Western Museums Association Delegate Material
These are all .pdf format - all will be included in your registration bag
Welcome to Oakland, California!
BUILDING AND RENOVATING MUSEUMS AGENDA
Silent Auction List of Items (partial)
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS - BIOS
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Thursday, October 11 9 am - 10:30 pm
Copies of Wavy's book Something Good for a Change: Random Notes on Peace Thru Living will be available for purchase, and Wavy will be signing them in the exhibit hall. Wavy's artwork will also be on sale in the exhibit hall at the Exhibit Hall Opening and after the Opening General Session.
Wavy Gravy
Wavy Gravy—nee Hugh Romney — has been a life long activist for peace and
personal empowerment. A major cultural icon of 60s Berkeley hippie culture, Wavy
stood on stage in front of nearly half a million very tired and wet Woodstock
refugees and announced “what we have in mind is breakfast in bed for 400,000.”
Wavy’s clown persona grew out of his political activism. Constantly being
arrested at demonstrations, he decided he would be less likely to be busted if
he dressed as a clown. "Clowns are safe," as he put it. Wavy became the official
clown of the Grateful Dead. Wavy has fought political apathy and is a master of
using humor and irony to engage his audience—in 1975 he campaigned for the
Birthday Party on behalf of “Nobody for President” ("Nobody's Perfect, Nobody
Keeps All Promises, Nobody Should Have That Much Power"). The group figured if a
majority of people voted for Nobody, i.e.“none of the above”' rather than “the
lesser of two evils,” it might force a situation where Americans would have to
find someone competent to lead them. The Campaign intent was to raise awareness
and get people to register and vote.
Wavy is the subject of a 2007 film Saint Misbehavin’: The Life and Times of Wavy
Gravy, and is the author of The Hog Farm and Friends (1974) and Something Good
For A Change: Random Notes On Peace Thru Living (1992).
Over the last 25 years, Wavy has continued to impact the world. He founded Camp
Winnarainbow nearly 25 years ago, a summer program where kids and adults learn
skills such as juggling, unicycling, tightrope walking, and trapeze, as well as
music and art. Thanks to royalties from the Ben & Jerry's Wavy Gravy ice cream
flavor and grants from the Grateful Dead's Rex Foundation, Winnarainbow is able
to provide camp scholarships for homeless children from the Bay Area and Native
American kids from a reservation in South Dakota. That assures what Wavy calls
"a little diverse miniworld." Wavy is also an active board member of Seva, a
nonprofit organization that addresses blindness in third world and developing
nations.
Having passed his 70th year full steam ahead, still in the guise of an eternal
hippie clown, occasionally walking a fish on a leash, Wavy Gravy shares each day
with a little grace, a lot of humor and a major dose of goodness.
Like
the best of all clowns, Wavy Gravy will make as big a fool of himself as is
necessary to make a wiser man of you. He is one of the better people on the
earth. ~ Village Voice ~
He is clearly a person who does his own inner spiritual work in a very
persistent way and then matches it with his walk in the world. ~ James
O’Dea, Executive Director, Seva ~
He is an oral Combat Historian…the illegitimate son of Harpo Marx and Mother
Theresa, conceived one starry night on a whoopee cushion. ~ Paul Krasner ~
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Some people tell me I'm a saint, I tell them I'm Saint Misbehavin’. ~
Wavy Gravy ~
DIRECTORS FORUM LUNCHEON SPEAKER
Thursday, October 11 12:45 pm - 1:55 pm
Jeff
Goodby
"Communication, the Web and Social
Networking"
Jeffrey Goodby, founder and co-chairman of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San
Francisco, is an icon of great creative work and a pioneer within the
advertising industry. He is best known for award winning television ads,
including the Budweiser Lizards and the Got Milk? Campaign. Winner of numerous
awards, he was the recipient of San Francisco Advertising Club's Howard Gossage
Award for best copywriter four times; Adweek Magazine has called him America's
best television copywriter; and he has been chosen three times as Adweek's
Creative Director of the Year. Goodby attended Harvard University where he wrote
for The Harvard Lampoon After graduation and armed with a degree in English, he
worked as a newspaper reporter in Boston. His work was published in TIME, Mother
Jones, and Harvard Magazine. Goodby has delivered the AICP address at the Museum
of Modern Art in New York, where his work is in the permanent collection. In his
spare time, he has served as a trustee of Art Center College of Design in
Pasadena, and as a board member of San Francisco Magazine and the Salvador Dali
Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.
See a profile of Jeff in the June 2007 issue of San Francisco Magazine
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS DAY LUNCHEON SPEAKER
Saturday, October 13 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Erroll
Southers
"Mitigating Violence and Terrorism
Events in Your Museum"
Erroll Southers is the Associate Director for Educational Programs, Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, University of Southern California. Erroll also teaches at USC’s School of Policy, Planning and Development (SPPD). Prior to joining CREATE, Erroll was deputy director of the California Office of Homeland Security, appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger, and responsible for the oversight of counterterrorism policy and national pilot programs, designed to protect the critical infrastructure of the world’s fifth largest economy.
In addition to recent counterterrorism studies in Israel at the invitation of the ministry of foreign affairs, he was a former FBI Special Agent, assigned to matters of counterterrorism, foreign counterintelligence, and a member of the Bureau’s SWAT Team. He is a former Santa Monica Police Department detective, member of the Rio Hondo Police Academy faculty and tactical staff, and a court-qualified gang expert.
He has also served as Assistant Vice President and Chief of Protective Services at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and As an Executive Director in the Long Beach City Manager’s Office. In addition, he is a Certified Institutional Protection manager and certified in homeland security by the American College of Forensic Examiners Institute. He founded Risk Management Consultants International, providing security consultation and expert witness testimony. Erroll earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at Brown University and his Master of Public Administration at USC. He is a former senior fellow of the UCLA School of Public Affairs.
Erroll is a former board member of the Western Museums Association and we welcome him back on this very important day to help us all learn more about emergency preparedness.
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