Meeting Location: Eagles Lodge,
4700 N
Grand River,
Thursdays, 12:00 noon Buffet 11:45am
Program for Oct 8: Trina Tulber,
Comerica Bank
"Banking
- 2009"
Chair of the Month: Clarence
Smith
Chair of the Week: Clarence
Smith
Presiding: President Carla
Johnston
Greeter: Gil Hill
Invocation: Gil Hill
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October 1, 2009 Meeting
Guests
Guest today of Carla Johnston was
her daughter Jamie.
Robert Haney was a guest of Dick
Skinner. Mr. Haney is involved with
Festival of Trees, an organization that raises money for non-profits and is also
on the board of 5 other local charities.
He has submitted an application to join our Club.
Announcements
Bob Nelson: Tomorrow morning at 7:00am at Grumpy's Restaurant I will
be meeting with the South Lansing Club to pass to them the Lt Governor's
banner. Several of our members will be
joining me to for an inter-club. You are
all welcome to attend.
The Youth Services Committee will meet here next Thursday at 11:15am. If you are on that committee please plan to
attend.
Bill Maher: The
Board of Directors will meet next Tuesday, Oct 6, 12 noon at Grumpy's
Restaurant, Mt Hope and
Installation of Officers
Ruth Milbourne, newly
elected Lt Governor of Division 16, presented Clarence Smith with a pin for his
service as President of our Club for the past year. Ms Milbourne also presided
over the installation of the newly elected Officers and Board members.
President Carla
Johnston, President Elect Nicholas Ferreri, Vice President Robert Holden,
Secretary William
Maher, Treasurer Jo Grubbe,
Board of Directors, Jeff
Lorencen, Rodger Conrad, Norm Miller, Richard Borucki, Yvonne Groak and Sue
Devon.
Nicholas and the Noon News
From Facebook... today Kiwanis
International is installing their new President Paul Palazzolo replacing
outgoing President Don Canaday. In other
news, a lady fried and ate her former common law husband's goldfish after a
dispute.
60 degrees and rain in the forecast
for the next couple of days.
Songs
Bob Nelson, doing what he can to
help the Tigers win their division, led the singing of "Take Me Out to the
Ballgame" and "Smile."
Happy Bucks
Larry Pingel, a happy buck for the President of our Club in 1987,
the last time the Tigers won a pennant... another for the outgoing Officers and
Board members.
Jim Kost, a happy buck for Clarence who we will be honoring
at our Past Presidents dinner at the Hall of Fame Cafe on Oct 21 at 6:00pm.
Past Presidents mark your calendars.
Jo Grubbe, a happy buck for our new officers and another for
Ev Beemer who was President when the Tigers last won a pennant in 1987.
Ruth Milbourne, a happy buck for the honor of installing your
officers today and for my good friend Bob Nelson for the help he has given me in taking on the duties of Lt Governor.
Bob Nelson, a happy buck for Clarence and the outgoing officers
for a fine job this past year and also best of luck to Ruth and Carla in the
coming year.
Lance Lynch, a happy buck for Ruth because someone in our high
school class did well.
Carla Johnston, a happy buck to have my daughter here today to meet
all you people and for Bob, Clarence and the outgoing officers for their
service in the past year.
Terry Holzhausen, a happy buck for Carla in her new job and
Clarence, thank you very much.
Harry Kost, a happy buck
for a nice train trip to
Clarence Smith, a happy buck for Carla, she will do a fine
job in the next year and another one for allowing me to be your President this
past year. I enjoyed it, it was a great
experience and I appreciate your support.
Bob Holden, I have 2 happy bucks, one for Clarence and one for
Carla.
Program
Clarence Smith, October program chairman,
introduced Jarrod Barren and Justin Zeller from Lansing Teen Challenge. Lansing
Teen Challenge is a faith based organization dedicated to helping men and women
overcome life-controlling issues such as alcoholism and drug abuse. Mr. Barren commented on their programs and
the facilities they have available in this effort.
Pot Winner
The
lucky winner today Ev Beemer but the joker eluded him