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https://cdn.commonwealthclub.org/s3fs-public/styles/hero_1080x382_720x255_1_5x/public/2023-01/120%20year%20facts%20carousel%20copy_0.png?itok=K5uDQuyE 1.5x, https://cdn.commonwealthclub.org/s3fs-public/styles/hero_1440x510_960x340_1_5x_720x255_2_x/public/2023-01/120%20year%20facts%20carousel%20copy_0.png?itok=Yo_aEyGw 2x"/> <img decoding="async" class="media__element b-lazy b-responsive" loading="lazy" data-src="https://cdn.commonwealthclub.org/s3fs-public/2023-01/120%20year%20facts%20carousel%20copy_0.png" width="1440" height="510" src="data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg'%20viewBox%3D'0%200%201%201'%2F%3E" alt="" /> </picture> </div> </div> <div class="text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><!-- Tag Line Hero Starts --></p><p>On February 3, 1903, in a small restaurant in San Francisco, our founders hosted the first meeting of The Commonwealth Club of California. Celebrate our 120 years of community fellowship and thought-provoking conversation with a little Club trivia, and wish The Commonwealth Club a happy birthday today with a gift of $120—one dollar for every year of our history.</p> <p class="text-align-center"><a class="button button--transaction" href="https://commonwealthclub.secure.force.com/donate/?dfId=a0n3j00000yK9oEAAS">Donate Today</a></p> <!-- Tag Line Hero Ends --><!-- Page Title Starts --><h2>120 Facts about The Commonwealth Club</h2> <!-- Page Title Ends --><div class="descriptor-container"> <div class="two-thirds two-thirds--left border-right"><img alt="Shirley Temple Black and Cesar Chavez" src="https://cdn.commonwealthclub.org/s3fs-public/sizedshirleytemple.jpg"></div> <div class="one-third one-third--right"> <h3>Landmarks in Club History</h3> <p><strong>1.</strong> The Commonwealth Club makes its debut in 1903, dedicating its work to promoting civic awareness and the common good<br> <strong>2.</strong> The Club grows, taking on the concerns of the times: child labor (1906); Native American rights (1909); air pollution (1913); banking laws (1908); juror selection (1920), and more<br> <strong>3.</strong> In 1932, The Commonwealth Club hosts one of Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal” speeches<br> <strong>4.</strong> Home to the headquarters of the International Longshore Workers’ Union in 1934, the Club’s Embarcadero site becomes known for labor protests that eventually lead to advancements in worker rights<br> <strong>5.</strong> June 11, 1931: Club President James A. Johnston announces the creation of the California Book Awards—a program that now receives more than 400 submissions a year<br> <strong>6.</strong> Literary historians credit the Club’s Book Awards as among the first to recognize a young John Steinbeck, awarding him three Gold Medals between 1935 and 1939…and becoming embroiled in controversy for recommending <em>The Grapes of Wrath</em>, Steinbeck’s gritty epic of the Great Depression<br> <strong>7.</strong> Herbert Hoover gives four formal speeches on the record and nine “off-the-record” question-and-answer sessions at Club dinner meetings between 1936 and 1947<br> <strong>8.</strong> Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King speaks at the Club in 1967<br> <strong>9.</strong> The Club hosts former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy in 1967, and again in 1968<br> <strong>10.</strong> Women are finally permitted to join as Club members in 1971<br> <strong>11.</strong> First Lady Rosalynn Carter speaks twice at the Club in the 1970s and again in 2010<br> <strong>12.</strong> Actress/diplomat Shirley Temple Black is Club President in 1984<br> <strong>13.</strong> Actress Audrey Hepburn emerges from private life in 1988, travels the globe as a UNICEF ambassador and, in 1992, appears at the Club to speak about her experiences<br> <strong>14.</strong> In the 1960s, ‘70s, and ‘80s, Club events are hosted as luncheons at San Francisco’s Palace Hotel; live radio coverage keeps hosts and guests on their toes!<br> <strong>15.</strong> Until the 1980s, yearly Club membership rosters are printed, listing each member’s name, occupation, and city of residence<br> <strong>16.