November 14, 2024 Club Meeting

We are delighted to have Jason Perry speak to us about local and national elections.  Jason Perry, JD is the Vice President for Government Relations and the Director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah.  Jason brings more than 25 years of experience working in the public sector, where he has worked extensively with policy makers at the local, state, and federal level.
Jason is a graduate of the S.J. Quinney College of Law at The University of Utah. He helped launch the Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce, received the FBI Director’s Award for distinguished service to the law enforcement community, served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, and became an Administrative Judge in Utah’s Department of Commerce where he quickly rose to the level of deputy director. He has served as the Executive Director of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development.  Jason makes his home in Salt Lake City with his wife Mary Catherine and their four children.

October 24, 2024 Club Meeting

We are delighted to have Chris Opfar, a Timpanogos Club member, speak to us on Thursday, October 24th at 6:00 pm at the Alta Club.  Chris is a Project Superintendent at Okland Construction with experience overseeing the renovation of several LDS temples as well as the upgrading of the Kirtland Ohio Temple. He has also been involved in the construction of City Creek, University of Utah facilities, and numerous other large projects.  We look forward to an enjoyable and informative evening together, and hope you will be able to join us!

September 26, 2024 Club Meeting

We are very pleased to have Marshall McDonald as our guest speaker in September.  Marshall has developed a unique musical style that combines classical, inspirational, film score, and new age genres of music all in one. He has recorded multiple albums. His film scores and symphonies have been performed and recorded across the globe. He has been a guest soloist with the Tabernacle Choir on its weekly broadcast of Music and the Spoken Word and has scored several social media campaigns for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Most recently, he was honored by Utah Governor Spencer Cox and First Lady Abby Cox as recipient of the 2024 Governor’s Mansion Artist Award. He currently teaches at the University of Utah Institute of Religion and serves as the Music Coordinator for Seminaries and Institutes for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

We look forward to seeing all of you once again as we begin another wonderful year of Timpanogos Club gatherings!

April 25, 2024 Club Meeting

Please join us on Thursday, April 25th to learn about the current state of the court systems in the United States. We will be privileged to hear from the Honorable Paul Maughan, a current Timpanogos Club member. Judge Maughan received his Juris Doctor Law Degree from the University of Utah in 1974. He served as a state trial judge for eighteen years, presided over major civil cases, both jury and bench trials and also had an extensive felony criminal calendar. He is a former Assistant District Attorney for Salt Lake County, Assistant Salt Lake City Attorney, a Special Assistant Attorney for the State’s Attorney General and is an associate in the law firm of Bradley, Arrowsmith and Jackson.

Judge Maughan served as a Master of the Bench of the Aldon Anderson Inn of Court, a Member of the Utah Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Rules of Professional Conduct, a member of the Utah Sentencing Commission, the Chair of the State of Utah Career Review Board, and Vice-Chair of the Litigation Section of the Utah State Bar.

March 28, 2024 Club Meeting

Our speaker for this month’s club meeting will be Rabbi Samuel L. Spector, who will address us about the Jewish experience in Salt Lake City and Utah and how the current affairs in the world are affecting his congregation. He has been the rabbi of Congregation Kol Ami since 2018. He attended the University of California, San Diego, graduated with Cum Laude honors with a B.A. in Judaic Studies and was elected Phi Beta Kappa. He received his Masters in Hebrew Letters and Rabbinic Ordination from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. He is currently a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, and serves on the advisory board for the Salt Lake Chamber and the Christian Center of Park City.

Rabbi Spector is married to Jill, an ldaho native; they are proud parents of their daughters, Miriam and Esti, and host parents of Yasamin, a high school student from Afghanistan.

We look forward to enjoying a fine evening together, and hearing from Rabbi Spector on this occasion.

February 22, 2024 Club Meeting

Our speaker for this month’s meeting will be Martin Frey, the first person in history to climb the tallest peak on each of the seven continents, sail across all of the planet’s seven seas, ski to both the North Pole and the South Pole and circumnavigate the globe. The evening  promises to be a real high point.  Please join us for this exciting (Mount) Timpanogos Club meeting!

January 25, 2024 Club Meeting

We’re delighted to have Richard G. Hinckley, one of our own club members, speak to us on Thursday, January 25th at 6:00 pm at the Alta Club.  He will speak to us about Church hosting and people he has entertained during his rich experiences in church service.
Richard received a degree in economics from the University of Utah and an MBA from Stanford University, served as a bishop (twice), stake president and as a member of two other stake presidencies, a sealer in the Salt Lake Temple, president of the Church’s Utah Salt Lake City Mission, and in April 2005 was accepted by the church as a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy. In October 2011 general conference, he was released from the First Quorum of the Seventy and designated as an emeritus general authority.

November 30, 2023 Club Meeting

On Thursday, November 30thDr. Vivek Srikumar will enlighten our understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is a machine’s ability to perform the cognitive functions we associate with human minds, such as perceiving, reasoning, learning, interacting with an environment, problem solving, and even exercising creativity. Because of the power of AI and the changes it will bring, it’s crucial that we get a grasp of what it is and is not.  Dr. Srikumar is an associate professor in the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah. He co-leads the Utah Natural Language Processing Group and has dedicated research of AI.

October 26, 2023 Club Meeting

On Thursday, October 26thJim Jardine, one of our own club members, will teach us about C. S. Lewis, one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. Jim taught an Honors English Class at the University of Utah on C. S. Lewis, so he is very well suited to discuss this great author.  We are very fortunate–Jim is one of Utah’s Legal Elites.  He graduated cum laude from Harvard University, J.D., and was recognized as Outstanding Lawyer of the Year, Federal Bar Association, Utah Chapter, 2006 and Distinguished Lawyer of the Year, Utah State Bar, 2005. We’re honored to be instructed by such an accomplished individual.  Please join us for this outstanding evening.

September 7, 2023 Club Meeting

On Thursday, September 7thDr. Astrid S. Tuminez will address us. Dr. Tuminez is the president of Utah’s largest school, Utah Valley University. The university has over 43,000 students. She graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree from BYU, a master’s degree in Soviet Studies from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Dr. Tuminez’ education and accomplishments are impressive and even more so when we learn she was born in a Philippine farming village and later moved to the lloilo City slums. Her educational pursuits led her to the United States. She is an author and a former Microsoft executive. She and her husband, Jeffrey S. Tolk, have three children.  We eagerly await her message to us as we begin another wonderful season of Timpanogos Club gatherings,