“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” ― Winston Churchill
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” ― Ernest Hemingway
ANNOUNCEMENTS
(notes provided by the distinguished gentleman from Connecticut, Eddie Perry)
Let the Fruit Sale Begin! Our club’s chief fruit head (Robb) kicked off our annual fruit sale fundraiser with the following information: Our goal this year is $9,000 with the sale price of $25 per case of oranges and/or grapefruits. That breaks down to each member selling 20 cases of fruit at an average profit of $11/case. Cash contributions are also suggested. This is our club’s fundraiser so sales and contributions are needed. Money collected this year will be donated to CASA and the Daily Bread Soup Kitchen.
Oktay will have a flyer available for placing orders and Lou will be sending out the annual email sales pitch.
All the orders to be turned in by November 18 and the fruit is be delivered the second week of December.
Our club’s Spelling Bee team members, Jen, Rob and Billy have been in training this last week and the club expressed our well wishes and encouragement for the team.
PROGRAM
Tod introduced Brenda Koenig who presented information on the C-U Folk & Roots Festival. Brenda received a BA from Indiana University, her teaching certificate from DePaul University and her Masters in Fine Arts from George Mason university. She is the director and founder of the C-U Folk and Roots Festival and also is currently a Research Assistant /Communications Specialist with the University of Illinois and included among her numerous awards, she is a 2015 ACE award winner and fiddle player extraordinaire.
The C-U Folk and Roots Festival is an annual event taking place this weekend in downtown Urbana showcasing national and regional talent in folk and roots music, dance and the spoken word. The festival features 30 workshops, jams, dancing, singing, with demonstrations and more than 50 live performances. This year the performances include bluegrass, jazz, jug band, Cajun, folk rock, Sea Shanties, Juda dance and ragtime to name just a few.
Paul Asoro, Cedric Watson, Anne Shimojima, Marion Jacobson are some of the big names that will be part of this festival. This is family entertainment with almost half of the performance being free of charge. The activities are scattered through out Urbana. locations include the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Landmark Hotel’s ballroom and library, Iron Post, Rose Bowl, Busy Bank, Urbana free Library, Strawberry Fields, Common Ground and Community Center for the Arts.
C-U Folk and Roots Festival is a non-profit organization with volunteer help and also presents year round programing to support and promote folk arts in Central Illinois. For more information please see www.cufolkandroots.org/.
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| Nov 12th | Nov 19th | Nov 26th | Dec 3rd | |
| Introductions | Oktay Baran | Keith Brandau | No | |
| Invocation | Robin Ferguson | Andrew Kerins | Meeting | Dave Krchak |
| Greeters | Oktay Baran | Keith Brandau | on | |
| Bruce Hatfield | Darrell Hoemann | Turkey | Mary Hodson | |
| Song Leader | Molly Delaney | Ata Durukan | Day | Diana Dummitt |
| Notetaker | Penwell | Hodson | Lintner |
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UPCOMING SCHEDULE
November 12th – Guy Fraker, attorney and Lincoln scholar
November 19th – Professor Jennifer Robbennolt of the UIUC College of Law will present Behavioral Ethics in the Practice of Law
November 26th – Thanksgiving, no meeting
December 3rd – Danda Beard and David Thiel, WILL
December 10th – TBD
December 17th – TBD
December 24th – Christmas Eve, no meeting
December 31st – New Year’s Eve, no meeting
January 7th – TBD
Feb 5 – Dr. Matthew Winters, Associate Professor of Political Science, UIUC, will present What Works in International Development: The Latest Evidence
