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Our final meeting of the fiscal year is at the Alta Club on Thursday, May 23rd.  As is our tradition, this meeting is for members, rushees, and spouses or significant others, and will feature heavenly music as well as a delicious dinner.  If a spouse or significant other can’t come, we urge you to  bring yourself!! 

The evening will start at 6, with refreshments and socializing.  Dinner will begin at 6:30, and our wonderful musical treat, featuring Michelle Sundwall, will start at about 7:20.  We are delighted this year to have Michelle perform a medley of songs.  Several of us have heard her sing before, and can attest to how good she is!  A daughter of one of our Timp Club members, Michael Stevens, her performances are Broadway quality!  Her voice is simply extraordinary, and we can’t wait to hear her sing!  Her repertoire is expansive, and she will focus mainly on “oldies but goodies” — the kind of music that will soar us to the clouds.

April 25— Just a reminder that our next Timp Club meeting is on the traditional fourth Thursday, April 25th.  Our excellent speaker will be Tom Durham, who is a BYU music professor.  He will talk about the new hymns in the announced new Latter-day Saint hymn book, and also about prior hymn books.  He is a wealth of knowledge about things musical, and especially about the changes coming for the new version of the hymn book–you won’t want to miss it.

And plan ahead for May!

May 23--our musical evening with spouses.  We are delighted this year to have Michelle Sundwall perform a medley of songs.  Several of us have heard her sing before, and can attest to how good she is!  A daughter of one of our Timp Club members, Michael Stevens, her performances are Broadway quality!  We are in for a great treat!

First, a quick look at upcoming Timpanogos Club meetings…

March 14–Larry Gelwix, the coach of the hugely successful Highland Rugby team of a few years ago, and currently the head of Columbus Travel (the “Getaway Guru”).  In addition to the aforementioned topics, he wants to give an uplifting and inspirational motivational talk.  Don’t miss it! (See below for more about this event.)

April 25–Tom Durham, a BYU music composition professor, who will talk about the new LDS hymn book hymns, and about prior hymn books.  He is an excellent speaker, who will present many anecdotes about our hymns. 

May 23--our musical evening with spouses.  We are delighted this year to have Michelle Sundwall perform a medley of songs.  Several of us have heard her sing before, and can attest to how good she is!  A daughter of one of our Timp Club members, Michael Stevens, her  performances are Broadway quality!  We are in for a great treat!

LARRY GELWIX INTRODUCTION

            We are pleased to welcome Larry Gelwix to our conference.  For 36 years, Larry Gelwix served as the volunteer Head Coach of the Highland Rugby team.  The team’s success, which produced a varsity win-loss record of 418 wins and just 10 loses in 36 years, including 20 national rugby championships, caught the attention of Hollywood which produced a major motion picture entitled “Forever Strong” which tells the true life story of Coach Gelwix and the Highland team.  He was also featured in a 2012 documentary entitled, “Larry Gelwix: No Regrets” which won an Emmy Award for best documentary that year.  Fox News and the national media have labeled Coach Gelwix as the “Winningest Coach in America.”

            Coach Gelwix received his bachelors and masters degrees in Organizational Communications from Brigham Young University. Professionally, Larry’s career has been centered in the airline and travel industry, including time as CEO of an airline.  He currently serves as CEO of Columbus Travel in Bountiful, hosts a syndicated radio talk show, and is a recognized leader in leadership and management coaching.

            A popular convention and meeting speaker, Coach Gelwix has addressed conferences and seminars all across the country and around the world on the dynamics of leadership, developing winning strategies and attitudes, and championship companies and schools staffed by championship people.  His appearances, corporate coaching, and keynotes include McDonalds, American Airlines, the IRS, Banana Republic, university commencements, and college and professional sports teams.  Most recently, Larry spent a weekend with the Houston Astros, who won the 2017 World Series, coaching the players on developing and maintaining a winning attitude on and off the field and was the keynote speaker at Major League Baseball’s annual winter meeting convention in Las Vegas.

            Please welcome Coach Larry Gelwix–the “winningest coach in America!”   We are honored and lucky to have Larry Gelwix as our speaker!

We think we have extraordinary programs lined up, with programs / meetings that you won’t want to miss.  The dates and programs are:

February 21--President Ruth Watkins, the new President of the University of Utah.  A fabulous speaker and delightful person.  A great evening!

