August 24, 2011

Program for August 30, 2011 -

Photocharity

Speaker -

Jeffrey Sitcov, President

Chairman of the Day -

One of our newest members, Charlie Coleman! (Has he been inducted yet?)

Invocation -

John Kizer

A note on our speaker -

Jeffrey Sitcov is Founder & President of Photocharity. Jeffrey, a Physical Therapist for 18 years, suffered a career ending injury while treating a patient in 1998. After much soul searching, he decided to volunteer his life & help youth make better choices in their lives. He interviewed over 100 non-profit San Diego organizations that empowered youth to make better choices for themselves. One of those organizations was the Storefront. He spent 5 hours on the streets with the Storefront Outreach Program and was shocked to find there were over 2000 youth under the age of 18, and 4000 more between the age of 18 to 24, that were homeless in San Diego County. After this experience Jeffrey realized he must help Save Homeless Youth and Photocharity was born.

Birthdays for August -

August 29 – Norma Trost – Retired

Notes from the August 23 Meeting:

Joe Sigurdson sang America the Beautiful in a really high key…

We celebrated Tim O’Reilly’s birthday, and John Wood celebrated just as much as Tim did…

Natalie Bradley brought most of her family, and John Wood brought Margaret…

Happy/Sad – Charlie Coleman is happy District Convention is over and thanked our many volunteers (including the Tidings) like Tom Bauer, June Prewitt, Dave Gugerty, Lynn Graver, Jeanne Hurwitz, Brian Krause, and Karina Sousa (forgive me my omissions)…Mark McDonald, the intrepid chair of DCon, was also happy it is over…Ken paid for his absence therefrom, ably replaced by Corinne…Eldon ate lunch very well at DCon…Monica paid for an anniversary that she didn’t anticipate…Don Sturek’s grandson is apparently meeting girls at Nebraska (if only there was a football game or something to take them to)…Joe Sigurdson is ready for his 100 Waves…Conny was happy to see her mother and other family visitors…Drue Jordan gave us his last $20 after his daughter’s wedding…
We had any number of new members inducted (okay, 2 was the number)…Alex Kim and Bobby G. (Grieser, for those of you who are sticklers…and The Tidings does not like sticklers…) introduced by Charlie Coleman and Jon Tibbitts, respectively…

Raffle Drawing 50/50: Jon Tibbitts!
Coley Flowers: I think it was Tibbitts as well…

Natalie Bradley introduced our speaker, Liz Fraumann speaking on securing the digital city, which basically means every one of us…

Announcements:

Attention – attention for this official announcement – we have absolutely no announcements for this week – this has been your official announcement…

Our speaker this week – Liz Fraumann, ESET

Chair of the Day – Natalie Bradley, StarPals

Invocation – Charlie Coleman

A note on our speaker…

In mid-2008, ESET North America an internet security company with their North American headquarters in San Diego, CA, began to see a pattern that gave their CEO pause. As a former professor of physics, Anton Zajac saw the pattern that individuals were continuing to put themselves into scenarios which put them at risk in cyberspace. Even with the best hardware and software, the individual actions could defeat protection.

Out of this realization, Securing Our eCity was born and what turned out to be a movement to educate San Diego’s digital citizens became a reality. The program was announced by Ruben Barrales at the Mayor’s Fireside Chat in September of 2008. Over nearly the next year, the ESET team reached out to local business to educate their staff. It was a slow go. Most of the business leaders did not realize the potential threats they faced. Since that time however San Diego has become the model city for this education effort with our history of collaboration, a diverse community and can do attitude.

Securing Our eCity has now reached hundreds of businesses and thousands of staff who through the SOeC Foundational Cybersecurity Workshop now realize that whether they are at home or work, their immediate actions can help to keep their business and personal computing safer.

We realize that we may never be able to completely protect San Diego, California, America or the world from cyber-crime or terrorism. However, San Diego and it’s citizenry have taken a giant step forward to make San Diego a place where we can live, work and play in a cyber-safe environment and serve as a beacon for the rest of the world.

Notes from the meeting of Aug. 16

Art Stillwell began the meeting with a deep invocation. Joe Sigurdson lightened the meeting up by belting out the Star Spangled Banner which was followed by the invocation. The birthday boys, Bill Winterbourne and Ken Klein were no were to be seen but we wish them well anyway! We had several guests in attendance, Marian Lebowitz brought her colleague (and prospective member) Dr. Shalia, Hannah Hobbs and our speaker Catherine Corral had several dancers with her to spice up the meeting!

Raffle Drawing 50/50: Ryan Callan was the lucky winner of $46!

Coley Flowers: Ryan Callan took the flowers home $45 (although he was supposed to split his winnings with the other Callan)

Tim Callan came to the podium to induct 3 new Young Professionals. First came Joe McMullen who works in criminal defense at Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek and has recently won 2 important cases. Maria Palmieri was next who is a personal injury attorney also just won a big case and has a deep love for Kings of Leon. Finally was Chris Knopp works on environmental permits from ESA and met Tim through another Young Pro, Jason Sokol. After the inductions, John Irons came to present our military honoree for the month from the South Coast Division.

The Chairman of the Day was Karina Sousa who was happy to introduce our speaker Catherine Corral who is co-founder of transcenDANCE. Catherine spoke briefly on the history of the organization, which started in 2005 in City Heights. They’re celebrating their 5 year anniversary with the Exit In performances. The last performances will be held this Friday & Saturday. The club was lucky enough to get a sneak peek at the performance as 7 students did 2 dance pieces – one was a story piece and the other was a celebration of the transcenDANCE!

Announcements:

Special event – TranscenDance!  A preview of one of our upcoming programs!

Wagner Theater at UCSD – Aug. 19, & 20 with special VIP Performance Aug. 20.  Here is the link – contact Danny Williams for more details!

