Program Archives - 2004

December 21st at the WAC - No Meeting
December 28th at the WAC - No Meeting
November 30th at the WAC - Bob Walsh, Seattle Organizing Committee USA/Pacific Rim Sports Summit

November 23rd at the WAC - Jon Fine President and CEO United Way of King County  Jonathan "Jon" Fine became president and chief executive officer of United Way of King County (UWKC) in September 2000.  He came to United Way from the Seattle/King County Chapter of the American Red Cross where he was chief executive officer. Fine joined the American Red Cross (ARC) in 1996 as the chief operating officer. He became chief executive officer in 1997. The ARC is a key organization in King County for disaster preparedness and response. It also provides first aid courses and products, as well as emergency food, clothing, shelter and other programs for military, youth and immigrant populations.

Before joining the Red Cross, he worked in the banking industry with the Puget Sound Bank from 1981 to 1993. He served as senior vice president and treasurer of Puget Sound Bancorp and as managing director of Puget Sound Securities. Jon has an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, and a master of business administration from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Among his other current civic affiliations, Jon serves as a campaign cabinet member for UWKC, on the board of the Washington Health Foundation, and on the advisory boards to the Puget Sound Blood Center, the University of Washington Nonprofit Management Program and Seattle Community Colleges.

United Way of King County is the largest local United Way in the country among 1,400 groups. It trails only Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C. in annual campaign revenues.

November 16th at the WAC - Adam Bruckner, Chair, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics  Professor Bruckner graduated from McGill University in Montreal, Canada in 1966 with a B. Engr. in Honors Mechanical Engineering and was a recipient of the British Association Medal. He received his Ph.D. in Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences in 1972 from Princeton University and joined the University of Washington as a Research Associate in the Aerospace and Energetics Research Program the same year. He has been department Chair since July 1, 1998.

Professor Bruckner has received several awards from NASA and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). In 1989, he was honored by the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) with the Distinguished Service Award for his contributions to the NASA/USRA Advanced Design Program. At the University of Washington he was selected as the recipient of the 1989 Burlington Resources, Inc. Faculty Achievement Award for Outstanding Research, in recognition of his contributions to the development of the ram accelerator. He is a Fellow of the AIAA and has served this organization through his work on local and national committees. Other professional societies of which he is a member are the Optical Society of America, the American Society of Engineering Educators, and Sigma Xi. He has also been a frequent consultant to industry and government.

November 9th at the WAC - Dr Jan Hirschman, Forensic Study: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  -  Mozart’s finale: Have you heard the latest theory that pork cutlets killed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? Actually, trichinosis is the suspected culprit, according to Dr. Jan Hirschman's of Puget Sound Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Seattle. Trichinosis is usually caused by eating undercooked pork which as the parasitic worm in it. Hirschman’s evidence includes a letter to his wife 44 days before his illness, in which he writes “What do I smell? ...pork cutlets! Che gusto (what a delicious taste). I eat to your health.” The incubation period for trichinosis is up to 50 days, and Mozart died 15 days after his illness began. There was no autopsy, but Mozart’s symptoms were like those of an epidemic going around Vienna at the time. Trichinosis wasn’t identified for over a century. Most medical theorists have ruled out the foul play which is suggested in the movie “Amadeus.” So what are we to think?
November 2nd at the WAC - Tom Rankin, co-founder and CEO of a local company named VizX Labs .  VizX Labs is a computational biology company that has developed a software system used by biological researchers.  Before co-founding VizX Labs, Tom was president and CEO of Axio Research Corporation.  He is past president of the Washington Biotech and Biomedical Association.  Tom is a good guy, a member of the University Rotary Club and he rocks...literally.
October 26th at the WAC -   We have lift off!  Next Tuesday we have Dr. Bonnie Dunbar visiting us from the Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas.   Dr. Dunbar has logged over 1200 hours in space on 5 separate missions.   Bonnie graduated from Sunnyside High School in Sunnyside Washington, received her bachelor of science and master of science degrees in ceramic engineering from the University of Washington in 1971 and 1975 respectively and a doctorate in mechanical/biomedical engineering from the University of Houston.  This qualifies as the coolest meeting of the year.  Bring along a guest or a future astronaut for a great Tuesday morning

