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NEWSLETTER

of the

Men’s Club of Grosse Pointe

FESTIVITIES . . FUN . . FELLOWSHIP

VOLUME LVV NO. 3 www.https://mensclubofgrossepointe.com December 2020

Program Chairman - Jim Callahan

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Life Member Contributors The Readers Report, Part 1 December Birthdays

The Readers Report, Part 2 2 3 4 5 December 8, 2020 December 22, 2020

Likewise, no Meeting Today, but due to its being too close to the Holidays

Jim Callahan

Merry Christmas! even if a tad early. I hope you and your families

are safe and happy during this holiday season. Although these are challenging times, the fact that we have family and friends around us keep the season merry and bright. We may not be capable of do-ing some of those thdo-ings we otherwise would be dodo-ing durdo-ing the holidays, thoughts of family and friends are assuring that we act in a protective manner for their safety. Safety and health are uppermost in our minds. Soon this assault on us will be quelled and life will proceed as ordained. The War Memorial remains closed to our meet-ings our Board of Directors has been meeting in person at the Ram's Horn, but will meet at our Newsletter Editor's home in a week. So our lives fortunately go on. We remain connected through our Newslet-ter and ZOOM meetings. Please tune into the ZOOM meetings when they next occur. They are informative and entertaining, thanks to our Speaker Committee. Keep the advertisers in mind in our directory. They have given us the financial capability of surviving. Along those lines, the Board of Directors has created an Honor Roll of those life members who continue to pay their dues while not obligated to do so. This Honor Roll is set forth in today's Newsletter. Remember too that contributions to the Club are always welcome and appreciated.

Stay safe and have a blessed and Merry Christmas!!”

Very truly yours,

James A. Callahan

President

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Honor Roll , as of November 15, 2020,

of Life Members who paid 2021 dues

to the Club voluntarily:

Arjeski, Eugene (L) Armbruster, Donald (L) Arsenault, H. George (L) Attar, Paul (L) Beaudoin, Jacques (L) Bennett, Lawrence (L) Benz, Edward (L)

Berry, Sterling (L) Deceased Bertani, Louis (L) Buechler, Ernest (L) Buono, George (L) Burt, Richard (L) Carolin, John (L) Catalano, John (L) Chisholm, Daniel (L) Chown, Raymond (L) Clarke, Patrick (L) Cracchiolo, Raymond (L) Cracchiolo, Thomas (L) Creedon, Gaylord (L) Dailey, Walter (L) Danaher, James (L) DeBoer, Thomas (L) Ecklund, Peter (L) Ekin, Al (L) Engstrom, Arthur (L) Everingham, J Theodore (L) Fine, Charles (L) Foerster, Joe (L) Fordon, Frederick (L) Grant, Robert (L) Greening, Robert (L) Guest, J. Rodney (L) Guillaumin, John (L) Hessburg, Philip (L) Holdman, William (L) Hynes, J. Robert (L) Jachman, John (L) Jennings, David (L) Judson, Nathan (L)

Kachadourian, Dan (L) Deceased

Kienle, Robert (L) Klobuchar, John (L) Krag, William (L) Lambrecht, Richard (L) Landin, Jack (L) LeChard, Allan (L) LeClerc, Roger (L) Lees, Robert (L) Lilly, George (L) McCabe, D Graham (L) McCracken, Jack (L) McMillan, Martin (L) Molitor, Arthur (L) Morse, Anthony (L) Mueller, Louis (L) Murphy, Robert (L) Mushenski, Theodore (L) Nyquiist, Paul (L) Peebles, Russell (L) Prost, John (L) Quinlan, William (L) Reid, Donald (L) Reuther, Alfred (L) Roselle, Robert (L) Rowady, Edward (L) Rutherford, Charles (L) Sadler, Clifford (L) Schade, William (L) Schneider, Fred (L) Schneider, Joseph (L) Schulte, George (L) Solomon, George (L) Stewart, Melbourne (L) Sullivan, Lawrence (L) Sullivan, Michael (L) Sultzman, L. Carl (L) Teranes, Paul (L) Ternes, Robert (L) Vroom, H. Thomas (L) Williams, James (L) Williams, John [Jack] (L) Wilson, Francis (L) Woodhouse, John (L) Youn, Kum (L)

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The Readers David Morrow 313-640-9786 Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947 By Norman Lebrecht

“In a hundred-year period, a handful of men

and women changed the way we see the world.

Many of them are well-known -- Marx, Freud,

Proust, Einstein, Kafka. Others have vanished

from collective memory despite their

endur-ing importance in our daily lives. Without Karl

Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no

blood transfusions or major surgery. Without

Paul Erlich, no chemotherapy. Without Seigfried

Marcus, no motor car. Without Rosalind

Frank-lin, genetic science would look very different.

Without Fritz Haber, there would not be enough

food to sustain life on earth.”

“What do these visionaries have in common?

They all had a gift for thinking in wholly

origi-nal, even earth-shattering ways. In 1847 the

Jew-ish people made up less than 0.25 percent of the

world's population, and yet they saw what others

could not. How? Why?”

