Coffee Cabinet
The RAM Coffee Cabinet will meet via Zoom until it is deemed safe to resume meeting in person. Recordings of meetings will be displayed on this page. Meetings start around 8:15 a.m. and will be called to order at 8:30 am for an hour long program that includes humor or highlights of history, announcements and anecdotes and a featured speaker.
Upcoming Programs
April 15, 2021 – Elliot Marshall, Pacific Coast Rail Road Historians / SLO Railroad Museum, Building the Avila Breakwater, Part 1.
April 22, 2021 – Elliot Marshall, Pacific Coast Rail Road Historians / SLO Railroad Museum, Building the Avila Breakwater, Part 2.
Zoom Meeting Archives
Click on a video link below to watch a Coffee Cabinet Zoom meeting.
3/18/21
Joy Pederson, Interim Dean of Students & Aydin Nazmi, Epidemiologist
Cal Poly
Update on Cal Poly’s Planning & Response to COVID-19
3/11/21
Jorge Garcia, Management Services Director
City of Pismo Beach
Projects Update: Projects Within Pismo Beach and Those with Five Cities Regional Impact
3/4/21
Bill Burlingame, Docent
Firestone / Ford Museum, Detroit
Museum and Period Working Farm
2/4/21
Sr. Theresa Harpin, Exec Dir; Vivien Devaney, In-Custody Re-entry Dir.
Restorative Partners
Program Update; Collaborative Initiatives with the Sheriff & the Courts
12/17/20
Salud Carbajol, 24th Dist Rep
US House of Representatives
Report to Constituents
11/19/20
Kristen Adams, Mgr
A Better Life Recovery, Orange Cty
Helping Adults From Addition to Recovery
11/12/20
Jim Brescia, EdD, Superintendent
SLO County Schools
Preparing to Restart In-person instruction
10/15/20
Sioux Oliva, PhD, Historian
Independent
Personal Family History of People of Note
9/10/20
Michael Latner, PhD, Professor
Cal Poly Political Science
Some General Election Factors
8/27/20
Mona Tucker, Pres. & Wendy Lucas, VP
Northern Chumash Tribe
Chumash Culture & Local Priorities
8/20/20
Dr. R. “Mike” Hill, Director
SLO Co Public Health Agency
COVID-19 as it relates to seniors
7/30/20
Tim Bridwell, Coord: Past Pres.
Friends of the Elephant Seals
Elephant Seals, Program 2
7/16/20
Jim Maraviglia, Vice Provost
CP Enrollment Development
College Admissions & Beyond
7/9/20
Ann Kitajima, Ass’t Director
MB Nat’l Estuary Program
Recent Environmental Report Card
7/2/20
Brad Parkinson, Prof Emertus, (recalled)
RAM, Stanford University
The Third Planet