Please join Lori and Glenn Shannon in their Tiburon home for a deliciously catered cocktail party with Urban Alum Frances Dinkelspiel ('77), the critically-acclaimed author of the 2008 best-seller "Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California."
 
"Carefully researched and superbly written memoir...Dinkelspiel's biography not only brings to life the transformation of California into the state with the strongest economy in the nation, and the outside personalities that forged it, but rescues from the proverbial dustbin of history the remarkable life and achievements of a man whose energy, creativity, resourcefulness and love for his adopted country had been all but forgotten. A marvelous resource, a dramatic slice of Western history and a splendid read."

--The San Francisco Chronicle

Join the Shannons and Frances for an evening of delicious hors d'oeuvres, fine cocktails, and fascinating conversation about early California history.