Speakers
Speaker | Date | Topic |
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Holiday Lunch/Silent Auction | Dec 13, 2023 |
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Fellowship | Dec 20, 2023 |
Games Day
Join us for fun and fellowship. Brush up on those board games and card games to play with friends, the kids and grandkids over the holidays. |
No Meeting | Dec 27, 2023 |
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No Meeting | Jan 03, 2024 |
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Angie Simon | Jan 10, 2024 |
Sheet Metal Trade and DEI
Angie Simon is past President of Western Allied Mechanical. She was and is actively involved in SMACNA (Sheet Metal and Contractors National Association) as Local and National President of that organization. Angie has led the Heavy Metal Experience, which is a successful effort to attract teens and young adults (especially disadvantaged) to the sheet metal trade. The program has grown from 3 Contractors holding the multi week summer HME, to 22 throughout the US, during this summer. Next year, 50 locations are going to be involved, with over 900 kids learning about the sheet metal trade |
CLUB ASSEMBLY | Jan 17, 2024 |
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Duffy Jennings - Reporter | Jan 24, 2024 |
SF in the 1970s
Duffy Jennings, a prize-winning former crime |
TGIW | Jan 31, 2024 |
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Michelle Tsui | Feb 07, 2024 |
What You Don't Know about the Rotary Club of Menlo Park's Scholarship/ Mentoring Program
Our primary philanthropic contribution to the local community is our Scholarship program. Did you know that each of our scholars is assigned a mentor to help them navigate college? Come hear all about the behind the scenes work, the various annual events, the challenges and incredible successes of this program. |
Vic Schachter | Feb 14, 2024 |
International Legal Mediation
Vic Schachter is the founder and president of FSRI. He has served extensively as a mediator, and as an advocate representing clients in numerous mediations and arbitrations over his fifty year career. He has led and participated in rule of law initiatives promoting judicial reform and alternative dispute resolution and judicial case management in India, Brazil, Turkey, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Republic of Georgia and Malaysia, among other countries |
Tina Henson | Feb 21, 2024 |
Bay Area Native American Tribes
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Lucas Wilcox | Feb 28, 2024 |
Altruist Relief Kitchen, Meals in Ukraine
The Altruist Relief Kitchen in Ukraine (ARK-Ukraine) is a wood fired off-grid industrial field kitchen, made out of locally sourced recycled materials, that is administered and operated by Ukrainian women. ARK-Ukraine has served over 100,000 meals for the women, children, elderly and disabled people fleeing the war. At a cost of $0.33 per meal, ARK-Ukraine is serving dozens of times more food per dollar than even the largest aid organizations. |
TGIW | Mar 06, 2024 |
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Isaac Blacksin | Mar 13, 2024 |
Journalism in Conditions of Violence
Isaac Blacksin is a media anthropologist and an ethnographer of military conflict, His research examines journalism in conditions of violence. Isaac’s book project, Conflicted: Representation from the Warzone, is based on two years of fieldwork in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, and analyzes journalists’ struggles with wartime media labor. He has conducted fieldwork with journalists from Afghanistan to Ukraine, with support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the American University of Beirut, and the Institute for Humanities Research at the University of California.
Introduced by Steven Weiner |
Francine Allen | Mar 20, 2024 |
Living Well with Polio
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Pamela Weiss | Mar 27, 2024 |
The Color of Autumn
Pamela Weiss is An award-winning screenwriter, editor, producer and journalist, Pamela collaborates with industry mentors and professionals to shepherd heart-felt, funny and transcendent human stories. Media experience includes Boston Globe, Miami Herald, Knight-Ridder New Media and Capital-Gazette Publishing. Color of Autumn Short Film In 1966 Chicago a sheltered Black eight-year-old is blindsided by cruel and casual racism while socializing with the children of her father’s white boss.
Through the eyes of a grown woman, Color of Autumn retraces the memory of her precocious eight-year-old self, a Black girl who lives with her hardworking but assimilating parents, and her adoring and wise grandmother in a quaint little house on the South Side of Chicago. |
TGIW | Apr 03, 2024 |
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MEETING CANCELED (Geri Spieler rescheduled) | Apr 10, 2024 |
The author of Housewife Assassin- About The Woman Who Tried To Kill President Ford
President Gerald Ford suffered two attempts on his life during his term in office: one by Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme of the Manson Family, and the other by a far less likely candidate—an average middle-aged mother of five—Sara Jane Moore. After thirty years of communication with Moore in prison, journalist Geri Spieler provides a riveting account of her path from childhood in smalltown West Virginia to that fateful moment when she tried to assassinate the president. |
TGIW | May 01, 2024 |
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TGIW - Pete Nelson's | Jun 05, 2024 |
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