Friday, June 27, 2025 at North Beach Restaurant: Bridget Maley of Neighborhoods United on Mayor Lurie's up-zoning plan
- tarmour2
- Jun 24
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Bridget Maley of Neighborhoods United will be our speaker on Friday, June 27. She’ll discuss Mayor Daniel Lurie's new up-zoning plan. Ms. Maley is a colleague of Lori Palmer who addressed us last year. Bridget Maley manages a San Francisco-based architectural history and historic preservation consultancy, architecture + history, LLC. Ms Maley served on the San Francisco Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board, is a former board member of the Society of Architectural Historians and currently serves as a Trustee of San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral. Bridget completed her Master of Arts degree in Architectural History at the University of Virginia, where she remains active. She will be introduced by Seminarian Jim Fuller.
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WELCOME COLONEL: We are delighted to report that Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear has appointed Sac Sem Speakers Chair Mike Fitzgerald as an official KENTUCKY COLONEL. It’s the same honor as bestowed upon the late Col. Harland Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame. Mike should henceforth be referred to as “Colonel Mike.”
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The obituary of one of the original Sacramento Seminarians, Bill BAGLEY in The Marin Independent Journal: https://www.marinij.com/obituaries/william-t-bagley-san-rafael-ca/
UPCOMING SEMINARS:
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 WEDNESDAY 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.
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The Seminar will take the day off for Independence Day, Friday, the 4th of July.
On Friday, July 11 Sac Sem’s guest will be Silicon Valley investor Chris Larsen who has bankrolled several high-profile San Francisco political campaigns. He will be introduced by the Seminar’s chair Greg Ryken. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Larsen
Sac Sem’s terrific lineup of speakers continues on Friday, July 18 when our guest is Donne Brownsey, past chair of California’s Coastal Commission. Ms Brownsey was a senior Vice President of Sacramento Advocates Inc., a lobbying firm, and then ran her own firm, Government Solutions Inc., where she represented corporate and nonprofit interests, business associations, and labor unions. Earlier, Ms. Brownsey was chief legislative consultant for state Sen. David Roberti and was appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to the Coastal Commission serving from 2017 to 20s4. She will be introduced by Seminarian Dion Arner.
Aaron Peskin is Sac Sem’s guest on Friday, July 25. He’ll be introduced by Seminarian Ron Boring. The Berkeley native and U.C. Santa Cruz grad was a member of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors from 2001- to 2009 and from 2015- to 2025 representing District 3 (North Beach/Chinatown/Nob Hill and Polk Gulch). Last November Aaron ran for mayor, coming in third behind the winner Dan Lurie and London Breed.
On Friday, August 15, Christine Pelosi will be the Seminar’s guest. She’s a graduate of Georgetown University and UC San Francisco (Hastings) School of Law. https://sfstandard.com/2024/08/30/christine-pelosi-scott-wiener-shadow-campaign/ Check out Ms. Pelosi’s Wikipedia bio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Pelosi She’s’ a likely candidate to succeed her mother, Nancy Pelosi, if the later chooses not to run for reelection in 2026 in San Francisco’s 11th Congressional District.
Rev. Malcolm Clemens Young, Dean of Grace Cathedral, will be our featured speaker on Friday, August 22. He is the author of The Invisible Hand in the Wilderness: Economics, Ecology and God and The Spiritual Journal of Henry David Thoreau. Rev. Young earned a Master of Divinity degree and a Doctor of Theology in 2004 from Harvard University.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Clemens_Young He’ll be introduced by seminarian Dan Riley.
Due to the Labor Day Weekend, there will be no seminar on Friday, August 29.
We start our fall speaker series on Friday, September 12 with Janet Reilly, Chair of the University of California Board of Regents. https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/about/members-and-advisors/bios/janet-reilly.html
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FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: Sac Sem members frequently send to your editor articles, books or on-line items they believe members will find of interest. While discretion is utilized in selecting items, whatever is posted does not necessarily represent the opinion of Sac Sem’s board of directors:
Seminarian Sherrie Ferris sends us “British Writer Explains Brits’ Reaction to Trump” from
The London Daily:
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OTHER THOUGHTS: “The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” John F. Kennedy
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