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Camaraderie--that is what Mensa is all about! Meeting new people with diverse, wide ranging interests. For instance, one of the favorite activities of our local chapter is our monthly "Second Friday" meeting, where we meet at a local Oklahoma City restaurant to drink, munch, and talk about whatever strikes our fancy.
The below pictures were taken on the handy-dandy supercamera of Harold Gregory, who has served journeyman duty as LocSec, Editor of our newsletter, the MensOkie, and past Webmaster of our chapter's site.
Let's meet some of the members of
COM:
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Clockwise
from lower left, the man in the black jacket getting three bunny ears is
Mike Neander. The person giving him the
bunny ears is our distinguished leader (known as a LocSec), the irascible
Bob
Hibbert. In back of Bob giving
the camera a three-quarters glance is Letha Ross,
a guest/victim of the assembled crowd. In back of Letha is
Ursula, whose last name I forgot, oops!
The unfortunate lass whose face is hidden by Bob's head is our chapter's past treasurer and current Vice LocSec, Dorothy Danen. She is from Wisconsin, so she has to be cool. (Go Pack! But please, let Elway win this one!). To Dorothy's left is another guest/victim...feel very sorry for her, she is my wife, Ruth Gentile. Seated to Ruth's left, his face obscured by the cute guy in front of him, is Max Hedges, veteran of many terms as LocSec and member of our ExComm (Executive Committee). To Max's left sits an unbelievably handsome, modest, bespectacled lad hoisting up a brewski--that is (blush), li'l ole me, Joe Gentile, resident ne'er do well of the chapter. To the hunk's immediate left is LouanneDuckworth, artist and desktop publisher extraordinaire, who does lots of the art stuff for our newsletter. Finally, last but certainly not least, to Louanne's left is her hubby, Moore, OK businessman Bruce Duckworth. You see, Bruce is proof that God exists, and likes to mess with me: in a previous lifetime, I pulled master cylinders and brake calipers at junkyards, for various relatives of an old girlfriend.; and now, many years later, I meet Bruce, who owns a junkyard, and makes me have flashbacks all the time.
Life is shore cruel.
The picture on
the right exacts some vengeance for the above photo. This photo was
taken at a Speaker's meeting hosted by member
JoeRamsey. We endeavor to have such speaker's
meetings at least once per month, to discuss topics that local Mensans will
find fun, interesting, or even both.
On your left is Max Hedges, the poor guy whose image was utterly obliterated in the "Second Friday" photo. Similarly, the victim of the "triple bunny ears" in the above photo, Mike Neander, is shown on the right exacting cruel and vicious vengeance upon that innocent, cool guy in the middle of the photo. In case you have to be reminded, the Antonio Banderas lookalike in the center of the photo is me, (Joe Gentile) again, wearing a cool T-shirt I got for free one time, assisting our fearless LocSec, Bob Hibbert, in a worthy cause (got free pizza and soda too!!)
In the background of the photo is Bruce Duckworth (right behind Max's right ear), and to Bruce's left is Eloise Ramsey, wife of member Joe Ramsey, our gracious host for that evening.
Oh, Mike's effort to give me a set of bunny ears was circumvented by divine intervention, as you can tell.
This introduces you to just a few of the people who make up Central Oklahoma Mensa. We have local members who work in the field of law, accounting, real estate, engineering, medicine, aviation, information technology, public relations, art, and more (and you don't even wanna KNOW how some of us can dissect Babylon 5 and Deep Space 9 episodes!!!)
You are the
person to visit this page on our
site
since 12:30 P.M. January 19, 1998!
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