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2015 Changing Lives Gala

In Celebration of Community Champions

Hon. Susan Rose and Allan Ghitterman

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2015 • 6:30PM

Our sincerest thank you, Susan & Allan, for your continuous

dedication to New Beginnings’ programs and services. We feel so fortunate to have your

support and are pleased to honor you with the Community Champions Award! Your passion

for helping others has not only touched the lives of our clients, but the lives of so many

throughout the Santa Barbara community. You are a true gift to us all!

With love, the staff, counselors, clients, and board of directors of

New Beginnings Counseling Center

Gala

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

GreetingsDiane PannkukPresident, New Beginnings’ Board of Directors

Dinner Served

Presentation of Resolutions & Certificate of Recognition

Kristine SchwarzExecutive Director, New Beginnings

Lesley WilsonNew Beginnings’ Case Manager for the Supportive Services Program at the Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara

A Request for SupportJay CarlanderNew Beginnings’ Board Member

Presentation of Community Champions AwardSara Miller McCuneFounder and Executive Chairman, SAGE

Closing RemarksDiane Pannkuk

Dessert and Coffee Reception

Musical EntertainmentA La Carte, vocalsDavid Grossman, PianistMichael Holland, Guitarist

Diane PannkukPresident, New Beginnings Counseling Center Board of DirectorsDiane is an accomplished community leader having served as president of the Montecito Association for three years and on their board for 14, as well as on the boards of Domestic Violence Solutions, Montecito Union PTA and Educational Foundation, and the Junior League. Diane is also the founder and chairman of the Montecito Village Fourth. Diane’s professional accomplishments include serving as a contract negotiator for the US Department of Defense and president of the Silver Creek Corporation.

Kristine SchwarzExecutive Director, New Beginnings Counseling CenterKristine is a seasoned executive and psychotherapist with extensive experience building organizations and managing multi-faceted projects in both the non-profit and for-profit sectors, and considerable experience as an educator and clinician. Kristine is a member of the Santa Barbara County Inaugural Continuum of Care Board and founder of the MFT Consortium of the Central Coast Region. Kristine is also a former entertainment industry executive with 14 years of experience producing film and television projects internationally.

Lesley WilsonSupportive Services Program Coordinator and Case Manager New Beginnings Counseling CenterLesley is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who earned her B.A. in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and her M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University, Santa Barbara. Before starting her work with New Beginnings two years ago, Lesley worked with youth and families through the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. She has also worked extensively with the special needs community through San Felipe Supported Living and volunteered as an advocate and counselor at the Santa Barbara Rape Crisis Center. Lesley is passionate about empowering individuals to live their lives to the fullest.

Jay CarlanderNew Beginnings’ Board MemberJay Carlander has served on the New Beginnings Board of Directors since 2013. Jay teaches history at Santa Barbara City College and lives in Santa Barbara with his wife and two daughters.

BIOGRAPHIES

Sara Miller McCune Founder and Executive Chairman, SAGESara Miller McCune is the Founder and Executive Chairman of SAGE, with subsidiary companies and sales offices in California, Washington D.C., London, India, East Asia and Latin America. Ms. McCune remains actively involved in the company’s ongoing expansion and development. Ms. McCune is also President of the McCune Foundation, based in Ventura, California. In 2007, McCune founded the Santa Barbara based Miller-McCune Center for Research, Media and Public Policy which publishes the award-winning print and online magazine Pacific Standard. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and a member of the Visiting Committee of the Social Science Research Council. Sara is a graduate of Queens College of the City University of New York.

A la CarteHenry Garrett and Jan Ingram have been performing in our community for many years, sharing a wide variety of music. Both perform in other bands including Rock, Blues Jazz and Pop. They created “A la Carte” using tracks in order to share their music for non-profits, fundraisers, and other events when a band is just too much.

David GrossmanDavid previously served as the Executive Director of the Santa Barbara Symphony Orchestra Association. He also served for many years as Senior Vice President for Music at Paramount Pictures Television and as Executive Vice President at The Recording Academy, best known for the Grammy Awards. He remains active as a professional musician.

Michael HollandMichael is a retired CEO of an international electronics company, technical consultant, and now enjoys playing jazz, and Brazilian guitar music for benefits, art shows, and parties.

