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President Davis called the meeting to order at the Lansing Country Club on a beautiful fall day. The invocation was presented by Dick Ammons which was followed by the singing of God Bless America.
There were a number of guests today including Michael Harrison’s wife and President Davis’ wife as well as his son and grandson from Connecticut.
Carmen Turner provided the Remembrance Report and reported that Ned Legg’s wife Joan has passed away. A memorial service will be held at 11:00am Thursday, November 3 at St. Katherine’s Episcopal Church in Okemos.
Reminder about the new member orientation at The Creole on Tuesday, November 1 from 3:30-5:00 pm.
This month’s birthday chair Ed Castellani shared his question about what job the October birthday members would love to have. The October birthday group has contributed over $1,000 so far to the Foundation. Happy Birthday!
Next week we will have the check presentation to the Child and Family Services for $15,000 from the golf outing proceeds.
Finally, LCC is having a STEMfest on Saturday, November 5. Umakanth will have a display there of the Rural Science Center to be built in Cameroon and India. All students are welcome.
Ken Beachler introduced today’s special music as Mackenzie Jacobs, a junior from Haslett High School. Mackenzie performed for the Club back in May and it was a delight to have her back and have her share her amazing talent with us. She performed Far from the Home I Love from Fiddler on the Roof and Art is Calling for Me.
President Davis (Chair of the Broad Art Museum’s Regional Board) introduced today’s speaker Marc-Olivier Wahler. Prior to Marc Oliver’s appointment to the Broad in March, he served as Founding Director of the Chalet Society in Paris; Artistic Director for De Appel Arts Center, Amsterdam and CI Contemporary in Istanbul; and Founding Director of Transformer Sculpture Park in Portugal. Wahler has curated over 400 exhibitions around the globe and has been honored with his home country Switzerland’s highest cultural award in the contemporary arts.
Marc-Olivier has been on the job now three months and has amazing visions for the future of the Broad while recognizing that contemporary art is difficult for many to understand. “If I can do it, how is that art?” creates obscurity for the museum visitor. The vision is to put the visitor in the story of the creation and tap into other disciplines and researchers available at the university to round out the experience.
In April, the Broad will present Marc Olivier’s first curated show “The Transported Man” followed by “Artists from Michigan” including Jim Shaw and Mike Kelley. Other visions for the Broad include the EEBAMobile, which is an artistically designed truck which will travel throughout the state with the Broad’s Education team; partnering with world renown architects to design birdhouses; a Futurology Lab to keep the future of the museum always in mind; more virtual spaces in the museum; and, presenting the Kresge collection in a separate building across from campus in East Lansing to keep connecting campus to community.
President Davis thanked Marc Olivier for his presentation and reminded us of the sensational asset our community has in the Broad Art Museum. President Davis let Marc Olivier know a donation to the Bio Sand Filter project will be made in his name to provide clean water to Haiti and the Dominican Republic and presented him with a Rotary cup for his beverage of choice.
President Davis thanked our Chair of the Month, Julie Pingston, for this month’s programs. Our next meeting will be at the Lansing Country Club and our speaker will be our own Berl Schwartz speaking on "Fifty Years a Journalist - My Story". See you then!
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Berl Schwartz was born and raised just two hours away in Toledo, but his path to Lansing took over 5,000 miles as he pursued a career in journalism that brought him in contact with such figures as Bobby and Teddy Kennedy, philosopher Noam Chomsky, anthropologist Margaret Mead, Boxer Muhammad Ali, President Gerald Ford and musicians ranging from Alice Cooper, Janis Joplin and Billy Joel to John Lennon, Bob Dylan and Yoko Ono.
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