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Wednesday, April 3, 2019
John Hamilton will speak on the field of addiction treatment and prevention. He is nationally recognized as an expert in this field. He brings three decades of experience to his role as president and CEO of Liberation Programs and also chairs the Advisory Board for the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and serves on the Governor’s Alcohol and Drug Policy Council. Previously, John was chief clinical outreach officer at Mountainside Treatment Center, a nationally acclaimed drug rehabilitation center with locations in New York and Connecticut. He served as CIO of Recovery Network of Programs, a nonprofit behavioral health agency serving the Greater Bridgeport Community. John is past chair of the Dissemination Committee for the National Institute for Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network, past chair of the Community Treatment Providers Caucus, past president of the Southwest Connecticut Mental Health Board, past president of the New England Association of Drug Court Professionals and co-founder of the Greenwich Father’s Forum. In 2013, John was a recipient of the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence Nyswander-Dole Award for his contributions to the field of addiction treatment. Arranged by John Bassler
Presentation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCVBOolWjQ0
John’s slides: https://dariendma.org/wp-content/uploads/John-Hamiltons-Slides.pdf
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Art Gottlieb returns to the DMA to talk with us about the history of the USS Intrepid. Launched in 1943, this former aircraft carrier fought in World War II, surviving five kamikaze attacks and one torpedo strike. The ship later served in the Cold War and then the Vietnam War. Intrepid also served as a NASA recovery vessel in the 1960s. It was decommissioned in 1974 and, today, is berthed on the Hudson River as the centerpiece of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. Art has served as a professional curator of naval history and technical director of exhibits at the museum. His presentation will cover the full history of the Intrepid from keel laying through her service history up to the present day. Arranged by Tom Lom
Video of his presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-zyBnwAla8
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Erik Ofgang will share the story of William Gillette and the ways in which the Hartford actor’s life became entangled with the development of literature’s most famous detective. He also will examine how the eccentric Gillette decided to build a castle overlooking the Connecticut River. Erik is an award-winning writer, musician and magician whose work has appeared in dozens of magazines and newspapers throughout the country, including the Associated Press, the Hartford Courant and Connecticut Magazine, where he is a senior writer. Erik is the author of “Buzzed: Beers, Booze & Coffee Brews, Where to Enjoy the Best Craft Beverages in New England,” “Gillette Castle: A History” and the forthcoming “The Good Vices.” He teaches writing and journalism at Western Connecticut State University’s MFA writing program and at Mercy College. When he’s not writing, he can be found playing bass with the Celtic roots band MacTalla Mor. He lives in western Connecticut with his wife Corinne. Arranged by Gehr Brown
Video of presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eieyMUzxOEk
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
Jim Smith and Robert Patricelli will speak about the Connecticut Commission on Fiscal Stability and Economic Growth
(FSEG). Connecticut’s revenues are not keeping pace with spending commitments. Our population has not grown since 1990, and private sector jobs are fewer today than a decade ago due to the high cost of doing business here and unfriendly tax climate, aging infrastructure and transportation issues. The new administration is faced with a $2 billion deficit due to overspending in the past and pension shortfall in state employee and teacher pension funds. What new taxes and belt tightening the committee will eventually recommend will evolve over the next months. Jim is chairman of the Board of Webster Financial Corporation and, until recently, served as vice chairman of the Midsize Banks Coalition of America. He served as a member of the Federal Advisory Council, which advises the deliberations of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and served on the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He is actively engaged in community service and supports numerous civic organizations. Bob has spent more than 50 years in leadership roles in the health care industry and in public service. His business life began in health care in 1987 at Connecticut General Corporation and its successor Cigna Corporation. In 1997, he left Cigna to begin a 20-year career as an entrepreneur, founding several companies. His public service started fresh out of law school as a White House Fellow, followed by numerous roles in Washington, D.C., and Hartford. Bob most recently served as co-chair of the FSEG, appointed by Gov. Malloy in 2017. He has served on the Board of Directors for five organizations. He grew up in Hartford, attended Wesleyan University and Harvard Law School, and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Paris. Arranged by John Schlachtenhaufen
Video of their presentation: https://youtu.be/xosAOE0dDtA
Bob Patricelli’s slides: https://dariendma.org/wp-content/uploads/Patricelli-Lamont-Budget-Comments-Final-030819.pdf
Jim Smith’s slides: https://dariendma.org/wp-content/uploads/PACT-Slides-for-JSmithv1-ch-6-for-03-13-2019-without-notes.pdf
Homework that will help get the most from the speakers:
Lamont’s Budget presentation.
