This Friday February 7 our speaker is the Consul General of Mexico Anna Luisa Vallejo Barba. Seminarian Sherri Ferris will make the introduction. Consul General Vallejo has been part of the Mexican Foreign Service since 1994, She’s served in Bolivia, Great Britain, Brazil, Peru and Guatemala. She has a master's degree in Diplomatic Studies and a postgraduate degree in Diplomacy from Oxford.
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.
BULLETIN: Sac Sem’s Board of Directors has unanimously voted to recommend to the members that veteran Seminarian Greg Ryken be our new chair upon the untimely passing of our late chair, Jon Rubin. Members will vote on the nomination at our meeting set for Friday7. Then, the gavel will be ceremonially passed from Acting Chair Dick Spotswood to our new El Jeffe, Greg Ryken.
UPCOMING SEMINARS:
Pulitzer Award winning cartoonist Jack Ohman will return to The Seminar on Friday, February 14 (Valentine’s Day). It’s set for 2:15 p.m. Jack’s cartoon and column appears on his Substack platform and his cartoon are in the San Francisco Chronicle
Friday, February 21 will be a Roundtable 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 tis the only Railroad Square restaurant that accepts small groups. Their limit is fourteen and we’ve now reached the limit. Sac Seminarian Bruce Raful will introduce Assembly member Rogers.
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OTHER THOUGHTS: “Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.” Ronald Reagan
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