Program for January 31st

KPBS – Where News Matters

Speaker – Tom Karlo, GM

Chair of the Day – Brian Krause, UBS

Invocation – June Prewitt

A word about our speaker…

Tom Karlo has been KPBS’ General Manager since February 2009, but his career at KPBS began in 1973. Tom is only the 5th general manager in the 50 year history of KPBS – having worked his way up after starting as a student while attending San Diego State University. Prior to becoming the General Manager, he served as associate general manager for more than a decade.
Tom’s vision for the future of KPBS is to position the multi-platform public media organization as the premier source of local news analysis in San Diego and Imperial Counties. KPBS’ local content on TV, radio and online is created to complement and enhance the strong national programming from National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service.

Tom is very community driven in his role as General Manager. He spends much of his time representing KPBS in the community and deepening relationships with new and current donors and corporate partners.

Over the last 34 years Tom has worked as a slow-motion cameraman for NFL Films on Sundays during the football season. He has filmed 13 Super Bowls and received a National Emmy for Sports Cinematography in 1991.

Tom is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area but has lived in San Diego for nearly 40 years. He and his wife Julie have been married for 38 years. They have 3 grown children and 4 grandchildren. Tom and Julie have lived in East County for 35 years.

Outside of KPBS, Tom serves the following local organizations:
- Board of Directors for Pacific Southwest Chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society
- SDSU Alumni Board of Directors
- Member San Diego Downtown Rotary

Tom’s wife Julie is a board member of St. Madeline’s Sophia Center.

Notes from Meeting on January 24th & Happy/Sad Bucks

A somewhat abbreviated Tidings, as The Tidings is relying on pure memory for this…first, let it be said that Acting President Brian Krause is perhaps the most qualified and best organized president since…well, since The Tidings himself!  He may even be slightly more handsome!  No question about it!  And what a public speaker – my goodness!

Great leader in action (although somewhat fuzzy)!

We got off to a good start with Jay Jeffcoat providing an inspiring invocation, and Carl Martens lead a nautical themed patriotic song – sadly, there are  no photographs to document this, you’ll just have to take The Tidings word for it.

We had an interclub visiting today from Sweetwater…Don Sturek celebrated a birthday in the usual manner…we did somehow manage to get in some happy and sad bucks, for example Steve All who is always happy to make it in especially when he’s feeling better…

…a visitor from Coronado may become a member…John Wood brought his usual guest once again (his current wife) and made a presentation to the YMCA and Executive Director Alicia d’Angelo which will help them a great deal, even if it won’t keep Eldon’s feet warm…

Don’t forget the See’s Candy promotion that Ken Coley is promoting…and Doug Frost announced a campaign to rescue the club charter from certain death (if slowly dissolving is the equivalent for pieces of paper).  If you have questions about this process or the condition of the original 1920 charter, Doug has all the answers…we appreciate your support!

The man with the answers

We inducted new member Alberto Motola, who is shown here with Mark McDonald enjoying the fine leadership of the club by our acting president Brian Krause…

"Man, that is some great leadership!" "You said it!"

Unfortunately, Aztecs Baseball Head Coach Tony Gwynn was unable to attend our meeting, but Jay introduced Assistant Coach Mark Martinez who provided us with good background info on the impending conference changes.

"Thanks for those leadership tips Brian!"

Coach Martinez also introduced us to some of the Aztecs players, Brad Haynal and Tim Zier…

Brad!

Tim!

We were also pleased to present our scholarship check to Coach Martinez!

The Joker Knows Charlie and Marilyn Copeland were winners, but not big winners, if you know what I mean (will somebody tell me what I mean?)

Coley’s Flowers: In Bill Gibbs’ absence, Jon Tibbitts was high bidder on a flower arrangement

Announcements

January 25, 8:00 am – Kiwanis Foundation Board meeting, Burn Institute

See’s Candy – see Ken!

Kiwanis Charter Certificate Restoration – see Doug!

Program for January 24th

AZTEC UPDATE!

Speaker – Coach Tony Gwynn

Chair of the Day – Jay Jeffcoat, DLA Piper

Invocation – Jay Jeffcoat, DLA Piper

A word about our speaker…

Anthony Keith “Tony” Gwynn born May, 1960 In Los Angeles is a former Major League Baseball right fielder.  Widely considered one of the best hitters of his generation, Gwynn played for the San Diego Padres (1982-2001).  He threw and batted left-handed.

