1 June 2021

NEWSLETTERNEWSLETTERof the

Men’s Club of Grosse PointeFESTIVITIES . . FUN . . FELLOWSHIP

VOLUME LVV NO. 9 www.https://mensclubofgrossepointe.com June 2021

June 8, 2021 at The Ark

June 22, 2021 at The Ark?

Chief Craig Detroit's Police Chief

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Almost back to normal. I feel like we have been through a war. The victor has not been declared, but we believe that mankind will prevail, God will-ing! I hope you attended our May 11 meeting at the Ark. It was wonderful to see so many of you. Our Board of Directors is interested in what you thought of the Ark, the lunch served, the speaker, and the overall atmosphere surrounding the meet-ing. This is your club and we want to make it as enjoyable for you as humanly possible. Remind your friends and encourage them to join the Club. We need other people, just like you, who enjoy the camaraderie that the Club supports and enhances. The Nominating Committee, chaired by Marty McMillan, is looking for members interested in leading the Club as either a director or officer. If you feel that you can help the Club in either capac-ity please call Marty at 313 824 1443. It looks as though our cruise on the Detroit River is in preparation stages. We will all enjoy this excursion, being put together by Ed Benz

and Tom Kneeshaw. July 14th is the target date; look for details in this and upcoming Newsletters. Until further notice, the Ark requires us to wear masks, so when you attend all future meetings, please MASK UP! Remember that the original yellow badges from the Senior Men's Club are still available for a contribution of $20 by calling me at 313 220 8315.

James Callahan President

July 8, 2021 at The Ark?

Stuart J. Alderman Executive Director The Neighborhood Club (See Page 2)

2 June 2021

THOUGHTS FROM CHIP ROHDE MEMBERSHIP CHAIRMAN

Hello Members!!!!!!!!!!!!!!--The best way to get new members is to talk to your men friends of a cer-tain age about our great club and all the great speak-ers, events and activities that we plan all year long—Very exciting!!!

To help give us more opportunities to do that and grow membership, we started a new tradition for the Men’s Club of Grosse Pointe---we are giving our guest speakers a framed signed logo to hang in their offices or home for all to see and to remember the special event. So, look for our logo around town and keep a friend or business associate in mind as a new member.

Also, if you would like to put our framed logo up on the wall of your business or home—or give it as a gift---for a donation of $20, you can have one too!!!!. What a great way to talk about The Men’s Club of Grosse Pointe!!!!!!!!!!! That amount might be even better than our badge!!

Also, if you like to write--the Men's Club Needs You!!! The membership committee is looking for someone to do a short bio write-up on a new member each month. Interested in helping out--give Chip Ro-hde a call 1-313-259-1010. Won't take a lot of time--promise!!!!!!!

Your Membership Committee (Ed Wolking, Lee Thomas, Chip Rohde)

JUNE 8, 2021 AT THE ARK Stuart J. Alderman

Awarded Michigan Recreation and Park Association Presidential Award, 1989; Program Leadership Award, 1990; Fellowship Award, 2013 (the associa-tion’s highest award presented annually at conference) ; Commitment to Excellence Award, 2016, Troy Cham-ber of Commerce “Hometown Hero” Award, 1991, Volunteer Super Captain for Super Bowl XL, Detroit, 2006; Volunteer Point Guard Leader of NCAA Final Four, Detroit, 2009 USA Softball of Metro Detroit, Current Commissioner, USA Softball of Metro Detroit

Currently Executive Director of the Neighborhood Club and former state chairman for NFL Punt, Pass & Kick competition (30 years) until the national program was dropped in 2016. Served as consultant to the NFL for this program and worked with the Detroit Lions and NFL coordinating the statewide

3 June 2021

MEMORIALSPatrick G. McKeever 313-719-7829 (C)

Name: David G. JenningsDied; November 4, 2019 (89)Born: March 19, 1930Joined: November 11. 1997 (23)Memorials: American Cancer Society

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Name: Robert H. BurtDied: May 20, 2021 (87)Born: January 14, 1934Joined: July 22, 2003 (17)Memorials: Christ the King

Lutheran Church

Name: William P. RichardsDied; May 3, 2021 (91)Born: October 26, 1929 Joined: November 25, 1997 (23)Memorials: Solanus Casey Center or Hospice of Michigan

See the Club's website (seniormensclubofgrossepointe.com) for more details. While the Men's Club makes a donation to the Foundation for all deceased members, a suggested memorial donation is also provided when indicated in an obituary.

