NEXT TIME — Tuesday, Nov. 18 — at the Edgewater. Another of our series of "Lionism, Madison Central Style" meetings, to be led by Pres. JODI and featuring a wrap up on our first—ever Sight Night project (if we can build this one up, we can help a lot of people and be visible in the community at the same time), reports from JIM BRADLEY of the Investment Committee, JERRY HODDINOTT for Rose Day, and the Walk For Sight and "Texas Hold'Em Tournament" committees.

Holiday Treat Sale (LINDA BERGREN, Prop.) will have the holiday candy, nuts and cakes on hand to be picked up. Get yours, for sure — we don’t want to have to store and handle them any more than we absolutely have to. There will be extra stock available for sale as well.

There will be sign—up sheets for the State and District Bowling and District Curling tournaments. Here’s a chance to have some fun with your fellow Lions and some good—natured competition.

IT’S COMING!! Our annual Holiday Music program will be on December 2. Bring a friend and enjoy. Our next Board of Directors meeting will be Nov. 25, noon, at the Edgewater.

WE NEED! — workers for the Kohl Center concession stand for the basketball season. It’s started — go to the website to sign up, or see SCOTT GROVER. This is an important part of our fundraising, and have a good time working with fellow Lions, friends and families.

MEET! — The Walk For Sight Committee meets again on Nov. 18, 11:30 AM, in the Edgewater bar. This project is designed to raise community awareness of what we do and who we are, and also to raise some money. The committee needs some more members — be there if you can help out.

LAST TIME — Pres. JODI opened our last meeting with the help of DG JOHN JENSON as flagpole, JIM SCHUTZ led the song and MICHELLE VETTERKIND gave the invocation. We got a check from the Gum Ball distributor for $477.38, which brings our total receipts from this program to $150,544. It’s just like finding money on the street. If you spot a place where a gum machine could go, tell JAN CICHOCKI. He can get it placed, and we get commissions on into the future.

JERRY MILLER’S Melvin Jones Fellowship plaque didn’t quite arrive before the Awards Night, so it was formally presented to him at our regular meeting. It recognizes JERRY’S service to our Club and his community — thank you again, JERRY!

Pres. JODI reminded us that we’re trying to get a Poker Tournament off the ground as a fundraiser. She can’t do it by herself — you card sharks, get in the game and help her out. See her and volunteer.

Our speaker was Dr. John Wiley, Professor and Chancellor Emeritus of the UW, and Director of the Discovery Center which is being built at University and Randall Aves. Funded by $50 million (!) each from the Morgridge Foundation, Wis. Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) and the State, it is intended to foster interdisciplinary research, across the traditional lines and tracks, to find and develop new products, procedures and devices. Two separate enterprises will operate within the Center, one with public funding and one private, so that any limitations on one side or the other can be surmounted.

Knowledge is expanding at an astounding rate, the highest in history, and as a process is perfected, such as the mapping of the human genome and genetic research, the cost comes down. Dr. Wiley pointed to three areas of exploding knowledge — stem cell research, information technology to manage and focus the discoveries, and nanotechnology, the building of microscopically small devices that can go places and do things hitherto impossible. With his basic degrees in physics, and having taught electrical and computer engineering, he obviously has a wide grasp of today’s scientific frontiers, and on top of that, he is able to explain the immensely complicated in terms that a layman can understand. It also helps explain how research can develop new fields of production that will provide jobs for the next generation, and why higher education is necessary for people to work in these fields. Acquiring so much knowledge so quickly has the potential to change lives, perhaps in ways not yet fully understood.

Your editor used to say "can’t tell the players without a program" and these days it seems you not only can’t tell the players, you don’t know what the game is without an introduction and explanation. And the explanations aren’t simple. We got a lot of things to think about from this program. STEVE BRIGGS got it for us, and introduced the speaker.