The Exchange Club of Urbana, IL, meets each Thursday noon at Clark- Lindsey in Urbana Lunch is served 11:20 a.m. to 1 p.m. President: Nancy Hesselmann, Urbana, Illinois.

Address inquiries to: Secretary Van Bowersox, 1811 Clover Lane, Champaign, Il 61821https://urbanaexchangeclub.wordpress.com/

Upcoming MeetingsSeptember 20 - Adam V. Doskey, From the Arctic to Illinois: Five Items from the

University of Illinois Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML).September 27 – To be announcedOctober 4  -- Dixie Jackson, Twice Is Nice Thrift Shop

Weekly Meeting, Sept. 20, 2018 Reporter: Gary Stensland

Meeting Leader: President Nancy Hesselmann

Pledge of Allegiance: Led by Nancy Hesselmann Invocation by Dave Wilson. Song: Members sang “This Is My Country” led by Don Hunt with JoAnn Smith playing the piano. G uests: Shirley Gordon, Tom's wife.Joys and Sorrows: Read by Don Hunt. Doug Bauling, $1, Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive! Judy Hummel, joy of our great grand daughter arrived 9-17. She is beautiful!. John Hummel, $1, joy of arrival of our 1st great-grand daughter. Dorthea Smith, $5, joy- just for being alive!! John E. Smith, $1 in pig for sunny day! Joy of helping with Bird Watching Program at Clark-Lindsey. Gary Stensland, $1, joy of having Adam Doskey as our speaker today. Announcements: Exchange Board meeting next Tuesday. For the next two weeks the C-L driveways will undergo asphalt replacement so drive carefully and the church parking lot is available for our use. Last week the Hummels and the Smiths attended the annual picnic of the Champaign Exchange Club. The So Proudly We Hail flag award has been presented to the Donald Uchtmann family.More Songs: Don Hunt, with JoAnn Smith at the piano, led the club in singing “Give My Regards to Broadway”," You Are My Sunshine", and “When the Saints Come Marching In”. C ontributions: $104 in the PIG. Program: Gary Stensland introduced his friend and the speaker today, Adam V. Doskey, Assist. Prof. in U of I Library Dept. and Curator in the U of I RBML. Adam's PhD research is on the topic of exploration of the Arctic. His talk highlighted five

Our 92nd Year

important rare books/manuscripts that have been physically in the Arctic and now are in the U of I RBML. His 5th item, the first edition of a Greenland newspaper still published today, in the Greenlandic language, is shown below. Greenlandic is an Eskimo–Aleut language spoken by about 56,000 Greenlandic Inuit in Greenland. It is closely related to the Inuit languages in Canada such as Inuktitut.

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Nancy Hesselmann presenting a thank you certificate to Adam Doskey.

View the Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s Introduction Video 1 min 37 sec: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKKiDspZ3t4

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Mission StatementExchange, America's Service Club, is a group of men and women working together to make our

communities better places to live through programs of service and Americanism, Community Service, Youth Activities and its national project, the Prevention of Child Abuse.