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January 12 @
WS Prime
Steakhouse - Dr.
Nathan O. Hatch, President - Wake Forest University
CANCELLED-
Will re-schedule for a later date
Dr. Hatch was installed as the thirteenth
President of Wake Forest University in October 2005. He comes to the
Winston-Salem community previously serving as Provost at Notre Dame
University. Dr. Hatch is a native of Columbia, South Carolina. He received
his undergraduate degree from Wheaton College in 1968 and his master's and
doctoral degrees from Washington University in St. Louis. He was awarded
postdoctoral fellowships at Harvard and Johns Hopkins universities before
joining the history department at Notre Dame. He directed the history
department's graduate studies programs in the early 1980s.
He was named associate dean of the College of
Arts and Letters—the largest of the four undergraduate colleges at Notre
Dame—in 1983, and served as acting dean from 1988 to 1989. During that time,
he founded and directed the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts,
which led to a significant increase in external research funding for faculty
in the humanities and social sciences. As vice president for graduate
studies and research from 1989 until being named provost in 1996, he oversaw
Notre Dame's master's degree and doctoral programs.
While at Notre Dame, he was active in
community activities, including serving on the local United Way Board of
Directors and chairing the St. Joseph Medical Center board. He was appointed
in 2000 by President Clinton to the National Council on the Humanities, the
26-person advisory board for the National Endowment for the Humanities. He
is a former president of the American Society of Church History and a former
member of the National Advisory Board of the Salvation Army. Dr Hatch is
also known to play a mean game of pick up basketball regularly with
students. This dinner will be held at
WS Prime Steakhouse located at
Twin City Quarter in Downtown Winston-Salem
January 25 @
Bistro 420 - Billy
Prim, Founder and CEO - Primo Water
Billy D. Prim, founder and chief executive
officer of Primo Water. Introduced
May 1, 2005, Primo Water is the first nationally branded bottled water for
water coolers, representing a new concept in large bottled-water that will
soon be available through retail exchange at locations across the country.
Prim is known for his very successful
endeavor - Blue Rhino Corp., a retail propane tank exchange company that
revolutionized backyard grilling by making grill gas readily available at
retail. Today, Blue Rhino is the nation's leading provider of branded
propane tank exchange and complementary propane-fueled appliances that
safely enhance the enjoyment of backyard living. Blue Rhino tank exchange is
offered at leading home center/hardware, mass merchants, grocery and
convenience stores, with branded tank displays at more than 37,000 retail
locations in 48 states plus Puerto Rico. Prim, who founded Blue Rhino in
1994, sold the company to Ferrellgas Partners in 2004.
Prior to founding Blue Rhino in 1994, Prim
was chairman and chief executive officer of American Oil & Gas Company, a
regional petroleum marketer. Mr. Prim was also president of Quick-Pik Food
Marts, a convenience store chain based in North Carolina. In 2003 Mr. Prim
received The Carolinas' 2003 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
This program honors entrepreneurs whose ingenuity, hard work and
perseverance have created and sustained successful, growing business
ventures. He is president and co-owner of the Winston-Salem Warthogs, a
Minor League baseball team and Class A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox.
Mr. Prim is a member of the Young Presidents'
Organization. He also serves on the board of directors of Brenner Children's
Hospital, National Propane Gas Association, and the Winston-Salem Chamber of
Commerce. He will discuss the importance of developing and maintaining
relationship in busy and in your personal life which has been a key to his
success.
