Speakers

SPEAKER’S BACKGROUND

Tim has been a Rotarian since 1983 (37+ years with 25 years of perfect attendance.) and  was the 97^th President of Sacramento Club #97, as well as Chairman of their $3 million Rotary Club of Sacramento Foundation. He was on the Board of the Aerospace Museum of California for over a decade and served as interim Deputy Director there in 2017 and 2018. 

In his day job you’ll find him at Luxe Aviation, LLC at McClellan Air Field selling and acquiring aircraft and leasing them for private and corporate clients. 

Tim was a Naval aviator during the Vietnam War, with his last combat assignment flying a EA 6-B Prowler ‘electronic warfare communications jammer’ off the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier. He had the last ’trap’ of the War.

CONTACT: Tim Pinkney at SkyeGuye6@gmail.com or (916) 719-0630

Diagnosed when he was not even a year old, Bob Mutchler understands firsthand how life-altering polio can be. Yet he and his family refused to let the challenges of this debilitating disease affect his future. As an adult Bob combined his membership in Rotary International and his love of motorcycle riding to help with The Rotary Foundation’s commitment to provide polio immunization to children everywhere through a program called PolioPlus. Bob's gripping story is about a man who knows from his own experiences exactly what a “world without polio” can mean to children and families. Crisscrossing Australia and North America on his motorcycle, “Motorcycle Bob”  aka "Iron Butt Bob" shares his own personal struggles as he tirelessly dedicates himself to the eradication of polio worldwide.

 

Dan Walters has been a journalist for nearly 60 years, spending all but a few of those years working for California newspapers. He began his professional career in 1960, at age 16, at the Humboldt Times in  Eureka, while still attending high school, and turned down a National Merit scholarship to continue working as a journalist. At one point in his career, at age 22, he was the nation’s youngest daily newspaper editor. The Hanford Sentinel was the first of three newspaper editor positions before joining the Sacramento Union’s Capitol bureau in 1975, just as Jerry Brown began his governorship. Walters later became the Union’s Capitol bureau chief, and in 1981 began writing the state’s only daily newspaper column devoted to California political, economic and social events. In 1984, he and the column moved to The Sacramento Bee. He has written more than 9,000 columns about California and its politics and his column has appeared in many other California newspapers. Walters has written about California and its politics for a number of other publications, including The Wall Street Journal and the Christian Science Monitor. In 1986, his book, “The New California: Facing the 21st Century,” was published in its first edition. He is also the founding editor of the “California Political Almanac,” the co-author of a book on lobbying entitled “The Third House: Lobbyists, Money and Power in Sacramento,” and contributed chapters to two other books, “Remaking California” and “The New Political Geography of California. He also has been a frequent guest on national television news shows, commenting on California politics.