Weekly News & Views by: Bill Kopper
Photographs by: Patsy Inouye
President David Morse called the meeting to order, and asked for members to present their guests. Many guests were present to hear the 
presentation of LeShelle May, Associate Chancellor and wife of Chancellor Gary May.
presentation of LeShelle May, Associate Chancellor and wife of Chancellor Gary May. President Morse called for announcements and Keith Watenpaugh announced that he was going to give a presentation on Star Trek and Human Rights with Gary May, Chancellor of the University. The presentation will be at the Crocker Art Gallery, Tickets are still available and members can contact Keith for more information.
Meaghan Likes announced a fundraiser for the TESE Foundation. Extra Tickets are available, and interested members should contact Meaghan or Irena.
Vanessa Errecarte announced a Community Services Meeting at 1482 Drew Drive on November 16 at 7:00pm. The membership committee held a meeting on November 3 at 5:00 pm at Seasons in the bar area. The International Committee recently had a meeting with 17 Members attending. The committee has decided to fund two large projects in Kenya.
Don Saylor announced that his Soups On Fundraiser is coming up, and the beneficiary of the fundraiser this year will be Family Hui, a group that recently made a presentation to our Club.
Rose Cholewinski announced that the holiday party will be on December 8 at a location to be determined later.
Members missing Rotary on the day after Thanksgiving can enjoy some truly bad food with good company at Black Bear Dinner on Nov. 24.
Manny Carbahal served as Sargent for the Day and was on his best behavior for LeShelle May, whom the Club is attempting to recruit as a member. Manny didn’t fine anyone, but a lot of people had happy bucks.
Roy Kroener reported a great tailgate party at his house for Club members, and this writer can attest to the party being a real joy. Everybody had a good time. Thank you Roy and Cynthia for opening your beautiful home and garden to Members of the Club, and a few non-members.
Dick Bourne gave happy bucks for a great visit to his granddaughter who is attending college at Santa Cruz. Keith Watenpaugh gave happy bucks for his Ford Foundation Grant for work in Lebanon and he expressed hope that he would get back in one piece.
Chuck Snipes gave happy bucks for the Sports Gods making Georgia number one in football this year. And, Brain Sway gave happy bucks for a great World Series even though the Gods did not favor the Dodgers. In fact, they put the wrong pitcher in to start game 7.
Chuck Cunningham introduced the speaker for the day, LeShelle May, the Wife of the Chancellor and the Associate Chancellor. LeShelle 
talked about her background and stated that her dad was from Cuba, and she was raised by a single mother. She lived in Spanish Harlem for a good part of her early life, and commented that the house she lived in would now sell for $4 million. LeShelle reported that she became interested in math by playing monopoly, and that her friends would always make her the banker because she was good at counting.
talked about her background and stated that her dad was from Cuba, and she was raised by a single mother. She lived in Spanish Harlem for a good part of her early life, and commented that the house she lived in would now sell for $4 million. LeShelle reported that she became interested in math by playing monopoly, and that her friends would always make her the banker because she was good at counting.Later in her youth, LeShelle moved to a Jewish neighborhood in New Jersey that was highly competitive academically. LeShelle took a lot of AP classes, and ended up going to Georgia Tech, where she majored in engineering. She was one of the only women engineering students in the school, and perhaps the only black woman engineering student. LeShelle early on became a member of the National Society of Black Engineers, which has grown from 4,000 members to 25,000 members.
LeShelle emphasized the need for more software developers and stated that employment for software engineers will grow by 17 percent between now and 2024. She said that the millennials were pretty good coders, but she could out code any of them. She didn’t say what she meant by that, but we assume that she meant her coding is more elegant.
LeShelle works for CNN and was in charge of converting the newsroom to a digital environment. She explained how she was able to stream social media feeds into the CNN news room so that CNN would be on top of local stories even before local news stations. LeShelle also talked about how engineering and biotechnology are interfacing. She predicted in the near future that people will be able listen to music through the same earbuds that they use for their hearing aids. This is going to be a huge benefit for all the ancients in the Club, who will just be able to turn on their music when they are bored at the meetings or disagree with the 
speaker.
speaker. LeShelle predicted that there won’t be paper currency in the near future, and that email will go away. “Slack” is replacing email, whatever “Slack” is? She said that none of the cable channels are making any money on cable except ESPN. IP is replacing cable.
LeShelle reported that Forbes Magazine named UCD the number 1 value for women in Engineering. She said that UCD had a lot of programs to encourage women and minorities to go into engineering.
In questions and answers, Dan Carson asked LeShelle whether she thought that technology was pushing us apart. LeShelle thought technology was isolating people, but platforms such as Facebook do help people to stay in touch.
Dennis Lindsay and Jack Latow won the draw of the day.