BIG NEWS TO ALL SEMINARIANS: Your Board of Directors negotiated a permanent return of the Seminar to the North Beach Restaurant, effective this week!
At last Friday’s seminar, the members present voted unanimously to accept your Board of Directors recommendation that veteran seminarian Greg Ryken be our new chair.
We’ve had a wonderful stay at Perry’s On Union and a sincere thank you to our hosts and their staff for our post-Pandemic run. New North Beach Restaurant management has reversed the policies that forced us to leave first for Piperade and then at Perry’s. Members will have to present their credit card at the first meeting they attend at our new venue. A set seasonal menu will be available that offers many of our old favorites. The cost of lunch will increase from $60 to $65 per person. For those who imbibe, $15 per person remains the wine charge.
Pulitzer Award winning cartoonist Jack Ohman returns to The Seminar this Friday, February 14 (Valentine’s Day). It’s set for 12:15 p.m. Jack’s cartoon and column appears on his Substack platform and his cartoon are in the San Francisco Chronicle. Jack is a terrific speaker. Seminarian Dan Visnich will make the introduction. We’d love to have a good crowd. That will get the message to North Beach’s new ownership that enticing The Seminar to return was a good move.
RSVP TO ATTEND any upcoming seminar. NEW WEDNESDAY DEADLINE.
To assist the North Beach Restaurant’s kitchen staff with planning for our Friday lunchtime meetings please email Dennis Wheatley at dennis@triticum.com NO LATER THAN MID-DAY ON the WEDNESADAY BEFORE EVERY SEMINAR 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 Wednesday noon prior to each seminar.
UPCOMING SEMINARS:
Friday, February 21 will be a classic Sac Sem Roundtable at our basement club room at the North Beach Restaurant starting at 12:15 p.m.
NEW DATE. At the request of our speaker Assemblymember Chris Rogers, we have moved the date for our foray to Santa Rosa from Friday March 7 to Friday, April 25. Capacity is limited to 14 attendees. If you’ve already reserved a spot for March 7, please check your calendar to confirm that April 25 works for you. If it doesn’t, inform Dick Spotswood at spotswood@comcast.net so we can make the seat available for others.
Sac Sem will hear from San Francisco’s newest member of its Board of Supervisors, Stephen Sherrill on Friday, March 14. He represents District 2 which encompasses The Marina, Pacific Heights, Cow Hollow, and Presidio Heights. Stephen served as the Director of the Mayor’s Office of Innovation under Mayor London Breed, where he led efforts to address San Francisco’s homelessness crisis. Prior to living in San Francisco, Stephen served as a senior policy advisor under New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
On Friday, March 28 Sac Sem’s guest is Ming Chi Scott Lai the new Director-General of the Taipei (Republic of China) Economic & Cultural Office in San Francisco https://www.roc-taiwan.org/ussfo_en/post/2780.html He represents Taiwan’s interests across Northern California, Utah, and Nevada. Director-General Lai will speak about the challenges of diplomacy, relations with China, and security concerns, as well as his advice for aspiring diplomats, and his own journey in foreign affairs.
On Friday, April 25, Sac Sem travels to Santa Rosa for lunch starting at Noon with new Assemblymember Chris Rogers. A Democrat, Chris represents the 2nd AD which runs from Santa Rosa to the Oregon line. Our venue is Jackson’s Bar & Oven at 135 4th Street. It’s only one block from Santa Rosa’s SMART (Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit) station.
That’s convenient if you join your acting chair on SMART. The train leaves Larkspur at 10:56 am and arrives in Santa Rosa at 12:01. SMART is free for those 65 and over. There is a convenient SF Ferry Building to Larkspur ferry connection. Departing trains leave Santa Rosa for Larkspur at 1:28 or 2:32 p.m. NOTE: Jackson’s is the only Railroad Square restaurant that accepts groups. Their limit is fourteen and we’ve now reached the limit. Sac Seminarian Bruce Raful will introduce Assemblymember Rogers.
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OTHER THOUGHTS: Speaking of Elon Musk, “The last time we had an unelected foreigner spending our money was George III.” Andy Borowitz
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