Kiwanis Club Of Houston upcoming events

June 18th - Luncheon (18 Jun 2026)

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Kiwanis Club of Houston
June 18th Luncheon

This luncheon will be at Brennan's!!

Speaker: Bill King

Bill King is a lifelong resident of the Houston area. He earned undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Houston.

Mr. King has enjoyed a varied business and legal career, including serving as the national managing partner of Linebarger, Goggan, Blair & Sampson, Of Counsel to Bracewell & Giuliani, and the president of Southwest Airport Services, Inc. He is currently a Fellow at the Budget & Tax Policy Center at Rice University’s Baker Institute. He is also the managing director of a family real estate investment firm and serves on the boards of the Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Houston’s largest healthcare provider.

He wrote for the Houston Chronicle from 2005-2015. From 2010-2015, he authored a bi-weekly column and served on the editorial board. He has also authored two books. His most recent is Depopulation: Our New Demographic Reality. He is a regular contributor to Real Clear Politics and publishes his own widely followed blog at www.BillKingBlog.com.

Mr. King’s community involvement includes numerous public service and volunteer organizations. From 1992-2005, he served in various positions with the City of Kemah, including two terms as Mayor. In the wake of Hurricanes Rita and Ike, Mr. King served on gubernatorial commissions and chaired a regional task force on the disastrous Rita evacuation. The recommendations of that task force served as the basis for new evacuation plans adopted for the region. For his work on that task force, he was awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award by the National Hurricane Conference in 2017. In 2015 and 2019, he was a candidate for mayor of Houston.

He has also served in many capacities with charitable and civic organizations, including Interfaith Ministries, Methodist DeBakey Heart Council, HISD Foundation, Crime Stoppers, Galveston Bay Foundation, Memorial-Hermann Foundation, Trees for Houston, the Houston Symphony, the Lone Star Flight Museum, and many others.

JULY 9TH - LUNCHEON WILL BE AT BRENNAN'S (09 Jul 2026)

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Kiwanis Club of Houston
JULY 9TH Luncheon

This luncheon will be at Brennan's!!

Speaker: Brian White
Vice President
Texas Children's Houston Open
Astros Golf Foundation

JULY 30TH - LUNCHEON WILL BE AT BRENNAN'S (30 Jul 2026)

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Kiwanis Club of Houston
JULY 30TH Luncheon

This luncheon will be at Brennan's!!

Speaker: James P. Bevill

James P. Bevill is an independent historian and award-winning author whose works explore pivotal moments in American and global history. His books form the foundation of widely praised presentations, and he is frequently invited to serve as a keynote speaker for historic and academic organizations.

His first book, The Paper Republic, The Struggle for Money, Credit, and Independence in the Republic of Texas, focused on the economic, financial, and political challenges of Texas from the colonial period through annexation. The book received four literary awards. Bevill’s second book, Blackboards and Bomb Shelters, The Perilous Journey of Americans in China during World War II, follows the lives of three Yale graduates and their unlikely paths of public service in Nationalist China during the Japanese occupation. His most recent book is Spies in Saigon, CIA Covert Operations in French Indochina and South Vietnam, 1950-1963, and vividly reveals the surprising depth of CIA and American involvement during the French War and the creation of the first Republic of Vietnam which followed.

Professionally, Bevill is a Senior Vice President at UBS Financial Services in the River Oaks office. He lives in Houston with his wife, Jodie Springer Bevill.

Topic: “Spies in Saigon” - The surprising depth of the CIA and American involvement
in French Vietnam and how they changed the world.