Calendar of Events

League of Women Voters^®
of North Orange County

Date	Time	Place	Description
Thursday, March 4, 2010	1-3:00 pm	Hosted by Gabriela Kolias Call (714) 524-3962 or Email Readwithleague@lwvnoc.org	Read with League : She's Out There by Amy Sewell. Essays by 35 young women who aspire to be president of the United States. Their plans focus on diverse concerns and issues, including poverty, international relations, immigration, education, racism and sexism. Includes comments from current women in politics as well as a listing of female presidential candidates dating back to 1872.
Thursday, March 25, 2010	12:30-2:00pm	1401 N. Harbor Fullerton, CA Sizzler Restaurant Lunch cost is 12 dollars. RSVP to Bette Frazier at lunchwithleague@lwvnoc.org or call 562-691-2043 to request Chicken or Steak or Salad Bar Everyone is welcome Buy your Luncheon Booklet of six coupons for 65 dollars. Bring a friend	Lunch with League: Diversity and Inclusion in Orange County. Speaker: Rusty Kennedy, Executive Director, CEO, Orange County Human Relations Commision and Council The mission of the Orange County Human Relations Commission is to foster mutual understanding among diverse residents and eliminate prejudice, intolerance and discrimination. Mr. Kennedy will report on our county's progress in fulfilling the Commission's goals. Rusty Kennedy has served as Executive Director of the Orange County Human Relations Commission since 1981 and as the founding CEO of the non-profit Orange County Human Relations Council, established 1991. Kennedy leads this dynamic public/private partnership that includes the nationally recognized BRIDGES: School Inter-Ethnic Relations and Violence Prevention Program, a Mediation/Conflict Resolution Program, and a Community Building Program that includes Diverse Leadership Development, Police/Community Relations Training, Collaborative Community Planning, Living Room Dialogues and civil rights. Rusty Kennedy regularly publishes articles on civil rights, hate crime and building inter-group understanding and has received numerous awards and honors, including being selected as a delegate to the White House Conference on Hate Crime and appointed to the California Attorney General's Hate Crime Commission. He also serves on the Board of the California Association of Human Relations Organizations and the Orange County Congregation Community Organization. Rusty is married to Anita Varela and they have three children, Ariana, Nico and Alex. His parents, Ralph and Natalie Kennedy were Fullerton leaders in the Civil Rights movement and founded the Fullerton Observer community newspaper, now published by his sister, Sharon Kennedy. He and his wife live in the house he was raised in here in Fullerton.
Thursday, April 1, 2010	1-3:00 pm	Hosted by Arline Burgmeier Call: (714) 828-8624 Email: readwithleague@lwvnoc.org	Read with League: The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Tobin. The Nine covers the main legal issues the Court has heard over the last two decades, including abortion, the separation of church and state, affirmative action, the Clinton impeachment, and Bush Vs Gove, which decided the 2000 election.
Thursday, April 22, 2010	12:30-2:00pm	1401 N. Harbor Fullerton, CA Sizzler Restaurant Lunch cost is 12 dollars. RSVP to Bette Frazier at lunchwithleague@lwvnoc.org or call 562-691-2043 to request Chicken or Steak or Salad Bar Everyone is welcome Buy your Luncheon Booklet of six coupons for 65 dollars. Bring a friend	Lunch with League: The Impact of the Internet on US Politics. Speaker: Dr. Pat Ganer, Professor, Cypress College Someone quipped that Dr. Ganer, teacher of Speech Communication, should be named Lunch with League MPS(Most Popular Speaker). This engagement will be Dr. Ganer's third appearance thus complying with Leaguers insistence on another of her reasoned, never boring analyses of American political issues. Education: BA and MA in Political Science from USC and UCLA, respectively. Ph.D in Communication from the University of Utah with an emphasis on Political Communication. Dissertation: "An Analysis of the Role of Values in the Argumentation of the 1980 Presidential Campaign." Teaching: Full-time faculty at Cypress College since 1971,teaching Speech Communication and some (especially when she taught our Semester Abroad programs in London and Madrid) Political Science. She also teaches each semester at Long Beach State, generally alternating the courses in Campaign Communication and Communication Strategies of International Speakers Papers and Publications: She has presented numerous papers at the Western Communication Association and National Communication Association conferences, mainly in the areas of Political Communication and Argumentation. She has also presented at international conferences in Japan, Dublin, Amsterdam, Sydney and Sao Paolo. Consulting: She served as an analyst on the Presidential debates for the Los Angeles Times and a commentator on George Bush's 2000 convention speech for MSNBC television. She has also served as a consultant to different individual political candidates and organizations.
Saturday, May 1, 2010	9:00-2:00	Fullerton Police Department Mural Room 237 West Commonwealth Fullerton, CA Free Parking Cost to be announced call 714-254-7440 for reservation	Annual Meeting. Join LWVNOC in evaluating this year's accomplishments, install new officers, and hear an outstanding speaker to be announce.
Thursday, May 6, 2010	1-3:00 pm	Hosted by Kay Bruce call 714-921-1308 Email: readwithleague@lwvnoc.org	Read with League: The Housing Boom and Bust by Thomas Sowell. No single event caused the housing bust. Instead, a whole series of questionable decisions by many people, in many places, over several years built up the pressure that led to the sudden collapse of the housing market and of financial institutions that began falling like dominoes.
Saturday, September 25, 2010	11:30-2:00 pm	Alta Vista Country Club 777 Alta Vista Street Placentia, CA 92870 Cost to be announced later Reservations: Call 714-254-7440 or email bfhf1951@aol.com	Kickoff Luncheon: Speaker Timothy Naftali, Ph.D. Timothy Naftali is the director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, a part of the National Archives and Records Administration. Then Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein appointed Naftali director-designate of the Nixon Library in April 2006. Naftali served as director of the Nixon Presidential Materials Staff at the National Archives from October 2006 until a federal Nixon Library was established within the system of presidential libraries on July 11, 2007. Before joining the National Archives, Naftali taught history at several universities, including the University of Virginia, where he also served as director of the Presidential Recordings Program at the Miller Center of Public Affairs. There he oversaw a team of researchers who transcribed and annotated meetings and telephone conversations secretly recorded by Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. Naftali is a prolific writer for both popular and scholarly audiences. His work has appeared on Slate.com, The New York Times, the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, and other publications, and he has appeared on National Public Radio, the History Channel and C-SPAN. He is the author of four books, including Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism and, with Aleksander Fursenko,"One Hell of A Gamble": Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958+1964. His second book with Fursenko, Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary, received the Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature in June 2007. His most recent book, George H. W. Bush, appeared in December 2007 as part of The American Presidents series, edited by the late Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Sean Wilentz. Naftali was a consultant to the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group, which located and declassified U.S. government records relating to war crimes committed by the Nazi and Imperial Japanese governments during World War II and the disposition of war criminals after the conflict. He was also a consultant on the history of U.S. counterterrorism policy to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (popularly known as the "9/11 Commission"). Naftali received his undergraduate degree in history from Yale University, an M.A. in international economics from the Johns Hopkins University, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University.

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