MUSICIAN BIOGRAPHIES

BOARD OF DIRECTORSDiane Pannkuk, PresidentJacqueline Kurta, Vice PresidentSarah Barbieux, TreasurerAnn Marie Plane, SecretaryJay CarlanderZiad El KurjieIrina KerdmanAmy Ramos

BOARD OF DIRECTORS EMERITAKathryn LePage

ADVISORY BOARDAlberto Arroyo Jim BaxterMarc BorowitzPatty Bryant Brynn CrowePatricia Duffy Allan Ghitterman Mary Howe-GrantKaren LehrerSeymour LehrerMike McCarthy Bruce W. McRoyFred MorguelanJoanne RappMarilyn Rickard SchaferAaron SpechlerLou WeiderDas WilliamsMichael YoungMaria Zate

MANAGEMENT TEAMKristine Schwarz, Executive DirectorBarbara Sheffield, Clinic Supervisor

HONORARY COMMITTEE Gail Arnold Glenn & Amy BachellerGary & Mary BeckerLalla & Rinaldo BrutocoLaura Burton CappsRoger & Robin HimovitzJudith HopkinsonSenator Hannah-Beth Jackson &Judge George Eskin (Ret.)John Lewis & Carrie TowbesJoe Medjuck & Laurie DeansSara Miller McCuneFrancie Monk Juliet Rhode Brown & James BrownMaryan SchallJulie Weiner

HOST COMMITTEEErika BrittainKatherine MeierCiara Murray-YoungKristine SchwarzBarbara Sheffield Joan Willicombe

EVENT PRODUCERJudi Weisbart

Community Champions Hon. Susan Rose and

Allan Ghitterman

During her more than 30 years of experience in public administration, education and community activism, Susan Rose has been committed to the advancement of women, workplace issues and civil rights. She served two 4-year terms on the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors during which she led efforts to create programs for affordable housing and homelessness, to improve the quality of life for women and families, and to ensure the environmental health of her community. In 2004 she initiated the Safe Parking Program for homeless individuals and families. Today, it is managed by New Beginnings Counseling Center.

Prior to that Susan was Executive Director of the City of Los Angeles Commission on the Status of Women, held positions in local government and directed a non-profit agency. She was a founding member of the Santa Barbara Women’s Political Committee (SBWPC) and has served on the board of the local Planned Parenthood Action Fund and is a member of the Santa Barbara Advisory Board of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

Currently, Susan serves on the Board of Emerge CA, a political leadership training program for women; she is Co-Chair of the Santa Barbara Human Rights Watch Committee (HRW) where she has focused her efforts on eliminating the national backlog of rape kits. Susan serves on the advisory committees of the Women’s Rights Division of HRW and Women’s Campaign International, an international leadership development program. Susan is a member of the Board of Trustees of the McCune Foundation and the Board of Antioch University Santa Barbara where she initiated a Women in Leadership Program.

Susan has been married to her husband Allan Ghitterman for over 35 years and they have made Santa Barbara their home since 1978. Together they have a blended family of 5 children, 8 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren and their beloved dog, Toto.

Susan Rose

Allan Ghitterman was born in Winnipeg, Canada on September 17, 1924. He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force and when he was 21 years old he moved to the United States to live in Los Angeles, California. Allan became a U.S. citizen in 1951, graduated from UCLA in 1952 and UCLA Law School in 1955. He began practicing law, as a general practitioner in June of 1956. His first job was at Rose, Klein and Marias where he specialized in Worker’s Compensation Law and became certified as a specialist in that area in 1973. He has practiced before the Court of Appeals and on the California Supreme Court and is certified to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Allan has served on the Boards of the Food Bank of Santa Barbara and the California Rehabilitation Institute and currently serves on the Board of the Legal Aid Foundation. In 1991-92, he was a founding Board member and served as president of the New Beginnings Counseling Center and has continued to be a supporter since then.

For the past 20 years, Allan has served as a Small Claims Judge and as a Settlement Master for the Santa Barbara Superior Court. He has been an arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association and for the Santa Barbara Superior Court, on assignment.

Allan and his wife Susan have been married for over 35 years and together they have a blended family of 5 children, 8 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. They have made Santa Barbara their home since 1978, and when not traveling, they donate their time and home to support non-profit organizations and political causes.

Allan is still practicing law with the law firm of Ghitterman, Ghitterman and Feld with offices in Santa Barbara, Ventura and Kern Counties. His hobbies include playing the stock market, poker games and reading science fiction. He walks 1 ½ to 2 miles a day with his wife Susan and their dog Toto.

