M-ongst Ourselves: Members at a Glance |
"Remember, be sure that you--yes, YOU!--contact Susie with anything about your life you wish to share. For ideas, see this month's column. Contact Susie at SKilgard@aol.com or 954-0326 (h)."
Welcome to the first installment of Members at a Glance, a monthly column devoted to shedding light on that most frequent of M-chapter conundrums: Who is in this group, anyway?
Each month this column will highlight our local Mensans who have news to share--or, if I don't get enough submissions by deadline, those who have been randomly accosted by me with the aid of my Trusty Directory.
What kind of news? Pretty much anything. Got a new degree, job, promotion, or grandchild? Tell me! Planning a trip, a garden, a new car purchase, a tattoo? Tell me! What did you do at work this week? Give me the low-down on your favorite hobby. Recommend the book you just can't put down or the restaurant you found in San Diego. Just tell me!
Let's try to use this column to get a better idea of just who lives in this chapter of ours. Maybe you personally never go to anything. Maybe you don't want to. Maybe you want to, but you can't due to an unfortunate incarceration. In this column, it doesn't matter. Send off an e-mail or call me up. When else will you get your name in print just for being you?!?
Many thanks to the members listed below who cheerfully contributed their news without the benefit of reading this introductory column first!
Anxiously waiting to hear about you,
Susie
Robert Andrews and Cindy Cielle met at an RG about nine years ago in--you guessed it--the hospitality room. They both work at American Express, so they get to enjoy the carpool lane daily! (Look for them whizzing by next time traffic is at a standstill in your lane. They'll be the ones laughing at you.) They've started an organization through which you can buy timeshare weeks at resorts across the US and southern Europe. You don't have to own a timeshare, so contact Robert and Cindy if you feel like trying one out (www.TimeShareEVAL.com). You can contact them at randrews@ariz.com.
Jerry Corbin has been a marketing manager for various semiconductor companies for 25 years. Now, he's in the process of writing a marketing-oriented book about doing business on the Internet: To Web or Not To Web. He's in the process of finding a publisher for it and invests in the stock market as a job now. You can contact Jerry at JCorbin@primenet.com.
When Meg Kelleher was summoned without warning to be a Glance in this column, she was running out the door towards her opening night in "Death and Taxes," a murder mystery dinner theater experience at Jacka's Variety Dinner Theater in Glendale. The mystery takes place at a campaign dinner for a senator, and Meg plays the role of the senator's mother. Her favorite line is, "Don't worry, you're young"--and you're going to have to see the play to know why that line is so funny. Speaking of seeing the play, you can catch it on Friday and Saturday evenings; get tickets by calling 934-1998. And if you are interested in attending, or just want to contact Meg, you can also call her at home, 277-6026.
Susie Kilgard (yes, it's me--saved myself a phone call) spent May taking (and mercifully passing) her written and oral comprehensive exams and her dissertation prospectus defense at ASU. She has filed for PhD candidacy in organizational communication and is now ready to re-enter the world. She plans to spend next year on a dissertation examining the connection between organizational identification in members and the formal messages they are exposed to. To relax, she got certified this spring as a handler and demonstrator for two birds of prey as part of her volunteer work at The Phoenix Zoo. She's also trying to read Middlemarch all the way through for the first time and teaching aerobics for the Pointe Hilton Resort (Squaw Peak). Come join her for an early morning class and get your workout done before the afternoon heat! You can contact Susie at SKilgard@aol.com.
George and Marjorie Roberts, longtime Mensa members (they met 21 years ago in Mensa; been married 19), just signed up for a Fall 1998 Windjammer cruise. They'll leave from Maine and explore nearby islands off the coast. Both have volunteered weekly at the Desert Botanical Garden for years--he in the library and she out in the garden. Marjorie also volunteers one night a week at an English as a Second Language class, and both enjoy gardening and reading at home. You can contact them at 941-5004.
Thanks again to these cheerful victims of Members at a Glance Ambush Interviews. (Remember, you can spare yourself the same fate by contacting me before I call you!) That's it for this month--lots more Glances in August.