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Officers
The Official Bulletin of the Rotary Club of Lubbock, Texas  District 5730
Rotary International
President of
Rotary International
John Kenny
Scotland
District 5730 Governor
Jim Cole
Levelland, Texas
Assistant District Gov.
Peter Wierzba
Lubbock, TX
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October 14, 2009
 Today’s Program 
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Steve Gaukroger
What in the World is Going On?
President
Monte Monroe
President-Elect
Ann Graham
Vice President
Latrelle Joy
Past President
October 21
Estelle Rousselet
Ambassadorial Scholar
“When Marseille met Lubbock”
Walter Huffman
Secretary
Keith Larremore
Treasurer
Regina Johnston
Assistant Treasurer
Tim Wooten
Sergeant-At-Arms
Chester Golightly
Board of Directors
2007-10
Mike Bennett
Ann Graham
Latrelle Joy
Bill Lane
2008-11
Jack Nelson
Laura Monroe
Alice White
Brian Yearwood
2009-12
Charles Joplin
Charles Key
Calvin Lewis
Gary McCoy
October 28
Jim Cole
Rotary District 5730 Governor
November 4
Matt Bumstead
Corporate Responsibility
November 7
Rotary Club of Lubbock & CPS
Adoption Awareness Carnival
11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Rotary Eye Editor
Alice White
The Four Way Test
Of the Things We Think, Say or Do …
1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it build GOODWILL and
BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all Concerned
The Rotary Club of Lubbock
1603 W. Loop 289  Lubbock, Texas 79416  806.785.3030  FAX 806.785.0198  [email protected]
Marjan Wilkins – Executive Director
www.lubbockrotary.org
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LUBBOCK ROTARY MEETING REPORT
October 7, 2009
Guy Bailey, PhD
President, Texas Tech University
Rotary member Ben Lock introduced President Guy Bailey via list of Bailey’s academic and leadership credentials:
Bachelor and Master’s degrees from the University of Louisiana, PhD in linguistics from the University of Tennessee;
faculty and/or administrator at Emory University, Texas A&M University, Oklahoma State University, University of
Memphis, University of Nevada—Las Vegas; Provost, University of Texas at San Antonio; Chancellor, University of
Missouri at Kansas City; and now President, TTU.
TTU President Bailey provided family history of his connections to Texas Tech -- through his wife Dr. Jan Tillery
(a Lubbock high school & TTU alumna) and his in-laws (her father Tim Tillery was an offensive end for the Red
Raiders football team in 1938-1941; her mother won a TTU sewing-contest scholarship & left her hometown of
Whiteface for Lubbock & TTU).
Bailey mentioned his in-laws’ hardships & how their respective experiences & opportunities at Texas Tech
transformed their lives. Bailey’s father-in-law was routinely beaten for participating in athletic practices after school,
so he left home & finished high school while living in an ice house in Grapevine. Bailey’s mother-in-law’s father died
when she was young, & her mother abandoned her at 11 years of age.
Bailey credited Walt Huffman’s dad with having recruited Bailey’s late father-in-law to TTU from Grapevine, Texas.
Although Bailey’s father-in-law had been offered a baseball contract in 1938 from the St. Louis Cardinals, Coach
Huffman challenged Tillery to think beyond a limited-time, low-paying, professional-athletic opportunity and to plan
ahead instead for a more lucrative career that only a college education would provide. Tillery followed Coach
Huffman’s advice & showed up in Lubbock with only 10 cents in his pocket – ready to go to college & play football for
the Red Raiders.
Highlights of Bailey’s endearing remarks about his & his wife’s characteristics, some of their & their family’s history
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Having to learn how to do the Guns Up hand signal & get approval from her pet cat -- before his wife would
marry him
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His humorously considering adding a safety net to the President’s box at Jones AT&T Stadium in case his
wife’s yelling to the referees ever causes her to tumble out of the opened window
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The time she caught him in having tricked her into driving 15 MPH over the speed limit
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Two adopted children: 24-year-old daughter who is finishing her PhD in Experimental Psychology & his 21year-old son
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Her two-time cancer-survivor status
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His 82-year-old mother having recently had her photo taken with Midnight Matador/horse & the Masked
Rider -- & her plans to post the photo onto her Facebook account
Updates about Texas Tech University
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Bailey lauded Texas Tech for its good faculty & students, great community spirit & supportive alumni … &
the record-setting enrollment of 30,000+ students
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Two red-letter years for TTU 1923 (founding year) & 2009 (House Bill 51/Tier One-related legislation
passed in the Texas Legislature)
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Bailey praised West Texas legislators for having led the way to propose & then get HB 51 passed
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HB 51 creates a pathway to TTU’s earning Tier One status (as a national research university) through a
no-tax-increase $500M re-purposed endowment (Proposition 4 allows for the funding of the $500M
endowment, so Bailey asked us to vote in favor of it) -- similar to UT Austin & TX A&M University’s
Permanent University Fund resources – that will provide matching research dollars
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TTU positioned to earn Tier One research university status within four years: TTU is already close to
fulfilling the two-years-in-a-row requirements (i.e., raising $45M in privately funded research dollars over
two years: TTU raised $24.3M from private/non-governmental sources in FY09 – well over half of the
requirement & far exceeded UT Dallas & University of Houston’s research fund-raising results; 200 PhDs
granted/year: now 180 PhD degrees granted/year (75-80 new doctoral students were recruited in ’09 &
twice as many are expected to be recruited in ’10; of the 1,600 student increase in ’09: 500 are graduate
students: 11% growth; 4.5% growth in undergraduate enrollment); TTU faculty already shelter the highly
prized Phi Beta Kappa chapter)
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Putting Tier One status into everyday perspective, Bailey explained every $10M in research dollars
translates into 300+ jobs.
In response to questions
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Business Building will be renovated for classrooms & office space
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TTU is veteran- & veteran/transfer-student friendly through additional staff in financial aid, registrar &
admissions offices
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TTU/Reese Technology Center has $5M-10M research expenditures; the research conducted at Reese
(environmental & human health; wind energy) is at the heart of US priorities (i.e., safety for our military
personnel in Iraq by diminishing the impacts of chemical warfare; social impacts of wise energy use)
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To accommodate 40,000 TTU/Lubbock students, there are plans to build a new residence hall, parking
garage & research facility within the next two years
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TTUHSC has its own growth plans
The Rotary Club of Lubbock
1603 W. Loop 289  Lubbock, Texas 79416  806.785.3030  FAX 806.785.0198  [email protected]
Marjan Wilkins – Executive Director
www.lubbockrotary.org