2024 Wine Tasting

For ZLAC Members and Their Guests

April 20, 2024, 5:00 PM

We’ll enjoy five fabulous wines in the company of a sommelier, along with a delightful array of cheeses and a silent auction.

Reservations for groups of 6 or 8 people are available, too. If you are a part of a group, simply list the names in your group in the form below.

Organized by Crew XIII.

Saint Patrick’s Day Party

For ZLAC Members and Their Guests

March 19, 2024, 5:00-9:00 PM

Website reservations are now closed.

For late reservations and any questions, please email Crew XI Co-Chair Susan Wills at zlaccrewxi@gmail.com.

TGIF at ZLAC

For ZLAC Members and Their Guests

March 15, 2024, 5:30-8:30 PM

Let’s get together! BYOB. Please bring an appetizer or light dinner item to share.

No dishwashing! Susan Wills is hosting and will provide disposable plates, cups, utensils, and napkins.

No RSVP necessary. Just show up, and bring friends!

TGIF at ZLAC

February 9, 2024, 5:00-9:00 PM

Free for all ZLAC members and their guests.

Informal get-together. Please bring your own beverages, plus an appetizer or light dinner dish to share!

No dishwashing, please. Disposable dishware, utensils, napkins, and cups will be provided.

Pack it in, pack it out!

No RSVP is necessary. Please consider bringing a prospective member as your guest!

ZLAC Speaker Series: Women Making History

Free for all ZLAC members and their guests.

Seating is limited. Please RSVP, using the form below!

WE ARE FULL, NO SPACES AVAILABLE!

February 3, 2024, 3:00-6:00 PM

Serving beverages and light appetizers.

To learn more, please read the event press release.

Wellness and Mindfulness Day Retreat

For members and their guests.

January 21, 2024, 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM

Early bird pricing $50 through December 31, then price increases to $60. See flier below for details.

Holiday Tea 2023

This free event is for members and their guests.

Attending? Please RSVP to our Social Chair.

We also need volunteers to assist with setup and food prep. Please contact the Social Chair.

ZLAC Book Club — October 2023

For Members and their Guests

This meeting will be in-person at ZLAC!

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Ten people, each with something to hide and something to fear, are invited to a isolated mansion on Indian Island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear. On the island they are cut off from everything but each other and the inescapable shadows of their own past lives. One by one, the guests share the darkest secrets of their wicked pasts. And one by one, they die...

 Which among them is the killer and will any of them survive?

You do not need to have read the book to attend!

If you're looking to support small businesses during these difficult times, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books--most have free or discounted shipping, no-contact pick up, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores.

ZLAC Book Club — September 2023

For members and their guests only. This meeting will be held via Zoom - Members, please go to the Members’ Events page (login required) to view full details.

Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottleib

From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world--where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).

One day, Lori Gottlieb is a therapist who helps patients in her Los Angeles practice. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose of­fice she suddenly lands. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.

As Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients' lives -- a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can't stop hooking up with the wrong guys -- she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell.

With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone is rev­olutionary in its candor, offering a deeply per­sonal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly reveal­ing portrait of what it means to be human, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.

You do not need to have read the book to attend!

If you're looking to support small businesses during these difficult times, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books--most have free or discounted shipping, no-contact pick up, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores.

Salt Water Day

Sunday, August 27, 2023

11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

For members and their guests only.

Kids are welcome! There will be a BBQ lunch with meat and vegan options plus soft drinks and beer or BYO beer/wine.

boat rides | root beer floats | swag table | games for kids

Salt Water Day t-shirts are available for pre-order and pickup at the event.

RSVP below by August 15.

ZLAC Book Club — June 2023

Members and their guests

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Zoom # 852 4878 1297 password “LENA”, or click HERE

The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family’s tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.

The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo’s fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband’s part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters — the self-centered, teenaged Rachel; shrewd adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father’s intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.

Dancing between the dark comedy of human failings and the breathtaking possibilities of human hope, The Poisonwood Bible possesses all that has distinguished Barbara Kingsolver’s previous work, and extends this beloved writer’s vision to an entirely new level. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, this ambitious novel establishes Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring writers of modern times.

