Neil Giuliano is Tempe’s consummate leader
Tenth in a series of biographical profiles of KCOT members.
It can be said that Neil Giuliano is as complete a Kiwanis member as this Club ever has had.

An earnest Key Club member who became founder of an outstanding Circle K Club at the collegiate level, and Circle K International’s president. And then he became a Kiwanian in 1981. In 1985, he was Kiwanian of the Year. The next year, at age 30, Neil was president of the Kiwanis Club of Tempe.

Student body president of Arizona State University. Member of Class I of Tempe Leadership. A faculty associate at ASU where he created and taught a course on leadership. Interim director of the ASU Alumni Association. Director of Federal and Community Relations for ASU. Then, of course, he was elected to the Tempe City Council on his first try in 1990 and was vice-mayor two years later. In 1994, Neil was elected mayor of Tempe in a tough three-candidate field on the theme "Bridging to the Future" and kicked off his campaign on the then dry, ugly Salt Riverbed. He would be the first new mayor in 16 years, following the epic Harry Mitchell tenure.

Neil served as mayor from 1994 to 2004. Those were the years when the Rio Salado Project and Tempe Town Lake started and came into being. Transportation initiatives were launched that gave Tempe the most developed neighborhood, 7-day bus system, and Tempe almost landed the Arizona Cardinals stadium in a fierce, complicated battle. Approval was given to the Tempe Art Center during his tenure. Neil would be the 14th member of KCOT to serve on the City Council and the fifth and longest of them to serve as mayor. Elected at 38, he became Tempe’s youngest mayor. Re-elected in 1996, 1998 and 2000, he fended off a recall election decided the same day as the tragedies of 9/11/2001.

Upon his retirement as mayor, the City of Tempe named the south bank of Tempe Town Lake "The Neil G. Giuliano Lakefront Park."

His Honor, the Mayor, crowned his decade by advocating for and chairing the U.S. Presidential Debate Commission’s last debate. It was held at Gammage Auditorium in October 2004 between President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry. As an ASU student, he was instrumental in bringing President Ronald Reagan to speak at ASU in 1989.

Articulate, focused, personable, Neil has led a breathtaking odyssey through life. His mastery of leadership and clarity of speech have often made it look simple. He responded to a dizzying schedule of speaking requests and was always generous to hosting CKI groups at his successive homes in Shalimar, for example.

On Sept. 1, 2005, Neil took over as national president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), with offices in New York City and Los Angeles. He traveled widely educating media, fund-raising, issuing responses to events, comments or actions, meeting and working with dozens of famous entertainers, politicians and celebrities and seeking to be a role model in a nation still trying to grow up and mature in issues of sexuality. He resigned from that post last spring and his final day with GLAAD was June 12. He appeared on many news programs, both network and cable, articulating and passionately speaking for diversity and inclusion. "I have met some amazing people the last nearly four years and experiences I never would have imagined." he said. "I am taking the summer off to consider what I might do next in life, see family, travel and write."

He has drawn public attention, of late, for switching political parties and exploring a run for Arizona governor as a Democrat.

For Tempe Leadership, Neil was the veritable "poster child," exemplifying what one can do from the experience. At recruitment breakfasts, Neil was there challenging prospective class members to take the plunge and be forever transformed by the TL experience.

Neil was born Oct. 26, 1956, in Bloomfield, N.J. His father was a member of the city council there. His credo was "always remain approachable to the people you are serving." Active in the high school Key Club there (1972-74), Neil moved, at age 17, to Tempe to attend Arizona State University in 1974.

He organized the ASU Circle K Club that was chartered on May 12, 1975. It was sponsored, from the beginning, by KCOT. As a sophomore, Neil distinguished himself as Div. I lieutenant governor and then served as Southwest District CKI Governor. In 1977-78, he was International President of CKI. He spent four years in CKI. But for decades, he was the volunteer producer for the CKI convention wherever it was held around the U.S. each year.

Neil earned his bachelor’s degree in communication in 1983 from what is today called the Hugh Downs School of Communication.

He enrolled in grad school and quickly became campaign manager for a student senate candidate embroiled in the issue of whether student funds should be used to show the X-rated film "Deep Throat" on campus. (Neil’s candidate opposed it). That led to Neil successfully being elected ASU student body president in 1982. In 1983, he got a master of education degree in higher education administration. He would be coordinator of Student Leadership Development, 1983-88, at ASU; associate executive director of constituent relations for the ASU Alumni Association, 1988-93; director of Federal and Community Relations for ASU 1991-2004; and interim ASU Alumni director, 1994-1995.

Along the way, Neil was a board member and often officer of the Tempe Salvation Army; Home Base Youth Services; Arizona Town Hall; Valley Big Brothers/Big Sisters; Tempe Convention and Visitors Bureau; Tempe Community Council; Tempe Leadership (president 1991-92). At the government level, he chaired the Maricopa Association of Government (MAG) Regional Council; served on the board of the National League of Cities; chaired that league’s University Communities Caucus; served on the board of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America; and was on the Executive Committee of the Arizona League of Cities and Towns and the Regional Public Transportation Authority (RPTA) board.

Along the way, Neil earned a boatload of honors, including the ASU President’s Citation for Outstanding Service (1986); Distinguished Leadership Award from the National Association for Community Leadership; the 2004 Outstanding Individual Achievement Award from the Arizona Human Rights Fund; the James Creasman Award of Excellence from ASU in 1975; Tempe Leadership’s Outstanding Community Citizen Leadership Award in 2005; and the George F. Hixson Fellow Award from KCOT in 1998.

Neil’s saga has been the cover story of magazines. His story has been told in chapters of book. He’s part of a current national documentary "Outrage -- Do Ask, Do Tell," and Neil has been at work on his own book telling his story and capturing his passions for leadership and change-making.

Through it all, Neil has spoken often how his K-Family experiences fundamentally shaped him. Despite his demanding schedule, he strived to make KCOT on Thursday part of it -- generously and candidly giving members inside stories of politics, the entertainment world and so much more.

When his father died while he was at ASU, Neil noted, "The family aspect of Kiwanis was extremely strong" and it helped him through the healing so he was so far from home.

If the case can be made that Kiwanis builds leaders, that Kiwanis exemplifies service and that Kiwanis develops character, it has been manifested here in one man whose talents have been a remarkable gift to the Kiwanis movement.

And the remarkable thing is Neil G. Giuliano is only 53 years old.
- Lawn Griffiths

GREAT PROGRAM:
Chris Rosner brought a strong program Thursday. Dan Creed gave 10 strategies in a talk titled "Crunch Time: Surviving and Thriving in any Economy." His 10 points: 1) Live in a world of what IS, not what IF; 2) Utilize what is (opportunities are in every negative market); 3) Have a clear plan for where you are headed (set plans based on the situation); 4) Set goals and then follow them; 5) Innovate in the market (don’t spend a nickel for marketing if there aren’t results); 6) Solve your problems now ("Eat that frog" - get the nasty stuff out of the way in the morning, then manage time); 7) Set priorities and only work on the key issues (there’s always enough time to do the right thing); 8) Set an example because somebody is always watching; 9) Do whatever it takes (follow Nike’s "Just Do It"); 10) Never, never, never, never, give up.

BIO BACKGROUND NEEDED:
Lawn Griffiths reminded all members Thursday that he needs the biography/profile sheets back so that all members can be included in both the book on the Club’s history and the newsletter bios. The more thorough and detailed what members include, the richer will be their stories. Send them to Lawn Griffiths, 1952 E. El Parque Drive, Tempe AZ 85282-2902.

When Glenn Sahl is not running his mortuary, he's flying sky high
Ninth in a series of biographical profiles of KCOT members
Glenn D. Sahl graces KCOT members with his presence only now and then. But when he does, it's a time of great laughs, some catching up and a moment to re-introduce himself -- and introduce himself to new members. A friendly threat to show up -- or else -- from Mac Bohlman did get him back for the first time in years.

His business, however, is a familiar and major fixture on the landscape -- Tempe Mortuary, 405 E. Southern Ave., founded in 1963 and the only family-owned funeral operation in the city. He took it over in 1979.

The funeral director, who joined the Kiwanis Club of Tempe 32 years ago (1977), was born Aug. 25, 1951, in Ada, Minn., (first city on the state's alphabetical roster) which is about 40 miles southeast of Grand Forks, N.D. He has lived in the Valley 40 years. He jokes that he has a nickname. "My kids call me ‘Fat Boy,'" he notes.

He and Debra have been married since 1972 and have two children

and two grandchildren, with a third grandchild on the way.

My oldest son, Erik, is a dentist and periodontic resident at Loma Linda University, while son Mark is a CPA/attorney at Carpenter Hazlewood Delgado & Wood, PLC, Tempe. Both are graduates of McClintock High School.

KCOT Bulletins show that Glenn first attended a Kiwanis meeting on March 10, 1977, the guest of Mac Bohlman. He was a guest again and again of Mac's into May before being inducted as a member. He was put on the reception committee and the 4th of July committee and later on the board of directors. One year, he was Christmas tree sales chairman.

Glenn has been a member of the Arizona Funeral Directors Association and National Funeral Directors Association and was chairman of the Tempe Salvation Army Advisor Board. He is a graduate of Mt. Hood Community College Division of Funeral Service Education. He has been active in Tempe Elks 2251.

One of Glenn's hobbies is flying planes. He is an instrument- and turbine-rated. He has more than 5,000 hours in flying. Glenn is also a gun collector.

His favorite things about Kiwanis: The Great friendship and Denis Kigin's stories. "I also enjoyed some of Jim Yount's stories. I enjoy the Bulletin and show up for a meeting sometimes. I still have the poster that (the late past president) Al Thomas made for me as a speaker to the Club (Aug. 23, 1984). He was a great artist."

-- Lawn Griffiths

STAR-SPANGLED BANNER SINGER TRYOUTS
President Mike Cryer on Thursday reminded members that the first auditions for the singer who will belt out the Star-Spangled Banner for the 4th of July would be 10 a.m. this Saturday (June 13) at the MADCAP Theater (old Harkins Centerpoint) in downtown Tempe. He was looking for other Kiwanians to help with the judging. A West Valley contest was planned at the Skye Restaurant at West Bell Road and he Loop 101. About 50 auditioned for last year's right to sing to the crowd. Finals will take place later.

TEMPE KIWANIS CLUBS TEAMING IN FOOD DRIVE
Thanks to the few who brought baby food and diapers Thursday for the food drive that Tempe Kiwanis clubs have teamed to carry out this summer. Tempe Nuevo is heading it up and it focuses on two months of intense collection for the Salvation Army and Tempe Community Action (Escalante Center). Different basic items are to be brought in each week.

SALVATION ARMY

• June 18 --- beans -both dried and canned
• June 25 --- canned tomatoes
• July 2 --- canned vegetables - anything other than tomatoes

ESCALANTE CENTER (Tempe Community Action Agency)

• July 9 --- baby cereals and baby foods
• July 16 --- beans - dried and canned
• July 23 --- canned tomatoes
• July 30 --- canned vegetables - anything but tomatoes

BIO FORMS STILL NEEDED TO BE RETURNED
Many members have yet to return the profile information form that was mailed out with the Bulletin in May. Information is being used for the stories on members appearing weekly in the Bulletin and for the Club history book. Forms were given out anew Thursday. E-mail Lawn Griffiths if you need one emailed or mailed to you: tempelawn@msn.com.

WHEN SHANA ELLIS COMPLETED HER KCOT PRESIDENCY
On Thursday, Lawn Griffiths read from the final KCOT Bulletin of the 2002-2003 Club year as Shana Ellis was about to turn over the Club reins to Allison Walters (Aguilar). With Shana in tow with son Kade and daughter Amaya at this week's meeting, it seemed like a good time to read from that Oct. 2, 2003 issue. Here are excerpts from the article titled: "Shut up the shanty, Shana shan't be our prez no mo."

It said, "We don't have to tell you that, as members of the Kiwanis Club of Tempe, we have finished witnessing a consummate Club president. Shana Ellis has been a class act. It has seemed like she carried it out effortlessly, but some of that comes from her natural style of leading.

"Shana, we hardly knew ya. Your year just flew by, but, think about it, and every president's one-year tenure has seemingly whizzed by. Unlike some Kiwanis Clubs -- some often short on members and short on members willing to lead -- KCOT has never had to ask a member to serve more than a single one-year term as president.

"As the 54th president, Shana officiated over an amazing year when the Club returned to a strong financial footing with our sponsoring a Tempe Fourth of July Fireworks Show on Town Lake that was successful by every measure, including financial. With that girl-next-door charm, Shana brought her considerable community leadership track record to her role as the chief of our Club.

