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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div><div><b style="font-family: tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: red;">UH Cougars for</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><b style="font-family: tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: red;">Kids </span></b><b style="font-family: tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">community
volunteer service program at the University of Houston</span></div></div></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div dir="ltr"><div ocsi="x"><div style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; COLOR: #000000; DIRECTION: ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma"><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black;"></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">In 2007, the College of Technology created this program for students
and faculty to volunteer their time and service to help children of all ages who are patients at several Houston children’s hospitals. Currently, the participating hospitals are: Texas Children’s Hospital, Shriner’s Hospital, The Methodist Hospital, Memorial
Hermann Children’s Hospital, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and Health Bridge Children’s Hospital. Volunteer service activities include reading to children, playing games with them, helping them with their studies, and just becoming mentors to these kids.
In addition to providing volunteer services to kids in hospitals, our program also includes tutoring and mentoring services at many local area schools to enhance their learning opportunities and contribute to their overall academic success. And as recently
as last year, we have also begun a partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Houston who provide mentoring services for numerous at-risk youngsters across Houston.
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black;"></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: red;">Cougars for Kids</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;"> volunteers
have contributed more than 6,000 volunteer hours in Houston’s hospitals since 2007. It typically takes about a month to complete the orientation and screening process before volunteer service can begin. During the Fall and Spring semesters, the College of
Technology conducts three or four </span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: red;">Cougars for Kids</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;"> Orientations on campus for new
student volunteers. Funding has been acquired to purchase T-Shirts with the </span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: red;">Cougars for Kids</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;"> logo and identification. T-Shirts are given to UH volunteers upon completion
of their first 10 hours of volunteer service. Students receive no grade enhancements for their service.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black;"></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;"><b><i>Thank you for helping us <span>make a difference in the lives of kids</span><span>.</span></i></b>
</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black;"></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">With best regards,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><font size="3"><font face="tahoma">Jerry</font><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: black;"> </span></font></p></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma"></font> </div><div><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Jerry S. Evans, Ph.D.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><!--?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /--><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Instructional Associate Professor</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><font face="arial"></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">University of Houston</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">College of Technology</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><font face="arial">339 Technology Building</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><font face="arial">Houston, TX 77204-4023</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><font face="arial"><a href="mailto:jsevans2@uh.edu">jsevans2@uh.edu</a></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><font face="arial"></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">713-743-9434</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"><!--?xml:namespace prefix = "v" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" /--><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"></v:shapetype></span></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><v:shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';"><strong><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman">A
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