U Club programs and meetings are now in-person.

In-Person Meetings

Doubletree Inn, Claremont

11:30 am: social time * 12:00 noon: lunch * 1:00 pm: speaker Lunch is $20 for members and guests (subsidized by the Club)

February 2025 Programs

February 11

“Freedom: Clear Thinking and Inspiration from 5,000 Years of Greek History”

Speaker – Evaggelos Vallianatos, author

Ev Vallianatos’s presentation will be about his new book, Freedom: Clear Thinking and Inspiration from 5,000 Years of Greek History (Universal Publishers, 2025). He presents a global overview of what the Greeks did well and what they did not. He draws implications from this history to our times in the twenty-first century in the West, which was founded o the virtues of Greek science and civilization.

Ev studied Greek history and zoology at the University of Illinois; earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin and did postdoctoral studies in the history of science at Harvard. He worked on Capitol Hill and the US Environmental Protection Agency, taught at several universities, and authored hundreds of articles and several books.

In-Person Meeting!

Held in the Sycamore Room, Doubletree Inn, 555 W Foothill Blvd, Claremont

11:30 am: social time * 12:00 am: lunch * 1:00 pm: speaker
Lunch is $20 for members and guests (subsidized by the Club)

February 25

“Update on the Foothill Gold Line Project”

Speakers – Lisa Levy Burch, Chief Communications and Strategic Development Officer, and E Reece, Construction Authority Board Chair and Claremont City Council Member

The Foothill Gold Line is progressing! Bring your questions about transportation.

As the chief communication officer for Foothill Gold Line, Lisa Levy Buch oversees all agency communications, community outreach, and its media relations program. A 30- year communications veteran with a background in environmental and transportation planning, she’s worked in all areas of transportation on both the public and private sides and with elected officials, including on controversial projects throughout the region.

Ed Reece is serving his second term on the Claremont City Council. He is Chair of the Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority Board of Directors, and an executive member of the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments Governing Board.