Bob Powers, the General Manager of BART, is our speaker this Friday, January 10th. Vice chair Jean McCurdy will be wielding the gavel. Bob will be introduced by Seminarian Steve Heminger. Bob’s extensive history in the public transit industry is detailed at https://www.bart.gov/about/gm
UPCOMING SEMINARS:
John W. Busterud will be our speaker on Friday, January 17. Vice chair Linda Muir will preside in the acting chair’s absence in Gotham. John will discuss his time as the Regional Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency during the Trump administration. He was appointed to the Trump administration in 2020. He’s a retired Senior Director and Managing Counsel, Environment and Real Estate, Law Department, Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Mr. Busterud is a retired U.S. Army Colonel with multiple Combined, Joint and Interagency assignments, including active-duty deployments in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom and Combined Forces Command Korea.
Veteran Seminarians will recall that John's father, John A. Busterud, was the last Republican to represent the Haight Ashbury in the California Assembly, served as President of the Commonwealth Club of California and was President of the Committee to Save The Marin Headlands. In 1971, President Nixon appointed John A. Busterud to be the first Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Environmental Quality, and he subsequently served as the Chairman of the President's Council on Environmental Quality under President Jerry Ford. Sac Sem Speakers Committee Chair Mike Fitzgerald will have the introductory honors.
On 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.
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OTHER THOUGTHS: “Democracy never lasts long. There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.” John Adams
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