NEWSLETTER of the Men’s Club of Grosse Pointe FESTIVITIES . . FUN . . FELLOWSHIP
VOLUME LVIV NO. 2 www.https://seniormensclubofgrossepointe.com November 2019
Message from the President as well by a phone call. Your may note that the I want to wish everyone and their families a number of pages of the News- happy Thanksgiving. Also, I wish to point out that letter has been shortened. This our December 10 luncheon will be conducted reflects the elimination of some in a pre -holiday mode with the Grosse Pointe information, namely the Bridge South High School choir performing in recognition Scores, the Application for Membership (still on of the season. I encourage all members to invite the website), the Dues Information (presumably their spouses and friends to this event. Addition- all dues have been paid). Please let the Newsletter ally, the Beaumont Assistance League has been Editor know if you have "issues" with the changes. invited to this lunch. Please, let Mike Ryan know if The club encourages all members to invite a you are bringing a guest or spouse. friend to our lunches to get know the membership I encourage members to inform us of activities and range of our activities. Also we encourage the or events that may be of interest to all our mem- golfers and tennis players who are not members to bers. Please feel free to reach out at the meetings visit us at lunch and consider the benefits of join- or phone. The club is only as strong as the active ing the main club. participation of the membership. Our officers and board are here to assist. Ken Mokray Making a change to your lunch plans, coming or President not coming, can now be made by email: [email protected]
Program Chairman - Jim Callahan November 12, 2019 Isaiah MacKinnon Former Police Chief and Deputy Mayor Inside . . of Detroit Golf, Bowling News, Holiday Party 2 November 26, 2019 Memorials, Get Well, Speaker Report 3 Mark Heppner CEO, Edsel and Eleanor Ford House Tennis and Choral News 4
December 10, 2019 The Readers 5
Grosse Pointe South Choir Birthdays, Attendance, Raffle 6 Holiday Sing Along Calendar 7
November 2019 1 GOLF NEWS MC Bowling News The 2019 SMC Golf League Banquet was held The SMC Bowling League Season began on at Barrister Gardens on October 10th (the Site of Thursday, September 19th on a beautiful summer- the Christmas Party to be held in 5 weeks) with 37 like day at 12 Noon, inside however, at Harbor members and guests attending. There were two rule Lanes on Jefferson, North of 10 Mile Road. changes made requiring only 2 Mandatory Drives We have six 3 man teams, but would like to from each team member and in this count would in- expand the League if we can get more bowlers. clude drives made on par three holes. The vote was Our secretary, Tom Lukosavich had a hot first day, 48 to 2 in favor. winning all the jackpot money, but that should not The total amount of prize money was $1,466. scare you off. He shot handicap aided scores of Low net score awards went to the Tom Berschback, 220 and 240 in the first two games. As usual, Mike Jim Regan, and two to Jim Lloyd at the 4 courses we Fried had the actual high game score of 213 without play at. Their net scores were in the mid fifties. handicap aid. Harve Richardson, George Montle, Tom Bersch- There are 24 more weeks left in our season, so back, and Bob Travnikar all managed to be on three if you are interested in bowling with us as a team of the 8 different scramble team winners. member or a substitute bowler, give Bob Vogler a Highlighting our season were the aces scored by call at 313-882-9636. Dale Marshall at Plumbrook's #2 hole and John Ol- msted and Gary Beauregard aces at Golden Hawk's Submitted by Bob Vogler #12 and #7 holes respectively. Each one earned $50 for his effort. Be sure to join us next year. It's a lot of fun being on a scramble team. Many thanks to Mark Jahnke and Jim Regan for managing the records and financ- ing of our League. They did a great job.
Bob Vogler
November 2019 2 Patrick G. McKeever Arthur T. Stefanski 313-719-7829 (C) 586-292-4675 (C) Memorials he SeniorGet Men's Well Club extends good wishes Name: Arthur S. Linzell Tfor the recovery of all members who are Died: October 3, 2019 (96) confined by illness. We miss you! Please advise Born: June 24, 1923 Joe Schneider or Art Stefanski, above, if you Joined: January 23, 1990 (29) have additions or changes about any ill members.. Memorials: Grosse Pointe War Memorial Cards are sent to confined members as we become Name: Robert Syeiger aware of their illnesses or their confinement. Died: October 17, 2019 (95) Many request that their names not be published in Born: August 25, 1924 this space. Joined: November 14, 2000 (18) Memorials: Friends of Detroit Rowing she was able to discuss the different levels of classi- fied documents. MC Speaker Report: Barbara McQuade Former U S Attorney
Our luncheon speaker on October 8th was Barbara McQuade, the former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. She is currently a professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School and a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.
