May 20, 2007 Newsletter
We are a week from the Memorial Day Holiday, the unofficial first week of summer. With the weather this past weekend it has me certainly thinking of summer and all the exciting things I have to look forward to, such as the Fantasy Baseball camp, Dick Noyce’s golf and cookout, Inaugural Dinner and the end of summer Sertoma Picnic. I am also looking forward to my own personal family vacation to the Black Hills in South Dakota. I am sure many of you have your own personal vacations planned during the summer, but please don’t forget the important Sertoma dates and events that are happening.
One event that is coming up that we as the Sertoma Club is being asked for help, is the Ruby Van Meter Field Day. VOLUNTEERS are needed May 25th (Friday) at 8:00 AM to help set-up, man and take down two batting cages for the Ruby Van Meter Field Day. Also if you have items for the Ruby Van Meter garage Sale on June 2nd contact John Badger if you need the item picked up. VOLUNTEERS are also needed the day of the garage sale.
Upcoming Speakers and Events
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.
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.
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.
June 12th meeting is “The Bioeconomy: Creating New Linkages Between Agriculture, Energy and the Environment” Our speaker is Jeanine Baldwin who serves as the County Extension Education Director with Iowa State University Extension in Polk County. With an annual budget of $1.3 million, Baldwin is responsible for providing extension programming to the citizens of Polk County
Prior to working for Iowa State University, Ms. Baldwin served as the Vice President of the Jasper County Alliance for Economic Development and as Corporate Secretary and Human Resources Director for the Greater Des Moines Chamber of Commerce Federation.
Ms. Baldwin holds a master’s degree in public administration from Drake University. She and her husband Tim have four children and farm near Mingo.
June 19th we will have a representative from the Iowa Cubs to talk about their organization, their commitment to the Fantasy Baseball Camp and draw the winner of the raffle for the July 20th Sky Box.
Please remember that the he June evening meeting will go into July and it will be on Saturday July 7th at the Hyperion Field Club when Keith Anderson will be inaugurated as the new club President.
The evening meeting in July is 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.
We have an exciting schedule for the month of June and as always, would be a perfect time to bring a guest. See you at the next Tuesday meeting.
Carl Bump