that was published shortly before he died. some of you may know the yates - the imagine of the coat has to do with approaching death and this was one of the things he worked on. my father painted 3 hundred and 65 days of the year. he was also looking and noticing. recreation was basically uninteresting to him so the ski trips and the trips to hawaii were not a part of our life. i was well traveled because we drove across the country and my father took jobs in colorado and where we render houses. but he rented the studio daily

as usual. he and my mother took several trips to europe to invest friends but even on trips he looked in his particular way and sketched and sometimes painted. i have a hard time with tenss when talking about my father. i continue to find my father very present in my life. i think of my father's work as a series of unlimited spades. there is a sense of order even in emphasis chaotic works that pleas me on a level. when he died someone i wish i could remember who said he had a

sense that my father that entered into the place that is represented in the paintings. his last work is a drawing he gave me on my 30th birthday. i've seen it every morning. very much for your attention. thank you (clapping) i'm happy to answer questions. i'm not sure how much time we have but someone will tell me. yes jim. any questions if the audience. the music he listened to and the way he -

>> the obvious parallel has to do with how he believed in - for president of a - the history of siefgs. so he listened to really, really early music and contemporary music. he listened to everything. he listened to a lot of jazz when he was connected with the art institute and had a lot of good recordings of jazz. he listened to bach and mozart and others. i mean everything. he particularly liked quite spare music he was not particularly fond of opera.

he and i went to the opera but he didn't play in his life. does that answer our question? and a yes >> what did he tell you was the difference between reality and - >> basically, he felt there should be the way i apply it - is that one is very aware of fancy so it's possible to go in and out of it without being in my mind. in his work allowing his creativity images to be expressed in his paintings await

judgment. oh, tables don't look like that or you can't see that because i see that. he was very he's about movie back and forth in that way >> did he express - and a oh, yes, he read books all the time. by that i mean really as much as read but he looked at constantly he had a huge library of books that was the present my mother game for christmas. the trips in europe for example were all scheduled around what museum and what particular pictures. he loved all kinds of artists.

the portraits if you're familiar with those which are very old posters. oh, and later in his life we had a conversations about bill trader who was let's see how would you describe him >> outsider. >> yes outsider. he really liked everything that was really visually complete to him. and so he was not judgemental about what period he was looking at he looked at everything. yes >> would you say he had some kind of sensitive toward - >> no in fact he was very

negative about that. we have in the family varies works of his students none of which look like his that he liked. no, he wouldn't have done that. i i understand from other artists now i was not a painter so take this as a second opinion. but he apparently was a very good teacher that's what i heard. the way he talked about things with other people's work - and i can say that first hand for myself. he wouldn't criticize it if it didn't work he would say so. this area bothers me or it doesn't quite come together or

something like that. i never observed him in the classroom so this is second-hand information but i never heard from anyone that we've had teachers like i had i do it my way or else. he wasn't like that. >> his mother was very busy all the time. she didn't work but she shlt out to lunch and went to parties so she wasn't around much. they had a cook and the cook in order to keep him occupied handed him my grandfather game

cards. and his own imagination became very important because there wasn't anyone else to play with. he grew up in san francisco and it was a relatively simple life. his father worked for the hotel supply company as a designer - he started out as a sweeper at 16 and ended up

. he also loved poetry that he he read a lot and as an only child that's what happens you tend to side things on your own time. of course, no television. he went to the movies every saturday and watched those action pictures. those were very important to

him. i remember cartoons and action pictures were you a part's of his childhood. anybody else >> he was a physicist. we knew they had drawing nights with my parents and another friend of theirs who was a psychiatrist. my parents adored them and when they diet it was a great loss yeah. >> why did he decide to join the marines. he wanted to be a pilot i'm glad he wasn't. he had terrible allergies and

they wouldn't accept him but in the mid of the war he was drafted so he joined the marines. he was in officer candidate school and dropped his didn't think the day he was going to be an officer and was demooted. it was very scandal lose. my parents flew back to see his graduation and see the officer son but he ended up going to monoare a and to hawaii to be trained as a map to draw maps and he was going to be dropped behind enemy lines and draw what

was going on in the interiors of japan. and fortunately the war ended. and the folks who were promoted to officers died in the pacific. yes >> it's small - it's about this big. it was overwhelming given to my mother and when my father died we were allowed to choose a few works and my moth mother allowed me to choose that. i can't describe why i love it. it's hanging in my mothers house. i don't know there's something that feels comfortable about it just really right. yes.

