The Uptown Weekly

Welcome to the Rotary Club of Dallas-Uptown, TX USA

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Rotary Year: July 1, 2010-June 30, 2011

May 19, 2011

Hully and Mo Restaurant and Tap Room

2800 Routh, Suite 115

Dallas, Texas 75201

214-954-0203

www.hullyandmo.com

Thursdays from 11:45am -1:00pm

RI President Ray Klinginsmith, 2010-2011

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Meeting Day and Time: Wednesdays at 7:15am Dallas, Texas 75201

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Special Thanks to the Following…

Lloyd Chappell for presenting the previous program.

Previous Program, Thursday, May 12, 2011

Changing Economic Conditions

Lloyd Chappell

Today’s Program, Thursday, May 19, 2011

Program TBA

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Board Meeting

Immediately following the club meeting at Hully and Mo’s

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Rotary Board Retreat

9am-12pm

Hope Cottage

4209 McKinney

Dallas, TX

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Early Act First Knight

Jim Bowden

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Proverbs for Protection

Jeff McKissack

President

Defense by Design

www.defensebydesign.com

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Connect. Commune

Sandra Lewis Gather

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Plan Fund

Jeremy Gregg

www.planfund.org

Rotary Cares

Section for health and personal concerns that you would like to share with the club. Please also feel free to email Rev. Gregg Smith with any personal and confidential concerns.

Rev Gregg Smith-prayers for a transplant or stem cell match, healing, and strength

Special thanks to the following Guests for visiting last week…

Jared Chambers, Nicholas & Montgomery

Laurie Kidder, My Care

Special thanks to the following Visiting Rotarians for attending last week…

Jeff Owens, Park Cities

Howard Fitch, Park Cities

Congratulations and special thanks to the following Rotarians …

Leslie Clay for 2 years of service on May 26

Sissy Littlefield for 1 year of service on May 15

Former Rotary Peace Fellows start their own peace studies programs

by Susie Ma
Rotary International News -- 13 May 2011
Prakash Tewari, a former Rotary Peace Fellow, is developing a course to help New Delhi’s civil servants prevent and resolve conflicts. Photo courtesy of Prakash Tewari

Many former Rotary Peace Fellows are at work around the world, promoting peace in their communities through education. Some are creating their own programs, aimed at achieving far-reaching goals. Among those fellows in Asia are Maria Saifuddin Effendi, Jianrong Chen, and Prakash Tewari.

Acting on convictions

Maria Saifuddin Effendi is assistant professor in the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at National Defence University in Islamabad, Pakistan. She and some of her colleagues established the department in 2009, the first of its kind in the country, in spite of opposition.

“There was criticism and resistance from [academics] to close down the department,” who considered it “useless,” says Effendi, a 2007-09 peace fellow at the University of Bradford in England. “But we have survived with dignity. It’s a great pleasure and satisfaction seeing [the department] grow in my country.”

Effendi’s book, Understanding Ripeness in Kashmir, is based on the master’s dissertation she wrote as a peace fellow. The book explores the South Asian region’s readiness for dialogue and peacemaking to address longstanding conflict.

Effendi also participates in conflict prevention/resolution symposiums and workshops sponsored by universities and nongovernmental organizations like the International Peace and Security Institute in Washington, D.C., founded by friend and former peace fellow Cameron Chisholm. These events, she says, “encourage me to work in the field of peace and for peace in Pakistan.”

Dealing with conflict

Jianrong Chen believes that China has a special need for peace studies because of the diversity of its people. With a population of 1.3 billion and 56 different ethnic groups, interethnic conflict is common. Chen, a lecturer in the Department of International Relations at Jinan University in Guangzhou, China, wanted to equip the younger generation of Chinese with tools for dealing with conflict.

“In the past, we stressed harmony and we almost forgot that we have conflict,” he says. “If we cannot look at conflict in a way that it should be, how can we have peace?”

After completing the professional development program at the Rotary Peace Center at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, Chen began teaching an introduction to peace and conflict course at Jinan University. He is hoping to recruit other academics working on conflict issues at the university to create a peace teaching team. He also plans to hold a peace workshop at his university on China-Africa relations in July.

“What I am doing now is just the very beginning of this long-term journey in my dream,” Chen says.

Community dialogue

Prakash Tewari works in the defense ministry in India and is a former army colonel. After attending the Rotary Peace Center at Chulalongkorn University, he received a request from the president of his sponsor club, the Rotary Club of New Delhi, to create a peace studies course based on his peace fellow experience.

Tewari says the course, projected to start at a university in New Delhi in September, will offer the city’s large number of civil servants an opportunity to receive training in conflict prevention and resolution. He hopes the course will “get different sparring groups together to work on dialogue skills -- government workers, activist groups, and civil society groups.”

Highlighted Member of the Week: Greta Calvery

Name: / Greta Calvery
Classification: / Waste Management
Name of Business: / Waste Management
Your Title: / Area Community & Municipal Manager
Best way to describe your business: / Environmental Services
What you like best about your work: / Helping people/education
Spouse or significant other’s name: / Steven Calvery
Member‘s Birthday-Month and Day: / 24-Mar
Spouse’s Birthday-Month & Day: / 25-Feb
Anniversary-Month and Day: / 14-Feb
Education and Degrees Earned: / TJC, TESN, U of P, Trained mediator
Favorite Kind of Pen and Pen Color: / Recycled, green
Hobbies: / Working with Habitat for Humanity & other groups
Other Civic Organizations: / STAR, GDFWRA, NTCRA, TXSER, KIB, KDB, KTB, KAB
Foreign Languages Spoken: / German and a little Spanish
Children’s Names: / James-35, Ashley-26, and Scott-21
Grandchildren’s Names: / Christopher, Jadyn
Pets-Names, # of, Breed Name: / Dogs-Reku & Champs; Cats-TC &MacAdie
Favorite Vacation Spot(s): / the Beach
Favorite Music Genre: / Contemporary Christian/Progressive Country
What you like best about Rotary: / Giving to others
Proudest Moment: / Seeing children graduate from college
Favorite Sports: / Arena Football
Favorite Restaurants: / Seafood & Italian
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Company website: / www.wm.com