TCI Events coming up

See the Tall Club of Milwaukee Facebook Group for possible discussions to do things at https://www.facebook.com/groups/139594316086870.

To see what is going on around TCI including the Paramount Tall Club of Chicago weekend at the end of January and Detroit in April see: https://www.tall.org/events.html

Finally, if you know any tall high school seniors (5’10 for women or 6’2″ for guys) feel free to direct them to our scholarships at https://tallclubofmilwaukee.org/scholarship/ which will go live January 1, 2023.

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Post Pandemic Tall Club of Milwaukee

The Tall Club of Milwaukee with needed prodding from prospective members Dave Beasley and Julie Ann Maday are meeting for lunch at Panera Bread Mequon at 1300 W Mequon Road which is just west of I43 and Port Washington Roads at 1pm this coming Sunday Oct 2 at 1pm to talk about what tall clubs are and the direction we might want to take ours.

I updated our club’s google calendar with a couple of items including a dinner with the Paramount Tall Club of Chicago in Vernon Hills IL on Saturday October 8 at 5:30 pm. With clubs in Milwaukee, Madison and Chicago we try to network a little. I was going to be in Wilmette that morning so I asked my PTC friends about finding a restaurant sort of between Chicago and Milwaukee. We’re going to Yu’s Mandarin at 4 E. Phillip Rd in Vernon Hills, IL, 60061 847 816 1888. Please rsvp to Dave if you are coming. Perhaps we can organize a carpool.

Oct 23 I am playing with the Greis Ensemble between 2 and 4pm at Winefest, an Austrian Holiday, at The Schwabenhof, N56 W14750 Silver Spring Drive, Menomonee Falls, WI. It’s actually near Barry’s house.

If there are any questions please email damtalldave@gmail.com or call Dave at 414-962-1685.

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Upcoming activities of the Tall Club of Milwaukee

We haven’t done much organized activity through the pandemic other than pick scholarship winners the last 2 years but an upcoming event that we’ve invited the Chicago Paramount and Mad Town Talls Tall Clubs to and actually organized annually by the latter.

And then 2 of us showed up to dance a couple times.

Oktoberfest at the Bavarian Bier Hall in Glendale  on Saturday Sept 10

So you can find us there that afternoon and evening.

Chicago and Milwaukee have been invited. 

Music: Sept.10th

Alte Kameraden 3pm
Alpine Blast Trio 7pm

Opens at 11am and closes at 11:55 pm.  

$10 entry fee or $5 off with Bavarian Bierhaus Mobile App, free parking
– Deal of the day: Half off liter Bier 11am-2pm

https://www.thebavarianbierhaus.com/events/oktoberfest-2022-6

700 W Lexington Blvd, Glendale, WI

David Beasley who turns out to live barely a mile from me in Milwaukee saw a post of mine for beginner dance lessons on Monday Nights at 6:30pm at Delaware House, 2499 S Delaware Ave in Milwaukee, web site Delaware-House.com and joined a couple times now. Here is a picture of us with instructor Jessica Sartori Wharton after a monthly Friday night dance social there.

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TCI Scholarship Winner for 2022

Our 2022 Scholarship Winner is Mary Johnson from Sheboygan. She is 5’11” from North High School and planning to major in Psychology, minor Spanish, at Lakeland University in Plymouth WI. She won one of the 15 $1000 scholarships at http://www.tallclubfoundation.org/scholarship-program.html

Her Essay follows:

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MadTownTalls Oktoberfest, Saturday September 11, 2021

For information about the Mad Town Talls annual Oktoberfest event in Glendale which is a suburb of Milwaukee, how to get there, where to stay, see https://tallclubmilwaukee.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/mke-oktoberfest-2021-09-11.pdf

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Jason Gosz Scholarship Winner for 2020

 

Our Jason Gosz Scholarship Winner for 2020 is Antoni Haupt from Wayzata High School in Plymouth Minnesota. She is 5’11” tall and will be majoring in Mechanical Engineering at UW Milwaukee while on the swim team there. Though our local scholarship no longer has funding, we have submitted Antoni as our entree for Tall Clubs International and Tall Clubs International Foundation Kae Sumner Einfeldt, Virginia Linquist Winker and Robert Rader Academic Scholarships. Her essay follows:

What Being Tall Means To Me

I’ve always been tall for my age and have been in the 95th percentile or higher at every
doctor’s appointment I’ve been to since I was born. I never really thought much about it until I got to high school when all of a sudden some (not a lot, but some) of the boys were taller than me. I was in shock! I had towered over them for years and now a few of them towered over me. I had never felt so short. I felt tall again soon enough when the girls and guys swim teams broke apart for the high school season and I was the second tallest again (it’s swimming, there are some tall people in that sport). I got used to this again until the boys were done with their season and back in the pool with us, and I was short again. Every year this still shocks me.

