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What’s Inside: Page 2 Assignments, Guests, Hospitality, Announce-ments
Page 3 Fines, Happy Dollars, Volunteer Luncheon
Page 4 Club Calendar and Weekly Numbers
Page 5 New Member Speech, KCW Transition News, KCD Christmas Sale Assignments
Page 6 Club Info, Thanks to Our Advertisers, Cen-tennial Memory Gem!
Pages 7-10 KCW Thrift Sale Work Schedules
Meetings... Strategic Planning, 10:30 a.m., KCW (12/04/2017).
Volume 9, Issue 9
Today’s Program… Hall of Honor Installations HALL OF HONOR, Past President Lynne Lande, ceremony chair. “Humanitarians in Detail” is to-day’s headline for our most recent inductees; it’s our most prestigious member tribute. Gordon Beeman, Jerry Brown, and George Gilligan share service as past presidents: a 20-plus-year Kiwanis membership (10 years in our club), and attending a minimum of 80% of our meetings. Most notewor-thy—exemplary club leadership and service...
Imagine 1. A nearly century-old organization, Michigan’s largest Kiwanis club, and employ-ing nine people without a Personnel Manual or an Investment Policy Statement? Thank you, major contributor, Past President Gordon Beeman;
Imagine 2. A career leader in every major club project from SA Bell Ringing to Sale Co-chair to Herding Cats (the club past presidents) to sporting the club’s consistently, brightest smile? Thank you, Past President Jerry Brown; and
Imagine 3. Bringing sound-thinking and finan-cial expertise to the board and the club, and overseeing the club golf outing and rolling service strikes on our K-Bowling teams? Thank you, Past President George Gilligan!
Presenters Larry French (Gordon and Anna Bee-man), Clarence Dukes (Jerry and Lyn Brown) and Cliff Sheldon (George and Mary Gilligan), all past presidents, introduced spouses and families and highlighted the outside-the-club, outstanding aca-demic, and community service honors earned by each recipient. Congratulations!
Next Week’s Program... December 4—Auto Harvest. Speaker: David Cole. Introduction by: Dale Leslie.
Upcoming Programs… December 11—Travel for Seniors. Speaker: Vir-
ginia Davis. Introduction by: Deb Jones. December 18—Volunteer Awards. Coordinator:
Jane Talcott.
November 27, 2017
Past President Larry French presents 2017 Kiwa-nis Hall of Honor Award to Gordon Beeman, with
Anna Beeman, center.
Jerry Brown receives 2017 Kiwanis Hall of Honor Award from Past President Clarence Dukes
Past President Cliff Sheldon presents 2017 Kiwa-nis Hall of Honor Award to George Gilligan
Officers and Directors
President: Gretchen Preston
President-Elect: William V. Hampton
Treasurer: Greg Meisner
Secretary: Kathie Wilder
Immediate Past-President: Alan Burg
Board Members: Marianne D’Angelo Deborah Jones Margaret Krasnoff Evan LeRoy Joseph Medrano Peter Schork Ellen Webb
Newsletter:
Editor Dale Leslie
Photos Bob Gray
Publisher John Kidle
Do you have news for the newsletter, or are you inter-ested in advertising? Con-tact Publisher, John Kidle, at [email protected].
Guests at Our Club… The George Gilligan Family including wife Mary, their daughter and son and extensions; An-na Beeman (wife of Gordon); Lyn Brown (wife of Jerry); Esther Hampton (wife of the Rev.); Skylar “The Red Streak” Gleason, and Jill Davidson of UM Circle K. Also introduced—Valerie Eaglin ([email protected]), daughter of our late club member Simon and brother to former motorcycle hobbyist, past president Fulton Eaglin. The more the merrier!
Hospitality… Lynne Lande is the December goodwill ambassador on our club’s health—734.649.8583; [email protected].
Announcements… PEP TALK SIS BOOM BAH! We have so many projects this month, to step forward (I think), it’s quicker to contact the member coordinator (see below). And, Kiwanians, we have passed the faith step in helping with one event. Please, find room in your heart to be of multiple service in appreciation for our great community we call home.
