Noel led our flag pledge and Wally gave the invocation. Dick S. won the raffle. So things started out normal but we had no speaker so we turned on ourselves. It was reported that Bob P missed the last meeting because he slept in. Apparently he slept all day because he didn’t make the evening get together either. He attempted to avoid a fine by telling us about the glories of night golf at Kilarney. You hit a ball which lights up and aim it at a hole illuminated by a glow stick with the course sort of outlined by these sticks. Meanwhile, he drives around on a golf cart trying to sell you beer. You are desperately watching your ball while not walking into the lake and hoping you can get to it before it goes dark. We ignored his story and fined him anyway. He plans on bringing budgeting sheets next meeting to get even and so we can plan for next year.
Wally asked what happen on this day in 1863? Many knew because Schouten talked about visiting Gettysburg after picking up Marijke, his youngest daughter, from Cornell College. She has passed her first round of Foreign Service exams. Her older sister, Erika, is working on her master’s degree while working at a paid internship at Holly Cross Hospital in Washington DC. The parents took pity on the two girls and helped get some furnishings for their apartment.
Wally has tickets to women’s golf which the Chaplains are selling to raise money. He says the Teen Center in Sherwood is interested in our Optimist Internet Safety Program so we’ll explore together whether it will work for them. And Wally will review our web site situation and help decide whether to go with the Governor’s kind offer or muddle thru on our current site.
Patsy Ackley was able to visit this morning. It’s been awhile since we’ve seen her. Besides working overtime, she has been caring for parents and visiting the Golden Crown a known hangout for Karaoke.
Scott Thompson returned from Maui and an impending round of baseball and soccer with the kids. There was a report on Richard Hose who has joined Dusty for Poker Evenings and is getting shots in his ailing knee and perhaps has accepted a full time job where he works. Does this mean no more afternoon golf or biking with the Senior Rollers?
Jack reports hearing from Steve Wabnitz who has landed a job as a GSA looking after 40 buildings and his wife Jennifer is teaching. Jack is nostalgic for the old days when we helped run the Beaverton Parade and wants us to reserve a place in it throwing out candy to the kids with Commissioner Schouten waving and poor Vern having to get his old convertible out and driving these clowns around. Vern seemed a bit uncertain!? Anyway, it is an idea with a little polishing to get the Optimists out in the public. Now if Marv can march his Veterans of Foreign Wars behind the car…
Gary read us the Declaration of Independence or at least told us about his copies and Lillian mentioned blood drives and led us in the Creed.
by Alan Zehntbauer
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