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Marysville |
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Where we meet: Village Restaurant, 220
Ash Ave. Marysville, WA
Since founded in 1956, the
Marysville Kiwanis Club has provided
charitable service to the city of It was Thursday November 1, 1956 that the Marysville Globe published the good news – The Marysville Kiwanis Club had elected its first president – Mr. Norman W. (Norm) McConnaughey and had inducted an initial membership of approximately 31 local businessmen (women were allowed to join Kiwanis until the1980s). Other charter club officers included: Charles A. (Chuck) Hammond M.D., Vice President; Leon L. Stock, Secretary; R. “Whitey” Lundstedt, Treasurer; Robert H. Thornberry, Board of Directors Member; Ernest T. Vigil, Board of Directors Member; David W. Coffey, Board of Directors Member; Ray Treichel, Board of Directors Member; William A. Gissberg, Board of Directors Member & Program Chairman; Rev. Dennis L. Anderson, Board of Directors Member; Elroy P. Olson, Board of Directors Member; Stanley Shaefer, Assistant Program Chairman; Harold Chapman, Assistant Program Chairman; Jack Barney, Assistant Program Chairman; Ray Treichel, Public Relations Chairman. Additional charter members included: Clen Berglund, Lloyd W. Fowler, Kenneth O. (Ken) Barnes, M.D., Ed C. Spencer, Rev. Howard P. Buck, Paul N. Howell, E.W. (Waldy) Byers, George R. Gablehouse, Con (Bud) Solvberg, Jr. G. A., (Jerry) Dudley, Arthur J. (Art) Jensen, Leverne R. (Vern) Sackmann, Roger A (Rog) Nelson, Ray Chambers, Conrad B. Olsen, Harold J. Chapman, John H. Hulvey, George B. Moll (Doc), DDS, Jack Fox.
The 31 new members reflected
a representative cross-section of the
community including four educators, four
medical professionals, two ministers, 3
auto sales and repair businessmen, 8
retail sales businessmen (grocery,
variety, furniture, appliances), three
farmers/dairymen, and one each:
postmaster, attorney, newspaperman,
insurance agent, plumber, mortician and
real estate agent. Some charter members
family names are still familiar in
Marysville – Shaefer, Gissberg, Anderson
for example. The Charter sponsor
organizations were the Everett Kiwanis
Club (Harold Emery, President and Vince
Martinis, President Elect) and Monroe
Kiwanis Club (Clarence Devers and Percy
Dyer, District Governor) and was
attended by the Kiwanis International
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