".....And Shana found time to get pregnant during her year as president, and each week, we watched the changes. Each week, we were treated to ‘Shana's Little Known Facts," things like why cats and dogs have no belly buttons or that if a Barbie Doll were turned into a real woman, she would stand 7 feet 2 inches, have measurements of 39-23-33 and probably fall over.

"She led us through the first year of or second half-century.

"You can bet the lady who challenged the Club a year ago to ‘Grow and Serve ... Serve to Grow,' will deliver a valedictory address on Tuesday night that takes us fondly back over the KCOT adventure of 2002-2003, past the back steps of the grand Fantasy of Lights Parade, over the terrain of such notable speakers ASU President Michael Crow, Phoenix Mayor-Elect Phil Gordon and the inspirational Phoenix police officer and burn victim Jason Schechterle. We'll remember the Tempe Music Festival, the corn roast at Stan's ranch and the war in Iraq during her term.

"We spent a year on Ellis Island, experiencing Shana's New World.

"Little-known fact: Shana Ellis is really two people in one."

INTERCLUBS FOR DIV. 10 INTERCIRCLES COMPLETE
On June 2, five members of KCOT traveled in Dean Plainer’s spacey truck to Sun Lakes and took part in this Club’s final Interclub meeting in our territory, Division 10. Joining Dean were his Interclub co-chairman Karl Wochner, Ralph Packer, Judy Aldrich and Lawn Griffiths. After breakfast with the Kiwanis Club of Sun Lakes, which holds its meetings in the morning on alternate weeks during the summer months and at night during the rest of the year. Completing the Inner-Circle entitled the Club to a patch.

MEMBERS PROFILE INFORMATION SOUGHT
About half of our members have not yet returned in biographical information forms to be used for the weekly profiles in the Bulletin, which will also be included permanently in the KCOT History that Bulletin Editor Lawn Griffiths has been compiling for a book on the Club’s nearly six decades. If you still have the form, please fill it out and get it to Lawn in person or by mail. If you want to add additional information, that would be very much appreciated because it allows us to give greater dimension to our members. We have been taking photos for both the Bulletin and the book. A new mailing of the form will be made soon to members who have not returned them. Questions, call Lawn, (480) 894-1557.

STAR-SPANGLED BANNER SINGER TRYOUTS
President Mike Cryer on Thursday said that, for the second year, there will be public tryouts for the singer who will belt out the "Star-Spangled Banner" at the start of the Tempe 4^th of July Fireworks Show at Tempe Town Lake. Preliminary auditions will be 10 a.m. June 13 at Madcap Theater, Mill and Sixth streets and Skye Restaurant, West Bell Road and Loop 101. The finals will be 7 p.m. June 24 at the Madcap Theater. About 50 auditioned for last year’s right to sing to the crowd. On Thursday, Mike showed the first advertisement that ran in the Arizona Republic, and it was noted that KPHO-TV CBS-5 has begun promoting the event with the Kiwanis Club of Tempe prominently noted. Bob Polley is at work lining up volunteers for that afternoon and night, while Lance Gray and his team continue to work with the City of Tempe and lining up sponsors.

FOOD DRIVE DATES ADJUSTED FOR KCOT MEETINGS
Last week we ran a schedule to invite our Club’s members to participate in a summer food drive, which is organized by the Tempe Nuevo Kiwanis Club. Dates listed coincided with Nuevo’s Tuesday’s meetings. This week we changed them to match KCOT meetings. Bill O’Connor, the Club’s secretary, notes this:

While summertime means trying to stay out of the heat or get out of town to avoid the heat, food banks still need to be replenished. We'd like to ask your help in keeping some Tempe food banks full. Last year our club focused on The Salvation Army and the Escalante Center Food bank. We were planning to do that again with the following schedule.

SALVATION ARMY

• June 1 ---- baby cereals and baby foods - diapers, too
• June 18 ---- beans - dried and canned
• June 25 ---- canned tomatoes
• July 2 ---- canned vegetables - anything other than tomatoes

ESCALANTE CENTER (Tempe Community Action Agency)

• July 9 ---- baby cereals and baby foods
• July 16 ---- beans - dried and canned
• July 23 ---- canned tomatoes
• July 30 ---- canned vegetables - anything but tomatoes

Jerry Vaughn - a longtime Tempe builder, military goodwill ambassador and a 43-year veteran of Tempe Kiwanis Club
Eighth in a series of biographical profiles of KCOT members
Jerry Vaughn has spent 43 years in the Kiwanis Club of Tempe. A consummate and colorful storyteller, Jerry has been a fixture seated at the west end of a table in the middle of the room at Shalimar for Club meetings.

Dozens of Kiwanians over the years have had their eyes opened wide after being invited by Jerry to join a special tour of a U.S. military facility across the world or to go into the high skies to observe the delicate maneuvers of an Air Force refueling mission. As the Central Arizona chairman of the Employer Support for Guard and Reserves (ESGR) for 14 years, he recruited business people to spend several days seeing our people in military service at work. What they saw and found helped defuse potential employment problems for more than 5,000 members of the Reserves and National Guard. Employers came away educated on what their employees were accomplishing in their voluntary military duties. Trips were to bases in Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Germany and throughout the U.S. There have been helicopter rides, going down in submarines and rides in massive transport planes.

But Jerry’s lasting impact will be the bricks, mortar and infrastructure of the building projects that the contractor ordered in the city of Tempe where he has lived more than 50 years. First, he spent 11 years as sales manager for Bradley Construction, owned by the late former Tempe Mayor Elmer Bradley, going from 16 sales annually to 150 home sales in his last year. Between new apartments and homes, he had a hand in the sale of more than 1,000 living units during the 1960s and 1970s. Among new home buyers were such Phoenix Suns notables as Cotton Fitzsimmons, Clem Haskins and Paul Silas, all within a half-mile of Shalimar.

Jerry launched Vaughn Construction Co. in 1977 and built 40 homes next to Friendship Village, five small office complexes and the large medical offices center called Hudson Place on East Southern Avenue. His company also erected townhouses and warehouses before retiring in 1984.

A resident of The Lakes in Tempe, Jerry has been an avid tennis player and interested in all sports. Over the years, he has brought KCOT great speaker programs from the sports world through his many contacts and friends in athletics, including ASU.

Born in the Great Depression in Santa Monica, Calif., his father died when he was 4, and the family moved to his grandparents’ farm outside of Rocky Ford, Colo., about 40 miles east of Pueblo near the Arkansas River in the southeast part of the state. Those grandparents had already reared nine children on that farm. Jerry found it a stark change from California. Water for drinking, bathing and laundry was hauled by truck from five miles away, while water flowing through ditches on the farm was limited to crops.

"There was no indoor plumbing, and the outhouse was standard -- always the first path to be cleared after snowstorm. We’d drive miles to watch a toilet flush," he said. "Real baths and showers were only a dream." Jerry attended a two-room country school for grades 1-8. There were 19 students when he started, but six years later when he moved to town, the rural school had shrunk to an enrollment of 7 students and was shut down forever.

They moved to Colorado Springs at the end of World War II, and his mother took a job as a teacher. He recalls the August 1945 headline "Atom Bomb Destroys Japanese City." At age 12, Jerry began a series of jobs -- first as a drugstore soda jerk, then stock boy, a clerk, etc., at 25 cents per hour. He was making 45 cents an hour by the time he graduated from high school. Jerry enrolled at the University of Colorado in Boulder and spent two years exploring "at least three different majors," but found nothing that clicked. "I haunted the counseling office to see what I was most likely qualified for." He worked as a dishwasher in the dorm’s cafeteria, drove a cab and even learned hypnosis. "I gave many demonstrations in the dorm room at late hours, when guys would come with friends in tow," he recalls. For three summers, Jerry drove 7-passenger Cadillac "funeral cars" to make some 300 tours to such scenic spots as Garden of the Gods, Cave of Winds, Cripple Creek, Royal George and other sites. Of all his jobs in those years, that touring duty topped everything.

"At the end of my third summer, when I was 20, Sue became pregnant. I had no job, just seasonal ones, no money and little prospect for a job," he said. In late 1953, Jerry went to work as a real estate salesman, probably the youngest in the state. "I knew absolutely nothing about the business," he said, but with a Model A Ford he went to work. His broker took time to train him and "I did exactly as I was told, with one result: Being named Realtor Salesman of the Year in 1956, with 48 listings sold and 24 sales on my own -- 72 in all."

The development of the new Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs and the resulting housing boom helped to foster his success. During those four years in the Colorado realty market, their children Pam, Terry and Valerie were born. Jerry became active in the Jaycees where he was vice president. He chaired the Chuck Wagon Dinner committee. For three nights a week in the summer, they fed about 700 each evening. His teams of Jaycees could move that crowd through the chow line in 20 minutes. Jerry would also be chairman of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Championship. While it was a great experience to organize it, "the only problem was we had torrential rainstorms both years of each performance and we lost money."

He joined KCOT in 1966, was program chairman for several years and was a regular volunteer year after year for the 4^th of July fireworks and the KCOT Christmas tree lot "even in the slop of rain. He sponsored some great Club members. Jerry served on the Tempe Chamber of Commerce and the Home Builders boards, was chairman of Tempe Diplomats and the Tempe Military Affairs committees, and was the first president of the Tempe Republican Men’s Club in the late 1970s. He joined with three other Kiwanians (Harold Fearon, Dr. Richard Flynn and John Moeur), plus six others, to start Tempe Rio Salado Bank.

"KCOT has been an important part of my life, and after more than 40 years, I still look forward to being with successful and diverse members, plus the good programs and the great conversations," he said.

"Sue and I have been married for 56 years, all of which she has been supportive of our business ventures," Jerry said. "Pam (Ochoa), Terry (Guriquex) and Val (Boyd) are doing well, and they have given us six beautiful grandchildren and one great-grandchild."

--- Lawn Griffiths

Marie Rice, like husband Ross, gave much to the community
Retired Tempe teacher Marie Rice, who was the widow of former longtime KCOT member Dr. Ross Rice, a retired ASU political science and history professor, died May 21. Marie used to regularly visit KCOT with Ross. They later settled at Friendship Village. Ross was the founding member of ASU's Department of Political Science, which at one time was part of ASU’s Department of History. Ross was, for a long time, the curator of the Carl Hayden papers in ASU’s Hayden Library, and just prior to Ross’s retirement, he completed an extensive biography of Carl Hayden, Arizona’s first U.S. congressman and first U.S. senator. Ross also was mayor of Tempe for 1961-62. Marie was 93. Her services were Friday, May 29. b

Here is the Marie’s obituary from the Republic:
Rice, Marie
Marie P. Rice, born August 4, 1915, in Milwaukee, WI, passed away on May 21, 2009, in Mesa, AZ. Predeceased by her beloved husband, Ross, after 55 years of marriage. She was devoted to her family, including daughters Marilyn, Roxanne, Valerie, Laurie, and nine grandchildren. Also survived by her sister Anne Brunkella, and Anne's children, Jim and Jane. Proudly served in U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1945. Attended University of Chicago and graduated from Arizona State University with Bachelor's and Master's degrees. Taught at ASU Payne Training School and in the Tempe Elementary School District. Member of Tempe Community Christian Church. Past President and active volunteer for Tempe Historical Society. Resident of Tempe since 1950 and moved to Friendship Village in 2000. Her life was enriched by her many friends, old and new. Service will be held Friday, May 29 at 1:30 p.m. at Friendship Village Skirm Auditorium (contact 480-831-0880). In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Tempe Historical Society or ASU Foundation (Ross R. Rice Fund).

Mac Bohlman has led full life as TV prof, lawyer, judge, civic leader
Seventh in a series of biographical profiles of KCOT members.
Herbert M. "Mac" Bohlman is a longtime fixture and bon vivant in Tempe. An attorney, judge, professor of business law and near-professional sitter on non-profit boards, Mac, a KCOT member for 40 years, has long been an activist for causes for people in need in our community.

He took the name "Mac" from his middle name and mother’s Scottish name - McCaull. This summer, he will spend three weeks in Europe, with some time in Scotland with a daughter and 13-year-old grandson checking out family roots.

The tall, white-haired, easy-going gent was kept, for many years from regularly attending KCOT meetings because the Club met at the same time he was teaching his televised Arizona State University law classes. He and Mary Jane Dundas co-authored a textbook, "The Legal, Ethical and International Environment of Business," which is listed at $197.95, although an Amazon special has it down to $146.75.

He taught law for 41 years, and he probably retired three times only to find himself called back to fill gaps in the faculty. He and wife Mimi have operated their own law office for 50 years.

