Monday Luncheon Forum

A venerable tradition of the Santa Barbara Yacht Club is our weekly Forum Luncheon. Except when preempted by a holiday or "Big Race" or such activity, a group of members and their invited guests meet at the Yacht Club for Monday Lunch.

Reservations are not required. Cost is $10.00, which includes a buffet, coffee and dessert. Each program includes a Special Speaker. Topics cover a wide variety, often involving the following: Santa Barbara Happenings, technical subjects from professional spokespersons, travel talks with photos, local non-profits, etc. etc.

We gather at the club between 11:30 and 12. We have a buffet luncheon at noon. We make a few short announcements about recent nautical events, and then we have our speaker from about 12:35 or so until 1:15 or so.

Would you like to be a Monday Forum Speaker?
Do you know of someone who would?
Please Contact: Our General Manager

Recent and Upcoming Presenters

2013 Presentations:

July 29: Vicky Harbison, Montecito Union's Acclaimed Classroom Teacher, and Founder of: Turn the Page Uganda, Subject: Turn the Page Uganda

July 22: Melissa Howard, Community Leadership Coordinator, Subject: Santa Barbara County's FoodBank Explained

July 15: Club Closed for Carpet Cleaning

July 8: Geoffrey Rutkowski, Master Cellist & Professor Emeritus, Subject: Travels With My Friend

July 1: Willie McBride, Junior Program Director, SBYSF, subject: High Performance Sailing: Adventures of an SBYSF Alum

June 24:  Ines Roberts, Photographer Extraordinaire, Subject: California Missions - Just a Glimpse

June 17:  Bud Stuart, Retired Veterinarian & Author, Subject: Feeding Fido .... and  Fluffy Too

June 10:  Mike Pyzel, and Friends, Subject: Singlehanded TransPac Skippers Roundtable:  Our Best Stories

June 3:  Margaret Rose, Director of Development & VP of PathPoint, Subject: PathPoint: People with Purpose

May 27: No Forum - Club Open for Memorial Day

May 20:  Randy Weiss, Sports Writer, Subject: The Outs and Ins of Kidney Donation

May 13: Greg Gorga, Executive Director, SBMM, Subject: Keepers of the Light!

May 6: Morgan Crowe, SBYC Member, Subject: Rescue Off Bermuda

April 29: Robert Remy Boudesseul,  Retired Local Restauranteur, Subject: From Normandy 1928 to California 2000

April 22: Kent Pierce, Staff Commodore SBYC & Past President SBYSF, Subject: Youth Sailing: A Case Study

April 15: Dave Wyman, SBYC Member & Retired Manufacturing Executive, Subject:  Transpac Dismasting: Extreme Damage Control

April 8: NOVA Produced  VIDEO, Subject: Dogs Decoded!

April 1: Elwood Schapansky, PhD,  Retired Physics Professor & Alaskan Glacier  Pilot - Subject: Chasing the Midnight Sun

March 25:  Terry & Pat Straehley, SBYC Members - Subject: Searching for Roots:  A Personal Journey through England, Ireland, and Scotland

March 18:  Bernie Schaeffer,  President, Alpha Resource Center's Board - Subject: Travels with my Uncle Phil: The 1907-09 Voyage of the Great White Fleet

March 11:  Stephen & Lynel Lemon, SBYC Members - Subject: The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway:  The Carolinas, Virginia, and the Chesapeake

March 4: Stephen & Lynel Lemon, SBYC Members - Subject: The Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway:  Florida, Georgia, and the Abacos

February 25: Club Closed for Carpet Cleaning

February 18: Jacques and Nita Steininger, SBYC Members  - Subject:  A World of Chartering

February 11: Steve Hodges, Sailor Extraordinaire, - Subject: The 2012 Single-Handed Transpac:  FROLIC's Flight

February 4: Greg Gorga, Executive Director, Santa Barbara Maritime Museum - Subject: The Whole Nine Yards: Nautical Phrases in Everyday Language

January 28: Lanny Ebenstein, President, California Center for Public Policy - Subject: Oil & Gas in Santa Barbara County

January 21: Benjamin Aleman, PhD, UCSB President's Postdoctoral Fellow - Subject: Diamonds: More than Just a Girl's Best Friend!

