Sonya Lynch

The Signal Staff

Kathy Tamer, United Space Alliance and UHCL distinguished alumna; Monica Stout, DMST major; Anne Henry, adjunct instructor, DMST; and UHCL President William Staples at the President’s Report to the Community breakfast March 25.

University of Houston-Clear Lake presented the 2010 Report to the Community and this year’s Distinguished Alumna and the Community Partnership award at a breakfast held at Lakewood Yacht Club March 25.

Dick Covey, president and chief executive officer of United Space Alliance, received the Community Partnership award. In his speech, Covey said that as one of the largest employers in the area, USA “looks to the UHCL as a resource.”

The report showed USA’s commitment to higher education through the programs they support at UHCL, a support re-emphasized by Covey in his speech. Although his speech began with laughter, Covey’s tone changed as he spoke about USA’s relationship with UHCL.

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A photo slideshow created by The Signal reporter Mary Ann Wangler showing scenes of Halloween around Houston and the Clear Lake area.

Shelter, by Bethany Quillin (steel, wood).

Mary Ann Wangler

The Signal Staff

The Art Alliance Center at Clear Lake, located at 2000 NASA Parkway, is currently hosting “Flotsam & Jetsam: Artists Respond to Hurricane Ike.”

“To encourage creative interpretation of the theme and to diversify the art and the materials used to make it, we have tilted our August exhibition about Hurricane Ike, Flotsam & Jetsam,” said curator Debra Kendrick.

Flotsam is debris found floating or that has washed ashore, and jetsam is cargo cast overboard to lighten the load. Artists had the choice to use the hurricane as the theme or subject of their work, or they could use the “flotsam churned up by the storm or the jetsam cast off by its victims to create something fresh form all the devastation,” Kendrick stated.

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