</strong> See into the past! View a 1928 motion picture (silent, 8:36) of Club founder Edward Adams among his prized flowers; Earl A. Walcott, “watch dog of expenditures,” at work; and the gentlemen of the Luncheon Committee <a href="/about/history"><strong>here</strong></a></p> </div> </div> <div class="descriptor-container"> <div class="two-thirds two-thirds--left border-right"><img alt="rooftop celebration" src="https://cdn.commonwealthclub.org/s3fs-public/sizedspecialevent.jpg"></div> <div class="one-third one-third--right"> <h3>Firsts and Foremosts</h3> <p><strong>17.</strong> Dedicated to presenting points of view from across the political spectrum, The Commonwealth Club is the only place in the Bay Area where you can hear from a liberal one night and a conservative the next!<br> <strong>18.</strong> The Club’s Distinguished Citizen Award Gala begins in 1989, honoring more than 100 individuals to date<br> <strong>19.</strong> The Commonwealth Club’s California Book Awards honor writers for outstanding contributions to fiction, nonfiction, poetry, juvenile literature, first works of fiction, Californiana, and notable contributions to publishing; more than 500 authors have been recognized to date<br> <strong>20.</strong> The Club’s radio program—hosted by 230 stations in 27 states—is the oldest continuing radio broadcast in the country<br> <strong>21.</strong> 2001: Club podcasts begin way before podcasting is cool<br> <strong>22.</strong> 2007: The Club’s YouTube channel debuts, now with more than 85,000 subscribers<br> <strong>23.</strong> The Club’s first livestreamed program, which debuts in 2014, features Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian<br> <strong>24.</strong> April 2012: Rachel Maddow, host of MSNBC’s "The Rachel Maddow Show," introduces her book <em>Drift</em> at a sold-out Inforum program, the first presented by the Club at the Castro Theatre<br> <strong>25.</strong> The Club rings in 2019 with its first-ever New Year’s Eve party, and makes it to the Top 10 Best in San Francisco<br> <strong>26.</strong> One member (initials G.M.) has attended more in-person events than any other member!<br> <strong>27.</strong> Dr. Lauren Silver, the Club’s first-ever Education Director, comes onboard in December 2019 to develop positive civics content for the K–12 teaching community<br> <strong>28.</strong> Published continuously for more than 80 years, the Club’s award-winning magazine goes virtual: <em>The Commonwealth Unbound</em> features 116 pages filled with politics, arts, history, technology, and more; before the magazine, the Club published a newsletter</p> </div> </div> <div class="descriptor-container"> <div class="two-thirds two-thirds--left border-right"><img alt="Inforum" src="https://cdn.commonwealthclub.org/s3fs-public/sizedinforum.jpg"></div> <div class="one-third one-third--right"> <h3>Club Programs: Inforum</h3> <p><strong>29.</strong> Inforum debuts in 2000, offering a new way for young people to network after the burst of the dot.com bubble<br> <strong>30.</strong> October 2012: Women’s rights activist Cecile Richards receives Inforum’s 21st Century Visionary Award<br> <strong>31.</strong> More than 2400 tickets are sold on March 27, 2014, marking the Club’s best-attended program to date, when Inforum hosts Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg and Huffington Post’s Arianna Huffington<br> <strong>32.</strong> Inforum is named <em>San Francisco</em> magazine’s 2015 “Best of SF Speaker Series”<br> <strong>33.</strong> Summer 2015: <em>Fight Club</em> author Chuck Palahniuk helps check in attendees for his own Inforum program, and works alongside staff filling balloons with air and glowsticks<br> <strong>34.</strong> Inforum hosts singer/songwriter Matt Nathanson’s record-release party in 2018<br> <strong>35.</strong> Inforum ends every program with the question, “What is your 60-second idea to change the world?” Thousands of people have answered!</p> </div> </div> <div class="descriptor-container"> <div class="two-thirds two-thirds--left border-right"><img alt="Climate One" src="https://cdn.commonwealthclub.org/s3fs-public/sizedc1.jpg"></div> <div class="one-third one-third--right"> <h3>Club Programs: Climate One</h3> <p><strong>36.</strong> Climate One is founded in 2007 following an eye-opening Commonwealth Club trip to the Russian Arctic<br> <strong>37.</strong> Arnold Schwarzenegger joins Climate One programs five times during his term as California governor, including during the 2009 Climate Summit in Copenhagen<br> <strong>38.