Tall Club of Milwaukee

Dear Nicholas (from Menomonee Falls):

It is with extreme pleasure that I have enclosed a check for $1000.00 to help you in your pursuit of a college education. There were mere decimal points separating each of the finalists for the 2013 Foundation scholarships. We did not have a policy in effect to deal with TCI family applicants at the time of evaluation.

We now have the policy in effect and due to an upturn in our investments we would like to offer you this scholarship at this time. It is very important for the Foundation to honor the family members of our faithful TCI members. We had never figured this happening in our scholarship criteria.

I sincerely hope that we will find your name on a club roster some day. Best of luck in all your future endeavors.

Yours in tallism,

Carolyn Goldstein
TCI Foundation Chair

cc: Barry Umbs
Tall Club of Milwaukee

See a video shot by Ford at the Chicago weekend, endorsing the Transit Connect!

We finally got a basic  fall 2013 newsletter out for the club. Little did we know that while trying to be funny about birthdays, Tom actually had had a stroke. None of us knew until late December when his sister wrote back about the note written on Tom’s newsletter – “What has happened to you Tom?”. If you’re a friend of his, he can be sent letters at Manor Care, N26w23977 Watertown Rd, Waukesha, WI 53188. He’s lost control of the left half of his body but is alert and can still eat and talk. Friend support is needed now. That’s something us tall friends can do!

I am going to visit Tom on Christmas Eve Day and leave a shoebox of club photographs from over the years. Perhaps he will like to talk to others about some of them.

Laura Cofran who used to be with the Chicago Paramount Tall Club moved to Prince Edward Island with her husband Jeff some years ago. She also could use your prayers – after a ruptured brain anneurism left her in a coma for nearly a month. At present they are trying to ween her off a respirator. Jeff has a blog about her progress at http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/lauracofran.

I wish everyone else a healthy and happy holiday season and hope to see some of you next year, if not before.   -Dave, President or General Manager of the Tall Club of Milwaukee.

The National Marfan Foundation recently added some pictures to their home page in which Dave Rasmussen, TCI’s Liaison to the NMF and member/leader of the Tall Club of Milwaukee, shows up in one. But more importantly, if Marfan syndrome is something new to you, read a little about it. You might save a life!

Come join other tall people from the Tall Club of Milwaukee or Milwaukee Tall Meetup group for happy hour and $1 burgers. See you there?

N88 W16495 Main Street, Menomonee Falls, WI near the falls.

drinks after work 4-6, we order food around 6. Questions, call the club line, 414-982-5501 or 414-9-TALL-01

We had a great turnout and fine weather during Oktoberfest at Bavarian Field in Glendale on Sep 21 as can be seen in the previous picture. Some members from the Chicago, Madison and Milwaukee clubs.

October we have 2 items currently scheduled. On Thursday the 10th there is a discounted (groupon already purchased) dinner for 4, and however many more come at Bluemound Gardens, and then team trivia at 7pm.

On Saturday Oct 26, Dave invites his tall and other friends to share in his first concert of the year with the Concord Chamber Orchestra, followed by a reception thereafter.

Details for both of these can be found on the Milwaukee Talls Meetup

Questions? Call the club voicemail at 414-9TALL01 or 414-982-5501 and someone will get back to you.

Oktoberfest  Sept 21 2013 at Glendale WI Bavarian Inn with members of the Milwaukee Meetup, Tall Club of Milwaukee, Paramount Tall Club of Chicago and the Mad Town Talls.