MCA Program Guide 2017 – 2018 What’s in this Program Guide Officers and Committee Chairs From the President Luncheon Meetings Monthly Speaker Series Special Events Volunteer Activity Organizations Ongoing Programs Membership Application Officers and Committee Chairs President Les Nizin [email protected] 1st VP and Communications: Michael [email protected] 2nd VP and Programming: Jeff Zalasky…[email protected] Treasurer: Ed Feldman…[email protected] Secretary: Richard Prosten…[email protected] Calendar: Dick Lechtner…[email protected] Membership: Dan Kamm…[email protected] Publicity: Jeff Margolis…[email protected] Luncheon Meetings: Meir [email protected] Speakers Series: Wayne Kargher…[email protected] 2 From the President The Men’s Cultural Alliance (MCA) of Collier County is an organization of the male members of the Jewish Federation of Collier County (JFCC) whose purpose is to create friendship and camaraderie among its members by attending and participating in social, intellectual, Volunteerism, sporting and athletic activities. Now in its sixth year of existence, over 500 men have joined the group and participate in a wide array of activities ranging from monthly luncheon meetings, recreational sporting activities, study and educational groups, and volunteerism. Membership in the MCA makes each member an official member of the JFCC. Paid up members of the MCA are eligible to join all programs. It is necessary, however, to sign up for each program. Many groups are limited in the number of participants in order to allow each member the best possible experience. The MCA actively welcomes new members, and encourages their input in organizing new activities, and in participating in all of our stimulating and exciting programs. For further information, please feel free to contact me. My best wishes for a fun filled and enjoyable season with the MCA. Les Nizin President [email protected] 3 Luncheon Meetings 11:30am November 9 Audubon Country Club 625 Audubon Blvd Let’s Go to the Video Tape (My life as a Sports Reporter) Warner Wolf Warner will be discussing his life as a sportscaster and people he has met along the way. Included will be a video of an interview he conducted with Joe DiMaggio. Warner Wolf has been doing sports on radio and television in New York for 35 years, after doing radio and TV sports in 4 Washington DC for 15 years. Warner also worked on WBC’s nationally syndicated “Imus in the Morning” program as well as ESPN radio in New York. Warner, who is the author of 2 books, “Gimme a Break” and “Let’s Go to the Video Tape” is a graduate of American University where he later taught sports journalism as an adjunct professor. Warner appeared as himself in “Rocky IV” and “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days”. He spent five years as a sportscaster at WABC-TV in New York where he also worked for Roone Arledge and ABC Network Sports, and his assignments included Monday Night Baseball, the winter and summer Olympics, the college football scoreboard and Saturday studio host of Wide World of Sports. 5 December 14 The Club at Olde Cypress 7165 Treeline Drive Neil: I was there with you landing on the Moon Joel Banow On July 20, 1969, Joel Banow was at the CBS News studio in New York directing coverage of the moon landing with a team of journalists across the country. Listen to him describe the 36 hours straight he worked with Walter Cronkite bringing this historic event to the CBS Network. Joel Banow is a retired television producer and director with over fifty years of broadcasting experience. He was senior director for the manned space program broadcasts with CBS, where he received a Directors Guild of America award for “Outstanding Television Directorial Achievement” for Apollo 11. He has been on the board of the Naples Players and currently on the board of the Naples Museum of Military History. He is also an advisory board member, of the 6 Holocaust Museum and Education Center of SW Florida. For several years he produced Arts programming for WGCU Public Media, at FGCU. In 2007 he was honored by both Collier & Lee counties with a Star of the Arts and Angel of the Arts awards. 7 January 11 Quail West Country Club 5950 Burnham Road Let’s Go, On With the Show! Florida Repertory Theatre Turns 20 Robert Cacioppo - (Florida Rep) The business of theatre presents a wide spectrum of challenges and triumphs. Robert Cacioppo, Producing Artistic Director and Founder of Florida Repertory Theatre, shares stories of bringing Florida Repertory Theatre from its beginnings in 1998 to a nationally-acclaimed regional theatre that saw 90,000 people come through its doors last season and which was praised by The Wall Street Journal as “One of America’s Top Repertory Companies.” He will also discuss the 20th Anniversary Season which includes a Pulitzer Prize- winning drama, a classic Broadway musical, and a World Premiere production by one of American theatre’s most distinctive voices. 