Name: Christopher M. WalshDied; June 1, 2021 (84)Born: March 23, 1937Joined: November 23, 2013 (7)President, Lifetime Member, and

Director of the Men's Club Board

Name: James S. SanfordDied; May 19, 2021 (91)Born: May 27, 1929Joined: October 17, 1992 (28)Memorials: Friendship Center of Em

met County or First Presbyterian Church of Harbor Springs

4 June 2021

SUB-CLUB DIRECTORY

BOWLINGBob Vogler 882-9636

BRIDGE – CONTRACTDennis Rasch 885-7146drasch4100@aol.com

BRIDGE – DUPLICATEDavid Ruyle 586-859-5674

CHORAL GROUPGerald Partridge 313-331-2652 CIGARS Jim Regan 313-980-0572jimr9runner@aol.com

EUCHRE CLUB jamescallahan1941@gmail.com 881-2802

GOLFMark Jahnke, jahnke.mark@yahoo.com313-882-0271 (H) 586-707-4320 (C)

POOL @ BILLIARDSGeorge Solomon 884-2464georgesolomon715@gmail.comCarl Berger 881-9483bergercb@comcast.net

THE READERSDavid Morrow 313-640-9756 (H) davidmorrow@comcast.net

TENNIS –Leon Trumbauer 331-3558ltrumbauer2000@yahoo.com

If you are interested in forming a new-sub club please contact the board of directors. We welcome new sub-clubs when members express an interest.

STANDING COMMITTEES

SPEAKERSHenry Fischer*, Jim Callahan, Ken Mokray, Dave Morrow, John Snyder, and Ed Wolking

MEMBERSHIPDan Follis, Chip Rohde*, Lee Thomas, and Ed Wolking

ATTENDANCEMarty McMillan, Jack Ryan*

BIRTHDAYSBob Vogler*

MEMORIALSPat McKeever*, Tom Roberts

MEMBERSHIP RECORDSHenry Fischer*

NEWSLETTERDave Morrow, John Snyder* (Editor) and Jerry Teagan

SPECIAL EVENTSEd Benz*

WEBSITEDave Morrow*

AD HOC COMMITTEES

ALTERNATIVE SITE Jim Hoekwater*, Pat McKeever, Jerry Teagan, and Ed Wolking

NEWSLETTER REVIEWJim Callahan, Jim Hoekwater*, Dave Morrow, Jim Odell, John Snyder, and Jerry TeaganREPLACE MEMBERSHIP SOFTWAREHenry Fischer, Dave Morrow*, and Jim Regan*indicates chairman

5 June 2021

Our First Meeting at The Ark Photos are in black and white unless we place them on the cover page

Zooming in on our Fine Speaker, Eliot Macfarlane

As you know, the Euchre Sub Club has been playing at the Helm on Monday and Thursday of each week at 1:30 to 4:00 pm since the pandemic arose. The War Memorial had allowed us to play until 4pm after each of our regular meetings, and we have

EUCHRE SUB CLUB NEWS

6 June 2021

THE MC BIRTHDAY LIST FOR JUNE

GOLF NEWS

In typical Michigan fashion, the weather tran-sitioned within days from the 30s on Opening Day for league play on April 26th to the upper 80s. There was no gradual progression through the 50s, 60s, and 70s, but we’ll gladly embrace the long-awaited warmth, nonetheless!

With June comes the first of our two annual Scramble competitions. It’s time to assemble your teams! Scramble Week is June 21 – 25 with a make-up week of June 28 – July 2. Please note that the make-up week is precisely that, an alterna-tive week provided for members who are unable to participate during the Scramble Week of June 21 – 25. If a member participates during the Scramble Week of June 21 – 25, and again during the make-

up/alternative week of June 28 – July 2, the scramble team score for the make-up/alternative week will not be considered.

A full list of Scramble Rules will be e-mailed sepa-rately to all league members well before Scramble Week. As members may recall, the rule relative to the minimum number of tee shots per team member was changed last year, reduced from 3 tee shots per player to 2 per player, and tee shots on Par 3s qualify to sat-isfy the 2 tee shot minimum.

