Rotary Club of Santa Monica!

Past Events - The Year in Review

July Through September 2002

September 28, 2002 - Foundation Seminar Carson Hilton Hotel

September 27, 2002 Gary Vitti Trainer for the Los Angeles Lakers.
Gary's talk is titled  "The Professional Trainer Behind the Professional Athlete"
     His 19 seasons is the longest tenure as athletic trainer in team history. Obviously it's no easy chore attempting to maintain the health of 12 or more players during a grueling NBA season, but Vitti has nonetheless earned a reputation as one of the best trainers in the business.
     Another great program, click here for more.

September 24, 2002 -
The next District Breakfast will be held on Tuesday, September 24th at 7:10 a.m. It is held at the LAX Marriott Hotel - 5855 W. Century Blvd., LA. The speaker will be Chief Chris Kawai, LA Fire Dept., Urban Search & Rescue. On September 11, 2001 the Chief, along with 64 members of California Task Force I, representing the State of California, was sent to New York City. They arrived in New York, bringing with them tools and equipment weighing over 60,000 pounds. They spent the next eight days at Ground Zero, working 24 hours a day. The Chief's topic will be: GROUND ZERO - NEW YORK CITY.

District Breakfasts count as a make-up. Also, there is no charge to the member. The club picks up the tab. BUT, Barbara Hopper will need a head count by Friday, the 13th --- so, please let her know if you plan to attend.

September 21, 2002 - 18th Annual California Coastal Cleanup Day
Rotarian Volunteers Needed

The 18th annual California Coastal Cleanup Day is Saturday, September 21, from 9:00 a.m. - noon. The Santa Monica Rotarian location is once again at Will Rogers State Beach, at the end of Temescal. Help Heal the Bay break its goal of bringing out more than 10,000 volunteers to tackle the problem of marine debris hands-on . Participants will remove trash from inland and coastal waterways which poses a threat to marine life. Last year's cleanup efforts helped remove 49,300 lbs of trash and 4,136 lbs of recyclables in L.A. County alone.

Heal the Bay will provide all volunteers with trash bags, recycle bags, gloves, instructions on how to conduct a safe cleanup. Coastal Cleanup Day is a wonderful opportunity to remove tens of thousands of pounds of trash from area beaches and educate the public about beach pollution and show that Rotary cares.

Discounted parking is available.

Please note that minors must have a liability waiver signed by a parent or guardian in order to participate, which may be obtained in advance by visiting www.healthebay.org. Any questions. please contact Tim Shannon, 310-395-5778, TShannonOD@aol.com.

September 20, 2002 - Craft Talks - Charlie Follette and Tom Miskimen. (Craft talks were rescheduled from 9/27/02 since our original speaker, Gary Vitti got called to Jury Duty.)

September 13, 2002 - Bruce Hoffman Vice-Pres. Rand

Our Speaker Asks That No Recording Equipment Be Brought Into The Room!

Bruce is the Director the Rand Washington DC - Office - His talk will be is titled "One Year After 9-11…." Dr. Hoffman is Editor-in-Chief of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, the leading scholarly journal in the field, and a member of the advisory boards of both Terrorism and Political Violence and Global Networks: A Journal of Transnational Affairs. For more info on Bruce click here

September 6, 2002 - Steven Sample - President of the University of Southern California. Dr. Sample became the 10th president of the University of Southern California in March 1991. He is the university's first holder of the Robert C. Packard President's Chair. Under Dr. Sample's leadership USC has become world-renowned in the fields of communication and multimedia technologies. Please join us Friday in bringing a warm Rotary welcome to Bill's boss Mr. Steven Sample. For More on Steven click Here

August 30, 2002 - Dark - Labor Day

August 28, 2002 -   G.A.R.P., which translates to Games And Rotary Party. Love to play bridge or poker? Scrabble or Trivia Pursuit, perhaps? Join your fellow Rotarians, spouses and significant others (ringers and cardsharks excepted) at 5:30 PM at the Red Cross, located at 1450 – 11th St., for a razzle dazzle evening playing your game of choice. Reservations are needed to save your space. The $20 fee includes dinner and drinks.   Call Barbara Hopper at 434-9992 or Harris Levy at 822-9067.



August 23, 2002

- Russ Parsons - Food Editor, LA Times
Russ Parsons is a food columnist of the Los Angeles Times. He
has been writing about food for 20 years, 10 at The Times, where he has been food editor, managing editor, and deputy editor. He is the author of the cookbook ''How to Read a French Fry,'' which was published in 2001 by Houghton-Mifflin. Before coming to The Times, he was food editor at the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, food editor at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and food editor at the Albuquerque Tribune. He has been a finalist for 6 James Beard Awards for food writing in the last four years, winning twice. He has won the Bert Greene award for outstanding food journalism
from the International Association of Culinary Professionals and the University of Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Award for consumer writing. He has also won best columnist and best news writer awards from the Association of Food Journalists. Parsons has been a journalist for more than 25 years, covering everything from high school football and professional rodeo to cops and courts and country music.
Please join us Friday to give a warm Rotary welcome to our guest Russ Parsons!

August 16, 2002 - Jim Hodgson - Former US Secretary of Labor.
His title for his talk will be “A Rambling Rumination on Public Life”.   We are in for a real treat! Click here for more on today's speaker.

August 16, 2002 - District Literacy Breakfast. Please contact Shirley Dowling for details.

August 9, 2002 - Paul Westphal will be our speaker.
Westphal’s NBA playing career began as a first-round draft choice by the Boston Celtics (10th pick overall) in 1972. He played 12 seasons in the NBA for Boston, Phoenix, New York and Seattle, and was a five-time NBA All-Star and a member of the 1974 Celtics team that won the NBA title. He was selected to the All-NBA team four times. Click here for Paul's Bio

Paul Westphal

August 2, 2002 - Craft talks - Our "Craft Talkers" are Joey Perlmutter and Ann Greenspun. Put on your loudest and most colorful shirt, and participate in Con Oyler's 2nd annual "Wild Shirt Contest" . Shown standing next to Con is part one of our "Craft Talkers" and banker Ann Greenspun.

July 30, 2002 - First District Leadership Breakfast - Nomination Selection of District Governor Nominee 2004-2005 - LAX Marriott Hotel

July 26, 2002 - Gil Garcetti -"Gun Control and Violence, LA "The need for us to reinvent ourselves in the world of terrorism". For a Bio on Gil, click here.

July 19, 2002 - Jack Riley, PhD - Rand Director, Criminal Justice. Jack is a gun violence and terrorization expert Click here for Jack's Bio

July 12, 2002 - Joel Kotkin - Mr. Kotkin wil be speaking to us how the "Digital Revolution is Reshaping the American Landscape.

Joel is a Senior Fellow at the Milkin Institute in Santa Monica and at the Davenport Institute for Public Policy at Pepperdine University. He is an authority on global business and social trends, and was Business Trends Analyst for three years for KTTV/Fox, and won the Golden Mike Award in 1994 for Best Business Reporting. He has been a columnist for the New York Times and is a contributing editor for the Los Angeles Times and has written for the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. He has
lectured widely in the US, Japan and Europe and is highly sought after as a speaker by major business and financial organizations. He has written five books.

His most recent book is the best selling, widely acclaimed "The New Geography, How the Digital Revolution is Reshaping the American Landscape" published by Random House.

July 5, 2002 Dark