Mac has served for 25 years as a judge pro tem for Maricopa Superior Court, hearing and ruling on a wide range of cases. He estimates he finalized some 50,000 divorces, ordered 5,000 evictions for non-payment and numerous protection decrees. He has presided over about 20 jury trials.

The April 14, 1969, KCOT Bulletin welcomed Mac Bohlman to Kiwanis membership. He was immediately assigned to the "public and business affairs committee." Soon he was chairman of Operation Drug Alert committee. He was very involved in the Community Organization of Drug Abuse Control (CODAC).

Mac was the first of five KCOT members to be selected for Tempe’s prestigious Don Carlos Humanitarian Award. He and Mimi were joint winners in 1991 in an honor conferred by the Tempe Community Council for sustained community service in helping others.

Born Feb. 8, 1936, in Des Moines, Iowa, he graduated from Roosevelt High School and earned a degree in business from Drake University in Des Moines 1957. He would earn a law degree from Drake in 1964. Mac and Mimi were married Aug. 1, 1959. Just after he got his law degree, they moved to Arizona and have lived in the Valley for 45 years. Law made him just $7,200 in his first year of practice.

The Bohlmans have four adult children: William (1961); Patricia Haught (1965); Michael (1968); and Laura Roach (1972). There are nine grandchildren. One of his grandsons, Brandon, has visited KCOT many times.

Mac has served on the Tempe Community Council, Tempe St. Luke’s Board of Governors, Tempe Chapter of the American Red Cross, Tempe Salvation Army Board of Directors (40 years); Tempe United Way Campaign; Tempe Board of Adjustments; City of Tempe Parks and Recreation Long Range Planning Committee; Tri-City Catholic Social Services; Tempe YMCA; Tempe Chamber of Commerce; CODAC (drug treatment program); and North Tempe Homeowners Association. For decades, he and Mimi were leaders and volunteers for First Congregational United Church of Christ Church in Tempe.

"I have never been elected (to a KCOT office) but I have served on numerous committees - the anti-drug one was the most important," he said. Elected a "member of the month," Mac has been a club institutional memory - conjuring many colorful stories from the past. He also loves, with gusto, to take on such fellow Club lawyers as Dick Neuheisel, Karl Wochner and Curt Ritland.

His hobbies have included restoring his 1930 Model A Ford. The dark red two-seater features a sign on the door, "Old Time Lawyer Mac Bohlman" and his phone number. He also loves model trains. The Bohmans spend a lot of time at their mountain home in Munds Park, which they have had for 10 years.

"The friendships I have with many members" stands out among his favorite moments, he said. "I am glad to see us helping so many children."

-Lawn Griffiths

4TH of JULY SPONSORSHIPS:
Congratulations to Lance Gray and his team as they find companies to provide financial sponsorships for the 4^th of July Fireworks extravaganza. President Mike Cryer said Thursday that the total pledged and received to date equals $83,250, with $13,375 actually collected. The search goes on. Funnel ideas to Lance. A meeting was held after Thursday’s meeting for volunteers and gate and beer captains. More volunteers are needed.

LAST INTER CIRCLE INTERCLUB IS TUESDAY
Karl Wochner announced Thursday that he and Interclub Co-Chairman Dean Plainer will lead another Interclub outing to a Division 10 club and the last of the administrative year. It will begin 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 2, at a Sun Lake rec center. Those going from KCOT will leave at 6:40 p.m. from the Good Egg parking lot, 4910 W. Ray Road, No. 5, Chandler, and travel down there together. Signed up so far to go are Dean Plainer, Karl Wochner, Judy Aldrich, Ralph Packer and Lawn Griffiths. If you are interested, call Karl (480) 820-2520 or Dean (480) 899-2370

SIMPLE WEEKLY "1 ITEM" FOOD DRIVE SET
Fellow Tempe Kiwanians:
The Tempe Nuevo club will be conducting a food drive this summer. While summertime means trying to stay out of the heat or get out of town to avoid the heat, food banks still need to be replenished. We'd like to ask your help in keeping some Tempe food banks full. Last year our club focused on The Salvation Army and the Escalante Center Food bank. We were planning to do that again with the following schedule.

SALVATION ARMY

• June 9 ---- baby cereals and baby foods - diapers too
• June 16 --- beans - dried and canned
• June 23 --- canned tomatoes
• June 30 --- canned vegetables - anything other than tomatoes

ESCALANTE CENTER (Tempe Community Action Agency)

• July 7 ----- baby cereals and baby foods
• July 14 ---- beans - dried and canned
• July 21 ---- canned tomatoes
• July 28 ---- canned vegetables - anything but tomatoes

Best Regards
Bill O'Connor
Secretary - Kiwanis Club of Tempe Nuevo

Fireman Joel Navarro gives KCOT ‘majority' of City Council
A Tempe city councilman, Shana Ellis, has recruited another Tempe City Council member, Joel Navarro, to join the Kiwanis Club of Tempe.

We welcome Joel, first-term council member and member of the Phoenix Fire Department. Interestingly, with Joel's joining, KCOT has a majority - 4 out of 7 - of the current members of the City Council. Joel joins Councilman Mark Mitchell (2000 to present); Councilman Shana Ellis (2006 to present); and Councilman Corey Woods (2008 to present) in KCOT membership. Corey and Joel were both elected last year to their first four-year council terms. )They intend to be on their toes lest someone technically says their being together at Kiwanis represents some kind of an official council quorum. Shana has researched it with the city attorney and found it shouldn't pose an issue).

Joel, 41, becomes the 21st person to serve on the Tempe City Council and to, at some point in their lives, be a KCOT member. He fortifies the Club's record of having a once or future Kiwanian continuously on the City Council since 1932 - now 77 straight years.

Joel is a graduate of Tempe Leadership Class 19; has been a member of the Tempe Human Relations Commission; has been a Marcos de Niza football coach; and was an Eagle Scout with Troop 474, which KCOT has long sponsored.

Born in Scottsdale on Oct. 25, 1967, Joel went on to New Mexico State University and earned a B.S. degree in advertising design in 1991. He received a secondary education degree in 1995 from Ottawa University. He has been a fireman for 14 years and is currently a captain and paramedic. He is assigned to a station at 120 S. 12th St., Phoenix.

He chose to join KCOT "to help out more with our community and kids. Being a parent, I want to see as many opportunities for our kids to better their lives and to be proud of a community that they would want to give back in."

Joel, who is divorced after 6 ½ years of marriage, has two children, Jillian and Parker Navarro. "I have two great kids," he says. He enjoys all outdoor activities, considers his mom and dad as his living heroes and called Shaquille O'Neal the most famous person he has met.

Contact information: Address - 1267 E. McNair Drive, Tempe AZ 85283; phones: (480) 820-5841 (h); and (480) 688-9907 (cell and business). E-mail: Telly45@hotmail.com.

The Calvalcade of Tempe Kiwanis members continuously on the Tempe City Council since 1932
Samuel Burkhard, 1932-1950; Harold Nevitt, 1948-1956; Karl Guelich, 1950-1958; Ross Rice, 1958-1962; Harold Andrews, 1960-1964; Bernard Caine, 1960-1964; John C. Moeur, 1962-1966; Wayne Forde, 1962-1966; Dr. Richard Flynn, 1966-1968; Richard Neuheisel, 1968-1972; Thomas Kincaid, 1972-1976; Patricia Hatton, 1976-1992; Gene Sears, 1976-1984; Neil Giuliano, 1990- 2004; Joseph Lewis, 1992-2000; Linda Spears, 1994-1998; Mark Mitchell, 2000 to present; Pam Goronkin, 2002-2006; Shana Ellis, 2006 to present; Corey Woods, 2008 to present; Joel Navarro, 2008 to present.

4TH of JULY SPONSORS CONTINUE TO BE CONTRACTED:
Lance Gray announced Thursday that the work goes on to land companies to provide sponsorships for the 4th of July Fireworks Show. PMT Ambulance has pledged $35,000 and the University of Phoenix has come on board. "We're chugging along," he said. Meanwhile, recruiting is ongoing for volunteer labor for that Saturday night celebration. Former KCOT member Rich Joos has notified the Club that he will help. All able-bodied Club members, spouses, friends and adult offspring are invited to help out and to avoid other scheduled activities that night, if possible.

INTERCLUB TO GILBERT:
Five KCOT members took part in an "outer circle" Interclub on Tuesday May 19 by visiting the Gilbert Kiwanis Club, which meets at the I-HOP on Gilbert Road. Karl Wochner and Dean Plainer, co-chairmen, were accompanied by Ralph Packer, Joe Schmoker and Lawn Griffiths. They heard a speaker from Junior Achievement. The last Interclub to a Div. 10 Club this administrative year will be 7 p.m. Tuesday June 2, to the Sun Lakes Kiwanis Club. Let Dean or Karl know if you are interested in attending.

Retired ASU library guru Warren Fry led KCOT 25 years ago
Sixth in a series of biographical sketches on members of KCOT

Warren Fry, a member of KCOT since 1976, is the Club's newest Honorary Member, in wake of the Board's recent action to grant him that distinction after he had resigned as a senior member.

The 36th president of the Club (1984-85), Warren is the retired Associate Dean for Arizona State Libraries.

With his joining KCOT in 1976, he chaired the 4th of July Fireworks Show, served on the Christmas tree sales committee and was Corn Roast chairman. Warren served as the adviser to ASU Circle K Club 1980-85. He capped off his service to the class as president. He was a Distinguished Club President and has received the Legion of Honor.

Born Dec. 30, 1936, in La Porte City, Iowa, Warren earned his degree in 1958 from Iowa State Teachers College (now University of Northern Iowa) in Cedar Falls. He then taught printing and graphic arts from 1958 to 1961 at Muscatine (Iowa) High School. He and Marilyn were married in 1957, and they moved, with daughter Stephanie, to Arizona in 1961 when Warren began teaching math and science in the Alhambra School District. He remained there until 1967

Their son Douglas was born in 1962. Warren earned his master's degree in instructional media from ASU in 1963. At the same time, he earned a ham radio license. From 1967 to 1969, the Frys lived in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands where Warren developed curriculum materials for the Marianas, including the island of Saipan.

In 1969, they returned to Phoenix where Warren went to work for the Phoenix Union High School District. From 1964 to 1974, he was department chairman for the library/audiovisual departments at East and Central high schools. In 1973, he received his school library and administrative certification, and he was president of the Arizona Educational Media Association. From 1974 to 1985, Warren was director of Audio-Visual Services for ASU. In 1985, he was promoted to Associate Dean for University Libraries, with associate rank and tenure. In 1988, he was president of National Association for Educational Communications and Technology. During the 1980s, he earned his private pilot's license and often flew with KCOT's Rod Johnson.

Warren has been involved with The Tempe Chamber of Commerce Military Affairs Committee, Tempe Diplomats and the Employee Support of Guard and Reserves.

In 1990, Warren developed the ASU wireless instructional delivery system for the Phoenix metro area. He managed the Central Arizona Film Cooperative Inc. and oversaw the conversion to video formats integrated in the University library systems. In 1995, he was promoted to full Media Resources Specialist rank. In 1999, Warren retired from ASU with Professor Emeritus appointment after 24 years with ASU and 40 years as an educator.

That same year, Marilyn retired after 26 years as a library media specialist with the Mesa Unified School District. They later sold their Tempe home on East Pebble Beach and moved east to the Islands in Gilbert. Their two children and four grandchildren live near. "We spend most of our summers at Forest Lakes where the temperatures average mid-70s to mid-80s," Warren said. "During the winter months, I spend time with my ham radio, photography and flying hobbies. Our home is located on a lake and we boat and fish from our backyard. During the past 30 years, we have traveled to Hawaii over 10 times, to Europe four times, to South America, to Africa twice plus the Caribbean, Mexico, the Eastern Mediterranean, Canada and Alaska."

His favorite KCOT memory was, while club president, asking Rod Johnson his name the day Rod was inducted as a new member. He said, "Rumpelstiltskin."

Fourth of July News:
President Mike Cryer announced Thursday that PMT Ambulance of Tempe has become a $10,000 sponsor for the Tempe Fourth of July Show. The work goes on to find additional sponsorships. Mike said meetings with the city continue, and there will be free bus service to get people to Tempe Town Lake, but the light rail arrangements are not part of any arrangements agreed to. Mike brought a "legend" or layout of Tempe Beach Park showing how the show is being laid out. College Times will put out a dynamite issue that will focus on the show, and the editors are seeking lot of photos about Kiwanis activities and projects. If you have some good photos, get them to Mike Cryer or Judi Yates as soon as possible.

Correction:
Two weeks ago, the Bulletin editor mistakenly said Bill Wagner was re-elected to a second one-year term as Club treasurer. He was, instead, elected to his third term.

