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Saturday, September 11, 2010
The City Club of San Diego Proudly Presents:
John McDermott
The World’s Greatest Irish Tenor
In Concert – Song and Commentary
Saturday, October 23, 2010
The City Club of San Diego Proudly Presents:
Marty Meehan
Chancellor, UMass Lowell
Speaking on: "American Higher Education & the Future"
Thursday, November 11, 2010
The City Club of San Diego Proudly Presents:
David Abney
Chief Operating Officer, UPS
Speaking on: “Growing Business in a Changing World?”
Friday, November 19, 2010
The City Club of San Diego Proudly Presents:
Steve Weisman
Editorial Director of Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC.
Editor of & Speaking on: Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary
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Saturday, September 11, 2010
The 35th Anniversary Program of
The City Club of San Diego Featuring in Concert
John McDermott – The World’s Greatest Irish Tenor
7:30 PM
Crill Hall – On Campus at Point Loma Nazarene University
3900 Lomaland Drive (university entrance off Catalina Blvd)
Congressional Circle: $75
Cabinet Circle: $125
Vice-President`s Circle: $250
President`s Circle: $500
Includes “Legacy of the Patriot” CD by Mr. McDermott
Reservations: www.pointloma.edu/Community/CBS.htm
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Biographical Brief – John McDermott
 “Legend” is not a title John McDermott would readily embrace, but his accomplishments have become legendary in recording industry lore. He calls Toronto and Boston home, but he has also found a home as an international recording star and household name – known as much for his successful musical career as for his commitment to veterans’ causes. He is a long way from the man for whom singing was a hobby less than ten years ago. John was discovered quite by chance, when working as a circulation sales representative for the Toronto Sun, he belted out an impromptu rendition of “Danny Boy” at a company party.
“I grew up singing, but I thought everybody grew up singing. My dad and mom introduced us to music early on, and all of the McDermott kids could unleash a verse or two of ‘Scotland the Brave’ or ‘Green Isle of Erin’ on command. My song was ‘Danny Boy,’ and I sang it with pride, because even as a kid I knew what a powerful and emotive song it was.”
John’s first album, Danny Boy, was originally recorded as a very private and personal 50th anniversary tribute for his parents. Its quality could not be ignored and it eventually found its way into the hands of EMI Music Canada. Danny Boy subsequently garnered strong sales for a debut release in the U.S. and Canada; it even reached number one on New Zealand’s album charts, and was certified double platinum in that country. This success, in addition to a fast growing North American fan base, won through a tireless touring schedule, led to his participation in the PBS phenomenon, The Irish Tenors. John’s presence helped generate a US gold record, three US tours, and a high-profile media schedule, which included appearances on ‘Good Morning America’ and ‘The Today Show.’
The outcome of that fateful performance has catapulted him into a musical career that includes three Canadian platinum records, five Juno nominations (Canada’s equivalent of the Grammy), and a solid international touring schedule. In November 2001, John taped “John McDermott – A Time to Remember” at the Living Arts Centre outside Toronto. This, his first solo television special, began airing in March 2002 on PBS affiliates across North America. Always a generous performer and mentor to emerging artists, John shared the stage and screen with a huge cast, including explosive music and dance troupe, Chanda Gibson and Pulse, and Cape Breton Celtic prodigies, The Cottars.
   
His success has allowed him to express his commitment to veteran’s causes, which have always been integral to John and an important theme in his music. He is a recipient of one the United State’s highest honours – the Congressional Medal of Honor Society’s “Bob Hope Award.”
John’s early 2003 release, Great Is Thy Faithfulness, as the title suggests, is a tribute to his faith that had been a work-in-progress since 1970, yielding 17 beautiful songs that range in recording from 1565 through to 2003. Late 2003 album, Stories of Love, showcased his interpretation of the classic Frank Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim bossa nova canon of songs. It included such favourites as “Girl from Ipanema” and “(In The) Wee Small Hours (Of The Morning).” “I have always wanted to do this material in a manner that would present the beauty of the lyric and melody, here it is,” says John
In 2004 John released two compilations of his favourite traditional songs from Ireland and Scotland. Songs of the Isles Ireland and Songs of the Isles Scotland were both released on John’s own Bunnygee label.
In March 2005, John recorded Just Plain Folk live at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto. Just Plain Folk is dedicated to the folk music genre and collects songs from that evening’s performance, along with songs John has recorded over the past few years with fellow guest artists but have not been released until now. Legendary folk artist Michael Smith performs with John on the release. Smith’s resume includes over 30 artists from Suzy Bogguss to Jimmy Buffet that have cut or performed his tunes and it became safe to assume that, “if Michael Smith has written a song, someone else has played or recorded it.”
