The Rotary Club of San Jose The Bulletin Friday, February 26, 2010 Club Web Site Editor: Teresa McCarthy If you have any comments or questions, email the editor. Future Speakers Mar 3 2010 John Foster "IDEO Global Design Consulting Firm (ELC Program)" Mar 10 2010 Brian Adams "Academy Awards" Mar 17 2010 Dick Bolles "What Color Is Your Parachute?" Mar 24 2010 Carl Guardino "CEO's Speak Out: Silicon Valley Business Climate" Mar 31 2010 Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren "Update On Congress" Apr 7 2010 Mark Purdy "Sports" Apr 14 2010 Col. Michael J. Meese "Combating Terrorism in Afghanistan" Apr 21 2010 Larry Stone "Personals & Scramble" Apr 28 2010 Dolores Carr & Jeff Rosen "District Attorney Candidate Debate" May 5 2010 Chuck Reed "State of the City" May 12 2010 Leigh Rubin "Cartoonist" May 19 2010 Russ Jones "LEAP" May 26 2010 Bill Sherry "San Jose Airport" Jun 2 2010 BBQ "Rotary Spring BBQ" Jun 9 2010 Jeff Smith "State of the County" Jun 16 2010 John Seffrin "National Cancer Programs" Oct 27 2010 Kevin Nelson "The Amazing Story of California and the Automobile" The Speaker for March 3 John Foster "IDEO Global Design Consulting Firm (ELC Program)" John is head of talent and organization for IDEO where he applies the IDEO design process internally to help the firm stay at the leading edge of design and innovation consulting. He has a deep background in organization development, leadership development, and instructional design, with experience working inside Fidelity Investments, Levi Strauss, and Mercury Interactive (now part of HP). Prior to his internal corporate roles, he was a leadership and team-building facilitator for Pecos River Learning Centers, where he worked with dozens of Fortune 500 companies on team performance and organizational change initiatives. John began his career as a Program Director with the YMCA working in summer camping programs, outdoor education, and outdoor leadership programs. He earned a Master's in Education from Colorado State University and holds a twin B.A. in Psychology and Communications from Miami University. He lives in California with his wife and 4 children and enjoys travel, playing guitar, and outdoor adventure sports. Lunch Increase March 1st Effective March 1, 2010 the cost of the Rotary lunch will increase to $25.00. The cost of "Meeting Only" will remain $12.00. The cost for parking will remain $3.00. Rotary Annual Event March 6 An Auction Item To Consider: A ONCE IN A LIFETIME EXPERIENCE – DINNER FOR 10 WITH CHEF EMILE MOOSER AND SHIRLEY LEWIS Chef Emile Mooser and Shirley Lewis will combine their talents and heritages to bring you a gourmet five-course meal for ten. This incredible dinner will be prepared and served at Shirley's lovely downtown home. Each course will be paired with a wine selected especially for you by Emile. Don't miss this opportunity for this once in a lifetime experience! Donors: Chef Emile Mooser and Shirley Lewis Value: $3,000.00 Last Call - Rotary Ethics Award Nominations Nominations for the inaugural Rotary Ethics in Business Award will be accepted until March 3. We are looking for stories in which a organization (in the business, non-profit or government sectors) was faced with a challenging decision and an ethical course of action was chosen over profit or expedience. If you know of an business deserving of community recognition for pursuing an ethical course of action, please complete the nomination form located at http://ethics.sjrotary.org or download directly here: Click Here The Rotary Ethics in Business Award is being offered in collaboration with San Jose State University College of Business. The top candidates for the award will be researched and interviewed by San Jose State University MBA students, and a teaching case study on the honoree will be prepared for use at San Jose State University. The Ethics Award will be presented at the Rotary Club meeting on June 23, 2010. If you would like to be involved in the committee or need additional information please contact Elaine Curran, Chair of the Rotary Ethics Award Committee, [email protected], (408) 859-7238 or Carl Cookson, co-chair, [email protected], (408) 286-2836 Become a Rotarian Rosarian In just four lessons over a period of one year, you too could become an official San Jose Rotarian Rosarian. Contact Rotarian Joel Deceuster and sign up for the new Rosarian Committee. Contact Joel by clicking here --> Email Joel The Committee will meet 4 times a year to do major pruning and fertilizing of the beautiful garden of roses, which are growing around the Gordon House. March Birthdays http://www.clubrunner.ca/CPrg/Bulletin/SendBulletinEmail.aspx?cid=3975 1
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The Rotary Club of San Jose
The Bulletin
Friday, February 26, 2010 Club Web Site
Editor: Teresa McCarthyIf you have any comments orquestions, email the editor.