Barbara began by talking about whistleblowers and the Whistleblower Protection Act, a federal law that protects whistleblowers who work for the US government and report possible wrongdoing. The law is intended to protect whistleblowers from retaliation such as firing, demotion or reassign- ment, but only if their claims are credible and raise Barbara stayed for a lengthy question and answer an urgent concern. Such protections are important session that covered a number of issues, including to discourage the leaking of government secrets to the current impeachment proceeding. She discussed the press. Barbara cited a number of well-known the elements of the crime of extortion and how it was leakers, such as Edward Snowden, Chelsea Man- important in the federal prosecution of Kwame ning, Reality Winner, and Julian Assange and Kilpatrick that she headed in Detroit. Barbara also described how leaking classified documents could touched on topics such as the power of Congress to damage national security. She mentioned that investigate the President, the chance that a President established media outlets had declined to publish could be prosecuted after leaving office, how she such documents but several internet sites such as uses remote studios to appear on TV, how experts are WikiLeaks had no such compunctions. Barbara compensated by TV networks, and the Michigan had a security clearance while serving as US At- Innocence Clinic at Michigan Law School. torney and prosecuted cases involving terrorism financing, foreign agents, and export violations, so
November 2019 3 MCTennis News Choral Group News
The GPSM Tennis Club extends a warm invita- The Choral Group has been singing tion to all men over 55 years old to join us on any continuously almost since the formation of Monday, Wednesday, or Friday between 10:00 and the Grosse Pointe Men's Club sixty years 12:00 at Wimbledon Racquet Club for some friendly ago. We sing at most of the two monthly doubles tennis. Most players show up for the exercise, meetings, at special community events, camaraderie,and the opportunity to get out during the birthdays, and funerals. The group includes not-so-warm months. some accomplished musicians and many who The heralded social events include an autumn steak- cannot read music. Education as to what out dinner (Oct. 5) at Windmill Pointe'Park's Tomkins notes to hold longer than others and what Center, a festive Christmas dinner at Encore (Dec. 5), all the strange squiggles mean is part of the a summer chili dog picnic, and several pizza parties at program. You do not have to be able to read the tennis club. Please consider adding another dimen- music to be an active participant...all it takes sion to your already busy lives. We have a (tennis) is a positive attitude about singing and the ball!! ability to carry a tune. If you need additional information, call The group sings songs in unison, two part Roy Vorhees (586) 381-0944 (Secretary) or harmony, and some four part harmony. We Leon Trumbauer (313) 885-8742 (President) sing a wide variety of music...medleys of Below are the chefs Tom Roberts, Ed Goosen, songs from various artists (Simon and Gar- and Tom Cracchiola. Enjoying the cooking are Bob funkel, Nat King Cole, Johnny Cash, etc), Wrosch and his friend, Donna. themed songs (Harvest Moon, Veterans Day, Theme songs for Leading men etc.) The group is lead by Jerry Partridge with piano accompaniment by Louise Veltri. We meet for rehearsal every Tuesday from 9:30 to 11:00 including days of the regularly scheduled Men's Club meetings. If you like to sing, join us for a weekly good time and fellowship. If you want additional information please contact: Jerry Partridge 313-300-4499, or [email protected]. Reported by Harry Thomalla
November 2019 4 The Readers David Morrow 313-640-9756 Jack Cobau 313-885-1650 The Reading List
Molly's Game by Molly Bloom from losers and paying the winners. She did not take anything out of the pot (known as a “rake”) and this kept the games legal. Rather, she and the dealers and girls she Molly’s Game: From Hollywood's Elite to Wall hired received generous tips from the players. Molly’s Street's Billionaire Boys Club, My High-Stakes Ad- lifestyle improved. venture in the World of Underground Poker is the 2014 As word of the game spread, Molly was able to take memoir of Molly Bloom, and according to the pub- the game away from her former boss and move it to lisher’s blurb, “the true story of ‘Hollywood’s poker glamourous Hollywood hotel suites with lavish spreads, princess’ who gambled everything, won big, then lost it attractive servers and the best of everything. She dated all. Molly Bloom reveals how she built one of the most a son of the family that owned the Dodgers and built a exclusive, high-stakes underground poker