Bingo: Sept. 20- Team Three
Breakfast: Sept. 21- Ernie Wren, Dave Taylor, Dayton Glover, and Jacob Zagorac
Program- Respect for Law
Save the Date: Our Installation of Officers Social will be held Sunday, Sept. 29 from 4:00-6:00 at the Optimist building. It will be catered by Trailboss Barbeque and the cost will be $5.00 per person. Mike Boles, the Eastern Missouri District Governor-elect will be in attendance and will perform our installation. Please contact Barrett Glascock or Janet Popejoy by this Friday if you are interested in attending.
We had an Optimist Board meeting on Thursday, Sept. 12th. The Board agreed to pay the additional amount so that the price for the installation social could remain at $5.00 per person and the club voted $50 for decorations. Lena Long volunteered to make the drinks and desserts for the social and the Board gratefully accepted. We agreed to the gym agreement with the schools for basketball, as long as Superintendent Chris Felmlee agrees with the changes that were made and voted to provide $200 for the 4-H Recognition Dinner. We voted to allow the Mid-Missouri Narcotics Anonymous group to rent the building once a month at the cost of $300. We also talked about the fact that this year Veteran's Day breakfast will be on Monday, Nov. 11th and the fact that we will be participating in CoMo Gives again this December.
Bingo on Friday night was interesting since several people were gone, including Lena Long, Lester Gilpin, Bruce Glascock, and Janet Popejoy. With help from Les Hahn, Cheryl Field, Gail Quigley, and Linda Knierim we were able to serve the 121 players in attendance.
We had several guests this morning at breakfast, which was provided by Bryan Chapman and Barrett Glascock. Barrett also read a thank you note that the club received from a player who was ill at Bingo last week thanking Lena Long and Jeana Fisher for their assistance.
Our speaker this morning was Marjorie Johnson. She worked at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View CA, working in Network Communications for over twenty years. She shared many stories about the beginning of NACA, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1915. Her father worked at the Marshall Space Center in Huntsville AL under Werner Von Braun after NACA became NASA in 1958. She had many stories and artifacts that she shared in her interesting presentation. After she was finished, she drew for the Attendance pot. Becky Edwards, Colby Branch, and Skip Wills all had a chance at riches, but the pot will continue to grow.
Letitia DenHartog