San Diego Rotary

Monthly Club Board meeting
2020-01-31 07:30 - 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Club 33 Conference Room, 2247 San Diego Ave, Suite 233, San Diego, CA, 92110, United States

Tom Turner, Vice President-CBRE
2020-09-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual Online Meeting Via Zoom
Tom Turner, Vice President of CBRE, the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, will join us to talk about “Emerging Trends in Commercial Real Estate: The Good, The Bad and the Uncertain.” Tom will examine key trends evolving though the COVID era across various real estate product types and note key developments to look for going forward.
Tom is a licensed real estate broker and specializes in helping law firms, technology, biotech and healthcare companies and a wide variety of real estate users negotiate advantageous space transactions. Prior to CBRE, Tom was an award winning commercial real estate attorney at Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch.

Membership Committee
2019-06-20 13:30 - 14:30 | Liberty Station Conference Center, 2600 Laning Road, San Diego, CA, 92106, United States

Dr. Brian Jaski-New Horizons in Heart Transplants
2020-09-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual Online Meeting Via Zoom
On October 11, 1985, Cardiac Surgeons Aidan Raney, Douglas Zusman and Pat Daily, and Cardiologists Sidney Smith and Brian Jaski undertook the first heart transplant in San Diego County at Sharp Memorial Hospital. This year marks the 35th anniversary of this historic community event.
Dr. Brian Jaski, who is the Medical Director for Advanced Heart Failure at Sharp Memorial Hospital, will join us and talk about the amazing progress we have made in organ transplants since then and what is on the near horizon. Personal strategies for prevention of heart failure will also be presented.

Geoffrey Woglom - Coronavirus Economics
2020-09-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual Online Meeting Via Zoom
Geoffrey Woglom is Professor of Economics emeritus at Amherst College where he taught for over 40 years. During his career, he has been a consultant at the Federal Reserve Board and the International Monetary fund and held visiting positions at Harvard, Cambridge, LSE and Nanjing universities.
Geoff will review how monetary and fiscal policy have affected the economy during the pandemic and the data economists use to assess these effects. He will also describe the different labor market statistics that economists use to gauge the recovery, and explain the major risks that could stall recovery.

Virtual Online Meeting-In Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Women's Right to Vote
2020-09-03 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual Online Meeting Via Zoom
Personal reflections on the evolution how far we’ve come in 100 years
Deborah Szekely, honored by San Diego Rotary as Mrs. San Diego in 2002, was born a mere two years after women in America secured the right to vote through the passage of the 19th Amendment. Through the lens of her life experience; as a woman, a successful entrepreneur, an influential civic leader, an important force in Latin American affairs during the George H.W. Bush administration, a sought after speaker and writer, a wife, mother, and grandmother, Deborah will share her views in conversation with Mary Walshok, PhD, one of the early women members of the Rotary Club and currently Associate Vice Chancellor for Public Programs and Dean of University Extension, UC San Diego.

Virtual Online Meeting-Ana Morino-Avionics Systems Engineer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Mars 2020 Mission
2020-08-27 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual Online Meeting Via Zoom
Ana Morino chose to study Aerospace Engineering when she was 16 years old, after attending RYLA, the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (a leadership program coordinated by Rotary Clubs around the globe). In 2017, she graduated from San Diego State University with a BS in Aerospace Engineering and a minor in Business Management. While attending SDSU, she joined Rotaract and also attended San Diego Rotary’s Camp Enterprise. Through Rotaract, she met her mentors, San Diego Rotary members Bink Cook and Doug Arbon. Bink and Doug supported Ana as she interned at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory working on the Mars 2020 Mission (Mars Perseverance Rover). She was offered a full-time position with JPL as an Avionics Systems Engineer upon her graduation .
Ana will share how Rotary helped her achieve her dream of working for NASA. She will give us an overview of the Mars 2020 Mission and what it takes, through personal experiences, to send a rover to Mars.

Virtual Online Meeting - Scott Lewis, CEO/Editor in Chief - Voice of San Diego
2020-08-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual Online Meeting Via Zoom
Pick Your Future
We are facing a public health, economic, and trust crisis and in coming months, San Diego will face major decisions about the future of public education and the direction of several different government agencies.
Scott will review major political choices that are upcoming and how, underneath all this, a severely troubled news media infrastructure is trying to reinvent itself to provide the vital service we took for granted for so many decades.

Virtual Online Meeting - Donna DeBerry, President & CEO-Central SD Black Chamber of Commerce
2020-08-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual Online Meeting Via Zoom
Donna DeBerry brings a wealth of skills and experience in global diversity and inclusion, and has been described as a trailblazer, a pioneer, and the “Go-To-Person” in diversity branding. She is an award-winning marketing strategist and author, as well as a sought after renowned speaker that focuses on global diversity, branding and marketing.
Donna is currently the CEO at the Central San Diego Black Chamber of Commerce. She is formerly the Director of Inclusion at Indeed, and led various diversity initiatives at Starbucks Corporation. She served as the Executive Vice President of Global Diversity & Assistant to the Chairman of the Board and as Vice President of Global Diversity for Nike. She has worked with the Oprah Winfrey Show, NBA, NFL, Jerry Colangelo and on many other high-profile projects.
DeBerry’s success has been featured in Fortune, Time, Money, Newsweek, Essence, Black Enterprise, and Diversity Inc. and a wide range of other media venues. She has received awards for her outstanding production of the documentary “Walking the Waking Journey”.

