Michael Bazyler's new book, Holocaust
Restitution, was published in December
2005. He is an international law litigator
who is professor of law at Whittier Law
School and Research Fellow, Holocaust
Education Trust, London, England.
Rome Friesen is in his third year
as a board member of IMUNA, imuna.org
a non-profit corporation that sponsors
the annual National HS Model UN in New
York and the Regional Model UN Salt Lake
City. Approximately 2600 high school students
from around the world participate yearly.
Golf, real estate, and international travel
keep him busy the rest of the time.
Sir Eldon and Lady Betty Griffiths
traveled to Europe by container ship from
Long Beach with Ralph Tomlinson and Gloria
Bradeson (WAC members), stopping in San
Juan, Cagliari (Sardinia), Livorno and
Genoa, Italy, and disembarking in Barcelona.
Sir Eldon and Lady Betty then flew to
England just in time for the (bad news)
terrorist attack on the underground trains
and the (good news) that London had won
the contest to stage the 2012 Olympic
Games. They spent much of the summer in
his former constituency where several
Orange County people joined them for Sir
Eldon's birthday party and a performance
of Handels messiah in the cathedral where
prince Charles and Camilla dedicated a
fine new tower. The summer months were
a blur of garden parties (by Betty),speeches
(by Sir Eldon), horseshows, fireworks
in the Abbey gardens and two weeks relief
from their grandchildren on the Grand
Canal in Venice and a trip to one of Europe's
off the beaten track little capitals,
Llubjiana in Slovenia (strongly recommended).
They returned to Orange County and New
York to see friends at the UN and another
musical comedy, Chicago. This year Sir
Eldon has given talks on the EU and the
Middle East in six or seven cities in
the southern states, and is working on
a KOCE video on his (mis)spent life &
times. Betty leaves shortly for Easter
in London and Sir Eldon will return there
with her in June.
Wendy Harder - Soka University's
5th Annual International Festival, a continuous
program of international music and dance
on 3 stages featuring over 600 musicians,
dancers, painters, ceramic artists and
exhibitors, Sat., May 6th from 10:30 am
to 5:30 pm.
Sue Kint has been traveling to
Las Vegas and Dallas, Texas this month
and will be traveling to Korea next month.
Joe Koszarek and his daughter
Elise vacationed in Beijing and Tokyo
in February. Joe and Elise appreciated
the relatively mild winter weather and
the lack of tourists the week they were
there.
Pat Morgan is delivering a paper
at the International Studies Association
annual conference in San Diego March 22-25
on the US-Japan Alliance and East Asian
Security Management. The ISA is the global
association of international affairs specialists
in academia and governments. He is delivering
a paper on Future Security Cooperation
Arrangements in Northeast Asia for a conference
of the Korean Association of International
Studies in Seoul, Korea on May 12-13.
He is also teaching a course on US-European
relations at Lund University in Lund Sweden,
in late Jung-July in a joint summer program
organized by Lund University and the University
of California.
Board and Program Committee member Matthew
Sant was profiled in an article that
appeared in the Winter 2006 issue of "IP
Magazine." The article, entitled
"IP's High Flier" discusses
Matt's work for Eclipse Aviation Corporation,
a startup aircraft manufacturer that hopes
to revolutionize the general aviation
industry. Matt has helped guide Eclipse
through over $400 million in financing
and negotiated a series of international
supply chain agreements on Eclipse's behalf.
Matt is a partner in the Newport Beach
office of Irell & Manella LLP, where
his practice focuses on complex intellectual
property and corporate transactions.
William F. Underwood, a new WACOC
member, spoke March 16th on the topic
of "Chinafrica - China's Economic
Engine in Africa" at a Georgia University
in their "Year of China" Seminar
series. "Chinafrica" is a term
that Bill coined recently, after observing
the tremendous growth in China's investment
in Africa in the last 5 years.
Consul members Michael R. A. Wade
and his wife Carole, members of the
Golden State Leadership Team, sat down
with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in
a private meeting in San Jose. The meeting
took place during the California Republican
State Convention on February 23rd, 2006.
Governor Schwarzenegger's plan for California
was unanimously applauded.
