Dear Sertoma Club members
Spring is finally here, what a welcome to it today with a nice round of thunderstorms. How many of you Sertoma members have ever tried to stand a raw egg on its end? It is pretty tough isn’t it. With today being the spring equinox though, the myth is you should be able to do it. Well me being the curious kind, I decided to give it a try and guess what? It worked. The next time you see me at a meeting ask me to show you the picture I took with my cell phone. You will be amazed. Anyway, as you set there in amazement let me give you a run down of our upcoming events.
Upcoming Evening Events
Board Meeting - March 26th is the monthly Board Meeting at Noon in the Board Room
Tuesday evening Meeting – It has been awhile since we had our last Sertoma evening meeting has been at a restaurant, but next Tuesday, March 27th the evening meeting will be at China One on Ingersoll from 5:50 – 8:30
Our next evening meeting which will be in April will be a tie in to our Fantasy Baseball camp. On Tuesday April 24th the evening meeting will be at the Iowa Cubs Club beginning at 5:30 when we will have the spring event to kick off Fantasy Baseball Camp. We will be eating, we will meet some of the campers and their families and there will be time for pitch and you may possibly get to tour the field.
May 29th we will have our evening meeting at Calvin Community for the Annual Sertoma Pitch Tournament to benefit Ruby Van Meter School. Earl and Rick will have more on this as the date nears.
The June evening meeting will go into July and it will be on Saturday July 8th at the Hyperion Field Club when Keith Anderson will be inaugurated as the new club President. He has lined up a great menu and entertainment so we hope that this year’s event will be well attended.
The evening meeting in July in on the 31st and it is the annual trek to Lake Panorama for golf at the Panorama Country Club and Dick Noyce again will be the gracious host for steaks and all the works. It is always a fun afternoon and evening. Be ready to sign up for a tee time. I may even try to play this year.
Upcoming Speakers
April 3rd – MaryLou Garcia from Wildwood Hills Ranch. Wildwood Ranch is a 400-acre facility set in the scenic hills of Madison County, just south of Des Moines. It was founded in 2001 with the mission of providing life-changing opportunities and camp programs for at-risk and disadvantaged children. Kids from across the state are offered hope and love while being challenged to grow into leaders and people of integrity who contribute to the communities they live in. Come that day to hear more about the Ranch
April 10th – Eric Woolsen owner of the Concept Works Public Relations company and Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee’s Iowa Campaign Director will be visiting our club to give us some insight on the upcoming Presidential Caucus. Should be an interesting meeting
April 17th is still open at this time.
May 15th KCCI Head Meteorologist John McLaughlin will be our speaker. He is taking time out of a very busy schedule to talk to us. He tells me that between his chopper business in the morning and KCCI in the afternoon and evenings he has little time to himself. I think we should consider ourselves fortunate to be able to have him as a guest so be thinking of questions you might want to ask him.
May 22nd our speaker is a name you are sure to remember it’s Rick Fredericksen. Rick was co-anchor at KCCI-TV on the 6 and 10 o’clock news casts he worked at KCCI from 1970 to 1982. He was paired with Paul Rhoades on the 6:00 News and Russ Van Dyke at 10, for several years. He was the Chief correspondent for CBS news in Bangkok and headed up their bureau. Earlier, he reported on the Viet Nam War in the Marine Corps. More recently he was the News Director of WOI Radio, and is now the Arts and Culture Reporter for newly organized Iowa Public Radio. Rick is a Des Moines native and a graduate of North High School and the Department of Defense Information School. He should have some interesting tales to tell so be thinking of questions for Rick.
June 5th Dr. Jim Wille, who is Certified in Pediatric and Adult Allergy will discuss the allergy season and things you can do and ways to make your life bearable this time of the year.
As you can see we have some interesting events and speakers coming up. We certainly have an exciting schedule and would be a perfect time to bring a guest. As always see you at the next Tuesday meeting.
Carl Bump