First California Annual Meeting and Luncheon
When? Saturday May 31, 2008
Reservation Pre-Paid Deadline: 5/22/08.
 Meeting Place? San Diego Yacht Club, 1011 Anchorage Lane, San Diego, California
www.sdyc.org
Board Meeting starts at 10 a.m. (**Board Members, see your note of instructions below)
Company Meeting starts at 11 a.m.
Lunch served at Noon
Luncheon Cost: $32.00 per person
The menu will be Surf and Turf Buffett –
Grilled Petite Sirloin with Mushroom Demi-Glaze and Seared Salmon with Vera Cruz Sauce, Caesar Salad, Garlic Mashed potatoes, Vegetables and dessert.
Choice of Coffee or Tea.
Wine will be available for purchase at the bar.
Reservation Pre-Paid Deadline: 5/22/08.
(Your name needs to be on the Guest List to enter the San Diego Yacht club parking lot)
Please make checks payable to: The First California Company Jamestowne
Please send your check before 5/22/08 to:
Virginia Gotleib, 3401 Loadstone Dr., Sherman Oaks, California 91403-4513
 Our speaker will be Dr. Peter Mancall who will speak on "A New World: England's First View of America". He gave the keynote address when it opened at the Yale Center for British Art. The exhibit will travel to the Jamestowne Settlement, Virginia for viewing July 15-October 15, 2008. This exhibit will be at Yale until June 1, 2008.
Dr. Peter Mancall is a professor of history at the University of Southern California whose work has focused on early America, Native Americans, and the early modern Atlantic world.
To learn more about our speaker please go to this website:
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/history/people/faculty/faculty1003494.html
 His new book, "Our English View of the New World through the eyes of John White”.
John White made five voyages to Virginia from England from 1585-1593.
He was Governor of the "Lost Colony at Roanoke Island" and grandfather of Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the New World. He left the colony (on what is now the coast of North Carolina) and returned to England for supplies. Unfortunately, his ship, and every other ship in the nation, was detained for the great battle against the Spanish Armada. When he finally returned nearly three years later, there was no trace of the settlers. White's watercolors of the Algonquians and the flora and fauna here are very lovely. They were published and disseminated throughout Europe and became the stereotypic image of North American natives for several generations.
Dr. Mancall will do a PowerPoint projection of the paintings as a part of his talk.
Dr. Peter Mancall's newest book is the one we are pre-selling:
"Hakluyt's Promise: An Elizabethan's Obsession for an English America".
This is "a well-written, meticulously-researched account of the life of the man who rates as the single most important figure in creating the "spirit of colonization" in England during the latter years of Elizabeth I's Reign"
His books will be available for pre purchase only. None will be sold at this meeting. If you would like a copy of this book please write a check made out to “First California Company” for $38 and send it in ASAP. Pre-Paid Deadline for ordering his book is May 18, 2008. Dr. Mancall will sign at the meeting.
Send your check to Virginia Gotleib, 3401 Loadstone Dr., Sherman Oaks, California 91403-4513
Current board members:
 Please arrive with your files to turn at the conclusion of the May 31, 2008 Meeting. Board Members elect please note there will be a "New Board", Counselors and Committee Head meeting immediately after the May 31st, 2008 Annual Meeting. Probably around 2 PM. The meeting will be brief as I know everyone would like to get on the road home in a timely fashion. Please plan on attending and plan your departure accordingly.
Thank you,
Joanne H. Murphy
First California - Governor Elect
Directions to San Diego Yacht Club
http://www.sdyc.org/contact/index.htm#directions
From Interstate 5 South or 8 West:
Exit at Rosecrans Street exit. Follow Rosecrans Street until you reach Talbot Street (3½ miles, to third street past Shelter Island Drive). Turn left and go to Anchorage Lane--we take up the entire block, you can't miss us!
From Interstate 5 North:
Exit at Hawthorne (airport exit). Follow to Harbor Drive toward Pt. Loma. Turn left on Rosecrans Street (signal). Go a few blocks to Talbot Street (signal). Make a left turn and go to Anchorage Lane--we take up the entire block, you can't miss us!
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