President Hargrove was asked to speak to the Club about what happened in his year and what Rotary meant to him.  His notes for the speech are found in his own words.

The history file contained no Board meeting minutes, no correspondence, however there was a Blue Binder (Club Assembly Report) which contained plans and goals, the budget, a membership roster,  District Governor's evaluation of the Club, and the avenues of service committee members.

The members of the Club were greatly sadden with the loss of four of its members: Gene Lindquist, Marvin Matthews, Cheng Hooi, and Cap Landolt.

The long frustrating hassle with the problem of a satisfactory meeting place for the Club was resolved when Charles Hardwick was able to present to a stand-up Board meeting on March 9, 1987 the plan to meet at the Nassau Bay Hilton. The Club met previously at the Holiday Inn in Nassau Bay. Golf was apparently high on the list of fellowships for the Club. Golf was mentioned in almost all of the newsletters with the November 3, 1986 issue having a write up and picture.

There were 24 newsletters, Blastoffs, out of a possible, 47,assuming that one was issued every Club meeting day. The Club Programs and Special Events listing also contained 7 programs. Then newsletter was standard size, mostly beige in color, and filled with many photographs of members and club activities especially during the Club regular meetings and information about activities of the Club such as scholarships and youth exchange students.Thirteen of the Club's former presidents were on the roster. Ann Fulcher played the piano and several of the members lead in the singing. The four-way test was periodically repeated at the Club meeting. A former District 589 Governor, Floyd Boze 1981-1982, and a charter member, Vince Lipovsky, attended the weekly club meetings. Charter members Frank Morgan, Bev Steadman, and Charles Whynot were also on the roster, but only Frank and Bev attended regularly.

There was a well prepared Blue Binder with the 1985-86 Plans and Goal "Blue Book" used for the Club Assembly dated September 29, 1986 and January 26, 1987. The Plans and Goals were not put in the archives because all the information is plans and goals and there is no documentation of the corresponding accomplishments at the end of the year except as noted in the history. An evaluation of the Club's plans and goals by District Governor Lackey stated that all areas other than Foundation were areas of strength.

The July 7, 1986 Blastoff, last page,had included in its issue information about females becoming Rotarians,

There was a 1986-87 budget with no date and no year to date expenditures. The amount of donations given to service projects was $13,000 assuming that the Shrimporee Beneficiaries were given the monies stated in the 1986-87 budget and the amounts noted in the newsletters were given. (Note: President Hargrove, in 2009, stated that the amount of money donated was much closer to the amount made by the Shrimporee. Therefore 90% (22,133) of the money raised was considered in the total. Historian 2009).  The amount of monies made from the fund raisers since the first recorded fund raiser in 1968 was $248,841.

There was no Shrimporee report but several discussions about it in the newsletters. The event was held at the Clear Lake Park Seabrook, Texas September 20, 1986 with Terry Hesson as the Chairman. The income for the Shrimporee was $24,592 (December 8, 1986 Blastoff). Several pictures and additional information on the Shrimporee can be viewed in the following Blastoffs: Parade (September 8 ,1986), pictures of the Shrimporee workers and guests (September 29, 1986 ), and information ( October 6 , 1986). The Shrimporee poster may be viewed by clicking on poster. View photos of the Shrimporee.

The October 20, 1986 Blastoff shows the model and some artistic renderings displayed at the Lakewood Yacht Club meeting and at Bay Area Bank and Trust which represented an exhibit to be built by the Space Flight Memorial Foundation for honoring our nation's astronauts. The Club was proud of its role in bringing this project into existence.

November 10 was the occasion for a visit to the club by the Group Study Exchange Team that PDG Jim Carrel and his wife were going to lead to India. They traveled principally in the Bombay area, where the young Indian professional ladies who visited our club came from.

Several major activities, some started in prior years, came to fruition in the Rotary year. A letter dated February 20, 1987 from President Hargrove summarizes these activities (a second letter in Spanish follows the one in English). In addition, his handwritten notes from which he made a speech during the visit to Mexico City gives a good perspective on the activities.

