Annual Distinguished Citizen Award Dinner

The Annual Dinner is The Club's most significant annual fundraising event. Please consider becoming a sponsor. Learn more.

April 2010 Distinguished Honorees include:

Brad Bird
Writer, Director, Pixar Animation Studios

Jack O'Neill
Founder, O'Neill Wetsuits

Dr. Bill Rutter
Chairman and CEO, Synergenics

Hon. George P. Shultz
Former Secretary of State

and

Charlotte Mailliard Shultz
Chief of Protocol for the State of California and for the City of San Francisco

Sponsor the 2011 Dinner today. For more information call (415) 869-5909.

Each year since 1988, The Commonwealth Club has bestowed its Distinguished Citizen Award on one or more individuals, recognizing their noteworthy contributions to local and global society.

The Annual Dinner is The Club's most significant annual fundraising event, providing resources to support its important nonprofit public forum mission throughout the year.

Presenting Sponsor $100,000
Grand Sponsor $50,000	Stephen Bechtel Fund William K. Bowes, Jr. John A. Gunn & Cynthia Fry Gunn
Dinner Sponsor $25,000	Phyllis & Bill Draper San Francisco Business Times Visa Inc.
Leadership Sponsor $15,000	Asset Management Company/Franklin P. Johnson, Jr. Bank of the West James C. Hormel & Michael P. Nguyen Pacific Gas and Electric Company The Honorable & Mrs. George P. Shultz Tad Taube and Jeffrey Farber, Koret Foundation Wells Fargo & Company
Benefactor Sponsor $10,000	Applied Materials, Inc. Bechtel Group, Inc. Nan & Chuck Geschke The Hellman Family Foundation Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Skip & Frankie Rhodes Condoleezza Rice Synergenics, LLC
Patron Sponsor $5,000	William F. Adams Law Offices Anonymous (3) Mary G. F. Bitterman Blue Shield of California BNY Mellon Wealth Management Michael & Christine Carr Casto, The Travel Company Deloitte & Touche LLP Steve & Roberta Denning Evelyn & John Dilsaver Rolando Esteverena Joseph R. Fink/Dominican University of California Richard N. Goldman Rose Guilbault/AAA Northern California, Nevada, Utah Edie G. Heilman KGO-TV Judy Koch Lata Krishnan & Ajay Shah Ambassador Bill & Jean Lane McKinsey & Company O'Neill Wetsuits LLC Kevin M. Pursglove Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock San Francisco Opera Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. The Shorenstein Company Sierra Steel Trading/Joe & Hon. Judith Epstein Silicon Valley Bank & Bingham McCutchen LLP Travers Family Foundation Warburg Pincus LLC Wetherby Asset Management & Dave Redo
Individual Benefactors $1000	Anonymous (2) Allan & Marilyn Brown William & Jean Coblentz Karen Francis & Rick DeGolia Marcia & John Goldman Marissa Mayer & Zachary Bogue Alexander R. Mehran Charles Schwab Foundation Lucretia & John Sias
Individual Patrons $500	Bob Barksdale Dr. Elwyn Berlekamp John Boland & James Carroll Larel & Thomas Bondi J. Dennis Bonney Flo & John Bryan John A. Busterud Dr. Kerry P. & Lynn Curtis Dr. Carol A. Fleming, Ph.D. Muni Fry Jacquelyn Hadley Laddie W. Hughes David A. Jochim Heather M. Kitchen Paul Marti & Julia Carpenter Donald Mitchell Nion T. McEvoy Burt & Deedee McMurtry Professor Eva M. Nash-Isaac, Ph.D. Hon. Richard Pivnicka & Hon. Barbara Pivnicka Harriet Meyer Quarré Vic & Maggee Revenko Elizabeth Sutherland Riney Fred A. Rodriguez Sande Schlumberger Mr. Georges Schmit, Consul General of Luxembourg Ruth Shapiro & Michael Gallagher Annemarie Tanner Nancy Thompson & Andrew Kerr Peter Voll Richard V. Zolezzi
Special Thanks To	Ronald Charyn, Charyn Auctions Comcast Local Edition Enchanted Garden Florist Frog's Leap J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines Katy L. Nestor, Petite Designs San Francisco's Own Skyy Spirits Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon Pat & Mike Splinter WMS media, Inc.