https://dariendma.org//wp-content/uploads/Gov-Lamont-FY20-FY21-Budget-Presentation-2-20-19.pdf
https://ct-n.com/ondemand.asp?ID=16045
Fiscal Stability Commission Report 2.0
Jim Lewis will speak on McDonald’s advertising program and future plans. Jim has been in the McDonald's system since 1986 and an owner/operator since 1993. He currently owns 17 restaurants in Manhattan and Queens, including the famous Times Square and 42nd Street McDonald’s. Jim began his career as an account executive with Michigan Bell Telephone in 1981. After that, he worked as a sales manager for AT&T in Southfield, Mich. He has a B.A. degree in marketing from Michigan State University. He was a member of Sigma Nu and served as the fraternity's first president when it returned to campus in 1978. He served as president of the Inter-fraternity Council for Michigan State University. Jim is married to Kimberly Lewis, and they have three children. The family lives in Darien.
Arranged by Tom Lom
Video of his presentation: https://youtu.be/i0SQ2GFsdpA
Kenneth H. Allen of Darien died peacefully at home on February 27, 2019. He was 82 years old.
Mr. Allen was born on January 13, 1937 to the late Kenneth E. and Claudine (Smith) Allen. He is a graduate of UCLA, where he received his BA in Political Science. He served as an information officer in Italy while on active duty in the United States Air Force.
Mr. Allen is a retired IBM executive. During his career, he served in management positions on IBM’s corporate staff, in its divisions and at IBM World Trade Corporation.
Mr. Allen produced a popular real estate blog which appeared on a number of websites.
Mr. Allen is predeceased by his parents and his younger brother, Robert. He is survived by his wife of 47 years, Linda, and his daughters Katie of Darien and Meg of New Canaan.
Visiting hours will be held at the Edward Lawrence Funeral Home, 2119 Post Road, Darien on Thursday, March 7 from 6pm-8pm. A mass of Christian Burial will be held at St. John R.C. Church, 1986 Post Road, Darien on Friday, March 8 at 10am. Mr. Allen will be interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
The family asks that donations please be sent to Darien EMS Post 53, P. O. Box 2066, Darien, CT 06820.
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From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America’s most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequent falling out did much to fix its course.Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could scarcely have come from more different worlds, or been more different in temperament. Jefferson, the optimist with enough faith in the innate goodness of his fellow man to be democracy’s champion, was an aristocratic Southern slaveowner, while Adams, the overachiever from New England’s rising middling classes, painfully aware he was no aristocrat, was a skeptic about popular rule and a defender of a more elitist view of government. They worked closely in the crucible of revolution, crafting the Declaration of Independence and leading, with Franklin, the diplomatic effort that brought France into the fight. But ultimately, their profound differences would lead to a fundamental crisis, in their friendship and in the nation writ large, as they became the figureheads of two entirely new forces, the first American political parties. It was a bitter breach, lasting through the presidential administrations of both men, and beyond. But late in life, something remarkable happened: these two men were nudged into reconciliation. What started as a grudging trickle of correspondence became a great flood, and a friendship was rekindled, over the course of hundreds of letters. In their final years they were the last surviving founding fathers and cherished their role in this mighty young republic as it approached the half century mark in 1826. At last, on the afternoon of July 4th, 50 years to the day after the signing of the Declaration, Adams let out a sigh and said, “At least Jefferson still lives.” He died soon thereafter. In fact, a few hours earlier on that same day, far to the south in his home in Monticello, Jefferson died as well. Arguably no relationship in this country’s history carries as much freight as that of John Adams of Massachusetts and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia. Gordon Wood has more than done justice to these entwined lives and their meaning; he has written a magnificent new addition to America’s collective story