January 14: Joy Kelly & Sandy Campbell, owners of Chapala Gardens - Subject: From Tower to Table

January 7: Club Closed for Carpet Cleaning

2012 Presentations:

December 31: Club Closed  

December 24: Club Closed  

December 17: Alita Rhodes, Cellist & Mary Beth Woodruff, Founder and Artistic Director of the Santa Barbara String- Subject: The Third Annual David McEachen Memorial Concert

December 10: Michael Smith, Project Coordinator, Gray Whales Count - Subject: Do Whales Count?

December 3: Greg Gorga, Executive Director, Santa Barbara Maritime Museum - Subject: The Whole Nine Yards: Nautical Phrases in Everyday Language

November 26: Club Closed

November 19: Andrew Wooden, PhD,  Head of Marymount School, Santa Barbara - Subject: What Will Students Need to Know in an Unclear Future?

November 12: Peter Howorth, Marine Mammal Center - Subject: TBD

November 5: Terry Honikman, PhD, Engineering Consultant - Subject: An Unusual Engineering Career

October 29:  Tim Putz, SBYC Member - subject: Christmas On the Rhine, New Year's in France

October 22:  Club Closed for Carpet Cleaning 

October 15:  Danny Vickers, Executive Director, Elings Park - Subject: Elings Park:  An Amazing Success Story!

October 8:  Al Salzer, SBYC Member and KREWE Captain, - Subject: The KREWE of Santa Barbarians Celebrate Mardi Gras, 2013

October 1 -  Adrian Spence, Founder and Artistic Director, Camerata Pacifica - Subject: The Roadmap to a Symphony

September 24 - David Grossman, Executive Director, Santa Barbara Symphony - Subject: The Santa Barbara Symphony: More than Meets the Ear!

September 17 - Diana Washburn, Program Manager, Tri-Counties Regional Center - Subject: Changing Lives - One Person at a Time

September 10 - Jace Turner, Senior Librarian, SB Central Library - Subject: What's New at Your Library?  e-books and More!

September 3 - No Monday Speaker: Club Open

August 27 - Laura Kirkley, VP Sales and Marketing, Il Fustino - Subject: Oils and Vinegars Explained!

August 20 -  Andy Schaeffer, President, AIS Construction - Subject: Keeping Santa Barbara's Harbor Open:  How We Do It!

August 13 -  Freeman Gosden, Jr. , son of Amos of Amos & Andy - Subject: Dad's Hilarious Stories of Show Biz & Famous Friends

August 6 - Carole Palmer, VNHC Rehab Supervisor - Subject: Is Your Home Ready For You to Age in Place?

July 30 - Tim Owens, KDB-FM Vice-President and Manager - Subject: KDB-FM: Past, Present. and Future!

July 23 - Gil Garcia, Past President, Sister City Committee - Subject: 40 Years of Sister City Friendship with Puerto Vallarta!

July 16 - Doug Lynch, Founder and Managing Director of The Reach Group - Subject: Today's Oilfield: Truth or Fiction

July 9 - Skye Allmang, Project Coordinator, SB County, Youth Corps - Subject: Preparing Our Youth for the Future.

July 2 - Club Closed

June 25 - Mary Saputo, President Canine Adoption & Rescue League - Subject: Do We Rescue Them?  Or, Do They Rescue Us?

June 18 - Phoebe Brunner, Contemporary Landscape Artist - Subject: Oceania Series:  Surreal Paintings of the Sea 

June 11 - Lorraine Cruz Carpenter, Executive Coordinator of Looking Good Santa Barbara - Subject: Looking Good Santa Barbara - What is this program all about?

