Why do earthquakes start? What makes them get big? Why do they stop?

Professor Emily Brodsky tries to answer these questions by studying earthquake triggering, hydrogeology, fault zone structure and friction. These studies require using tools from a variety of geoscience disciplines including seismology, hydrogeology, structural geology, and rock mechanics.

Speaker: Pat Waters. Fiend of Roseann fellow St. Francis mother, and also BOD of Second Harvest in Santa Cruz County. Roseann calls out the 60Minutes show on Sunday—the scarcity of women in tech workforce. Why are girls so absent? What can be done about it? 

Pat is a recruiter. Chief Talent and Resource Officer at Service NOW—9000 employees worldwide. Previously Sr VP for Talent at Linked in .  Also served at Plantronics, Yahoo, Applied Technology, Applied Materials.. 

Companies on average spend 80% of their funds on talent. Talent is a big differentiator. Regarding Women: pay parity is a big issue. At the macro level—diversity has been around for 40 years, there are policies and practices, but these are very polarizing. which is framed in terms of the other.  Humans are hard-wired to make snap judgments and to respond more favorably to those who are more like themselves. 

Inclusion is the active behavior of inviting people in. This can work to mitigate unconscious bias. Inclusion is looking at pay practices. video

Jenny was born in Beijing, in US for 20 years. Invited into Rotary by Hung Wei. 

She has 2 children –son in college; daughter in Lynbrook HS

She belongs to Silicon Valley Community United—promotes community unification and communication Darma: flying Tigers during WWII

She is active in the Silicon Valley Chinese Association  Foundation—platform to increase awareness and political action of Chinese citizens in US politics.

She also is active in the Bay Area Homeowners Network ---advocates for property rights and housing friendly policies.

Inspiration: Jim Davis spoke about an organization called  80,00 hours,org—which comes from 80,000 hours in a 40-year career (40 hours x50 weeks x40 years)

How to make a difference in the course of one’s career--

The inspiration Jim sees is a young man involved in a hi-tech career also investing in a site like https://800000hours.org that brings hope and inspires us to be our best selves.

Alysa Sakkas—presentation about and NID (National Immunization Day ) trip—Howard Tours. Brad Howard led it—he has led 33 delegations through Africa and India. Alysa went to Delhi, Jaipur, and visited Rotary clubs there. Trip was impacted by a shortage of vaccine, but they were at the last minute able to get a small amount of vaccine. And they did end up doing some vaccinations of children under 5 (one child per Rotarian).

Also they oration Dayhad Rotarian home visits. Met incoming RI president for 2021. Visited Foot Factory; St Stephen’s hospital that treats polio patients. Vocational schools. Attended Rotary project inauguration (toilet blocks, and Eye health clinic) 

Attended a polio rally –“Polio GO –don’t come back!”. Parents brought  in their child’s immunization records, which is a good indicator of the impact of the program.---the parents are paying careful attention. 

Helene---reminder to fill out survey for strategic plan (45% participation to date—please remember)

Vardi Stein : Filoli field trip—Tuesday April 23

Adrienne Moberly—red badger and pie day lady—Orders due by today—delivery on March 13

Hung Wei—Spring Fling---hoping to get 500 people. Student performances, auction; Fire Dept . Tickets available on line 

—Email inadvertently went out to our members about the Polio Plus Campaign. Our Club gives $5k on members’ behalf. Individual Rotarians are of course welcome to add more if they like. 

Pledge: Josh Selo

Visiting Rotarians: Joe Rivera, whose guest is Councilwoman from Sunnyvale Nancy Smith

Nancy Chan from Palo Alto 

Rotarians with guests: 

Hung Wei: Paige Zheng—activiist at Kennedy and Monta Vista High Schools

Amanda Wo—Member of Cupertino library commission

Peter Halpin—Tim  Vachon  HP + neighbor

Roseann Wolpert—Pat Waters, speaker 

Dawn Chu—Elaine Chan –pharmacist in SF 

Judy Wilson;;Lachmi Khemcani; Mitch Siegel 

Jeff Moe: Loi co president og HS Foundation 

Luisa Robeerts—Annie Phelan—recruiter 

Scott  Beatriz Ramos--

Merrill Lynch—Miang Lee 

April Bignell; Laura Delgado from House 

President’s Club: PP Richard Lowenthal—in honor of the coming FUHS district event Spring Fling—Richard encouraged everyone to buy tickets; he is being honored 

PP Hung Wei –also joined because of Richard’s being the honoree for Spring Fling

Hung apologizes for having sent an email to club members about this.