Future Speakers
Mar 3 2010John Foster"IDEO Global Design ConsultingFirm (ELC Program)"
Mar 10 2010Brian Adams"Academy Awards"
Mar 17 2010Dick Bolles"What Color Is Your Parachute?"
Mar 24 2010Carl Guardino"CEO's Speak Out: Silicon ValleyBusiness Climate"
Mar 31 2010Congresswoman ZoeLofgren"Update On Congress"
Apr 7 2010Mark Purdy"Sports"
Apr 14 2010Col. Michael J. Meese"Combating Terrorism inAfghanistan"
Apr 21 2010Larry Stone"Personals & Scramble"
Apr 28 2010Dolores Carr & Jeff Rosen"District Attorney CandidateDebate"
May 5 2010Chuck Reed"State of the City"
May 12 2010Leigh Rubin"Cartoonist"
May 19 2010Russ Jones"LEAP"
May 26 2010Bill Sherry"San Jose Airport"
Jun 2 2010BBQ"Rotary Spring BBQ"
Jun 9 2010Jeff Smith"State of the County"
Jun 16 2010John Seffrin"National Cancer Programs"
Oct 27 2010Kevin Nelson"The Amazing Story of Californiaand the Automobile"
The Speaker for March 3
John Foster"IDEO Global Design Consulting Firm (ELC Program)"
John is head of talent and organization for IDEO where he applies the IDEO design process internally to help the firm stay at theleading edge of design and innovation consulting. He has a deep background in organization development, leadershipdevelopment, and instructional design, with experience working inside Fidelity Investments, Levi Strauss, and Mercury Interactive(now part of HP).
Prior to his internal corporate roles, he was a leadership and team-building facilitator for Pecos River Learning Centers, where he worked withdozens of Fortune 500 companies on team performance and organizational change initiatives. John began his career as a Program Director with theYMCA working in summer camping programs, outdoor education, and outdoor leadership programs.
He earned a Master's in Education from Colorado State University and holds a twin B.A. in Psychology and Communications from Miami University.He lives in California with his wife and 4 children and enjoys travel, playing guitar, and outdoor adventure sports.
Lunch Increase March 1st
Effective March 1, 2010 the cost of the Rotary lunch will increase to $25.00. The cost of "Meeting Only"will remain $12.00. The cost for parking will remain $3.00.
Rotary Annual Event March 6
An Auction Item To Consider:
A ONCE IN A LIFETIME EXPERIENCE –DINNER FOR 10 WITH CHEF EMILE MOOSER AND SHIRLEY LEWIS
Chef Emile Mooser and Shirley Lewis will combine their talents and heritages to bring you a gourmet five-course meal for ten. This incredibledinner will be prepared and served at Shirley's lovely downtown home. Each course will be paired with a wine selected especially for you by Emile. Don't miss this opportunity for this once in a lifetime experience!
Donors: Chef Emile Mooser and Shirley LewisValue: $3,000.00
Last Call - Rotary Ethics Award Nominations
Nominations for the inaugural Rotary Ethics in Business Award will be accepted until March 3. We are looking for stories inwhich a organization (in the business, non-profit or government sectors) was faced with a challenging decision and an ethicalcourse of action was chosen over profit or expedience.
If you know of an business deserving of community recognition for pursuing an ethical course of action, please complete thenomination form located at http://ethics.sjrotary.org or download directly here: Click Here
The Rotary Ethics in Business Award is being offered in collaboration with San Jose State University College of Business. The topcandidates for the award will be researched and interviewed by San Jose State University MBA students, and a teaching case study on the honoreewill be prepared for use at San Jose State University.
The Ethics Award will be presented at the Rotary Club meeting on June 23, 2010. If you would like to be involved in the committee or need additional information please contact Elaine Curran, Chair of the Rotary Ethics AwardCommittee, [email protected], (408) 859-7238 or Carl Cookson, co-chair, [email protected], (408) 286-2836
Become a Rotarian Rosarian
In just four lessons over a period of one year, you too could become an official San Jose Rotarian Rosarian.
Contact Rotarian Joel Deceuster and sign up for the new Rosarian Committee. Contact Joel by clicking here --> Email Joel
The Committee will meet 4 times a year to do major pruning and fertilizing of the beautiful garden of roses, which are growingaround the Gordon House.
