District
Bulletin Editor Dave Maloney Presents Club Program on his
U.S. Coast Guard Service
by Immediate Past Governor Bob Cressy
Have you ever wondered how to add some excitement and interest to your club's program schedule? We all know that consistently good programs are a part of consistently well-attended club meetings. They need to be lively, well presented with good photos or other visual stimulants to keep the members and guests interested ... and awake. A mix of topics and subjects over the weeks is also necessary to hit the interests of your audiences.
Where can you find some new ideas? Well, it may just be so obvious you missed it. Look to your fellow Kiwanians. There are so many exciting and varied occupations and experiences to draw from. The Leisure World Club of Silver Spring, Maryland, hit upon a frozen gem. Capital District Editor and member of the Suburban Frederick Club (Maryland) presented a program on the Artic and the Antarctic and the world between them with his slide show "Penguins, Polar Bears and Ice Breakers".
It seems Dave was a U.S.
Coast Guard Officer back a few ... quite a few ... years
ago. Actually, he has hardly changed. I recognized
him in his slides. (At right wearing his
little sister, Tara's, hand-made nose warmer Dave
stands on the Arctic ice in 1971 with the icebreaker
CGC Southwind
in the background.) Dave had many spectacular slides
from then, and he converted
them
to digital
images
for
use in his presentation. It was just like
you
were
there with him. He was a young guy with that ice breaker
plunging through the thick ice of the Artic to keep
sea lanes open while being watched and watching a Russian
ice breaker do the same. This was the hazardous 'cat
and mouse' games of the real Cold War that happening
all over the world at the time. Thank you, Dave,
for your service to
our country.
Well, it was a colorful trip and show with ice floes, glaciers, polar bears of the Artic, turtles of the equator and penguins of the Antarctic. Most entertaining. I made the easy trip to Leisure World Kiwanis to see my favorite editor, A-V man and choreographer of our slide shows at DCON last year. Now, about your club? Who do you have in you midst with an interesting story to tell?
| Dave
Maloney, Capital District Editor and a terrific
photographer & story teller, gives his presentation on "Penguins, Polar Bears and Ice Breakers"
from his days as a U.S. Coast Guard officer. |
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| Towering ice bergs, thick ice and polar weather brings thoughts of rugged beauty, isolation, the possibility of getting frozen in for weeks, plus the 'cat & mouse' Cold War games played with Russian ice breakers made for a fascinating story by Dave Maloney. |  |
| Yep, "Penguins, Polar Bears and Ice Breakers" for our U.S. Coast Guard and Suburban Frederick Club's Dave Maloney as he shows what it was like for service men far from home defending our country during the cold, Cold War. |  |
| Everything goes like clockwork at the Leisure World Kiwanis Club in Silver Spring with President Nelle Reid presenting an appreciation certificate to Dave Maloney, Capital District Editor, for his January 11th program. |  |
