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JUNE, 2021 HIGHLIGHTS JUNE PROGRAM MEETING Via Zoom Tuesday, June 8 6:30 P.M. Social/Business, 7:00 P.M. Program BALKAN RAILROAD www.friendshipforcedenver.org JUNE, 2021 HIGHLIGHTS JUNE PROGRAM MEETING via Zoom President’s Letter Page 2 Tuesday, June 8 Journeys Page 3 6:30 p.m. Social/Business, 7:00 p.m. Program Social Page 4 - 5 Calendar Page 11 BALKAN RAILROAD ADVENTURE facebook.com/friendshipforceofdenver ABOUT THE CLUB Friendship Force Denver usually rents event space from and meets at Calvary Baptist Church, 6500 E. Girard Avenue, Denver 80224 at 6:45 p.m. the second Tuesday of Jan - May and Sept – Nov. In-person events have been cancelled for the time being; see our website and this newsletter for current information. www.friendshipforcedenver.org Come visit and bring your friends! World War I began with the assassination of Archduke Franz CLUB OFFICERS Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Bosnia. At the end of the war, Yugoslavia President . Gerry Forney [email protected] was created in 1918 by combining Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia. Josip Broz (Tito) ruled Vice President . Ilene Americus Yugoslavia as a communist country until his death in 1980. [email protected] After a series of ethnic wars, Yugoslavia broke up in 1992, and the national railroad system also broke up. Secretary . Heidi McKelrath [email protected] Members Dave Bentzin, Irene Ludwig, and Gerry Forney went on a 16-day rail journey to ride as many of these old rail lines Treasurer . Irene Ludwig as possible. They visited the capitals of the six former Yugoslav [email protected] republics (along with Kosovo), and several world heritage sites. This trip was a great adventure in a little-visited part of the world, Newsletter Editor. Carol Coriell [email protected] and they are looking forward to sharing pictures and experiences. Newsletter submissions are welcome and are due on the 24th of the month. To request a link to the program, send an email to [email protected]. FROM THE PRESIDENT, Gerry Forney TRYING TO STAY ABOVE WATER The Friendship Force Denver board meets most months on the first Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. We have been meeting on Zoom since the COVID-19 pandemic started in March of 2020. All members are cordially invited to attend the board meetings. If you are interested, please send a request for the Zoom link to [email protected] or to any board member. For security reasons, there is a different Zoom link each month. If you want to know more about what the board is doing, you can read the minutes of all the 2021 board meetings on our website. Just go to the home page, then click on the right-hand tab which says “Members.” This leads you to the information on our website that is password protected. This information is available only to members who log in. Your user name is your email address. If you have forgotten your password, just click on the “forgot password” link, and you can reset your password. The “Members” tab has four types of member-only information. The membership directory has contact information for our 65 active members. The membership directory is also available in a printable form on the second tab. The board contact directory is a printable list of the officers and directors. And finally, the board minutes are available for the meetings that we have had in 2021 (January through May). All these documents are in PDF format, so they are easy to access. As president of Friendship Force this year, I have been blessed by having a strong board of directors. I would like to thank all of them, but I would especially like to thank our club secretary, Heidi McKelrath. The board meetings are sometimes a bit freeform, but Heidi does a nice job of creating a useful set of minutes. These minutes are not only a report of things that have happened, but they help me stay organized. The board members and I can use the minutes as a list of promises and tasks. We are a small club, but if you look at the minutes, you will see that there is a great deal of activity going on behind the scenes. Each officer has a portfolio, and most of the officers and directors are also in charge of a specific area like exchanges, finance, newsletter, program, social activities, or webpage. We will be electing officers and directors at our annual meeting which will be held Tuesday, October 12th. The nominating committee for 2022 directors will be headed by Ilene Americus. We need people to volunteer to serve the club. If you are interested in helping, looking at the minutes would be a good way to see what the job of director or officer involves. Thanks, and looking forward to seeing you on Zoom on June 8th. Gerry Forney June 2021 page 2 2021 AND 2022 HOSTING AND JOURNEYS 2021 All inbound and outbound Journeys are canceled for 2021 FFD Expedition to the San Luis Valley June 2-6, 2021 Join club members for a visit to the San Luis Valley. For details, contact Ilene Americus, [email protected]. 