A graduate of San Diego State University – where he also played basketball and set a school record for assists, Gwynn broke in with the San Diego Padres as a part-time outfielder in 1982, appearing in 54 games and batting .289….”

ONE OF OUR HOMETOWN HEROES WHO IS LOOKING REAL GOOD TO US AS A CANCER SURVIVOR.

WE WILL BE PRESENTING  FOR THE TENTH STRAIGHT YEAR OUR $10,000 MEMORIAL BASEBALL SCHOLARSHIP TO A  WORTHY GROUP AT THE SDSU AZTEC BALL CLUB.  TONY’S PHILOSOPHY HAS BEEN OVER THE YEARS TO SPREAD THE GIFT AMONG DESERVING NEEDY PLAYERS THROUGHOUT THE LOCKER ROOM AND LOOK AT THE RESULTS.

Notes from Meeting on January 17h & Happy/Sad Bucks

The meeting began with a wonderful invocation from Bobby Greisser.

Art Stillwell led us in “This Is My Country” which was dedicated to Mitt Romney (no politics involved). Both birthday boys, Drue Jordan & Trevor Callan, weren’t present so we’ll sing to them the next time we see them!

As for guests, we welcomed Richard Yamaguchi, John Wood’s roommate: Margaret Wood,

our Lt. Governor: Shirley Nakawatase & her hubby Leon Benham,

Dave Schmitt & Neil Huddleson from KI, and Ron’s buddy Mark! Leo, a prospective member, also came to check out our club.

Art Stillwell announced the memorial service for Dorothy Frels will be on January 28th at 2:00pm at La Jolla Presbyterian Church – Leon Benham is happy his 22 autistic son is moving on to greener pastures! Bill Gibbs is still here (and aren’t we thankful!) – Monica Ball welcomes anyone that’s interested in the Finance Committee which you’re not obligated to join but can come to the meeting next week or tell her you’re interested. Karina Sousa still has the fine free badge so she was sippin’ on a Stella in her 49ers koozie with her jeans & sneakers on! She’s praying she’s GOING TO THE SUPERBOWL after the 49ers dominate this weekend!

Tom Bauer announced an interclub TOMORROW at Country Waffles at 2323 Midway Dr. and also there is room at table for big Mid Year Conf. Gala on February 11th in Riverside for anyone that is interested

Don Sturek reminded Concert Committee of meeting after luncheon

Judy Leitner is excited her son is engaged and happy to see her favorite Lt. Governor Shirley!

John Irons came to the podium to recognize the Military Commander Naval Air forces Civic Fleet & Navy Preserve.

It was our pleasure to have Command Master Chief Robert Bailey at the meeting to introduce their Junior Sailor of the Year, YN2  Rosselyn Kapun.

Neil Huddelson came from Kiwanis International to teach us about Eliminate Project going on. He explained the process through tetanus and how we have easy access but in third developing countries it’s not easily available. It is $0.60 per tetanus shot, including delivery and 3 shots of this tetanus protects the mother and her baby from tetanus. They are trying to deliver enough vaccines to the developing world to eliminate ALL neonatal tetanus. The technology is finally available to realistically eliminate tetanus and Unicef has already eliminated this in 29 countries. Since the vaccine has developed 25 countries have eliminated tetanus.

The Chairman of the Day was Chris Celentino (fined for being in the paper) and working out time to visit Old Town Academy to see Music Program “It’s not Math, It’s the Music.” Today is about Michael McHager who is President & CEO of Natural History Museum.

Michael came to the podium and was impressed by our club and talked to us about the SD Natural History Museum. The museum was founded in 1874 by San Diegans who wanted to know about the environment & is the 8th oldest in the US! The Paleontology collection includes 2.2 million plant, vertebrate and invertebrate fossil specimens – 6000 specimen lots are added to collections per year. On the Thomas Jefferson School of Law they found a mammoth & whale skull! Titanic the Artifact Exhibition is coming up and will tell the story of the Titanic and the people on it as well as have artifacts from the actual disaster. This will run from February till September. There is also a Horse Exhibition for all you  horse lovers. It’s hard to get good exhibitions and not cheap but worthwhile!

