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President’s message: Happy
New Year! With the arrival of the New Year also comes a
"new" President of the club!
Actually, I am also an "Old" president of the club. The
Club was founded by Bob Lorenze. He ran the club for many years. Next came
Ron Biggs. I took over next,
followed by John Osborne. John did a great job keeping the club together
and going for the past couple of years, but I really missed the club and
decided to come back! Anyway,
over the next couple of months we will be getting back into monthly
programs and hopefully even a swap meet and a picnic this Summer!
See ya at the meeting! Rick Chownyk
MDMC Minutes of Several
potential new members were in attendance and introduced themselves as:
Mike Blinke equipped with a small but nice metalworking shop. John, Blinke, his brother. Robert Farr. Mark Yono.
John Osborne announced his resignation as president and proceeded
to conduct elections for his and the remaining club officer positions.
Rick
Chownyk was elected President, Emil Cafarelli was re-elected Vice President, Don Foren and
James Howard were elected Newsletter Editors in training .Ken Hunt was
re-elected Treasurer, James Howard was re-elected Librarian. Phil
Shannon passed out a document for developing machinery or tools for
fabrication of a single point gear cutter.
Mark
Yono distributed pictures of a multitasking robotic vehicle he is building
and will present at a future meeting.
Joe
Pietsch located Metrics Unlimited at Rick
Chownyk, speaking as President Elect, requested that all members wear
nametags to future meetings, which he will provide or facilitate for the
membership. He also requested
that the membership prepare a product or device made by each member for
presentation at future meetings. James
Howard presented a jigsaw-like device and asked the membership how it
mounted a cutter blade and what it was for.
Two members, Bert Campbell and Ron Schmidt, immediately identified
it as a cloth-cutting jigsaw used in the clothing industry.
James Howard, Librarian/Editor MDMC
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