Events

Dr. Kim Bell, PT, DPT is a Doctor of Physical Therapy with over twenty years of clinical experience. She specializes in root cause analysis and relief of dizziness, falls, vertigo, and imbalance. Patients travel from all over the world to consult with Dr. Bell. She offers private and personalized patient care services for people with dizziness and vertigo at her office in Encinitas, with house calls available if needed. 

After suffering with dizziness and vertigo herself for over 25 years, she has realized how limited the resources are for people with these problems. Dr. Bell’s new book, “Navigating the Health Care System as a Dizzy Patient” is a guide to help patients skillfully find answers and relief from dizziness and vertigo if they are unable to work with her in person. She is a regular presenter at UCSD Retirees Association and has been a clinical leader of the San Diego Fall Prevention Task Force since 2006. 

San Diego has played an important role in the advancement of aviation over the past 150 years. This talk presents the evolution of San Diego as a center for the major milestones in both military and civilian aviation from the 1880s to today.  

For the past 3 years, Maud has been a docent at the San Diego Air and Space Museum. He serves on the museum’s Scholarship Committee and is a training coordinator for new docents. He enjoys engineering, history, and teaching, so being a docent at the museum is a perfect fit. He has extensive experience in preparing and giving talks on aviation and space history for the museum and is part of the museum’s Speakers Bureau. He is currently developing a course on Aeronautical Engineering for high school students to be offered through the museum.  He and his wife Linda live in Carlsbad.

Madhukar (Maud) Rao is a retired Chemical Engineer and currently serves as the Chief Strategy Officer for Workforce Development at Innovation Impact Partners, LLC. He has more than 36 years of industrial R&D experience with major chemical and semiconductor materials companies, where he held senior positions in R&D management. He holds a and M.S. in Materials Science from The Pennsylvania State University, and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from The New Jersey Institute of Technology. 

Our speaker on April 8 will be one of our scholarship winners who graduated from La Jolla High School and UC San Diego.  He is currently pursuing his Master's Degree at UC San Diego/Scripps Institute of Oceanography.  This will be a great opportunity for us to hear about the impact of our scholarship program has on the recipients and what people do as a result of the support our club provides.

Noah wrote our website: 

Hello Rotary Club of La Jolla, I hope you're doing well! My name is Noah Brown, and I was lucky enough to receive the Florence Riford Scholarship a few years ago. I graduated from La Jolla High [2020], studied oceanography at UCSD [2024], and now I’m a master’s student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. I just wanted to say a huge thank you for the support your organization gave me—it truly made a difference in my journey, and I’m so grateful. I’d love the chance to come speak at a Rotary meeting and share how much the award meant to me, what I got out of my college experience, and where it’s taken me so far. Let me know if that’s something you’d be interested in—I’d love to stay connected! Best, Noah 

Said will speak on Gravesian theory, and the subject matter contained in his third book, Second Sapiens: The Rise of thePlanetary Mind and The Future of Humanity.

Our newest Rotarian, Said Elias Dawlabani is a cultural economist, publicspeaker, trainer and writer specializing in the Gravesian approach to value systems and cultural change.

He is the author of the 2013 book MEMEnomics, The Next-GenerationEconomic System. His writings in the field of finance have been compared to those of Peter Lynch, Charlie Munger and Warren Buffet. His work hasbeen translated to several languages including Korean, Mandarin, Germanand Russian. He has given keynote speeches about the Gravesian approach to sustainability in many parts of the world.

Said, is the founder of The Memenomics Group that frames organizationaland cultural change issues through the Gravesian model. He works closely with renowned geopolitical adviser Dr. Don E. Beck.Before teaming up with Beck, Dawlabani had a prominent career in thebrokerage, development and investment counseling sectors of the real estate industry. He is a graduate of International Business and Economics D‘Amore- McKim School of Business, Northeastern University.

Lidia and Phyllis Pfeiffer, Chair willl update us on their continuing efforts to Enhance La Jolla and maintain the public spaces in the MAD, Maintenance assessment District and their future plans for streetscape improvements

La Jolla Community Foundation (LJCF) raises funds through memberships and donations to support major projects in the community. Our purpose is to foster a sense of community and enhance the La Jolla experience. The LJCF is a public charity 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and all donations are tax-deductible.

Retired San Diego County Deputy Sheriff and SAY (Social Advocates for Youth)  San Diego Prevention Specialist William Perno is a subject-matter expert on synthetic drugs and will talk to us  about fentanyl in San Diego.

Shastity Urias, Community outreach specialist from the DEA will co- present with Bill

Rest up for an exciting new Rotary year beginning on July 1.  

Our meeting on tuesday, July 1 will the new rotary year and our new president Russell King and includebe a short talk  by Davis Crayroft  and a slideshow to honor and thank Bob Teraff for his excellent job as our president since January first.

Russell King will grasp the gavel and kick off the 2025–2026 new Rotary year as our new president.

Our program will be led by devoted Demoter-in-Chief Davis Cracroft who will entertain us and honor dearly departing President Bob Teaff.with stories, photos, and some facts about his life and  reign.

Keith is an advocate for preserving architecturally unique homes and maintaining & supporting our diverse communities.  He will talk to us about modernism and  mid-century modern architecture in and around La Jolla.

London-Moeder Advisors is a diversified real estate strategic advisory, development, management, investment, capital access and analysis firm.ondon Moeder Advisors 

It prepares residential and commercial market and financial feasibility studies. We also analyze real estate investments for prospective investors and prepare investment packages to assist in the marketing of real estate projects and portfolios. Our practice focuses on the states of California, Arizona and Nevada. Our clients include major developers and institutional investors in both the residential and commercial fields.