Member Stories
GIVING A PARTY FOR 14,000
By: Carole Bennett, Class 1 The first graduating class of Leadership Santa Rosa was in 1984. I remember being the first (and second) president of the brand new Alumni Association. Classmate and attorney Glen Smith wrote up the original ByLaws. I believe classmate Phil Salyer designed the distinctive LSR lettering that has stood the test of time…
Read MoreSuperbowl Road Trip Supports Breast Cancer Research
by Chris Smith, LSR Class XI So, did you hear about the LSR grad and Niners fan who took a limousine the more than 2,300 miles from Santa Rosa to New Orleans and merged with the tens of thousands of fans massed for Super Bowl 47, but never intended to go to the game? This…
Read MoreClass XVI alum still packing it in for kids and keeping them warm too!
Say, LSR alum, if you’re involved in an LSR legacy project, or if your LSR experience prompted you to enlist in an existing community effort, we’d like to write about it. Just drop a note to Chris Smith at csmith54@sonic.net. Lois Shelton of Class XVI was eager to tell us all about Caring Strangers, the…
Read MoreMark Millan, Class XI, Discovers Spain, and Self
by Chris Smith Do forgive the normally acute and engaged Mark Millan, LSR Class XI, if he seems during a conversation to be not quite all there. Mark may have slipped back to Spain, where just recently he searched ancient, narrow streets for secrets to his DNA, witnessed the intoxicating madness of the running of…
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