Republican Club
The Republican Club booth is open every Monday from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. in the parking lot by Clubhouse 6.
The speaker at the club’s November meeting was Jovanka, who asked not to have her last name published. She is an immigrant from Serbia, formerly in the Communist nation of Yugoslavia.
She spoke of the horrors of living under Communism and contrasted it with the joy of living in freedom in the United States, especially in LW.
Brian Harmon has been asked to lead a discussion at the January Republican Club meeting about politics and economics. The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 19, at 7 p.m. in Clubhouse 3, Room 2.
Harmon received a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree specializing in economic history from Cal State Long Beach.
Since graduating from his master’s program, Harmon has taught high school social studies full-time for about 10 years, and college economics part-time for 25. During that time, he also did outside consulting, substitute teaching and was a stay-at-home dad, the last of which he felt was the most rewarding.
Harmon said that one of his favorite books of all time is “Power and Money: The Economics of International Politics and the Politics of International Economics,” which he says sums up his view of world history.
Harmon also believes that Time Magazine was correct when they designated Johann Gutenberg as the Man of the Millennium (AD 1000-2000). “Because of the printing press,” he said, “competing ideas about science, economics, technology, religion and politics could be disseminated to the common people. This resulted in revolutions in all of the above areas.”
