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Our November meeting is on the 3rd Thursday instead of the 4th, to avoid a conflict with Thanksgiving.  Our speaker will be our own Club member, Harvard trained cardiologist Dr. Jeff Anderson, who will explain and demonstrate some of the amazing treatments cardiologists have developed to treat the life-threatening heart problems we can acquire.  A short list of heart conditions we might all develop which can kill  or maim us includes:

• Aortic Aneurysm
• Arrhythmia
• Atrial Fibrillation
• Cardiac Arrest
• Cardiac Rehab
• Cardiomyopathy
• Cholesterol -related cardiac disease
• Congenital Heart Defects
• Diabetes
• Heart Attack
• Heart Failure
• Heart Murmurs
• Heart Valve Problems & Disease
• High Blood Pressure
• Infective Endocarditis
• Kawasaki Disease
• Metabolic Syndrome
• Pericarditis
• Peripheral Artery Disease

If struck by any of these, Jeff may be the one to save us, and his talk will tell us how he does it!  The dinner will be at 6 p.m. at the Alta Club, as usual (unusually scrumptious with their current chefs), followed by Jeff’s talk.  Please remember to invite and bring along potential Timp members, friends, associates, sons, grandsons, etc.–please let us know for the head count.

Also, if you don’t have a photo on this website, or if you would like a different one to be used, just send it by email to Tom Rohlfing at trohlfing2780@gmail.com.

Our dinner meeting this month will be on Thursday, October 24, 2019, starting promptly at 6 at the Alta Club as usual. Our speaker is fabulous, Alexander Dushku. He is with the Kirton and McConkie law firm, and will s​peak to the topic, “The Intersection of Religious Liberty and Civil Rights.” His topic is germane to each of us, as it impacts us all in one way or another.

Having filed briefs or petitions in 28 cases before the United States Supreme Court, he has represented a number of religious organizations in various cases and has litigated a broad range of constitutional and civil rights issues. He received his J.D. from BYU, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and became a member of Law Review. He then served as a judicial clerk to Judge Daniel A. Manion of the United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit. He is also currently an LDS stake president.

Please join us for a great evening!

Steven Newman has over 25 years of experience in the offshore energy sector, including 21 years with Transocean, Ltd., the world’s largest offshore contract driller.  Mr. Newman’s roles with Transocean included a variety of functional assignments and international postings and culminated with being named CEO on March 1, 2010.  Mr. Newman led the company through the Macondo Well Incident, multiple proxy fights with activist investor Carl Icahn and a significant fleet rationalization and restructuring associated with the industry downturn in 2014.  Mr. Newman retired from Transocean in 2015.  He currently sits on the Boards of Dril-Quip (NYSE – DRQ), Tidewater (NYSE – TDW) and SNC-Lavalin (TSE – SNC).  Mr. Newman earned a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and an MBA from Harvard Business School.  He resides in Holladay, Utah with his wife and is the proud father of four amazing kids.

Steve will provide a brief introduction to offshore drilling, discuss some of the common challenges encountered in offshore drilling and review the events surrounding the Macondo Well Incident of April 20, 2010.

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)