October 19th at the WAC - Former U.S. Senator Slade Gordon  9-11 Commission Report
October 12th at Hawthorne Elementary School Click here for Map to Hawthorne
October 5th at the WAC - Tom Weeks, Monorail Project - Past ECR speaker and Seattle Times cartoonist, Eric Devericks penciled one of my favorite pieces titled "OH MY GOSH  LOOK, THE OLD MONORAIL IS ON FIRE".  The cartoon did a good job of highlighting some of the major issues surrounding the Seattle Monorail Project.   Revenue shortfalls, a potential recall and engineering problems are all potential topics that next Tuesday's speaker, Dr. Tom Weeks, will most likely address.  Tom is a board member of the "Elevated Transit Company" and an advocate of the project that is scheduled to break ground this fall. 

September 28th at the WAC - John McKay -  U.S. Attorney, Western District of Washington.  President George W. Bush nominated Mr. McKay to serve as the United States Attorney on September 19, 2001, and the United States Senate confirmed his nomination on October 24, 2001.  Mr. McKay began his tenure as United States Attorney for Western Washington on October 30, 2001.

Mr. McKay attended the University of Washington, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science in 1978.  After working as an aide to Congressman Joel Pritchard (R-WA) in 1978 -79, Mr. McKay earned his law degree at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska in 1982.  He was admitted to the Washington State Bar and joined the Seattle law firm of Lane Powell Spears Lubersky in 1982, eventually becoming a litigation partner with that firm. During this time, he was admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.

September 21st at the WAC -  Are we going to be a one newspaper town or two?  That has been the question in Seattle for nearly four years as the Seattle Times and Seattle PI has wrestled with their joint operating agreement.  Joining us next Tuesday is Frank Blethen, Publisher and CEO of the Seattle Times to give us his side of the story.  Mr. Blethen is a fourth generation member of the Blethen family, which founded the Times in 1896.  Weather you're an avid reader of the local paper or just read the sports section, it should be an entertaining morning.
September 14th at the WAC - Monica Ramsey of KEXP radio.   Beginning as a tiny 10-watt station back in 1972, KEXP has grown over the years into an innovative, influential cultural force in the Seattle community and beyond.  KEXP is more than just a radio station. In addition to its eclectic music mix, KEXP has a goal to teach listeners more about the craft of making music, the history of popular music, and the musicians making today’s new sounds. 

You can listen to their broadcast at 90.3 FM or  www.kexp.org
September 7th at the WAC - Tom Porter, author, Husky Stadium book - Tom has recently published his latest work "Husky Stadium: Great Games and Golden Moments.  Few football venues in America rival the rich history and game day pageantry of the UofW's Husky Stadium.   One of the most knowledgeable observers of University of Washington sports, Mr. Porter will share with us some of his favorite highlights.  The first game of the season is September 5th, so join us next week for this timely program.
August 31st at the WAC - Mayor Greg Nickels - Now that we know how to use the new downtown library, we have an assignment.  In anticipation of Tuesday's meeting, we need to prepare some questions for Mayor Greg Nickels.  Greg became the 51st mayor of Seattle when he took office in January of 2002.  Mayor Nickels will address our group and most likely touch upon his priorities in the Mayors office.  So get out there and research your project/topic of choice and come prepared to ask some difficult questions.  Bring a guest for a fun, informative meeting. 

August 24th at the WAC - District Governor Kathy Johnson.  Kathy will update our club on the diverse activities of District 5030 during Rotary’s centennial year.
August 10th at the WAC - Mr. William H. Gates Sr. - From 1964 until 1994 Mr. Gates was a partner in the firm of Preston Gates and Ellis and predecessor firms. After a successful career practicing law, Mr. Gates headed into retirement, or so he thought. Mr. Gates currently serves on the board of Regents at the University of Washington and has served as trustee, officer and volunteer for more than two dozen Northwest organizations. He is currently co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation which focuses on issues of global health and education.

Mr. Gates is also the author of a book titled “Wealth and Our Commonwealth; Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes”. Mr. Gates will address our group on the topic of estate taxation and why he believes that preservation of the estate tax is positive for the health of the country.

