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.