Program -
Accordion to Steve All…
Speaker -
That would be…Steve All
Chair of the Day -
Tim O’Reilly
Invocation -
Charlie Coleman
A note about our speaker -
Stephen All came to us from Michigan, in 1966 as the first Vice President of the Flint, Michigan Club. Dr. Bill Stegeman was the one that sponsored him to our club. Steve had come here to turn on Channel 15, KPBS-Television, as Director of Television. He has produced over 2500 Television programs, and received Four Major Awards for them. He’s worked with Bob Hope, Art Linkletter, Johnny Cash, Interviewed Eleanor Roosevelt, Averill Harriman, Jose Greco, Marion Anderson, John Carradine and even Hall Holbrook for “Mark Twain Tonight”
He was born in Flint, Michigan in 1930. Drafted during the Korean War and serving on Okinawa, from 1951 to 1953. On G.I. Bill he attended the University of Michigan and received his B.A. and M.A degrees in Radio /Television, a dual major in History, and a secondary teaching certification.
He has been a Director of Communications for the Right to Read Program in Washington, D.C., Resident Manager for Coldwell Banker Real Estate, and started ALL PRODUCTIONS in 1972. He is C.F.O of ALL PRODUCTIONS. (that “F” means . . . He pays the bills)
He started playing the accordion when he was only four and a half years old. At 18 he started teaching. . .and in three years had over 300 students a week (Having to teach in CLASSES)
He auditioned for the Horace Heidt Show in 1951, and was to go to New York to play against Dick Contino of “LADY OF SPAIN” fame. . . He was to play on the 9th of June, but received orders to report to Camp Custer in Michigan on the 6th of JUNE!
Steve is married to Jean and in September, celebrated their 57th anniversary. And at 78 years old, Jean is still teaching half day, as an ESL (English as a Second Language Instructor), speaks (only) six languages. They have five children, and five grandchildren.
Steve received his Doctorate in 1985, and was contracted to the University in Nairobi, Kenya, to set up their Computer Department. And even worked with the Circle K Club in Nairobi.
Notes from the November 1 meeting…
The meeting began with an invocation from Ghandi, oh wait I mean, Brian Krause. Art Stillwell led us in his favorite verse of “Star-Spangled Banner.” We had a visiting Kiwanian from Michigan who discovered the pre-meeting downstairs and obviously fell in love with that crowd.
Richard Yamaguchi was with Bill Gibbs. Marilyn brought Jackie with her for a special presentation. Mark McDonald LOOKED like a guest with the attire he was wearing, and Queen C would have fined him had he not been wearing his shining “Fine Free Badge.” He took full advantage of his badge and went on to raising a toast with Queen C’s favorite cocktail plus of course answered his cell phone right after.
I don’t think we have any birthday’s this week, but if we forgot you, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Happy/Sad Bucks
Bruce Boland: honor along with Chuck Day to attend Legends of Flight for SD Air & Space where 600 of Bill Gibb’s best friends were there to watch his induction into the SD Air & Space Hall of Fame; John Tibbits – Bobby Greisser is prepping for America’s Cup on Friday so come check it out – starting point it at Midway! Art Stillwell was happy to be sitting next to Dorothy Frels who just celebrated her 93rd Birthday. Dorothy commented that she enjoys being 93 because people don’t expect much of you; Bill Gibbs, as we’re all happy to see, is STILL HERE! Jeanne Hurwitz was happy to be alive as she put her birthday check in; Susie Zlaket is excited about the YP Meeting and happy her daughter survived the NY Marathon; Fritz Warmbodt cruised Hawaii with 1800 old fat people; Natalie Bradley is happy Star-Pal won award as neighborhood builder and will receive $200,000; Mark McDonald is whipping around town in his new benz he bid on and won; Ken Coley is ready for the Photocharity 5k THIS SATURDAY – if you can’t make it, sponsor a Key Clubber – sign up online or email Ken; Chuck Day also congratulated Bill Gibbs on his big hall of fame and mentioned that aviators are BIG talkers; Our visiting Michigan Stater was happy his son is graduating from Michigan State and is heading to North Korea for a paid internship; Brian Krause wishes he looked the way Mark Does, excited to honor Tim O’Reilly at the YP Meeting, and (finally) presented the Mardi Gras Masquerade check to Chuck Day from the Ronald McDonald House for $7,200 and said our goal is to put a 1 in front of that number next year!
Speaking of next year’s Mardi Gras, we’re looking for an AMAZING venue, so if you have any ideas email Karina; Monica had $23 for her 11/11/11 Star Spangled Happy Hour at Fluxx this Friday from 6:00 till 9:00 and her Gold Party at Uplift on Saturday from 11:00 till 2:00. Stephen All has a new children’s book coming out just in time to give to your little ones for Christmas called Buns Buns? Queen C thanked Ethel for stepping in while she was gone and was glad to be back!
As for fines, someone forgot their credit card… or June might be the culprit, either way Chuck Day had to pay $10 to get his back. Eldon Thompson also shortchanged Ken Coley for the Joker game so the 3 raffle tickets that were found were given to Ken.