TranscenDance!

August 18 – Club Board Meeting – 7:30am – Burn Institute

August 24 – Foundation Board Meeting – 8:00am – Burn Institute

August 10, 2011

Program for August 16, 2011

TranscenDance

Speaker:

Catherine Corral, Executive/Artistic Director of transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project

Chairman of the Day:

Karina Sousa, who looks nothing like Danny Williams…

Invocation:

Art Stilwell

A note on our speaker…

Ms. Corral brought together her training and experience in both social work and the expressive/performing arts and has directed eight original dance theatre productions in that time. Her professional background includes working in the the social services field for over 15 years and being a dance educator for San Diego City Schools for eight years before founding transcenDANCE. Catherine graduated from UC Santa Barabara with her BA in Sociology and went on to receive an Expressive Arts Therapy certification from UC San Diego. Additionally, Ms. Corral has broadened her training through national affiliations with the New-York-based Urban Bush Women & Galef Institute, and internationally with Projeto Axe of Salvador, Brazil. Catherine Corral was recently awarded one of the Top 15 San Diego Community Leaders by the San Diego News Network in 2010.

A little history: the name, TranscenDance was taken from the word “transcendence” which is “the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits.” Once you meet your personal health goals you will transcend or move to a higher state of well-being going beyond where you are right now.

Birthdays for August:

Notes from the August 9 Meeting:

Doug Frost, or someone that looked remarkably like him, handled both the invocation and the patriotic song, and all of the Air Force veterans among us were pleased…Mr. Frost requested that no commercial photographs of his performance be taken…

Happy/Sad Etc…Bruce Boland may have flown into Oshkosh, but had to pay a fine for the laudatory article (is there any other kind?) in the Daily Transcript…Lynn Graver returned from her trip to Poland as a volunteer…Don Sturek sent off another Nebraska student…Art Stilwell spoke to Bill Gibbs and he sounds better (yay!)…Chuck Day paid a fine to announce a charity auction for Ronald McDonald House Thursday (we have to find an abbreviation for that…)…Ken Coley is happy to be back from his trip to Michigan…Drue Jordan sat by himself…

Justin Frisco introduced our newest inductee, Rachael Karry! Sorry for the fuzz factor, Rachel…

Tom Bauer introduced our main speaker, Bill Gore…

…who introduced Lt. Joe Rodi, and spoke of the lieutenant’s many accomplishments – well done!

Raffle Drawing 50/50: Justin Frisco! Coley Flowers: Tim O’Reilly was the high bidder.

And now for something completely different…

Check out Jay Jeffcoat’s socks!!!

Announcements:

New member orientation this Thursday Aug. 11 at the Bristol Hotel – 5:30 pm, $12 cover w/hors d’ouerves, no host bar, but you must contact Brian Krause and/or Karina Sousa to ensure we get an accurate head count and can have enough to eat…

Club board meeting Thurs. Aug. 18 7:30 am at the Burn Institute

Special event – TranscenDance!  A preview of one of our upcoming programs!

Wagner Theater at UCSD – Aug. 12, 13, 14, 19, & 20 with special VIP Performance Aug. 20.  Here is the link – contact Danny Williams for more details!

TranscenDance!

Our speaker this week – Sheriff Bill Gore

Chair of the Day – Tom Bauer, SCS

Invocation – Doug Frost

A note on our speaker…

Sheriff Gore oversees one of the largest Sheriff’s Departments in the nation: with 4,000 employees, an annual budget of over $600 million, and a service area of over 4,200 square miles extending to a 60 mile international border.  Along with patrol and investigative operations, his department provides air support, search and rescue service, and forensic support for the San Diego region.  His department operates seven detention facilities countywide.  Sheriff Gore is well known for his regional approach to law enforcement and for his energetic deployment of technology to the front lines of enforcement. He spearheaded the creation of the Regional Terrorism Threat Assessment Center (RTTAC) and a Rapid Response DNA Team that uses forensic DNA to solve property crimes. He created a Border Crimes Initiative, including Operation Stonegarden, recognized nationally for its effectiveness in addressing border crime. A champion of Intelligence-Led Policing, he has increased the department’s reliance on the work of its Crime Analysis Team to strengthen the Department’s crime prevention efforts and assist in the swift apprehension of criminals when prevention fails.

Notes from the meeting of Aug. 2

We had an unusual off site meeting this week, touring the facilities of the Unified Port of San Diego.

Here’s a bunch of us waiting to get on the bus…no fines, happy or sad bucks this time…Carl Nettleton was in charge…

Our speaker turned out to be Jerine Rosato, Senior Manager of External Relations for the Port District, and she was an able tour guide indeed…During her ten years at the Port, Ms. Rosato has also worked in the capacity of Program Manager for various social and technological projects and programs at the Port. Ms. Rosato holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Behavior.

The Tidings thought that we would be able to get off the bus at some of the more interesting port facilities (as did Shaun McArdle), but apparently some of us didn’t pass the background check so we observed the facilities from the comfort of our seats on the bus…

Raffle Drawing 50/50: Nothing of the sort happened this meeting…

Coley Flowers: Ditto…

And now for something completely different…

Due to the lack of material this week, here for your enjoyment The Tidings presents one of the most amusing road signs in the United States.  It is located in Bishop, California…US 6 is the Grand Army of the Republic Highway, in case you were wondering…yes, this is a CalTrans sign…your tax dollars at work…

Announcements:

Special event – TranscenDance!  A preview of one of our upcoming programs!

Wagner Theater at UCSD – Aug. 12, 13, 14, 19, & 20 with special VIP Performance Aug. 20.  Here is the link – contact Danny Williams for more details!

TranscenDance!