Lori Brooke, co-founder of Neighborhoods United SF and longtime Cow Hollow Neighborhood leader will be our speaker on Friday September 27 at Perry’s on Union. Seminarian Jim Fuller will introduce her. Ms. Brooke, a University of California at Santa Barbara grad was featured in the SF Standard https://sfstandard.com/2024/06/07/san-francisco-zoning-housing-element-united-neighborhoods/
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RSVP TO ATTEND any upcoming seminar. To assist Perry’s kitchen staff with planning for our Friday lunchtime meetings please email Dennis Wheatley at dennis@triticum.com if you plan to attend and indicate if you’ll be bringing a guest. Dennis DOES NOT need to know you are not attending. If members have RSVP’ed a “yes” and need to cancel, please tell Dennis before the cutoff of Thursday noon prior to each seminar.
POTENTIAL SAC SEM FACT FINDING TRIP
We are seeking to gauge the level of interest in a proposed Sacramento Seminar ‘Civil War Battlefield’ tour next year. Timing: April 2025 for one week. Estimated cost: $3,000 per person including accommodation, professional guide, transportation, breakfasts but excluding lunch and dinner.
You will need to make your own arrangements to get to and from the start/finish point in Washington DC. Battlefields will be likely be in Northern Virginia and Maryland. We’ll also set up meetings in our Nation’s Capital with local elected officials and representatives of the new administration. Good eats, topflight beverages and fun times are guaranteed.
Without committing yourself it would be appreciated if you could send an email to Dennis Wheatley dennis@triticum.com to indicate interest, if we get enough people showing interest, we’ll start to firm up the arrangements.
UPCOMING SEMINARS:
Mark Buell is Sac Sem’s guest speaker on Friday, October 4. Mark is a Democratic Party mega-donor, real estate developer, and philanthropist from San Francisco. He is married to Susie Thompson Buell, also a Democratic Party donor and close confidant of Hillary Clinton who co-founded sportswear companies The North Face and Esprit with her first husband, Douglas Tompkins. Mark and Suzie Buell are well known in Bay Area social and political circles and are founding members of the Democracy Alliance, a left-leaning funders’ collaborative.
Rob Thompson, the chief cultural officer of the Presidio Trust, is our speaker on Friday, October 11. The mission of the Presidio Trust, a federal agency, “is to steward and share the history, beauty, and wonder of the Presidio for everyone to enjoy forever.” https://presidio.gov/about/presidio-trust Rob is trained as an archeologist and historic preservation lanner. A graduate of the University of Virginia with a degree in archeology. He holds a master’s degree from Columbia University in Historic Preservation. Mr. Thompson will be introduced by Seminarian Dan Riley.
California’s top political pollster, Mark DiCamillo, himself a Seminarian, returns to update the Seminar on pre-presidential election polling trends on Friday, October 25. Mark is with the University of California (Berkeley) Institute of Governmental Studies. https://igs.berkeley.edu/people/mark-dicamillo where he conducts the IGS poll focusing on California issues and campaigns.
Friday, November 8 will be the “big roundtable” to analyze the results of November 5th presidential, congressional and city elections. This is your big chance to show your chops as a pundit, whether amateur or professional. If seminarians miss this roundtable, they shall forever after, remain silent on the events of that big day.
Mark your calendar. Sac Sem’s annual Holiday/Christmas/Hanukkah Lunch will be on Friday, December 20.
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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION:
The Borowitz Report, “Meet the new George Santos.” Hint: He's from Montana.
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OTHER THOUGHTS: “The Emancipation Proclamation is the central act of my administration, and the greatest event of the 19th century.” Abraham Lincoln
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