November 5th  at the WAC  - Governor  Given that this is election week, who better to present to us next Tuesday than past Washington State Governor, Booth Gardner.  Booth will give us an update on his latest activities and I am sure have some comments about the current state of affairs here in the Evergreen State.

October 22nd at the WAC - Get a kick out of Rotary.  Come join us next Tuesday when our guest speaker will be Dean Wurzberger, head coach of the University of Washington Men’s Soccer team.  Dean has spent his last 10 years at Washington building one of the nations top soccer programs. Coach Wurzberger has compiled a record of 134-47-18 and has taken the Huskies to seven consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances.  Soccer moms and dads will want to find an interesting guest to bring to this meeting.   

October 15th at the WAC - Thomas S. Pugh, Col. USAF - Piloting the SR-71 “Blackbird", the fastest jet in the world

October 8th at the WAC  - Ron Sims, King County Executive

October 1st at the WAC  - Paul Clark, CEO, President & Chairman, ICOS Corporation - ICOS & the Biotech Industry

September 24th at the WAC - Jeff Seely, Chairman & CEO Netstock Corporation - Sharebuilder.com  Founded in 1996, Netstock Corporation is a privately held company based in Bellevue and specializes in online investment services.  Prior to joining Netstock, Jeff was a senior investment banker with Robertson Stephens and Co.

He has served the Rotary Foundation as a volunteer orthopedic surgeon in Malawi, Africa on four different occasions, primarily performing surgery on polio victims called “crawlers.” He has received the Rotary Foundation Citation for Meritorious Service, the President’s Citation, The Service Above Self Award and The Foundation PolioPlus Pioneer Award. Joe and Dorothy represented Rotary International in Liberia, Africa during the first National Immunization Days in January 1999.

September 3rd at the WAC - Ray Colliver, Stadium Project Manager with 1st & Goal/Vulcan, who will speak about the new Seahawks Stadium.

August 27th at the WAC - Jean Godden writes three columns a week - Monday, Wednesday, Friday for the Seattle Times

August 20th at the WAC  Richard Counts, MD, is President of the Puget Sound Blood Center, one of the leading blood research institutions in the country.  Every day the PSBC collects blood from up to 800 individual donors which makes its way to 70 hospital and clinics in Western Washington.

August 13th at the WAC - Sergei Tschernisch, President Cornish College of the Arts - Cornish College & Its Plans for the Future

August 6th at the WAC - Write It! - Young Writers Present their Words

Beam Me Up Scotty! This should be an interesting morning. Come hear Dr Brad Edwards, Chief Technology Officer of Highlift Systems. Highlift Systems is developing a "space elevator" for delivering payloads into space in a safer, more economical fashion. Dr Edwards is the mastermind behind the project and is being taken quite seriously. NASA recently granted $570,000 to Highlift for further study into this innovative project. Simply tie a 62,000 mile line onto an orbiting satellite and anchor it on the earth.

A native of Conneaut, OH, Randy served the Cleveland Indians as director of public relations from 1975-78. Following his 1973 graduation from Wittenberg University in Springfield, OH, he attended the sports administration graduate program at Ohio University. He lives in Seattle. He has a daughter, Elizabeth (18) and a son, Joe (16).
 

On June 11th we will be fortunate to have as our guest, Harold Robertson, Executive Director, ETC. Come and hear Harold's update and get your questions answered about the status of recommendations on the route and the financing strategy for the monorail.

The first product put to the iterative design test was the board game, Cranium®. A word-of-mouth hit, the game quickly became the fastest-selling independent board game in history with a passionate following, including the likes of Julia Roberts. Just three years later, over 800,000 copies of Cranium have been sold and the game has brought outrageous fun to millions of people on every continent.

May 21st at the WAC - Olympic Park Institute is a private non-profit organization dedicated to providing educational adventures in nature's classroom to inspire a personal connection to the natural world and responsible actions to sustain it.  For over 30 years, YNI has served over 40,000 youth and adults annually through a unique variety of environmental education programs at our National Park campuses in California and Washington.

Former Hawthorne Principal and Chair of the UW Principles' Leadership Academy, John Morefield, will be our featured speaker. With members of The Neilson family attending, we will honor Henry's memory and present scholarships to 4 young recipients who will be encouraged to enter a field of higher learning after high school. Each awardee will be assigned an ECRC mentor who will establish a relationship, maintain contact, and encourage education beyond high school.

May 7th at the WAC - P. Dee Boersma, Ph.D, Professor of Zoology at the University of Washington.  Professor Boersma will present "Why Business Should Care About Penguins and the Environment". Sounds like an interesting topic. Penguins, business?

As an active member of the Puget Sound US&R Task Force since its inception in 1991, he has been deployed to Oklahoma and New York City. He is a national consultant on Weapons of Mass Destruction, emergency management, and exercise design ‹including a recent one-year contract with the Department of Justice for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, UT.

If you've heard Norm speak before, you know that he has a lot to say, and he keeps you on the edge of your seat with his dynamic presentation and quick wit. For those of you who haven't had the pleasure, you'll want to be there and to fasten your seat belt!

Don't miss this opportunity to hear about Dave Reichert's fascinating journey to becoming the Sheriff as well as some of the "excitement" he has experienced, including the recent breakthroughs with the Green River killings.  (notes)
 

2/26/02 Werner Fornos, President of The Population Institute
An internationally recognized authority on issues of global population growth, Werner Fornos is a dynamic speaker who travels extensively to further the education and advocacy goals of The Population Institute. Under the theme of this year's speaking tour, "Population Pressures in the 21st Century," his lectures address a range of issues.