Next Tuesday's meeting at the Edgewater will again have the Overture Center as its theme and JIM BRADLEY as Program Host. The speaker will be Steven Fleischman, from the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, who will tell us about their new Gallery. We learned from our last speaker that there are many art galleries in the Center, and now we will get some specifics. It's going to take a while for some of us to take it all in.

Future programs on our schedule also include a speaker from Madison Opera, another resident company at the Overture Center. Maybe the Program Committee could find someone from the Madison Symphony to round out the schedule? There will also be a speaker from the Madison Convention and Visitors' Bureau, at least in part on the impact of the Overture Center. We are also hoping to hear a speaker on Wisconsin politics. They could sure use some explanation.

At our last meeting, there was the usual uproar at the "Turmoil Table" before the meeting began, but President LINDA BERGREN managed to quell them enough to get the meeting started. OTTO FESTGE hit a perfect pitch for the singing of "America", and TERRY SCHAR gave the invocation. There were no guests, unfortunately.

DON NEVIASER reminded us about the upcoming Service Club Luncheon, and actually extended his offer to subsidize $5.00 off the $17.00 ticket price. It's at the Alliant Center on Nov. 19th. Here's your chance to mingle with other service club members, hear a good speaker, and represent our Club.

All our raffle tickets are out, but maybe not all sold. If you have some, make that last effort and get them sold. If you can't call either chairperson - GEORGE ALBRIGHT or MELISSA NOVINSKI - so they can be moved to another Lion who can sell them. DON NEVIASER is singlehandedly outselling the entire rest of the Club, from what we hear, so we don't want any tickets to go unsold. NEXT WEEK IS THE DRAWING, so this is your last shot. Make it your best shot!

MARK LARSON filled in as TailTwister this week, and said whoever stole the Lion bank this time could just use it to be TT next week. MARK put forth a couple of "jokes" not suitable for this family publication. He came up with a substitute ceramic Lion which was in better shape than the original.

JODI BURMESTER told us who the "Lion Bingo" winners from our social meeting last week were: ROSS ROYSTER, THAYER BURNHAM, MELISSA ABBOTT, DON GOLEMBIEWSKI, and DON NEVIASER. BETTY INGWELL was the full-page winner. A neat way to keep members circulating. We should try that one again. Suggested question: Who offered to sell his socks at a MCLC meeting?

Some more Lion Birthdays were celebrated: HAL OTTERBACK and DALE ST. JOHN since 1969 and ALEX WONG since 1986. Gift winners were DALE MUELLER, LINDA BERGREN, and JIM BRADLEY. JIM's prize was edible, and he shared it with all of us.

HAL OTTERBACK got the special recognition he deserves for his years as Bulletin Editor - a huge ball point "Poison Pen" award (should have been "Power Pen"), and a Certificate of Appreciation from the Club. He also got a framed copy of the Editor's Portrait that has been on the website for years, but which he'd never seen. HAL faithfully kept our communications going for about 17 years, reporting our news, pointing out our follies, and not incidentally dealing with the Post Office bureaucracy and the postal service. As Publisher, he still handles that last part of the job, and HAL, we appreciate all you've done!

Speaker Michael Goldberg, Program Director for the Overture Center told us about the opening week - 130 performances by different groups for 65,000 visitors,showcasing the fact that Overture is for everyone. The Center is the result of the largest single gift to the arts anywhere - over $200 million. For that we will have 7 performance areas and 5 art galleries when it is all done. Overture schedules its "resident groups" -Madison Symphony, Madison Ballet and Madison Opera - first, and then builds a schedule of entertainment from as broad a spectrum as possible. Mr. Goldberg's rule is "quality first," so that audiences see the best there is in each type of entertainment, to make them want to come again. Mr. Goldberg went to school at UW, drove a cab (on occasion being a courier for our Eye Bank), and worked in other areas of the country before returning to direct the programming for the Wisconsin Union Theater. He's now able to work with a much larger house, but if you remember the good programs at the Union, you know that Overture will give the city some really great entertainment.