I have always liked being tall. Being able to reach things that others can’t is something I
always enjoy, especially when they aren’t even close to reaching it and I can with no effort.
When I was younger I got to go on all the ‘big kid rides’ at Valleyfair (an amusement park close to my house) way before all of my friends got to. I have younger cousins that always ask for a ride on my shoulders because they get to see the world (or my grandma’s living room) from a different perspective.

Being tall gives me an athletic edge at swimming because I can get to the wall that much quicker. More than once I have been able to out reach someone at the end of a race. And when I dive in I am already ahead (or at least not as far behind, I have a bad start) as I would be if I was shorter. It does make breast stroke a little harder though because it takes more effort to whip my legs around.

Being tall does make alpine ski racing (my other sport) a little bit more difficult because it’s hard to get around the gates because my legs are so long.  But I still love it, I even wore a giraffe costume skiing. (My neck is too long for the hood to go up.)

Being tall has also made me appreciate the little things like long enough sleeves, leg
room, and blankets long enough to reach my feet. I still get excited every time I find pants that cover my ankles and fit me in the waist. Or a shower head that I don’t have to bend down to use. My dad installs our showerheads higher than where most people install them.

There are some disadvantages to being tall as well – always being in the back row for any
group picture, choir concert, or dance recital, not having enough leg room on airplanes, and finding a cute pair of pants or shorts and they are just too short to actually wear.

Surprisingly, no one has ever asked me if I play basketball or volleyball, or the classic “how’s the weather up there?”

If I could change my height, I would actually add an inch so I could finally say that I am
6 feet tall. Or 5’12”!

Antoni Haupt

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1999 TLC Video Revisited – In Search of Giants

In 1999 during the Pittsburgh TCI Convention the Marfan Foundation also had their conference also in Pittsburgh. TLC had me interviewed by Dr Reid Pyeritz as a person concerned if I had Marfan Syndrome, which I didn’t. As it turned out, Dr Pyeritz misdiagnosed me and said I had Kleinfelter’s Syndrome in which a male has an extra female chromosome whereas I have an extra male chromosome.

The contributors to the film didn’t know each other at the time,, Many years later I would meet Joyce Maddox at a Marfan Conference in Chicago. I also met Sandy Allen in Pittsburgh. Since then, Sandy and Jonathan Greener have passed.

I had posted links to 2 segments of the pre-release of the documentary on facebook and they cancelled my post for reasons I don’t understand, so I am posting the links here.

Part 1: https://youtu.be/AHqzeIoMEKY

Part 2: https://youtu.be/br466y7Ht1U

Joyce and I have been contacted by parents since this program aired back then to say we enlightened them about following up with doctors for symptoms their kids had but didn’t know how to deal with, seeing similarities in us.

 

 

 

 

 

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Oktoberfest!

The following text is off the MadTownTalls (Madison Tall Club) Newsletter.

Saturday, September 7, Oktoberfest, 700 W. Lexington, Glendale

3:00 pm  Old Heidelberg Park 

https://www.thebavarianbierhaus.com/services.php?section=7288

Wisconsin’s oldest and most authentic Bavarian Oktoberfest in the Midwest. It includes continuous, traditional German brass bands, folk dancing, singing, yodeling, German food, such as spanferkel, and rollbraten and pigs and chickens, roasted on the spit, beer and dancing!  You will see musicians on the tables, conga lines snaking through pavilion, wild fun and laughter!!

Tall Friends from Tall Club of Milwaukee and Paramount Tall Club of Chicago will be joining us!!

Reserved tables: Section 6, Row M, Tables 3 & 4

Ein Prosit (The Oktoberfest Anthem)

Tickets: $10 at gate – Rain or Shine Event

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Photographer needed for Marfan Walk

Dave is working UWM’s Commencement otherwise he would.

Milwaukee we need YOU!! We are looking for a volunteer photographer for the Walk for Victory on Sunday May 19 2019 • 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm. The event will be held at Greenfield Park #3A, 2028 S 124th St, West Allis, WI 53227. If you are interested in capturing some precious moments on film, please contact me at ssobers@marfan.org. Thank you for your support – it will make a difference!

Best,

Suśan Sobers, Director of Volunteer Engagement

516 883 8712 x116

The Marfan Foundation

Know the Signs. Fight for Victory.

Marfan.org  Facebook  Twitter

Register now for The Marfan Foundation Annual Conference

35 Years of Victory and Growing Stronger Together

#MarfanConf19photographer

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Milwaukee Marfan Walk

Join the Tall Club of Milwaukee hand in hand with the Marfan Foundation in supporting the country wide walks that help spread awareness and funds for solutions to this condition.  https://give.marfan.org/event/2019-milwaukee-walk-for-victory/e216854

 

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