August 17th at the WAC and the Library - Seattle Library Tour - Come prepared to walk from the WAC to the library. We will leave the WAC at about 7:55am so that we can arrive for our tour at 8:00am. The library tour will take about an hour, so plan on the meeting/tour concluding at 9:00am.
August 3rd at the WAC - Patti Carson, leadership under stress
July 27th at the WAC - Dr. Mitchell Gold, CEO of Dendreon Corporation  Dr. Gold has served as Dendreon's Chief Executive Officer since January 2003 and as a director since May 2002. Dr. Gold joined Dendreon in 2001 as Vice President of Business Development and in 2002 was promoted to Chief Business Officer. Prior to joining Dendreon, Dr. Gold served as Vice President of Business Development and Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Data Critical Corporation, now a division of GE Medical. From 1995 to April 2000, Dr. Gold was the President, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Elixis Corporation, a medical information systems company. From 1993 to 1998, Dr. Gold was a resident physician in the Department of Urology at the University of Washington. Dr. Gold serves on the boards of the University of Washington/Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Prostate Cancer Institute and Xenotope Diagnostics of San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Gold received his B.S. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his M.D. from Rush Medical College.

July 20th at the WAC - Tim Eyman, Political Activist  -  Forget the Seattle Way-- Try My Way, What would it be like if "Mayor Eyman" were in charge? You may be surprised. by Tim Eyman, Seattle Weekly, October 2002.  

For those of us in attendance last week, we heard from Seattle Foundation CEO Phyllis Campbell, who mentioned Seattle City funding problems. She cited the initiative process and specifically Tim Eyman as a source of the problem. Who better to explain the “other side of the story” than Tim himself? Tim Eyman will join us and explain his role in the political process. Weather you agree or disagree with his philosophy of government, this program is sure to stimulate critical thought and discussion. Bring a guest for what should be a stimulating presentation.

A nation's gritty resolve, a Seattleite's new calling - Emerald City's Suzanne Griffin in Afghanistan (Seattle Times, May 7, 2004)

July 6th at the WAC - Phyllis Campbell, President and CEO of the Seattle Foundation since July 2003.  She previously served as president of US Bank of Washington from 1993 to 2001. She led the bank through its growth period, having integrated several major mergers and acquisitions. In her distinguished 28-year career in banking, she held progressively responsible positions of leadership, starting at the management trainee level.

Phyllis holds a master’s in business administration from the University of Washington’s Executive MBA Program. She received her bachelor of arts in Business Administration from Washington State University, and is a graduate of the Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington, as well as Stanford University’s 1997 Executive Management Program. Campbell also holds honorary doctorates from Whitworth College and Gonzaga University.

With the end of World War II and the beginning of an economic upswing, Dr. Richard Fuller, a Seattle business leader and founder of the Seattle Art Museum, foresaw a need to create a permanent endowment that would be used to improve the welfare of Seattle area residents. Dr. Fuller and seven other philanthropists created The Seattle Foundation in 1946 with an initial endowment of $289,000. The Fuller funds now support King County nonprofit organizations with over $250,000 in grants annually. The Fuller funds represent just a few of the many funds established at The Seattle Foundation.
June 29th - (no AM meeting) - Annual Emerald City Rotary President's Dinner - Seattle Golf Club, 210 NW 145th Street,
June 22th at the WAC - Marja Brandon,Head of School, Seattle Girls School - Seattle Girls' School is dedicated to fostering academic excellence, strong self-esteem, and a life-long love of learning in girls. With its emphasis on science, math, and technology, the school will challenge girls to think critically and seek creative solutions to problems in an atmosphere that promotes respect for all, collaboration, and hands-on learning. We are committed to creating a diverse learning environment and celebrating the accomplishments of women within the school, the greater community, and the world. Our signature approach is to nurture the talents of each student through individualized learning plans combined with curricula specifically designed for the ways girls learn best.

Students are drawn from a wide geographic area in and around greater Seattle.  Current students come from as far North as Shoreline, as far East as Issaquah, as far West as West Seattle, and as far South as Burien.  A large percentage of our students come from the central Seattle area where the school is located.
June 15th at the WAC - Tom Banse is the Regional Correspondent for KUOW, a member of the National Public Broadcasting system.  As such, he covers business, environment, public policy, human interest and national news across the wide Pacific Northwest.  His job is to transport you through the radio to well known and out-of-the-way places in Cascadia where important, amusing, touching, or outrageous events are unfolding. His stories can be heard during Morning Edition, Weekday, and All Things Considered on KUOW and on the other National Public Radio stations in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.

