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Notes from the President
All Hands on Deck!!!!!!!
The Bloomin' Temple Tour is this Saturday. We all need to push to make this a very successful event for our club. We will have a meeting after the regular meeting this week to make sure everyone knows what to do. If you have any ideas about folks who can help out with the Bloomin' Temple Tour who are not members of our club please get with Jack Jones and/or Bill Stokes.
INVITATION
The Rotary Club of Harker Heights Charter Night 24 April 2010 - 6:00 P.M.
The Rotary Club of Harker Heights announces its Charter Night and invites all Rotarians and guests to attend.
6:00 – 7:00 P.M.: Fellowship.
7:00 - ???: Dinner and Celebration.
Dress: Business casual.
Cost: $30.00 per person.
Please RSVP by 21 April to
Rotarian Bill Kozlick, bill@hhchamber.com; 254 699 7588.
Registration with payment may be mailed to 108 East FM 2410, Ste F, PMB 132, Harker Heights, Texas 76548. Payment may be made in advance by check to the Rotary Club of Harker Heights, or pay at the door by check or cash. HOWEVER!! IF YOU INTEND TO PAY AT THE DOOR, PLEASE RSVP BEFOREHAND SO THAT WE MAY ORDER SUFFICIENT MEALS FOR YOU AND YOUR GUESTS. THANKS
Tejas Multi-District Conference
April 29-May 2, 2010 in San Antonio - Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center.
For the first time in the history of Rotary International Six Districts host a Conference as big as Texas!!!
Fiesta Fun & Food - Fellowship - Rotary Ideas - Service
- House of Friendship- Silent Auction - Live Entertainment
Sounds like great fun. Early Registration has been extended to midnight April 6th. Sign up and get the $195 rate.
Early Act First Knight
Friday April 9, 11:45am - Service Meeting
This is a meeting that Rotarians and a handful of children meet to discuss and direct their international and local community service projects.
Friday April 16, 1:00pm - EAFK Tournament of Champions & Knighting Ceremony
This ceremony is the show with the horses and jousting. It will be a very unique and spectacular show and I encourage all our members to attend and support the children at Lakewood Elementary. It will be a chance to see first hand how this program is impacting the character of children in our community.
Friday April 23, 11:45am - Service Meeting
Friday May 7, 11:45am - Service Meeting
Friday May 21, 1:00pm - EAFK Knighting Ceremony
If you are interested in joining this committee please get with Barbara Bozon. To find out more about this program go to the Early Act First Knight website is www.eafk.org.
Last Weeks Program - by Gail Peek
The Temple Health and Bioscience District 
A team consisting of Dr. Wally Dyck, Dr. Robert Schatz and Dr. Danet Toone gave us an informative and entertaining program about the Temple Health and Bioscience District (the “District”).
Dr. Dyck, Senior Advisor to the Temple Health & Bioscience Economic Development District, began the program with a brief overview of circumstances that bore the District. He noted that Temple has always had strong clinical medical education resources with Scott & White Hospital, King’s Daughters Hospital and the Olin Teague Veterans Hospital. In 1977 a Veterans Bill enabled a two-year medical college to be located in Temple. Medical students would spend their first two years of medical school in College Station and the next two years in Temple. In 2006, the Board of Regents approved a four year medical school for Temple. Temple will host 4 full classes of medical students consisting of about 120 students per class. In effect, our community continues to have an excellent medical clinical education program.
The next step, according to Dr. Dyck, was to have community involvement in changing intellectual property into marketable business ideas. This goal was the impetus for the District. Voters approved the establishment of the District and gave it taxing authority. The District is the only entity of its kind in Texas. Dr. Dyck said that the District has drawn a great deal of attention and he speculated that during the next Texas legislative session more medical districts will be established.
Dr. Dyck even used the “F” word in describing his experiences. Yes, folks he is having FUN working with brilliant researchers like Dr. Art Frankel of the Cancer Research Institute and Dr. Darwin Prockop of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Still the challenge is to commercialize intellectual property. The Temple Bioscience Business Accelerator is the link between that intellectual property and the commercialization process.
Now enter Dr. Robert Schatz, with his wealth of experience business development, technology assessment, contract negotiation, licensing and marketing. Dr. Schatz visited Temple and saw the resources and talent available. Dr. Schatz noted that once he was caught in the “Dyck Tractor Beam” his fate was decided. He became the Interim Director of the District’s Accelerator. The District is in the process of retaining an architectural firm to design an accelerator facility with laboratories, offices and meeting rooms on the Scott & White West Campus.
The critical question for the District Accelerator is “Why would a company locate here in Temple, Texas?” His role is to try to assemble resources for prospective candidates for the Accelerator, such as financial capital, relationships with industries and research institutions, laboratory and/or office space and associations with legal support. These “one stop shop” support networks, along with the ongoing innovative medical research in the area, are strong selling points for the District. In particular, the large pharmaceutical industries need smaller companies and medical research institutions to do the initial research for product development. The District can play a vital role in that process.
In effect, when a potential business explores Temple, the Accelerator can do the “intake.” This means it can help determine what is needed by the business. It can identify the available resources. Then the District can outline the product development resources available in Temple, such as Scott & White or Texas A&M Medical School. The Accelerator can set up meetings of these entities so that they can explore possible opportunities. Investments by entities like Scott & White are institutional validations of the business idea. This step can open doors for the business that might not otherwise have been available.
Dr. Schatz highlighted the economic impact the Accelerator can have on the Central Texas community. For every job created by a business through the Accelerator, there can be a job multiplier effect of 5.8 jobs! A community could realize $3 million in new tax revenue.
Dr. Danette Toone, Vice-President of Academic and Community Initiatives at Temple College, was the “clean up speaker.” She explained that Temple College views the District as a way to focus on preparing the workforce of tomorrow. She said that future employers may be small medical oriented business or large pharmaceuticals. Temple College is now involved in reorienting their training plans to include entrepreneurship.
In short, creating the District and investing in the Accelerator will not be a true success unless the entire Temple community reaps rewards in the form of increased (i) medical research excellence, (ii) increased start up businesses and (iii) sustained employment opportunities for our residents.
District 5870 Information
The February, 2010 District Newsletter is currently posted on the District Website. The link to the district newsletter is http://www.rotary5870.com/Newsletter.cfm
Scheduled Programs for March
Please let me know if you have a program you would like to share and we will book them.
April 8 - John Redington, Rotary GSE Team to Australia
April 15 - Charlie Kimmey - Ralph Wilson Youth Club
April 22 - Rosco Harrison
April 29 - TBD
May 6 - 4 Way Test Essay Contest Winners
May 13 - Lanelle Holbrook - Western Hills Elementary
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