FRIDAY, December 30, 2011 MEETING NOTES Volume 46, Issue 13

We had 13 Optimists & Guests today. Joy Schewe from the Fennimore club graced us with her presence today. The Mystery Greeter was a mystery. Arnie Roper, Virg Pufahl, Gary Engelke and Ernie Thalmann wore their Optimist shirts today.

Today’s Speaker – None

Thanks to past President Jerry Schewe for filling in for Geri Zauche this morning. Geri took her son back to the airport this morning and could not make the meeting. As you can see from above there were a few die-hards. Virg wanted to go ice fishing, but came to the meeting instead.

Jerry asked us what our best or worst gifts were this Christmas. Gary Engelke said he got a new Canon SLR camera. Eileen got some new perfume. Howard got a flag flown over his son’s base in Afghanistan.

Jerry got a football trivia booklet & asked us about some of the items in there. One was who holds the record for the most consecutive starts by a running back – 170 by Walter Payton. Another trivia is that the new expansion team New Orleans Saints was announced on All Saints Day. Another was a true/false question. The name of the first African-American QB was Willie Thrower in 1953. True – you can’t make this stuff up! I don’t think he had a running back named Willie Runner.

John Urness said his son noticed the name change of “Tan World” to “Sun City”. Tongue-in-cheek, he asked if the next time they changed names it would be “Sun Block”.

Happy New Year to everyone and we will see you at our first meeting of 2012 on January 6!

 

This Friday - Business Meeting

UPCOMING EVENTS

Feb 10-11 - SWIS District Conference - Middleton

UPCOMING SPEAKERS

Jan 13 - Melissa Pahl - PAIDC

Jan 20 - Shelly Sandry - Concealed Carry


JOKER DRAW

The Joker Draw cards & tickets were not available today. Good Luck to next week’s winner. The pot is $193.

BADGER BOYS/GIRLS STATE

Just a follow up, we got new information on where to send checks and who to make them out to. The checks for both Badger Boys and Badger Girls State are in the mail.

THANK YOU

We received a Thank You from Badger Camp for our support during the Telethon & $800 donation.



























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