Before taking his current beat, Tom covered state government and the Washington Legislature for 12 years.  During the early 1990’s, he worked in the Seattle bureau of United Press International, and received his start in radio at WCAL-FM, a public station in southern Minnesota.  Reared in Seattle, he graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota with a degree in American Studies. In 1996, he spent two months reporting from Bonn and Berlin, Germany on an Arthur F. Burns Fellowship. In 1999, the foreign correspondence went the other direction - around the Pacific Rim (Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan) - on a Jefferson Fellowship.

When not sifting through press releases, listening to lobbyists, or driving lonely highways, Tom enjoys exploring the Olympic Peninsula backcountry and cooking dinner with my wife and friends. His secret ambition is to take six months off work and travel to a faraway place where there are no radios.  Additionally, Tom was a member of the Group Study Exchange to Turkey some years back and will share a portion of that experience with us Tuesday morning. 

We look forward to seeing as many Emerald Rotary Members at the meeting as Possible.  And, please know that each of you is important and valued as a member of this Rotary Club.  Having each of you attend on Tuesday morning adds to the week’s delight!
June 8th - Therese Platt, Director of Development,  Providence ElderPlace
June 1st - Please come and join with Emerald City Rotary in presenting a grant of some $5,000 to Esperanza International for continued support of the organization and its avenues of service:  Microcredit, Healthcare, Education, and Vocational Training.  Esperanza International’s goals continue to be an inspiration to not only Emerald City Rotary but to many others across this community and nation.  Its mission statement is as follows:

 “The mission of Esperanza International is to free children and their families from poverty through initiatives that generate income, education and health, restoring self-worth and dignity to those who have lost hope.”

 Do come to the meeting on Tuesday, June 1st, and be truly inspired by the Executive Director of Esperanza International, Dave Valle (former Seattle Mariner great!), and the work being done in the Dominican Republic by this exemplary organization. 

May 25th at the WAC - Henry Nielsen Day - The best, most anticipated program of the Rotary year. The Henry Nielsen Educational Achievement Award program goal is that each child who becomes an award recipient is encouraged to enter a field of higher learning. We are committed to doing everything within our power to ensure the continued scholarship payout each year to all recipients. Our mission is to further continue what Henry Nielsen began with his lifelong service to children and education.

This year's award recipients (and their mentors) are: 
Hawthorne Elementary
Victoria Duffy - Bob Archey
Santiago C. Ancheta-Warner - Arley Harrell 

Thurgood Marshall
Oniel Lucrisia - Beverley Olivier
Warren Reynolds - Paul Anderson
May 18th at the WAC - Our speaker for May 18th will be Dale Penny. Dale has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Student Conservation Association -- or SCA -- since 1997.  A nonprofit organization, SCA is the nation’s leading provider of conservation service opportunities, outdoor skills, and leadership training for young people.  Each year, SCA volunteers provide more than 1.3 million hours of service in our national parks, forests, refuges and urban green spaces in all 50 states.  In the time that Dale has led SCA, the organization has achieved double-digit annual growth; successfully conducted a national capital campaign; begun or expanded partnerships with Ford Motor Company, L.L. Bean, and Alcoa among many other leading corporations; and hosted conservation service events with President George W. Bush, then-Vice President Al Gore, and many other leading national figures.

Prior to joining SCA, Dale was Senior Program Director of the Colorado Boys Ranch Foundation, and before that served for many years as President and Chief Operating Officer of Up With People, the international education and community service program.  Visit www.sca-inc.org to sample the varied activities of SCA.
May 11th at the WAC - Come to this Tuesday’s meeting and hear from Brian Ledbetter, winner of a Silver and Bronze medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.  Brian will share with us the “inside” scuttlebutt of the One World Team at the 2002 America’s Cup race in New Zealand.  All you ever wanted to know about big time competitive sailboat racing and the pictures to go along with the racing hype and gossip!  Find out why Larry Ellison decided to enter the race and what it may have cost to promote that boat.

 

When he takes off his Superman (super sail boater) outfit, Brian is an accomplished real estate appraiser in Seattle and graduate of the United States Naval Academy.

