December 2009 Programs

December 7 - New Member Talks: Dennis Burns, Bruce Gee, Audrey Rust

December 14 - West Bay Opera - Holiday Celebration

December 21 - Club Assembly, President Ralph Adams Presiding

December 28 - DARK, Actually Sparkling and Bright with Holiday Cheer

Settle Down for a Long Winter's Nap

November 2009 Programs

November 2 - Alain Enthoven, Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management (Emeritus) in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, Medicare and Medical Insurance

November 9 - Craig Harding, Tesla Motors and the future of the Electric Car

November 16 - Sara Abbasi, Education in Pakistan

November 18 - Big Game Exchange with Berkeley Rotary Club in Berkeley at His Lordship's Restaurant, 199 Seawall Drive, Berkeley, CA 94710-1610 

November 23 - Heather Owen, Assistant Coach, Stanford Women’s Basketball

November 30 - Colburn Wilbur, Climate Change

October 2009 Programs

October 5 - Marcie Cox and Walt Hays report on PARC World Community
Service Project in Oaxaca, Mexico

October 12 - Joseph Grundfest, Stanford Professor of Law and Business, "Financial Markets, Now What."

October 19 - Jim Baer, CEO Premier Properties & Chop Keenan, CEO of Keenan Land Company - "Pro and con on Measure A: the proposed Palo Alto business license tax, on the November ballot."

October 26 - Teru Kuwayama, Knight Fellow at Stanford, "Tribes vs Empires"

September 2009 Programs

September 7 – DARK: Labor Day

September 14 – Rotary District Governor, Loren Harper

September 21 – Russell Hancock – The State of Silicon Valley

September 28 – New Member Talks, Charles Cheng, Ginny Lear, and Jim Sutherland

August 2009 Programs

August 3 - Sharon Tennison, US and Russia Relations

August 10 - Managing General Partner, Bill Neukom, SF Giants

August 17 - Linda Craighead, Public Arts Commission - Visuals and Controversy

August 24 - Archaeologist, Mark Hylkema, Early Palo Alto - Ohlone Indians

August 31 - Don Kennedy, Dealing -- or not -- with the Climate Chrisis

July 2009 Programs

July 6 - Ralph Adams, The State of the Club

July 13 - Allan Satoloff, The New JCC in Palo Alto

July 20 - Col. Felter, Origins of Insurgency and Terrorism

July 27 - Greg Rosston, Economic Policy in the Obama Administration

June 2009 Programs

June 1 - Dennis Boyle, Partner and Founding Member at IDEO - "Flight to Oshkosh"

June 8 - Steve Levy, Director and Senior Economist of the Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy (CCSCE) - "When Will the Recession End in California and the Country"

June 15 - New Member Talks (Terry Fatehi, Barb Mitchell, and Dave Thornton)

June 22 - Andy Coe, Chief Govt. and Community Relations Officer, Stanford Hospital and Clinics; Sherri Sager, Chief Govt. Relations Officer, Lucille Packard Children's Hospital; Steve Emslie, Deputy City Manager, City of Palo Alto - "Understanding the Stanford University Medical Center Renewal Project"

June 29 - DARK

May 2009 Programs

May 4 - Harold Luft, Director of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute - "Thinking Differently about Health Care Reform"

May 11 - Dr. Robert Sapolsky - "Stress and the Brain"

May 18 - John D. Ciorciaria, PhD from Oxford and 2 law degrees from Harvard, National Fellow at the Hoover Institution will speak on "India's Arrival as a Great Power"


May 25 - Dark - Memorial Day Observed

April 2009 Programs

April 6 - Jesse Cool, Restaurant Owner, Flea Street Café in Menlo Park and Cool Café, Cantor Arts Center on the Stanford campus. “The Farmer and the Cook-Who Are We in the Community”

April 13 - Babak Dehghanpisheh, Stanford Knight Fellow: “The Challenges of Reporting from the Middle East: Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran”

April 20 - Jeffry Walker, Executive Director, Community School of Music and Arts - Title TBA

April 27 - Red Cross/Trish Bubenik - “Be Red Cross Ready”