Last night I went to the first Glen Avon Presbyterian committee meeting as a member of a committee. Not being an official member of the Church I’ve never been asked to sit on one before but, as a 25-year member of the Choir, I finally managed to jump over that hurdle. This was the “Building and Grounds” Committee. I had just left the District’s Education Committee meeting and within minutes of having Chair Loeffler-Kemp cut me off before I could ask a question because our meeting was supposed to be cut short (we ended with 30 minutes to spare) I was climbing up to the Organ loft to analyze how we might restore the Rose window that was broken fifty years ago and boarded up. This meeting lasted even longer than the Ed meeting and it’s Chairman Mike answered my many newbie questions helpfully.
Then today I attended the Glen Avon Men’s Group where I was to introduce the archivist for Duluth’s Karpeles Manuscript library and museum. This was a fascinating talk about one of Duluth’s unknown treasures founded by Mr. Karpeles twenty years ago or more across from St. Lukes. A highly successful 1953 graduate of Denfeld High he has set up a dozen of these museums to house his vast collection (over a million pieces) of historical documents.
At the end of the meeting I hung around to ask Ms. Marklus if there was a local advisory board to help advertise the free museum. None of the dozen or so Karpeles museums had one and that struck me as a missed opportunity. I joked that I might soon be leaving one of my current boards based on the results of last night’s elections and might be interested. Mike, the Building and Grounds Chair, asked if that was a hint that I didn’t want my friends to support me in the General election.
“No, not at all,” I told Mike. “I can multi-task. Why I even joined my first Glen Avon committee recently.”