June 4 - Ken Richardson, President, Hughes Aircraft - Subject: Hughes After Howard 

May 28 - Club Closed for Memorial Day Observed

May 21 - Marv Bauer, Retired Attorney - Subject: Motorcycle Adventures in Far-Away Places

May 14 - John Berg, Sailor Extraordinaire - Subject: Sailing Blind with Lombard

May 7 - Club Closed for Carpet Cleaning

April 30 - April Price, Conservation Specialist, Coal Oil Point Reserve - Subject: Coal Oil Point Reserve: The Plover Story

April 23 - Dr. Greg Cailliet, Professor Emeritus, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories - Subject: Unraveling the Secret Lives of Sharks and Rays

April 16 - Jonathan Fox, Executive Artistic Director, Ensemble Theater - Subject: The Artistic Director's Challenge: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Theatre Today

April  9 - Mark and Trudy Allen, SBYC Members - Subject: Cruising the Norwegian Fjords

April  2 - Judy Fontana & Phil Holland, SBYC Members - Subject: Fetching Light Completes Her Voyage

March 26 -  Jeffyne Telson, Founder and President, ResQcats - Subject: A Journey Through the Eyes of RESQCATS

March 19 - Captain Helene Webb, SBYC Member and Webmaster - Subject: Messing About in Boats, Books and Art

March 12 - Bob Kieding, SBYC Member - Subject: SBYC in the 1940's and 1950's!

March  5 - Kathi Brewster, Master Docent, Santa Barbara Historical Museum - Subject: A Salute to Santa Barbara's Women

Feb 27 - Club Closed for Carpet Cleaning

Feb 20 - Scott Riedman, Santa Barbra Waterfront Director - Subject: Santa Barbara Harbor Update

Feb 13 - Michael Ditmore, Executive Director, The Novim Group & Jim Knight, Executive Vice-President, The Novim Group - Subject: Climate Change and Other Easy Subjects

Feb 6 - Steve Windhager, PhD, Executive Director, SB Botanic Garden: - Subject: What Use is a Botanic Garden?

Jan 30 - Frank Staplemann, Yacht Designer - Subject: Designing Practical Boats that Sail Well and Please their Owners

Jan 23 - Craig Tyler, Illustrator Extraordinaire - Subject: Cruising the Intracoastal Waterway at 8 Knots

Jan 16 - Thomas L. Scheff, Professor Emeritus, UCSB - Subject: What’s Love Got to Do with It?

Jan 9 - Adelaide Ortega and her Guide Dog Caraway, Braille Institute Student and her Partner - Subject: A Woman and Her Guide Dog - Their Story

Jan 2- Club Closed

2011 Presentations:

Dec 26 - Club Closed

Dec 19 - Alita Rhodes and Mary Beth Woodruff, Directors of The Santa Barbara Strings - Subject: The Second Annual Dave McEachen Memorial Concert

Dec 12 - Ines Roberts, Photographer Extraordinaire - Subject: Films of the Channel Islands

Dec 5 - John Coye, SBYC Member - Subject: Exploring the Galapagos Islands Aboard Nemo II

Nov 28 - Club Closed for Carpet Cleaning

Nov 21 - Stacey Otte, Executive Director, The Wilding Museum - Subject: Island Encounters, The Art and Conservation of the Channel Islands

Nov 14 - Nicholie Bufkin, Destroyer Captain In A Multi-Mission Navy - Subject: Conversations with the Commander

Nov 7 - Barry Keller, PHD, Consultant to Industry and Government - Subject: Atop the Rupture Zone - Chile's 8.8 Earthquake and Tsunami

Oct 31 - Susan Mellors, President of VISTAS Lifelong Learning - Subject: VISTAS, It's Never Too Late to Learn 

Oct 24 - Shannon Miller, Vice Chair, California, Health Care for ALL - Subject: Health Care for Every Californian

Oct 17 - Howard Hudson, Bugler Extraordinaire - Subject: Taps - 24 Notes that Stir a Nation's Soul

Oct 10 - Macduff Everton and Mary Heeber,  Local Author and Photographer - Subject: The Book of Santa Barbara, A Love Letter to Our City 

Oct 3 - Stephanie  Boumediene, Vice President, External Affairs, SBMRI - Subject: NanoMedicin,  Tomorrow's Science Today!

Sept 26 - Peter Crane, Sailor Extraordinaire - Subject: Offshore Single-Handed Racing

Sept 19 - Jack Byers, Commodore SBYC: Jack and His Tahiti Cruisers, SBYC Members - Subject: Tahiti and Back!

