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UPCOMING EVENTS
For dates and information on the South Bay Book Club, please click on Programs & Events on the upper left-hand side of this homepage, then click on WFW Book Club.
There will be a summer break for the First Tuesday Breakfast in July and August. September 9, 2008 First Tuesday Breakfast ((Note for September this event will be held on the second Tuesday due to the Labor Day Holiday being the day before)- Speaker Betsy Blumenthal, Senior Managing Partner, Kroll International, will speak on the world of high stakes corporate intriques. At the City Club of San Francisco. 8 a.m.
September 13, 2008 Chihuly at the de Young 10:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. RSVP Deadline - September 4, 2008
September 24, 2008 Peninsula Hang Around - At the home of WFW member Barbara Creed. This is a pot luck. Please contact Barbara at 650-343-6157 or email her at bcreed@truckerhuss.com for food assignments. Starting at 6:30 p.m.
September 27, 2008 Cruise The Bay On The Presidential Yacht Potomac- 10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. RSVP Deadline - September 12, 2008
October 7, 2008 First Tuesday Breakfast -
Mary McGrath will speak on Plastic Surgey at the City Club of San Francisco 8:00 a.m. October 15-17, 2008 IWF World Leadership Conference
Pittsburg, PA
November 4, 2008 First Tuesday Breakfast - Election Day There will be no speaker but a round table discussion on “What would you like to tell the new President”. 8 a.m. December 2, 2009 First Tuesday Breakfast
at Elaine Petrocelli's Book Passage in the Ferry Building in San Francisco 8 a.m.
December 9, 2008 Holiday Party at the home of
WFW Member Nina Hatvany, 6-9 p.m.
January 13, 2009 WFW Annual Meeting
Metropolitan Club 6-9 p.m.
January 20, 2009 WFW Economic Outlook Luncheon
City Club of San Francisco 11:45 a.m. -2:00 p.m.
May 20-22, 2009 IWF World Cornerstone Conference Hong Kong, China
October 7-9, 2009 IWF World Leadership Conference Miami, FL
MEMBER PROFILES:
Alice Carey Architecture Preservation Alice Carey, Architect, owner and founder of Carey & Co. Inc., has over twenty-five years experience in historic preservation architecture, planning, history and sustainability. Her firm specializes in the restoration, and rehabilitation of historic structures. Carey & Co. practices in California, Hawaii, Nevada, Arizona and Utah and has won over 100 design and preservation awards. Her firm=s portfolio of historic rehabilitation projects includes San Francisco City Hall, San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, Ca State Capitol, Ca State Library & Courts, Palace of Fine Arts, Marin Civic Center, and the San Francisco Noe Valley Library.
Ms. Carey has served on the board of directors of many historic organizations, including the Historic State Capitol Commission, the San Francisco Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board, San Francisco Beautiful, and Oakland's Camron-Stanford House Board, College of Environmental Design Archives at U.C. Berkeley, San Francisco Architectural Heritage, and the 640 Historic Preservation Foundation. She is the proud owner and steward of the historic Hardin Schoolhouse in St. Helena and Old Engine Co. No.2, a landmark firehouse in San Francisco. Her current passion is winemaking.
Marimar Torres
Marimar Estate Vineyard and Winery Marimar Torres has been involved in the wine business all her life. Born in 1945 in Barcelona, Spain, she is fluent in six languages and holds a degree in Business and Economics from the University of Barcelona. She is also a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program, and studied Enology and Viticulture for a year at the University of California in Davis. At Marimar Torres Estate, she directs the activities at the winery and its Don Miguel Vineyard in Sonoma County's Russian River/ Green Valley.
Prior to her involvement in the Sonoma operation, Marimar traveled extensively promoting Torres wines, first in Spain as the company's export director and later in North America, when California became her home in 1975. At that time, shipments of Torres wines to the U.S. totaled 15,000 cases; ten years later they reached 150,000. To achieve this was not easy, though; especially in the beginning, Marimar was confronted with the common notion that the wine business was no place for a woman. Eventually, her tenacity and business acumen helped her overcome this bias, and she became the best-known ambassador of Spanish wines in America.
INTERNATIONAL VISITOR TO SAN FRANCISCO?
We welcome IWF members visiting our area to let us know. Please contact our Administrator so he can put you in touch with members of WFW who share your interests. Please click here for his contact info.
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AWARDS
Jane Wales has been selected as the Women's Forum West recipient of the 2008 IWF Women Who Make A Difference Award. This Award will be presented to Jane at the IWF World Leadership Conference in Pittsburgh, PA on October 17, 2008.
Elaine Petrocelli, owner of Book Passage, is being honored by Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey at the 16th Annual "A League of Their Own" event. This year's theme is "Women in the Literary World". In addition to her business, Elaine is being recognized for her community giving.
WOMEN'S VENTURE FUND'S 2008 HIGHEST LEAF AWARDS WFW member Telle Whitney has been awarded the Women's Venture Fund's Annual Highest Leaf Award. This award honors women who exemplify the attributes that Women's Venture Fund seeks to instill in its own aspiring entrepreneurial clients. Candidates are judged based upon their willingness to take risks, creative leveraging of resources to achieve their endeavor, their entrepreneurial spirit or vision in managing uncertainty, their continued commitment to mentoring others, the measurability of outcomes and their impact and value to the organization.
The California Redevelopment Association awarded the 2008 Award of Excellence to Gruen Gruen + Associates (GG+A), and Nina Gruen and Claude Gruen, the two principals of GG+A, for the remediation and development the 84-acre Pacific States Steel Corporation site in Union City, California. The League of California Cities had awarded this same project its 2007 Helen Putnam Award for Excellence in Planning and Environmental Quality.
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