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, JULY 31, 2019 – 7:15 a.m.
The Presidential Mess, er, jockeying for position is in full force. Who else to invite other than Gleaves Whitney, Historian Extraordinaire, and head of the Ralph Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at GVSU. His responsibilities include bringing in top-flight historians (gratis for us) and selling the study of the presidents. He is also one of the featured presenters at Aquinas College’s great OLLI programs. A winner for that friend or relative of yours that just might like to join the BC. Invite!
Invocator: Mr. Bob Scott
Introducer: Mr. Norman Vance
Historian: “An unsuccessful novelist.” H. L. Mencken
History: “An account mostly false, of events unimportant. Which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.” Ambrose Bierce
Paraprosdokian: The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas.