Board Meeting Tuesday:
The Kiwanis Club of Tempe will holds its regular monthly board meeting at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at Pyle Adult Recreation Center, 655 E. Southern Ave.

Middle School Assemblies:
We thank those who represented KCOT at the five Middle School awards assemblies at the end of the school year to give $100 checks and picture plaques created by Bill Wagner. An outstanding student at each school was honored. These five people spoke: Ralph Lingerfelt (McKemy); Dave Summers (Connolly); Vic Cordts (Gilliland); Karl Wochner (Fees); and Joe Schmoker (Kyrene Middle).

60 reading sessions, 1,440 donated books
KCOT’s Read to Exceed project finishes second year
The Kiwanis Club of Tempe (KCOT), guided by the masterful and insightful leadership of Robert Kizere, was thrilled to execute Carol Balk’s inspirational program titled "Read to Exceed" to encourage reading and book ownership for the preschool children enrolled in the Head Start programs in Tempe for academic year 2008-09.

Penny Pease and Sharon Kausal assisted Robert in packaging books for the reading sessions and scheduling volunteers in the fall and took over the program for the second semester.

In Tempe, Head Start operates three locations: Tempe Westside Multi-Generational Center, Curry Elementary School and Tempe North Multi-Generational Center. Each facility has a morning and an afternoon class with about 17 to 20 students in each class. In addition to donating books to the children, books were also donated to the classroom for teachers’ use. Often the readers brought additional donation books to supplement the curriculum as well. The readers were members of KCOT, as well as members from the Tempe business community. Because many of the children are Spanish speakers, readers often read their books in both Spanish and English to promote better comprehension. KCOT readers included: Lawn Griffiths, Sharon Kausal, Judy Aldrich, Penny Pease, Mike Cryer, Vic Cordts, Rob Kubasko, Linda Spears, Shawn Ward, C.K Liu, Lance Gray, Curt Ritland, Marcie Greenburg, Corey Woods and Linda Wegener.

KCOT's book donation to the community for this literacy program was approximately 1,440 new books from Scholastic Book Publishing. There were 60 reading sessions. The donated books are popular, current storybook titles with wonderful, engaging illustrations and storylines. The children always greeted the KCOT readers with eager enthusiasm. While the children adored the program, it was believed the adults enjoyed reading to the children, seeing their grateful smiles and receiving their heartfelt appreciation and hugs even more. This program was a "win-win" for all concerned.

- Penny Pease

Ken Shook was a model Kiwanian of extraordinary determination
By Lawn Griffiths
KCOT Bulletin Editor
Kenneth L. "Ken" Shook, a man whose determination to live was only matched by wife Florence’s steadfast grit and devotion to provide loving care, died early Wednesday, May 13, 2009, at the Beverly House of Hospice of the Valley in Chandler. He died about 5:15 am. He was sent there on Tuesday after his visiting Hospice nurse had gone to the Shook home and found his breathing to be very labored. Ken would have been 91 on May 24.

Memorial services will be 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 20, at Tempe Mortuary, 405 E. Southern Ave., Tempe. His body was cremated and the ashes will be interred at 12:30 p.m. at National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona, 23029 North Cave Creek Road, Phoenix, with full military rites.

His Kiwanis work spanned 43 years, and he was a club president in Kansas, lieutenant governor in the Southwest District and editor of the district newsletter, The Build-Up. In the days when KCOT used attendance slips, Ken typically took the two O’s of his last name and turned them into smiley eyes as part of his signature. He gladly paid many fines at Kiwanis meetings for that.

Ken, a patriarch of the Kiwanis Club of Tempe where he had been a member since 1975, was a World War II pilot who would later fly missions in Vietnam. He retired as a U.S. Air Force major on Aug. 31, 1967. A proud alumnus of the University of Kansas (Bachelor of Fine Arts - 1939), he loved his Jayhawks, and he often told how he was a student in Lawrence of legendary Professor James Naismith, who founded the game of basketball in 1891 and joined the University of Kansas faculty in 1898 where he started the storied Jayhawks basketball team and remained until his retirement in 1937.

Born May 24, 1918, in Grand Junction, Colo., on the banks of the Colorado River, Ken would enroll at Kansas and studied music. He was instrumental music teacher and the music supervisor at Valley Center High School in Kansas when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. The 23-year-old enlisted in the Army Air Force the next day, but he did not get called to duty until 1943. During World War II, while with the 446th Bomb Group, Ken did 30 B-24 missions. The bombing missions were very dangerous. Statistically, two-thirds to three-fourths of the crews were killed before completing what typically was a set of 20 flight missions.

Ken went to flight school in Corpus Christi, Texas, and checked out on sea planes. In 1947, he went into the USAF Reserve and went to work full time with the Rock Island Railroad at Pratt, Kan. In 1951, with the start of the Korean War, Ken was recalled to active duty at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona. He went on to Wheelus Air Force Base in Libya and worked in air supply for three years. From there he went to Palm Beach Air Force Base as an instructor pilot for the SA-16. Next Ken was sent to the University of Kansas when he spent four years (1959-1963) teaching ROTC and serving as assistant professor of air science. Along the way, he was also stationed in Europe during the Cold War.

Ken’s first wife, Sue, died of lung cancer. While they were on assignment in Germany, they adopted Philip.

In Lawrence, Ken met Florence, whose husband had died. They were married June 8, 1962, in Lawrence. With the escalating war in Vietnam, Ken was dispatched to Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines where he flew 26 rescue missions from Da Nang, Vietnam. His last year of duty was at Richard Gebaur Air Force Base near Kansas City, Mo. He had 25 years of active duty in the Air Force, plus many more in the Reserves.

Ken joined the Old Mission Kiwanis Club in Mission, Kan., in 1966, was its secretary in 1968 and club president in 1969. From 1970 to 1983, he served on the board of the Kansas Kiwanis Foundation. The Shooks moved in the early 1970s to Tempe. He operated the Progressive School of Real Estate, teaching realtors in the skills of selling. He became a member of the Shriners in 1947.

KCOT files contains the KCOT Bulletin dated Monday May 12, 1975, which notes that on May 8 "Glenn Turner, business manager of KAET television, and Ken Shook, a newcomer from Kansas, were inducted last week by Bob Williams." Ken was sponsored by Ray Clark. By the next year, Ken was the committee chairman in charge of Major Emphasis. Ken would go on to be Div. VII lieutenant governor in 1982-83 and would serve as chairman of eight Southwest Kiwanis District committees. He compiled a thick scrapbook of his lieutenant governor year, rich with pictures of giants in Kiwanis. He served as the editor of "The Build-Up," the district’s one-time bimonthly newspaper in 1987-1989, during the governorships of Charles Nichols and Karl Kohlhoff. Ken proudly attended Kiwanis meetings and Interclubs and had maintained a perfect attendance string of 37 years before health issues ended it several years ago.

At the Southwest District Convention in July 1997 in Albuquerque, N.M., Ken was presented the George F. Hixson Fellow award from Governor Don Root. Nominated by Linda Spears, Ken was the third Hixson recipient in KCOT. At the same time, Ken made a matching gift of $1,000 to Kiwanian International for Florence to also become a Hixson Fellow, what is called a "Lady Hixson." Ken attended seven Kiwanis International conventions, about 25 district conventions and taught at 18 of the 20 mid-winter conferences he attended. Ken suffered a major stroke while attending the Southwest District Convention in August 1995 in El Paso, Texas. Florence had the daunting task of getting him back to Arizona for recovery and rehabilitation. Six weeks later, they were on hand for the awards and installation banquet. Ken always acknowledged to the Club that it was only because of Florence’s abiding care and love that he was even alive after that. Each summer he would tick off that he was alive one more year because of Florence --- nearly 14 years more. In recent years, the Shooks faced the challenges of Ken’s diminishing leg strength and she got him into a wheelchair, into and out of the car and to Kiwanis. Many Kiwanians had the honor of rolling Ken’s chair into Shalimar or back to their car. Ken called KCOT meetings the highlight of his weeks. In late winter 2009, the Shooks determined that they could no longer handle the challenge and they kept track of Kiwanis through the Bulletin.

From a 1997 Bulletin: "Southwest District Gov. Don Root paid his official visit to Division 7 at Monti’s La Casa Vieja on Feb. 28. Four from the Club attended. Ken and Florence Shook donated a handsome belt buckle with the Kiwanis logo in-laid with turquoise."

From 1998: "The Oct. 31 Bulletin noted that when Ken Shook was president of a Kiwanis Club in Kansas, he offered 14 points for strengthening Kiwanis. Among them: get involved in community service; get involved in rededicating ourselves to the Objects of Kiwanis; let’s get active and stay active in Kiwanis; attend and support your Kiwanis board meetings; only through growth in membership can Kiwanis accomplish that which we are dedicated to; and Kiwanis stands for leadership."

For many years, Ken played in a Shriner band in the Valley, and he often contributed handsome portions of his pay to KCOT. He played trumpet, saxophone and clarinet.

Ken loved to boast about Jayhawks sports, was fond of recalling his knowledge of the Middle East and military aviation and has a rich mind for information from history.

Besides Florence, his wife of almost 47 years, Ken is survived by son Philip of Tempe, stepson Ron Gustafson and wife Patti of Albuquerque, N.M; stepdaughter Lani and Scott Gates of Scottsdale, and their three sons, Kirk (and Kirk’s fiancée, Amy), Grant and Clark (wife Courtney and their son Dylan).

Four Kiwanians offered these thoughts:

TOM SANDS: "I was always impressed when Ken would raise his hand and pay a Happy Dollar to announce this day or week was the anniversary of a significant U.S. military event. And, more often than not, he was significantly involved! Several years ago he loaned me his scrap book of planes he had captained and places he had been. It was truly impressive. It left me believing that he was one of the many very qualified, highly trained and highly dedicated airmen who used all of these abilities to keep America the "Home of the Free and Land of the Brave."

PAM GORONKIN: "Ken certainly was a hero to me, and his life seemed full of rewarding and valuable experiences. I will miss him, but continue to consider Florence a fine example of one spouse devoted to another. What a lovely couple."

LINDA SPEARS: "Ken was the ultimate Kiwanian. He embodied all that was symbolic of the organization, proudly wearing the turquoise shirt of the Southwest District. Every so often he would give me a Kiwanis "knick knack" from his collection, a letter opener, key chain, Kachina pin. He’ll be greatly missed."

MARY FRANCIS LEWIS: "What a dear sweet man. I shall miss him always and my heart breaks for Florence's loss."

WHEN OBAMA FILLED SUN DEVIL STADIUM:
Thursday’s program was a free-wheeling talk by Judy Aldrich and Shana Ellis about their observations of going to Sun Devil Stadium Wednesday night to hear and see President Barack Obama address the graduates at the Arizona State University spring commencement. Kiwanians Corey Woods and Emma Bordner presumably were the only other KCOT member there. Shana noted that it was like 100 degrees different from the experience that she had going to Washington, D.C., for the Jan. 20 inauguration of Obama, and she’ll take heat anytime.

Shana and Judy noted people were required to get into the stadium early and to pass through the security checks. Despite bans on umbrellas and a lot of electronics, the Secret Service was pretty lenient. Getting in was relatively easy, and people were in no hurry to take their seats in the blazing sun, so they hung out in the concourses where concessions were jammed with customers. Security from all over Arizona buttressed the work of ASU and Tempe police. The light rail was of particular focus for safety. Before Obama arrived, security at the top of the stadium were all looking outward for danger.

Corey was tasked with live blogging for the Arizona Republic, and it was a real challenge keeping his phone clear from incoming calls and distractions. He can be read at http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/05/13/20090513commence-critique0513-ONL.html

Both Judy and Shana were struck anew by Obama oratory skills, his playfulness, and the brilliance of him taking the controversy over his "unworthiness of an ASU honorary degree" at commencement and making it the theme of his speech. He said he has not, indeed, completed the body of work of his lifetime, that he had much left to do (even Michelle had a whole list of tasks). He challenged students to recognize the immense potential each has to accomplish unbelievable things, including for others. Good on his feet, he improvised here and there and was spontaneous, like pointing out one student getting four bachelor’s degrees.

Cameras were flashing and blazing throughout his speech. Students who got doctorates and other special recognitions relished shaking the president’s hands and boldly hugging him. It was a love feast and a night that truly showcased ASU on national television, with a headliner speaker that didn’t disappoint even the most cynical. Mark Mitchell noted that it is already the third time Obama has spoken in Tempe, once outside of City Hall and now twice at ASU.

23rd KCOT President Dale Stephens dies in Utah
Dale Stephens, KCOT’s 23rd president in 1972-73, died May 6. He joined Kiwanis in 1965 and was club secretary in 1966-67. His operated Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe Co., 81 E. Broadway Road, Tempe. He remained a member until about 1988. His daughter, Connie Hood, lives in Tempe.