</strong> Fall 2010: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sits down with Climate One hosts for a conversation about petro-politics and the Keystone Pipeline<br> <strong>39.</strong> In 2011, Dr. Richard Alley, Professor of Geosciences at Penn State University, receives the first Stephen H. Schneider Award, established by Climate One in honor of climate scientist Stephen H. Schneider<br> <strong>40.</strong> April 2017: To the delight of a packed Climate One crowd, Jane Goodall celebrates her 83rd birthday by demonstrating how a chimp might react to her four-tiered, chimpanzee-themed cake<br> <strong>41.</strong> Climate One founder and host Greg Dalton talks with artist/activist Ai Weiwei about the artist’s film, <em>Human Flow</em> (2017), a thought-provoking journey that examines how population movement affects climate change<br> <strong>42.</strong> Environmental activist Erin Brockovich is a fan of Climate One!<br> <strong>43.</strong> Climate One is nominated for a 2020 iHeartRadio Podcast Award in the category of Green Podcasts<br> <strong>44.</strong> Climate One inspires the next generation of climate leaders by establishing an annual scholarship to send two high school students to the Arctic as a summer learning experience</p> </div> </div> <div class="descriptor-container"> <div class="two-thirds two-thirds--left border-right"><img alt="Travel" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="2b03d116-b369-49a7-9285-1fec160d7ddb" src="https://cdn.commonwealthclub.org/s3fs-public/sizedtravel.jpg"></div> <div class="one-third one-third--right"> <h3>Club Programs: Travel</h3> <p><strong>45.</strong> Founded on a tradition of cultural and intellectual exploration, Commonwealth Club Travel takes members to every continent across the globe, including Antarctica<br> <strong>46.</strong> Club travelers visit countries typically inaccessible to U.S. citizens, including North Korea, Iran, and Cuba<br> <strong>47.</strong> Club travelers are guided by professional tour directors who speak the local language; study directors help members explore history, culture, and more<br> <strong>48.</strong> Adventurous members enjoy hands-on cooking classes worldwide, including in Morocco, Spain, Italy, and Peru<br> <strong>49.</strong> 2008: Club travelers sail through China and East Asia with President George H.W. Bush<br> <strong>50.</strong> Over the past two years, more than 60 Club members have walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama<br> <strong>51.</strong> Find your soulmate! Numerous engagement proposals have taken place on Club trips (including in Antarctica and on the Nile River), and several Club travelers have meet their future spouses (including a match between a traveler and the trip study leader!)<br> <strong>52.</strong> Club travelers visit U.S. embassies around the world for briefings with our foreign service staff<br> <strong>53.</strong> Club members win free trips around the world at the Club’s annual Traveler Party</p> </div> </div> <div class="descriptor-container"> <div class="two-thirds two-thirds--left border-right"><img alt="Coppola" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="2b03d116-b369-49a7-9285-1fec160d7ddb" src="https://cdn.commonwealthclub.org/s3fs-public/sizedcoppola.jpg"></div> <div class="one-third one-third--right"> <h3>Club Programs: Guest Speakers</h3> <p><strong>54.</strong> Over 119 years of events and presentations, The Commonwealth Club hosts 18 of the country’s 20 presidents: T. Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, F.D. Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, G.H.W. Bush, Clinton, G.W. Bush, and Biden<br> <strong>55.</strong> The Club presents international leaders from around the world, from Nikita Khrushchev of the former Soviet Union and Vicente Fox Quesada, past President of Mexico, to Henry Puna, Prime Minister of the Cook Islands in the South Pacific<br> <strong>56.</strong> May 1992: We host Vice President Dan Quayle’s controversial <em>Murphy Brown</em> speech<br> <strong>57.</strong> December 2002: Mickey Hart, former drummer of the Grateful Dead, sets the beat with a smash-hit appearance at the Club<br> <strong>58.</strong> The Club sometimes features multiple family members, such as former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and daughter Katie Albright, director of the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center in March 2017, and Alice Waters and Fanny Singer in 2011<br> <strong>59.