Thursday - December 18, 1997 thru January 1, 1998

Holiday Break -- No Meetings

Thursday - December 11, 1997

Featured Speaker: Jim Duncan, State Senator -- "Alaska's Next U.S. Represenative."

Thursday - December 4, 1997

Featured Speaker: Dannie Bolden, Executive Director, Muldoon Community Development Corporation -- "Neighborhood Renaissance: How to Make it Happen."

Thursday - November 27, 1997

Thanksgiving -- No Meeting

Thursday - November 20, 1997

Featured Speaker: Barbara Bennett, Social Services Director, Bean's Cafe -- "Bean's Cafe; Part of the Safety Net."

Thursday Evening - November 13, 1997 - Bartlett Democratic Club Awards Dinner - 6:30pm to 8:30pm - Royal Fork Buffet - 800 Northway Drive

Featured Speaker: Joe Josephson -- "Remembrances of Bob Bartlett."

Thursday - November 13, 1997

Featured Speaker: Trisha Gentel, Executive Director, Standing Together Against Rape -- "Alaska: Leading the Nation in Sexual Assault."

Thursday - November 6, 1997

Featured Speaker: Francine Taylor, with The Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association -- "Voices & Images of Alaskan Politics; Bartlett, Begich, and Egan."

Thursday - October 30, 1997

Featured Speaker: Rick Helms, Crime Prevention Specialist, Anchorage Police Department -- "Halloween Eve: Anchorage Crime Trends."

Thursday - October 23, 1997

Featured Speakers: Joe Murdy, Anchorage Assemblyman, and Scott Kohlhaas, Libertarian Party Petitioner, debate the Teenage Curfew Referendum to Be Voted on in the Upcoming November Special Municipal Election.

Thursday - October 16, 1997

Featured Speaker: Marty Greeson, Executive Director, Mothers Against Drunk Drivers -- "Death by Drunk Driving: If It Can Happen to Princess Diana, It Can Happen to Anyone."

Thursday - October 9, 1997

Featured Speaker: Celeste Graham-Hodge, President, NAACP Anchorage Branch --"Racism: Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth."

Thursday - October 2, 1997

Featured Speaker: Steve Cooper, former Governor, State of Alaska -- "Return from Russia, China, Mongolia and the Wilds of Washington, D.C."

Thursday - September 25, 1997

Featured Speaker: Pat Partnow, PhD, Ad Hoc Committee for Healing Racism -- "Healing Racism in Anchorage."

Thursday - September 18, 1997

Featured Speaker: Deborah Williams, Special Assistant to the Secretary of Interior, for Alaska -- "The Federal Perspective on Subsistence."

Thursday - September 11, 1997

Featured Speaker: Lee Gorsuch, Chancellor, University of Alaska, Anchorage -- "Defunding Our University."

Thursday - September 4, 1997

Featured Speaker: Andrea Ninzel, Executive Director, Alaskan AIDS Assistance Association -- "The Changing Face of AIDS."

Thursday - August 28, 1997

Featured Speakers: Katie Hurley (Member)& Fred Hillman (Founder, Southcentral AK Chapter) -- "Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays."

Thursday - August 21, 1997

Featured Speaker: Sheila Selkregg, Planning Director, Municipality of Anchorage -- "Downtown Anchorage, Past, Present and Future."

Thursday - August 14, 1997

Featured Speaker: Jim McComas, Attorney and President, Alaskans Against the Death Penalty -- "The Death Penalty, Federal and State."

Thursday - August 7, 1997

Featured Speaker: Herb Berkowitz, Attorney and Co-Chair, Alaskans for Death with Dignity -- "The Supreme Court and the Right to Die."

Thursday - July 31, 1997

Featured Speaker: Bill Barnes -- "Patriotism, Politics and Public Opinion."

Thursday - July 24, 1997

Featured Speaker: Pat Abney, Municipal Assembly Member -- "How the Future Looks."

Thursday - July 17, 1997

Featured Speaker: Rep. Allen Kemplen -- "The 1997 Legislative Session."

Thursday - July 10, 1997

Featured Speaker: Malcolm Ford, Associate Director, Alaska Center For the Environment -- "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly of Local Issues."

Thursday - July 3, 1997

Featured Speaker: Rep. Ethan Berkowitz , Dist. 13 -- "A Representative's View of the Past Legislative Session."

