, and the exciting differences the Library Foundation has made historically, most recently and will be making in the future.

 

Aug 25, 2016 Glen Williams and Bruce Knopf
Santa Clara County Asset Management

 

Bruce J. M. Knopf

Director, Santa Clara County Office of Asset and Economic Development

Mr. Knopf has over thirty years of economic development and business transaction experience in the
public and private sector. He is responsible for land transactions and development as well as
implementing with its partners the County’s program for economic development in the region.

Glen A Williams
Asset Development Manager, Santa Clara County Office of Asset and Economic Development
 
Mr. Williams has over forty years of experience in real estate, as a developer, investment banker, broker and consultant. He currently has responsibility for helping the County of Santa Clara decide how to best utilize its real estate assets to maximize their value to the County’s residents. One of his assignments is to serve as Project Manager for the master-planning effort for the County Fairgrounds.

More than two years ago, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors initiated an effort to reach out to both the local community and the private sector to help plan the future of the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds.  On August 23, 2016, responses are due from a Request for Qualifications issued June 21, directed to Investors and Operators of Commercial Recreation and Event Center Uses for the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds.  At the Rotary Club lunch, members will get to be the first group to hear about the results of the submittals received the day before and the process going forward.