March 14–Larry Gelwix, the coach of the hugely successful Highland Rugby team of a few years ago, and currently the head of Columbia Travel  (the “Getaway Guru”).  In addition to the aforementioned topics, he wants to give an uplifting and inspirational motivational talk.  Don’t miss it!

April 25–Tom Durham, a BYU music composition professor, who will talk about the new LDS hymn book hymns, and about prior hymn books.  He is an excellent speaker, who will present many anecdotes about our hymns. 

May 23--our musical evening with spouses.  We are delighted this year to have Michelle Sundwall perform a medley of songs.  Several of us have heard her sing before, and can attest to how good she is!  A daughter of one of our Timp Club members, Michael Stevens,  her performances are Broadway quality!  We are in for a great treat!

We urge you to bring guests, sons, grandsons, coworkers, etc.  They are always encouraged and welcomed.  Also, if you know someone who has been in the Club in years gone by and dropped out for awhile for whatever reason, please invite them to start coming again.  As noted by several of our members, once a Timpanogos Club member, always a Timpanogos Club member.

Thursday January 17, 2019

We are thrilled to have as our speaker Mark Harlan, who is the new University of Utah Athletic Director. He comes to the U. with vast experience in athletic administration on both coasts and in between.  A brief bio:

“Mark Harlan, a veteran administrator with Pac-12 ties, was named director of athletics at the University of Utah on June 1, 2018. Harlan brought more than 20 years of athletics administration experience at five universities to his new post, most recently four years as the athletics director at the University of South Florida.

“Prior to his appointment at USF in 2014, Harlan served as the senior associate athletics director for external relations at UCLA, senior vice president for central development at Arizona, senior associate athletics director at San Jose State and associate athletics director at Northern Colorado.

“The Los Angeles native spearheaded record competitive, academic and fundraising accomplishments at South Florida, while also negotiating new multimedia rights and apparel partnerships.

“In his tenure at USF, the Bulls won 14 American Athletic Conference titles. Nine USF programs ranked in the top 25 in 2015-16 when the Bulls led the AAC in the Learfield Directors’ Cup standings.”

Wow!!! Mark intends to bring his Associate Athletic Director to our dinner as well, Scott Kull. Scott’s credentials are amazing, including:

“He began his career as a graduate assistant in ticketing at Florida and a marketing intern at Georgia Tech before going to Ohio State as an assistant director of marketing.

“A New England native raised in Maine and New Hampshire, Kull competed on the football and track and field teams at Otterbein University (Ohio), where he earned his bachelor’s degree in business and organizational communications in 1990. He earned a master’s degree in sport management from Ohio State in 1992.

“Kull enjoys competing in triathlons and skiing.”

We are in for a wonderful evening. Our schedule is the usual, dinner promptly at 6 at the Alta Club followed by the remarks of Mark and Scott at 7. Parking is in the new Alta Club parking lot one half block east of the Alta Club on South Temple on the same side of the street as the Alta Club. For head count purposes, could you please RSVP to this e-mail as to whether you are planning to attend. Please look to bring friends, family, sons, grandsons, co-workers, etc., if they might have an interest in joining the Timpanogos Club. May we suggest you bring them as a guest on a trial basis, but please let us know the number you are bringing for purposes of the head count. How wonderful to be a member of this organization of professional men, which has enjoyed constant membership and attendance since 1913!

With the huge success of the University of Utah athletics in football, gymnastics, basketball, etc. this should be one of our best Timpanogos Club meetings ever! Looking forward to seeing you there!

Cheers, Your Timpanogos Club Officers– Randy Jensen (President), Dave Gillette (First Vice President), Wallie Rasmussen (Second Vice President), Bruce Woodruff (Immediate Past President), Wayne Middleton (Secretary/Treasurer), Glenn Waterman (Membership Recruitment), Brent Scharman (Historian), Tom Rohlfing (Web Site Developer), and Tony Middleton (Speaker Development)

Next Meeting, November 29, 2018

Our meeting in November will be one week after Thanksgiving, on November 29, 2018.  This change away from our usual fourth Thursday is made so that you can enjoy Thanksgiving with your families on Nov. 22nd, and also to accommodate the schedule of our speaker, Jason Perry.