You do not need to have read the book to attend!

If you're looking to support small businesses during these difficult times, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books--most have free or discounted shipping, no-contact pick up, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores.

CREW XI is hosting the annual Terrace Luncheon on

Saturday, June 24, 2023

11:30 am

This is a fun way to celebrate the start of summer and enjoy our beautiful terrace and friends!

The afternoon will include a delicious lunch and of course plenty of libations!

We will also be presenting a fabulous Silent Auction! We can always use your donations. Please contact Nora Welshans (norawelshans@cox.net) if you have any items that you can donate to help ZLAC.

We have MANY awesome items for our Silent Auction!

Here are just a few:

1 week stay in Puerto Vallarta!

4 tickets to the Old Globe

4 tickets to Padres vs Giants—great seats (next to the owner's box), plus parking

4 tickets to Padres vs Diamondbacks—first row behind the Padres dugout,
PLUS 4 tickets for a behind the scenes tour of Petco Park!

Collector's framed 1990 Crew Classic poster

Original art

Purchase tickets using the link below.

Can't attend but want to make a donation instead? Click here:

Learn-to-Row Open House

Saturday, June 3, 2023 from 9:00 am to 11:00 am

Hosted by ZLAC Rowing Club

Please join us on USRowing’s National Learn to Row Day to learn everything about rowing and ZLAC—the oldest women’s rowing club in the world!

This event is free. Anyone age 13+ is welcome!

Click here to register.

All Club Row and Photo

All rowers (both members and guests) are welcome!

Signup on iCrew or contact Chris Shannon at 619.307.0018.

Floral Demonstration and Garden Tea

for members and guests

Sunday, May 21, 2023
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Deborah Warriner, a Master in Ikebana—the Japanese art of floral design—
will give a short history of Ikebana style and will create three floral arrangements.  

Floral Demonstration will be accompanied by a Garden Tea,
complete with sweets and savories made and served by Crew XII.

Plants and cuttings will be for sale.

Festive hats or fascinators are encouraged!

Purchase tickets using the link below.

Can't attend but want to make a donation instead? Click here:

Where Is My Money Going?

for members only

Learn how our ZLAC funds are managed, where the money is going and how you can help keep us on track for another successful year.

Coffee, tea and sweets will be provided.

Please RSVP to info@zlac.org.

New Member Tea

All members and guests are welcome!

Please join us for afternoon tea to welcome new ZLAC members!

Please RSVP by May 3 to membership@zlac.org.

ZLAC Book Club — May 2023

Members and their guests

This meeting will be in-person at ZLAC!

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

Historical, nonfiction, true crime without glamorizing it: This account of the five women murdered by Jack the Ripper put the victims at the forefront, sharing their lives through the lens of Victorian London.

Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London—the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper.

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden, and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers.

What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888. The person responsible was never identified, but the character created by the press to fill that gap has become far more famous than any of these five women.

For more than a century, newspapers have been keen to tell us that "the Ripper" preyed on prostitutes. Not only is this untrue, as historian Hallie Rubenhold has discovered, it has prevented the real stories of these fascinating women from being told. Now, in this devastating narrative of five lives, Rubenhold finally sets the record straight, revealing a world not just of Dickens and Queen Victoria, but of poverty, homelessness and rampant misogyny. They died because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time—but their greatest misfortune was to be born a woman.

You do not need to have read the book to attend!

If you're looking to support small businesses during these difficult times, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books--most have free or discounted shipping, no-contact pick up, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores.

Wine Tasting

for members and guests

Saturday, April 22, 2023
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Online sales have closed for this event. If you would still like to purchase a ticket, please email Melanie Watson at nvrfollow@yahoo.com to see if there are any more spots.

Join us for the 2023 Wine Tasting featuring Sommelier Molly Brooks from Meritage Wine Market!

Five different wines—all by women winemakers—will be served with a selection of cheeses.
The evening includes a silent auction.

Can't attend but want to make a donation instead? Click here: