Santa Barbara Yacht Club
Founded 1872
Monday Luncheon Forum
Santa Barbara Yacht ClubFounded 1872
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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 $9.00, which includes a buffet, coffee and dessert. Each program includes a Special Speaker. Topics cover a wide variety, often involving: Santa Barbara Happenings, technical subjects from professional spokespersons, travel talks with photos, local politics, 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.
Recent and Upcoming Presenters 2010 Presentations: 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 12 - Morgan Crowe, Member - Subject: "Mediterranean Odyssey" 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 December 1 - Mary Olson, General Manager of KCLU - Subject: The 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 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 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 |
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