</strong> November 2016: Francis Ford Coppola confesses to Club guests that he’s sick of the musical theme to <em>The Godfather</em><br> <strong>60.</strong> October 2017: The Club is filled with the melodious harmonies of music legend Art Garfunkle<br> <strong>61.</strong> Sports enthusiasts pay attention when forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu—the first to diagnose degenerative brain damage in athletes—warns of the dangers (“The Concussion Doctor,” 2017)<br> <strong>62.</strong> Popular programs for foodies include everything from “An Evening with Jacques Pepin” (2014) and “How Hippie Food Changed the Way We Eat” (2018), to “The Full Plate with Ayesha Curry” (2020) and “Cooking in Quarantine” (2020)<br> <strong>63.</strong> The Commonwealth Club screens Eleanor Coppola’s <em>Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse</em> (1991); Bill Moyers’ <em>Rikers: An American Jail</em> (2017); and the Ken Burns’ PBS series <em>College Behind Bars</em> (2019), among others<br> <strong>64.</strong> November 2018: The Club presents an evening in Rock history, featuring live music by Ace of Cups, the pioneering all-female band that rocked San Francisco in the 1960s<br> <strong>65.</strong> The Club hosts California governors past and present—from Gray Davis, Jerry Brown, and Arnold Schwarzenegger to current Governor Gavin Newsom<br> <strong>66.</strong> A frequent speaker, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown holds annual lectures on national and regional politics at the Club<br> <strong>67.</strong> The power of parody is the subject of talk-show host Andy Cohen (“Taboo Topics,” 2016), humorist P.J. O’Rourke (“Has America Gone Crazy?” 2017), and Stanford Professor Jennifer Aaker and lecturer Naomi Bagdonas (“Humor, Seriously,” 2021), who argue that humor can be a force for good in even the most serious of situations<br> <strong>68.</strong> Guest speaker Mai Khoi, an award-winning musician and activist sometimes known as “Vietnam’s Lady Gaga,” talks about efforts to promote freedom of artistic expression in Vietnam<br> <strong>69.</strong> March 2019: Golden Globe–winning actress Taraji P. Henson teams up with moderator Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, to shine a light on civil rights in Henson’s film <em>The Best of Enemies</em><br> <strong>70.</strong> Foodies discover new taste sensations and learn tricks of the trade with chefs Tim Ferriss (2012), Mario Batali (2014), Joanne Weir (2015), Dominique Crenn (2020), Marcus Samuelsson (2021), and more<br> <strong>71.</strong> George Takei, former <em>Star Trek</em> cast member and political activist, introduces his 208-page manga memoir—from memories of his childhood in a Japanese-American internment camp to his years in Hollywood—at the Club in September 2019<br> <strong>72.</strong> November 2019: CEO Adam Mosseri makes headlines during a Club program when he announces Instagram’s intention to test hiding “like” metrics in an effort to make their site safer<br> <strong>73.</strong> After 28 years, Michael Krasny announces his retirement as host of KQED’s “Forum” broadcast, sharing parting words with Club members just a few days before his last show in February 2021</p> </div> </div> <div class="descriptor-container"> <div class="two-thirds two-thirds--left border-right"><img alt="Gloria Duffy" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="2b03d116-b369-49a7-9285-1fec160d7ddb" src="https://cdn.commonwealthclub.org/s3fs-public/sizedgloria.jpg"></div> <div class="one-third one-third--right"> <h3>Behind the Scenes</h3> <p><strong>74.</strong> Commonwealth Club members live in 40 states and countries, joining from as far away as England and Australia<br> <strong>75.</strong> Dr. Gloria Duffy, president and CEO of The Commonwealth Club since 1997, hosts some of the Club’s most prominent visitors and speakers; in 2019 she is selected by the <em>San Francisco Business Times</em> as the most admired nonprofit CEO in the Bay Area<br> <strong>76.</strong> Dignitaries from throughout the state, including the late Mayor Ed Lee, take part in the 2017 Grand Opening celebrations of our new home at 110 The Embarcadero in San Francisco<br> <strong>77.</strong> Four staff members began as Club interns; eight have worked at the Club for more than a decade, and two have been staff members for more than two decades<br> <strong>78.