Dr.
John Goyette
is the Dean of the California Campus of Thomas Aquinas College. Dr.
Goyette supervises the College's unique program of Catholic liberal education,
makes class assignments, and is responsible for the general welfare and
discipline of students. He also chairs the Instruction and Curriculum committees
and oversees a wide range of College programs, from student activities and
alumni relations to the chaplaincy and faculty hiring. He will address the
club on
"The Great Books" as a form of educating the whole man.
November 14 - Dr. Jessica Spake
Dr.
Jessica Spake recently arrived at Carnegie
Science Obsevatories and was previously at Caltech. Her area of study is
exoplanets - planets beyond our solar system - one of the hottest topics in
astronomy today. Dr. Spake analyzes which exoplanets retain or lose their
atmospheres, research that will also provide new clues in the search of life
beyond Earth. Her talk will be on "The Strange Skies of Alien Worlds."
Rabbi
Erez Sherman was ordained from the Jewish Theological Seminary of
America in May 2009. He is also a graduate of Albert A. List College and
Columbia University (with degrees in Music and Talmud). At Sinai Temple,
Rabbi Sherman oversees the Sinai Temple Israel Center; he also founded
the Center's Rabbinical School Fellowship, which trains future Rabbis.
He was recently named the 5th top Visionary for Israel by the Jerusalem
Post.
Paulist Fr. Gilbert Martinez
is pastor of St. Paul the Apostle Catholic Community in Los Angeles. A
native of El Paso, TX, Fr. Gil was reared in California. He completed a
bachelor of science degree in conservation of natural resources from the
University of California at Berkeley. He worked for seven years as a
National Park Service Ranger at Grand Canyon and Big Bend National Parks
before joining the Paulist novitiate.
Father Martinez
November 28 - Dark (Thanksgiving)
December 5
Special evening meeting with District Governor
Albert Hernandez.
Rotary is a leadership organization made up of local business, professional and civic leaders who meet
regularly to get to know each other, form friendships and, through that, get things done in our local community. Rotary is the world's
oldest and largest service organization (founded in 1905).