Milt Livingston
will introduce Megan Frazer, General Manager of Sales
and Marketing for the Montgomery Biscuits, our new minor
league baseball team. Megan is from Toledo, Ohio,
graduating from the University of Michigan. She started
working in sports and with her hometown Toledo Mud Hens
their minor league baseball team. She joined Professional
Sports Marketing, the company that owns the Biscuits and was
their Director of Development; responsible for acquiring
franchises and opening new markets to minor league
baseball. She then spent 6 years in Lansing, Michigan with
the Class-A minor league team, and most recently was General
Manager of the Class-A Charleston, West Virginia, Alley Cats
team.
LAST
WEEKS PROGRAM
Ken Carrick
introduced Leona Stemple, Curator of Education at the
State of Alabama Department of Archives and History. She
became educational curator in 1990.
Leona began by saying she wasn’t a morning
person. Ken is very persuasive, and can’t believe it’s been
a year since she talked to us. So much has happened since
1999. A special program commemorating the Korean War will
be a November 20th lunch; their way of concluding the
memorial. Ken Lilly, a retired Air Force officer who was
kept a prisoner in China, will speak.
Food for thought, Hugo Black will be
honored next. These are done by the Friends of Archives.
Marlow Howard is a true legend for
Alabama. He carried a canoe, wore caps and created the
Department of Education. A memorial to Hugo was the name of
the auditorium.
If you come to the Korean program, you need
to enter on the South side facing the White House, due to
construction.
A brochure about the Friends of Archives
was given out. A lot is happening, check the website,
http://www.archives.state.us. There are over 4,000 pages on
the website. Be sure you get a rack card, distributed
through the state.
The archives are open one Saturday a month,
8:30-4:00; the first Saturday. They are open Monday-Friday
8:30-4:00; reference room is open one day a week. For more
information, it can be found on their website.
The Alabama Archives
opened two years before the Archives in Washington, D.C.
Mississippi opened theirs then Tennessee. You can look at
artifacts that go back to the Indians up to the 20th
Century. An additional 12,000 square feet is being added
that will allow more exhibits. People from Alexandria,
Virginia were called to help develop new areas of interest.
One part of history is when they were trying to claim land.
They have other
area pertaining to a section called government. They may
have to pull things back when addition is completed. They
are feeling the cut back in funding. Keeping government
records are changed after 7 years. The government division
is helping with recording, especially the Civil War
reports. They have gotten through “K” in the Civil War. It
will take a long time to complete the records.
In spite of cut backs, losing employees,
they have been replaced by volunteers, especially in the
reference department. Volunteers help in public relations,
children have hands on experiences.
Leona said they try to
do special things for their volunteers. They have 4 field
trips a year for the volunteers. They visit historic sites
around the state. They’ve visited Confederate Memorials in
Georgia. Graduation is held for volunteers who have 500
hours. There is also a Christmas party held for them each
year.
LAST
WEEK'S GUESTS
Barnie
Paulson introduced Al Collingsworth, who used to
be his boss; he said he had an open door policy for
employees.
Dana George
was present and welcomed by John Burch.
ENTERTAINMENT
Al McLellan had
a change and sang a love song entitled “You Done Stomped On
My Heart”. The song was John Denver’s.
THOUGHT
FOR THE DAY
President Winstead
gave us an interesting diet. Sugar cane and cocoa beans are
used for candy, are health fruits. Candy bars that contain
nuts give you protein. You can eat chocolate because it has
sugar and vitamins. If you spell stressed backwards, it
spells desserts.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
President Winstead
announced the following events:
December 6th members will take
children referred by the court, shopping at J.C. Penney’s.
Each child will be given approximately $100.
December 19th, Christmas Party will
be at the Maxwell Officer’s Club. The menu will be a
special chicken and prime rib. Be sure Charlie gets your
reservation.
Veteran’s Day,
November 11th, Barnie Paulson and other members
distributed gifts to the veterans at the V.A. Hospital.
Presents were passed out to 25 men and 2 ladies.
Dick Bennett said the Boston Butts
will be sold again for the holidays.
The President passed the hat, money for
“Going to the Kiwanis International Fund”. He said each
person should give $3.00 to help us meet our quota.
John Burch said that messages from
Chris Lafferty and Ward Knockemus were sent to the
website. [Check the Guest Log.] It is great knowing that
former members can keep in touch that way.
DALRAIDA
SCHOOL
Ken Carrick and
the following members read to the students last Thursday;
Dick Bennett, Barnie Paulson, Dick
Price, Al McLellan, James Dill, Jim Jones, Ed Melton and
Frank Wells.
TRAVEL
Our own travel
expert, George Oetting,
just returned from the U.K. after spending 6 weeks there.
He went over on the QE-II and said the food and service was
great. He reports that the British are having the same
problems we are having; Prime Minister Blair is receiving
static from the Parliament. There is crime, drugs, and
robberies happening every day.
FAST
STARTERS IN THE SHELL GAME