Career DevelopmentCommittee Meeting -- 11:15AMMar 3 2010
Rotary Meeting -- NoonMar 3 2010
Youth Exchange -- 7:30 AMMar 4 2010
Orientation -- 7:30 AMMar 5 2010
Washington School Field Tripto SJS UniversityMar 5 2010
Rotary Book Club--12:00NoonMar 8 2010
Membership Committee --7:30AMMar 9 2010
Downtown DevelopmentCommittee--8:00AMMar 9 2010
Program Committee--11:45AMMar 9 2010
Rota-Arts Committee Mtg --11:00AMMar 10 2010
Rotary Meeting -- 12 NoonMar 10 2010
Oracles/Past President --5:30PMMar 11 2010
100 Year Legacy Council--4:00PMMar 15 2010
Board of Directors Meeting --8 AMMar 16 2010
Rotary Chorale Practice --11:00 AMMar 17 2010
Event Committee Meeting -- 8AMMar 17 2010
Digital Bridges Meeting --11:30 AMMar 17 2010
Rotary Meeting -- 12:00NoonMar 17 2010
Adult Gift of Life Meeting --7:30 AMMar 17 2010
Foundation Board Meeting --7:30 AMMar 18 2010
Los Amigos de WashingtonSchool Meeting -- 7:30 AMMar 18 2010
International ServicesMeeting -- 12 NoonMar 18 2010
Red Badge Mtg. -- 7:30 AMMar 19 2010
Paul Kloetzel, March 1John Brezzo, March 2Sheila Breeding, Geoff Roach, March 3Michael Allerton, Robert Baker, March 5Michael Mulcahy, March 6Martin Hoek, March 7
Jerry Hanson, March 8Sally Adelus, March 9Dana Fraticelli, March 10Bruce J.M. Knopf, March 13Kenneth Martz, March 18Jessie Thielen, March 19Finn Jenssen, Eric Heckman, Brian Allen, March 21Lon Saavedra, March 26Clayton Bruntz, Michael Becker, Janet Dashiell, March 30Julie Scopazzi, Dennis Wilcox, March 31
The Summary of the February 24th Meeting
The RotaArts Committee under the chairmanship of NICK NICHOLS staffed the greeting line for the 4780th meeting of the Rotary Club of SanJose. They have undertaken the commendable task of cultivating and supporting art and music appreciation in California schools with underservedpopulations. PHIL STRONG led our usual rendition of "God Bless America," with piano accompaniment by PAUL TUMASON. The wisdom for the daywas provided by DAVID GINSBORG, who quoted Rabbi Lieber to the effect that we should not only pray for peace, but also for the strength andfortitude to protect and support peace. This was quite fitting, considering that our speaker for the day was General Barry McCaffrey. JOHNMCCLEOD then brought us the news of the day, noting that the San Jose Ballet was going to be performing "Romeo and Juliet" John also broughtalong the usual assortment of witticisms. One concerned an unarmed lady who protected her home by yelling "Acts 2:38". She gave credit to thebiblical verse for the robber's surrender, but the culprit said he gave himself up because he thought she yelled "an axe and 2 thirty-eights".
Our Red-Badger mike-jockeys for the day were COLIN RULE and JENNIFER SIMMONS. We were favored with a good turnout of visitingRotarians and guests. It was nice to have DAVE HEAGERTY , along with GEORGE COAKLEY, the founder of Coakley-Heagerty Advertising, and Dave'sbrother John Heagerty, the current president of the company. There were also several representatives of HNTB Corporation, where GeneralMcCaffrey serves as chairman of the federal business unit.. Next up was MARK WALKER, who introduced LEON BEAUCHMAN southern Californiawhen he was 10. He came to San Jose with a football scholarship at San Jose State, and followed that by joining the Peace Corps for a tour of dutyin Ghana. He eventually progressed to a position of handling Community Relations for Pacific Gas & Electric. He and his wife have three successfulsons. In his remarks on joining, he gave a hearty plug for the club's chorus, which he has already joined. Welcome aboard, Leon!
The next item of business was the presentation of 30 year pins to 10 stalwarts who had made the grade, including FRANK BELLUOMI (44 years),BARRY CRISTINA (41 years), RAY SILVA (37 years), Dave Heagerty (35 years), DICK CAMPISI(34 years), GARY GIANNINI (34 years), MELMATSUSHIMA (33 years), BOB KIEVE,(33 years), RICK ROMNEY(31 years), and BRIAN ALLEN(31 years). CHERYL MARTINEZ followed with anannouncement for March 6th Event and Fundraiser for the club, which has very few tickets left, so it is sure to be another success. PRESIDENTROD then had two more announcements. The good one was that our "Rosarian" JOEL DECEUSTER was starting a new committee, which wouldmeet 4 times a year to do major pruning and fertilizing of the beautiful garden of roses, which he has grown around the Gordon House. The secondless popular announcement was that starting March 3rd the lunch price would go up to $25.
