Dine-and-Discover Meetings and Events
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Below is a menu of programs that are sure to satisfy any intellectual appetite. Join HFCW’s meetings where lifetime learners gather. Be a part of our long history of sharing wit and wisdom with HFCW members and their guests since 1974.
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Federation of Houston Professional Women and What It Brings You
Wednesday, November 30, 2022 @ 11:15 am - 1:00 pm
Come discover what the Federation of Houston Professional Women (FHPW) offers you. You’ll hear from its incoming FHPW President Mary Faris and FHPW Education Foundation Vice President of Scholarships Jeanne Perdue.As diverse as Houston, this entity, founded in 1981, unites various member organizations from across the area. For 41 years, the women of the Federation continually enrich their relationships and expand their leadership, partnership, and educational opportunities for themselves and others.
Houston Focus on Concerns for Women (formerly Houston Financial Council for Women) has been a member organization of the Federation since 1986. That membership bestows automatic FHPW membership on all HFCW members.
Eight members of HFCW have led the Federation as President: Frances Corso, Leigh Owen, Ginny Mampre, Mary Abshier, Myrleen Knott, Sheri Parrack, Chris Noble, and Mary Ann Chambers.
FHPW is an extension of its current member organizations. It opens a broad and ever changing networking experience across the city. The Federation annually provides an opportunity to recognize a Woman of Excellence at a gala where FHPW EF scholarships are presented to deserving female students
SPEAKERS
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Jeanne Perdue is a Technical Writer at Occidental Petroleum. After earning a BS in Chemistry at SUNY at Albany, she worked in the Texaco research labs as a chemist for 9 years and a librarian for 4 years. She then became an oilfield journalist for Hart’s E&P magazine and later launched the award-winning Upstream Technology magazine.
A Distinguished Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, Jeanne served of the Board of the SPE Gulf Coast Section in many roles, culminating in Section Chair in 2015. She now chairs the Business & Leadership Committee for SPE and helps select SPE Distinguished Lecturers. After being elected to the Alief ISD school board and serving as President of the Alief Education Foundation, she now serves on the Houston Community College Foundation Board and the Univ. of Houston Petroleum Engineering Advisory Board. A Woman of Excellence honoree in 2004, Jeanne is currently serving as VP of Scholarships for the Federation of Houston Professional Women Educational Foundation. She now president of Houston Focus on Concerns for Women. Huandong Mary Faris is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for Grocery Services, Inc., a private company that provides food to individuals who qualify for benefits under Texas’s Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children. Prior to joining Grocery Services, Mary served as Senior Financial Accountant at Houston Methodist Corporate Finance department, and before that, she served as CFO for Hearing Aid Express. Before coming to the US, Mary worked at an international shipping corporation in China. Mary has an MBA in Management, a BBA in Accounting, and an Associate Degree in International Business. Mary and is the President-Elect for the Federation of Houston Professional Women and was a recipient of the Women of Excellence Award in 2018. She has been a member of TXCPA Houston since 2008 and an active member of the Accounting and Financial Women’s Alliance (AFWA) since 2004 and currently serves as its CPE director. She is also the Chair of the University of Houston Alumni Association Fort Bend Chapter Scholarship Committee. Mary loves traveling, cooking, and reading, and she does Zumba dance and yoga to relax |
If you plan to attend, please RSVP to marketing@hfcw.org.