Please reply to Mary Garbaciak, mdgarbaciak@gmail.com with your lunch reservation! Reservations are needed by February 1, 2018, so we can give the exact number of meals to our Chef. To help balance our accounting, there will be a volunteer to take $15 by check or to make cash at the meeting. We will be ordering only enough meals to equal the number of reservations taken. Any people who have not made reservations are asked to wait until all of the people with reservations have gone through the food line.
Our program speaker after our February 5 Membership Meeting and lunch will be Joan Fudala. Joan's presentation will be:
“The Arizona Craftsmen: Catalyst for Scottsdale’s Post-World War II Cultural Cachet." Flash back to late 1940s Scottsdale and learn – through a photo-rich presentation – about the artisans who helped brand Scottsdale as the arts, crafts and fashion capital of the Southwest. Working from a re-purposed General Store on Main Street, artists like Lloyd Kiva, Lew Davis, Mathilde Schaefer Davis, Sandy Sanderson and others gained national acclaim for their work and for their adopted home town.
Joan Fudala has been a full-time Scottsdale community historian since 1999, and is the author of seven books as well as hundreds of feature articles about Scottsdale’s history. She is a frequent speaker at community, library and business meetings, and provides historic consulting services to a variety of government, non-profit and private organizations. Earlier in her career, Joan served as a public relations executive, and is a U.S. Air Force veteran with 21 years of service on active duty and in the reserves. She currently serves on the Scottsdale Museum of the West Board of Trustees, the Scottsdale Historical Society Advisory Board and several other Scottsdale-based boards and committees.