Jason is the head of the Hinckley Institute at the University of Utah.  He studies all things political in depth, and Jason is coming at the invitation of Dale Zabriskie, our long-time very politically savvy Club member.  He will analyze what just happened in the elections locally and nationally, and will explain the impact it will have on us all, and what we need to do as citizens to make our government responsive and functional.  It should be a can’t-miss meeting, so please put it on your calendars.

Future meetings scheduled on non-fourth Thursday evenings are scheduled at different Thursdays to accommodate the speaker’s schedules.  Please mark the new dates on your calendars, if you would be so kind.  They include:

Next Meeting:  October 25, 2018

Our next meeting will feature the usual wonderful dinner by the Alta Club–please put the date on your calendars.  We are delighted to then hear from a superb speaker with an important message for us all — Dr. Richard Gurgel,  who is in the ENT Division of the University of Utah medical school.  He has done some amazing research on the link between hearing and mind impairment; for many, increasing deafness can lead to increasing forgetfulness, almost like dementia.  He compellingly shows the evidence that worsening hearing loss can lead to increasing  memory and thinking problems. The pertinence to our members of his talk can’t be overemphasized, as some of us are noting hearing issues (hard to imagine as it might be), and all of us have family or friends who are.  Come prepared to learn from Richard what then we should do about it.

Our meeting at the Alta Club will start with a dinner promptly at 6, followed by Richard’s presentation at 7. As usual, we will aim to finish by 8. If you have not already done so, please RSVP to Tony Middleton via email so we might have a head count for the Alta Club. As always, please look to bring a guest who might have an interest in the Timpanogos Club, either a friend, a sibling or someone else—we are always looking for a few more good men!

Our Summer hiatus is coming to an end, and we are excited to resume our monthly Timpanogos Club meetings.  We hope all of you had a great Summer!  We are thrilled with the upcoming speaker selections.  This month is especially interesting, as Dennis Lindsey, the General Manager of the Utah Jazz, is our guest speaker on Thursday, September 28th.  I share with you part of the e-mail response his Executive Assistant, Keely Spencer, sent us :

“He has tentatively planned for a ‘State of the Team’ topic, which will include or touch on the points you mentioned in your email; Jazz management philosophy, players, goals for the year, etc.  After that has concluded, he’s planning on opening up the floor for Q & A.”

Our incoming President is Bruce Woodruff, who will be an exciting, dynamic and visionary leader.  Our format will be much the same as prior years, with dinner at the Alta Club at 6 pm (typically a delicious meal featuring hot chocolate) followed by our speaker at 7.  Generally we adjourn by 8.  Parking is free at the Alta Club lot on South Temple, north of  South Temple and about 1/2 block east of the Alta Club.

Some of our members might have difficulty driving at night, so it would be a great idea for members with good night eyes to offer a ride to those who need it.

Our meetings this year will continue to be on the 4th Thursday of each month, with the exceptions of November 16th, the 3rd Thursday to accommodate Thanksgiving, and as usual there will be no meeting in December.

Our Club has been meeting constantly since our Founders started it in 1913.   You can Google up “Timpanogos Club history” to find a brief history  of the Timpanogos Club.  We would encourage each of you to feel free to invite a guest to come to a meeting with you at no charge for the first time–bring a friend, a neighbor, a business associate, or a relative (son, brother, cousin, etc.).  These invitations have been crucial to the maintenance of the Club since its inception over 100 years ago.

Your Club Officers for 2017-18:

President                             Bruce Woodruff

First Vice President           Randy Jensen

Second Vice President      Dave Gillette

Treasurer                            Wayne Middleton

Historian                             Brent Scharman

Member Development     Glenn Waterman

Speaker Invitations           Tony Middleton

Future meeting dates are:  Oct. 26, 2017

Nov. 16, 2017

Jan. 25, 2018

Feb. 22, 2018

March 22, 2018

April 26, 2018

May 24, 2018

You may want to add these dates to your calendars for future planning.  Speakers committed for the year include our own Dr. Michael Stevens, on the cause of Beethoven’s deafness;  Lavar Webb and Frank Pignanelli, long time political reporters, on the state of our national and local politics; our own Brent Scharman and his wife Jan on understanding the Millennial generation; and Dr. Mark Supiano, Chairman of the Geriatrics Division at the U., on how to optimize life as a senior citizen.  It promises to be a fabulous year!