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MIT CLUB OF SOUTH TEXAS
March 10 Newsletter 2004
(Revision 0, 03-11-04)
Lester Thurow
MIT at Home-2:
Energy
Club of South Texas Elections
2004 Club Membership Drive
MIT Alum Flying To
The International Space Station
Upcoming Events
2003 – 2004 BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
If you need to contact us about a specific event,
please see the contact information for that event.
The MIT Alumni Club of South Texas and
The MIT Enterprise Forum of Texas
Invite you to a PLATINUM flagship presentation
Lester Thurow
Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Economics, Dean
Emeritus,
MIT Sloan School of Management
When: Thursday, April 1, 2004
Where :
The Houston Country Club
One Potomac Drive, Houston, TX 77057
(713) 465-8381
Agenda:
Registration and Networking: 11:30 a.m.
Lunch begins: 12:00 noon
Adjourn at 1:00 p.m.
Tickets (includes lunch):
$48 for Enterprise Forum members who register by Friday, March 26th, 5:00 p.m.
$58 for guests, and members registering after the deadline.
Tables available – contact Dale Wilkin
MIT Club Of South Texas Registration:
To receive forum member rates contact Dale Wilkins at 713-839-1757, or contact
via email at admin@mitforumtexas.org
Fortune Favors the Bold: What we must do to build a new and lasting global
prosperity
World-renowned economist Lester Thurow will be featured at a luncheon at the
Houston Country Club to discuss how individuals, corporations, and nations can
prosper from globalization.
According to Thurow:
“The moral of the tale is simple. Those who want to win cannot sit on the
sidelines. They must be proactive. Others will act if they don’t and they will
be enveloped by the resulting events. They may lose if they participate, but
they will certainly lose if they do not participate. Fortune favors the
bold—even if some of the bold are numbered among the losers.”
A professor of economics and management at MIT, and former Dean of the Sloan
School of Business at MIT, Professor Thurow is the author thirteen global
bestsellers. Recent New York Times bestsellers include Head to Head, The
Zero-Sum Society, and The Future of Capitalism. His latest books are Building
Wealth and Fortune Favors the Bold. Professor Thurow was selected as one of 200
rising leaders by Time Magazine, and has served as Staff Economist on the
President’s Council of Economic Advisors, among other advisory positions. Please
join us for this rare opportunity to hear one of the world’s top thought
leaders!
Club of South
Texas Seminar
“MIT at Home - 2: Energy”
April 29, 2004
Announcing our second “MIT at Home” Seminar featuring local MIT alums who are on
the cutting edge of technology. “MIT at Home” is patterned after MIT’s
successful “MIT On The Road” Program. We recently sent out an email to local
alumni asking if anyone was interested in talking about their work and we
received a very good response.
Our second program will consist of three talks in the energy field: The energy
industry put Houston on the map and is still the biggest overall employer in the
region. Houston is the primary center for the development of new technology in
the oil industry. This program will consist of speakers covering the full span
of the industry from discovery and development to financing to delivery of the
product.
Join us for this exciting program on Thursday, April 29, 2004 at the University
of Houston Hilton.
Questions? Or if you are interested in making presentations at future seminars,
please contact Al Cisar:
acisar@alum.mit.edu
2004-2005
Club of South Texas Elections
Club of South Texas Board of Directors: Nominations Sought for 2004-2005
Term
Elections for new board members for the MIT Club of South Texas will take place
at the May 2004 monthly board meeting. We are looking for any and all interested
nominees. No experience required! If you are interested in helping to run your
MIT Club or would like to make a nomination, please email me at stexasclubpres@alum.mit.edu
- Raul Valdez
2004 Club Membership Drive
It’s time
once again, time for the annual MIT Club of South Texas membership drive. The
MIT Club of South Texas invites you to join or renew your membership for 2004.
Membership in the club runs coincident with the calendar year, which means that
those members who paid their dues before October 1, 2003 need to renew now for
2004. Membership is open to all MIT alumni and alumnae, as well as current
undergraduate and graduate students and their parents. Your dues in the local
club are used to pay for mailing announcements and the newsletter, sponsor
events for local high school students accepted at the Institute, award prizes at
local science fairs, and improve local science and math education through our
Leadership in Education Program (LEAP). Although we do benefit from some
administrative assistance from the Institute, the MIT Club of South Texas does
not receive funding from MIT or from the Alumni/ae Association.
Click here for a Membership
Coupon
Last year
was one of our best membership years ever for our local club, and we’d like to
make next year another winner. Join today to get the maximum benefit from your
membership!
-Ramón San
Pedro
MIT Alum
Flying To The International Space Station
April 18,
2004
Click here for MIT
Alumni Association Web Article
NASA and its International
Partners have assigned new crews to fly to the International Space Station this
year. As Expedition 9, NASA astronaut
Edward Michael "Mike" Fincke ‘89 and Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka will
be the next crew to live aboard the complex. NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao and
Russian cosmonaut Salizhan S. Sharipov will serve as Expedition 10. Fincke and
Padalka are set for launch April 18 on a six-month mission. Padalka will serve
as Expedition 9 commander and Soyuz commander, and Fincke will be the NASA Space
Station science officer and flight engineer. They have been training together as
a Space Station crew since March 2002. (from
NASA Press Release H04-056, dated 02/6/04)
Upcoming Events:
March
/ April: Wine Tasting (To Be
Announced - stand by for details)
March / April: Dining Club
(To Be
Announced - stand by for details)
April
2004: MIT List
Visual Art Center Speaker (tentative)
April
29 2004: MIT @ Home.2
“Oil Industry”
May
24 2004: Homeland Security / Bio Defense Presentation
October
2004: Institute Speaker - Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media
Studies Program
2003 – 2004 BOARD OF
DIRECTORS ANNOUNCED !
The MIT Club of South Texas is
pleased to announce the 2003-2004 Board of Directors:
President -
Raul Valdez
President-Elect - Anwer Hussain
Past-President - Steve Murdoch
VP-Communications/Webmaster -
Stacey Nakamura
VP-Membership - Ramon San Pedro
VP-Programs - Dave Johnston
VP Young Alumni Relations -
Yezmin Acle,
Alberto Cividanes
Secretary/Historian - Arno Bommer
Treasurer - Steve Murdoch
Enterprise Forum Liaison - Craig Jarchow
Education Council Chair - Ed Rinehart
Interclub Liaison - Mark Suchon
Directors - Marilyn Taggi Cisar, Al Cisar, Eric Chan , Sharon Israel, Herman
Vargas.
MIT Parents Association Liaison - Alicia Marra
Interested in becoming involved
with the MIT Club? Email
Raul Valdez
or call H: (713) 869-6336
W: (713) 245-7645)
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