Speakers

Discovery of his own roots began 30 years ago through the stories of Russ Low's family. Growing up in Central California, his connection to Chinese culture and history was limited and incomplete. Discovering the 1903 Hong family photograph among the belongings of 100-year-old great Uncle Kim sparked a search for the stories behind the photograph. In his searches, Russell came across a 130-year-old newspaper notice titled "Villainous-looking Chinese after a Chinese Girl." He recognized his great-grandparents' names, but the romantic drama it uncovered shook the core of his family's belief in who they are and how they came to be Americans.

Club Assembly:  Membership and Youth Service reports

Youth Services will bring our recent RYLA participants to visit our club.

Club Assembly:  Community Service and President reports

Join us to learn how the UCSD Moores cancer center doctors and researchers are making progress against pancreatic (and other) cancer.  We will also present the research team with a check from our latest Ride The Point bike ride.

Ron Lee presents lessons he has learned and epiphanies he experienced while working as a professional demonstration skydiver for the last 39 years,  With several exciting and humorous stories, he describes what it means to put oneself in the position of not having the option to fail, and the incredible value we can all leverage by working and living in a risk-rich environment. 

Douglas Mengers, archaeologist and historian, presents a history of the San Diego trolleys, starting with the horse-drawn streetcars introduced in 1886, through cable cars and electric experimentations, until the system was dismantled in the late 1940s. There will be a special focus on our local area, including the turn-of-the-century Point Loma Railroad and the 1920s San Diego Electric Railway expansion through Ocean Beach.

In this engaging lecture, Yale Strom explores how music serves as a powerful lens for understanding cultures across time past, present, and future. Drawing from decades of ethnographic research, performance, and storytelling, he reveals how music not only reflects cultural identity but actively shapes and preserves it. Strom demonstrates how the act of making and sharing music can become one of the most meaningful ways to define, sustain, and pass on cultural traditions to future generations.