July 2016 Club Meet Update

Posted by Suguna Alluri on Jul 04, 2016
 
 
July 7, 2016 First Club Meet of the New Rotary Year - Charlie Wasser takes over as our President
 

Help jump start the new Rotary year for the Rotary Club of San Jose East/Evergreen. We will be presenting and discussing plans for the coming years. Committee Chairs will be presenting their plans  for projects and such. 

This is a great meeting for people that are not yet Rotarians to see the dynamic year we are starting!

 

July 14, 2016 Darrel Cortez - Shop with a Cop
 

Shop with a Cop Foundation of Silicon Valley or SWACSV is an ethnically led, 100% volunteer driven, non-profit organization whose mission is to provide innovative academic motivation, charitable relief and assistance to at-risk, disenfranchised children in need, ages 5 to 12 and children who have suffered a traumatic crisis or loss of a parent due to violence or domestic violence in the home.

Also, SWACSV’S philosophy is to provide a positive interaction with local police officers and to change perceptions that children and families may have towards police in hopes of having safer communities tomorrow.

Darrell will discuss his organization.

 

July 21, 2016 Laura Brekke - Peace Scholar Applicant
 

Rev. Brekke will describe her current work and what she hopes to do if admitted to and after completing the Rotary Peace Fellow program.

 

July 28, 2016 Yukio Shimomura - “My Two and Half Years Behind Barbed Wire”
 
Yukio was born in San Francisco, has a background in Manufacturing Engineering and Human Resources. He currently resides in Morgan Hill, married, with three children, and five grandchildren. His Bucket List: "Present  My 2 1/2 Years  Behind Barbed Wire During WWII" 

Yukio Shimomura will be sharing his family’s experience during the 40s when WWII started and how Executive Order 9066 affected his family.  Leaving San Francisco and entering the incarceration camps in South San Francisco and in Delta, Utah, he will describe what his parents, his older  brothers and Yukio went through, the lifestyle in the camp, the dynamics in the camp, the significant ironies. He will discuss how the family left the camp and where they settled.