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Thursday, May 15, 2008
The City Club of San Diego Proudly Presents:
William Novelli & Andy Stern
Chief Executive Officer, AARP & President, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Speaking on: "Seniors & America’s Future"
Friday, May 23, 2008
The City Club of San Diego Proudly Presents:
Candidates for Mayor of San Diego – Steve Francis, Floyd Morrow, and Jerry Sanders
Thursday, May 29, 2008
The City Club of San Diego Proudly Presents:
The Honorable Gary Hart
former United States Senator & Co-Chairman of the United States Commission on National Security
Author of and Speaking on “Under the Eagle`s Wing: A National Security Strategy of the United States for 2009
Friday, June 20, 2008
The City Club of San Diego Proudly Presents:
His Excellency Flavio Espinal
Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the United States
Speaking on: "Latin America & the Future of American Foreign Policy"
Thursday, July 10, 2008
The City Club of San Diego Proudly Presents:
Kadir Nelson and Tony Clark
The Celebrated American Artist
Author of “We Are The Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball”
Friday, September 5, 2008
The City Club of San Diego Proudly Presents:
Dr. William R. Brody
President, The Johns Hopkins University
Speaking on “Health Care Reform”
Thursday, May 15, 2008
The City Club & Catfish Club Proudly Present:
William D. Novelli – Chief Executive Officer, AARP and Andy Stern, President, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Speaking on: "Seniors & America’s Future"
12-Noon Luncheon
San Diego Hall of Champions -- Balboa Park
2131 Pan American Plaza
Luncheon Cost – $20
Phone Reservations: 619-687-3580
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William D. Novelli
Chief Executive Officer, AARP
Bill Novelli is CEO of AARP, a membership organization of over 38 million people age 50 and older, half of whom remain actively employed. AARP`s mission is to enhance the quality of life for all as we age.
Prior to joining AARP, Mr. Novelli was President of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, whose mandate is to change public policies and the social environment, limit tobacco companies` marketing and sales practices to children and serve as a counterforce to the tobacco industry and its special interests. He now serves as chairman of the board.
Previously, he was Executive Vice President of CARE, the world`s largest private relief and development organization. He was responsible for all operations in the U.S. and abroad. CARE helps impoverished people in Africa, Asia and Latin America through programs in health, agriculture, environmental protection and small business support. CARE also provides emergency relief to people in need.
Earlier, Mr. Novelli co-founded and was President of Porter Novelli, now one of the world`s largest public relations agencies and part of the Omnicom Group, an international marketing communications corporation. He directed numerous corporate accounts as well as the management and development of the firm. Porter Novelli was founded to apply marketing to social and health issues, and grew into an international marketing/public relations agency with corporate, not-for-profit and government clients. He retired from the firm in 1990 to pursue a second career in public service. He was named one of the 100 most influential public relations professionals of the 20th century by the industry`s leading publication.
Mr. Novelli is a recognized leader in social marketing and social change, and has managed programs in cancer control, diet and nutrition, cardiovascular health, reproductive health, infant survival, pay increases for educators, charitable giving and other programs in the U.S. and the developing world.
He began his career at Unilever, a worldwide-packaged goods marketing company, moved to a major ad agency, and then served as Director of Advertising and Creative Services for the Peace Corps. In this role, Mr. Novelli helped direct recruitment efforts for the Peace Corps, VISTA, and social involvement programs for older Americans.
He holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. from Penn`s Annenberg School for Communication, and pursued doctoral studies at New York University. He taught marketing management for 10 years in the University of Maryland`s M.B.A. program and also taught health communications there. He has lectured at many other institutions. He has written numerous articles and chapters on marketing management, marketing communications, and social marketing in journals, periodicals and textbooks.
His book, 50+: Igniting a Revolution to Reinvent America, was published in 2006.
Mr. Novelli serves on a number of boards and advisory committees. He and his wife, Fran, reside in Bethesda, Maryland. They have three adult children and four grandchildren.
Andy Stern
President, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Andy Stern is the president of the 1.9 million member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the fastest-growing union in North America.
