GALA

2nd Annual A Toast to Tahoe Skiing
With the theme of Mountain Dreamers: celebrating the pioneering spirit and history of skiing at Lake Tahoe
November 7, 2009 Resort at Squaw Creek

Featuring Warren Miller!
A Toast to Tahoe Skiing
European-inspired food by Ristorante Montagne,
Fashions modeled by Olympic ski champions, ski movie stars and local VIPs
November 15, 2008 Resort at Squaw Creek

COMEDY/ENTERTAINMENT

Squaw Valley Institute
Summer Wine Tasting
Thursday, August 26, 2010 Uncorked in The Village

Squaw Valley Institute
Spring Bocce Party!
Sunday, May 23, 2010 Truckee River Winery

Byron Walls
Laugh Your Way to Safety
Monday, March 1, 2010 Resort at Squaw Creek

Tom McGillen
Comedian Tom McGillen Brings Show to PlumpJack Squaw Valley Inn
February 14, 2009 PlumpJack Conference Center

A day of great skiing and poker as you ski
Poker on the Mountain
February 14, 2009 Squaw Valley Ski Resort

ENVIRONMENT

Squaw Valley Institute
Tapped
Thursday, July 22, 2010 North Tahoe Event Center

Squaw Valley Institute
Solar Energy: Sense or Non-Cent$?
Wednesday, July 7, 2010 Resort at Squaw Creek

Elizabeth Carmel and co-authors Geoff Schladow, Ph.D and Robert Coates, Ph.D
Changing Range of Light: Portraits of the Sierra Nevada
Thursday, June 17, 2010 Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences

Phil Caterino
Lake Tahoe’s Future: Underwater a Disturbing New World
Thursday, May 13, 2010 Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences

Douglas Helmuth
Satellite's Potential: Monitoring Climate Change
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 Resort at Squaw Creek

Doug Stoup/Extraordinary Locals
Exploring Antarctica with Adventurer Doug Stoup
Thursday, February 18, 2010 Resort at Squaw Creek

Bill Schaadt
Rivers of a Lost Coast
Thursday, February 11, 2010 Cedar House Sport Hotel

Keith Chesnut and Wendy Wood
SCUBA Diving in Micronesia
Thursday, January 28, 2010 Resort at Squaw Creek

Bill
Green Investing
Thursday, October 8, 2009 Cedar House Truckee, CA

Frank DeCourten
Fire and Ice: The Story of Tahoe's Ancient Volcanoes
Sunday, September 27, 2009 Northstar-at-Tahoe

Sarah Null
Hetch Hetchy
Thursday, September 24, 2009 Cedar House Sport Hotel Truckee, CA

Curtis Gray and Sarah Null
From Equador to the Galapagos
Thursday, September 17, 2009 Resort at Squaw Creek

Frank DeCourten
Origins of the Tahoe Sierra Landscape
Friday, July 24 - 26, 2009 Resort at Squaw Creek

Mark Kimbrough and Tim Hauserman
Hiking The Tahoe Rim Trail-A Trail Like No Other
July 9, 2009 Resort at Squaw Creek

John Pickett, founder of the Sugar Pine Foundation
The Future of our Local Forests
January 22, 2009 PlumpJack Conference Center

Frank DeCourten and Derek Larson
Dimensions of the Sierra Nevada: Geology Weekend
July 11-13, 2008 Squaw Valley High Camp and Shirley Canyon

Robert Coats
Signs of Climate Change, Lake Tahoe
February 1, 2008  PlumpJack Conference Center

Frank DeCourten
Tahoe Rocks! Blackwood Canyon Geology Hike
October 7, 2007 Blackwood Canyon

Brant Allen
River Shark - Saving the World's Largest Trout
April 19, 2007 PlumpJack Conference Center

Betsy Rosenberg
Planting Green Seeds in Mainstream Media - And (Finally) Watching Them Take Root!
January 13, 2007 Coyote Moon, Truckee

Terry Anderson
Free Market Environmentalism (Not An Oxymoron)
January 27, 2007 Resort at Squaw Creek

Frank DeCourten
Geology Hike
September 17, 2006 High Camp Squaw Valley

Tom Bonnicksen
Catastrophic Wildfire: Is Tahoe Next?
January 26, 2006 Resort at Squaw Creek

Prof. Charles Goldman
Lake Tahoe and the World Water Crisis
April 26, 2006 Plumpjack Conference Center

Robert Christopherson
Global Climate System Update
October 4, 2006 Resort at Squaw Creek

