The  Guest Speaker  for Wednesday,  JULY 16th

at the New location  at

the Arizona Country Club is

Captain Derrick Johnson,

Phoenix FEMA/USA Team

Phoenix Fire Captain Derrick Johnson will be our July 16^th guest.  Captain Johnson will share his and the Phoenix Fire FEMA/USAR deployment experience to New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina of August 2005.  

Derrick was a squad leader of a rescue team that was deployed throughout the 9^th Ward and Canal Street Districts of New Orleans and the Lower Louisiana Delta. The Phoenix USAR Team rescue and removed to safety approximately 450 individuals over six days. He will share his and the team’s experience working with local agencies, lack of local resources, health conditions of individual’s, lack of food and water, unfortunate and untimely deaths and the physical condition of the City and the rescue efforts.

Derrick has served on the Phoenix FEMA/USAR team and Phoenix Fire Department Technical Rescue Team from 1989-2008 and has been deployed to the Atlanta Olympics and the 911 World Trade Centers attack.  Derrick has been serving with the Phoenix Fire Department for 25 years and is involved with several local and national commissions and community organizations.

RSVP to 602-234-6545  to reserve your seat.   

Please call in your reservation by noon on Friday JULY11th

NEW LUNCHEON LOCATION AT THE ARIZONA COUNTY CLUB, 57TH PLACE & THOMAS ROAD

Buffet available at 11:30 AM  ~  PROGRAM BEGINS AT NOON           

  MEMBERS, YEARLY-$330       MONTHLY-$30      GUESTS-$40

The  Guest Speaker  for Wednesday,  JUNE 18th

at the New location  at

the Arizona Country Club is

 Mark Winkleman,

Arizona State Land Commissioner

Governor Napolitano appointed Mark Winkleman as the Arizona State Land Commissioner in 2003. Mark has the responsibility to act as a trustee in the management of over 9 million  acres of State Trust land throughout the state, including over 500,000 acres in major Arizona cities.  When Mark came to the Land Department, his initial goal was to maximize the revenues from the disposition of urban lands through the auction process.  After implementing new strategies through the Land Department staff, the intensity of bidders and the prices achieved were unprecedented.  During the past four years, the Land Department has achieved sales in excess of $1.8 billion.  This far exeeds the sales of the preceding 88 years. This money primarily is used for public education.  The successes have not gone unnoticed by the primary beneficiary of the Trust, Arizona Public Education.  Mark stated. “I am thankful for the many messages of appreciation I receive from people involved in Arizona education, especially the teachers and their students.  At the end of the day, we know we are working for the continued improvement of education in Arizona.”  Mark has been a leader in the effort to reform the laws under which the trust lands are managed.  His goal is to encourage reform that will increase revenues to the beneficiaries, primarily public education, and increase permanent open space.  He hopes to promote better planning of lands directly in the path of growth and reduce urban sprawl while also providing for better management of the vast rural lands held by the Trust.

Mark will address the propsed inititave being placed on the November ballot as well as explain why previous voter inititaves have failed. Stewardship of this land is one of the most important public policies facing our state.  Join us at Nucleus to learn the importance of this initiatave and how and why you should get involved.

RSVP to 602-234-6545  to reserve your seat.   

Please call in your reservation by noon on Friday JUNE 13th

NEW LUNCHEON LOCATION AT THE ARIZONA COUNTY CLUB, 57TH PLACE & THOMAS ROAD
 

Buffet available at 11:30 AM  ~  PROGRAM BEGINS AT NOON            

  MEMBERS, YEARLY-$330       MONTHLY-$30      GUESTS-$40

PLEASE NOTE:    Wednesday, May 21st

The Nucleus luncheon
New location is at the

Arizona Country Club

 5668 East Orange Blossom Lane,
Phoenix 57th Place & Thomas Road

 The  Guest Speaker for Wednesday,  May21st is

ANDREI CHERNY, Author

Andrei Cherny's new book is, The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin  Airlift and America's Finest Hour.  It tells the story of how a small group of Americans, with few resources and against all expectations, fed half of one of the largest cities in the world by air for more than a year, thereby avoiding World War III, winning the hearts of our defeated enemies, and inspiring people around the world to believe in America's fundamental goodness.

Cherny will be appearing on the Colbert Report May 15^th discussing his book.

Cherny is also  the author of The Next Deal: The Future of Public Life in the Information Age, one of the top-selling political books of 2001, which examined the roles technological and generational change have played over the course of American history and laid out a progressive vision for government and community life in the 21st century.  The book detailed how American life is being remade by a new desire for individualized choice and personal decision-making power.

Cherny is co-founder and co-editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, a quarterly journal of serious progressive thought that seeks to spur new ideas on the big challenges of the 21st century. In its first year, it was named "Best New Publication" from a field of 700 magazines by the Utne Independent Press Awards. Cherny has provided policy and strategy advice to Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Al Gore, Harry Reid, Cabinet members, Governors, United States Senators, members of the House of Representatives, national labor unions, Fortune 100 CEOs, and prominent civic leaders.  A former Senior Speechwriter and advisor to Vice President Al Gore, Cherny was the youngest White House Speechwriter in American history.

There will be a book signing for “The Candy Bombers”

RSVP to 602-234-6545  to reserve your seat.   Please call by noon on Friday May 16th

ARIZONA COUNTY CLUB, 57TH PLACE & THOMAS ROAD

Buffet available at 11:30 AM  ~  PROGRAM BEGINS AT NOON

 MEMBERS, YEARLY-$330       MONTHLY-$30      GUESTS-$40

The Nucleus Club is pleased To Announce  our guest speaker for Monday,  April 21, 2008

DON  BIVENS,

Chair of Arizona State  Democratic Party .
 

In August 2007 in Prescott members of the Party’s State Committee elected Don Bivens to Chair the Arizona Democratic Party. As a political veteran in Arizona Bivens stated that,  “Democrats have made tremendous strides in Arizona and I plan to build on our momentum, we are watching a major shift in Arizona politics, as voters increasingly  turn to Democratic candidates. We welcome thoughtful voters who’ve been alienated by partisan politics to join us as we work to realize a bright future for all Arizonans.”

Bivens began his career in Arizona politics in the late 1970s as a Precinct committee person. In the early 1980s, he was President of Young Democrats of Arizona. Since then, Bivens has held leadership roles in many Arizona elections, including the 1982 gubernatorial campaign for Bruce Babbitt and the 1994 gubernatorial campaign for Terry Goddard in which Bivens served as Finance Chair. He most recently served on the finance committee for U.S. Senate candidate Jim Pederson.  Bivens has served as president of both the State Bar of Arizona and Maricopa County Bar Association,  and is a partner with the law firm of Snell & Wilmer, where he specializes in complex litigation. He has a long history of charitable work in Arizona, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Salvation Army and Arizonans for Children. He is a founding Co-Chair of Arizona’s Equal Justice Foundation.

     RSVP to 602-234-6545  to reserve your seat.   
Please call by noon on Thursday, APRIL 17th.
 

At  the Phoenix Country Club at 7th Street & Thomas Rd.   Buffet available at 11:30 AM

PROGRAM BEGINS AT NOON            MEMBERS, YEARLY-$330       MONTHLY-$30      GUESTS-$40 
 

PLEASE NOTE: The Phoenix Country Club will be
closed for remodeling from May ‘08 until Jan. ‘09

Commencing In MAY our meetings will
be changed to the third WEDNESDAY of each month

and our new  location will be at the Newly remodeled

ARIZONA COUNTRY CLUB,
5668 E. Orange Blossom Lane, 
Phoenix, 57th Place & Thomas