games in the network of rich men who loved to gamble. In 2009 she world—an insider’s story of excess and danger, glamour moved to New York and organized games there. Her and greed.” The author tells her version of the story, hectic schedule led to drug use, and she began to make beginning in Loveland, Colorado, where she grew up mistakes, such as taking a rake to cover her exposure to in the 80’s trying to compete with her high-achieving losses from the huge stakes that were being gambled. brothers. She trained for years to make the Olympic Eventually, the Feds moved in and Molly’s Game was skiing team, and at one time ranked third in Nor-Am over. Cup for women's moguls skiers. Although she overcame The book has been made into a major motion picture scoliosis surgery at age 12, being told she would never with the same title starring Jessica Chastain and written ski again, she came back to make the US Ski Team. A and directed by Aaron Sorkin. The Readers were gener- horrific crash on her Olympic qualifying run ended her ally in agreement that the book was easy reading but skiing career. unsatisfying. We were impressed with Molly’s accom- Molly graduated from the University of Colorado plishments in rising from a small town in Colorado to summa cum laude and planned to go to law school, a the bright lights of LA and New York, but we couldn’t choice made for her by her demanding father. Instead, condone her life choices. Molly clearly needed the book in 2004 she took a year off and moved to Los Ange- money to cover legal fees and to begin to rebuild her les, where she took waitressing and other jobs before life, and she made herself look as good as possible. The becoming an assistant to a crazy, bullying restaurateur book’s repetitive descriptions of poker games and rich and real estate developer, eventually earning his confi- men addicted to gambling got old, and in the end we dence. She called this her grad school in business and felt sorry for Molly and her shallow lifestyle. We rated she learned fast. One day he told her he was starting a the book 3 stars out of 5. Those of us who have seen the celebrity poker game and she was going to help. Not movie, however, rated it much higher, and we would rec- knowing anything about poker, she was amazed at who ommend it if you have an interest in the story of Molly she saw in the room and how much they were willing to Bloom. bet. Hollywood personalities, including Tobey McGuire, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck, and Matt Damon, At our next meeting of the Readers on November 19th sports stars such as Alex Rodriguez, Wall Street bil- at 5 pm, we will be discussing Genghis Khan and the lionaires, hedge fund operators, musicians such as Nelly Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford. and the Olson Twins and others came and went from We will meet at the home of Patrick Reid, 412 Lothrup the game. Molly never played, but she learned the game Rd, Grosse Pointe Farms. RSVP to Patrick at (313) 938- and she learned how to run the game, keeping track 6567. of buy-ins that ranged from $10k to $250k, collecting
November 2019 5 Henry Fischer 313-473-8625 MC BIRTHDAY LIST for November
Babcock, Ralph E. 17 - 85 Mogk, William C. 7 - 88 Barker, James E. 14 - 88 Mueller, Louis W. 13 - 90 Boettcher, Christopher 9 Nixon, Harold G. 8 - 84 Byrne, John J. 27 North, Terry M. 27 Cairns, Frank A. 11 - 92 Saigh, Paul A. 19 - 86 Caretti, Richard 1 - 93 Schade, William 27 - 82 Carolin, John L. 14 - 89 Schneider, Fred H. 23 - 83 Cracchiolo, Raymond M. 11 - 95 Singelyn, Thomas 6 - 90 Demeulemeester, Raymond 28 - 89 Vick, Bruce 21 Domzalski, Bruno 27 - 81 Vogler, Robert F. 20 - 85 Fried, Michael S. 20 Wilson, Francis M. 18 - 89 Greening, Robert E. L. 15 - 92 Woodhouse, John T. 28 - 91 Gunderson, Michael A. 3 Hafel, Robert 15 Hile, Richard 1 - 90 Hoekwater, James 4 A Total of 34 BIRTHDAYS in Holsinger, Wilson E. 5 - 96 NOVEMBER with 25 Birthdays 80 & Impastato, Joseph N. 1 - 89 OVER Johnson, Sheldon 16 Kanan, Oscar 14 - 94 Mc Caig, Roger A. 22 - 91 Mc Cracken, Jack 21 - 82
Mike Ryan 586-256-9207 ll members and guests are welcome at our Attendance Asemi-monthly meetings. Please remember to sign up in advance at our lunch meetings. Call anyone on the following Attendance Committee: Call in to make any additions or changes in your reservation. Print your names clearly on the attendance record, and record your badge Mike Ryan (586) 256-9207 number. Steven Chan (313) 885-3538 The Next Meetings are on November Ken Maleitzke (313) 343-6476 12 and November 26. Your telephone calls or Marty McMilan (313) 550-9661 emails to gpmcattendance@gmail are important [email protected] email changes by Monday, the day preceding the meeting, if your plans change. This means everyone eats on time.
