OPTI-BEA-BULL 6-09-11

Meeting started right on time with flag salute and invocation by Wally and 1954 this day in history. Soon after the opening the secret greeter was called for and Joe Coss was caught a little late on his rounds. We did welcome back Barry Baxter and Marv Doty after brief hospital stays. Still on the absent list is Vern Williams who is now home from heart surgery and doing well, hope to see you soon Vern.

Board Meeting: Monday June 13^th at 6:30 P.M. at the PAL Club meeting room, all invited

Junior Golf: Our clubs entrant this year is Parker Ryan who is a sophomore at Aloha High School. The tournament is being held at Meriwether Golf on June 12^th.

Rummage Sale: June 18^th is the date for the Nazarene Church/ Optimist garage sale. Chairman Wally Johnston said you can deliver our items on the day before. The Church is located at 22^nd and Hall. For those signed up to work on the sale see Wally for sign-up sheet.

Book Signing: Wally’s book signing will be held at the Peppermill Restaurant on June 24th and books will be $10.00 with no senior discounts. Coffee and donuts possible!

This Day in History: June 9, 1954 Joseph McCarthy meets his match, after Joseph Welch special counsel for the US Army lashed out at McCarthy when he said communism had infiltrated the U S armed forces. Welch”s verbal assault marked the end of McCarthy’s power during the anticommunists hysteria of the RED SCARE in America. To read more see me next week for breakfast.

Raffle: Today we had two raffles, the first was the drawing won by Barry ($9.00) and a bag of goodies brought in by Bob Arneson and auctioned off by Jack Franklin. And the winner was Scott Thompson.

Speaker: This morning’s speaker was Francis Maiser. BUTTONS,BUTTONS, if you wanted to know all about buttons you needed hear what Francis had to say. Starting with the Romans up to today’s buttons we were shown a button collection that she started many years ago. Thanks Francis for joining us this morning. Next week’s speakers are Donna Schmidt and Sam Shogren from the Washington county Historical Society Museum. Thanks to Joan Andersen Wells our Program Chair for June.

Program Chairs for coming months:  July, Meredith Weber, August, Wally Johnston, September, Bruce Buffington, October, Dick Schouten, November,  Joe Coss/Dave Chrisman. If you have an interesting speaker that would like to be a speaker please contact anyone above to see if there is an opening.  Also, as you can see, December is open for you to sign-up!!

Until Then