THE GALEN
AND BARBARA ROWELL LECTURE SERIES
and the presentation of
THE ROWELL AWARD FOR THE ART OF ADVENTURE
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
The Hotel Nikko
San Francisco , CA
Please join us for the third annual Rowell Lecture, “AN
EVENING WITH TOM BROKAW,” a reception and
program with the former NBC Evening News anchor and best-selling
author as he pays tribute to long time friends Galen and
Barbara Rowell and speaks on the topic of “Deleting
the Virtual Life”.
The program will also include the presentation of the 2006Rowell
Award for the Art of Adventure to exceptional photographer Beth
Wald. The Award honors that adventurer whose artistic passion illuminates
the wild places of the world, and whose accomplishments significantly benefit
both the environment and the peoples who inhabit these lands and regions. Please
visit www.rowellaward.com for more
information about the Award.
Doug McConnell, Rowell Legacy Committee member and host of KRON-TV’s “Bay
Area Backroads,” will emcee this special evening.
Jimmy Chin , the 2005 Rowell Award Recipient, will present
this year’s Award.
This event is presented by the Commonwealth
Club of California, The
Rowell Legacy Committee, and Yosemite
National Institutes. It is sponsored by Mountain
Light Gallery, Outdoor
Photographer magazine, The
North Face, The
Yosemite Fund and Yosemite
Natinoal Institutes.
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join us for "AN EVENING WITH ERIK WEIHENMAYER,"
a reception and program with the first blind climber to reach
the summit of Mt Everest (200l) and a year later, one of the
youngest mountaineers, at 33, to climb the Seven Summits,
the highest mountains on the seven continents. In 2003, Erik
completed "Primal Quest," the toughest multi-sport
adventure race in the world, 457 miles through the Sierra
Nevada, in nine days. Erik sky dives, paraglides, cycles,
kayaks, treks and wrestles. "He's an inspiration to other
blind people and plenty of us folks who can see just fine,"
says Jon Krakauer. (For more information about Erik, visit
his website at www.touchthetop.com)
The program will also include the presentation of the first
Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure.
Doug McConnell, Rowell Legacy Committee co-chair and host
of KRON-TV's "Bay Area Backroads," will emcee this
special evening.
This event is presented by the Commonwealth Club of California,
The Rowell Legacy Committee, and Yosemite National Institutes.
It is co-sponsored by The Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation
and Mountain Hardwear.
 6:30
p.m. VIP Reception with Erik Weihenmayer. Includes
wine, hors d'oeuvres, preferred program seating and autographed
copy of Erik's book, Touch the Top of the World: A Blind
Man's Journey to Climb Farther Than the Eye Can See. Parc
55 Hotel at 55 Cyril Magnin St. (just off 5th and Market),
San Francisco. $125.
7:30 p.m. An Evening with Erik Weihenmayer & Presentation
of the Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure. Parc
55 Hotel at 55 Cyril Magnin, San Francisco.
$25 Commonwealth Club Members and affiliates of sponsoring
organizations, $35 non-members.
TICKETS: Reservations can be made February 1st through the
Commonwealth Club website, http://www.commonwealthclub.org/featured.html#weihenmayer.
Tickets will be sold at the door only if space is available.
For a map and directions, please visit the Fairmont
Hotel's website. Near the bottom on the left you will
find a Viritual Concierge; choose the Map & Directions
option.
Over 100 people joined us at the Headlands Institute in the
Marin Headlands for a reception and special screening of the
film Monumental: David Brower’s Fight For Wild America. This
award-winning documentary by Bay Area filmmaker Kelly Duane
chronicles the life of David Brower, an environmentalist who
fought for the preservation of America’s wild places.
This event was a fundraiser for The Rowell Award for the Art
of Adventure and was co-sponsored by the Rowell Legacy Committee
and Yosemite National Institutes. Proceeds from the
event will be used to endow the Rowell Award.
Monumental was completed with technical expertise
from Galen
Rowell and financial assistance from the late Brian Maxwell,
a Rowell
Legacy Committee member at the time of his death. For
more information about Monumental, please visit www.loteriafilms.org. |