Sept 12 - Mark Schrader, Project Director, Around the America - Subject: One Island, One Ocean; What We Learned Sailing Around the Americas

Sept 5 - No Monday Forum, Club Open

August 29 - No Monday Forum, Club Closed for Carpet Cleaning

August 22 - Bill Guilfoyle, SBYC Member - Subject: Transpac 2011, Part Two: The Race

August 15 - Lynda Tanner, CEO of VNHC - Subject: The Opening of Serenity House

August 8 - Susan Plummer, PhD, Director, Alliance for Living and Dying Well, An Innovative Community Model - Subject: Conversations About End of Life Care

August 1 - Karen Ramsdell, Director, Santa Barbara Airport - Subject: Santa Barbara's Airport: An Update

July 25 - Randy Rowse, SBYC Member and SB City Councilman - Subject: Inside the Santa Barbara City Council

July 18 - MJ Taylor, ATSI Director, Outreach & Education - Subject: ATSI: Programs for Youth  Aboard The Tall Ship Bill of Rights

July 11 - Greg Gorga, SBMM Executive Director - Subject: SBMM - Our Neighborhood Treasure

July 4 - No Monday Forum.  Independence Day BBQ. 

June 27 - Duncan Shea, Jr,  SBYSF Program Director - Subject: Teaching the Sailors of Tomorrow

June 20 - Bruce Hinds,  SBYC Member, Retired Test Pilot - Subject: An Update, B2 and Stealth Technology

June 13 - Charles Browning & Stan Darrow, Jr,  SBYC Members - Subject: Transpac 2011 - Part One

June 6 - Carpet Cleaning: No Monday Forum 

May 30 - Memorial Day:  No Monday Forum

May 23 - James Wapotich, SBN-P Columnist - Subject: Santa Barbara's Back Country

May 16 - John Fritsche,  Postcard Collector - Subject: Sailing through Time via Picture Post Cards  

May 9 - Nanci Pfarr, SBYC Member and Manager, SB West Marine Store - Subject: How West Marine Became West Marine

May 2 - Michael and Kathryn Graham , Owners of C'est Cheese - Subject: A Short History of Cheese & How We Got into the Business

April 25 - Jack Byers, Commodore, SBYC - Subject: An Update and Tour of SBYC's Galley

April 18 - Dr. Rod Nash, UCSB Professor Emeritus of History and Environmental Studies - Subject: The Consequences of the 1969 Santa Barbara Channel Oil Spill

April 11 - Scott Reed, President of the Music Academy of the West - Subject: The2011 Summer Festival

April 4 - Ed Vernon, Member SBYC - Subject: The Port of Santa Rosalita

March 28 - Jasques Steininger, Member SBYC - Subject: OAT Turkey Tour

March 21 - Chad Dreier, Member SBYC and Collector Extraordinaire - Subject: The Dreier Museum: Santa Barbara's Unique Treasure

March 14 - James Lambden, Above the Waterline - Subject: Electric Boat Design

March 7 - Kira Redmond, Executive Director, SB Channelkeeper - Subject: Protecting Our Waters

February 28 - Club closed for carpet cleaning

February 21 - David Petry, Local Historian - Subject: The Best Last Place, A History of Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara Cemetery.

February 14 - Jeanne Martin, Harpist - Cupid's Harp: Love Songs and Valentine Mythology

February 7 - Mike Lunsford, Naturalist - Subject: Treasures of the Gaviota Coast

January 31 - Duncan Mellichamp, Board Pres., Opera Santa Barbara - Subject: Making Opera Come Alive in Santa Barbara

January 24 - Brian Trautwein, Environmental Analyst, EDC - Subject: The Mission Creek Steelhead Recovery Project

January 17 - Hester Rumberg, Author - Subject: Survival at Sea: A True Story

January 10 - Ted Tedesco, Member - Subject: A New Community Venture: The Santa Barbara Institute on World Affairs

January 3 - Judy Fontana and Phil Holland, Members/Cruisers - Subject: Ocean Crossings, Part 2

2010 Presentations:

December 27 - Holiday Break.  No luncheon.