 

See you in the Crystal Room at 7:30 for coffee, tea and breakfast.  Some short club business and an update on the golf tournament prior to a great program about defending our America’s Cup.
 May 4th at the WAC - Jonathan Roberts, general partner and one of the founders of Ignition Partners.  Ignition, founded by Microsoft and wireless communications executives, invests in its areas of expertise, communications and information technology, and primarily in seed-stage enterprises. Ignition is in it for the long haul, acquiring large but non-controlling stakes in its portfolio companies.

Jonathan invests in enterprise data and applications companies and serves as a director of Airwave Wireless, Intelligent Results, and Hynomics Corporation.  Prior to his collaboration in founding Ignition, Jon spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as General Manager of the Windows CE Intelligent Appliance Division, where he was responsible for developing new WinCE products, product marketing, business development and long-term planning for the Windows CE platform, as well as the re-targeting of the Microsoft's PocketPC effort---these are just some of the examples of the many successful initiatives he led at Microsoft.

Jon received his B.A. in history from the University of Washington where he was also Student Body President.

Plan to join in this Tuesday and find out how Ignition is blasting off the post-PC world. See you there at 7:15 a.m. in the 3rd floor Crystal Room of the WAC.
April 27th at the WAC - Eric Devericks, editorial cartoonist for The Seattle Times - As one of the youngest editorial cartoonists at a major metropolitan newspaper Eric Devericks brings an invigorating approach to the craft. His bold characters and distinctive style carry a unique perspective that crosses traditional boundaries and carries wide appeal.

Devericks joined the Seattle Times in 2002 from Oregon State University where his cartoons earned three college national journalism awards including the John Locher Memorial Award for best college editorial cartoonist in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

The product of small town life, Devericks grew up in Dallas, Oregon population 7,000. Often in trouble at school, he jokes that his disdain for authority comes from countless hours-spent working off detention. As it often goes, things worked out for the best, it was during an attempt to escape further punishment from some "unexcused absences" that he met his high school sweetheart and future wife, a student helper in the attendance office. Eric now lives in Kenmore with his wife, Brandi, and two beautiful children.
April 20th at the WAC - On April 20th our program will feature the recent c4w trip to Nepal that was a collaboration between the Rotary Clubs of Emerald City and Bellevue. You will be inspired when you hear and see this professional quality presentation and learn of the impact a few Washington Rotarians and high school students have had on the Nepalese community.

For example, in spite of the fact that the computers were delayed in arriving, the team did a number of projects that not only had a positive impact on the community, but also on the image of America. They painted two schools, put in a garden at an orphanage, brought a buffalo so the orphanage would have fresh milk, took handicapped children on a picnic, worked at the school for the deaf, played soccer with the deaf teenaged students, to mention just a few of their activities. It will warm your heart when you see clips of these works with our own Dick Ryen, Bill Poole, Warren Crain and the Garfield kids at the helm, as well as seeing the team being interviewed by Nepal television and featured in the Nepal newspapers.
April 13th at the WAC - As a natural follow up to last week’s speaker and the discussion of technology transfer from the University Campus to the business community, and through the efforts of our own Dr. Robert Fraser, we will be fortunate to hear from Dr. Allen R. Wyler, Medical Director of Northstar Neuroscience.

Northstar Neuroscience, Inc., is a medical device company founded by an experienced management team committed to developing innovative medical technologies that restore function and quality of life for people suffering from neurological diseases and disorders.  The Company’s technology platforms address neurological impairment and are based on an innovative dimension of the new and growing field of neurotechnology: the application of electrical therapies to treat diseases and disorders that affect the nervous system.

As North star’s medical director, Dr. Wyler brings with him over 30 years of clinical, academic, research, consulting, and administrative experience.  He is a prolific author, and is recognized for his pioneering work in the field of neurosurgery.  One of the particular strengths Wyler brings to the Northstar team is his experience with cortical electrodes and recordings.

April 6th at the WAC - James A. Severson, Ph.D., Vice Provost, Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer, University of Washington -  UW TechTransfer is responsible for developing, marking, protecting and licensing inventions, software and other information assets produced at the University. In New York Dr. Severson was responsible for technology transfer from Cornell's Ithaca campus and the Weill Medical College of Cornell. Prior to joining Cornell, he was director of health technologies in the Office of Patents & Technology Marketing at the University of Minnesota.
March 30th at the WAC - Rick DuPre of NPowerSeattle - Rick brings to NPower a wealth of experience, knowledge, and dedication to the local nonprofit community. He has held leadership positions with the Boys & Girls Clubs of King County, the City of Seattle's Human Services and Strategic Planning Departments, and most recently he has been Executive Director of the Central Area Motivation Program.  He has been a consultant to Islandwood and the Small Schools Project, as well as serving on the boards of multiple community-based organizations, including Northwest Black Pioneers, the Austin Foundation, and Powerful Schools.    

