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Join us as our 106th President, Peter Duncan, is sworn into office by Mayor Faulconer.  Peter will also share his vision and goals for 2015-2016.

Seventy years ago, Rose Schindler was a teenage prisoner of the Third Reich, caught up in the horror the world would come to know as the Holocaust.  She lost her parents and some of her siblings  who were among 1.1 million others who perished in Auschwitz.  Earlier this year, Rose and her husband Max, also a Holocaust survivor, returned…

SDYS and Rotary District 5340 International Youth Exchange celebrate the 11th annual International Youth Symphony in Balboa Park. Every summer, this unique three week orchestral program brings together gifted conservatory musicians from around the world to play with exceptional SDYS musicians under the leadership of SDYS Music Director Jeff Edmons for an intensive and top…

Why Rotary? Why should someone join Rotary or continue to be a Rotarian? For years, we have been explaining “What is Rotary?” when the real question is “Why Rotary?” Rotary International Director Brad Howard will explore what makes Rotary unique and how Rotary is positioned to be relevant in today’s social environment. He will ask…

Ignacio De La Torre, Regional Vice President of External Affairs for AT&T, will share what AT&T is doing to expand the It Can Wait campaign from a focus on texting while driving to include other smartphone driving distractions that have emerged as our relationships with our devices have changed. Ignacio will share AT&T’s simple message…

Jonas Salk’s Centenary Year – a Vision for the Future Jonas Salk is an icon in the history of medicine.  The polio vaccine he and his research team developed in the early 1950s lifted a pervasive fear.  He is less well known for his earlier work on the first influenza vaccine, his founding of the…

Can Mobile Technology Completely Transform Healthcare? Remarkable advances in miniaturized computing power and connectivity over the last several decades have changed nearly every aspect of our lives, but they have yet to make a substantial impact on healthcare.  However, mobile health (mHealth) technologies currently being developed are capable of enabling unprecedented changes in the manner…

Guest speakers: Phil Blair, Co-owner and Executive Officer, Manpower Staffing Services & Jenni Prisk, Founder and CEO of Prisk Communication When we think about our net worth, we usually think of our financial investments. However, there’s another aspect of your worth...your  professional contacts.  Do your friends, family, colleagues and clients really know what you do? …

Drones in the Commercial Industry Darryl Anunciado, Chief Executive Officer of ActionDrone, Inc. will discuss the impact and upcoming changes small unmanned aerial vehicles, sUAVs (aka drones) will have on the commercial industry. Agriculture, public safety and military fields are just starting to harness the potential of this new technology. Details on how the sUAV…