The main thing is to have fun out there while en-joying the sun and warmer temperatures. It’s hard to beat a summer day in Michigan spent out on the links! Mark Jahnke for The Golf Committee

Allison, Richard H. 4 Arjeski, Eugene H. 20 - 96 Backoff, Richard T. 1 - 80 Biske, Daniel P. 29 Buono, A. George 19 - 91 Chown, Raymond P. 9 - 88 Colett, Gary A. 12 Engstrom, Arthur H. 5 - 101 Hager, Donald 17 - 83 Haug, J. Edward 12 - 92 Jacques, Walter A. 17 - 84 Kosek, Leon J. 22 - 97 Madler, Neil A. 27 - 93 Mc Millan, Jaimen 27 Mushenski, Theodore R. 7 - 98 Nugent, Richard 1 Ostrowski, Daniel B. 15 Peebles, Russell H. 14 - 102

Prokop, Stanley A. 17 Rogers, Randy 30 Rohde, Arthur J. 12 Russ, Peter J. 27 Sadler, Clifford L. 28 - 91 Schwartzenberg, Harold 1 - 81 Simonds, Richard K. 7 - 94 Szymanski, David J. 12 Tennent, Richard J. 29 - 90 Teranes, Paul 25 - 86 White, Edward L. 30 White, Dave 7 Wise, Mark 6 - 81 Woolsey, Fred A. 16

A Total of 32 BIRTHDAYS in JUNE with 18 Birthdays 80 & OVER, and 2 of those over 100!!

7 June 2021

On May 28 the Senior Men’s Tennis Club wrapped up its indoor tennis season at Wimble-don Racquet Club with routine round-robin ten-nis along with the Finals of the 27th annual Roy Vorhees, Jr. Tennis Tournament. The weeklong tournament included 16 participants and resulted in a new tournament champion, Al Truhan, of De-troit. Runners-up were relative newcomer Terry Collins (GPC) and Ron Carloni (GPF) with fourth place earned by Larry Starks (HW). The trophy was awarded to Al at the annual meeting and pizza party held at the very accommodating Gilbert’s Lodge on Harper. The elected officers are: President- Leon Trumbauer Vice- President- Bob Wrosch Treasurer- Jim Harvey Secretary- Roy Vorhees III

Outdoor tennis now resumes at Elworthy Park at Neff and Waterloo in GPC on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 10:00 to 12:00. We encourage all men over the age of 55 to join us on any given day for fun, fitness, and friendly banter. Hope to see ya.

Roy Vorhees III for the Tennis Sub Club

TENNIS NEWS

SPECIAL EVENT

Ed Benz has arranged for a Special Event on July 14th...his Detroit River Cruise that we have held for several years. We will meet at Sinbad's for lunch on our own tab and then drive or carpool to Cullen Plaza and the Rivard/Atwater parking lot for embarking on the Diamond Jack Cruise Boat for its trip up to the Belle Isle Bridge and then down to the Ambassador Bridge and back to the Atwater dock.

Hope you can make it.

Tournament finalists: Larry Starks, Terry Collins, Al Truhan, Ron Carloni

Champion Al Truhan and runner-up Terry Collins

The runner up, Terry Collins, and the champ, Al Truhan

8 June 2021

The Readers David Morrow 313-640-9756

The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency by Chris Whipple

Chris Whipple is a filmmaker, producer, journal-ist, writer, and political pundit. He helped produce 60 Minutes for CBS and Primetime for ABC, and in 2013 got a call to partner in making a documentary on presidential chiefs of staff. It was a four-hour film that aired on the Discovery Channel, but Whipple felt it only scratched the surface. For the book version published 2017, he interviewed 17 former chiefs and many of their colleagues, including two presidents, and produced a group portrait of White House chiefs from Richard Nixon’s tenure to Barack Obama’s. He came back in 2018 and added a chapter about the first two chiefs for Donald Trump. In 2020, Whipple published The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future , a volume based on his Showtime documentary. The Gatekeepers opens with a description of a fas-cinating meeting at the White House between Rahm Emanuel, who is about to take the reins as President Obama’s first chief of staff, and all but two of the living former chiefs of staff. Despite their differences in party and approach, they form a kind of club, andthey are more than willing to pass on what they have learned. According to Whipple, it was H.R. Haldeman, Nixon’s chief of staff, who created the model for the modern White House chief. It involved the staff sys-tem, similar to the military. “Nothing goes to the president that is not completely staffed out first, for accuracy and form, ...reviewed by competent staff concerned with that area...” Haldeman also warned about “end running,” going to the president without going through the chief. The first job of the chief of staff is to control access to the president. Some presi-dents such as Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter rejected this model and used a “spokes of the wheel” system where everyone reported directly to the presi-dent. In most cases, this approach had to be scrapped after it became clear that it wasn’t working.