Here is the obituary from a Utah newspaper: Dale Heber Stephens, 78, passed away at his home in Monroe, Utah, on Wednesday, May 6, 2009, after a valiant battle with cancer. Dale was born in Salt lake City, Utah, Oct. 23, 1930, the son of Calvin Heber and Edna Elizabeth Cromar Stephens. He married Grace Louise Wager on Jan. 1, 1948, in Elko, Nev. They later divorced. He later married Sally Joyce Thomas, Aug. 27, 1955. Their marriage was later solemnized in the Mesa, Arizona LDS Temple Dec. 17, 2005. Dale enjoyed his family and friends as well as golfing, fishing, and painting. He worked in the waterworks equipment field as a salesman and office manager, and at one point started his own company. He served on the planning and zoning commission in Tempe, Ariz., for many years and was involved with many civic groups and in community activities. In his later years, he enjoyed church service. Dale is survived by his wife, Sally; sons: Roger (Giuliana) Stephens, Jerry Stephens, Tom (Cindy) Stephens and Daniel Stephens; daughters: Connie Hood, Julie (Travis) Fuller, Jenny (Gary) Renfrow and Amy Byers; 18 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-granddaughter. He is also survived by his brothers: Keith, Gordon and Brent. He is preceded in death by his parents and sister, Donna Glissmeyer. Funeral services will be held Monday, May 11, 2009, at Noon in the Monroe Stake Center (100 S Main). Friends may call at the Magleby Mortuary in Richfield (50 S 100 W) on Sunday evening from 7 -9 p.m. and again Monday morning at the ward chapel in Monroe from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Interment will be in the Monroe City Cemetery. Funeral Directors: Magleby Mortuary, Richfield, Salina and Manti. Online guestbook at: www.maglebymortuary.com The family would like to thank Intermountain Hospice Care for all for their love, kindness and support during this difficult time.

Dr. Roger Boylan - a gardening physician devotes 45 years to KCOT
Fifth in a series of biographical sketches on the members of KCOT.
Dr. Roger Boylan, a retired longtime Tempe internal medicine physician, is marking his 45^th anniversary with the Kiwanis Club of Tempe. For decades, he has been on the House Committee, setting up the room at Shalimar for meetings and removing banners and batch boxes afterwards. He is one of the medical patriarchs in Tempe.

Roger is known for the garden produce that he raised and donated for Club auctions year after year. His bags of tomatoes or sweet corn often fetched $10 a bag. The Club treasury benefitted handsomely. Roger also was known for his frequent confessions of having a heavy foot on the pedal on his trips to Deming, N.M., to visit relatives. The Land of Enchantment road cops always seemed to stop him, and often, gentle Roger charmed his way out of a ticket.

He was born Aug. 4, 1925, in Meadville, Pa., a town that has produced an amazing number of notables and newsmakers that Roger has regularly told the Club about. Drafted into the U.S. Army at 18 in 1943, he was part of American troops who penetrated farther into Eastern Europe than any other units. He recalls how he was monitoring radios in May 1945 when he learned the Axis powers had surrendered, and he excitedly rushed to his superiors, who were holding a meeting to tell them to "Quit! Quit! The war is over!" He would bring home a Nazi flag and other war souvenirs. He is among 254,000 Charter Members of the National World War II Museum, and his name will be on a Honor Roll in the lobby when it is completed in New Orleans in November. A dog tag hangs from the mirror of Roger’s pickup that says, "The National World War II Museum - Charter Member."

Roger got his medical education from the University of South Dakota and University of Pennsylvania, and he was first licensed to practice medicine in Colorado in 1958 and then in Arizona in 1962. Through the years, he was affiliated with seven hospitals, 30 of them with Tempe St. Luke’s. He was the originator of the first cardiac unit at ASU’s football stadium (1971). He first worked out of the Southside Hospital in Mesa, while he and Pat first lived in an apartment on Orange Street (the area ASU students call "Sin City"). He would open up his office at 2210 S. Mill Ave., in the medical building shared with a dentist, one Dr. Jim Yount. Jim invited Roger to join Kiwanis and sponsored him. Years later, he moved his offices to the medical complex at 2600 E. Southern Ave. near Friendship Village and Desert Samaritan (Banner Desert today).

Roger and Pat moved to Tempe about a year after their marriage. They had met at the Fort Bayard VA Hospital, between Deming and Silver City, N.M. Pat went to work there right after she completed nurses training. When she began at Fort Bayard, the seasoned nurses warned her to "watch out for young Dr. Boylan because he has such a temper." She would learn Roger’s temper showed itself whenever he believed his patients weren’t getting the best care. Staff lived in an apartment complex at Fort Bayard and Roger’s and Pat’s were both on the third floor of the same building, and they could hear each other’s toilet flush. But to pay a visit to each other, they’d have go down three stories, cross over and then back up three flights.

In 1964, Roger bought a red and white Pontiac GTO. It was the first in a long line of fast cars that he drove on the roads between Tempe and New Mexico destinations. When his fellow Kiwanians attempted to fine him for a new car purchase in 1969, Roger paid with 999 pennies, specifically saved for a fine. He had a 1970 Pontiac GTO for 26 years and sold the car with a "400" engine in 1996, with 440,000 miles. The Bulletin showed him feigning tears as the car was loaded onto a trailer to be hauled away by its buyer.

A 1971 KCOT Bulletin published "Dr. Boylan’s Diet for Obese (Fat) Kiwanians." The menu for Monday was: "Breakfast, weak tea; lunch, bouillon cube in ½ cup of diluted water; dinner, one pigeon thigh and 3 ounces prune juice (gargle only)." The Thursday dinner featured "prime rib of tadpole and aroma of empty custard pie plate."

The 83-year-old retired physician who makes sure the Club bell is in place and sign-in sheets are laid out typically misses only three or four meetings a year.

The Boylans have a son Jeff in Chandler and a daughter Suzanne Smith of Mesa, who is mother of their two grandchildren. They have been long active in their neighborhood on East Geneva Drive.

Roger served on the KCOT Board of Directors and took part in many projects.

He received the George F. Hixson Fellow Award in October 2007. Known for his modesty and quiet work ethic, the man from Meadville says his favorite moments at KCOT have been listening to the wide range of speakers and his friendships with so many members. -Lawn Griffiths

4^th of July Fireworks planning continues
Lancy Gray reported Thursday that he continues to be busy working to raise sponsorships for the annual Tempe 4^th of July Fireworks Show at Tempe Town Lake. It will be the 11^th time that it has been held in Tempe Beach Park since the inaugural year of 1999 under the presidency of Spike Lawrence.

Kiwanians are again urged to try earnestly to make room in their 4^th of July weekend to give some hours for this most high profile of KCOT events. It will be on a Saturday night this year.

Bob Polley has stepped forward to be volunteer coordinator and will seeking Kiwanians and people of other community groups to handle the many duties.

HOUSE COMMITTEE IN GOOD HANDS:
With Ralph Lingerfelt back in Tennessee giving out the Ralph Lingerfelt Band Award at the high school in his home town and Dr. Jim Yount leaving for the summer in Washington state, we can report the House Committee continues on its work of getting the Shalimar meeting room ready for Thursday luncheons, Joining Dr. Roger Boylan in the effort is Chad Gammage, who is coming in early to handle the tasks.

LOOKING FOR MEMBER BIOGRAPHY FORMS
We are a long ways from collecting the membership biography forms that were mailed with the Bulletin in April for use in compiling the weekly profiles in the Bulletin and for use in the book on the Kiwanis history that is being written. It will take minutes to fill out. The editor has been building on the materials received from other file materials to give more dimension to our members. Feel free to attach a resume or other kinds of bios published. If you misplaced your form, call Lawn Griffiths (480) 894-1557 or email to tempelawn@msn.com.

Neil Giuliano in newly released documentary, ‘OutRage’
Former KCOT President and Ex-Tempe Mayor Neil Giuliano, who is winding up his tenure as president/CEO of GLAAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), reports that he is one of the people interviewed in the newly released documentary ‘Outrage.’ Its synopsis is: "Academy Award nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick (""This Film Is Not Yet Rated") delivers a searing indictment of the hypocrisy of closeted politicians who actively campaign against the LGBT community they covertly belong to. OUTRAGE boldly reveals the hidden lives of some of our nation’s most powerful policymakers, details the harm they've inflicted on millions of Americans, and examines the media's complicity in keeping their secrets." It open Friday in two East Coast and two West Coast theaters and will expand to other sites later.

Corey Woods, Kerry Fetherston, Kathy Stevens take us forward
Voting came early this year, and, on Thursday Kiwanians set the dye for leadership for years to come. Kathy Stevens ran unopposed for the office of vice president, putting her on track for a four-year series of offices, starting Oct. 1 as vice president, then president-elect, the Club’s 63rd president in 2011-2012 and then a year as immediate past president. Corey Woods was elected president and Kerry Fetherston was approved for president-elect, each moving up the line without opposition. Bill Wagner was re-elected to a third year as Club treasurer. The only competition came in the vote for the board of directors. Three two-year seats were open for terms beginning Oct. 1. Candidates were Jamie Bogash, Chad Gammage, Nick Miner, Dean Plainer and Bob Polley. When the votes were counted, the winners were Jamie Bogash, Chad Gammage and Dean Plainer (re-elected to a second term). Jamie had previously been on the board in 2000-2002. Candidates gave brief speeches. Chad had recently had surgery on his sinus system, so Pam Goronkin spoke to his candidacy, while Lance Gray spoke for Bob Polley, who was out of town on business. Corey, who is not only a Tempe City Councilman but director of governmental relations for the American Lung Association of Arizona, noted that he is making provisions with his employer to be free to regularly lead meetings Thursday at Kiwanis. Thanks to all who ran for offices. Thanks to Past Presidents Mark Richwine and Linda Speers for being the nominating committee, to Linda for preparing ballots and for Past Presidents Mark Richwine, Karl Wochner, Shana Ellis and Lawn Griffiths for tallying ballots cast.

$50,000 gift for Scholarships
Immediate Past President Mark Richwine has announced that he got word from the estate of Ed and Udell Busch that KCOT will be receiving $50,000 for student scholarships. The Busches had owned the Trophy Den (1969-96) in Tempe. Ed joined Kiwanis in 1961 and was Club president in 1966 and a great outdoorsman. Udell, who ran in 1984 for Tempe City Council, died in June 2008.

Ralph Packer, a traveling Interclubber & insured to go
Fourth in a series on KCOT members.
There’s something assuring about an insuranceman who is past age 90 and is still going strong. Ralph Packer may have been to more interclub meetings than any KCOT member. He was Interclub chairman for decades and still goes on them as often as he can. He hails from the small central Iowa community of Albion, population 529 (2000 census). (Fellow native Iowa Lawn Griffiths has traveled through Albion many times. He often went that way back and forth to college at Iowa State during the 1960s). Ralph was born Dec. 14, 1918, in nearby Marshalltown. His first cigarette was made from corn silk rolled in a newspaper -- 8 or 9 kids got sick. He went to a one-room school. He and his sister rode a horse to school. He was in 3rd grade before his house had indoor plumbing. He played high school baseball, but farm chores kept him home a lot. There could be 200 at family reunions. Ralph has been in KCOT since 1961 or 48 years. Last October, he was presented the George F. Hixson Fellow Award. He took several stretched-out terms on the KCOT board, 1969-71 and 1996-98. He was once membership development chairman. After graduating from high school in a class of 13 girls and 3 boys, Ralph began working in the aircraft business and was involved in building both transport and fighter planes during World War II. Ralph worked in that field for many years. He and his family moved to Tempe in 1959 and he launched an insurance agency at 424 W. Broadway Road. He has been a longtime deacon of First Congregational Church (UCC) of Tempe. He is an active Shriner and has served in several leadership roles in that organization. He delivered Meals on Wheels to folks much younger than he. Ralph was married to his late wife Adrienne (he met her in the entrance to a church) for 50 years (married in 1952) and has three daughters, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. He spent summer near Prescott. His son-in-law, Dee Harkins, was KCOT secretary-treasurer 1976-89, longer than any club secretary. He has been a chairman of the 4th of July Show and the Christmas tree lot. He has been involved in Circle K, served on membership and insurance committees, organized trips to the baseball games and helped with Mervyns kids shopping. Ninety years of clean living, ‘cept for those cornsilk cigarettes.

