BREAKFAST CLUB OF GRAND RAPIDS
Established 1936 – John A. Collins, President
UNIVERSITY CLUB
111 Lyon St. N.W. #1025, 10th Floor of Fifth/Third Bank
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2019 – 7:15 a.m.
Invocator: Mr. Keith D. Vandercook ("La Fortuna Emparie Mundi")
Introducer: James Booth Burr, Jr., Esq.
Energy: "Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore, a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be eminent in poetry – and we have Shakespeare." Matthew Arnold (English Victorian poet and literary and social critic)
From the Head Table: I thought getting old would take longer.