John Spring handled the opening prayer with thoughts going to the Haugh Family for the passing of Jared's 100 year old Grandmother (and former Exchangite's Pat and Rick Haugh's Mother) and to the Dillman family for speedy recoveries for Mel and his daughter, Kelly, from recent surgeries.

Dick Wentura bellowed out a very pronounced "I" to begin the Pledge of Allegiance.

Jared Haugh, filling in for President Curt Moore, read two thank you notes. One from John Wood Community College for our donation to their JWCC Academy and the other was from our Bud Willer winner, Andrew Gengenbacher.

Steve Green filled us in on some of the Gus Macker numbers. After an expenditure of over $2,500 for all of the Club member jackets, the Club still made $18,216 on Macker this year. Without the jacket purchase, we would have made more than the previous year and that was with less teams. Congratulations to Steve and his team for a great job. Steve did thank his co-chair Perry Terwelp, Alan Musholt for handling the finances for this year's Macker and Mike Llewellyn (in costume) for being "Mr. Macker".

There was no tail-twisting done last week.

Again, I remind you to please check the Club's directory on our website www.quincyexchangeclub.org to update any information that is incorrect. If you are new to the Club and your picture and bio are not in the directory definitely get with Joel Koch.

A big thank you goes out to Jared Haugh, who is chairing the golf outing this Thursday during the District Convention at Spring Lake Country Club. Golf includes a dinner afterwards. The cost is just $75. I am not sure if it is too late to play, but if you want to, contact Jared and he may be able to get you in. You might have to carry his clubs though.

The District Convention is this Thursday thru Sunday and Dennis Koch is the overall Chairman for the entire event. Thanks in advance Dennis for your hard work to pull it off.

For those wondering, Mel Dillman is still recovering from surgery in St. Louis. Mel was dealing with an infection in his knee which caused him tremendous pain. Get well Mel.

The 50-50 Card Draw is now down to 9 cards plus a Joker and still NO winner. Eric Schultz has the lucky ticket and his luck ran out when he drew a 7 of Hearts. The pot of $1,640 last Friday will perhaps climb over $1,700 for the next drawing which will take place on July 10th. Thanks to Joel and Dennis Koch for handling the card draw.