Aw, shucks, the sweet corn was as great as the night
KCOT’s oldest social event is now history for another year. The Corn Roast was a wonderful event on Saturday night, April 25, at the park in Circle G Ranch. The Membership and Development Committee put together another great event. Special thanks to Linda Spears, Kerry Fetherston and Pam Goronkin and others of Linda’s minions. On Thursday, President Mike Cryer noted that the little more than 50 who were on hand has a great evening under the stars, with barbecued corn and nice spread of food, beanbag tosses and a songfest around a fire, with Jim Yount, his singer-guitarist friend Ken, leading the music. Karl Wochner improvised on the wash-tub string bass, with Pam Goronkin and Diane Schans leading the singing from song-sheets provided by Jim. Songs like "Red River Valley," "Good Night, Irene," "On Top of Old Smoky" and Jim’s original composition for Tempe’s centennial "Home, Home inTempe, by a River that Runs Now and Then." Alas, the roast competed with the annual Governors Ball, but "Cinderella" came and hung out with the corn crowd before heading to the ball. We’re speaking of our own past president and Vice Mayor Shana Elis. By the way, Ann Lynn DiDomenico won the pie contest with her apple blackberry crumble. Four Kiwanians who reserved to come, but who did not show and did not cancel will be charged the regular $20 per person. All attendees will find $20/person fees on the next billings.

In Memoriam:
Mike Flynn, the son of late longtime KCOT member Dr. Richard Flynn was killed Saturday April 25 in a plane crash near Salt Lake City, Utah. The air tanker went down in fog. The 59-yearold firefighter was from Alamogordo, N.M. His father was a former Tempe City Council member (1967-68), state legislator (1976-80) and veteran Tempe physician, honored in Banner Desert Medical Center with a bronze facial-relief plaque. Dick belonged to KCOT from 1954 until about 2000. His wife Sibyl still lives in Fresno, Calif. Dick died in December 2003 at age 78. The other two killed in the crash were men from Littleton, Colo., and Alberton, Mont. They were from the Missoula, Mont.-based Neptune Aviation dispatched to southern New Mexicoto help fight a 30-square-mile wildfire. Jim Yount has been keeping in touch with Sibyl. The Republic link to the news story: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/04/26/20090426planecrashutah.html. Our sympathies to the Flynn family.

Middle School Awards:
Karl Wochner and Bill Wagner have teamed to upgrade KCOT’s annual Middle School Awards in Tempe. Bill took pictures of the front of the five schools and created framed awards that names KCOT, the school, the student’s name and that they are being recognized for "outstanding leadership, scholarship and service." We thank these Kiwanians who have volunteered to attend the school assemblies to give out the plaques and $100 check to a boy and girl 8th grader at each of the schools. Joe Schmoker will be at Kyrene Middle School, 7 p.m. May 5; Vic Cordts will be at Gililland Middle School at 6:30 p.m. May 6; Karl Wochner at Fees Middle School at 7 p.m. May 11; Dave Summers at Connolly Middle School, 5 p.m. May 12; and Bill Wagner or Ralph Lingerfelt, at 8:30 a.m. on May 14 at McKemy.

INTERCLUBS:
Six KCOT members made up an Interclub on Tuesday morning at Cracker’s Restaurant on Elliot Road for a meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Ahwatukee. Taking part were Dean Plainer and Karl Wochner, Interclub co-chairmen, Linda Wegener, Judy Aldrich, Ralph Packer and Lawn Griffiths. They heard an excellent program on the $600 million reconstruction of Phoenix CivicPlaza, which has been renamed Phoenix Convention Center. It’s truly a classy place and the upcoming 138th annual National Rifle Association plans to have 55,000 to 65,000 members coming to test it out in mid-May. There will be an "acre of weapons" our speaker said. Another Interclub will be 7 a.m. Tuesday May 19 to the Gilbert Kiwanis Club. They meet at the IHOP Restaurant in Gilbert.

4th of July:
Lance Gray said "The College Times" newspaper plans to print 20,000 issues of a small magazine advertising supplement that will showcase the 4th of July. And he noted that the focus is finding company sponsors. There are some bright spots and the work goes on to find additional sponsors.

Kiwanians cast votes Thursday to shape leadership for the year and years ahead
The polls will be open next Thursday. You won't have to stand in line, show a voter's ID card, declare your party affiliation, fumble with connecting points with a black pen or figure how to put the ballot into the machine. But your votes will count when you attend the Annual Meeting and Elections on Thursday April 30. The nominations committee of Past Presidents Linda Spears and Mark Richwine announced the slate on April 16 and no new nominations came from the floor. All elected with take over Oct. 1. We urge all members who can to turn out and hear the candidates and then vote. All those elected are asked to stay for a group photo at the end of the meeting to run in the following Bulletin. Here are the candidates on the ballot:

• President - Corey Woods
• President-Elect - Kerry Fetherston
• Vice President - Kathy Stevens
• Treasurer - Bill Wagner
• Board of Directors (3 opening for two-year terms). Vote for up to three: Jamie Bogash, Chad Gammage, Nick Miner, Dean Plainer and Bob Polley.

Ralph Lingerfelt has been colorful Kiwanian who has devoted his life to education
This is the third in a series of profiles of KCOT members with the intent to help the membership know more about the backgrounds and work of our Kiwanians.
You can't get much farther east in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee than Elizabethton. Ralph Lingerfelt was born there April 14, 1929, and was beating on the pots and pans and learning to play drums while President Hoover was explaining that little 'ol recession that had come along was nothin'. Ralph continued on snare drums in second grade and was marching in the band by sixth grade. By his junior and senior years at Elizabethton High, Ralph was captain of the band and playing in the All-State Band. He received the High School Medal of Honor and was named the Outstanding Student at Elizabethton High. In 2000, Ralph established the Ralph Lingerfelt Band Award at Elizabethton, what is fondly called "The Betsy Band." It goes to a senior with high dedication. A pretty fine baseball player (batted .410 as a senior and playing centerfield), Ralph spent two months in a Brooklyn Dodgers camp. He put aside the sport to go west to Arizona State College. The colorful retired educator never surrendered the twang of his Appalachian beginnings, and he brought unvarnished charm of the Volunteer State to his career of getting kids schooled. Ralph was a mere 112 pounds when he began college 62 years ago. All Ralph's overachievements earned him a full scholarship to ASC where he would play 4 ½ years in the Sun Devil Marching and Symphonic Bands. He would play four years with the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra. He graduated in 1952 and headed to artillery training at Fort Sill, Okla., then to Korea where the U.S. was at war. He was a lieutenant with the 2nd Infancy Division of the 15th Field Artillery as a forward observer - more specifically a battalion reconnaissance and survey officer. He would be awarded two Bronze Stars for meritorious service. His citation noted that "by continually exposing himself to enemy mortar and artillery fire, he kept the infantry commanders informed of the situation and planned and executed defensive fire." He was discharged in 1954 and returned to Arizona State for his master's degree. In 1955, he Ralph started teaching 7th grade classes at the old 10th Street School in Tempe and then moved on to McKemy Junior High when it opened in 1957, There he was a math teacher. By 1962, Ralph was McKemy's principal and was there until 1973 when he was promoted to the post of comptroller for Tempe Elementary School District. By 1979, his title got fancier: supervisor of purchasing. After almost 30 years with the district, Ralph retired in 1984 at the young age of 54, taking advantage of new Arizona legislation for retirement by educators under the "windows" provision. He and Carla were married May 7, 1955. Carla devoted 34 yeas as a teacher and administrator at Bustoz, Rural and Meyer schools after starting out in Phoenix's Roosevelt School District. Carla retired in 1984. She passed away in October 2005. The Lingerfelts enjoyed summers for 50 years at their mountain home in Lakeside. Together they created the "Ralph and Carla Lingerfelt Commitment to the Community Award" given annually at the Tempe Impact Education (TIE) banquet. Ralph joined Kiwanis in 1955. He served on the KCOT board 1968-72, was then vice president and served as president in 1973. "I was president of KCOT the year the city named Kiwanis Park after our Club," he said. "I attended the City Council meeting with a $50,000 check -- $30,000 of it for the park and $20,000 for the children's section of the new Tempe Public Library." Ralph oversaw many Club projects, including the Christmas tree sales. He was active in the Luminaria Walk project and many school-related service projects. In October 2003, he was named the George F. Hixson Fellow Award recipient for his sustained leadership and service to KCOT. It was noted, "The buck-toothed man, with mischief written over his face, has endeared himself to the Club, not only for his wise counsel from years of membership, but because of his gift of down-home sarcasm, homespun philosophy and spontaneous wisecracks during the meeting. His quick wit and sincerity have made Ralph a fixture at the same corner seat at one table at Shalimar." On April 14, Ralph celebrated his 80th birthday. They had to be beating drums back in Elizabethton for their homegrown kid who done good way out there in the desolate deserts of the West. -- Lawn Griffiths

Interclubs planned
Karl Wochner announced plans to gather Kiwanians to go on three more Interclubs. The first will be next Tuesday April 28 to the Kiwanis Club of Ahwatukee. They meet at 7:15 a.m. at Crackers & Co. Cafe Restaurant, 1285 W. Elliott Road, Tempe. Another will be 7 a.m. May 19 at the Gilbert Kiwanis Club, which meets at the IHOP Restaurant 920 S Gilbert Road, Gilbert. A trip to the Sun Lakes Kiwanis Club has not been organized.

Middle School Awards to be presented
With the schools letting out in May, school award assemblies are being planned, and, once again, KCOT members will be at the middle schools in Tempe giving out outstanding student cash awards and plaques. Karl Wochner, on Thursday, said that Bill Wagner and Wagner Photography have developed plaques with pictures of the school and the winner's name. It will save funds. Karl is lining up the presenters. Dave Summers tentatively volunteered to do Curry Middle School at 5 p.m. May 12.

More 'on-time' arrivals at KCOT urged
It has been a notable phenomenon lately. Just before noon, it appears there will be a low turnout that day for a Thursday KCOT meeting. But, voila! By 12:05 or 12:10 p.m., members pour in. President Mike Cryer is urging Kiwanians, if possible, to strive to be there earlier, so that people are not in the food line when the bell is rung and the meeting can start on time. But certainly don't forgo coming to the meeting, even if you are running behind. We want you there regardless of your crazy schedules.

Profile forms for Member features needed
Many Kiwanians have returned the forms mailed with the Bulletin three weeks ago. They will be used by the Bulletin editor to do a weekly profile of our members in the months ahead and for the book of KCOT history that is being compiled. If you can't find a form, Lawn will supply another by mail or e-mail. Contact him at tempelawn@msn.com. While the form doesn't ask for that much information, Kiwanians are encouraged to attach any resumes, old news clips or other bio material to feed fuller stories, as we've been doing for some of our very longtime members.

Kiwanians urged to be on hand to for annual elections April 30
The ballot for the 2009 KCOT Annual Meeting and Elections was set Thursday. The election will be during our regular meeting on Thursday, April 30, when all candidates will be invited to take the podium and speak to their candidacy and perhaps say what they would like to see for the Club or what gifts they bring to the position. Past Presidents Mark Richwine and Linda Spears contacted Kiwanians, and Mark announced the candidates on Thursday, with members invited to nominate others from the floor before nominations were closed. For none of the offices or board seats were there new nominations. Here are the candidates for terms that begin Oct. 1:

• President -- Corey Woods
• President-Elect -- Kerry Fetherston
• Vice President -- Kathy Stevens
• Treasurer -- Bill Wagner
• Three two-year seats open on the Board of Directors (five candidates): Dean Plainer (incumbent); Chad Gammage, Bob Polley, Jamie Bogash and Nick Miner.