Thursday - June 26, 1997

Featured Speakers: Cheryl Clementson & Bob Bell --"Should Local Elections Remain Non-Partisan?"

Thursday - June 19, 1997

Featured Speakers: Tonya Iden & Patrick Flynn -- "Two Legislative Aides' Experiences during the Past Legislative Session."

Thursday - June 12, 1997

Featured Speaker: Jan MacClarence, AWAIC -- "Abused Women's Aid in Crisis."

Thursday - June 5, 1997

Featured Speaker: Rep. Eric Croft -- "A Representative's View of the Past Legislative Session."

Thursday - May 29, 1997

Featured Speakers: Sen. Johnny Ellis & Noelle Hardt -- "A Summary of the Past Legislative Session."

Thursday - May 22, 1997

Featured Speaker: Patrick Higgins -- "The Pros & Cons of Affirmative Action."

Thursday - May 15, 1997

Featured Speaker: Michael Bradner, Political Analyst -- "Analyzing Changes in Alaska's Legislative Process."

Thursday - May 8, 1997

Featured Speaker: Nelson Page, Chair, Mental Health Trust Authority.

Thursday - May 1, 1997

Featured Speaker: Susan Reeves, Legislative Truth Squad Campaign -- "The 1997 Alaska State Legislature's Environmental, Health & Pro Choice Report Card."

Thursday - April 24, 1997

Featured Speaker: Bob Lohr, Executive Director -- "Alaska Public Utilities Commission."

Thursday - April 17, 1997

Featured Speaker: Tom Begich -- "Recap of Municipal Elections."

Thursday - April 10, 1997

Featured Speakers: Debbie Ossiander (I)& Myrtle Lewis (Tentative), Candidates for Seat G of the Anchorage School Board.

Thursday - April 3, 1997

Featured Speakers: Harriet Drummond (I)& Jay Page, Candidates for Seat F of the Anchorage School Board.

Thursday - March 27, 1997

Featured Speaker: Bill Sheffield , Former Governor of Alaska -- "The Alaska Railroad System."

Thursday - March 20, 1997

Featured Speaker: Rita Holthouse, School Board Candidate -- "Anchorage School Board Election Issues."

Thursday - March 13, 1997

Featured Speaker: Wendy Bates -- "Stealth Politics in Anchorage - the Participation of Anchorage Churches in Local Politics."

Thursday - March 6, 1997

Featured Speaker: Gail Gatton -- "Southcentral Democrats Tackle the Future."

Thursday - February 27, 1997

Featured Speaker: Margaret Pugh, Commissioner of the Department of Corrections.

Thursday - February 20, 1997

Featured Speaker: Fran Ulmer, Lt. Governor of Alaska.

Thursday - February 13, 1997

Featured Speaker: John Shively, Commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources.

Thursday - February 6, 1997

Featured Speakers: Rhonda Roberts and Dan Carter -- "The Inaugural Experience"

Thursday - January 30, 1997

Featured Speaker: Peg Tileston, Vice President of the Alaska Center for the Environment -- "Why Do We Need To Recycle?"

Thursday - January 23, 1997

Featured Speakers: Sharon Cissna & Misty Coumbe -- "Planning for a Better Anchorage"

Thursday - January 16, 1997

Featured Speaker: Rita Holthouse, Former East High School Principal & Current Anchorage School Board Candidate -- "The School Boundary Debate and Other Issues Facing the Anchorage School District"

Thursday - January 9, 1997

Featured Speakers: Patti Higgins & Max Gruenberg, Co-Presidents -- "Looking Forward to 1997"

Thursday - January 2, 1997

Where: ADP Headquarters
Purpose: 1997 Goal Setting Session -- Bartlett Democratic Club Board

Thursday - December 26, 1996 -- No Meeting

Thursday - December 19, 1996

Where: Mayflower Catering -- Minnesota and Benson
Purpose: Organizational Meeting of the 1997 Bartlett Democratic Club Board:

Co-Presidents: Patti Higgins & Max Gruenberg
Vice President: Stan Robbins
Secretary: Susan Knighton
Co-Treasurers: Roxy McDonagh & Julia Garrigues
Co-Program Chairs: Misty Coumbe & Sharon Cissna
Members: Betty Bruckman, Randy Carter, Marie Motschman, Sylvia Short,
Pixie Siebe, Peg Tileston & Ed Willis