In addition to his extensive public service, Rick has also been active on the local sports scene for nearly two decades, as both an athlete for the Washington Huskies football team and a commentator on KJR Radio and Fox Sports Net.  If Rick's name sounds familiar and you're a football fan, there's a strong likelihood that you've heard Rick on-air interviewing any number of local sports celebs.
March 23rd at the WAC - Our speaker for Tuesday, March 23rd will be Margy Bresslour, Executive Director of Community for Youth.  Margy is responsible for the organization, its programs, fundraising and administration. She comes to the position with a Masters degree in Education.  Working with families, couples, and individuals she has had a counseling practice since 1979.  She joined the Board of Community for Youth in 1999 and was hired as ED in May of 2000.  Prior to becoming Executive Director of CfY, Margy worked at the University of Washington, Department of Psychosocial and Community Health on a project entitled “Reconnecting Youth”, focused on high school students who have had poor experiences in school.

Community for Youth (CfY) is a community-mentoring program focused on working with at risk high school students who want to achieve personal and academic success.   Through CfY programs, the organization supports students in identifying and achieving their goals. Many of these students have experienced a number of challenges in their lives.  They struggle academically, socially and sometimes within their families.  Their challenges often seem overwhelming.

What makes CfY mentoring programs unique is the strong community of support that is built between mentors and students.  Another unique feature of the Program is the rich curriculum offered.  The curriculum is based on an accountability model that focuses on the kind of support students and mentors need to achieve their goals, learn how to take responsibility for their behavior and actions, and learn how to develop healthy relationships. Through mentor pairings, small groups, and workshops, CfY shows students that they are in control of their future and that they are responsible for their choices. Currently, Cleveland, Rainier Beach and Chief Sealth High Schools incorporate several CfY programs into the student life.
March 16th at the WAC - Emerald City' Rotary's Don Jayne - Join us Tuesday March 16th and hear from our own Cosmetic Dentistry Guru, Donald M Jayne, DDS.  In recognition of the phenomenal success of the weekly extreme makeover program on network television, our speaker will bring us 20 minutes of root canal preparation with audio track back up for realism, periodontal surgery and with accompanying blood loss measurement, as well as an intra oral video of a live tooth extraction, akin to our extreme cosmetic surgery slide show of some years ago.  Forget the porridge Tuesday morning and think in terms of weight loss!

Seriously, though, Dr. Jayne will spend some time with us going behind the scenes and relating comprehensive dentistry to that which is being seen on the TV. 

Dr. Jayne has been practicing cosmetic and general dentistry in Seattle for the last twenty-six years.  Completing his formal education at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in 1976, he returned to Seattle where he taught for five years at the University of Washington School of Dentistry.  While at the University of Washington Dr. Jayne set up and directed the first dental clinic at Harborview Medical Center.  Currently, while maintaining his private practice, he continues to lecture on Cosmetic dentistry and comprehensive dental care, as well as co-directing courses for the postgraduate cosmetic continuum at the University of Washington, for dentists returning to learn more about new techniques in the cosmetic arena.
March 9th at the WAC - Richard Patton, Executive Director of the American Family Business Institute.  Most of us have heard William Gates Senior actively lobby for the retention of the Federal Estate Tax and State Death Tax.  Come to the March 9th Emerald City Rotary Club meeting and critically assess the argument made for the permanent repeal of these two taxes.  Our speaker will be Dick Patten, Executive Director of the American Family Business Institute, a nation-wide organization of family business owners devoted to the permanent repeal of the Federal Estate, (also known as the “Death Tax”).  Under his leadership the AFBI has gained a dominant role in the Death Tax repeal battle.  The AFBI has offices in Washington D.C., Birmingham AL, and Seattle WA.

According to Patten, “The Death Tax is a survival issue for family businesses.  It puts family businesses at a competitive disadvantage with their publicly-traded competitors often forcing families to sell off their businesses and farms to pay for Estate Taxes.  Dick comes from a multi-generation family business background.  He helped his father grow their family business.  They began with 7 employees and grew to become an Inc.500 company.  They eventually became Eastman Kodak’s largest reprographics customer on the West Coast and the 3rd largest business of its type in the nation.

