The Exchange Club of Urbana, IL, meets each Thursday noon at Clark- Lindsey in Urbana Lunch is served 11:20 a.m. to 1 p.m. President: Nancy Hesselmann, Urbana, Illinois.

Address inquiries to: Secretary Van Bowersox, 1811 Clover Lane, Champaign, Il 61821https://urbanaexchangeclub.wordpress.com/

Upcoming MeetingsSeptember 13 -- Scott Schwartz (U of I Sousa Museum), "Harry Partch Composer" September 20 - Adam Doskey, From the Arctic to Illinois: Five Items from the U of I Rare Book and Manuscript Library.September 27 – To be announcedOctober 4  -- Dixie Jackson, Twice Is Nice Thrift Shop

Weekly Meeting, Sept. 13, 2018 Reporter: Gary Stensland

Meeting Leader: President Nancy HesselmannPledge of Allegiance: Led by Nancy HesselmannInvocation by Dick Underwood. Song: Members sang “America the Beautiful” led by Tom Gordon with JoAnn Smith playing the piano. G uests: Shirley Gordon, Tom's wife.Joys and Sorrows: Read by Dick Underwood. Doug Bauling, $82, for the Scholarship Fund for a birthday on Sept. 12. I understand that Pres. Trump is complicit in reducing the hurricane to a "2". Dick Underwood, $ for joy of a beautiful day in September and so far Trump has not been bad today. Tom Gordon, joy of having my wife Shirley as a guest. Ron Wilcox, $1 for the joy of a long weekend in South Haven Michigan. Gary Jackson, joy of trip to Olympic Peninsula for hiking and eastern Washington for a family visit. Ralph Langenheim, "Keep Your Powder Dry" Nancy Hesselmann, praying for those in the path of "Florence". John E. Smith, $2 in pig to celebrate a beautiful September day. Ron Peters, joy of having Scott Schwartz as today's speaker.More Songs: Tom Gordon, with JoAnn Smith at the piano, led the club in singing “On the Sunny Side of the Street”," The Band Played On", and “In the Good Old Sumertime”. C ontributions: $156 in the PIG. Program: Ron Peters introduced the speaker, Dr. Scott Schwartz, Director of the U of I Sousa Museum since 2003. To learn more about the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music watch this YouTube video produced by WSEC-TV/PBS Springfield: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFgAhgN9ah4 29 minutes

Our 92nd Year

. “Maverick,” “iconoclast,” and “isolationist” are terms that historians and musicologists have frequently used to describe twentieth-century composer Harry Partch. He constructed his own music instruments and crafted his own tonal system.

Scott Schwartz and Nancy Hesselmann

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Mission StatementExchange, America's Service Club, is a group of men and women working together to make our

communities better places to live through programs of service and Americanism, Community Service, Youth Activities and its national project, the Prevention of Child Abuse.