Ranch Roundtable luncheons, featuring speakers such as Pacific Research Institute President Sally Pipes, Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund, GOP Chairman Michael Steele, and authors Martin and Annelise Anderson. Visitors also toured the Reagan Ranch Center Education and Exhibit Galleries during a series of open house events. In addition, local attorneys, financial planners, and wealth managers attended an Estate Planning Professionals’ Luncheon with Foundation supporter Brooks Firestone. Guests also took part in a book signing with Reagan Ranch Board of Governors’ member Craig Shirley, highlighting his recently published book, Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Changed America. On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a capacity crowd of 180 high school students attended a special event entitled “Voices from Behind the Iron Curtain” to remember this momentous day. Panelists included Russian immigrant and member of the Foundation’s President’s Club Daria Boxer; Chapman University professor Dr. Tibor Machan, who was smuggled out of Communist Hungry in 1953 when he was 14; Maria Quintana Thieman and her father, Dr. Joaquin Arturo Quintana, who fled Cuba in 1969; and Giselle RecareyDelgado, who was exiled from Cuba in 2008 for fighting for human rights. Students also gathered from across the country to
Foundation Vice Presidents Kate Obenshain and Andrew Coffin meet with Baja Fresh CEO David Kim at the Reagan Ranch during the anniversary celebration of President Reagan’s 1981 Economic Recovery Tax Act.
Liya Palagashvili from George Mason University takes notes during the Foundation’s Road to Freedom Seminar: Selling Your Freedom to Government in the Age of Obama held at the Reagan Ranch Center.
attend the Road to Freedom Seminar: Selling Your Freedom to Governement in the Age of Obama and the West Coast Leadership Conference (see related articles on pages 22 to 26). These two programs drew
The Wall Street Journal’s John Fund addresses a sold-out crowd at a Reagan Ranch Roundtable luncheon.
students from 54 schools across the country to learn about conservative principles from some of the top minds of the Conservative Movement. During the Road to Freedom Seminar, students
The Santa Barbara NewsPress covers Congressman Joe Wilson’s West Coast Leadership Conference address.
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