December 20 - Alita Rhodes and Mary Beth Woodruff, Musicians - Update on the Santa Barbara Strings and Holiday Recital

December 13 - Bob Kieding, Member - Subject: "SB Harbor in the 40’s and 50’s"

December 6 - Ines Roberts, Photographer - Subject: Winter in Yellowstone

November 29 - Capt. Mike Argo, USN - Subject: A Look at Navy Special Warfare

November 22 - No luncheon - Club maintenance

November 15 - Speaker: Judy Fontana and Phil Holland, Members - Subject: Pacific Crossings

November 8 - Dr. Andreea Serban, SBCC President - Subject: SBCC at the Beginning of Its Second Century

November 1 - Jay Robinson, FLIR Systems - Subject: Thermal Imaging for Mariners

October 25 - Terry and Pat Straehley, Members - Subject: "Bhutan, Land of the Thunder Dragon"

October 18 - Craig Springer, Dir. of The Granada - Subject: “The Future of the Granada: the Vibrant Home for the Performing Arts in SB”

October 11 - Greg Gorga, Director of the SBMM - Subject: SB Maritime Museum--On the Horizon

October 4 - Kate Nelson, President of Save the Mermaids - Subject: The Mission of Save the Mermaids

September 27 - Jon Light, Lawyer and Baseball Enthusiast - "The Cultural Side of Baseball"

September 20 - Christian Smith, Software Developer - Subject: "The age of the iPhone and the direction of mobile technology"


September 13 - Owen Dell, Landscape Architect - Subject: Auditing Your Landscaping for Sustainability

September 6 - Labor Day Holiday - No luncheon (Carpet cleaning)

August 30 -  John Bridley, Waterfront Director, and Karl Treiberg, Waterfront Facilities Manager - Subject: Marina One Construction Project Presentation and Waterfront Update

August 23 - Gretchen Hofmann, Prof. of Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology -  Subject: Ocean Acidification and Our Future

August 16 - Peter Karoff, Chairman of The Philanthropic Initiative -   Subject: "Moral Dimensions - True Wind and Apparent Wind in Philanthropy"

August 9 - Edward Keller, UCSB Dept. of Earth Science - Subject: "Santa Barbara Earthquake Hazard: We do Have our Faults"

August 2 - Tony Durham, SB County Sheriff's Crime Prevention Specialist - Subject: Living More Safely

July 26 - Craig Barilotti and Bruce Harger, Marine Botanists - Subject: "The Giant Kelp as a Renewable Energy Resource. Ellwood Kelp Farm."

July 19 - Erin Zetter, Coordinator of Docent Programs - Subject: The Santa Barbara Museum of Art: Collections and Mission

July 12 - Bob Fulmer, Writer - Subject: Newcomers to Paradise

July 5 - Jim Kreyger, Photographer - Subject: A Collage of America's Natural Beauty

June 28 - Lt. Steve Baldovsky, USCG - Subject: The Mission of the USCG Blackfin

June 21 - Larry Coldren, Dean of the UCSB School of Engineering - Subject: Fiber Optics Are Changing Your Lives

June 14 - Bruce Bennett, Board Member of HAR - Subject: The  Hearts Adaptive Riding Program

June 7 - Dixie Daddies - Subject: History of Dixieland - Part 6

May 31 - Memorial Day - No Luncheon

May 24 - Nick Di Napoli, Friend and Scholar - Subject: "Battle of Tsushima"

May 17 - Mark Schrader, Captain and Project Director - Subject: Around the Americas: Circumnavigating the American Continents to Raise Awareness of Marine Health

May 10 - Wayne Rosing, Member - Subject: Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network

May 3 - Jon Lee, Coach and Traveler - Subject: Uganda, the Pearl of East Africa

April 26 - Joseph Liebman, Attorney - Subject: "Everything You've Always Wanted to Know about Landslides and Subsidence from a Legal Perspective"

April 19 - Greg Gorga, Dir. of the SB Maritime Museum - Marking Time: Voyage to Vietnam

April 12 - Morgan Crowe, Member - Subject: "Mediterranean Odyssey"

April 5 - Mark and Trudy Allen, Members - Subject: Faraway Places with Strange Sounding Names (Cruising from India to Singapore)

March 29 - Erin Graffy, Member - Our Book Is Finished! Or, A Long Time to Tell Our Story

