He began his submarine career aboard the USS NEVADA (SSBN 733)(GOLD), serving in various Division Officer assignments. His Executive Officer tour was aboard the USS KEY WEST (SSN 722) where he completed an extensive WESTPAC deployment that included strike operations in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.
Captain Warner commanded the USS BREMERTON (SSN 698) from March 2008 until August 2010. A few highlights of his command tour include a WESTPAC deployment, a Nuclear Tomahawk Regeneration Exercise, a namesake city visit, and participation in RIMPAC 2010 in which the BREMERTON successfully conducted a SINKEX on the EXUSS ANCHORAGE.
His shore duties included staff assignments with COMSUBPAC and the Chief of Naval Operations, Director of Submarine Warfare. He also served on the Joint Staff, Operations Directorate, Reconnaissance Operations Division, where he served as the subject matter expert to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for submarine and naval maritime operations. Following command at sea, he served as the Branch Head for Submarine and Nuclear Assignments (PERS-403) at Navy Personnel Command and most recently, as the Deputy Commander for Training at COMSUBRON 16. He assumed command of Naval Base Point Loma in August 2014.
His awards and decorations include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal (four awards), Navy Commendation Medal (six awards), Navy Achievement Medal (two awards), and several other unit and personal decorations.
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Serving Seniors
Dec 12, 2014
Speaker: Sheona Richardson Som, Director, Annual Giving and External Relations, Serving Seniors Invocation & Introductions: Paul Robison Club Assembly: A short club business meeting to consider and vote on the proposed Slate of Officers for the 2015-2016 Rotary Year: President: Kay Wegner, President-elect: David Pettigrew, Treasurer: Alex Nunes, Secretary: Roger Hull, Serving Seniors (formerly known as Senior Community Centers) is a nonprofit agency dedicated to helping seniors in poverty live healthy and fulfilling lives. Founded in 1970, the organization creates collaborative partnerships to support their “wellness model,” which provides nutrition, health, mental health, advocacy, transitional housing for homeless seniors and permanent supportive housing. This safety net of services keeps seniors out of emergency rooms, reduces hospital days and delays and/or eliminates the need for long-term care. The agency has been skillfully led for 20 years by Chief Executive Officer and President Paul Downey. Downey is also the immediate past-resident of the National Association of Nutrition and Aging Services Programs (NANASP) and is a commissioner for the California Commission on Aging. For a complete list of volunteer opportunities or more information, please visit http://www.servingseniors.org, Facebook or Twitter, or call (619) 235-6572. - See more at: http://www.scatenadaniels.com/serving-seniors-appoints-new-board-chair/#sthash.gGzWErWU.dpuf |
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Christmas Caroling
Dec 19, 2014
No lunch or meeting at the San Diego Yacht Club. We'll have lunch at noon with the residents of St. Pail's Villa and sing holiday carols with them and for the residents of the adjoining St. Paul's McColl Health Center for assisted living. Rotarians and guests please enter at 2340 Fourth Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101. It is very important that we arrive at 11:45, be be seated before noon. If not, we won't be able to join the tables of the St. Paul residents.
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PLR Endowment Fund, etc.
Jan 09, 2015
Club Assembly: 1. Placement of Club's Endowment funds: Endowment Fund Chair Dick Thorn and Investment Committee. What Rotarians do (or did) for Work: Roger Hull, International Engineering
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The Modern Coast Guard
Jan 16, 2015
San Diego, July 30, 2014 U.S. Coast Guard Sector San Diego welcomed a new commanding officer during a change-of-command ceremony held on base Wednesday morning. Capt. Jonathan S. Spaner assumed command responsibilities from Capt. Sean M. Mahoney as commander of Sector San Diego and San Diego Captain of the Port. The ceremony was presided over by Rear Adm. Joseph Servidio, Commander of the 11th Coast Guard District. After more than 27 years of active duty service in the Coast Guard, Mahoney officially retired after the change of command. Spaner reports to Sector San Diego from Washington, D.C., where he served as Director of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Office of Emerging Policy. In this role he was responsible for development of strategy on major issues including the Arctic, Western Hemisphere affairs, cyber security, and climate change. Captain Spaner was previously director of the Coast Guard’s office of emerging policy in Washington, DC. He is responsible for development of strategy on major issues including the Arctic, Western Hemisphere affairs, cyber security, and climate change. Moreover, on behalf of the U.S. Department of State, Captain Spaner is Head of the U.S. Delegation to the Arctic Council’s Task Force on a Circumpolar Business Forum. He served as Commanding Officer of Air Station Traverse City, Michigan with responsibility for HH-65C helicopter operations in the Great Lakes and Caribbean regions. Captain Spaner has held senior pilot ratings in the C-130 and HH-60 aircraft during tours in California, Florida, and Oregon. He also served as Strategic Policy Advisor to the Four-Star General commanding war efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as director of port and cargo security on the White House Staff. Captain Spaner holds an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a B.S. cum laude from the United States Merchant Marine Academy where he was the Regimental Commander, and is a distinguished graduate from U.S. Navy Pilot Training. He holds the “Key to the City” from Traverse City, Michigan for citizenship, is a former fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a former White House Fellow.
