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Unless otherwise noted, meetings are held Fridays at 10 a.m. in Morrill Hall at St. Mark's Church on Oenoke Ridge. Directions to St. Mark's Upcoming SMC Speakers |
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August 27 | No Meeting |
September 3 | No Meeting |
| September 10 |
Our speaker will be Eric Pooley. Mr. Pooley is the deputy editor of Bloomberg Businessweek and the author of The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth. He has served as managing editor of Fortune; editor of Time Europe; and national editor, chief political correspondent, and White House correspondent for Time. Before joining Time Inc. he was a writer, political columnist and senior editor for New York magazine. He has appeared on Nightline, Charlie Rose, The CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Larry King Live, Anderson Cooper 360, All Things Considered, and many other programs.
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| September 17 |
Richard Bergmann, assisted by Phillip Moyer and Hugh Hedges, will tell us about how they designed the building that sent a man to the moon, the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center. As tall as a 52 story building and as wide as a city block, the VAB was built as an assembly facility for the 36-story Saturn rockets that took man to the moon. A graduate of the University of Illinois, Mr. Bergmann is a New Canaan resident whose architecture practice has been located on Park Street for some 37 years.
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| September 24 |
Neil Lubarsky, an attorney who is admitted to the bar in both New York State and Connecticut, will speak about how various trusts techniques can be used to legally avoid estate taxes and nursing home costs. Among other matters, the speaker will address how to use trusts to legally make income producing real estate, income producing business interests, principal residences, and vacation residences worth, for estate tax purposes, a tiny fraction of their total value. He will also address various legal techniques that can be used to protect your primary residence and other assets from being depleted by the costs of nursing home care.
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