300 Centennial Way
Tustin, CA 92780
USA
Rotary Club of Tustin-Santa Ana
presents
A Tustin Homecoming honoring T. Jefferson Parker
Saturday, September 19, 2015
Clifton C. Miller Community Center
300 Centennial Way, Tustin
Doors open at 11:00 A.M.
T. Jefferson Parker was born in Los Angeles and has lived all his life in Southern California. He is a graduate of Tustin High School and earned a bachelor’s degree in English from U.C. Irvine in 1976. His writing career began in 1978 with a job as a cub reporter on the weekly newspaper, The Newport Ensign. After covering police, city hall and cultural stories for the Ensign, he moved on to the Daily Pilot, where he won three Parker’s first novel, Laguna Heat, was written on evenings and weekends while he worked as a reporter. He has subsequently won three Edgar Awards for “Best Mystery” for Silent Joe, California Girl and Skinhead Central (a The movie rights to his last six crime novels, featuring Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Charlie Hood, have Parker’s most recent book, Full Measure, is his first mainstream literary novel and features a Marine returning from Afghanistan to his family’s Fallbrook avocado farm which is recovering from catastrophic wild fires.
Please join Tustin-Santa Ana Rotary Club as we welcome T. Jefferson Parker home to Tustin!
Tickets are $30. Reserved tables of 8 are $240.
Checks payable to: Tustin-Santa Ana Rotary Club
Doors open at 11:00 A.M. — Box lunch is included.
Please specify if you need vegan, gluten-free or other meal accommodation at the time of ticket purchase.
Seating is limited to 200.
Tickets available from
Elizabeth Minter, 539 Gardenia Ave, Placentia, CA 92870
or by calling 714-585-8450
Download the PDF Flyer for this event
Proceeds from this event will contribute to Rotary’s Polio Plus Program