HoT News & Updates

Membership & Events Committee Update

Greetings! We've had great attendance for this year's events held already!

Our first two ethnic dinners have been very successful. Over twenty HoTPCA members met at Korea House on Anderson Lane in January. For February, twelve gathered at Casa Colombia on East 7th, where RPCV Kinky Friedman (Borneo, '66-'68) made a special appearance, passing out cigars and posing for pictures while sharing a kind word to us all. (Thanks to HoTPCA member Mark Gomez for the photo!)

Peace Corps Wiki launches.
1,000+ pages down, millions to go!

"UT ranks seventh in the Peace Corps' top 25 list of large universities producing Peace Corps volunteers in 2007."
UT-Austin News

On October 14, 1960, John F. Kennedy
visited Ann Arbor, Michigan and gave an impromptu three-minute speech to university students about the idea of
"a volunteer corps of young Americans."

Read/listen to his speech and see photos of him in University of Michigan's online newspaper Michigan Today.

HoTPCA Member Becca Hamm
fills us in on her work with the deaf community in Kenya.

Check her out and leave a comment!

HoT Calendar
Check the calendar below for events
and email info@hotpca.org if you would like to get involved!

Add this calendar to yours if you have a Google account!

To access the HoTPCA Google Calendar from other applications,
copy and paste the link below into any calendar product that supports the iCal format. http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/hotpca%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics  

Check out our calendar above for the following events

Weekly Coffee Talk
every Wed. from 5:30-6:30 pm
at Starbucks, 504 West 24th St.

Happy Hour - every fourth Thursday,
from 5:30 – 7:30 pm … location changes monthly.

Ethnic Dinner – the third week of every month
7:00 pm … location changes monthly.

Book Club – every 2nd Thursday at 7:00 pm
at Dominican Joe on South Congress and Riverside.
And visit our GoodReads site for
feedback on past book club selections!
COMING UP....
April 9, 2009: So Long a Letter by Mariama Bâ
May 14, 2009: A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam
June 11, 2009: Overthrow: America's Century of
Regime Change by Stephen Kinzer

Volunteer Opportunities –
offered in conjunction with other
service organizations in the Austin area.
See the calendar above for details!

Rio Bravo Project – twice annual volunteer work-trips
in Tamaulipas, Mexico usually in November and March.

Annual Meeting and pre-Holiday Potluck
for the membership each November.

This is just a sampling of what HotPCA has to offer.
And we are growing every year!

The HoTPCA CafePress Store
is now open for business!