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The Port of San Diego
Jan 23, 2015
Marshall Merrifield will be the Vice-Chair of the San Diego Port. Marshall Merrifield was sworn in to the Board of Port Commissioners on April 15, 2013, to represent the City of San Diego. Merrifield serves as President/CEO and majority shareholder for Bluewave Security, which manufactures high-tech equipment for video and door-access surveillance. He previously was President/CEO and majority shareholder for the security company General Lock and Clark Security Products, the largest privately held security hardware business in the United States, until 2010. His past business affiliations have involved industries ranging from animation to investment banking. Merrifield cofounded Pacific Ridge School in Carlsbad and has been a Board Member for the Magdalena Ecke Family YMCA in Encinitas and for former San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders' Economic Advisory Council. He serves as a member of the Campaign to End Homelessness' leadership team. Merrifield graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. |
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The Future of Water in San Diego
Jan 30, 2015
Toby Roy, Regulatory Manager The San Diego County Water Authority is a public agency formed in 1944 by the California State Legislature whose mission is to provide a safe and reliable supply of water to its 24 member agencies - including the City of San Diego - supplying a safe and reliable water supply to support a $206 billion economy and way of life for over 3.1 million residents. The Water Authority takes a leadership role in resource management, working with its member agencies to diversify the region’s water supply sources and to promote water and energy efficiency. In 2003, the Imperial Irrigation District agreed to sell a portion of its mammoth allotment from the Colorado River for 45 years to the Water Authority. Toby Roy is the Regulatory Manager for the San Diego County Water Authority. She joined the Water Authority in 2005. As Regulatory Manager, she is responsible for tracking, reviewing and engaging on regulatory and policy issues impacting the Water Authority on the local, state and federal levels. This includes issues and policy related to energy management and greenhouse gases, water supply, water quality, conservation, safe drinking water and environmental impacts. At the Water Authority she has also managed programs for water conservation, integrated regional water management and recycled water. Prior to joining the Water Authority, Roy was in the Drinking Water and Environmental Management Division of California Department of Health Services, responsible for the regulation of public drinking systems. She also worked as an engineering consultant and for the city of Carlsbad attorney’s office. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from Oregon State University, and a juris doctorate from California Western School of Law. To maximize the reliability of the region’s water supply, the Water Authority is executing a long-term strategy to diversify the region's supply sources, make major investments in the region’s water delivery and storage system, and improve water-use efficiency. Through dynamic leadership, thoughtful planning, and prudent fiscal policies, the Water Authority is cost-effectively managing the region’s water portfolio, while continuing to diversify supplies to enhance future reliability. |
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The Monarch Schools
Feb 06, 2015
One of our own, Michelle Candland, current president of the San Diego Rotary Club, was chosen as a "Woman of Action" for Rotary Day at the White House. She was one of 10 women selected from across the United States for her sustained work in the community. As a brand new Rotarian, in 1999, she went to visit a one room center for homeless and at-risk kids, established by the San Diego County. She thought she was volunteering to be a tutor or a mentor. When she left the meeting, she was tasked with finding a new location for the tiny school, later to be known as Monarch School. She located a building, which had been a cinderblock cabinet shop, that would work. |
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Show time, folks!
