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It was the best year of my Senate life, and hopefully one that set a
positive direction for the future of the Michigan JCI Senate. It all
started on March the 14th, 1988 with perhaps one of the best orchestrated
attempts to sabotage the approval of our budget, calendar, etc... but it
came as no surprise, as I had been in the group doing the same to other
presidents... funny how it seems a bit different when it happens to you!
We traveled to the Jaycees State meeting in May and held the first ever "Old Timers"... an excellent way to mix with the new Jaycees, thanks to Art Abbott. Later that summer the Senate picnic was most graciously hosted by Jack and Wanda Opperman. Summer wound down with the Senate golf outing in Muskegon, and our Southern Area Coordinator, "Bubba Hunt" almost wound up with a lawsuit as his errant golf shot clipped this past president in the heel (seems a president can't take legal action while in office). And yes, we did go to the "Windsor Ballet" for cultural enrichment... somehow, things turned a bit different than anticipated... Nuff said! The year was filled with trips to the west... and west... and west. We may have had more meetings in the west than ever before, but what can you expect when your Western V.P. is Wes Boughner! |
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make an impact in the west, making things much easier on our Eastern V.P.
Dick Sullivan. Life should not be easy as a scribe for the Senate,
and we made certain that Mike O'Connell had to struggle for details...
What the heck, he never made it easy on us when he published things that
NEVER happened and failed to publish things that did. The keeper of
the funds, now there was a difficult job... but we found a match for it, a
difficult guy, John Savage, who never cut a check unless it had the
blessing of the Pope! Speaking of blessing, did we ever have a
chaplain that year?? Ah yes, none other than Greg Meritt. Our
hospitality rooms were always well done by Ken and Cindi Mansfield.
A Senate Year is never successful without the hard work of are
coordinators. And thanks goes to Jim Ingle, Tim Vigneau, Ken Miller,
Gary Foote, John Ogg, Lauren Jonekhreere and Dennis Kester.
A special thanks to John Deegan for the nights he gave up to travel with me. And more than ever, for all you have given up Ruth, I love you more than you will ever know. East Vice President -
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