</strong> Six students from UC Berkeley serve as Programming Fellows each year<br> <strong>79.</strong> Almost one-third of our programs are Member-Led Forums, created by our dedicated volunteers<br> <strong>80.</strong> The stage background, originally painted white, is repainted black to give it more of a studio look<br> <strong>81.</strong> The Michelle Meow show, hosted weekly at the Club, brings programs of interest to our LGBTQ audiences<br> <strong>82.</strong> To date, 11 exhibits showcasing local artists have been displayed in our Farmer Gallery<br> <strong>83.</strong> The “Voices of Reform” Club initiative begins in 2007, spawning California Forward, an independent nonprofit dedicated to responsive state governance<br> <strong>84.</strong> Our own wine label now offers refreshing pinot noir and chardonnay<br> <strong>85.</strong> The Club’s rooftop deck at 110 The Embarcadero is THE BEST place to view the Bay Area skyline—for New Year’s Eve fireworks, our always-sold-out Blue Angels rooftop party, or your own celebrations and events<br> <strong>86.</strong> “Hearing Loop” technology installed in both Club auditoriums at 110 The Embarcadero electromagnetically transmits sound to hearing aids and cochlear implants, improving reception for hearing-impaired visitors<br> <strong>87.</strong> More than 1,100 distinguished Golden Gavel Members have maintained their Club memberships for 30 years or more!<br> <strong>88.</strong> November 2020 and spring 2021: The Commonwealth Club serves as an official polling place for elections<br> <strong>89.</strong> Club programs have been presented at venues all across the San Francisco Bay Area, including the Herbst Theatre, Marines’ Memorial, Castro Theatre, InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel, Santa Clara Convention Center, Oshman Family JCC, Lafayette Library, Mill Valley Community Center, Buck Institute, Marin Center Showcase Theater, and more<br> <strong>90.</strong> January 2021: Former Club Board of Governors member Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall is named the White House homeland security adviser to President Biden</p> </div> </div> <div class="descriptor-container"> <div class="two-thirds two-thirds--left border-right"><img alt="Fauci and Duffy" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="2b03d116-b369-49a7-9285-1fec160d7ddb" src="https://cdn.commonwealthclub.org/s3fs-public/sizedfauci.jpg"></div> <div class="one-third one-third--right"> <h3>Off the Beaten Path</h3> <p><strong>91.</strong> Club founders briefly call the organization “The Agora,” from the ancient Greek for a place of public assembly<br> <strong>92.</strong> Over the years, Club programs are disrupted by everything from fire alarms (interrupting actress Carol Channing, former Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz, and infectious-disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fauci), earthquakes, power outages, unruly audiences—even a student-made hoverboard<br> <strong>93.</strong> On sensitive occasions, bomb-sniffing dogs surveil Club venues in advance of important government speakers<br> <strong>94.</strong> Chocolate chip cookies are the most commonly requested snack made by speakers in the green room<br> <strong>95.</strong> Staff working at an interim site during the construction of our Embarcadero building share office space with a handful of resident mice<br> <strong>96.</strong> The walls of the Taube Auditorium and Reception space are made from re-milled Douglas fir trees removed from the foundation during construction, and date back to the turn of the 20th century (amazingly, every once in a while, they still express sap)<br> <strong>97.</strong> A murder of crows has currently taken up residence in the trees behind The Commonwealth Club, making an infernal racket, but delighting inhouse birdwatchers<br> <strong>98.</strong> Our rooftop garden grows apples, kale, chard, herbs, and pomegranates<br> <strong>99.</strong> The insulation of our building is made almost entirely of denim from 7,800 pairs of jeans donated by Levi Strauss & Co.<br> <strong>100.</strong> A size-11 shoe dating back to the turn of the 20th century is found during foundation excavations at 110 The Embarcadero<br> <strong>101.</strong> Digitized audio recordings of Club presentations dating back to the 1940s (“The Austrian Situation,” 1947; 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