EGG HUNT WASH-OUT -- WELL, ALMOST
Despite high expectations and flawless pre-planning, the second annual Kiwanis Club of Tempe Easter Egg Hunt on April 11 was a veritable wash-out by spring rains. Still about 300 kids stopped by the parking lot of Kiwanis Park to receive plastic eggs filled with stickers, coupons and fun items, plus a stuffed item. No rain all spring and it chose the day of the egg hunt. Kudos to Nick Miner and Mike Jennings for lots of leadership and planning, which produced lots of helpers. A morning news/weather crew led by forecaster Caribe Divine, turned out at 7 a.m. and stayed until 9 a.m., repeatedly talking up the hunt. Past President and Tempe City Councilman Shana Ellis did about four on-air interviews with Caribe amid on-and-off-again sprinkles. She laid out the plans for the hunt and beckoned families to get their kids out. She also got to talk about Kiwanis and its work. The camera panned our volunteers and included interviews with Shana's daughter Amaya and Kathy Stevens' granddaughter. But when the rains picked up before the official start time of 9 a.m., Nick and Mike called off scattering eggs on the ground and asked Channel 12 to summon families to the parking lot. We thank these Kiwanians, their spouses and children, and others who show up with plans to help or help where they could: Lance Gray, Linda Wegener, Sharon and Richard Kausal, Nick and Tiffany Miner, Kathy Stevens, Shana Ellis (and Amaya), Vinny Mirizio, Pam Goronkin, Mike Cryer, Rod Johnson, Linda Spears, Cheryl Hornyan, Mark Richwine, Chris Wilson, Mike Jennings, Beth Fiorenza, Judy Aldrich and Corey Woods. From ASU Circle K were Sarah Foley, Anthony Berger and Jessica Kloenne. From the Boy Scout Troop 484: Michael Storto, Brent Johnstun, Branden Maybir, Ryan Gabriel, Matthew Storto, Stephen Storto and the Storto's father, George Storto, president of the Tempe Boys and Girls Club board. We hopped to conclusions with some bad information that Corey Woods would dress this year as the Easter Bunny for the second annual Easter Egg hunt on April 11, but, through carrot-and-stick inducement, Bob Polley took on the task and dressed in the white bunny suit provided by the Tempe Family YMCA. Despite the rain dampening his fur, he faced the elements and greeted the children who came. The only upside is that it could have been a hot, sunny day inside inside that cottontail suit

CORN ROAST IS SATURDAY NIGHT
Sign-ups continued for the annual Kiwanis Club of Tempe Corn Roast, which will be 6 p.m. Saturday April 25 at the park of Circle G Ranch, south of Warner Road and west of Price Road. (entrance off Warner). There will a pie-baking contest, and there is a need for more sign-ups of people to bake award-worthy pies. A barbecue meal with succulent sweet corn are on tap. It is being organized by the Membership and Development Committee. Cost will be $20, and it will be put on members' bills. A map was e-mailed to Kiwanians. It is off La Vieve, on the north side of the park and north of the tennis courts. The map incorrectly notes a horse trails as a street. We know many of our most active members will be at the annual Governors Ball on Saturday night.

BOB POLLEY WAS THE EASTER BUNNY
We hopped to conclusions with some bad information that Corey Woods would dress this year as the Easter Bunny for the second annual Easter Egg hunt on April 11, but, through carrot-and-stick inducement, Bob Polley took on the task and dressed in the white bunny suit provided by the Tempe Family YMCA. Despite the rain dampening his fur, he faced the elements and greeted the children who came. The only upside is that it could have been a hot, sunny day inside inside that cottontail suit.

TEMPE SUNRISE KIWANIS AND TIE FOUNDATION GOLF TOURNEY:
Tempe Sunrise Kiwanis Club and Tempe Impact Foundation will co-host their 42nd annual Golf Tournament on Saturday May 16 at Ken McDonald Municipal Golf Course. The shotgun start will be at 7 a.m. Fees are $80 per player or $320 for a foursome. There will be contests for longest drive, closest to the pin, plus raffles and other activities. Funds raised will go to support "Connecing With Kids," musical instruments for needy students, funding math, science and music awards in Tempe's schools, Summer Enrichment scholarships, the Staff Scholarship Reimbursement Program, the Beans and Rice Program and Tempe Elementary School District's Universal Preschool Program. To play golf, make donations or for information, contact Joe Spracale, (480) 940-0958 or Bill Loughrige, (480) 223-8034.

SCOUT TROOP 474 ON A ROLL
On Thursday, Tom Sands, the Club's liaison to Boy Scout Troop 474, which KCOT has sponsored for many years, reported that he attended the troop's recent Court of Honor ceremonies. Boys Scouts of America is marking its 100th anniversary this year and Scouts across the country are challenged to demonstrate the best of scouting. Troop 474 has received the Celebrating Quality Unit Award. During the ceremonies, there were three Scouts who got First Class; one Life Award; two Tenderfoot; seven new scouts and 17 various merit badges for accomplishments.

LT. GOVEROR SELECTION OFFICIAL
KCOT President Mike Cryer announced Thursday that he attended the quarterly Division 10 President's Council meeting on April 9, and KCOT past president Lawn Griffiths was approved as the 2009-2010 lieutenant governor. Mike read to members portions of the nomination letter outlining Lawn's past Kiwanis and community work. He will succeed Ray Devine, a member of Tempe Nuevo.

Retired dentist Jim Yount has done it all in 56 years with KCOT
Second in a series of profiles of KCOT members to increase members' awareness of the uniqueness and gifts of their Club colleagues.
Dr. Jim "Jimmie" Yount, who has the second longest membership tenure in KCOT, joined in March 1953, a year after the Club began. He as elected Club treasurer in his first year of membership. The retired Tempe dentist and wife Gladys divide their residency between Tempe and Jim's boyhood stomping grounds of Wilbur, Wash. Jim was a practicing Tempe dentist for 40 years -- 1952 to 1992. He was Kiwanian of the Year in 1992. Jim served as KCOT's 13th president in 1964. He spent 11 years on the Tempe Union High School District Governing Board (1963-74). Jim has been active with, and a Life Member of, the Tempe Diablos, Tempe St. Luke's Hospital Governors and the Tempe advisory board of Merabank. He is past president of the Central Arizona Dental Society, is past president of the Arizona State Board of Dental Examiners on which he served seven years and is past president of the Western Regional Dental Examining Board. He was in the Tempe Jaycees 1953-58 and was a early board member of the Tempe YMCA. Currently, Jim is a Fellow of the Academy of General Dentistry, a Fellow of the International College of Dentistry and is the president of the Academy Dental Study Club. Born Aug. 5, 1927, in Spokane, Wash., he grew up in Lincoln County. His grandfather was a pioneer physician and was the first doctor in Wilbur, Wash., (1886-1918). Jim's father followed as a Wilbur doctor, (1920-1948). Jim served in the United States Navy in 1945-46. In the fall of 1946, he enrolled in Washington State College (now Washington State University, source of Jim's famous Wazoo research). After three years, he enrolled at the University of Oregon School of Dentistry and graduated in 1952 with a dental degree. He soon moved to Tempe and began practicing dentistry with Dr. Ralph McMillan. Jim was soon Tempe's senior practicing dentist and remained so until his retirement at age 65 in 1992, when he sold his practice to his partner, Dr. Neil Geske. He had extensive continuing education and chaired numerous dental committees. As a third-generational medical profession, he embraced high standards and profession ethics and practices. He developed a loyal and strong family client base. An artist, musician and outdoorsman, Jim has lent his passions and skills to his organizations. In the spring 1989 issue of Tempe Magazine, publisher/editor Judy Todd, a KCOT member, wrote, "If Jimmie isn't making furniture and little arty things with his woodworking skills, he might be found strumming his guitar, singing his own country-western songs and planning a trip to Nashville to peddle ‘em. Self-described as a ‘hokey guitar player and song-writer,' the good doctor explains, ‘I make a little extra money this way -- getting' paid not to play.'" Tempe awarded Jim second place in the Tempe All-America Song Contest for his lyric gem, "I've Got the Tempe by the River Blues." Judy further noted that almost from the beginning, the Kiwanis Club of Tempe "has been welcoming its luncheon guests with one of Jimmie's hokiest songs that crescendos with flattery of the standing guests and then abruptly tell them to sit down, leaving them stunned and a bit embarrassed." Jim has been famous through his 5 ½ decades of Kiwanis work as an exquisite stand-up joke-teller. In the old days, he came to each Club meeting rarin' to deliver a gut-busting joke. He has been a Club humanitarian and conscious -- leading Adopt-A-Family projects and the Baby Needs Shoes efforts. Jim makes his own Christmas cards, does silversmithing, collects abstract art and loves hunting, fishing, camping and family. He's been a beekeeper, a conservationist and lover of wildlife. He and Gladys are members of First Congregational Church of Tempe. For 25 years, he was chairman of the KCOT Corn Roast. In 2002, he was chosen the George F. Hixson Fellow honoree by KCOT. His Kiwanis Legion of Honor milestone stands at 55 years and counting. He and Gladys were married in 1948. They have a son, Douglas, a plant pathologist at Montana State University, and a daughter, Lynne Martin, who is in farming at Wilbur. There are five grandchildren.

Easter Bunny helps Kiwanis hold second annual egg hunt
By the time you read this, the thousands of plastic Easter eggs will be smudged by invisible fingerprints of the Valley children who scooped them up in glee and popped them open for a sticker or prize -- and still better stuff when then turned in the eggs. For the second year in a row, KCOT has organized and sponsored the Easter Egg Hunt in Kiwanis Park on the Saturday before Easter. The forecast had been for cooler weather and possible rainy weather. In the week leading up to the hunt, Kiwanians gathered in several venues to place contests in the gazillion plastic eggs. Linda Spears hosted a work gathering April 3 at her Tempe CPA office. Joining her were Mike Jennings, Nick and Tiffany Miner, Mike DiDomenico, Cheryl Hornyan, Lawn Griffiths, Karl Wochner, Shana Ellis, Mark Richwine, Kathy Stevens, and Kerry Fetherston. Another gathering was at Circle G Park on Monday afternoon. The 15 volunteers included Nick and Tiffany Miner, Mike Jennings, Mike DiDomenico, Penny Pease, Shana Ellis, Sharon Kausal, Vinny Mirizio, Karl Wochner, Pam Goronkin, Judy Aldrich, Kerry Fetherston, Allison Walters, Linda Spears and Laurel Jefferson. During Thursday’s meeting, a half-dozen Kiwanians were busy stuffing still more eggs. There was word that KPNX-TV Channel 12 would be broadcasting live from the hunt during the 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. Saturday news, probably doing their weather from it. We’ll give a report next week Thanks to all who helped, including KCOT President-Elect and Tempe City Councilman Corey Woods who was slated to dress up in a Peter Cottontail costume.

CLUB ELECTIONS APRIL 30
President Mike Cryer announced the ballot of candidates for the Club’s annual meeting and elections on April 30 will be announced at the meeting next Thursday, April 16. A nominating committee, made up of Past Presidents Linda Spears and Mark Richwine, have been talking to members about running for vice president and the board of directors for the administrative year beginning Oct. 1. Please make every effort to be on hand to hear the candidates and to have a role in choosing our leaders for the years ahead.

CORN ROAST IS APRIL 25
Sign-ups are continuing for the annual Kiwanis Club of Tempe Corn Roast, which will be 6 p.m. Saturday April 25 at the park of Circle G Ranch, south of Warner Road and west of Price Road. There will a pie-baking contest, and there is a need for more sign-ups of people to bake award-worthy pies. A barbecue meal with succulent sweet corn are on tap. It is being organized by the Membership and Development Committee. Cost will be $20, and it will be put on members bills. Alas, the date competes that night with the annual Governors Ball, which typically draws many Kiwanians, but organizers of the corn roast said "there’s a major events every weekend of spring," and there would be conflicts regardless. his first term. The Phoenix fireman has a long record of service to Tempe, and Shana said he is a prospective member.

5 make Maricopa Interclub
The Kiwanis Club of Tempe completed another Interclub on Wednesday, April 8, this time to the Kiwanis Club of Maricopa. Attending were Dean Plainer, Linda Wegener, Sharon Kausal, Ralph Packer and Karl Wochner. Our five joined five of the nine mbers of the Maricopa Club for the breakfast meeting. You’ll recall that the Maricopa Club was founded with KCOT and was led by ex-KCOT board member Don Redwine. Karl and Dean report that Don is no longer part of the Maricopa Club. He needed to look after an ill stepfather and Don also has been battling prostate cancer. Karl and Dean are now recruiting members to go to three remaining Club in Division 10: 1) Ahwatukee Kiwanis, 7:15 to 8:15 a.m. Tuesday April 28; 2) Casa Grande Kiwanis, 7 a.m. Thursday, April 16; and 3) 7 p.m. Tuesday June 2 at Sun Lakes Kiwanis.

APPROVAL FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
At the quarterly Presidents Council meeting on Thursday night at the Ken McDonald golf course clubhouse, Lawn Griffiths from KCOT was approved to serve as Division 10 lieutenant governor for the Kiwanis year beginning Oct. 1. He will succeed current Lt. Gov. Ray Devine of Tempe Nuevo. KCOT President Mike Cryer was on hand. Chung-Kai "CK" Liu of the Downtown Scottsdale Young Professional Club will serve as lieutenant governor at the same time for Division 11.