Virtual Online Meeting - Heiwa: Rotary Hiroshima Survivor Trees - Planting for Peace
2020-08-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual Online Meeting Via Zoom
Guest speaker: Steve Yoshida, Rotarian and US Coordinator for Heiwa
Heiwa (Japanese for “Peace”)
Rotary Hiroshima Survivor Trees (Heiwa) is a coalition of Rotary clubs in Japan and the US that distribute survivor seeds and plants from Hiroshima with the message of peace, hope, and survivability. Members include a Nobel Peace Prize recipient and a Hiroshima bomb survivors.
Heiwa grew from the vision of its parent, Green Legacy Hiroshima (GLH), working under its guidance. Now Heiwa harvests survivor seeds and grows plants in its own greenhouses in Hawaii and California to spread through Rotary clubs all over the world.
The seedlings are from trees that survived the nuclear attack that killed 140,000 people and devastated the city of Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 8, 1945. In the aftermath, experts predicted the city’s soil would remain too toxic to give life to anything for the next 75 years. To their pleasant surprise, after several months, in the spring of 1946, people started to see new buds springing out from the seemingly burnt trees. That gave them hope that they too could live, and [the trees] became a symbol of hope and peace, to tell people how horrible the bombing was, to promote peace, and help propagate and distribute survivor trees.
Heiwa is organizing a Hiroshima Peace Conference in 2020 to celebrate peace on the 75th anniversary of the one and only use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Virtual Online Meeting-Assemblymember Shirley N. Weber, Ph.D.
2020-07-30 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual Online Meeting Via Zoom
Assemblymember Shirley N. Weber, Ph.D. was elected in November of 2012 to represent California’s 79th Assembly District, which includes the cities of Bonita, Chula Vista, La Mesa, Lemon Grove, National City and San Diego.
She has lived in the 79th Assembly District for over 30 years. She was a faculty member and chair of the Department of Africana Studies at San Diego State University for over four decades. Deeply committed to education, she served for eight years as school board member and president at San Diego City Schools. As an Assemblymember, Weber has translated her commitment to education and social justice into her ambitious legislative agenda, including bills on K-12 education reform, civil rights, public safety, food insecurity, protections for person with disabilities, and voting rights. In August 2019, Weber introduced and passed a historical piece of legislation, AB 392, known as the California Act to Save Lives, which determines when police could use deadly force. This law sets the highest standards in the nation for California. It will be on November’s ballot to repeal the 1996 BAN on Affirmative Action.
Weber will speak about police reform, economic inequality and racism.

Virtual Online Meeting-Shelley Zimmerman
2020-07-23 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual Online Meeting Via Zoom
“Public safety is a shared responsibility.”
“It was an honor and privilege to be a San Diego police officer for thirty-five years, retiring as the Chief of Police. As police officers we are held to a higher standard and we should be. I believe this is the most challenging time to be a police officer. I also believe with every challenge comes an opportunity for improvement. In my remarks, I will comment on these topics; San Diego PD was an early adopter of body worn cameras – how has this technology evolved, how has social media changed the landscape of policing, and what is meant by “defunding the police”.” Shelley Zimmerman

Virtual Online Meeting-Dan Shea & Peter Seidler
2020-07-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual Online Meeting Via Zoom
Guest speakers Dan Shea and Peter Seidler join us to give an update on San Diego’s current homeless situation.

Virtual Online Meeting-Annual Change of Command
2020-07-09 12:00 - 13:00 | CA
We will welcome 2020-2021 President, Chris Sichel, the club’s 111th president.
Please join us online as our newest leader is sworn in and shares his vision for this new Rotary year. :

DARK - No Virtual Online Meeting
2020-07-02 | CA
No virtual meeting today

Virtual Online Meeting at 12noon-Annual President's Roast
2020-06-25 12:00 - 13:00 | CA
What would the end of a Rotary year be without the send-off of a traditional President’s Roast…even in the midst of a pandemic!? Our Roast Committee is hard at work putting together a special “virtual” tribute to President David. Be sure to tune in!

Virtual Online Meeting at 12noon-Guest speakers Will Newbern and Doug Taber
2020-06-18 12:00 - 13:00 | CA
Club 33 Rotarians Will Newbern and Doug Taber will discuss the impact COVID-19 and recent catastrophic events have had on the San Diego real estate market. Every aspect of real estate from single-family homes, condos to apartments, commercial, office, and industrial is being affected. Some of it is positive and some of it is negative. What does the future hold? Join these two real estate professionals as they discuss this important topic that impacts our lives in many ways.

