Quincy Exchangite

February 15, 2013

All the news that's fit to print...and a lot that isn't

Jeff Dorsey, Editor

Paul Clarkson - Editor Emeritus John Tripp - Editor Emeritus

Club Meets at Noon each Friday at America's Best Value Inn

This Friday

Law Officer of the Year

Our Annual Law Officer of the Year program will be held this Friday. The place will be packed with people "packing" so make sure you are on your best behavior. Seriously, try to get there early this Friday. Sheriff Brent Fischer will M.C. the event!

Friday Last

Rick Hummel The Quincy Exchange Club was honored to have Baseball Hall of Famer and sportswriter for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Rick Hummel, as its speaker last Friday. Hummel, a Quincy native and 1964 graduate of Quincy High School, became the first Quincy person inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York in July of 2007 when he received the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for baseball writing. Having covered his first major league game in 1973, Hummel is a past national president of the Baseball Writers Association of America and was voted Missouri Sportswriter of the Year four times by the National Sportswriters and Sportscaster's Association. He serves on the Baseball's Hall of Fame Overview Committee, which reviews the candidacies of former players for possible selection to the Hall by the Veterans Committee. Hummel, who attended Quincy College for two years, is a 1968 graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He credits the late Melvin Tappe for steering him to become a writer rather than a broadcaster. During his comments at the luncheon, Rick commented on the likely career ending injury for Chris Carpenter, the recent Hall of Fame election, and the loss of Stan Musial. He also expressed the thought that the Cardinals had enough to win the Central Division but expressed concern at shortstop and second base positions. Rick, along with former Cardinal Manager, Tony LaRussa, has written a new book called "One Last Strike" which is on newsstands for purchase today. Rick was kind enough to sign a few copies which the club gave out as door prizes. It was also announced that Rick will be heading for Florida next week for spring training and will be getting married in April. Congratulations to Rick Hummel and thanks to Gary Peters for handling the introduction.

VIP Dates

2/11 - Board meeting at the Pier (11:45 start time)

2/17 - El Townsend celebrates a birthday

2/18 - Rick Goughner celebrates a birthday

2/20 - Macker meeting at the Dock - 5:30 p.m.

2/22 - Mayor John Spring with the State of the City Address

This & That

The meeting got off to a partisan start with Mayor John Spring handling the prayer with a slight "shot" at the Cubs in it. You know God may very well be a Cubs fan. He's used to dealing with losers so it wouldn't surprise me. In a sad note, Perry also mentioned the passing of Steven Rueter, the son of Barb and Skip Rueter. Our thoughts and prayers are with Barb and Skip and their family.

Art Awerkamp, last seen leaving the Hy-Vee parking lot on Saturday, February 2nd at 7:25pm (time of store robbery), uttered the initial word to begin the Pledge of Allegiance.

Steve Peters handled the Tail Twisting duties with an assist from Rick Cole while Steve "read" a joke.

According to Tony Nutt, our Gus Macker Chairman, the first Gus Macker meeting went very well even without Tony being there. The next one is set for Wednesday, February 20th at 5:30 at The Dock. All members are welcomed to attend.

Dan Niemann mentioned the upcoming Wild Game Feed event in Mt. Sterling on March 30th. Dan has $10 tickets for sale to win an ATV to benefit Quanada.

The 50/50 drawing winning ticket was owned by Paul Terwelp. Paul drew an 8 of clubs so the pot of $522 goes even higher. The words "pot" and "higher" in the same sentence seems to go together, doesn't it?

President Perry Terwelp, dressed in his Cardinal attire, mentioned the fact that QND Grad Jack Cornell was back in town after his team, the Baltimore Ravens, won the Super Bowl. Perry also recognized Zeke Cernea for the nice article on him in the Quincy Herald Whig. He also mentioned the work done on the revised Exchange Club web page with kudos to Eric Thomas and Joel Koch for their efforts.

The guest list was long as expected:

Amanda Brown and Joel Swisher were guests of Frank Hays, Jeff Miller was a guest of Art Awerkamp, Frank Bange was a guest of Curt Moor, Joel Adam was a guest of David Adam, Dick Klimstra was a guest of Hal Broadwater, Ed Schuering was a guest of Mayor John Spring, and Coach Sean Taylor was a guest of Tony Nutt. Media guests included Bob Gough of quincyjournal.com, John Potts of the Herald-Whig, and Bill Shuler of KHMO Radio and WGEM-TV.

My apologies if I left someone out.

Like us on Facebook

The National Exchange Club is trying to increase its presence on social media sites. One way to do that is to "Like" a site on Facebook. If you go to these links and click "Like", it will help the club, district and National Exchange Club promote the programs of service of Exchange to others. Here's the links:

National Exchange Club

Lincolnland District Exchange Clubs

Quincy Exchange Club

Quincy Gus Macker Site

Smoke on the River Site

In This Issue

Club Information

Perry Terwelp - President

Chuck Venvertloh - President-Elect

Curt Moore - Vice President

Chris Parker - Treasurer

Cullan Duke - Secretary

Steve Green - Immediate Past President

Board of Directors:

Jared Haugh - 2013

Dan Veihl - 2013

Doug Greenwell - 2014

Doug Reed - 2014

Steve Labs - 2015

Joel Koch - 2015

Lincolnland District

President - Mike Oster

Division 10 Director - Joel Koch

Board meets second Monday every month 11:45 at the Pier Restaurant

Office of the Secretary:

Cullan Duke

PO Box 1173

Quincy IL 62306

National Exchange Club

President - Lou Molitor

Region 3 Vice President - Katie Smith

Line of the Week

It belongs to our speaker Rick Hummel who was relating a story about Stan Musial talking with Albert Pujols. Pujols asked Musial if he golfed and if so what his handicap was? Stan replied,

- "I have a three handicap. My woods, my irons, and my putter".

New Web Pages

Check out the new webpage at www.quincyexchangeclub.org. The new Smoke on the River site should also be up this week, so check it out at www.smokeontheriver.net or click on the link at the bottom of the XC site.

The password to get into the member section is exchange (case sensitive). It should be working properly now. Please check your information - we have most of it, but we are missing some information on some members. Also, if want a different picture (or in some cases a picture), either e-mail one to Joel, or he will take one at a meeting. You can e-mail Joel here.

We're always looking for pictures from events (past and present) and ways to make the site better. If you see something that doesn't look right or have a correction, please let Joel know.