Michael wanted us to make sure we came away with 2 things:
1. Natural History Museum is a RESEARCH museum
2.  Plazadepanama.org – watch video – project to get completed by 2015 to get cars out of center of plaza

The Joker Knows: No jokers but we had some winners – Leon ‘The Outsider’ Benham – $7 — Karina – $10

Coley’s Flowers: Bill outbid himself $75 (“Wait long enough he’ll be at 80″) and gave them to the Junior Sailor of the Year

Announcements

January 19: Club Board Meeting – 7:30am – Burn Institute

January 25: Foundation Board Meeting – 8:00am – Burn Institute

February 11: Mid-Year South Conference – Riverside

February 21: Laurels for Leaders – 11:30am till 1:30pm – DoubleTree Hazard Center

March 3: Mardi Gras Masquerade

Program for January 17th

San Diego Natural History Museum

Speaker – Dr. Michael Hager

Chair of the Day – Chris Celentino, Foley & Lardner

Invocation – Art Stillwell

A word about our speaker…

Dr. Michael W. Hager has been in the museum profession since 1965. He was a Professor of Geology at Augustana College (1973–78), the Director of the Museum of the Rockies (1978–89), Director of the Virginia Museum of Natural History (1989–91), and has been President and Chief Executive Officer of the San Diego Natural History Museum since 1991. Dr. Hager is also President of CinemaCorp of the Californias, an educational film production company (1998– Present).

Dr. Hager led Strategic Planning efforts in 1991-92 that, subsequently, led to focusing the Museum’s programs on Southern California and Baja California, the founding of the Environmental Science Education Center and the Biodiversity Research Center of the Californias, and a Capital Campaign for the construction of a Museum renovation that more than doubled its original size. He is also the Executive Producer of Ocean Oasis, a $5 million large format film about Baja California. Ocean Oasis is the recipient of several awards including the Wildscreen Film Festival “Panda Award,” the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival “Best Theatrical Program Award,” the International Film & Video Festival Conservation Award, the Houston Wildlife Film Festival Platinum Award, and the SEASPACE/PADI Project Aware—Environmental Awareness Award (2003).

He sits on the board of the Balboa Park Committee and is President of the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership.

Dr. Hager earned a B.A. in biology from Grinnell College and a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Wyoming. His academic specialty is paleontology and his administrative specialty is strategic planning

Notes from Meeting on January 10th & Happy/Sad Bucks

The meeting commenced with an invocation from Charlie Coleman…

Joe Sigurdson then proceeded with the patriotic song “This flag is our flag.”

As for guests, Chris Celentino had four guests from San Diego High School who were participating in the “shadow job” program. They were experiencing a workday in the life of a lawyer.  (That’s four fewer people that will ever go to law school, in The Tidings’ opinion…)

David Gugerty brought his daughter Kelly as a guest and Bill Gibbs was there with his assistant Richard.

Happy/Sad Dollars:

Chris Celentino: $5 happy for himself and his four guests – Judy Leitner for the interclub on Saturday at the Alpine Kiwanis Club with nine other members of our club – Bill Gibbs “still here” – Brian Krause announcement of Mardi Gras on March 3^rd at 6:00 PM. Tickets $100 each and $75 if you buy early.

The chairman of the week was Carl Nettleton who introduced Dr. Robert Wilder who came to speak about green energy.

The Joker Knows:  Suzie Zlaket won $4! And Chris Celentino won $5.

Coley’s Flowers: Bill Gibbs outbid everyone at $75 and gave the gorgeous arrangement to Suzie!

Announcements – thanks to Don Sturek for most of the Tidings this week.  Editorial comments are, as usual, only the responsibility of The Tidings himself….

January 18: Interclub with San Diego Harbor Club – 12:00 – Waffle House on Midway Drive.

January 19: Club Board Meeting – 7:30am – Burn Institute

Monthly Birthdays – none recognized today

Program for January 10th

Wilderhill Clean Energy

Speaker – Dr. Robert Wilder

Chair of the Day – Carl Nettleton

Invocation – Charlie Coleman

A word about our speaker…

Dr. Wilder is CEO & Founder of Wildershares, LLC; he is the Manager of the WilderHill Clean Energy Index. He holds a Ph.D. from University of California at Santa Barbara and a Law Degree from University of San Diego School of Law. In addition Dr. Wilder has been a Visiting Lecturer at University of California, San Diego.

Rob is author of the 1998 Book, ‘Listening to the Sea,’ that links marine biodiversity to smart and cost-effective energy technologies that prevent pollution in the first place. His book chapters and articles have appeared in Nature, National Academy of Sciences Press, Engineering News-Record, UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy, University of Chicago Press, the Journal of Alternative Investments, and elsewhere.