As both a labor leader and an activist, Stern is a leading voice and aggressive advocate for practical solutions to achieve economic opportunity and justice for workers; to ensure affordable, quality health care for all; to promote quality public services; and to guarantee that globalization benefits not just big corporations but also working people. To that end, Stern has spearheaded bold new partnerships with community allies, employers, and other worker organizations, and he has helped elect officials of both major parties.
Called “a different kind of labor chief” and a “courageous, visionary leader who charted a bold new course for American unionism,” Stern began working as a social service worker and member of SEIU Local 668 in 1973 and rose through the ranks before his election as SEIU president in 1996. After launching a national debate about the fundamental change needed to unite the 9 out of 10 American workers who have no organization at work, Stern led SEIU out of the AFL-CIO and founded Change to Win, a new six-million member federation of seven major unions dedicated to giving workers a voice at their jobs.
Stern is the author of the book, "A Country That Works" (Free Press), which offers a fresh prescription for the vital political and economic reforms America needs to get back on track.
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Friday, May 23, 2008
The City Club & Catfish Club Proudly Present:
Candidates for Mayor of San Diego – Steve Francis, Floyd Morrow, and Jerry Sanders
12-Noon Luncheon
San Diego Hall of Champions
2131 Pan American Plaza – Balboa Park
Cost – $20
Telephone Reservations: 619-687-3580
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Thursday, May 29, 2008
The City Club & Catfish Club
Proudly Present:
The Honorable Gary Hart – former United States Senator & Co-Chairman of the United States Commission on National Security
Author of and Speaking on “Under the Eagle`s Wing: A National Security Strategy of the United States for 2009
12-Noon Luncheon
San Diego Hall of Champions -- Balboa Park
2131 Pan American Plaza
Luncheon Cost – $20
Phone Reservations: 619-687-3580
Event Sponsor:
Lawrence & Suzanne Hess
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Gary Hart – Biographical Note
Gary Hart
"I see an America too young to quit, too courageous to turn back, with a passion for justice and a program for opportunity, an America with unmet dreams that will not die."
-- Gary Hart
 In an era of career politicians, Gary Hart has chosen a road less traveled, devoting himself first and foremost to public service and the good of his country. A prolific author, lecturer, teacher, scholar, and attorney, America`s newest "elder" statesman is a man on a mission who shows no signs of slowing down.
Prior to his election as a United States senator from Colorado in 1974, he had never before sought public office. In 1984, he was the runner-up candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president. During 1970-1972, Hart managed Senator George McGovern’s insurgent campaign for the presidency. He has also served as an appellate attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice, a special assistant at the U.S. Department of the Interior, and senior counsel to one of America`s oldest international law firms, Coudert Brothers, where he helped pioneer the development of joint business ventures in Russia and in Central Europe.
Most recently, Hart co-chaired both the U.S. Commission on National Security/ 21st Century, which issued three public reports forecasting the age of terrorism and outlined a new, post-Cold War national security policy, as well as the Council on Foreign Relations task force on homeland security, which recently released its report "America—Still Unprepared, Still in Danger".
As a senator, Hart established a reputation as a political reformer. He founded the Military Reform Caucus in the Congress, a bipartisan effort that contributed substantially to contemporary defense policy. While serving on the Senate Select Committee to Investigate the Intelligence Agencies of the U.S. Government (the Church Committee), he successfully advocated sweeping measures to make our intelligence agencies more accountable.
He also introduced a collection of environmental measures to make America energy independent.
As a presidential candidate, Hart proposed a "strategic investment initiative" that included new measures to create a more expansive—and more just—national economy. On the foreign policy front, he called for "enlightened engagement" and introduced a series of proposals designed to reform and modernize America`s defenses. Many of these defense plans are today being adopted by the Bush administration.
Never shy about committing his thoughts and ideas to paper, Hart is the author of more than a dozen books, including three novels (one co-authored with former Secretary of Defense William Cohen). In 2001, he earned a doctor of philosophy degree from Oxford University. His thesis, "Thomas Jefferson’s Ideal of the Republic in 21st Century America", culminated a decade-long exploration of the idea of restoring the republican ideals of civic virtue and citizen duty. When published Restoration of the Republic completed a trilogy of works that began with The Patriot in 1996 and continued with The Minuteman in 1998.
