| For Members |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Fanfare Online
OSU Folk Club President |
Fall 2010
Dear Friends of the OSU Folk Club,
We hope you had an enjoyable Oregon summer and are ready to carry that warmth and good feeling into a new year in the Folk Club. We are proud of our tradition of using funds earned in Thrift Shop consignments to award grants to worthy Benton County projects and scholarships to outstanding students to attend OSU, more than $5 million awarded over the years. You are all a hard act to follow!
Mary Ann Roberts and Corey Arentz, our program chairs, have been organizing entertaining and informative events for this year. On November 1, we will honor our scholarship recipients, and will hear from OSU faculty member Sue Haig about her efforts to release California condors into the Oregon wilds. Then, the delightful voices of the Silver Girls will entertain us at the Holiday Luncheon on December 6th. On Feb 7th, we have asked Linda Menore to return. She will talk about Building a Better Diet: how this can be done by just taking small steps. Then, on February 14th, Jon Lewis will tell us how love has developed over the years in the film industry. For our annual evening dinner, we are all heading to Italy for an Italian dinner and light Italian songs. O sole mio! And now that we all know how to play, we will have another fun luncheon playing Bunco. We will end the year with the Folk Club Luncheon, on Monday, May 2nd, at Adair Clubhouse. Our speaker will be Jo Anne Trow and the topic will be “Women at Oregon State (OAC, OSC, OSU): 1868-2010, A Brief History.
Ellen Murphy (752-3076) is our interest group chair. Sign up for as many as you wish to join. There is quite a variety. If you have an idea for a new interest group, call Ellen.
The OSU Thrift Shop is starting its 61st year, its 40th year at our “historic” location at 144 NW 2nd in downtown Corvallis. It takes approximately 150 loyal volunteers to keep this going, but the rewards in doing a worthy project are matched by friendships made among your team members. Thrift Shop workers gathered money from donations and markdowns to help fund 23 scholarships to OSU at $2400 each, for a total of $55,200. In addition, the Thrift Shop earned enough to fund most of $35,000 to 42 non-profit organizations.
Please remember to pay your dues. The dues enable us to provide great programs. Remember that only dues-paying folk club members can consign their own items at the Thrift Shop.
See you November 1. Meeting our scholarship recipients will give us great hope for the future!
Angela Yeats, President, OSU Folk Club Vickie Allstot, Chair, Thrift
Shop