The above two paragraphs were taken from

the book's cover flap; the answers given were

not really that difficult to deduce, or to even

question. The fact that they were all Jewish, in

some way, explains the “how” and “why”. So

much hardship, so much suffering, and so many

needless deaths. A history of anti-Semitism,

pogroms, forced migrations, and the Holocaust,

of course, will help make you see yourself as an

outsider, no matter how nationalistic you may

try to be. Converting to Christianity, being an

atheist, a capitalist, or a communist didn't matter.

Others would still see you as a “Jew.” We know

it's not racial. It's not in your DNA. What then?

You are always the outsider, and as such, you

become free to observe, and think, and

cre-ate in ever new ways. And over this 100-year

period we observe so many wonderfully bold

creators.

This author, Norman Lebrecht, is proud

to be a Jew. It doesn't matter to him if you are

practicing, or not. In fact, most of his

favor-ite Jews are non-believers. What makes this

book such a worthwhile read was the author's

breathless enthusiasm in telling fascinating

stories about people who really changed the

way we live, think, and love.

Lebrecht is a British author, commentator

and journalist best known for his books on

the history of classical music, but he has also

written novels. His chapters on Jewish

com-posers from Mendelsohn, Alkan and Mahler

in the 19 th century to Gershwin, Schoenberg

and Bernstein in the 20th, are among his most

detailed. Although he admires most of his

subjects, he does not whitewash them, and he

has little good to say about some, including

Freud.

The Readers had quite a good discussion

about the many stories we didn't know. Those

of us who finished the book gave it a five out

of five. Those who read half, or less, gave it a

four, but said they were now looking forward

to finishing it after listening to what we said

was still to come.

Our next book is

A Blaze of Glory (Civil

War: 1861-1865, Western Theater #1) by

James Shaara.

Join us for a Zoom meeting on January 19,

2021. Call Dave Morrow for an invitation.

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Henry Fischer 313-473-8625

The MC BIRTHDAY LIST for December

Adlhoch, William

11 - 80

Arpin, Joseph L.

17 - 94

Begg, Charles B.

31 - 80

Bernard, J. Charles

17 - 81

Bradley, Robert W.

27 - 92

Buckler, David

24 Buechler, Ernest

16 - 86

Callahan, James A.

24 Catalano, John J.

12 - 91

Di Laura, Kenneth

16 Di Natale, Claude A.

22 - 81

Frame, Peter B.

31 Garvey, Bob

5 Gross, Robert R.

7 - 99

Hartz, Jonathan

8 - 80

Howell, David D.

15 - 92

Ignasiak, Eugene T.

22 - 97

Kneeshaw, Tom

28 - 81

Kodidek, Milton J.

6 - 92

Kopacko, Vincent S

25 Kucyk, Douglas

5 Le Chard, Allan P.

27 - 87

Leonard, H. Bayard

23 Liebold, Charles W.

17 - 82

March, David J.

15 Morse, Anthony J.

30 - 84

Muchitsch, Martin

15 - 82

Osgood, Milt

22 Prielipp, Marvin H.

26 - 90

Ranney, Myron E.

11 - 87

Ryan, John C.

14 Schneider, Joseph A.

5 - 85

Spalding, Albert D.

11 Starnes, Robert

11 - 90

Tarnow, Richard

8 - 93

Tily, William E.

8 - 96

Triano, James P.

5 Trumbauer, Leon

6 Vitale, Richard B.

15 Williams, Roger L.

31 - 89

Wooton, John N.

27 - 93

Yardley, Steve N.

11 - 84

A Total of 42 BIRTHDAYS in DECEMBER

with 27 Birthdays 80 & OVER

Patrick G. McKeever 313-719-7829 (C)

Memorials

Name: Milton Henkel

Died: November 1, 2020 (93) Born: January 3, 1927

Joined: March 22, 1999 (21)

Memorials: The Cradle, 2049 Ridge Ave Evanston, IL 60201

Name: Frank A. Cairns

Died: November 4, 2020 (92) Born: November 11, 1927 Joined: May 16, 2003 (17) Memorials: Capuchin Soup Kitchen

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The Readers _{David Morrow 313-640-9756}

The Reading List For 2021

Date Author Title

January 19 Jeff Shaara A Blaze of Glory

(Civil War: 1861-1865, Western Theater #1)

February 16 Alice McDermott The Ninth Hour

March 16 Fareed Zakaria Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

April 20 Colson Whitehead The Nickel Boys

May 18 Chris Whipple The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs

of Staff Define Every Presidency

June 15 Stephen Mack Jones Lives Laid Away (August Snow #2)

July 20 Gerald Easter and Mara Vorhees The Tsarina's Lost Treasure: Catherine the Great, a

Golden Age Masterpiece, and a LegendaryShipwreck

August 17 Ann Patchett Bel Canto

September 21 Douglas Preston The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story

October 19 Jeanine Cummins American Dirt

November 16 Kurt Andersen Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America:

A Recent History

January 18, 2022 Isabel Wilkerson Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent

February 16, 2022 Megan Koreman The Escape Line: How the Ordinary Heroes of

Dutch-Paris Resisted the Nazi Occupation of

Western Europe

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