ART/ARCHITECTURE/LITERATURE/MUSIC

Camille Cusumano
Tango: A Journey to Happiness
Wednesday, August 4, 2010 Cedar House Sport Hotel

Khaled Hosseini
An Evening with Author Khaled Hosseini
Saturday, April 10, 2010 Resort at Squaw Creek

Ying Chang Compestine
One Writer-Two Worlds: Award Winning Author, Ying Chang Compestine comes to Squaw Valley
Friday, March 26, 2010 Resort at Squaw Creek

Julia Flynn Siler
Special Program: "House of Mondavi" Wine Tasting and Lecture
Thursday, March 4, 2010 Cedar House Sport Hotel

Greg Mortenson
An Evening with Greg Mortenson
October 18, 2009 Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe

Larry Maurice
Cowboy Poet, Larry Maurice presents Cowboy, The Spirit, The Lore, The Legacy
April 23, 2009 Resort at Squaw Creek

Truckee Community Chorus, co-conducted by Susan K. Horst and Chris Nelson
Music for the Holidays
December 7, 2008 Resort at Squaw Creek

John Daniel
Rogue River Journal
August 6, 2008, Resort at Squaw Creek

Keoki Flagg
Hope and Inspiration in the Pearl of Africa
June 25, 2008 Resort at Squaw Creek

Dick Dorworth
Night Driving, Invention of the Wheel & Other Blues
January 27, 2008 PlumpJack Conference Center

Truckee Community Chorus
Songs for the Holidays
December 9, 2007 Resort at Squaw Creek

Oakley Hall
Great Author/Great Books: The Downhill Racers Story and Love and War in California
November 8, 2007 PlumpJack Conference Center

Henrik Bull
Creating Architecture to Match the Sierra
May 17, 2007 Bar One, Olympic House Lodge

Amy Tan, Mark Childress, Elizabeth Rosner and Alice Sebold
An Evening with American Authors
August 3, 2006 Plumpjack Conference Center

Gill Dennis
The Making of the Movie Walk the Line
August 13, 2006 Squaw Valley

Ann Wolfe, Lynda Jolley and other art experts
Art Collecting Panel Discussion
October 8, 2006 Plumpjack Conference Center

Keoki Flagg
Thinking Outside the Lens
November 28, 2006 The Village at Squaw Valley

Truckee Community Chorus
Holiday Program
December 10, 2006 Resort at Squaw Creek

HISTORY/WORLD AFFAIRS/POLITICS

Squaw Valley Institute
Invisible Children
Thursday, April 29, 2010 Resort at Squaw Creek

Squaw Valley Institute
Olympic Movie Night at Bar One
Monday, January 11, 2010 Bar One, Olympic House

Dave Antonucci
A Snowball's Chance-The Story of the 1960 Winter Olympics
Saturday, September 19, 2009 Squaw Valley Chapel, 444 Squaw Peak Road

Dr Angus Quinlan
Stories in Stone--the Rock Art of Nevada
Thursday, July 2, 2009 Resort at Squaw Creek

Ruth Anne Kocour
Bhutan, Land of the Thunder Dragon
Thursday, June 11, 2009 Resort at Squaw Creek

Squaw Valley Institute and Squaw Valley Chapel
Bhutan- The Middle Road to Happiness
Thursday, June 4, 2009 Resort at Squaw Creek

Andrea Ross
Traveling for Good: How Travel Can Change the World
Thursday, May 28, 2009 Resort at Squaw Creek

Julie Conover and Mark Jennings
Passport to Adventure: Expanding Your World and Consciousness Through Travel
Thursday, April 16, 2009 Resort at Squaw Creek

Sarah Ferris
Bodhi Tree Foundation: Trekking for a Healthy Himalaya
Friday, March 27, 2009 PlumpJack Conference Center

Peter Waldman
Belief vs. Reality: A Primer on Today's Middle East
Monday, March 9, 2009 PlumpJack Conference Center

Will Durst
Political Satire
October 22, 2008 PlumpJack Conference Center

Egil "Bud" Krogh
Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House    
October 2, 2008 PlumpJack Conference Center

Dr. Philip Lisagor
Great Books and the Global War on Terror
September 11, 2008 Resort at Squaw Creek

Mayor Gavin Newsom
Politics Needs More Risk Taking
June 6, 2008 PlumpJack Conference Center

Secretary of State Debra Bowen
Participation in the Electoral Process
April 10, 2008 Resort at Squaw Creek

Ruth Anne Kocour
Walking the War Zones of Pakistan
January 7, 2008 Resort at Squaw Creek