Throughout the trilogy, Hart stresses the theme of republican restoration concurrent with a new definition of security that includes not only traditional national and homeland security, but also security of livelihood, security of community, and security of the natural environment.
Many of the issues Hart presciently raised and discussed in the 1970s and 1980sóincluding military reform, intelligence reform, energy independence, and a number of others have now begun to re-enter the arena of national debate. In the late 1990s, Hart’s mastery of security issues and grasp of foreign policy led him to make multiple and tragically unheeded predictions—one as late as September 5, 2001—that America would be attacked by terrorists using weapons of mass destruction.
No longer a "prophet without honor" in the wake of 9-11, Gary Hart believes the United States is still woefully unprepared to intercept and respond to attacks on American territory. Like a latter-day Paul Revere, he is continuing to provide direction to both his party and his country in an age marred by terrorism.
In 2003 he delivered a series of policy speeches in which he argued forcefully that Democrats can only emerge from their status as an opposition party if they offer more attractive ideals and visions than laissez-faire economics and preemptive attacks on other nations.
A native of Kansas, Hart has spent his adult life in Colorado with his wife of forty-four years, Lee. They have two children; Andrea Hart, a policy analyst, and John Hart, a lawyer and financial analyst; and one granddaughter, Tatum. Hart holds law and divinity degrees from Yale University and completed his undergraduate studies, with emphasis in theology and philosophy, at Southern Nazarene University.
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Friday, June 20, 2008
The City Club of San Diego & the Catfish Club Proudly Present:
His Excellency Flavio Espinal
Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the United States
Speaking on: "Latin America & the Future of American Foreign Policy" 12-Noon Luncheon
San Diego Hall of Champions – Balboa Park
2131 Pan American Plaza
Members: $20
Phone Reservations: 619-687-3580 Corporate Event Sponsor:
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His Excellency Flavio Dario Espinal -- Ambassador of the Dominican Republic to theUnited States
Flavio Dario Espinal became ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the United States on Jan. 1, 2005. Ambassador Espinal previously served as ambassador to the Organization of American States 1996-2000), for which he was chair of the Permanent Council, the Committee on Legal and Political Issues, and the Committee on Hemispheric Security. He was also co-coordinator of the Civil Society Agenda during the Summits of the Americas. In addition, Ambassador Espinal is the former dean of the Law School at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Recinto Santo Tomás de Aquino, in Santo Domingo, where he was also a professor of law and director of the University Center of Political and Social Studies as well as of the Center for the Study, Prevention and Resolution of Conflicts. He has practiced law in the cities of Santiago and Santo Domingo, and has served as a consultant for both the private sector and various international organizations. He is the author of "Constitutionalism and Political Processes in the Dominican Republic," and has published numerous articles and essays on political and constitutional issues in different academic journals. Before his current appointment, Ambassador Espinal published a weekly op-ed column in the newspaper El Caribe and co-produced the television program "En Contexto." He obtained his law degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra. Ambassador Espinal also holds a master’s degree in political sciences from the University of Essex, England, and a doctorate in government from the University of Virginia.
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
The City Club & the San Diego Hall of Champions
Proudly Present:
Kadir Nelson – The Celebrated American Artist
Author of “We Are The Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball” and Tony Clark of the San Diego Padres
In a Special Luncheon Tribute to Kadir Nelson’s Artistic Brilliance and Tony Clark’s Homage to Negro League Baseball
12-Noon Luncheon
San Diego Hall of Champions -- Balboa Park
2131 Pan American Plaza
Luncheon Cost – $40 (an autographed copy of “We Are The Ship” included)
Phone Reservations: 619-687-3580
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Biographical Brief – Kadir Nelson
 Kadir Nelson, recently featured in a major Sports Illustrated article, began drawing at age 3, displaying artistic acumen before he could even write or spell. "I have always been an artist," Nelson explains. "It`s part of my DNA." At age eleven, Nelson was apprenticed by his uncle, an artist and an art instructor. "My uncle gave me my foundation in art," says the artist. Nelson experimented with several different mediums and later began painting in oils at age sixteen under the encouragement and tutelage of his uncle and his high school art teacher.