Feb 13, 2015
Open call for club comedians. Everybody can take a turn up front. Take a bow and give us your best joke. One per member. Judging by your peers, for votes, cheers, jeers or rotten tomatoes. Winner gets to tell the same joke at the Comedy Cavalcade, March 20, in front of hundreds - and real comedians. Test your wit - and nerves. |
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Representing you, the people of San Diego
Feb 20, 2015
City Attorney Jan Goldsmith has served the City Council and citizens of San Diego in this capacity since December 2008. For ther ten previou years he was a San Diego Superior Court Judge, spending his first six years handling criminal and civil trials and his final years assigned to an independent civil calendar. He has served three terms in the California State Assembly representing the Northern San Diego City District stretching from Mira Mesa to the Escondido border, and held various leadership positions, including Majority Floor Leader, Member of Rules Committee, Chairman of the Banking and Finance Committee and Vice Chairman of Judiciary. He also served as Mayor of Poway. He graduated magna cum laude from University of San Diego in 1976. He and his wife Christine have raised three children. |
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What's the Point? - Loma Association??
Feb 27, 2015
A lifelong Point Loman and community activist, Robert Tripp Jackson, current president of Point Loma Association (PLA), is busy trying to build the organization, which promotes the Peninsula community. Jackson comes by the calling naturally. His late mother, Ann, preceded him as the PLA’s first female president. She was also an early chair of the Peninsula Community Planning Board (PCPB), which makes land-use recommendations to the city. Ann Tripp Jackson is perhaps best remembered for having been in the Dana Coalition, a grassroots group that campaigned successfully to prevent the Dana Junior High School site from being condemned and turned into condos. “She saved it (Dana) from being sold off to private development,” said her son. These days, Robert Tripp Jackson is continuing his family’s legacy of public service. He pointed out Point Loma Village years ago was once “cluttered” and “not very attractive,” with lots of “tacky signage” and a surplus of gas stations, power poles and billboards. Through the hard work of dedicated volunteers, the landscape has gradually changed for the better. One of PLA’s initial generation was the late Hugh Story, who has a memorial named after him, is credited with leading the way in establishing numerous group practices including the high profile “mean green team.” “It’s a group of about 30 people, all volunteers, who go out on Fridays and work in the community getting their hands dirty and cleaning up,” said Jackson. An example of the group’s progressive bent is the long-term, large-scale median improvement project that the PLA has undertaken. “We’re enhancing the whole stretch of Nimitz all the way from West Point Loma Boulevard to Harbor Drive,” Jackson said. The PLA has been busy turning barren medians into handsome, well-landscaped surfaces with native plants and public art. Under Jackson’s administration, the PLA has also been trying to extend its reach out into the community. “We’re on Facebook, and we’re really trying to enhance our social media,” he said. “We also sent out a survey to all our members recently because we want to hear what the community wants (done).” Jackson said another of his goals is to “grow our memberships.” He said the PLA currently has about 965 individual memberships. That figure has declined from as many as 2,000 a decade or more ago. The 2010 census estimated there were nearly 48,000 people living in the Point Loma-Ocean Beach area. Jackson said the goal now is to “find people who have a passion about wanting to do something.” PLA annual membership dues range from $30 to $1,000. For more information, visit http://www.plaweb.org. From “Longtime Point Loma Association looks to build community membership,“ in Peninsula Beacon, Feb. 5, 2015. Robert was a member of the Point Loma Rotary Club from 1996 to 2004. |
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Research on Pancreatic Cancer. We present our check from 2014 Ride the Point
Mar 06, 2015
We will meet before noon at the Moores Cancer Center at UCSD. Please arrive early for convenient parking. The program will start promptly at noon. There will be no meeting at the San Diego Yacht Club. We will present our check to Moores Cancer Center to assist with their work finding cures for pancreatic cancer, have a box lunch and take a tour of their research facilities. How to get there and park: From Genesee Avenue, turn left on Campus Point Drive and then left on Medical Center Drive. Follow it around Shiley Eye Center to Health Sciences Drive. Park for free in lot P703, in spaces marked “Point Loma Rotary Club.” Or if a space is not available, park in adjacent lot for $3.00. Tony Reid, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology-Oncology. Director of Early Phase Clinical Investigation. National Chairman, Association of American Cancer Institute's-CRI. Professor Tony Reid is a world renowned oncology physician as well as being recognized for his outstanding clinical research in colon and pancreatic cancers. He has received many accolades for his work which includes: America’s Top Doctor and Americas Top Doctor for Oncology, recognized as being in the top 1% of physicians 2011-2014; the Mary Crowly Award for Excellence in Research, and recognition for important contributions to basic and clinical research by the International Society of Gene Therapy and the Society for Interventional Radiology. He also serves on the review board of numerous journals including Nature Cancer Gene Therapy, Gene Therapy and Clinical Cancer Research.
