Events

August Meeting:

• Sunday, August 17, 2008
• 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
• Location: Guinta Residence
  5609 Stardust Road
  La Canada Flintridge

* Please note that there will be a vote on whether to incorporate "Crescenta" in our club's name to reflect that many of our members live in La Crescenta.

• Speakers: Patricia Horton, USA-PAC
• Bill Hacket, United Democratic Headquarters
• Todd Beeton, Courage Campaign

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Past Events

May, 2008 Meeting

• Sunday, May 18
• 3:00 – 5:00 PM
• Location:
  Lew/Castro Residence
  1435 Olive Lane , LCF
• Agenda: Election of Officers
• Speaker: Ira Jackson Topic: Social Responsibility and the Elimination of Poverty

Ira A. Jackson is the Henry Y. Hwang Dean of the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, where he is also a professor of management. Throughout his career, Jackson has brought entrepreneurship and excellence to government, higher education, and the nonprofit sector, and has focused his personal and professional life at the intersection of business, government and civil society, where he has been a bridge builder. At the age of 26, he was chief of staff to Boston’s Mayor Kevin White. At 32, he was the Senior Associate Dean of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he helped lead the School during its period of rapid growth and institutional transformation.

He left the Kennedy School to become Commissioner of Revenue for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where he was credited with being one of the architects of the “Massachusetts economic miracle.” Jackson established an innovative model of “honest, fair and firm” tax administration that restored public confidence in the integrity, professionalism, and responsiveness of the agency through vigorous reforms.

Jackson served as Executive Vice President of BankBoston for a dozen years. During his tenure at BankBoston, the company consistently received Outstanding Community Reinvestment Act ratings from federal regulators for leadership in strengthening inner-city communities. This leadership was recognized by the Conference Board with the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Citizenship at a ceremony at the White House.

Jackson received an A.B. from Harvard College and an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government, and attended the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School. He is co-author (with Jane Nelson) of Profits with Principles: Seven Strategies for Delivering Value with Values (Doubleday, 2004), described by Tom Peters as “a stunning achievement….and a survival guide for business executives and a survival guide for capitalism itself.”

April, 2008 Meeting

Speaker: Carol Liu, Democratic candidate for our State Senate District 21 and our representative in the State Assembly, 2000-2006

Endorsement Meeting for US Congress, Congressional District 26

 

 

 

March 16, 2008 meeting

JPL Senior Research Scientist Robert M. Nelson, and Engineer Susan Paradise spoke about the fight against Homeland Security
Presidential Directive –12. Twenty-eight senior scientists and engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory filed suit against NASA and
the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) on behalf of JPL employees who are being required to waive their privacy rights and submit to an unconstitutional intrusive background investigation in
order to retain their jobs with JPL. None of the plaintiffs have classified or sensitive positions. Plaintiffs challenge Bush's decision to require that all JPL employees submit to a "National Agency Check with Inquiries" and sign a broad written waiver, permitting investigators to obtain records from their past employment files, and to question their friends and associates about their emotional health, financial integrity, and general conduct, including whether they've ever had sex and, if so, what type.

For more information, visit http://www.hspd12jpl.org/overview.html

To read the La Canada Valley Sun article on the meeting visit
http://www.lacanadaonline.com/articles/2008/03/20/news/lnws-jplers.txt