He began entering his paintings in art competitions and ultimately won an art scholarship to study at the prestigious Pratt Institute of Brooklyn, NY. Upon graduating with honors, Nelson began his professional career as an artist, publishing his works and receiving commissions from publishers and production studios such as Dreamworks, Nike, Coca-Cola, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Major League Baseball, among others.
Nelson also exhibited his works in galleries and museums throughout the United States and abroad including the Simon Weisenthal Center, Museum of Tolerance and the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences in Los Angeles, The Museum of African American History in Detroit, The Negro League Baseball Museum in Kansas City, The Society of Illustrators and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, The Bristol Museum in England, The Citizen`s Gallery of Yokohama, Japan and the Center for Culture of Tijuana, Mexico.
Many of his paintings can be found in the private collections of actors, sports figures and musicians including Debbie Allen, Jalen Rose, Spike Lee, Terry Lewis, Venus Williams, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith and Ice Cube. His paintings have also decorated the sets of television sitcoms "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air" and "The Jamie Foxx Show," as well as feature films "Friday" and "Set it Off." Most notably, Nelson was the "Conceptual Artist" for Steven Spielberg`s feature film, "Amistad," and the animated feature "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron."
Recently, Nelson collaborated with several authors on a series of picture books. Presently, eight children`s books are in print including Debbie Allen`s “Dancing in the Wings”, Deloris and Roslyn Jordan`s “Salt in His Shoes”, “Baby, Please”, by Spike and Tonya Lewis Lee and Will Smith`s “Just the Two of Us”, for which Nelson won an NAACP Image Award.
Although Nelson works in a variety of styles, he always retains a sense of identity and focus in his work. Nelson`s work is instantly recognizable by the emotion and strength of his varied subject matter. "My work is all about healing and giving people a sense of hope and nobility. I want to show the strength and integrity of the human spirit." That is exactly the feeling one walks away with after viewing one of Nelson`s paintings – a feeling that runs all the way down to your DNA
Tom Shanahan on Kadir Nelson
Tuesday, April 1, 2008 , another baseball season is here, and the beauty of another San Diegan`s game is featured prominently in Sports Illustrated.
No surprise there.
After all, Oakland A`s general manager Billy Beane, a Mt. Carmel High alumnus and former first-round draft pick of the New York Mets, labeled San Diego high school baseball "The Factory" for its history of producing prospects.
The latest San Diegan to grace the magazine`s pages warranted an eight-page spread from the editors in the March 10 issue. Never mind he can`t hit a curveball or that his baseball career ended with Little League in San Diego`s Oak Park community.
Kadir Nelson can`t play the game, but he can paint it.
The Crawford High alum`s strokes of the field in oil paintings are as majestic as anything Ted Williams and Tony Gwynn perfected on it. SI features work from his new book, "We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball."
Word is editors even considered making Nelson the cover story, although it instead picked North Carolina basketball player Tyler Hasbrough. Still, the editors found a spot for Nelson on the cover with what`s called in the trade an "inset" in the upper left corner.
Such prominent placement prompted a phone call from Terry Brown, a former director of the Society of Illustrators.
"He said not too many people get on the cover of Sports Illustrated without scoring a point," Nelson said with a laugh.
"I guess that`s true. I wasn`t expecting that much. I thought maybe just one of the "Leading Off" section photos. Sports Illustrated is the epitome of a sports magazine. It`s pretty amazing."
Just like the strokes of his brush.
Nelson, 33, is an acclaimed artist whose clients include the likes of Spike Lee and Will Smith. He`s even worked with Steven Spielberg and Debbie Allen in visual development for the movie, "Amistad."
