UPCOMING EVENTS 

                                                  For dates and information on the South Bay 
                                                  Book Club, please click here. For dates and
                                                  information about upcoming Hang Arounds,
                                                  please click here.                                           
                                                                

February 16, 2010           WFW Peninsula Book Club
                                            6:30 p.m. Book, The Mantel of the Prophet by Roy
                                            Mattahedeh, Host, Sue Sprunk, Members Only.

February 19, 2010           WFW Peninsula February Breakfast
                                            8:00 a.m. Speaker, Carol Sands, Money is Power. 
                                            Scotts Seafood in Palo Alto. Guests Welcome.

March 2, 2010                  First Tuesday in March Breakfast
                                           Speaker Lynn Sedway on Real Estate Outlook,
                                           8:00 am City Club. Guests welcome.

March 7, 2010                 WFW Movie Club Oscar Party
                                          5:30 pm Hosts Suzie Morris, Karen Zehring and
                                         Jane Bowyer. Members only.

March 16, 2010               WFW Peninsula Book Club
                                           6:30 p.m. Book and Hostess TBA. Members only.

March 23, 2010               Behind the Scenes Tour of the Federal Reserve  
                                           Building in San Francisco
                                          11:45 a.m.  Speakers TBA. Guests welcome.

April 9, 2010                    WFW Movie Club
                                          6:30 pm Movie TBA, Jane Bowyer Host, East Bay.     
                                          Members only.

April 20, 2010                  WFW Peninsula Book Club
                                           6:30 p.m. Book and Hostess TBA. Members only.

May 7, 2010                     WFW Movie Club
                                           6:30 pm Movie and Host TBA. Members only.


May 18, 2010                   WFW Peninsula Book Club
                                           6:30 p.m. Book and Hostess TBA. Members only.

May 26-28, 2010              IWF World Cornerstone Conference
                                           Guayaquil, Ecuador

June 4, 2010                    WFW Movie Club
                                           6:30 pm Movie TBA, Nannette Griswold Host, North Bay
                                           Members only.

June 5, 2010                    De Young Museum
                                           Docent Led Tour (before the museum opens at  
                                           approx 9 am). Birth of Impressionism:
                                           Masterpieces from the Musee d'Orsay. 
                                           Guest Welcome.

June 15, 2010                 WFW Peninsula Book Club
                                           6:30 p.m. Book and Hostess TBA. Members only.

July 16-18, 2010            WFW and Oregon Women's Forum Ashland Summer
                                          Getaway
                                          More information TBA. Members only

July 20, 2010                   WFW Peninsula Book Club
                                           6:30 p.m. Book and Hostess TBA. Members only.

August 17, 2010             WFW Peninsula Book Club
                                           6:30 p.m. Book and Hostess TBA. Members only.

September 21, 2010     WFW Peninsula Book Club
                                           6:30 p.m. Book and Hostess TBA. Members only.

October 1, 2010              WFW Movie Club
                                           6:30 pm Movie and Host TBA. Members only.


October 13-15, 2010      IWF World Leadership Conference
                                           Montreal, Canada 

October 19, 2010            WFW Peninsula Book Club
                                            6:30 p.m. Book and Hostess TBA. Members only.

October 23,  2010           De Young Museum Docent Led Tour (before the 
                                           museum opens at approx 9 am). Van Gough,         
                                           Gauguin, Cezanne, and Beyond: Post-Impressionist
                                           Masterpieces from the Musee d'Orsay.
                                           Guest Welcome.

November 5, 2010         WFW Movie Club
                                           6:30 pm Movie and Host TBA. Members only.

November 16, 2010       WFW Peninsula Book Club
                                           6:30 p.m. Book and Hostess TBA. Members only.

December 21, 2010       WFW Peninsula Book Club
                                           6:30 p.m. Book and Hostess TBA. Members only.


2011                                  IWF World Cornerstone Conference
                                           Spring, Rome, Italy 

2011                                  IWF World Leadership Conference
                                           Fall, Washington, DC   

2012                                  IWF World Leadership Conference
                                           Fall, San Francisco, CA
 
                                                                 

 NEW MEMBER PROFILES

Dr. Elizabeth Lindsey
Elizabeth Lindsey, Ph. D., is the first female National Geographic
Fellow. An award-winning filmmaker and anthropologist, she is also the first
Polynesian explorer for the National Geographic Society. Dr. Lindsey and ambassadors of the United Nations work on behalf of environmental refugees faced with the punishing realities of climate change.  There will be as many as 50 million refugees by 2010.  Pacific Island nations are on the frontline of this crisis.

The Executive Producer of “Expedition: Wisdom”, a television series for PBS, Dr. Lindsey's expeditions will include Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Bhutan and India.  Her documentary film, “Then There Were None”, which chronicles the near extinction of native Hawaiians, is considered a Hawaiian history classic and has received numerous awards including the prestigious CINE Eagle. 