Later that year, John released Images of Christmas with John McDermott and Friends. This holiday themed album featured John performing duets with artists such as Ron Sexsmith, Colette Baron-Reid, Murry McLauchlan, Marc Jordon, and Jason Fowler among others, as well as songs performed by Cindy Church, Lawrence Gowan, Shaye, Amy Sky, Glass Tiger and Tom Cochrane.
John has continued to keep busy, re-teaming with The Irish Tenors for a well-received tour and the 2005 album, Sacred, on Razor & Tie Records. In 2006 he released a Greatest Hits package, Timeless Memories, on EMI and, Legacy of the Patriot, on his own Bunnygee imprint.
In early 2007 he released, On a Whim, featuring the songs of Ron Sexsmith. The result is a beautiful collaboration, co-produced by the artists, that melds John’s signature vocals with Ron Sexsmith’s critically acclaimed songwriting style.
Last fall John toured to support his new Christmas CD and DVD John McDermott & Friends Sharing Christmas. The DVD was broadcast as a special on Dec 18th, 2007 on CBC TV. The tour ran for most of December and featured special guests at several of the shows.
This year John marks the 2008 season with special guest, Australian Folk superstar Eric Bogle.
John McDermott is an artist whose sense of respect for tradition and understanding of the sentiment behind the music resonates worldwide.
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Saturday, October 23, 2010
The City Club of San Diego & the UMass Lowell Alumni Proudly Present:
Marty Meehan – Chancellor, UMass Lowell
Speaking on: "American Higher Education & the Future"
Reception & Meeting with Coffee & Croissants
10:00 AM
La Jolla Country Day School
9490 Genesee Avenue
City Club Members, UMass Alumni & La Jolla Country Day School Parents: $10, all others: $20
Phone reservations: 619-687-3580.
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Biographical Brief -- Marty Meehan
Marty Meehan is the second chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Lowell and the fourteenth leader of the institution and its predecessor schools, founded in the 1890s.
“Higher education is the foundation of this region. It will determine the region’s future,” says Meehan. “What we do now, today, at this university, will decide who will leave and who will stay. Now—there has never been a more critical time than now.”
“This place gave me a chance when there weren’t a lot of other opportunities,” Meehan adds. “I feel passionately about this university. Fundamentally, I can tell you it gave me the basis to do whatever I’ve been able to do with my life.”
Commenting on the unanimous decision by the University of Massachusetts Trustees to appoint Meehan as chancellor, President Jack Wilson said, “Marty Meehan is a leader, an innovator, and has a demonstrated passion for higher education in general and UMass Lowell in particular.” He assumed the chancellorship on July 1, 2007.
A UMass Lowell alumnus, Meehan graduated cum laude in 1978, having studied education and political science. He received a master’s degree in public administration from Suffolk University in 1981 and a juris doctor from Suffolk University Law School in 1986. He holds honorary degrees from Suffolk and Green Mountain College in Vermont. Meehan served as an adjunct faculty member in political science at UMass Lowell in the late 1980s.
A resident of Lowell, Meehan represented the fifth congressional district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2007. He served on the House Armed Services and Judiciary committees. Widely respected as a reformer, he established a national reputation for his legislative leadership in reforming campaign finance laws and protecting people against the health risks in tobacco use. Among his priorities were maintaining a balanced federal budget, preserving Medicare and Social Security, supporting and strengthening the military, and supporting economic growth that is worker- and environment-friendly.
Meehan served as Massachusetts deputy secretary of state for securities and corporations from 1986 to 1990. The Boston Globe reported, "During Meehan`s four years as deputy secretary, the Securities Division [went] from being a frequent embarrassment to gaining a national reputation as hard-hitting and activist." In the early 1990s, Meehan was the first assistant district attorney of Middlesex County, supervising more than 150 people, including 80 prosecutors, in an office admired for aggressive prosecution of child abuse, domestic violence and other violent crimes.
Meehan is married to Ellen T. Murphy, a health-care consultant and former vice president at Lawrence General Hospital. Ellen received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1986 from Simmons College, where she majored in international relations and French. She received a master’s in business administration in 1992 from the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. Marty and Ellen are the parents of Robert Francis Meehan, born in 1999, and Daniel Martin Meehan, born in 2002. |
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Thursday, Novemberl 11, 2010
The City Club and San Diego Rotary Proudly Present:
David Abney – Chief Operating Officer, UPS
Speaking on: “Growing Business in a Changing World?”
12-Noon Luncheon
Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina
1380 Harbor Island Drive
Members $25
Phone Reservations: 619-687-3580
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Biographical Brief – David Abney
As chief operating officer for UPS, David Abney directs all operations worldwide and a sophisticated global transportation network. He oversees the pick-up and delivery of 15.8 million packages and documents daily to a service area that includes every address in the United States, as well as to over 200 countries and territories.
A native of Greenwood, Miss., Abney received his bachelor`s degree in business administration from Delta State University. He began his UPS career in 1974 as a part-time employee loading and unloading packages.
