Hello, everyone. I am the director of Public Programs and events. Im happy today, thrilled to introduce doctor sullivan who is im going to have to read because his long list of things. Hes a policy leader and Minority Health advocate and author and educator and serves as secretary of the u. S. Department of health and Human Services under george bush and was the founding dean of the school of medicine and today he will be discussing his recent memoir breaking ground by life in medicine. So, welcome. We are very happy to have you. [applause] this is a bit different because often i do fiction books, occasionally memoirs. But in your story theres a lot to talk about and i wanted to just begin it is a hard thing to say to somebody can use use enough size your life and all of two sentences but i want to just and some very brief way tell the audience what the book covers, then i will delve in and we will start going into the specifics and then build from there. Guest thanks very much. Its a
Have. I would just call it, its a formal problem that we describe is going to get worse but the consequences of that problem may not be as catastrophic as we fear. On that note thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] host joining us now on booktv is former health and Human Services secretary louis sullivan. Dr. Louis sullivan. Dr. Sullivan when did you decide you are going to become a medical doctor back . Guest i was age five and my father who was a funeral director in the small town in southwest georgia and among other things he provided Ambulance Services for people and needed to be transported to the doctor. My father was often asked me to go with them to help and of course at age five i was curious curious. There was one black doctor in southwest georgia and bainbridge near lincoln where we lived. So i from age five wanted to be like dr. Griffin. Hes very successful highly respected in the community. People really thought that he was a g
The bridge and they share with the bridge endurance, and they love fact that the bridge was so beautiful and to work on something thats beautiful. Im sure in the time of the renaissance, probably some of those anonymous cathedral builders, those laborers who put the stones to some church or the coliseum. I mean, we knew who were the people who built the coliseum but they did something and a heavenly sense of living in that hereafter. These people work on something its finished and it goes on and on and they die or their have a lot of my age and they still look with wonderment at this bridge that gap no older. The bridge is as young as it was as and 64 and the rest of us age. What didnt age is the glory and the achievement. Thank you, joe spratt. A. Q. , gay talese. Thank you all for coming. And gay will be happy to sign copies of the bridge. [applause] would like to invite everybody to join us at the front of the museum where you can speak more with gay and joe and sam and will be sign
Schoolyard program to making sure that we are servicing our youth that are undocumented within our School District. They have been reassigned to other committees and we will be joined by supervisor david campos and David Yee Sandra mendozamcdonnell and joel fewer will be staying on with us. I want to recognize sf gov tv for filming our event today and making it available to the public online and want to recognize jim low and jen smith. Can we please call the first item. File no. 150040 update on Willie Brown Junior Middle School development. Sponsored by you, supervisor. This is an item we heard last year when the school was under construction and we do have an update from sfusd on the opening, which is set for the fall of 2015 including an enrollment and facilities update. We have the principal, Jimmy Hoffman but while they are setting up their presentation i want to give the floor to commissioner sandra fewer to give an intro deduction and some background on the sharing request. She
Select xlit. I am your chair, supervisor jane kim. I am joibed by supervisors john afrl afl and john farrell and this is their last meeting with our committee this year. Its really been great to have two parents sit on the city select committee. Parents are very interested in Public School issues but also issues surrounding youth and their families, whether its our expanded green shared Schoolyard Program to making sure that we are servicing our youth that are undocumented within our School District. They have been reassigned to other committees and we will be joined by supervisor david campos and David Yee Sandra mendozamcdonnell and joel fewer will be staying on with us. I want to recognize sf gov tv for filming our event today and making it available to the public online and want to recognize jim low and jen smith. Can we please call the first item. File no. 150040 update on Willie Brown Junior Middle School development. Sponsored by you, supervisor. This is an item we heard last ye