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Anders Haggard
Mar 13, 2015
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Mar 18, 2015 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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DARK- Comedy Night in the evening
Mar 20, 2015
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Mar 20, 2015 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
The fabulous annual Cavalcade of Comedy, produced and directed by our own Tony Calabrese. Cavalcade of Comedy
When: Friday, March 20, 2015
Doors open (no host bar): 7:00PM
8:00 PM – 10:00 PM Where: The United Portuguese S.E.S Hall
2818 Avenida De Portugal
San Diego, CA 92106-2705
For questions please contact us: Registration
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SPAWAR
Mar 27, 2015
Our speaker: Captain Kurt J. Rothenhaus. What is SPAWAR and what does it do on Point Loma? "Who am I?" by Karin Haggard Captain Kurt J. Rothenhaus, US Navy, received his commission upon graduating from the University of South Carolina and holds an MS in Computer Science and a PhD in Software Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School. He transferred into the Engineering Duty Officer community in 2003. In addition to operational assignments (USS FIFE, USS O’BRIEN, Destroyer Squadron FIFTEEN and Combat Systems Officer on USS HARRY S. TRUMAN), he served in Baghdad, developing counter-insurgency and reconstruction systems to the Army Corps of Engineers. His has served as project manager for Space and Naval Warfare System Center Pacific, Assistant Program Manager for Maritime Domain Awareness, Pacific Fleet CVN Modernization Manage, Future Command and Control Assistant Program Manager, Program Manager for the Consolidated Afloat Network Enterprise System network program, and Deputy Program Manager for Communications and GPS. He received the A. Bryan Laswell, National Defense Industrial Association Award in 2007 for technology innovation and a 2008 Navy & Marine Corps Leadership Award, plus the Meritorious Service Medal, Joint and Navy Commendation Medal, Navy Achievement medals and various service and campaign awards. |
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10,000 years of Human History in San Diego
Apr 10, 2015
Cindy Stankowski, Executive Director of the San Diego Archeological Society The San Diego Archaeological Center is a curation facility and museum where visitors can learn the story of how people have lived in San Diego County for the past 10,000 years. In addition to its role as a museum, the Center serves as an education and research facility and is the only local organization dedicated to the collection, study, curation and exhibition of San Diego County's archaeological artifacts. The Center Museum has changing exhibits and hands-on activities that explore 10,000 years of history of the San Diego region through the archaeological record. Learn about the life-ways of early Native American hunter-gatherers who lived in our region and the many groups and immigrants who have contributed to our region's archaeological record. |
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Apr 15, 2015 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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What can I do for District 2?
Apr 17, 2015
Lorie Zapf was born in Los Angeles to Helena Garcia, a first-generation American, and Alex Roseff, a jazz musician. Her childhood was tumultuous, and by her first year of high school, Lorie and her two siblings were separated and placed into foster care. Like most kids in the foster care system, when she turned 18 she was completely on her own, but had determined she would put herself through college. Lorie received a Master's Degree in Marketing Communications from the University of Denver.
She and her husband moved to San Diego and started their own business, producing an all-natural energy bar, which was sold in grocery, health food, and sporting goods stores across the United States and Canada.