WARM THE CHILDREN: Now on-going accompanying families on a winter clothing shop-ping trip with vouchers—Larry French, 734.276.1253; [email protected].
CHRISTMAS SALE: Dec. 1-2; Dec. 9; KCD Downtown—all departments—Peter Schork, 734.417.6733; [email protected].
“TOP OF THE HEAP” help with food service at the Christmas Sale, KCD Downtown—Max Ziegler, 734.649.3979; [email protected].
KIWANIS THRIFT SALE WEST: Fridays and Saturdays, especially December 23rd through January 13th, 9a.m.-1p.m., Greeters and Cashiers especially—Bob Gray, 734.604.4977; [email protected].
SALAVATION ARMY BELL RINGING: Saturday, December 23rd, All Stations All Day, In-the-Air Everywhere! Two-hour shifts—spouses and families welcome—Garry Evans, 734.223.6760; [email protected].
Incidental information: the Jackson, MI Kiwanis club is celebrating its 100th anniversary in January 2018. Sherry Springer’s brother-in-law, George “Ted” Wilson, formerly of Chel-sea and Dixboro, is a member of the Jackson elite. Congrats!
Dexter Community Band, Holiday Concert, Sunday, December 10th, 3 p.m., Dexter Center for the Performing Arts, Dexter High School, 2200 N. Parker Road, free and open to the public. www.dextercommunity band.org.
Don’t forget: David Cole, Super InterClub speaker on Monday (December 4th). Bring a guest!
Spotted...
In the Detroit Thanksgiving Day Parade: our own Claire Dahl in her Rosie uniform marching with her arm flexed and a big smile! Neat!
Assignments for the Coming Week...
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KCW Cashiers & Sales
See Pages 9 and 10
KCW Sorting & Pricing
See Pages 7 and 8
Vouchers D. Smit, K. Hillenburg, A. Burg, J. Robinson, C. Summers, J. Schenk, & S. Smith
Invocation Gordon Beeman
Greeters Dan Burroughs, Bob Greene, Ray Argyle (A)
Hospitality Lynne Lande – 734.649.0583; [email protected]
Newsletter John Kidle
Cashier Dave Drake
Claire and Rosies
Fines… Any reckless Buckeye nut who interrupted the meeting agenda was fined for being a way-ward sputterer. Guess who?
Happy Dollars… Past President Lynne Lande was especially happy to hear Past President Dave Drake
on-the-air on Michigan Radio talking about his participation with grandchildren in tow with Meals on Wheels on Thanksgiving Day (click here for link to article). The two past presidents hugged! Log on!
News flash: Past Michigan District Governor, club member Bob Snider recounted his health recovery due to modern medicine that has improved his listening, hearing and seeing ability two and four fold! Wow!
Old editor enjoyed the Perfect Storm at his son’s trombone teacher’s abode on Thanks-giving (Jon Holftreter & Susan Hamady) and was reminded of his son’s prowess which dad had forgotten.
Tuesday, January 2, 2018 meeting, at Kiwanis West, is not downtown as implied. The flyer with said information sent the creator to bed without his warm milk and cookies! He suffered withdrawal but survived!