March 22 - Laura Inks, Dir of education - The Granada's Education Program

March 15 - Steen Hudson, Exec. Dir. of Elings Park - Subject: The Gifts of Elings Park

March 8 - Bob Kieding, Member and Writer - Subject: Summarizing 118 Articles about the Sea

March 1 - Club Maintenance - no luncheon

February 22 - Forrest Fleming, CEO of True Vision Surgical - Subject: True Vision: An Amazing New Medical Technology

February 15 - John Woolley, Prof. of Poli Sci at UCSB - Subject: "The US Presidents and Boating"

February 8 - Karl Hutterer, Director of the SB Museum of Natural History - Subject: "The Natural History of God"

February 1 - Bill and Sam Fleetwood, Cruisers - Subject: “From Kebabs to Couscous, Blue Banana Sails the Mediterranean”

January 25 - Mary Jane Cooper, Member, and Dick Nielsen, Volunteer - Santa Barbara Symphony League Music Van

January 18 - Mark Schneidman, Realtor - Subject: "A Snapshot of Santa Barbara Real Estate"

January 11 - Bob Craven, Member - Subject: Renovation of the NADA II

January 4 - Kristian Beadle, UCSB Bren School Graduate and Rotary Scholar - Subject: Voyage of Kiri

2009 Presentations:

December 28 - Holiday Break - No Luncheon

December 21 - Joseph Sohm, Writer and Photographer - Subject: Visions of America

December 14 - Alita Rhodes and Mary Beth Woodruff, Musicians - Subject: Santa Barbara Strings and Holiday Recital

December 7 - Willard Thompson, Writer - Subject: Postcards from Paradise

November 30 - Robert Warner, Professor and Chair of Evolutionary ecology, population and conservation biology - Subject: Connecting the Spots: Spatial Management of the Coastal Ocean

November 23 - Club Maintenance - No Luncheon

November 16 - Jim Kreyger, Photographer - Fall and Winter Beauty

November 9 - Steve Hodges, Sailboat Cruiser - Subject: Weather Forecasting

November 2 - Nicolas Di Croce - Subject: California's Water Solutions

October 26 - David Mullinax, Regional Manager of League of Calif. Cities - Subject: Dysfunction in California Government

October 19 - Morgan Green, Member - Sailing Insanity in Alaska

October 12 - Greg Gorga SBMM - Subject: Alaska's Inner Passage

October 5 - Bill Brown, SB County Sheriff - Subject: The Missions of the Sheriff's Department

September 28 - Rich Block, Director of SB Zoo - Subject: What's New at the Zoo

September 21 - Nick Di Napoli, Historian - Subject: the Sea Battle of Actium

September 14 - Peter Schuyler, Conservation Biologist - Subject: Research Projects on Santa Cruz and Catalina Islands

September 7 - Labor Day - No speaker

August 31 - Fred Lange, UCSB Materials Science  - Subject: How Materials Have Revolutionized Society

August 24 - Maria Long, Director of CASA - Subject: The Work of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)

August 17 - No luncheon - club maintenance

August 10 - Michelle Howard, Development Director of WYP - Subject: The Work of Wilderness Youth Project

August 3 - Erin Graffy, Author - Subject: The History Secrets behind Fiesta

July 27 - Major Sean Malis, US Army Civil Affairs - Subject: Celebrating 60 Years of the US Army Reserves in Santa Barbara

July 20 - John Bridley, Waterfront Director - Subject: Waterfront Update

July 13 - Paul Larson, Sailor and Writer - Subject: America's Cup Review

July 6 - Doug Crawford, Navy League -  Subject: Commissioning and Update on the USS Stockdale and SB Navy League

June 29 - Doug and Stephanie Johnstone, Members - Cruising the French Canals

June 22 -  Will McClintock, PhD., Director of the MarineMap Consortium  - Subject: MarineMap: Designing Marine Protected Areas with a Web Based Tool

June 15 - Mark and Trudy Allen, Members - Subject: Easter Island Wonders

June 8 - Bob Vincent, Cruiser and Photographer - Subject: "Sailing in the Mediterranean"

