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Meeting
Minutes
Friday, April 2, 2004
Volume 11; Issue 12
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Table of Contents
Committee Reports
Membership Report
(Click here to go to the Membership page)
There is no current membership incentive drive.
Your only incentive to bring members in should be your pride in
MABE. With that said, members are encouraged to make a
commitment to bring in one "quality" new member in the next 12
months. It starts with a commitment and ends with an
action.
Greg Stewart referenced the Chamber of Commerce
guide for category ideas: Hair Stylist, Bike Shop, Camera
Repair, Car Wash, Catering, Cell Phone Service, Coffee Shop.
Do any of you frequent these businesses? Do you know the
owner?
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SUBMITTED
APPLICATIONS |
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Tom Savage
Savage Air Conditioning
Sponsoring
Member:
Bill LaLonde
Part 1 of Application:
Completed
Visited Group:
Part 2 of Application:
Status:
IN PROCESS
Lin Schmelzer
Design Lin Advertising
Sponsoring
Member:
Ralph Cunningham
Part 1 of Application:
Completed
Visited Group:
Part 2 of Application:
Status:
IN PROCESS
Steve Ching
RPM Const. Inc.
Sponsoring
Member:
Gus
Dekavallas
Part 1 of Application:
Completed
Visited Group:
Part 2 of Application:
Status:
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Social Report
(Click here to go to the Social Event page)
The Usery Park Hike is tomorrow. However, if
it rains, the hike and lunch will be cancelled.
Speaker Coordinator Report
(Click here to go to the Speaker Schedule)
- 04/09/04 Phil Passante
- 04/16/04 Open Discussion
- 04/23/04 Ralph Cunningham
- 04/30/04 Gus Dekavallas
Treasurer Report
No report.
Leads Report
20-45, 20-22, 20-23, 37-48, 32-40, 32-31, 32-11,
32-15, 32-41, 29-46, 29-21, 18-46, 26-19, 26-24, 26-32, 26-17,
24-16, 10-32, 07-02, 15-13, 21-06, 21-13, 13-27, 06-18, 06-19,
04-45, 04-32, 27-31, 31-43, 43-41, 43-15, 43-11, 43-02, 40-19,
40-13.
Notable
Mentions
MABE welcomed two guest today...James Bache's
wife Cathy and Stuart Schindler's significant other, Charlie.
The new Buddy
Lunch List is out. Get yours scheduled today!
Also posted is the
Greeter List. Please
make note of your scheduled date and be there bright and early
to greet your fellow members.
The business card holder has been cleaned up and
organized with new color tabs with each members name listed.
Several members will need to bring in business cards for the
holder. Please check it next Friday as you sign up for
breakfast.
You snooze, you loose! Today was the
deadline for the brochure updates. They are going to
print.
Mighty Minute
Today's Mighty Minute is an alert. Bob
Busch was recently a victim of fraud. His savings account
was wiped out by someone who printed up checks using his savings
account number and proceeded to go on a shopping spree at
Wal-Mart. The ironic thing is, being a savings account,
checks are not supposed to be written against it. Bob's
money has not yet been returned by the bank. He had to
fill out paperwork and they said it could take up to 14 days to
process. Since his account number is not on any checks or
receipts, Bob is convinced that it is an inside job as he shreds
everything and there isn't any other way someone would get this
account number.
Jim Bache had this happen to him too. All
they need is your checking account number. When you write
a check, you are giving that number away. A common scam is
to produce checks that look like payroll checks. They put
your account number on it and then cash it on Fridays or the
15th of the month when tellers are very busy and don't check
things as thoroughly.
Wayne Unruh had a similar problem with his Home
Depot account. Someone charged up several thousand dollars
in gift certificates, etc. Home Depot actually noticed the
unusual activity and contacted Wayne. Wayne is also
convinced that it is an inside job since his account number and
information is not printed on receipts. These crooks are
very smart. They don't go over $5000. They know that
if it is under this limit it is not worth the fed's time to
prosecute.
Dean Synan had a customer whose young daughter's
social security number was stolen and used. In fact, many
of his customers have been victim's of fraud.
Chris Curran, along with several other members,
have received bogus emails from someone claiming to be PayPal.
They send you to a fake site that looks like PayPal and ask you
to give them personal information. Don't do it! It
is a scam!
Question of the Day
None.
Main Speaker
James E. Bache,
P.C.
Attorney at Law
Jim began his speech with a lawyer joke. I
think all members would agree that lawyers should NOT tell
lawyer jokes!
Jim was born in 1955. He is a devout
Catholic...He had 3 priests at his wedding! He has
two daughters that he is very proud of. The oldest is
Leann. She is a self proclaimed nerd. She will
graduate this quarter from the prestigious University of
Chicago. She will next go into a 6-year PhD program.
She is extremely intelligent. She scored a 1570 out of
1600 on her SAT's. Colleen is their youngest. She is
a freshman at Xavier College Prep. She is also extremely
smart but not as much of a perfectionist about it as Leann.
One of Jim's hobbies is flying. He is a
private pilot and owns his own plane which he keeps at Chandler
Municipal. His interest in flying began during little
league. His coach told the team that anyone who got a
grand slam during the season would get to go up in his plane
with him. There were no grand slams but Jim had the most
homeruns so he got to go flying. This first flight enticed
him. Jim had cousins that learned to fly. While
visiting on vacation, they wanted to take aerobatic lessons.
Jim went too. He started taking lessons at 15 (when he
could reach the pedals) and got his license at 17 which is the
youngest you can get it.
Jim is also involved with Kiwanis. Through
this group he interacts with kids. He started reading for
a 4th grade class in an impoverished area. They were
learning about flying, lift, etc. Jim was asked to teach
them about this so he got on the internet to freshen up his
knowledge. He used a model airplane wing, which he brought
in this morning, as a prop to teach the kids.
Jim's family owned an ice cream plant in
Phoenix. They sold it in 1984. Jim worked there as a
teenager. It was during this time that Jim decided he
wanted to be a lawyer. This idea stuck with him all
through high school. He decided he would be a history
major since the research skills would help him when he went into
law.
His GPA during his first year of college was not
so great and he worried about getting into law school. He
also had to deal with the chance that he would loose credit for
his first year of classes if he changed majors. A
counselor helped him by developing a new category. Jim was
to get his Economic/Accounting degree. He got a 2nd in
history. He sat for and failed the CPA. But he did
get accepted into law school. He graduated from ASU law
school but was not in the top 10%. The top 10% got to
write for the law journal. Even though he was not in the
top 10%, he did get his writing published which is something he
is very proud of.
Jim has been practicing law since 1980. He
began at a firm that had CPA's and lawyers. He was hired
to do probate but spent most of his time handling divorce cases.
He left that firm in 1985 and, with one exception, has not and
will not do another divorce case. They leave him with a
bad taste in his mouth for the law.
Jim is part of the first group of lawyers to
specialize in Trust & Estate Law and he is one of only 5 or 6 in
the East Valley. He passed around 3 handouts today.
Two are available here.
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