His awards include Fulbright Fellowship, American Assn. for Advancement of Science (AAAS)/EPA Fellowship in Environmental Science & Technology, and National Academy of Sciences Young Investigator Award (twice). He serves as a Trustee for the Society for Conservation Biology, serves on the Director’s Cabinet at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) at UC San Diego, and sits on other Boards. He previously was on the faculty at University of California at Santa Barbara, the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, and coordinated a national program for The Nature Conservancy.

While a Fellow at the EPA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., he focused on innovative technologies that prevent harm to ecosystems while being profitable to boot. His work has highlighted smart policy solutions that avoid harm- in place of older ‘end-of-pipe’ controls and waste remediation.

Rob enjoys doing public education about solutions that make both economic and ecological sense. The ECO Index and its tracker (PBW) are also receiving accolades. In 2008 the tracker was named by Lipper® as #1 Ranked 2007 Small Cap Core Fund for performance; in 2007 the ECO Index was called “the Dow Jones industrial average of global warming” by USA Today; the tracker was called “Best ETF for 2007”; Dr. Wilder’s work was recognized in 2006 with an “Outstanding Individual Achievement” Award from California Center for Sustainable Energy, and shortly after launching the tracker was named “Most Innovative New ETF Product in 2005”.

Rob is originally from Baltimore, Maryland. He and his family now reside in lovely Encinitas north of San Diego, California on a 1-acre site that is solar-powered with a display of practical and innovative ecological solutions.

Notes from Meeting on January 4h & Happy/Sad Bucks

Welcome back Kiwanians! Great to see everybody back this week after our holiday break. The meeting commenced with an invocation from Tom Bauer.

Doug Frost then proceeded with the patriotic song Johnny Came Marching Home! Feliz cumpleanos to Bob Bollum who was not here but sending birthday love his way! As for guests, we were happy to have Dave Wood’s good friend from Coronado who was a Kiwanian there, Bob Graham join us for lunch.

Happy/Sad Dollars:

Doug Frost: $3 sad for the 3 field goals Stanford missed – Gene Auerbach: trip through Jerusalem was best he’s every had

- Connie Jamison: amazing bird watching trip

– Ethel Merriman: just moved! – June Prewitt: owes us a buck but wanted to say thanks for wonderful start for brand new year, her son was in the hospital and she has to have surgery for her carpel tunnel – Tom Bauer: $5 $0.50 for each person at Interclub at Imperial Beach on 12/23 – Prez Corrine LeCates: $5 for successful Holiday Party & Holiday Bowl! Pajama Jam Karina Sousa was happy to be able to ramble as long as she wanted since she has the FINE FREE BADGE this month! It was her baby brother’s birthday, turning the big 2-0! Had fun NYE in Vegas and GO NINERS and Bill Gibbs was her best Christmas present when he shared his memories of Christmas at the interclub in Imperial Beach!

The chairman of the week was David Gugerty…

who introduced Peter Callstrom who came to speak about Homelessness in SD.

He is a part of the Regional Task Force on the Homeless (RTFH) which is a501 c3 that is primarily funded by HUD (U.S. Depart of Housing & Urban Development). They are all about data and support agencies around county who use their Homeless MGMT Info System. Currently, there are 700,00 people that are homeless on any given night. Overall demographics show that 63% are individuals; 17% are chronic, 12% are veterans. In the San Diego County, homelessness has risen 13.1%, but in the entire state of California progress has been made and the state has gone down 18%. This provides us with knowledge to act & make more progress and you can help with the WE ALL COUNT CAMPAIGN – If you want to learn how you can help in 1 of the 2 phases – counting homelessness or interviewing – sign up here!

The Joker Knows: Charlie Kakos won $4! And Justin Frisco… found the joker!!!!! And went home with money bursting out of his pockets! Drinks on Justin for the next month!

Coley’s Flowers: Justin Frisco took home the gorgeous arrangement!

Presentations

John Kizer had a special presentation for us today! Ron Monroe was born in…. Toledo, OH!  His life changed in Whitehall where he met Penny. In 1999 he was our club’s President and quoted President Eisenhower “Every great President is succeeded by a poor one.” And he should know as he was one of the great ones. John Kizer happened to be his replacement ha! Ron Monroe, our great Kiwanian and good friend was awarded the Legion of Honor for 40 fabulous years membership!

Congrats Ron!

Announcements

This Saturday, January 7: Interclub with Alpine Club – 7am in Alpine.  Our very own Concert Committee is the program that day! Carpool also available – talk to Don Sturek

January 18: Interclub with San Diego Harbor Club – 12:00 – Waffle House on Midway Dr.

January 19: Club Board Meeting – 7:30am – Burn Institute