She serves on the international boards of the Tibet Fund, Islands First, Blue Planet Foundation and is an advisor to the National Geographic's Enduring Voices Initiative, the Paris-based environmental NGO ProNatura and served on the advisory boards of ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center, the University of Hawaii-Hilo, PBS Hawaii and the Kamehameha Schools. Dr. Lindsey established assistance in the Micronesian region of the Pacific, scholarships in Hawaii and India and supports Tibetan refugees.  In 2004 she was named Woman of the Year for the island of Hawaii.

Antoinette Knorr
Antoinette (Toni) Knorr is the general manager of the St. Regis San Francisco. Toni is a seasoned hotelier with ties to the Bay Area since 1992. She has been with Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. since 2005 and prior to that she served as director of hotel operations/asset manager for Millennium Partners, where she managed five luxury properties and the opening of the Ritz Carlton in Boston and Georgetown, and the Four Seasons in San Francisco.

Kathy Hill
Kathy brings more then 30 years of product development and management experience to her position as Senior Vice President for Cisco's Development Strategy and Operations. In this capacity she oversees the implementation and governing of cross-segment technology architectures. Cisco IOS Software and network management development, global government solutions, and Cisco's product development operations.

Kathy is a Board of Trustees Member of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. She holds a bachelor's of science degree in mathematics from Rochester Institute of Technology.


Evelyn Dilsaver
Former EVP of Charles Schwab and President and CEO of Charles Schwab Investment Management, a $200 billion asset management company. Now an active board member of four corporate boards.: Aeropostale (teen specialty clothing), Blue Shield of California, High Mark Funds and Tamalpais Bank.
Also active board member in four non-profits: Chair of the Board of Bishop O'Dowd High School, trustee for Cal State East Bay: board member of the Commonwealth Club and Women's Initiative (past chair).

Avid hiker, knitter and volleyball player. Enjoys seeing Broadway musicals.

Sheryl Young
As CEO of Community Gatepath, Sheryl oversees one of the largest and oldest nonprofit organizations serving over 8,000 children, youth, adults, seniors and families with disabilities with an annual budget of $11 M and staff of 150 employees. She has 30 years of managerial experience in operations, finance and marketing, and is known for her ability to build innovative and sustainable social business enterprises. She has a MPH from UC Berkeley, MA in Special Education from Bell State University, BA from Purdue University, and graduate of Harvard's Business School Leadership Training. She is a proud mother of a daughter and an avid lover of hiking, yoga, and traveling!

Toni Carbo
Toni Carbo is a professor of teaching in the College of Information Science and Technology (the iSchool) at Drexel University's Sacramento Graduate Center. She is also professor emerita at the School of Information Sciences (SIS), University of Pittsburgh and was the Dean of SIS from August 1, 1986 through June 30, 2002. Carbo was selected as the first Madison Council Fellow in Library and Information Science at the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress (September 1, 2002 – April 30, 2003). Her work in the information field began in 1962 and includes extensive experience with information service producers and users (working both in libraries for nine years and database producers for seven years) and with research and development in the area of information policy and the use of information. She has an A.B. from Brown


Barbara Faulkenberry
Barbara is a Brigadier General in the United States Air Force.
Currently stationed at Travis Air Force Base, Barb graduated from the USAF Academy in 1982 in the third class of women admitted to our military academies.  She's been assigned in 16 locations over her 27 years of military service.  Barb's current responsibilities include commanding 3,000 people dispersed across 21 locations.  Her two main missions included ground support of AF aircraft flying throughout the Pacific from Alaska to Diego Garcia off the coast of India, and a rapidly deployable team ready to set up air operations in austere environments worldwide.


Holly Peterson
Holly's Food and Wine Dynamics is a unique special events company known worldwide for memorable wine and food events.  National and international clients include wineries, culinary schools, hospitals, health spas and resorts, country clubs, cruise ships, corporations, restaurants, and even the US Ski Team for the 2002 Olympic games.  Her culinary training began after graduation from UC Davis, when she enrolled at La Varenne Ecole de Cuisine in Paris, graduating with the Grand Diplome de Cuisine.  Subsequently, she cooked at three-star restaurants in Paris and at the American Embassy there.

Drucilla Ramey
After 7 wonderful years in New York City, where I enjoyed my membership in the NYC Forum, I am delighted to return home to San Francisco and to rejoin all my friends, and many new ones, at Women's Forum West.  I am thrilled to shortly be commencing my new position as the new Dean of Golden Gate University School of Law, which begins a radically new chapter of my professional life. I had hitherto served as the longtime Executive Director/General Counsel of the Bar Association of San Francisco and, most recently,  as E.D. of the National Association of Women Judges; in my earlier years, I was a test case civil rights litigator and a law professor at GGU.   I have been married a surprising number of years to Marvin Stender, and our daughter, Jessica, a recent law graduate, is about to start her own career as a civil rights attorney.  I also have three stepchildren who, among them, have given us the gift of four grandchildren.

 INTERNATIONAL VISITOR TO SAN FRANCISCO?                      

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