Charlie Coleman presented our brand new patch for Young Children Priority One thanks to our KI Event at Rohr Park last April! Marilyn Copeland introduced Jackie Nevels who was given a $4,000 check for Learning for Life and thanked us for our continued support.
Joker: The cards are back, but no one found the joker. Fritz Warmbodt went home with $4 and Natalie Bradley went home with $8 and the big pot of gold is up to $300!
Coley’s Flowers: There was a bit of a bidding war but of course Bill Gibbs outbid all and of course he gave them to Dorothy Frels (forever a ladies man)
The Chairman of the Day was Drue Jordan who said not to mention any dates from his introduction since they’re all inaccurate. Either way, we know he’s been an amazing asset to our club and we are happy for his help with the Holiday Bowl. He welcomed Mark Neville & Bruce Binkowski back to the club. Mark Neville said he loves coming back and his job was to introduce a fine looking young man… who HATED interns and tortured Mark in the beginning of working together.
Mark commented on being at Bruce’s beckon call from doing his laundry, washing his car, picking up his dry cleaning and more. After the lovely reminiscing introduction, Bruce Binkowski came to the podium and said all that Mark said was true and he did HATE interns. He then dove into the what if’s for the Poinsettia Bowl & Holiday Bowl.
Looks like for Poinsettia we may have Nevada from Western Athletic Conference against SDSU, TCU or Arizona from Mountain West on 12/21. The beneficiary for the Poinsettia Bowl is once again Make a Wish and not only do proceeds go back to the cause, the Wish Kids play roles in all of the festivities including flipping coins, being honorary captains, singing the national anthem, retrieving opening tee. Bruce commented on how after game last year, the coach made sure a Wish Kid could go into locker room with team. They brought him up to the front and gave him the game ball and placed the kid up on their shoulders and that will be a moment that child will never forget.
As for the Holiday Bowl it’s still unclear. From the Pac 12 we may have Arizona State, Oregon (long shot), UCLA (would be first California school in the Holiday Bowl) or who knows. From the Big 12, we will probably get Baylor or Texas A&M. Binkowski said that Baylor has great quarterback and Texas A&M also has a fantastic one so this may be the high scoring game everyone is looking for. The beneficiary for the Holiday Bowl is Freedom Station which is a part of the Wounded Warrior Project and helps medically discharged personnel get acclimated into the community.
After commenting on the games, Bruce told of a story about the football field sized flag, which gets around. When 9/11 occurred, the flag scheduled to be in Chicago in Soldier Filed which cannot get wet since it’s $20,000 to clean the flag. Bruce took wife to Trophy’s to watch the pregame where he saw that it was raining on Soldier Field but they still wanted to present the flag and said they would pay the $20,000. The flag had to be flown to Long Beach right after to be cleaned for the Charger’s game a week later. On game day, 45 minutes before kick-off, they were on the practice field and realized they had no way to get the flag to the stadium except line up and march. Bruce wishes he had a camera to field the remarkable marching of the flag being led by bagpipes through the parking lot at Qualcomm stadium. He said it most emotional thing you’ve ever seen and you have the opportunity to see this happen at the Holiday Bowl game in the parking lot before the game!
Don’t forget the other fun events around the bowl games! The Big Bay Balloon Parade at 10am which is the LARGEST balloon parade in the country! The march through the Gaslamp will be on Monday 12/19. Most importantly the weiner races will be held on Parade Day and a dogumentary is being filmed as we speak – “Weiner Takes All” COMING SOON!
Announcements:
- November 11th: 11/11/11 Happy Hour
- November 12th: Photocharity 5K – Sign up to be on Ken’s team
- November 15th: Stephen All will be featured at our luncheon – (Ad Hoc Meeting after luncheon)
- November 17th: Club Board Meeting at 7:30am at the Burn Institute
- November 23rd: Interclub at Lemon Grove (If you can’t go, please sign-up for at LEAST one in the future!)
- December 15th: Holiday Party at Cygnet Theater – 2011_HolidayParty_2
- December 28th: Holiday Bowl - $75 pick seat – June has sign-up sheet
Bill Gibbs brought a gaggle of guests, and Rob Kizer joined his brother John for lunch
…Mark McDonald suffered through his last fine free day and sat by himself, and the new winner is Suzie Zlaket for two whole meetings in December (she thought she was bidding on the flowers)
…Mark didn’t see any deer when hunting, by the way…Doug chipped in for his daughter’s successful surgery
…Judy Leitner visited the Big Apple…Karina has been watching a sick pooch and signed up for the breast cancer awareness walk…Bruce Boland is broke because of Kiwanis…Bobby G is glad the America’s Cup was back in town (photo op!)…Monica won the election and is throwing a big party at the big house in Pt. Loma…Ken Coley dragged in a bunch of loose change for Miracle Mile of Quarters
…Jeanne Hurwitz is back from DC…Jon Tibbitts visited one our national parks and learned how to put on snow chains
everyone who watched the game last night; Carl Nettleton: $5 
for Scody not being here and on KPBS news show today for Food Bank (make sure to fine him next week); Judy Leitner: 2 