Jim Harelson has been faithful member of KCOT from Club's beginning
Editor’s Note: This begins a weekly series of profiles on the members of the Kiwanis Club of Tempe. We want ALL our members to know more about ALL our members. We will strive to focus on our longest-serving members first, but there will be exceptions.
James "Jim" Harelson is the only active member from the group of 26 member who chartered the Kiwanis Club of Tempe in February 1952. This founder served on the first board of directors. His 57 years of service spans the Club’s entire history. He was born 87 1/2 years ago in Tempe. His birthday is Nov. 4. He was the son of Tempe City Councilman, Harvey Harelson (1924-28), Tempe Union High School governing board (1928-1943) and one of 17 charter member of the Tempe Rotary Club. Jim was a 1939 graduate of Tempe High School. He won Arizona’s three-meter state diving championship, played trumpet in a marching band and was part of a five-piece dance band. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Jim enlisted in the Army Air Force, was sent to navigation school and was assigned to air and sea rescues in the South Pacific, flying PBY’s. He attended USC before the war. After his left the military, he went to Arizona State College in Tempe and earned a degree in accounting. Jim and his wife, Juanita, were married in 1947 and had four children, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. He worked briefly as an accountant in Albuquerque, N.M., but the Harelsons missed Arizona and returned in 1949, when Jim went into insurance. He is a retired general insurance agent in Tempe. His business was known at Harelson Insurance Service. He served as the Club’s fourth president, the year of 1955. Jim was secretary in 1953 and vice president in 1954. For several years, Jim was chairman of the Kiwanis Christmas tree sales project. He was named the George F. Hixson Fellow for KCOT in 2004. Jim has been active in the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and was the president in 1958-59 of the Tempe Chamber of Commerce. A passionate fisherman from Mexico to Alaska, Jim also is an avid golfer who has played courses across America. For several years, he hosted the KCOT Corn Roast. His favorite memory with KCOT: "The fellowship and working with friends for the betterment of Tempe. In the early days, how our Club was able to have fun unloading Christmas trees from a railroad box car and maintaining a sales lot for 12 hours a day for four weeks with 100 percent participation of members. The funds raised financed our youth projects and was a big factor in having matching fund for the development and naming rights to Kiwanis Park."

KCOT Corn Roast April 25
The Membership and Development Committee announces that KCOT’s oldest, annual social event -- KCOT Corn Roast -- is coming up fast. Shana Ellis said Thursday it will be Saturday night April 25 in the park of Circle G Ranch near Price and Warner roads. It will be at 6 p.m. Shana said unlike in the past years, there will be no talent/talent-less show, but the pie-baking contest will be back. There won’t be a band as there has been some years in the past. The committee is working on coming up with games. Adult family members, friends, guests and potential members are invited. If potential members end up joining Kiwanis, the cost of their Corn Roast meal will be refunded. Several caterers are providing quotes before MADCOM determines who will furnish the BBQ meal, with sweet corn, of course. The price has been dropped from $25 to $20 apiece. It will be put on the bills of members attending. Rob Kubasko is developing a map and more details will be announced in subsequent Bulletins.

No eggaggerating: KCOT ready for Easter egg hunt
It’s now a rite of spring in Tempe -- just two years into the tradition: The Kiwanis Club of Tempe Easter Egg Hunt in Kiwanis Park. It’s wholly a service project to children. KCOT members are urged to be part of the adventure of giving kids a romp through the grass to bend and fetch plastic eggs with surprises inside. The hunt will be 9 to 10 a.m. Saturday, April 11, the date before Easter on the baseball fields of Kiwanis Park, 6111 S. All-American Way, Tempe. Nick Miner and Mike Jennings are key organizers and are appealing to members to help out. An e-mail went out Wednesday for help on April 3 to stuff the 5,000 plastic Easter eggs with stickers. Linda Spears volunteered her downtown Tempe office for folks to do the prep work. Sign-ups continued Thursday for Egg Hunt morning volunteers. You may help for the whole morning 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. Or for a shift: 1) 7 to a.m. set-up; 2) 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. Tempe Police and Fire and hopefully a radio station; 3) Egg hunt, 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.; 4) Clean-up and Finish, 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. If you can help what Nick calls "Linda’s Minions," please call or e-mail Nick or Mike:
Nick Miner, Cellular: (480) 226-8037 - nminer@ccim.net
Mike Jennings: (602) 791-5322 - mjennings3@qwest.net

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR POST FILLED
Lawn Griffiths has answered the call by Division 10 Lt. Governor Ray Devine of the Tempe Nuevo Kiwanis Club for someone from the Kiwanis Club of Tempe to serve as the division’s lieutenant governor for the 2009-2010 Kiwanis administrative year. A past club president or secretary is eligible to serve the role. Lawn was KCOT president in 1988-89. An additional banner "Home Club of the Lt. Governor" will be on display during the year at KCOT meetings. Alan Whitehead, in 1997-98, was the last KCOT member to serve in that role. Among the lieutenant governor duties are attending meetings of the nine Clubs in the division: four in Tempe, one in Mesa and one each in Ahwatukee, Sun Lakes, Maricopa, Casa Grande. It includes holding quarterly presidents councils, advising clubs, installing new officers and board members and attending Kiwanis International and Southwest District conventions, attending official visits of the International president and governor and Mid-Wintering Conference and filing regular reports. He will serve under next year’s SW District Governor Ron Smith, who has dual membership in Downtown Scottsdale Young Professionals Kiwanis Club and the Fountain Hills Kiwanis Club. His nomination will be acted on at the April 9 meeting of the Div. 10 Presidents Council.

ELECTION DAY IS COMING TO KCOT
It almost time to put a face on KCOT for the year 2011-2012. Who will be our Club’s president in that year? The election of officers and KCOT’s Annual Meeting are set for Thursday April 30. A nominating committee led by Past Presidents Linda Spears and Mark Richwine is in the process of talking to members to find candidates for offices and the board of directors. The picture is set for the next two years with Corey Woods in line to be president on Oct. 1 and Kerry Fetherston, now vice president, to lead the Club in 2010-2011. One of you will get to be the 63rd president of the Club. Also on the ballot will be the office of treasurer. Three two-year terms expire Oct. 1, those held by Diane Schans, Dean Plainer and Kathy Stevens. All are eligible for re-election. Should any of the current four members with a second year left is elected to an office, additional Kiwanians would be elected to complete those terms, as well. Directors with another year on their terms are Carol Balk, Pam Goronkin, Lance Gray and Mike Jennings. A strong club perpetuates itself with earnest members take their turns helping to lead it into the future unknowns. Let’s have an outstanding set of candidates. We hope to be able to publish the list of candidates after the April 23 meeting and expect candidates to speak before the voting on April 30. We urged all Kiwanians to make an extra effort to be on hand to vote.

INTERCLUB TO MARICOPA ON WEDNESDAY
Interclub chairmen Dean Plainer and Karl Wochner have scheduled the next KCOT Interclub to the Maricopa Kiwanis Club (founded by ex-KCOT member Don Redwine). It will be next Wednesday, April 8. The club meets at 7 a.m. Participants will meet at 6:10 a.m. at The Good Egg Restaurant at the northeast corner of Rural and Ray roads to carpool to Maricopa. Tentatively going are Dean, Karl, Linda Wegener and Ralph Packer. Anyone else interested may call Dean at (480) 899-2370 or delaine@cox.net.

THREE AT PRAYER BREAKFAST
Tom Sands, Karl Wochner and Lawn Griffiths represented KCOT at the annual Division 10 Prayer Breakfast March 27 at King of Glory Lutheran Church. Division 18 clubs also joined in, and Lt. Gov. Ray Devine was the emcee. Besides wonderful duets and solos by the music staff of King of Glory, those attending heard a fascinating talk by Pastor Don Givens of Word of Life Christian Center in Peoria. He gave his story of moving up from a dishwasher to become the first African-American manager of a major hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. He led a number of hotels and casinos before being tugged back into a family profession -- the ministry. His t talk "From Sin City to Saving Souls" was inspiring and uplifting.

ANOTHER INTERCLUB COMPLETED:
Dean Plainer and Karl Wochner led an Interclub on Monday (March 23) to the Mesa Dobson Ranch Kiwanis Club, which meets at the Coco's Restaurant near Dobson and Baseline. They were joined by Linda Wegener and Lawn Griffiths. Dean is organizing Interclubs in the coming week to Sun Lakes, Maricopa and Casa Grande Kiwanis Club. Consider joining in and mixing with Kiwanians from other Club -- good programs and meals and fellowship with our folks and Kiwanians we may have never met.

Tom Sands selling chances for The Governors' week trip to London
The Governors, a non-profit, volunteer organization affiliated with St. Luke's Health Initiatives, has decided to donate all proceeds from its 23rd annual Governors' Ball to the neurosciences program at Banner Children's Hospital at Banner Desert Medical Center at Southern and Dobson in Mesa. The ball will be April 25 at the Arizona Grand Resort, 8000 S. Arizona Grand Parkway, Tom Sands, who is a member of The Governors, announced Thursday that, as part of the fund-raising, there will be a raffle for 7 days, 6 nights in London through AAA Travel. Tickets are $25 or five for $100 Because AAA Travel has donated the $6,800 trip, 100 percent of the raffle money will go to the Banner Children's for children-related programs. By the way, the Banner Children's Hospital is due to open in November. It is sorely needed in the East Valley. We heard a story recently of a child that needed special pediatric equipment, but there were no beds available in the Phoenix area pediatric hospitals. The family had to fly the child to the Albuquerque Children's Hospital for treatment. Can you imagine the inconvenience? Thank you in advance for whatever tickets you can afford. I think the chances of winning are pretty good. In recent years, we've sold in the range of 350 to 500 tickets. My wife won the Alaska trip two years ago. We had a great time. I'll bring the tickets to next week's Kiwanis meeting, or you can mail me a check if you want them sooner. Good luck! And, I'd absolutely love to see one of you win the trip! Tom Sands (602) 236-2371 The Web site is www.thegovernors.org. Among others on The Governors Board are Mac Bohlman and former KCOT President Denis Kigin.

What came first? Easter Eggs or the KCOT volunteer to scatter them?
Mike Jennings, co-chairman of the KCOT Community Easter Egg Hunt, said Thursday that he had left his sign-up sheet for volunteers at the office, but would bring it again next Thursday. But if you help from 7:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 11, the day before Easter, it would be appreciated. The hunt will be in the ball diamond complex and not on the soccer field as it was last year. Plastic eggs with things inside will be scattered on the fields for children from three age groups to fetch in their baskets or sacks until they are all collected and turned in for prizes. Let's have a good Club response to this second annual community service project. Call Mike at (602) 791-5322 or mjennings3@qwest.

CLUB SORELY NEEDS 4TH OF JULY SPONSORS
President Mike Cryer gave a bleak report Thursday on the flagging economy's influence and impact on efforts to find sponsors for the 4th of July 3 ½ months away. Companies are not responding positively to requests to support events, as in the past. So far we have a $15,000 commitment from Pure Fitness and $3,500 from Pepsi. We need $150,000 to make it a good year, one that pays for the fireworks and related expenses and leaves ample funds for needy community organizations. Mike said the new strategy should be to get two $75,000 sponsors or 10 $15,000 sponsors or 15 $10,000 sponsors or combinations thereof. Members were urged to do all they can to identify would-be sponsors. The risky alternative is to rely on the gate -- the public buying tickets -- to cover the fireworks and related costs, and have nearly nothing to give to groups -- making it a purely community service project. That risk is the Club could go into debt if gate receipts fall short. The 4th of July is on Saturday, opening the way for more folks to take a long weekend out of town. Yet the economy may curb such travel, too. The board will need to look at the options at its next board meetings. Please share any ideas or suggestions with our leaders.

Always an ear for what's playin' on the radio
BY LAWN GRIFFITHS
KCOT BULLETIN EDITOR
In the old dairy barn in Grundy County Iowa, the plastic kitchen radio was poised on a ledge where cow tails couldn't whack it nor could cats tip it over. But it was covered with fly specks, dust and the chafe of straw and hay or dried goop. As a teenage farm boy 50 years ago, I milked the 20 to 27 Holsteins twice daily. During my milk chores, I would turn the round dial on the old Philco to KWMT Radio in Fort Dodge, or WHO in Des Moines or KWWL (later KWLO) in Waterloo. It was a golden age for rock music -- those times of the late 1950s and early 1960s. It was the magical time of songs delivered via the Top 40. Hits played all day long. Rock stars were born with blazing new hits, and those tunes have stayed ever gentle on our minds to this day. WHO Radio had one of the early "talk radio" shows, with Duane Ellett and Lee Kline talking eclectically and taking calls from around Iowa in their morning show. There was always the "Lady from Lamoni" who called regularly with stunning insight. Radio was been integral to my life and wherever I have lived. Nothing quite touches oneself like radio. I have hungered for engaging informational shows, or just music at times, or raging talk radio or the bizarre, like Art Bell's or George Noory's "Coast to Coast" overnight shows that have dealt with the paranormal. Twirling the dial on either AM or FM can bring you something compelling. A favorite show in the late