In compliance with the current city and state requirements regarding social distancing, our Thursday meetings at Liberty Station will be cancelled until further notice. We will continue to communicate with you on any additional changes to our schedule through our weekly emails to you on Mondays and Wednesdays.
But please join us for our “virtual” Thursday meetings online via Zoom at 12noon. Look for details and login information each week in our Wednesday email.
We hope you and your loved ones stay healthy and safe.
Please contact the Rotary office if you have any questions or concerns. We are looking forward to seeing you again soon.

Virtual Online Meeting at 12noon-Guest speaker Jamie Beck, President-Free To Thrive
2020-06-11 12:00 - 13:00 | CA
Guest speaker Jamie Beck, President and Managing Attorney for Free to Thrive, will discuss how the COVID crisis is affecting human trafficking, and how victims and survivors are especially vulnerable right now.
In compliance with the current city and state requirements regarding social distancing, our Thursday meetings at Liberty Station will be cancelled until further notice. We will continue to communicate with you on any additional changes to our schedule through our weekly emails to you on Mondays and Wednesdays.
But please join us for our “virtual” Thursday meetings online via Zoom at 12noon. Look for details and login information each week in our Wednesday email.
We hope you and your loved ones stay healthy and safe.
Please contact the Rotary office if you have any questions or concerns. We are looking forward to seeing you again soon.

Club 33 Golf - 3rd and Final Round
2020-06-05 | San Diego Country Club, 88 L St., Chu, CA, 91911
9am tee time!
Register now for this final round by emailing Rich Donnelly at Rdonnelly@EPWealth.com. You must be confirmed by a response email as we are limited to 16 players.
Cost is $110, cart is $22, and we include lunch and a drink. (Plan on about $150 per person).

Virtual Online Meeting at 12noon-Guest speaker Andrew Goldstein, Research Scientist/Anti-Bullying Advocate
2020-06-04 12:00 - 13:00 | CA
Dr. Andrew Goldstein is a research scientist and anti-bullying advocate. He attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire where he earned 3-time All-Ivy League and 2-time NCAA Division 1 All-American honors as a lacrosse goaltender. He came out to his lacrosse team after his sophomore season and made headlines in 2005 as ESPN called him the most accomplished male team-sport athlete in North America to be openly gay while competing. He was later drafted by the Boston Cannons of Major Lacrosse League, becoming the first openly gay man in the US to be drafted into a professional sports team. In 2013, he was inducted into the inaugural class of the National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame. His advocacy work was featured in the 2015 ESPN SportsCenter Feature “The Courage Game.”
Dr. Goldstein currently teaches and mentors undergraduate and graduate students at UCLA, and he works with the You Can Play Project to promote wider education and awareness for LGBT equality in sports.
He will talk about his own experiences and how the landscape for LGBT athletes has changed in some ways but not in others.
In compliance with the current city and state requirements regarding social distancing, our Thursday meetings at Liberty Station will be cancelled until further notice. We will continue to communicate with you on any additional changes to our schedule through our weekly emails to you on Mondays and Wednesdays.
But please join us for our “virtual” Thursday meetings online via Zoom at 12noon. Look for details and login information each week in our Wednesday email.
We hope you and your loved ones stay healthy and safe.
Please contact the Rotary office if you have any questions or concerns. We are looking forward to seeing you again soon.

Virtual Online Meeting at 12noon-Guest speaker Cheryl Wilson, CEO-St. Paul's Senior Homes & Services
2020-05-28 12:00 - 13:00 | CA
Today’s guest speaker: Cheryl Wilson, CEO of St. Paul’s Senior Homes & Services. Cheryl will talk about “The Senior Perspective & Blessings from COVID19”
In compliance with the current city and state requirements regarding social distancing, our Thursday meetings at Liberty Station will be cancelled until further notice. We will continue to communicate with you on any additional changes to our schedule through our weekly emails to you on Mondays and Wednesdays.
But please join us for our “virtual” Thursday meetings online via Zoom at 12noon. Look for details and login information each week in our Wednesday email.
We hope you and your loved ones stay healthy and safe.
Please contact the Rotary office if you have any questions or concerns. We are looking forward to seeing you again soon.

Virtual Online Meeting at 12noon-Guest speakers Peter Callstrom & Daniel Enemark, San Diego Workforce Partnership
2020-05-21 12:00 - 13:00 | CA
Today’s guest speakers: Peter Callstrom, President & CEO of San Diego Workforce Partnership & Daniel Enemark, Lead Economist
Daniel and Peter will talk about how COVID-19 is impacting local businesses and workers. Daniel will focus on the impact felt by parents and by communities of color, and then he’ll outline how the Workforce Partnership is responding.
In compliance with the current city and state requirements regarding social distancing, our Thursday meetings at Liberty Station will be cancelled until further notice. We will continue to communicate with you on any additional changes to our schedule through our weekly emails to you on Mondays and Wednesdays.
But please join us for our “virtual” Thursday meetings online via Zoom at 12noon. Look for details and login information each week in our Wednesday email.
We hope you and your loved ones stay healthy and safe.
Please contact the Rotary office if you have any questions or concerns. We are looking forward to seeing you again soon.
