“To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.” – Charles Dickens 

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND PROGRAM

Last week’s meeting featured an excellent overview of the Virginia Theatre by the theater’s director, Steven Bentz. The theater has been owned and operated be several different entities, and in the last two decades it has been renovated and run by the Champaign Park District.

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  Dec 28th Jan 4th Jan 11th Jan 18th
Introductions Mary Kay Smith Charlie Smith Mary Kay Smith Charlie Smith
Invocation Jen Shelby Jeff Van Buren Cary Woolard Adam Wright
Greeters Mary Kay Smith Charlie Smith Mary Kay Smith Charlie Smith
Candy Loyd BJ Lytle Ben Mast John McDaniel
Song Leader Tod Satterthwaite Angie Schoonover Jen Shelby Lou Simpson
Notetaker Perry Penwell Hodson Conforti

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UPCOMING SCHEDULE (with program committee member responsible listed in parentheses)

December 28th – Royle Mortenstern, U of I Fire Institute (Rod)

January 4th – Steve Adams, Prairielands Council, Boy Scouts of America (Mary)

January 11th – Micah Kenfield, Sustainability Programs Coordinator, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Phyllis)

January 18th – Club Assembly

January 25th – TBD (Tod)

February 1st – Ed Perry will discuss his efforts in Vieques, Puerto Rico, after Hurricane Maria

February 8th – Captain Anthony Corapi, Commanding Officer of US Navy ROTC at UIUC (Bob)

February 15th – Dr. Kim Kidwell,  Robert A. Easter Chair as well as Dean of the College of ACES, UIUC

February 22nd – Dennis Hesch, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, The Carle Foundation, will discuss  Carle’s expansion/development at the Curtis/I-57 interchange (Phyllis)

March 1st – Micah Putnam, Superintendent of Grounds at Allerton Park (Bob)

March 8th – TBD

March 15th – Kevin Erickson, Associate Professor of Architecture at UIUC (Bob)

March 22nd – TBD

March 29th – TBD

April 5th – TBD