February 16 @ Bistro 420
- Evelyn
K. Rice, Rice and Associates and founder of "Find Your Soulmate"
Rice
is founder of Rice & Associates, Inc. a management-consulting firm based in
Greensboro, NC. She is also the author of the "Finding Your Soul Mate
Handbook and Journal". She will be speaking on what are the components of a
"Sacred Relationship", stages relationships go through and three of the most
common blocks to creating successful relationships. Additionally, discuss
the national best seller book that is all the buzz right now -
The Five Love
Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate written by
Dr. Gary Chapman who happens to reside in Winston-Salem. This book stayed on
the Best Seller list or four years. Visit the web site at
FiveLoveLanguages.com
Making her sixth visit to "Evening with Eight - Plus Smitty! Rice has become
a popular speaker with her timely topics and insight on developing and
maintaining relationships. Always a big hit with both men and women at the
dinner table. This dinner usually is a sellout! Come join us for
an enlightening and interactive program! Remember - February is the official
month of LOVE! Visit her web site at
FindYourSoulmate.com
February 23 @ Bistro 420
-
Gayle Williams, Executive Director - The Mary Reynolds
Babcock Foundation
Williams is the
Executive Director of The Mary Reynolds
Babcock Foundation. Based in Winston-Salem, the Foundation assists
people in the Southeast to build just and caring communities that nurture
people, spur enterprise, bridge differences and foster fairness. Their
mission is to help people and places to move out of poverty and achieve
greater social and economic justice. They support organizations and networks
that work across race, ethnic, economic and political differences to make
possible a brighter future for all.
Some of the
Foundation's initiatives include: Cultivating Youth Leadership by
developing the next generation of leaders for grassroots organizations;
increase financial investments in the economic development of low-wealth
communities, and; and provide organizational development, learning and
networking for organizations receiving the Babcock Foundation grants.
Williams will discuss the Foundation's extensive work in the Southeast
region and highlight some of their success stories.
March 8 @ Bistro 420
- Dr.
Margaret Stover Mertz, Executive Director -
The Thomas S. Kenan
Institute for the Arts
Dr. Mertz is Executive
Director of
The Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts, a organization that
provides strategic and financial support
for creative projects that are associated with the North Carolina
School of the Arts. The Kenan Institute has been the incubator of
such projects as the successful
Magnolia Baroque Festival,
Digital Arts Symposium,
Kenan Writers' Encounters: Bridging Arts and Culture
and
National Arts Leadership Institute.
She lead the initial concept planning of the
National Institute of Design, an endeavor by six Triad
universities and community colleges to link their curriculum to teach
students how to think creatively and design products ranging from goods that
go in a home to drugs that go in a body.
Previously, Dr. Mertz was
dean of the Division of General Studies at the North Carolina School of the
Arts from 1999 until 2003. In July of 2003, she became the executive
director of the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts. She holds her
bachelor’s degree in the liberal arts from St. John’s College, Santa Fe, and
her master’s and doctoral degrees in music from Harvard University. She has
held teaching posts at St. John’s College, Santa Fe; Harvard University;
the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West; and New Mexico
Highlands University.
Dr. Mertz been honored in
Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. Only five percent of our
nation’s teachers are honored each year and fewer than two percent are
included in more than one edition. Dr. Mertz has been nominated and
received this award four times. Her professional interests include
contemporary issues in teaching and learning; the integration of the fine
and performing arts into the standard course of study; the development of
technology and e-learning environments; and international curriculum and
assessment in music. Her favorite past time is watching Major and Minor
League baseball live and in person. She also studies T’ai Chi and Afro-Cuban
drumming in her (spare) time.
March 23 @ Bistro 420 - Stephan
Lyons, Vice President and General Manager -
Raffaldini Vineyards, Ronda, North Carolina
Raffaldini Vineyards is one of the unique
vineyards in the Yadkin Valley. Located in Ronda, North Carolina, the
vineyard has a history of the Raffaldini Family in the Northern Province of
Lombardy, Italy. They own and continues to live on the farm where the great
classical poet philosopher Virgil spent his youth. However, a decision was
made by the Raffaldini Family to share their centuries old wine making
experience with the new world. After a long and exhaustive search for the
ideal location for a vineyard that reflects the family heritage and holds
the promise for making truly classical wines, the Raffaldini Family settled
in the Swan Creek region of the Yadkin Valley.
The vineyard has had a number of award
winning Pinot Grigio and Dolcetto wines. Raffaldini Vineyard Vice President
and General Manager Stephan Lyons will lead the discussion of their unique
history and a tasting of a few of their wines. This will be a set-price
(TBD) five course wine dinner prepared by the culinary staff at Bistro 420.
To find out more about Raffaldini Vineyards visit their web site at
Raffaldini.com
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