In 2010, she became the first Latina ever elected to the San Diego City Council. She and her husband Eric live with their two daughters and rescue dog in their Bay Ho home of 17 years. (This is from her webswite. She the whole bio at http://www.sandiego.gov/citycouncil/cd2/staff/zapf.shtml.) |
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Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, the San Diego Zoo's first two koalas
Apr 24, 2015
We never tire of talking about koalas at the San Diego Zoo, ever since we welcomed our first pair, Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, back in 1925. Since then, we have become famous for having the largest koala colony as well as the most successful koala breeding program outside of Australia. Our koalas can be seen from walkways around a Queenslander-style “house” that serves as our koala care center, where you can see keepers preparing eucalyptus browse for the koalas. Because male koalas can be territorial, they have their own perches in one area, while the more social females and their babies, called joeys, share another area. The elevated walkways bring you to eye level with the koalas as they perch in their forest of eucalyptus. Watch koalas daily on Koala Cam. Learn more at http://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/koala |
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Apr 25, 2015 8:00 AM - 1:00 PM
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Traveling the World for a Year of Rotary Service
May 01, 2015
The Alba family is looking for projects in all areas of service around the world that they can engage in while traveling over the next year. They are happy to go to schools in countries where you have projects, or to train teachers and administrators pro-bono if there is no project currently available. Have you every just wanted to travel the world for a year without anything to do but help people in need? Have you every just wanted to sell your cars, rent out the house, and take an eastbound flight visiting new and exotic cultures and enjoying the fellowship of service for a year? Well, one of the 5340 member families has decided to undertake this very thing. Ivan Alba, his wife Elena, and daughters Isabel and Lily (who will be 9 and 11 during the trip) are planning their journey from August of 2015-July of 2016 which they are calling their Rotary Year of Service. Together, the family plans to travel to Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil. Then, the family will fly to Europe, and then to mid and south Africa. The plans are to then travel to Jordan and the Middle East before going to India and China. The trip will end in Japan, then Hawaii before returning to San Diego to restart their lives. This year is the “year of details” when their duty is to set the itinerary and identify their hands-on projects throughout the countries where they will live. Ivan is an educational consultant in leadership and mathematics who trains teachers nationally and internationally on “best practices” to help students make sense of math. Elena trains teachers in helping students learn English as a new language as well as literacy strategies. Isabel and Lily are wonderful with other children and embody the test “Will it build Goodwill and Better Friendship?” wherever they travel.
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Navy Base Point Loma
May 08, 2015
Captain Howard Warner is a native of San Diego, California and attended the United States Naval Academy, graduating in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Aerospace Engineering. He subsequently earned a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from George Washington University (2002) and a Master of Science in National Security Strategy from the National War College, National Defense University (2005). |
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What we're doing now - and have in the works
May 15, 2015
Danielle Magee, Manager of Community Relations at SeaWorld, is a 1985 graduate of San Diego State University. She’s been at SeaWorld for 21 years, including stints as manager of Education and Human Resources. Danielle will discuss current controversies regarding SeaWorld, its plans for future development and its place in the economy of San Diego. |
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May 20, 2015 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Private tour of Cabrillo lighthouse by Captain Jonathan Spaner
May 29, 2015
Captain Jonathan Spaner, Commanding Officer of the US Coast Guard Sector San Diego, is hosting us at the residences (where they filmed scenes from the movie "Top Gun") and lighthouse. We will learn about the history of the property and then we will walk us to the lighthouse and cliff area for a spectacular ocean view off limits to the general public (photo opportunity, bring your camera). We will eat our box lunches outdoors in a covered area, so bring a hat and coat. You do not need to pay to enter at the park, just tell the Park Ranger that you are a Point Loma Rotary member and are visiting Captain Spaner. Park in the driveway by the tide pools, there will be people to help, but you will not be able to leave early as they will be stacking up the cars.
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Overcoming hardship and disability obstacles
Jun 05, 2015
Alex Montoya is a baseball executive, international speaker, and published author. He is the Manager of Latino Affairs for the San Diego Padres. Since beginning his career with the Padres in 2006, he has overseen the team’s outreach and charitable programs to the Latino community in San Diego County and Mexico. Montoya is also an author and speaker, delivering motivational presentations about success and overcoming disability obstacles. He was one of the first San Diegans mainstreamed from special-education in 1980, a feat that earned him a spot in the San Diego Unified School District “Hall of Fame” in 2013. He was also selected to carry the Olympic Torch during the 1996 Summer Olympics in the United States. Montoya earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications from the University of Notre Dame (1996) and a Master’s Degree in Sport Management from the University of San Francisco/Orange County (2008).
A native of Medellín, Colombia, who moved to San Diego at age four, Montoya is on several advisory boards for organizations serving youth and families. He is an avid reader and has completed several endurance races, including two San Diego Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon relay teams. |
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