All of the Readers enjoyed this book, and we gave

it a 4.5 out of 5 stars. We thought it was well writ-ten and well researched, and surprisingly nonpar-tisan. We enjoyed the anecdotes arising out of suc-cessful and the less successful chiefs of staff. It was clear that each successful chief was willing to say no to the president he served. He was also willing to repress his ego and let the important decisions be made by the president, not the staff. An important skill of any chief was his abil-ity to keep the first lady happy. With the average tenure of a White House chief averaging less than two years, the book had a good number of people to keep track of. Some chiefs, like James Baker, served more than one president. Dick Cheney started out as deputy chief of staff for Gerald Ford and then moved up after Donald Rumsfeld moved on. Cheney went on to serve in the House, as Sec-retary of Defense for George H. W. Bush and then Vice President for George W Bush. The Readers discussed how our view of him changed over time, especially after 9/11.

Our next meeting of the Readers is on June 15th at 5 pm when we will discuss Lives Laid Away (August Snow #2) by Stephen Mack Jones, a novel by a Detroit author set in Detroit.

If you would like to attend but you have not gotten a Zoom invitation, please call David Mor-row at 313-640-9756. Feel free to attend whether or not you have read the book, as our conversations frequently wander to other topics.

9 June 2021

Daniel J. Aitken, CPCU, CIC has been in the insurance business for 50 years starting in 1971. He took over as President of his father’s agency after his father’s death in 1990. Currently Aitken & Ormand Insurance has three locations with the main office in New Baltimore and offices in Grosse Pointe and St Clair. Dan went to college at Eastern Michigan University and studied Insurance and Risk Man-agement at Michigan State University. He served in the Army two years active duty and later was in the Reserves. Your Newsletter Editor took notes on Dan's talk at Tuesday's MC Meeting, but he can't quite figure them out, so there won't be a summary of Dan's interestig talk.

DAN AITKENRESERVATIONS, ATTENDANCE and SAFETY PRECAUTIONS FOR IN PERSON MEETINGS AT THE ARK

The Grosse Pointe War Memorial remains closed for construction, and the June meetings will be held at The Ark at St. Ambrose Church, located off Jefferson between Hampton and Maryland in Grosse Pointe Park. The physical address is 15020 Hampton in Grosse Pointe Park. The entrance to The Ark is off the park-ing lot on the Maryland side of the church. When you arrive at The Ark, put on your mask before entering the building; The Ark requires that you wear your mask except when you are seated at your table eating or drinking. Before proceeding to the lower level by stairs or elevator your temperature may be taken. If you made a reservation your contact information will have already been provided and your name will be checked off. If you have not made a reservation you will need to stop to fill out your contact information. Lunch tickets and raffle tickets can be pur-chased at the lower level. The current name tags are in storage while the War Memorial’s construction project is underway. Paper name tags to fill out will be available, or you can bring the old round yellow nametags. Early sign up for lunch is appreciated either by email to gpmcattendance@gmail.com or by calling either: Mike Ryan 586-256-3207, or Marty McMillan 313-550-9661

The Senior Men's Club extends good wishes for the recovery of all members who are

confined by illness. We miss you! Please advise Art Stefanski, above, if you have additions or changes about any ill members.. Cards are sent to confined members as we become aware of their illnesses or their confinement. Many request that their names not be published in this space.

Arthur T. Stefanski 586-292-4675 (C)

10 June 2021

MEN’S CLUB OF GROSSE POINTE, INC. 2020 - 2021

NEWSLETTER Editor: John Snyder (313-885-6388, jsnyder45@comcast.net); Photographer: Edward D. Benz Staff: J. Gerard Teagan, James A. Odell, James W. Hoekwater

Published monthly for $11.40 of the dues paid by each member. Periodical postage paid at Detroit, Michigan. MAILING & ADDRESS CHANGES: (including email and phone) Henry A. Fischer, 313-473-8625 email: fischerh@ameritech.net H. George Arsenault, 586-773-2676, email: arsenault890@comcast.net

President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James A. CallahanImmediate Past President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken A. Mokray1st Vice President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Henry A. Fischer2nd Vice President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arthur (Chip) Rohde, JrSecretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John M. KlobucharAssistant Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David L. Morrow Treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James W. HoekwaterAsst. Treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . ..... David Buckler

Directors

Term Ending September 30, 2022 Edward D. Benz John S. Snyder Albert Spalding Jr. J. Gerard Teagan

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OfficersTerm Ending September 30, 2021 Edward A. Wolking, Jr. Board to appoint new Director James M. Regan Patrick G. McKeever

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