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Aug 26,  2009

Newsletter

 

 

 

 Checkout the new look of our clubs’ website

Just a reminder to treat those that serve us at the Sizzler well and remember to leave a tip for them before you leave.

Meetings:  Sizzler, 371 East 400 South, SLC 11:45 – 1:00 pm, Meeting Room (Northwest corner of Restaurant.) Round Table Meetings, Same Time & Location except in the Atrium. ** Board meeting is the 1st Wednesday of every month and is held at 1:00 pm at the Sizzler.

                                                                                                         

WED 8/26

Mahina Jones, Redwood

Food Bank

WED 9/02

 

 1:00

1) Eryn Gorang,  Key Club

Division 8B Lt. Governor

2) Board Meeting

WED 9/09

Jane Joy, Joy Foundation

WED 9/16

Round Table

WED 9/23

Salt Lake City Mayor, Ralph Becker

WED 9/30

7:00 PM

President’s Dinner, Sizzler

WED 10/07

1:00

1) Speaker and Topic TBA

2) Board Meeting

WED 10/14

Speaker and Topic TBA

WED 10/21

Round Table

WED 10/28

Speaker and Topic TBA

WED 11/04

1) Speaker and Topic TBA

2) 1:00 Board Meeting
WED 11/11 Speaker and Topic TBA
WED 11/18 Round Table

In 1914 ..

 

• World War I begins: Austria declares war on Serbia; Germany on Russia and France; Britain on Germany.

 

• Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and wife Sophie assassinated in Sarajevo by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip.

 

• Panama Canal is officially opened after 10 years of construction.

 

• Congress sets up Federal Trade Commission, passes Clayton Antitrust Act.

 

• U.S. Marines occupy Veracruz, Mexico, intervening in civil war to protect American interests.

 

• The world's first red and green traffic lights are installed in Cleveland.

 

• In his second big-screen appearance, Charlie Chaplin plays the Little Tramp, his most famous character.

 

• Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes published.

 

• Winsor McCay unleashes Gertie the Dinosaur, the first animated cartoon.

 

Federal spending:   $0.73 billion
Consumer Price Index:   10
Unemployment:   7.9%
Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.02

 

Quotes by Confucius

 

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.   

 

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.  

 

Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.

A signup sheet was passed around during our last meeting to for members to take a month and arrange the meeting speakers for that month.  If you haven’t signed up, Contact Gordon.

 

August 26th in History …

 

1847 - Liberia was proclaimed an independent republic.

 

1920 - The 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote went into effect.

 

1939 - The first televised major league baseball game was televised: a double-header between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds.

 

1974 - Aviator Charles Lindbergh, the first man to fly solo, nonstop across the Atlantic, died.

 

1978 - John Paul I became Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. He died one month later

 

Contact Information

(B) Business, (C) Cell,(H) Home

President/ Newsletter

Gordon Lewis,  (C) 915-6228,  (C) 706-4519, gclbowl@comcast.net

Immed Past President

Ron Howell, (W) 983-8000, (H) 397-2532

1st Vice President

Dave Nelson, (B) 486-7855, (C) 918-7617

2nd Vice President

Ed Tanner, (B) 524-2534, (C) 201-9908

Secretary

Mark Anderson (B) 568-9322 (C) 232-5560

 Board Members

Dave Nelson, Ed Rogers, Ron Howell, Chuck Baker