>> (inaudible) he choose performing arts. >> i probably - he did not understand about actresses and musicians. i was a singer as well and he didn't really understand although he liked to go to the theatre and he loved film and music as i said earlier. i don't know why that happened. i know why i stopped drawing in fourth grade i won first prize and it was hung out in the haul for parents night and i heard all those people whispering oh, she's following in her fathers

footsteps and i never drew again. i was in my first play at age 67 it was something i wanted to do. but we were very different. he wasn't particularly as i said comfortable talking to groups like this. when he received his houry degree from ucla the students were all drunk and they give him this award and said oh, lord we have to listen to a long speech and he said thank you very much and sat down and they were 3rd. anyone else new have i gone on too long? thank you very much

for coming good morning, everybody. lots of people know each other here, wonderful. it will be a great day. welcome, everybody, welcome to san francisco. to some of you, welcome to the presidio,

welcome to this absolutely gorgeous futures without violence center. i want to start by thanking futures without violence and esther solar for giving us this beautiful space to meet in today. is esther here? i haven't seen her. we'll thank her later. they made this space available for us. good morning, my name is me linda hague for those of you who don't know me. i was appointed by president obama a little more than two years ago to be united states attorney and it is my incredible honor to represent the president, the obama administration here in the northern district of california. welcome to the stop bullying summit. i'm a federal prosecutor so it may seem odd that here we are talking about bullying and we asked all of you to be here and

i want to explain the origin of that and why this happened. you people, everybody in this room, has been involved in this issue and is doing incredible work on this issue and we were so honored to be a part of it and to meet with all of you and to speak with you about it. the origin is that as the united states attorney, the administration wants me, wants all the united states attorneys, to go out into the community. it's actually a very different role for the united states attorney is envisioned by this administration. this administration, the president, attorney general holder, they want the u.s. attorneys to go out into the attorney to talk to the communities in our district to understand what the issues are and challenges are and to do what we can to help, to convene meetings, to do whatever we can to help on behalf of the administration. and as part of that i welcomed that request that the attorney general made of us and the president made of us and as a result i've gone out into my

community and my district goes from the oregon border to monteray, and i've met with all kinds of different people. we have 33 indian tribes in the northern district of california, most people don't know, and i've met with those people. i've met with the muslim community, with the siekh american community, with the lgbq community, with the human rights commission in san francisco, all kinds of people, and we talk about all kinds of things. we talk about things that are more common to the u.s. attorney. we talk about fraud and identify theft and hate crimes and civil rights issue and there's one thing that comes up in absolutely every conversation that i have had with people in the district, and that was bullying. and it really, it was, it's not surprising to the people in this room, i know. it was not surprising to me but it was troubling to me that in every community that i was meeting with, this was an issue prrp

violence, harassment, physical, cyber, social, children on children, this kind of behavior is so disturbing and so troubling and so heartbreaking to so many people. even in this place, even in san francisco, california and northern california, which has got to be if not the most tolerant place in the country certainly amuck the most tolerance and diverse places in the community, this is what i was hearing out in the community and it's something we wanted to get involved in. and i'm so grateful that as a result of that all of you have agreed to come together to have a conversation about this issue with us included. i can't tell you how much we appreciate it. so thank you very much for being here. as i said, we're grailsd with the presence of everybody who is anybody on this issue. people who have been involved in this issue for a long time who understand it much better

than we do, we are here to learn from you and to be part of the discussion. we've got federal, state and local policy makers, elected officials, educators, law enforcement officials and leaders from the private and public sector, all of whom have traveled here from washington, dc from sacramento and all over the bay area. so thank you for being here today. we are grateful for an opportunity to come together with you to create schools and communities where young people are healthy and safe and feel welcome and they are allowed to learn and they are allowed to thrive. this day is devoted to help all of us deepen our understanding of this issue of the problem through data, through research, through anecdotes, to put real solutions in place, to comply with new state and draw laws on bullying and to measure our progress. it's a promise we want to join you in keeping to our children and our youth in california. some of you know that we

started this summit yesterday with a screening of the documentary film, bully, to 3,000 students in san francisco from san francisco's public schools. the superintendent of schools you're going to hear from in a minute, he was there, i know ter theresa sparks was there, i was so proud of san francisco in being there because the superintendent, he's, you can tell he's a teacher because he took control of that room. there was a thousand people in that room, he had them all raise their hands to quiet them down, it was beautiful. you could see the teacher in him. but i was so proud of being in san francisco because the kids -- kids are kids -- they were warned, you need to be respectful, you need to be respectful of the children that are being depicted in this film, please don't laugh at inappropriate moments, that kind of thing, and the kids were great. the kids were silent and crying when things were really tough and when

