Friday, May 2 at North Beach Restaurant: Paul Goldsmith: Prague Spring 1968: The Soviets invade Czechoslovakia

Friday May 2: Paul Goldsmith will speak on Prague Spring 1968: The Soviets invade Czechoslovakia. Don’t miss it.

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.

SPRCIAL INVITATION: Seminarian Corey Bush will “be in conversation” with Substack columnist and writer Lincoln Mitchell at the University Club on this Thursday, May 1. The topic is Mitchell’s just published new book “Three Years Our Mayor - George Moscone and the Making of Modern San Francisco.”. As Corey tells us, “It’s been almost 50 years since Mayor George Moscone was murdered and yet, until now, there has not been a book published that chronicles his life and considerable legacy.”

The event starts at 6:00 p.m. The University Club is located at California and Powell Streets across from the Fairmont Hotel. Your editor offers Marin Seminarians the opportunity to carpool to the event contacting him at spotswood@comcast.net  To register: go on-line at uclubsf.org, by email at Reservations@Uclubsf.org or call (414) 781-0800.

UPCOMING SEMINARS:

Note: Christine Pelosi was scheduled for May 9. She has asked to continue the her visit to The Seminar to a date yet to be determined is mid-summer.

There will be no Seminar on Friday, May 23 due to the Memorial Day Weekend.

Sac Sem’s lunch speaker on Friday, May 30 is San Francisco’s newest supervisor, Danny Sauter. He represents District 3, which comprises San Francisco’s incredible northeastern neighborhoods including the Barbary Coast & Northern Waterfront, Chinatown, Lower Nob Hill, Financial District, Fisherman’s Wharf, Jackson Square, Nob Hill, North Beach, Polk Gulch, Russian Hill, Telegraph Hill, and Union Square.

https://thefrisc.com/this-rookie-sf-supervisor-has-chinatown-downtown-and-a-citywide-recovery-to-navigate/  Supervisor Sauter will be introduced by Seminarian Dan Riley.

Friday, June 6.  Now that the Briones Society has control of the San Francisco County Republican Committee, Jennifer Yan (First Vice Chair) and Jay Donde (Vice Chair of Political Affairs) will be our speakers on June 6 at 12:15 p.m. As the Briones Society says of itself, “We believe there is a large, unheard, and underserved constituency of voters in San Francisco who are tired of virtue signaling from the left and conspiracy theories from the right. Voters are waiting for a real alternative — a new politics that’s not just watered-down progressivism. They are common sense, fiscally prudent, constitutional Republicans. They will be introduced by Seminarian Mike Fitzgerald.

Rescheduled to Friday, June 13 (Friday the 13th): The newest member of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors, Stephen Sherril. 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, Supervisor Sherrill served as a senior policy advisor under New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Chair Ryken will introduce Supervisor Sherrill.

On Friday, June 20, Sac Sem’s guest is State Senator Scott Weiner (D-San Francisco/San Mateo). Senator Weiner, a native Philadelphian, serves as the Chair of the California State Senate Budget Committee.  He is also the Assistant Majority Whip and serves as the Chair of the California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus. Sen. Weiner is considered a likely candidate to succeed Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi when the day comes that she chooses not to run for a new term.

Bridget Maley of Neighborhoods United will be our speaker on Friday, June 27. She’ll discuss Mayor Daniel Lurie's new upzoning 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. She has contributed to a wide range of award-winning historic preservation projects, including significant sites in western national, state, and local parks, as well as many in historic campus settings. Her work ranges from documenting monumental, classically inspired, masonry buildings to small-scale, wood-frame, rustic comfort stations in parks. She has 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.

The Seminar will take the day off for Independence Day, 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                    

Due to the Labor Day Weekend, there will be no seminar on Friday, August 29.

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OTHER THOUGHTS: “Poor Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States." Porfirio Diaz