President Rod then undertook the honor of introducing our distinguished speaker himself. General McCaffrey's resume includes 32 years ofservice in the US Army, during which time he won two Silver Stars for valor and two Distinguished Service crosses for valor, along with three PurpleHearts for wounds suffered in combat. In addition to appearing often on national television, he serves as an adjunct Professor at West Point, andruns is own consulting firm in Arlington, Virginia. He sprinkled some humor along with his observations about the current state of the US and theworld. The first subject he covered was the status of US internal security as of today, over eight years after 9/11. He examined the subject ofSocial Security, which he said was a simple problem because there were just three variables:
(a) How many dollars are to be put in the program?,(b) Is it to be done now or later?, and(c) Are recipients to be paid more or less?.
He believes that as simple as these issues are in terms of variable factors, and as logical as it would be to fix it over the course of the next 15years, it will still be politically difficult for Congress to get it resolved. He thought that the formation of the Department of Homeland Security wasthe right solution for the national risk evidenced by the events of 9/11, which he deemed to be a result of a failure of the FBI and the CIA.(Author's Note: I would implicate the FAA as well, which knew the risk and failed to insist upon hardened cockpits). Anyway, he thinks that TomRidge and Janet Napolitano are fine appointments and that the correct issues are now being spotlighted. The General commented that this is anation of 307 million folks, all of who feel entitled to freedom of movement and expect protection. He said he was in favor of fences. But he alsosaid that we needed to encourage endeavor and engineering, and vote against degrees in recreation management.
General McCaffrey's talk got truly interesting when he moved on to the subject of external affairs. First, he reminded us of the price we werepaying for our ventures into the two most recent wars, being Iraq(nearly the end of the world from here), and Afghanistan(beyond the end of theworld). He pointed out that we have lost 43, 000 troops to death and injury, and so far have spent nearly one-third the cost of World War II. Forthat we are approaching an end in Iraq, which he contends was worth doing. We are not going to give them a functioning democracy such as wehave, but maybe will have a state with three disparate parts which can survive. He believes that General Petraeus is a brilliant general, and thatthe war is essentially over. He pointed out that one of the goals was not to leave Saudi Arabia in peril with a hostile neighbor, which we seem tohave accomplished. He said that Afghanistan is a different situation, which he did not favor. It is land locked, and supplies delivered by ship haveto travel over 600 miles. We are paying over $5.6 billion a month for it now, and the cost will ramp up to $9 billion per month this summer. Hethinks Afghanistan may be do-able, but at a very significant cost and over at least 5 more years of military effort, which is a price we may not bewilling to pay. Included in the General's analysis was a strong vote of confidence in Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, whom he considers "great"public servant. In the course of his remarks, he excoriated the previous Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who he said was opinionated andarrogant. One item of good news he commented on was the truce or end of the turf war between the Departments of State and Defense. He saidhe preferred the usual channels of contact instead of the use of plenipotentiaries such as George Mitchell and Richard Holbrooke.
Our speaker took some interesting questions and gave some provocative answers. He declared that the US remains a great nation with morefreedom than any other nation and vast economic power. He believes that the right of gays to serve in the military will be an accomplished fact,which is acceptable to the military and to the country as a whole. General McCaffrey also thinks we are going to be facing nuclear armed states inthe Persian Gulf, which of course is a threat to our historic ally Saudi Arabia, and of course to Israel. He believes Israel needs to "pray," because itssurvival is threatened if the Iran and other Gulf states go nuclear. While Israel also has nuclear arms, the risk of use without retaliation isenormous. We had an interesting talk about the really big issues we face.
The General's Power Point is here POWERPOINT. <----
Summary by Jim Little
Photos by Bob Beaulieu
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The speaker for Saturday night is Roxana Saberi. Her book is called Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran. Keynote: A harrowing chronicle of the Iranian-American journalist's imprisonment, as well as a penetrating look at Iran and itspolitical tensions, based on six years of research and interviews with Iranians across society. Bio: Roxana Saberi, 32, an Iranian-American journalist, was born in New Jersey and raised in North Dakota. She has a Master'sDegree in Broadcast Journalism from Northwestern University, and a second master's degree from Cambridge, in International Relations. She hasreported for NPR, the BBC, ABC Radio, and Fox News. Roxana is a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar.
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