BRIEFS ANNOUNCEMENTS & APPOINTMENTS New York Sales Person for GHCVB to Focus on the Eastern U.S. Market Dorothea H. Calabrese, CMP, has joined the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau (GHCVB) as a national key account sales manager in the GHCVB’s first New York office. She will focus on Calabrese pharmaceutical accounts, as well as corporate and association accounts located in the northeast, southeast and southcentral U.S. Previously, Calabrese was national sales director at the Long Beach Area Convention and Visitors Bureau (LBACVB). During her time at the LBACVB, she was asked to serve on the advisory board for the Clinical Laboratory Management Association and was selected to educate the American Express Corporate Meeting Planners on the importance of CVBs. Calabrese also served as director of sales for the Charlotte Convention and Visitors Bureau, where she consistently achieved 124 percent of her room night goal. She has served on the boards of the New York chapters of MPI and PCMA. “It will take a strong and savvy sales person to sell to the northeast client base, and Dorothea is just the person for the job,” said Ken Middleton, GHCVB vice president of sales. “New York is a very important market for us, and it will benefit Houston greatly to have a fulltime sales person there.”
background to re-energize Houston members, increase member-to-member interaction and encourage GHCVB involvement. Sibley has returned to her native Texas and looks forward to the opportunity at hand. She calls Houston “a totally different animal” than New Orleans, and she arrives armed with ideas to enhance GHCVB membership. She plans to add a more personal touch to membership, as well as conduct a member survey to determine the most valuable aspects of membership and what needs to be improved.
John Sibley Butler Reappointed to Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board John Sibley Butler, director of the Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship and the IC Institute at The University of Texas at Austin, has been reappointed to the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board by President George W. Bush. Butler, a management professor at the McCombs School
of Business, has served since 2004 on the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, which Butler supervises the Fulbright Program, the U.S. government's flagship program in international educational exchange operating in 155 countries. The 12-member Board serves three-year terms and selects the students, scholars and teachers whose academic pursuits are supported by the
Fulbright Program, which awards about 6,000 new grants annually. Since its inception in 1946, there have been more than 275,000 “Fulbrighters.” “For international politics I have found that this interchange is the best thing to help others understand our culture,” Butler said. “It’s good for our country. I'm happy to do it.” Butler is a distinguished academic, consultant and author in organizational behavior and entrepreneurship, specifically immigrant and minority entrepreneurship. See BRIEFS, P.23
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New GHCVB Membership Coordinator Works to Add Value for Members Sharon Sibley, former membership services coordinator at the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau (NOMCVB), has joined the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Sibley Bureau (GHCVB) as membership services coordinator. Sibley, the only NOMCVB membership staff member retained following Hurricane Katrina, has experience in sales, collections, member consultations and client relations. She plans to use her
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