2022 All dates to be determined. SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW FFDenver has been assigned the following COLORADO!Journeys from FFI: Try,INBOUND try again! Our International February Munch Lunch Bunch will, for the fourth time, morph into a “MunchShizuoka Punch Bunch” Japan, Happy date Hour to beto sponsordetermined. a Know Your State Trivia Quiz. BecomeIrene the Ludwig winner &and Gerry join the Forney growing are list Journey of previous Coordinators. auspicious winners: Ilene Americus (November), Mike Tanner (December), and Pam Comello’s guest Bob Settle (January).INBOUND They canDomestic attest to the fact that there may, or may not, be a prize at the end. Raleigh, NC, date to be determined. Need Coordinator. So, save the date for the fun: OUTBOUND International date to be determined. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH, AT 5:30 P.M. Bundaberg and Blue Mountains, Australia Note that the Australia AndJourney be on the includes lookout closer 2 different to the dateclubs for for Zoom a 2-week details from Journey. Gerry Forney.Please As start always, if thinking about volunteering to be a Journey Coordinator. OUTBOUND Domestic, date to be determined. Kern County, U.S. (Bakersfield, CA) Please begin thinking about this Journey. We will need Coordinators. OTHER TRIPS Visit www.friendshipforce.org to explore featured worldwide Journeys available to all Friendship Force members. June 2021 page 3 SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW DENVER…THINK AGAIN! Join us for the next Munch Punch Bunch (Happy Hour version of Munch Lunch Bunch!) Trivia Night on Friday, June 11th, at 6 p.m. Please note that although Colorado is opening up more, especially for those who are now fully vaccinated, this will be a Zoom gathering. This time we are going to find out how much each of us really knows about the area we all, in some way or another, call home – the Greater Denver area. Questions will go way beyond something straightforward like “What famous mountain peak, on a clear day, is easily seen south of Denver?” Start studying up, because, at a minimum, there will be three cheers for the winner!! Gerry Forney will send a Zoom link closer to the date, so be on the lookout for that. Questions or comments: contact Luree Miller at [email protected] or 415-215-3770. MAY PROGRAM We enjoyed a fun together-time in May via Zoom, planned by Luree Miller and Jeannette Arbrusmacher. They provided deep and not-so-deep questions about our personal lives, and we all scratched our heads to come up with interesting answers. Thank you, Luree and Jeannette. June 2021 page 4 Come one, come all!!! The Annual Friendship Force Denver Picnic!!! This is a REAL PICNIC! This is NOT, I repeat, NOT A ZOOM PICNIC!!!! YEA!! Sunday, August 1, 4:00 p.m. at Cindy and Mike Tanner's 4 Niblick Lane, Littleton. We cannot wait for you to come and sample the barbeque with all the fixins’. You don't have to bring a thing, except you. Guests are welcome, too. This would be a good time to introduce your friends to our club. All the table service, beverages, dessert, sides, and main dish will be there just for you to enjoy. Donations accepted. It will be sooooo wonderful to see you, yes, you, in the flesh!! RSVP to Jeannette Armbrustmacher 303-279-0418--it would be lovely to hear your voice-- or email to [email protected], or check out the website for the RSVP link, or send smoke signals, just be there at the Tanner's, August 1, (that's a Sunday), 4 Niblick Lane, Littleton. Oh,,,, you might bring a lawn chair of some sort. See you August 1, Sunday, 4:00 p.m. Remember to RSVP. We miss you!!! June 2021 page 5 LUNCH WITH LILY DEARTH IN MAY – 103 YEARS YOUNG! by Irene Ludwig Lily was known as ‘Ms. Friendship Force’ and FFD’s biggest cheerleader! For those who remember her, this will be a trip down memory lane. She is excited about seeing old friends (no pun intended) at the picnic at the Tanners’ in August. Some of you may have seen Lily at the DMNS where she volunteered for over 15 years. She is a real ‘people’ person! Diminutive Lily joined FFD in 1984 and was an early, influential member in the club. She reminisced about early members, especially Pat Stephenson. Pat was active in FFI from the beginning in Washington DC. Pat moved to Denver/Evergreen and started our club here. During our lunch, she told me about her experiences with FFD.
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