Steve Brandt
Quest for the Pacific Series—Northwest Passage
October 4, 2007 Plumpjack Conference Center

Steve Brandt
Quest for the Pacific Series—Finding The West: Pocahontas To The Pacific
June 12, 2007 Resort at Squaw Creek

Steve Brandt
Quest for the Pacific Series—Lewis and Clark
May 3, 2007 PlumpJack Conference Center

Rob Reich
Democracy at Risk, Apathy in the Political Process
March 24, 2007 Coyote Moon, Truckee

Dr. Antonia Neubauer
Peaks, Poverty and Politics…Nepal today
February 15, 2006 Plumpjack Conference Center

Thomas Laird
The CIA’s First Atomic Spy and His Secret Expedition to Lhasa
December 1, 2006 Resort at Squaw Creek

Joanna Doolittle Hoppes
Calculated Risk: The Jimmy Doolittle Story
September, 2006 Resort at Squaw Creek

LIFESTYLE/INSPIRATION

Bill Fink
A Long, Strange Trip Across Modern and Historical Russia
Monday, May 10, 2010 Resort at Squaw Creek

Ruth Anne Kocour, Julie Conover, and Toni Neubauer
Conscious Travel
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 Resort at Squaw Creek

Todd Offenbacher
Adventures with Todd Offenbacher
May 11, 2009 Resort at Squaw Creek

John Chapman
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT-- Finding Your Passion: Philanthropy and Volunteerism and Community Involvement Fair!
April 3, 2008 Resort at Squaw Creek

Mike Howe
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT--The Importance of Civic Engagement for a Healthy Community: Rebuilding New Orleans
March 27, 2008 Resort at Squaw Creek

John Trauth
Your Retirement, Your Way
August 6, 2007 Plumpjack Conference Center

Tom McCormack
Indigenous Education Specialist
June 6, 2007 Resort at Squaw Creek

Arlene Blum
Breaking trail: a Climbing Life
February 9, 2006 Plumpjack Conference Center

Buzzy Jackson
Bad Women Feeling Good
July 30, 2006 Plumpjack Conference Center

Sapana Sakya
Daughters of Everest
April 22, 2007 The Resort at Squaw Creek

SCIENCE AND MEDICINE

Walter Nelson
Crystals, Gems & Myths
June 10, 2010 The Resort at Squaw Creek

Arlene Blum
Breaking Trail: Mountains and Molecules
March 3, 2009 PlumpJack Conference Center

Bob Horvath
Flying Doctors! "Los Medics Valadores"
September 24, 2008 Resort at Squaw Creek

Eric Wilcox
Nasa: Not Just Sending Astronauts Into Space
July 10, 2007 PlumpJack Conference Center

Dr. Laurence Heifetz
Progress in Cancer Care: Diagnostic Tools, New Therapies, and Clinical Trials
September 26, 2007

SPORTS

Jennifer Woodlief
Jennifer Woodlief Presents "A Wall of White"
Thursday, March 11, 2010 Resort at Squaw Creek

Dave Antonucci
Dave Antonucci Presents: A Snowball's Chance, The Story of the 1960 Winter Olympics Lecture and Walking Tour
Thursday, January 14, 2010 Squaw Valley Chapel, 444 Squaw Peak Road

Mark McLaughlin
Mark McLaughlin Presents: Long Boards to Olympics, A Century of Tahoe Winter Sports
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 Resort at Squaw Creek

Squaw Valley Institute
MountainFilm Festival: Man vs. Nature
December 10, 2009 Resort at Squaw Creek

Jake Spero and Duncan Sisson
Biking for a Better World: Pedaling 15,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina
October 23, 2008 PlumpJack Conference Center

Randall Osterhuber
Tahoe Winter Search and Rescue
March 12, 2008 Resort at Squaw Creek

Doug Stoup
Antarctic Adventure
February 11, 2008 PlumpJack Conference Center

Austrian Ski Film: Featuring filmmaker and footage of local heroes including the Poulsen family
February 21, 2007 Olympic Plaza Bar One

Mark McLaughlin
From Longboards to Olympics
February 8, 2007  Olympic Plaza Bar One

Documentary Film: Austrian Skiers
Follow Me…$5 Please!
March 10, 2006 Olympic Plaza Bar One

Bob Magic
Shattered Air: Strike at Half Dome
May 30, 2006 Resort at Squaw Creek

Jimmy Petterson
Skiing Around the World
June 8, 2006 Olympic Plaza Bar One

TECHNOLOGY/BUSINESS

Paul Wilcox
An Insiders Look At Google
July 8, 2007 Resort at Squaw Creek