October 8, 2019 George Arsenault $50 Raffle Bob Vitolins $50 Winners October 22, 2019 Don Armbruster $50 Dick Dunlap $50
November 2019 6 SMC CALENDAR OF EVENTS November 4 to December 13, 2019
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY November 4 November 5 November 6November 7 November 8 10:00am TENNIS 8:45am MAIL NEWSLETTER 10:00am TENNIS 10:00am TENNIS 11:00am BILLIARDS 12:00 noon BILLIARDS 12:00am CARD PLAYERS 9:30am CHORAL GROUP 11:45am BOWLING (CONTRACT BRIDGE 12:30pm BRIDGE Rod Guest's House (DUPLICATE) Election Day
Nov. 11 Nov. 12 Nov. 13 Nov. 14 Nov. 15
10:00am TENNIS 9:00am BOARD MEETiNG 10:00am TENNIS 9:00am BILLIARDS 10:00am TENNIS 11:00am BILLIARDS 9:30am CHORAL GROUP 11:45am BOWLING 12:00am CARD PLAYERS 11:00am MC MEETING 12:30pm BRIDGE (CONTRACT BRIDGE) 1:00pm EUCHRE GAME (DUPLICATE) Rod Guest's House
Nov. 18 Nov. 19 Nov. 20 Nov. 21 Nov. 22 10:00am TENNIS 9:00am BILLIARDS 11:00am BILLIARDS 10:00am TENNIS 11:45am BOWLING 10:00am TENNIS 12:00am CARD PLAYERS 9:30am CHORAL GROUP 11:45am BOWLING (CONTRACT BRIDGE) 12:30pm BRIDGE Rod Guest's House 5:00pm THE READERS (DUPLICATE)
Nov. 25 Nov. 26 Nov. 27 Nov. 28 Nov. 29 10:00am TENNIS
11:00am BILLIARDS 9:30am INVESTMENT 10:00am TENNIS 12:00am CARD PLAYERS 9:00am BILLIARDS SEMINAR 10:0am TENNIS 11:45am BOWLING (CONTRACT BRIDGE) 11:45am BOWLING 9:30am CHORAL GROUP 12:30pm BRIDGE Rod Guest's House 11:00am MC MEETING (DUPLICATE) 1:00pm EUCHRE GAME 1;30pm CIGAR Sub Club Thanksgiving Black Friday
December 2 December 3 December 4 December 5 December 6
10:00am TENNIS 10:00am TENNIS 11:00am BILLIARDS 8:45am MAIL NEWSLETTER 10:00am TENNIS 9:00am BILLIARDS 11:45am BOWLING 12:00am CARD PLAYERS 9:30am CHORAL GROUP 12:30pm BRIDGE (CONTRACT BRIDGE) \\ 11:45am BOWLING (DUPLICATE) Rod Guest's House 6:00pm Holiday Party
December 9 Dec. 10 Dec. 11 Dec. 12 Dec.13
= `9:30am CHORAL GROUP 10:00am TENNIS 10:00am TENNIS 9:00am BILLIARDS 10:00am TENNIS 11:00am BILLIARDS 11:45am BOWLING 11:45am BOWLING 12:00am CARD PLAYERS 12:30pm BRIDGE (CONTRACT BRIDGE (DUPLICATE) Rod Guest's House
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MEN’S CLUB OF GROSSE POINTE, INC. 2019 - 2020
Officers Directors
Term Ending September 30, 2020 President ...... Ken A. Mokray David Buckley Immediate Past President ...... Christopher M. Walsh Paul F. Nyquist 1st Vice President ...... James A. Callahan Michael P. Ryan 2nd Vice President ...... Henry A. Fischer John S. Snyder Secretary ...... James P. Triano Assistant Secretary ...... David L. Morrow Term Ending September 30, 2021 Treasurer ...... James Hoekwaterr Edward A. Wolking, Jr. Asst. Treasurer ...... To be determined David G. Boring George R. McMullen Patrick G. McKeever
NEWSLETTER Editor: John Snyder (313-885-6388, [email protected]); Photographers: J.Richard Dunlap, George McMullen Staff: Carl Berger, Andrew Cleek, Ched Fine, Henry Fischer, Marty McMillan, Ed White Published monthly for $11.40 of the dues paid by each member. Periodical postage paid at Detroit, Michigan.
MAILING & ADDRESS CHANGES: (including email and phone) Henry A. Fischer, 313-473-8625 email: [email protected] H. George Arsenault, 586-773-2676, email: [email protected]
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