Dick also founded and grew a Seattle-based temporary employment and executive search firm that became Puget Sound’s largest temporary employment contractor.  They eventually employed 19,242 Seattle-area workers.  Dick and his wife Monica successfully sold their business in 2002. Dick is a founder of the Children’s Hospital Golf Marathon, an annual event that has raised over $700,000 for unfunded medical care for children in Seattle.  He is also a member of the Endowment Funding Committee for Seattle Pacific University.  He has been an active member of the Rotary Club of Seattle for 14 years.
March 2nd at the WAC - Admiral Staser Holcomb -  A 1949 graduate of Roosevelt High School in Seattle, he attended the US Naval Academy, from which he was commissioned in June 1953. He underwent training at Pensacola and over the next 20 years made some 800 arrested landings on 18 different aircraft carriers. His commands include the carrier USS Saratoga, USS Guam, Carrier Group ONE, which oversaw all six carriers in the Pacific Fleet, and the US Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific.

While on shore duty, Staser Holcomb attended the US Naval Postgraduate School where he was awarded the Master of Science degree in Physics, specializing in nuclear weapons effects. Other career tours include the Pentagon at both Navy and Department of Defense levels and as senior military assistant to both Donald Rumsfeld and Harold Brown, Secretaries of Defense. Admiral Holcomb retired from the Navy in 1985.
February 24th at the WAC - Karen Ramsey is a Fee-Only Certified Financial Planner™ Practitioner and President of Ramsey & Associates, Inc. With more than nineteen years of financial consulting experience, she provides comprehensive, personal financial planning services in Seattle, Washington.   She is the author of “Everything You Know About Money Is Wrong.”  Her television program, "The Money Myth with Karen Ramsey," debuted in 1999 on public television in Seattle.  She has been featured on CBS's "This Morning," and CNN's Financial News as well as in Glamour Magazine, Family Circle, 1st for Women, Fidelity Stages Magazine and The Seattle Times. 

She was nationally recognized as one of the top 100 Financial Planners in the country by Mutual Fund Magazine for 2002 and recently profiled in "The Wealth Factor: Outstanding Wealth Managers for 2003."  She regularly teaches the workshop that she designed called Caring for Your Soul in Matters of Money®.
  February 17th at the WAC - Bas Vanderzalm, President of Northwest Medical Teams.  A graduate of Calvin College with a B.A. in English, Bas has also received a Masters in Divinity degree from Andover Newton School of Theology and an M.B.A. in Health Care Management from Boston University.  Bas served at The Salvation Army Harbor Light Center in Boston from 1972 to 1980, working for the last four years as executive director of the Center.  From 1982 – 1997, Bas served with World Relief, the humanitarian arm of the National Association of Evangelicals, where he worked as Director of Administrative Services for four years and Vice President for International Ministries for 11 years.  During this period, Bas traveled to 45 countries to oversee relief and development activities carried out by churches to care for the poor.  In 1997, Bas joined the staff of Northwest Medical Teams as president.
 February 10th at the WAC -  Lance Ayrault, CEO and President of Flexcar, and Brett Allen, General Manager of Flexcar.  Flexcar is the nation's oldest and largest personal mobility club, providing its members access to a fleet of vehicles conveniently located across a metropolitan area. Flexible pricing plans allow members to reserve and drive a car whenever they want, while Flexcar covers the cost of the vehicle, insurance, gas, parking and maintenance.  Founded in 1999 as a public/private partnership supported by King County, Washington and the City of Seattle, Flexcar launched its Seattle operations in 2000, and has since won numerous awards and commendations for its program that reduces congestion, reduces air pollution, reduces energy use, increases use of public transit and contributes to sustainable communities.   Flexcar is now the nation's oldest and largest car-sharing company, offering services in more than 20 cities in 5 states and the District of Columbia.
  February 3rd at the WAC - Bob Rose, Executive Director of the Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland.   Bob Rose has served since 1995 as full-time Executive Director of Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland. From 1982-1993, he served as Special Assistant to Washington Commissioner of Public Lands Brian Boyle.  During that period, he was project manager for a number of community-based, consensus building natural resources planning efforts.