Allan Ghitterman

Congratulations and thanks for all you do for all of us. May God’s blessings continue to surround you, Allan & Susan.

– Bryant & Sons, Ltd.

Hats off to Hon. Susan Rose & Allan Ghitterman! – Cottage Health

Bravo Susan and Allan – this is your time to shine and be recognized for all of your priceless community support – shine bright tonight!

– Montecito Bank & Trust

Thank you, Susan and Allan, for your generosity and inspiring leadership in helping Santa Barbara become a more just and humane community.

– Your friends and admirers at The Fund for Santa Barbara

antiochsb.edu

AUSB celebratesSusan &Allan!

Venoco congratulates Susan Rose and Allan Ghitterman for their exemplary work in the community!

New Beginnings could not have two people more committed; both in their heart and in the work they are able to do.

We are all lucky, both for the individuals helped and for our community, to have them so involved in New Beginnings work.

– Judy Hopkinson

Thank you, Susan and Allan, for your important support of New Beginnings!

– Jane De Hart and Jerry Cohen

Thank you for inspiring all of us to give back to our community.– Carrie Towbes & John Lewis

More deserving honorees are hard to imagine! Congratulations, Allan and Susan! Keep up the good work!

– Mickey & Dick Flacks

Our heartfelt congratulations to you both for this well-deserved recognition! Your long time friends, Steven, Marnie & Lauren Pinsker

We raise a glass in honor of Susan and Allan whose lives have been dedicated to making the world a better place!

We love you and salute you… – Vicki and David Riskin

Many congratulations and many thanks Susan and Allan for your leadership, your work with New Beginnings

and all that you do in our community. With love, Laurie Harris and Richard Hecht

Susan Rose and Allan Ghitterman have dedicated their lives to fighting for human rights, supporting women in their quest

for higher education, and working tirelessly on behalf of the environment and our community.

– Cheryl & Gary Justice

Thank you Susan and Allan for your inspiration and leadership in our community. Your dedication to helping others is appreciated

by both those in need and those in the non-profit community. Your generosity will be remembered for many years to come.

Congratulations to you both on receiving this honor! – Maryan Schall

Allan and Susan have offered me kindness and support since I was a young girl.

I look around as an adult and I see them everywhere. It is because they do the same thing all through our community.

They serve on boards and support important organizations like New Beginnings, but they also touch many people informally

and those effects are powerful and widespread: Allan launched a career recently when he agreed to take on a night school law student as a clerk

because the man struck him as bright; Susan did the same when she made important introductions

for a young woman who wants political office, after fully vetting the woman’s views of course.

The room will, I am sure, be full of people with stories of support, many of which are too personal to tell. The point is that Allan and Susan

investigate any person, position, case, or aspiration presented and -- if there is merit -- they throw their weight behind it. Even if it is a long shot.

This takes time and energy, intelligence and grit. It is the model of civic conduct we should all be following.

I feel very fortunate to have them in my life and in our community. Thank you Allan and Susan for your selfless efforts.

– Katy Graham

As relative SB newcomers, thank you for welcoming us so generously and graciously into your community of giving, knowledge, and leadership.

– Marcia and John Mike Cohen

EVENT SPONSORS & DONORSAnonymous (4)Antioch University Santa BarbaraGlenn & Amy BachellerGary & Mary BeckerBryant & Sons Ltd. Ceil CirilloBenjamin Cohen & Jane DeHartJohn & Marcia CohenCottage Health SystemsHendrika M. Devries The Fund for Santa Barbara, Inc.Natalie GaynesDavid GershLaurie Harris & Richard HechtGerald W. HarterRoger & Robin HimovitzJudith HopkinsonCheryl & Gary JusticeMarsha Levy & Richard Parisse Sharon & Craig MadsenMontecito Bank & TrustNatalie MyersonPacific Standard Magazine Victoria & David RiskinJohn & Cynthia Sanger SBCC FoundationMaryan SchallJoan & Sandy SchatzBruce & Brenda TarrThompson Naylor ArchitectsCarrie Towbes & John Lewis Venoco Inc.

THANKYOU

EVENT CONTRIBUTORSA la Carte, vocals Belmond El Encanto Bill’s Copy Shop Boone Graphics Fritz Creative Marketing David Grossman, pianist Sven Holcomb, AV Michael Holland, guitarist Sarita Relis, photographer Anne Towbes, lyricist

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