things were going well for the kids depicted in the film they were cheering. it was a really, really wonderful moment. it was a wonderful way to start off this summit. i'm sure our superintendent will be talking about that. so i want to turn to him, our wonderful san francisco suplt of schools, richard karutz is here with us. richard began his appointment as superintendent for the san francisco unified school district in july of this year, we're very lucky to have him. he stepped into this position after serving for 3 years as deputy superintendent of instruction, innovation and social justice for our district. he's been a teacher of bilingual social studies and moo*ufk, as i said, you can really tell, a high school principal and school superintendent in nevada. richard's passion lies in advancing educational equity and opportunity for all and we are very lucky to have him here

with us here in san francisco. our superintendent of schools, richard karunda >> melinda, thank you so much for that wonderful introduction. i want to welcome you all to a sunny september morning in san francisco, i hope you have your sun block and i also want to welcome home our lieutenant governor, our former mayor, gachb newsom. it's good to see you, sir. yesterday was a really powerful experience for us in san francisco. we've made a commitment that by the end of october every 6th through 12th grader in san francisco city public schools will have had the opportunity to see bully and not only view that documentary but also go through a rich can urriculum from our teachers understanding the lessons from that movie. we all know a movie in and of

itself doesn't make a difference, but i will tell you, we didn't start our approach to understanding it with the movie bully. we're very proud 234 san francisco that we have had an approach based on restoretive practices where we're not about suspending students and getting them out of school, we want them to understand what the impacts are and the impact it has. we've been a part of restoretive practices now for over 4 years in san francisco but when we heard about the movie bully, and bullying is a phenomenon we can all relate to. as i shared with the students yesterday at hertz theater, when i see the film i can relate to instances when i was bullied as a kid. when i reflect upon being a student in the public schools, i can think about situations

where i was a bully, where i said things, where i did things, when i went with the crowd, and i shared that with students yesterday. for me it was a very reflective time and i'm sure as everyone has seen the film it's been very reflective as well. but we started our school year this year saying we cannot have students learn, if we truly believe in social justice, and we do, we believe every student being able to learn is a matter of social justice. but if we can't have environments where students feel comfortable attending school, being comfortable with themselves and in themselves in a school environment we will never have students that are predicated in a way to be able to learn. we have to have safe schools. so what we did this year, when all of our administrators came back from summer break, every administrator from principals to the purchasing manager, everyone saw bully this year. and we spent a full year with

our bifl department of student, family and community resources, we spent a full day debriefing that movie and going through a process where we talked about it and it was amazing to see grown adults having these realizations about what bullying meant to them and having a commitment from every administrator in our district that we will not allow that to happen this year and that will be one of the focus areas this year. so the ability to have these children now watch the movie as well was extremely moving to us yesterday. i just have to share one anecdote from that movie. we had a question and answer session at the end of the movie and lee hirsch was there, unsolicited, he was not a plant, a student stood up, he was probably an athlete, strong, good-looking young man, he stood up and said what can i

do when i get back to my school to make a difference? can we start a club, can we have an event, will you support that? it was a superintendent's dream to have a student say, what can i do? we want every student to go back and say we're going to do something and make it part of what we're going to do against bullying. the one thing i will share with you, ladies and gentlemen, this is not an issue that is just a school district issue. this is an issue that is a community issue. ironically yesterday as we were preparing to have 3,000 students come to 4 or 5 different venues across san francisco to watch this film, the evening before and the morning of the film yesterday we were in very close communication with the superintendent in marin county schools because there had been an incident where some pictures had been posted on facebook that were very compromising pictures of a young student and she had information that the student was distraught, might

even be suicidal, they didn't have a lot of information, we had a list of names so she contacted us, we got into gear, tried to find who this student was, we didn't know whether they were a school district student, we didn't know whether they went to private school, parochial school, we worked closely with the san francisco police department who was wonderful, jumped in trying to help us track down the student. the bottom line, what i'm trying to get to here, for a period of about 12 hours there were multi agency responses to this. there was school districts and county offices of education and police officers involved and principals and teachers involved trying to find out who this student was who might be suicidal. we found who she is and by yesterday, before that film even started screening for our students, someone had met with that student and her parents and she was safe. and the lesson was not lost on me as i saw all these students

coming in yesterday that this is really a community issue, that we have to blur the lines of municipalities, we have to blur the lines of areas of responsibility. it can't be a public school versus private school issue. these are kids and kids transskepbd all of those boundaries that we have created as adults. so it's within that -- yeah, you can clap. that's a good thing. so it's in that spirit that i welcome you here to the most beautiful city in the world, san francisco, on a very sunny september day, and i really thank you for being engaged in this conversation. this really is the conversation of the future, especially when we think that bullying now doesn't happen just in schools. with the internet and all of the technology that we have, it can happen anywhere. so thank you so much for being here, it's a great honor to host you here and i look forward to a very engaging conversation