 In addition to serving as the full-time Executive Director of Skagitonians, he serves on the Advisory Council of the Mountain To Sound Greenway and the Board of Directors of Northwest Small Cities Services.  He is a graduate of Class 8 of the Washington Agriculture and Forestry Leadership Program (1985-86) and chaired the alumni committee of the foundation from 1987-1989.

He holds a Masters in Urban Planning and Resource Management from the University of Washington (All College Honors) (1983); a Masters in English from SUNY at Buffalo; and a BA from Tufts University.  Rose has also taught Forest Policy at the University of Washington (1990, 1991) and has worked as a carpenter, shipwright, and commercial fisherman (Kodiak, Alaska).  He owns Skagit Rose Farms, 2 miles east of LaConner, WA

Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland is a grass-roots, nonprofit organization formed in 1989 and dedicated to protecting Skagit Country’s rich agricultural heritage through public and land-owner education.  Skagitonians meets with and counsels farmland owners on these and other available mechanisms to keep agricultural land for agricultural production.  In addition to the satisfaction of permanently protecting some of the best land in the world for farming, a donor of land or an easement may also realize reductions in federal income, estate and/or property taxes.
January 27th at the WAC - John Keithly and several of the Ballard High School students who went to Georgia to deliver computers for the teachers training laboratory at the Georgian-American Distance Education Center at the Tbilisi Orbeliani State pedagogical University (TOSPU DEC), Tbilisi, Georgia.

"This laboratory is a symbol of that aid from the USA side which purpose is to help our university’s teachers and students to use the Internet as a bridge to information, resources, education, culture and it is the opportunity to connect them to schools in the USA.  The teachers training laboratory at the TOSPU DEC was created as the part of the project Computers for the World (C4W), sponsored by District 5030. They also were supported by the Rotary Club of Des Moines (WA), the Rotary Club of Seattle #4 and Ballard High School, Seattle, WA.  However the most important to us is that we found new real friends in the person of Mr. John Keithly and his students from Ballard High School, Lanna Ripp and Chris Kaimmer, who executed this fantastic work during their short term visit to Georgia."  Dr. Teimuraz Chichua, President, NGO Prometheus-Amirani
January 20th at the WAC - Trish Dzikio, Executive Director and Founder of the Technology Access Foundation - Trish came into an IT career the hard way. Without parents to depend on, she put herself through college. Once in the work world, she encountered discrimination for her youth, gender, and race. Against the odds, she finally made it to become a respected manager at Microsoft--to many, a pinnacle of success. But that's when she discovered she didn't like who she'd become. "My life was about the product I shipped; my life was about technology," Dziko says. This realization prompted her to seek out ways to give back. First, she got more involved in promoting diversity at Microsoft. When that wasn't enough, she left the for-profit world entirely to start the Technology Access Foundation (TAF), helping children of color.

TAF¹s mission is to bring technology education and technology access to disadvantaged communities and, thus, change the economic futures of these communities. To do this, TAF developed the Technology Education Pipeline Model (TEP). The TEP is a comprehensive program model that includes three primary programs: TechStart (an after-school/preschool program in a technologically enriched environment for children ages 5 -12); the Virtual Institute (a program of innovative computer fluency courses taught at several community-based agencies); and, the Technical Teens Internship Program (a technical education and internship program for youth ages 13-18). All TAF programs are offered free of charge and incorporate outreach strategies and awareness education as part of the process of reaching community members. According to Millines Dziko, "we¹re building a serious pipeline here that not only addresses the digital divide, it is also providing skilled talent to meet the challenges of our technical talent drought."

You won't want to miss meeting Trish and hearing how TAF is realizing its dream of leveling the technology playing field for traditionally underrepresented populations.

 January 13th at the WAC - Bill Mohler  of KCTS  - Come to the Tuesday Morning meeting of the Emerald City Rotary Club and hear from Bill Mohler, permanent president and CEO of the rejuvenated KCTS.  Bill will share with us the growth of the station since the recognition of its financial troubles came to the surface in the spring of 2003. 

 One of the leading Public Broadcasting venues in the nation, KCTS has often been at the vanguard of broadcast innovation.  Now let us understand how Bill plans to be certain that the station remains solvent!  Bring a friend; bring your spouse; bring another member!  It’s going to be a timely and great program.

January 6th at the WAC - SNOW