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This Week’s Numbers
Attendance: 57
Fines: $36.64
Happy $: $17
Mott Pot: $143 Today $373.75 YTD
Vouchers: $0
0 Families $13,979 YTD
74 Families YTD
Thrift Sale: KCD:
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KYP Meeting
3 Sale & Dona-
tions: KCW 9-1
4 Sale: & Dona-
tions KCW 9-1
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DST Ends
6 Concerts 7 8 9 10 Sale & Dona-
tions: KCW 9-1
11 Sale: & Dona-
tions KCW 9-1
12 13 Hall of Honor 14 Board Meeting 6:30pm at KCW
15 16 17 Sale & Dona-
tions: KCW 9-1
18 Sale: & Dona-
tions KCW 9-1
19 20 Summer
Reading
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22 23
Thanksgiving
24 Sale & Dona-
tions: KCW 9-1
25 Sale: & Dona-
tions KCW 9-1
26 27 Honors 28 29 30
November 2017
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 Sale & Dona-
tions: KCW 9-1 Holiday Sale: KCD 9-1
2 Sale: & Dona-
tions KCW 9-1 Holiday Sale: KCD 9-1
3 4 Auto Harvest 5 6 7 KYP Meeting
8 Sale & Dona-
tions: KCW 9-1
9 Sale: & Dona-
tions KCW 9-1 Holiday Sale: KCD 9-1
10 11 Sr. Travel 12
Board Meeting 6:30pm at KCW
13 14 15 Sale & Dona-
tions: KCW 9-1
16 Sale: & Dona-
tions KCW 9-1
17 18 Volunteer
Awards 19 20 21 22 Sale & Dona-
tions: KCW 9-1
23 Sale: & Dona-
tions CLOSED
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Christmas
26 No Meeting 27 28 29 Sale & Dona-
tions: KCW 9-1
30 Sale: & Dona-
tions KCW 9-1
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New Year’s Eve
December 2017
NEW-MEMBER SPEECH—Larry Dittmar… For over 40 years, Larry served the whims of countless international summer performers at the Interlochen Arts Academy that included an idiosyncratic band who insisted on a specific flavor of jellybean in their dress-ing room! A friendly, Life Achievement Awardee, and former high school band and orchestra head in the AA Public Schools, he engaged the top Interlochen prize in meeting his wonderful wife, Prudy. Larry’s work on the international stage in developing musicians in Kenya is renowned. “Larry, in our club, you’re always music to our ears. Keep practicing those trombone low notes.” We have one in the Leslie fold so told to.
Transition to KCW Weekly News/Updates... The sale on the Black Friday/Saturday weekend yielded about $8,000. Smaller than the record sales the previous week by about $3,000 but still a good considering offerings at other retail stores. The number of customers in the store on Saturday was down about 30% from the previous week. We attribute the reduced number of customers to the home UM football game and the weekend sales going on with most every retail merchant in town. Be thinking about your availability for sale volunteering after the first of the year. We will be working on that very soon. ~Bob Gray
Assignments for KCD Christmas Sale...
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Our Sponsored Programs in Service to Youth:
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Pioneer High School Angell Elementary
KIWANIS CLUB OF ANN ARBOR
Meetings: Mondays at Noon
100 N. Staebler Ann Arbor, MI 48103 www.a2kiwanis.org
Building Phone: 734-665-2211
RE/MAX Platinum Realtors, Doug Ziesemer 734-769-8111, [email protected]
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Other Links: Michigan District Kiwanis
Click here to read the latest Michigan Builder.
Kiwanis International
Kiwanis Young Professionals of Washtenaw County Meets 6pm first Thurs. of Month
U of M Circle K Meets 7pm Thursdays at UM Union or League (Check Cal-endar on Website)
Kiwanis Club of Ypsilanti Meets Noon Wednesdays at EMU Student Center
Ann Arbor Western, Meets Noon Tues. at Quarter Bistro
Kiwanis Ann Arbor Morning Edition, Meets 8:30am 2nd & 4th Weds. at Guy Hollerin’s
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Interested in becoming a member? Please send an e-mail to [email protected] or visit the website www.a2kiwanis.org.
Sale and Donation Hours Thrift Sale West
100 N. Staebler at Jackson Fridays and Saturdays
9am-1pm
Saleable Donation Drop Off: West: Fridays and Saturdays
9am-12:30pm
Call for Donation Pickup: 734-665-0450
Downtown
West
CENTENNIAL MEMORY GEM Club Hall of Honor When?
Wesley B. McKenzie (left), Executive Director of the Washtenaw Coun-ty Red Cross, joined the club in 1980 and pro-posed a club Hall of Honor to be patterned after a similar Red Cross program. Back then, be-ing elected a club board member and/or officer was the sole formal club
member recognition. There was some reluc-tance to change protocol (heard that one be-fore?) but Wes was placed in charge of a com-mittee to research a Hall of Honor and the charter installation occurred in 1985.
Wesley McKenzie