Abney has held various positions throughout his UPS career, including division manager in New Jersey and district manager in Utah.
He also served as president of SonicAir®, UPS`s same-day delivery service. While president of SonicAir, Abney was honored with the Professionalism in Services/Support Management Award by the International Association of Services Management for demonstrating exemplary managerial characteristics.
Prior to his current position, Abney led UPS`s logistical and freight operations in Canada, Latin America and the United States. He later headed up the global operations of UPS`s freight forwarding and customs brokerage operations. During his tenure, Abney oversaw one of UPS`s largest acquisitions in recent history - the Fritz Companies. He later served as president, UPS International.
In addition to his corporate responsibilities, Abney is a Trustee of The UPS Foundation, UPS`s charitable arm. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Air Courier Conference of America and the U.S.-Japan Business Council. Currently, Abney serves on the Board of Directors of the Delta State University Alumni Foundation and the Air Transport Association. He is also a board member of the Southern Center for International Studies and the Coalition of Service Industries.
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Friday, November 19, 2010
The City Club of San Diego Proudly Presents:
Steve Weisman – Editorial Director of Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC.
Editor of & Speaking on: Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary
El Vital Restaurant
815 “J” Street (at the entrance to the Park-at-the-Park at Petco Park)
Member, $20, Non-Members, $30
Phone Reservations: 619-687-3580
Copies of Senator Moynihan’s Book of Letters will be available for sale & signing
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan
A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary
edited and with an introduction by Steven R. Weisman
Featuring an essay by Maura Moynihan on:
“My Father the Writer”
The letters of a great American statesman and philosopher—available to the public for the first time—offer extraordinary insight into both the man and our times
Few American politicians loom as large in the public memory as Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the senator from New York whom The Economist described in 2003 as “a philosopher-politician-diplomat who two centuries earlier would not have been out of place among the Founding Fathers.” Moynihan, despite his public stature and his natural inclination toward the written word, never produced a memoir or an autobiography. Yet he was a gifted author and voluminous correspondent, and left a tremendous archive of letters and writings to the Library of Congress upon his death. Through this carefully selected collection of his letters—available to the public for the first time—Steven Weisman has compiled a vivid record of Moynihan’s life, in the senator’s own words.
Before his four terms as senator from New York, Pat Moynihan was a pathfinder in John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier, a commander in Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty and Great Society, and an enabler of many of Richard Nixon’s greater and lesser moments. He spent two years as the U.S. Ambassador to India, and a short term as the permanent representative of the U.S. to the United Nations. Above all, he was a lifelong scholar and professor, constantly advocating on behalf of social justice and equality and challenging racism and anti-Semitism. In several landmark academic studies, he debunked the myth of America’s melting-pot society, alerted the nation to the precarious state of the black family in the mid-twentieth century, and pioneered the idea that ethnic identity is a paramount factor contributing to the success or failure of U.S. society and societies around the world.
Moynihan was the originator of powerful ideas that were also powerfully argued—ideas that actually helped transform how Americans think about their country. His letters offer an extraordinary window into particular moments in history, from his feelings of loss at JFK’s assassination, to his passionate pleas to Nixon not to make Vietnam a Nixon war, to his frustrations over healthcare and welfare reform during the Clinton era. His writing entertains with his wit and sparkle and his foibles and feuds, but it bears a lasting relevance because of Moynihan’s clarity, understanding, and farsightedness toward the intractable questions and cultural conflicts with which the nation struggles today. For a politician to embrace this kind of long-term thinking—on such enduring issues as health care, welfare, the federal budget, the uses and misuses of intelligence, national defense, global ethnic and sectarian conflict, race, and family strains —is extraordinary. DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary redefines Moynihan’s place among the preeminent public intellectuals and statesmen of the twentieth century.
“Senator Moynihan was a unique individual. He wasn`t just another senator. He wasn`t just another human being. He was very special. Rarely has one man changed society so with his ideas.”
—Senator Charles Schumer
“Anyone who ever heard him speak knows the experience of learning more than you ever thought possible in a short period of time. He could explain and expound on such a range of subjects that it took my breath away.”
—Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
“ ‘The Almanac of American Politics’ called Pat Moynihan ‘the nation`s best thinker among politicians since Lincoln, and the best politician among thinkers since Jefferson’…He was a larger-than-life figure, whether on the streets of New York or in the halls of the Senate.”
—Former Senator Tom Daschle
Steven R. Weisman – Biographical Brief
Steve Weisman is the editorial director and public policy fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC.
Before joining the PIIE, he was the chief international economics correspondent of the New York Times, and also served as a member of the Times’ editorial board, specializing in politics and economics, and as deputy foreign editor.
He is the author of The Great Tax Wars: Lincoln to Wilson—The Fierce Battles over Money and Power That Transformed the Nation, which received the Sidney Hillman Award in 2003 for the book that most advances the cause of social justice. |
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