Nelson`s been honoring the dignity and passion of Negro League players since his college-age years at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn when he was first commissioned to do paintings of Negro Leagues legends Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson.
His research motivated more study of the Negro Leagues and more paintings. The 2004 national tour "Shades of Greatness" sponsored by the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City featured three pieces of his work: Big Rube, Low and Away and Willie Foster and Young Fans.
Nelson says he wants his oil paintings to serve as an account of how the players traveled the country, the segregation they faced and their hardships and triumphs.
When Padres owner John Moores learned of Nelson`s work, he commissioned paintings of Dave Winfield and Tony Gwynn, the franchise`s two Hall-of-Famers. The portraits hang in the administrative offices.
He painted Winfield -- in a Padres 1970`s mustard-and-brown uniform -- and Gwynn -- seated with a bat on his shoulder. The Gwynn pose is similar to an old painting of Babe Ruth that had inspired Nelson.
"It`s a little intimidating when you`re painting someone who is living and is going to see it," Nelson said. "There was a little pressure."
Before he started the painting, Nelson said Winfield, a mammoth man, smiled at him and said, "Make sure you get it right."
Of the Gwynn painting, Nelson said, "He`s a great batter showing off the tools of his trade. I heard he said I made him look more muscular than he was, but I don`t think he minded."
A Nelson painting of another San Diegan, Hoover High alumnus Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox, hangs at the Hall of Champions. Williams’ old friend, Bob Breitbard, founder of the Hall of Champions, commissioned it.
Williams is on one knee in the on deck circle, studying the field with two bats resting on his shoulder. His figure looms over smaller images of teammates in the dugout.
"Ted is a larger-than-life figure," Nelson said, "and I wanted to present him that way."
But now that Nelson is on the cover of "Sports Illustrated" without scoring a point, next may be honors on an Olympic stage.
Nelson won the graphic award in the 2008 Sports Art Competition sponsored by the United States Olympic Committee and United States Sports Academy for his oil painting "Anatomy of Team Handball."
The next phase of the competition is the international level, with the winner`s work displayed at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
Once again, the budding San Diego sports legend made it there without scoring a point.
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Friday, September 5, 2008
The City Club & The Downtown San Diego Partnership Proudly Present:
Dr. William Brody – President, The Johns Hopkins University
Speaking on “Health Care Reform”
12-Noon Luncheon
Harborside Room -- Holiday Inn on the Bay
Harbor Drive at Ash Street
Members: $35, Non-Members, $50
Phone Reservations: 619-687-3580
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William R. Brody - Biographical Brief
William R. Brody became the 13th president of The Johns Hopkins University on Sept. 1, 1996. Immediately prior to assuming the position, Dr. Brody was the provost of the Academic Health Center at the University of Minnesota. From 1987 to 1994, he was the Martin Donner Professor and director of the Department of Radiology, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and professor of biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins, and radiologist- in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
A native of Stockton, Calif., Dr. Brody received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his M.D. and Ph.D., also in electrical engineering, from Stanford University. Following post-graduate training in cardiovascular surgery and radiology at Stanford, the National Institutes of Health and the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. Brody was professor of radiology and electrical engineering at Stanford University (1977-1986). He has been a co-founder of three medical device companies, and served as the president and chief executive officer of Resonex Inc. from 1984 to 1987. He has over 100 publications and one U.S. patent in the field of medical imaging and has made contributions in medical acoustics, computed tomography, digital radiography and magnetic resonance imaging.
Dr. Brody serves as a trustee of The Commonwealth Fund and of the Baltimore Community Foundation. He serves on the board of directors of IBM. He is a member of the executive committee of the Council on Competitiveness, the International Academic Advisory Committee, Singapore, and the FBI`s National Security Higher Education Advisory Board. He formerly served on the President`s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, on the board of the Minnesota Orchestra Association and on the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Brody is a member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Engineering, and a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the American College of Radiology, the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, the American Institute of Biomedical Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Brody is a private pilot holding airline transport pilot and flight instructor ratings.
Dr. Brody and his wife, Wendy, have two grown children and reside at Nichols House on the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus.
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