One activity was establishing a sister club relation with the Aeropuerto Club of Mexico City. The Club was approached during the previous Rotary year by Roberto Ferrio to establish a brotherhood between the Aeropuerto Club of Mexico City and Space Center Rotary Club.  Roberto, who was from Mexico City and working in Houston, to see if the Club might be interested in establishing a sister club arrangement with a club located by the Mexico City airport, the tie being, among other things, aerospace.  The Club agreed to look into it. He related how he had met and became friends with one of our crew members, Dick Covey, and he was very enthusiastic about ties with Mexico since the Mexico City District Rotary clubs were very excited about and supportive of our space program.   The Museum of Mexico had only the Russian story and exhibits at that time. Some of this had to do with widespread beliefs in Mexico that the Aztecs, Mayans,etc. had ties with UFO's and past alien visitors.  This relation was culminated in a meeting in Mexico City attended by 40 of the Club's members and their spouses February 19-22, 1987. The Fraternity Declaration (certificate one in English and certificate two in Spanish), special banner reflecting the relationship, and the banner of the Aeropuerto Club of Mexico City were presented to President Hargrove during the visit to Mexico City (photo of the exchange).

In the fall of 1985, the Governor of Mexico District 417 requested aid due to the devastating earthquake which occurred in September 1985 and again in April 1986 in Mexico City. As the result of the request, a project of District 589 and the World Community Service Committee, under Dick Moore, acquired used hospital and medical equipment donated by Memorial Southeast, when they moved from the Gulfgate area to their new hospital (Memorial Southeast), to be shipped to the area. Mr. Lee Schroeder of Central Freight Lines of Houston and Mr. Fernando Navarro, representing Central Freight Lines in Mexico City provided 2 trailer trucks, free of charge, to transport the hospital equipment from Houston to Brownsville, Texas. After a two week delay at the border, which required the American Embassy in Mexico City to get involved, it was loaded onrailroad cars and transported to Mexico City. The equipment was shipped January 22, 1987.  See video of shipment.

During the previous Rotary year, officers of the Aeropuerto Club of Mexico City visited the area and were guests of the Club. According to an article in the June 9, 1986 Blastoff, they were seeking information for their Space Museum to be located inside the Mexico City airport and during the conversation, told of the damage to their hospital. A letter dated February 20, 1987 from Arg. Sergio Gonzalez de la Mora to President Hargrove expressed their appreciation of the efforts that the Club had made in acquiring the NASA exhibit.

Pictures associated with the trip to Mexico City are shown in the in the picture gallery.

Hilmar Zeissig was the GSE Team Leader to Mexico and the District 5890 (589) GSE Chairman

The June 8, 1987 Blastoff contained two brief but important items. The Rotary World Health Foundation had commitments that two children would be coming from Mexico for free plastic surgery at St. John's (these are the first children to begin in the program, one came in August and one in the fall) and a picture of the scholarship winners. There was a very brief reference to the program notes about the scholars. The June 22, 1987 Blastoff had a picture of Amy Hooker and Ginger Barnwell off to Spain and Italy respectively for a student exchange.

The Board made a commitment of $2,000 for each year for the next five years to the Capital Campaign of the Bay Area YMCA.

A picture of Paul Bobko, Rotary Foundation Scholar, is shown in the July 21, 1986 Blastoff.

Space Center Women of Rotary was officially established with the installation of its first officers on June 18, 1987. The wives of members of the Club began to meet for breakfast in 1981 and in 1984 the group began meeting for lunch in various restaurants. Typically the wife of the Club's president assumed leadership for the group. Pat Hargrove took the helm in 1986 (July 7, 1986 Blastoff) and organized its first fund raiser. Then in 1987 the wives officially organized. A hand book dated 1987-88 contains the history of the organization, the officers, duties of the officers, and the constitution and by-laws.

The membership was 162 members according to the July 20, 1987 Plans and Objectives. There were 30 additions and 39 terminations leaving a net loss of 9 members. The only  Club Roster is dated September 1986.

There were twelve Paul Harris Fellows named for the Rotary Year bringing the total for the Club to 67 since 1972.

The Rotary National Award for Space Achievement (RNASA) Foundation had its first stellar event on March 12,1987 at the Hyatt Regency Houston, Texas, and presented  Dr. Maxime A. Faget with the first National Space Trophy. The wife of John Watson, Carolyn, reflected on the event in the April 20, 1987 Blastoff under Women of Rotary. Charles Hartman and Owen Morris were in a newspaper article on the event. See color photo of Morris and Hartman. View a photo gallery of the banquet. View the numbers 1 and 2 tickets assigned to Floyd Boze.

The 78th Rotary International Convention was held June 7-10, 1987 in Munich, Germany. There were 26,909 in attendance. President Elect McNatt from Rotary of Space Center, Houston attended.