July 29- The meeting was held at the Harper House. After a box dinner from Panera, a tour was conducted by the Hickory Historical Society with an explanation of some of the history and interesting features of the house.


August 5- Members attended a game between the Hickory Crawdads and the Rome Braves. Hot dogs, hamburgers, etc. were served in the city suites. Unfortunately for Crawdad fans the visiting team won by a considerable margin.


August 12– Nikki Lynn, outgoing co-president of the Hickory High School Key Club, and Chelsea Stemple, Caila Huffman, and Mikhale Sherrill gave a presentation on their trip to the Key Club convention in Denver, Colorado at which the club was awarded the Distinguished Diamond Award for the 7th time.
 

August 19– Jackie Brown of the Department of Social Services told of her work with foster children. Currently there are about 87 children in the program. In addition to keeping track of this many , she is involved in teaching them independent living skills. Foster kids are eligible to attend any state school or community college for free if they age out of foster care or are adopted after they are 12 years old.
This program is in need of volunteers as mentors and to assist the children in various ways.


August 26– A business meeting was held in place of the usual speaker format.

Nominations for some positions were made, notably Linda Baker for President-elect and Tom and Helen Devlin
for new board memberships.
 

Greater Hickory Classic– The tournament begins on September 9. Uniforms for Hole 7 marshals should be picked up on September 2, 3, or 4 between 4:00 and 8:00PM. For those who wish to participate in the training program, it will be held from 6:00 to 7:00 on Wednesday, September 3.

Co-captains Frank Willis and Tom Devlin advise that the number of marshals is adequate for Friday, Saturday and Sunday but that another one or two would be desirable for Wednesday and Thursday for the Pro-Am event.

It was reported at the August 26 meeting that Marvin Zerden has returned to Hickory from the hospital at Duke and is recuperating at Brian Center East on Tate Boulevard. He is expected to be able to have visitors soon.
 

1. Escape from the island 2. Be flexible 3. Leave politics at the door 4. Get religion 5. Go to school 6. Go to camp 7. Make friends with the media 8. Blow your horn 9. Think ahead 10. Warm up your welcome 11. Get busy finding busy people

12. Ease the fees 13. Focus on family 14. Keep the fire burning 15. Practice your elevator speech 16. Discover key leader 17. Bank on boomers 18. Recruit working moms 19. Set a goal 20. Consider changing formats 21. Sharpen your saw 22. Hobby lobby