Carlos Villagomez Launches His New Book, Listening Space
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By Rick Clapp
egendary Barber and Carlos Beer Garden founder, Carlos Villagomez, hosted a book signing at his well-known Webster icehouse venue. Over 100 of Carlos’ best customers and friends were in attendance to celebrate Barbara Radnofsky’s new book, Listening Space, A Barbershop Guide to ProblemSolving that features the wit and wisdom of Carlos Villagomez. The lively crowd honored one of Clear Lake’s icon personalities, many of whom have known Carlos for over 50 years. Guests included Ron and Scott Krist, Ken and Nedra Gurry, Dr. Visset Sun, Mr. and Mrs. McLeod, John Gay and wife, Becky Reitz, Jesse Salinas, Johnny White, Leslie Farley, and Carlos Beer Garden owner, Adolf Villagomez, just to name a few. "Listening Space" is a fun and enjoyable read about stories of Carlos at the beginnings of NASA and Johnson Space Center that provides guidance on solving problems peacefully. Order a copy from Amazon.com. Visit Carlos Beer Garden & Carlos of NASA Barbershop at 18018 Highway 3, Webster, TX
2 UHCL commencements honor fall grads, previous ‘virtual’ grads
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ver 1,000 University of Houston-Clear Lake fall 2021 graduates received their degrees during an inperson commencement ceremony on Dec. 12 at noon and 5 p.m. at Minute Maid Park. Of those, 645 received their undergraduate degrees, and 363 received their graduate degrees. The College of Science and Engineering and the College of Human Sciences and Humanities conferred 277 and 265 degrees, respectively, at the noon session while the College of Business conferred 370, and 146 students in the College of Education were honored at the 5 p.m. session. The commencement address at both sessions was delivered by noted Houston journalist
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and former KPRC-Ch. 2 anchor, Linda Lorelle. Because both fall and spring commencements in 2020 and spring 2021 commencement were virtual, due to restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a retroactive commencement ceremony honoring over 3,600 students at a Returning Student 2021 Commencement ceremony on Dec. 4 at noon. and 5 p.m., also at Minute Maid Park. These combined candidates and graduates will join over 75,000 others who have graduated from the university. UHCL began as an upper-level university in 1974, admitting juniors, seniors and graduate students and then expanded to admit underclassmen in 2014.
