Reservation and Cancellation Policies.
Luncheon and Annual Dinner reservations have become increasingly popular and are filling our venue capacities more rapidly than ever. While this is greatly appreciated by the WACSC Management Board, it requires the implementation of some practical controls, as follows:
Reservations must be cut off one week before the date of the event. If your reservation is received after the published deadline it will be returned and your name will be placed on a waiting list.
Cancellations will be honored if you call our hotline, 707-573-6014, at least 48 hours before the event. This same number can be used to ask questions about WACSC programs and policies. You will receive a refund in the mail. If you need to cancel less than 48 hours before the event we cannot issue a refund because your meal will be charged to the Council. Cancellations made before the 48 hour deadline may allow members on a waiting list to attend.
No Doggie Bag policy applies to two of our meal venues: Fountaingrove Inn and the Hilton Hotel. This is their food safety rule; not ours.
FIRST QUARTER 2012 PROGRAMS
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Friday, January 20, 2012, Annual Dinner AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, INDIA – The Challenge of Achieving Good Governance in Asia
David Arnold, President of the Asia Foundation
Social hour (no-host cocktails) 5:30; Dinner 6:30 p.m. FountainGrove Inn Hotel, Camelot Room 101 Fountaingrove Parkway, Santa Rosa (enter from Mendocino Avenue)
Members $35; Visitors $40
Reservation required by January 13 |
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David Arnold has recently visited the Asia Foundation’s country offices in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India. In these and other more underdeveloped nations in Asia, he believes the primary focus should be the need for good governance. He points out that 10 of the 18 countries in South and Southeast Asia are either dealing with current armed insurgencies or are in fragile post-conflict situations.
Mr. Arnold will share his observations from his recent trip to Asia, his hopes and recommendations for U.S. foreign policy, and then describe what direction the work of the Asia Foundation will take for the coming years.
David Arnold became the sixth president of The Asia Foundation on January 1, 2011. Previously he had served as president of the American University in Cairo for seven years, and as executive vice-president of the Institute of International Education the six years prior.
His Bachelor’s degree is from the University of Michigan; his Master’s degree in Public Administration, from Michigan State University.
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Thursday, February 2, 2012, THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED NATIONS: FROM FDR TO OBAMA sponsored by The United Nations Association Sonoma County Chapter
Chris O’Sullivan Ph.D., teaches history and international studies at the University of San Francisco
7:30 PM, First United Methodist Church 1551 Montgomery Drive Santa Rosa
Refreshments will be served
The 2012 elections promise to determine whether the United States pursues a constructive or obstructionist relationship with the United Nations. In the midst of the campaign, Chris O’Sullivan will explore the history of the US-UN relationship, from its origins in 1945 to today. O’Sullivan will discuss the differing approaches American presidents took in their relations with the UN, from the heyday of US-UN relations in the 1940s and 50s, to the more recent acrimony of the 2003 Iraq War and the John Bolton appointment and the current financial crisis.
Chris O’Sullivan (Ph.D., MA, London School of Economics, University of London; BA, UC Berkeley) teaches history and international studies at the University of San Francisco, where he is the recipient of their most recent Distinguished Lecturer Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is the author of several books about world affairs, including Colin Powell: A Political Biography (2010); The United Nations (2005); and Sumner Welles (2008) which received the American Historical Association's Gutenberg Prize and is a Council of Learned Societies Humanities Book Selection. He has lectured on the history of the United Nations at the FDR Presidential Library, the United Nations University in Tokyo, the Library of Congress, and the UN’s 60th Anniversary celebration.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012, REFUGEES -- THE RED CROSS AT HOME AND ABROAD Tim Miller, American Red Cross Chief Executive Officer of Sonoma, Mendocino, Lake Counties Chapter
7:30 p.m., Spring Lake Village auditorium 5555 Montgomery Drive, Santa Rosa
Members & SLV free; Visitors $5 |
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2011 has seen more major natural disasters than any year on record, with revolutions and armed conflicts in more than 20 nations. Born of war in 1864, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement have worked to ameliorate human suffering for more than 150 years. With 20 years’ experience, Tim Miller will discuss the unique role of the Red Cross in crises, explain its role as guardian of Geneva Conventions, and explain the role our local chapter plays on the global stage.
Mr. Miller is Regional Executive Officer for the California Northwest Region. He is also on the national Red Cross faculty, serving as an instructor-trainer in international humanitarian law. While pursuing an M.A. in international policy studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, he lived in China. He has been Country Director for a farmer-focused refugee-relief non-profit agency in Azerbaijan, and also its Regional Representative for Asia and the Middle East.
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Friday, February
24, 2012,
David Kris, former U.S. Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division, Department of Justice
Noon, La Gare
Restaurant
Members $23;
Visitors $28 Reservations required by February 17
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David
Kris will discuss origins and evolution of law governing electronic
surveillance for national security, focusing on “modernization” of that
law after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He will discuss the National
Security Agency Terrorist Surveillance Program, which ignited a wildfire
of controversy when revealed by the New York Times and confirmed
by President Bush in 2005. He considers that program the opening gambit
in a seven-year effort to modernize the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act (FISA). He will describe factors leading Congress to
modernize FISA, explain what is at stake in modernization, and speculate
on the future of national security surveillance here and abroad.
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For reservations, make
checks payable to WACSC and send to World Affairs Council, PO Box 1433,
Santa Rosa, CA 95402.
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We have a great
corporate sponsor, Spring Lake Village, please support them
at every opportunity.
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