June 1 - Dixie Daddies - Subject: History of Dixieland, Part 4

May 25 - No luncheon - Club maintenance September 1 - Labor Day - no luncheon

May 18 - Bob Muller, writer - Subject: The Trees of Santa Barbara, or, "Santa Barbara's Urban Forest: An Historical Legacy with an Uncertain Future"

May 11 - Ed O’Donnell, Senior VP of Venoco - Subject: Oil Operations on the Coast

May 4 - Nir Kabaretti, SB Symphony Conductor - Subject: Symphony Update

April 27 -  Michelle Kelly, American Heart Association - Subject: The Mission of the American Heart Association

April 20 -  Ted Sten, Grand Jury Foreman - Subject: The Santa Barbara County Civil Grand Jury

April 13 - Monday after Easter - no luncheon (We had a very small crowd last year on this Monday, so I decided to skip it rather than have to explain again to a speaker why there were only 12 or so people.)

April 6 - Linda Krop, Chief Counsel of Env. Def. Center - Subject: The Work of the Environmental Defense Center

March 30 - Jacques Steininger, Member - Subject: Sailing in the Caribbean

March 23 - Mike Beck, Headmaster of Dunn School - Subject: USS Constitution: Sailing into the 21st Century

March 16 -  Bill and Sam Fleetwood, Cruisers - Our Circumnavigation Continues - Part 3

March 9 - Bob Haller, botanist - Subject: Mediterranean Climates, Rare Plants, and Related Research at the S B Botanic Gardens

March 2 - Paul McCaffrey, SBPD - Subject: Police Matters

February 23 - No luncheon - Club/carpet maintenance

February 16 - Roger Chrisman, Vice Commodore - Subject: Stories Behind Some Club Trophies

February 9 - Bruce P. Luyendyk, Prof. of Marine Geophysics (UCSB) - Subject: Natural Oil and Gas Seepages in the Santa Barbara Channel

February 2 - Capt. David Bacon, SOFTIN - Subject: Seafaring Opportunities For Those In Need

January 26 - Capt. Brick Conners, USN - Subject: Sonar, Whales, and the Environment

January 19 - Willard Thompson, Writer and Lecturer - Shipwrecks: Troubled Waters of the Santa Barbara Channel

January 12 - Karl Hill, SB Zoo Veterinarian - Subject: Being Dr. Zoo

January 5 - Sam Dover, Marine Mammal Veterinarian - Subject: Marine Mammal Medicine in the Santa Barbara Channel

2008 Presentations:

December 29 - Holiday season - No  luncheon.

December 22 - Terry and Pat Straehley, Members - Subject: South Africa Safari

December 15 - Jacques Steininger, Member - Subject: La Belle France

December 8 - Shelley Bookspan and Gillian Launie - Subject: The Pearl
Chase Story

December 1 - Mary Olson, General Manager of KCLU - Subject: The
Challenges of National Public Radio

November 24 - No luncheon.  Carpet replacement/repair.

November 17 - Dr. Bill Morton-Smith, DRI - Subject The Work of Direct Relief International

November 10 - Karl Hutterer, Dir. of SB Mus. of Nat. Hist. - Subject: Natural History Museums as Dinosaurs

November 3 -  Bob Kull, Researcher - Subject: A Year In Wilderness Solitude

October 27 - Ed Hartfeld, Writer - Subject: Dwight Murphy: Santa Barbara's Renaissance Man

October 20 - Steve Gaines, Dir. of the UCSB Marine Science Institute - Subject: The Changing Seascape of the Santa Barbara Channel

October 13 - Kira Redmond, Exec. Dir. of S. B. Channelkeeper - Subject: The Work of Channelkeeper

October 6 - Courtney Seeple, Pres. of S. B. Beautiful - Subject: The Work of Santa Barbara Beautiful

September 29 - Tom Reeg, CRH - Subject: The Work of the Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital

September 22 - Greg Gorga, Santa Barbara Maritime Museum - Coming Events

September 15 - Rolf Geyling, Pres. of S. B. Rescue Mission - Subject: The Work of the SB Rescue Mission

September 8 - Kate McCurdy, Sedgwick Reserve Director - Subject: Bears in Your Back Yard