8 Robert Cacioppo, Florida Rep Founder & Producing Artistic Director, was honored by the Florida Professional Theatres Association with the Richard G. Fallon Award for Excellence in Professional Theatre for his tenacity, vision, passion, and leadership for his work of creating professional theatre in the state of Florida. Other honors: Gulfshore Business Magazine as one of the Top 40 Influential Leaders; The News- Press’s 125 Influential Local Leaders in the past 125 years” and the recent “130 People of Influence” in Fort Myers; Angel of the Arts Award for Arts Organization Leader of the Year; Men and Women of the Year by Gulfshore Life Magazine, and that same publication has named Florida Rep Southwest Florida’s Best Performing Arts Group six times. Under his leadership, Florida Rep has received seven glowing reviews from The Wall Street Journal since 2009, most recently in January 2015. 9 February 8 Kensington Country Club 2700 Pine Ridge Rd Nuclear Terrorism Abstract John Tsaras This presentation identifies the types of nuclear weapons since, WWII, man developed and the means to deliver these.A short discussion follows of the countries belonging to the nuclear club and the UN policies and safeguards that so far prevented a nuclear holocaust.There are two potential nuclear terrorist threats, the theft of a nuclear device and the explosion of a device containing nuclear waste.Detailed potential scenarios are expounded in ceases of a nuclear Pakistan, Iran and North Korea. 10 John Psaras has over 25 years of engineering and management experience with Allied Chemical and Monsanto and is the recipient of the 1982 Chemical Engineering Vaaler award. He spent a further 25 years in managing and consulting in nuclear materials, nuclear waste and nuclear safety with the US Department of Energy (DOE) and is the recipient of numerous meritorious awards. Since retiring in Naples has become a member of several educational and cultural organizations leading discussion groups and lecturing. John Psaras holds B.Sc., Ph.D. degrees in Engineering from Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK and an MBA from the University of Richmond, VA. 11 March 8 Audubon Country Club 625 Audubon Blvd Diary of an Undercover Cop Ernie Lijoi Sr. Ernie Deep Undercover Ernie with his many books Ernie is a retired deep cover Detective and operative. During his career he worked with many federal, local and State Police agencies on numerous high level cases under the guise of Eddie Pannoni, Drug dealer and gun runner, while in reality he was The unknown Detective Ernie Lijoi Sr. First generation in the USA of Italian (Decent). Raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Air Force Veteran and graduate of Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. He began writing at age 65, after retirement. Now at 72, he has written ten books published at www.thepreyers.com some of them are: “Meth or Myth”, “The Cash Mule”, “Destructive Obsession”, “The Preyers”, “The Butcher of Boston”, “The 12 Tunnel”, “Street Business II” and more with several short stories and many poems As of this date he has been able to develop three movie scripts, one TV show all scripted with business plan and budget from his books. The script for the TV show is taken from his book The Butcher of Boston called “The Pannoni Files”. All of his stories (books) are based on cases that he worked while deep cover. 13 April 12 Vineyards Country Club 400 Vineyards Blvd What's really going on in the Auto Industry Lewis Booth With demand in the US beginning to turn down and margins under threat, the auto industry is facing three disruptive changes: electrification, autonomous vehicle development, and ride sharing. How will these changes affect the industry and will the existing manufacturers be the winners, or can new competitors achieve a sustainable advantage? Lewis Booth served as EVP and Chief Financial officer of the Ford Motor Company from November 2008 until his retirement in April 2012. During this period Lewis was part of the team that led the Ford business turnaround, implementing the One Ford Plan, funding new products and growth around the world, restructuring the balance sheet, and restoring the credit rating of the company. 14 Lewis was born in Liverpool, England, and worked in the auto industry for 42 years including 34 years at Ford. The son of a car dealer, Lewis has cars in his blood and during his global career at Ford he worked in the UK, Germany, South Africa, Japan, and the USA. While in Japan, Lewis served as CEO of the Mazda Motor Corporation based in Hiroshima, before returning to Europe to run all of Ford’s business in Europe, including Ford, Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover, and Volvo Cars.