On the Scene

SNAPSHOTS FROM SPECIAL EVENTS IN MARIN AND SAN FRANCISCO EDITED BY DANIEL JEWETT

Dustin Strunk, Jerry Bock, Dorje Strunk and Leonard Kalina O.J. and Gary Shansby

Jay Schurman, Beverley Birks and Linda Pastorino

• SAN FRANCISCO TRIBAL & TEXTILE ARTS SHOW Great jazz and food were combined with a show featuring more than 15,000 pieces of tribal and textile art February 6 at the preview for the event held at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco.

The Dalai Lama and Lily Yoseph

• UNSUNG HEROES OF COMPASSION Sausalito’s Telile “Lily” Yoseph was honored in San Francisco at the February 23 event by the Dalai Lama for her efforts to help Ethiopian girls get an education and rise above poverty. • MARIN VALENTINE’S BALL More than 425 people attended the 18th annual Valentine’s Ball February 8 at the Marin Civic Center, which featured cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, fine dining, dancing and auctions. This year’s ball honored Marin-based charitable agencies.

Mary Denton, Joe O’Hehir and Katie Rice

Laverne Uhte, Jack Bartlett, Peggy Hewitt, Marje Kuhl and Rev. Pam Shortridge Stephanie Wickham Witt, Deb Cole and Jane Richmond

• THE REDWOODS GROUNDBREAKING Ground was broken on a revitalization project for the 40-yearold Redwoods campus in Mill Valley on February 4. The project costs $32.8 million and will help the retirement community serve its clients better.

• INFORMATION NIGHT FOR

BACCALAUREATE AND STEM

Parents attended the informational event February 6 and learned more about new academic programs coming to Fairfax’s St. Rita School in 2014–2015.

Maryjean McAllister and Marci Leach

Haydn Reiss, Gina Moore and Michelle Franchetti John Black, Jie Zheng and Alan Ellis

adlib MARIN ADVERTISERS SPEAK UP

Rose Duignan,

director of marketing at Richmond Country Club

Richmond Country Club has been a golfers’ paradise since 1924. We have about 400 members and a round of golf will take four hours. The members are friendly and diverse; we are truly a community of people who love the game of golf. Most of our members live in Marin County and we are located just 15 minutes from central San Rafael.

What is your competitive edge?

There are a lot of golf courses to choose from in the Bay Area — but our club offers the best practice facilities available. And people who play golf want to improve their game. Our club has a huge grass driving range, an entire hole dedicated to practice and a large pitching area in addition to a challenging putting green.

Kathleen Nemetz, financial planner at McClurg Capital Corporation

Financial planner and certified divorce financial analyst Kathleen Nemetz, MBA, CFP, CDFA, helps create road maps to help people fund their financial lives. These plans can protect her clients while guiding their ongoing investment or financial decisions. She offers a fee-based service as well as traditional investments. Her practice is located with McClurg Capital Corporation, in San Rafael, a member of FINRA and SIPC. Her affiliation with the investment boutique McClurg Capital affords her clients uncommon personal service combined with the financial strength and custodial services of the Pershing division of the Bank of New York Mellon.

What was your first investment?

Microsoft stock shortly after the initial public offering. I was 29 years old.

Describe your competitive edge.

From my own personal experience and travels, I know that life can be greatly simplified. I lived abroad for seven years and apply my knowledge of different lifestyles when suggesting changes to people who need to transition to other life choices. I also work in collaboration with other professionals, for instance, attorneys and CPAs in the Collaborative Law Practices of Marin and San Francisco. My practice affiliation with McClurg provides a high level of personal service as we are a small boutique firm with the safety of a big bank behind it. We clear through Pershing LLC, owned by the Bank of New York Mellon.

Is there something about your business that isn’t widely known?

When people think of country clubs, they think elite clientele, exclusivity and lack of diversity. Richmond Country Club is oldschool-cool — we’ve been around since 1924 — and our community is friendly, welcoming and diverse. It’s all about golf and friendships at our club.

What are the history highlights of the club?

The Richmond Country Club is a four-time PGA Tour stop. Ben Hogan played and competed here alongside Byron Nelson, Harold McSpaden, Ed Dudley, Tony Penna and Craig Wood. Sam Snead won the 1945 Richmond Open with a 72-hole winning score of 283. In the early 1950s Richmond hosted the women’s professional tour. Our fields included the best women of the era, including “Babe” Didrikson Zaharias, Louise Suggs, Marlene and Alice Bauer, Peggy Kirk, Betsy Rawls, Marilyn Smith and Betty Jamison.

RICHMOND COUNTRY CLUB, 1 MARKOVICH LANE, SAN PABLO, 510.495.4909, ROSE@HUBPM.COM, MYRICHMONDCC.ORG

What are some of the life issues you help clients resolve?

Many of my clients are going through transitions such as retirement or divorce. Sometimes the transition is related to end-of-life decisions, concerning estate planning. Whatever the issues, I help my clients inventory what their assets may be. We also discuss what decisions are necessary to fund any goals.

KATHLEEN NEMETZ, 950 NORTHGATE DRIVE, SUITE 301, SAN RAFAEL, 415.472.1445, EXT. 306, KNEMETZ@MCCLURGCAPITAL.COM, LIFE-AS-PLANNED.COM