DAC News - Detroit Athletic Club

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Detroit Athletic Club
2013
Election
Results
5
Profile of
David
DiChiera
February 2013
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DAC NEWS FEBRUARY 2013
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Contents
February 2013
DAC NEWS EDITORIAL
Managing Editor/Marketing Coordinator
Andrea Zarczynski
Assistant Editor/Marketing Coordinator
Amywren Miller
Features & Photos
pg. 32
DAC 2013 Election Results - 6
David DiChiera: Detroit Opera Visionary - 32
Mary Rodrique
Lifetime Achievement Award to DAC’s Finest - 37
Mary Rodrique
DEA Brings Detroit Leaders Together - 38
Mary Rodrique
Contributing Writers
Mary Rodrique, Joseph Cabadas
& Rick Asher
Contributing Photographers
Kathleen Thompson, Jack Kenny
Web Editor
Chad Wilson
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Election Day at the DAC - 7
Andrea Zarczynski, Amywren Miller & Ken Voyles
pg. 42
Graphic Designer
Jill McClure
Auto Show Preview Night - 42
Kathleen Thompson, Andrea Zarczynski, Amywren Miller
& Ken Voyles
New Year’s Eve at the DAC - 46
Kathleen Thompson
Around the Club - 48
Jack Kenny & Ken Voyles
Advertising Assistant
Nancy Rudnick
EDITOR & PUBLISHER
Kenneth H. Voyles
Contact Us
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FEBRUARY 2013
Volume 98 Issue 2
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About the Cover
Executive Manager’s Message
President’s Report
Treasurer’s Report
Foundation Report
DAC Donors Club
Newly Elected List
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DAC Committee Reports
Beavers Baloney
Bowling Beat
Blackballers Bounce
Fitness Club
Intermediates
Clubs-within-the-Club
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About the Cover
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his month’s cover, “Spirit
Horse” (1994), is number four
in an edition of 30 by Colorado
based artist Veryl Goodnight. After
working in the arts for more than 15
years, Goodnight moved into sculpting
to gain a better understanding of
anatomy. Her love of nature is evident
in her subject matter, which includes
horses.
Goodnight, who prefers to work
directly from life, is highly respectful
of her subjects. “The subtle differences
of each living being have become my
passion, whether I am sculpting or
painting,” she said. Influences such as
Anna Hyatt Huntington and Alexander
Phimster have driven her to connect
with her subjects.
The model for “Spirit Horse”
was a racing quarterhorse. The title
reflects the spiritual belief of Native
Americans that there is a “great horse”
in the heavens that looks after all earthly
horses. Strength and power are evoked
through the deeply curved surface of the
sculpture which stands 24 inches tall.
Originally selected by the Art and
Architecture Committee for purchase,
the DAC acquired the sculpture in
honor of former 1951 DAC President
John R. Davis using funds from the
Davis Foundation chaired by DAC
member James LoPrete.
As dictated by the Art and
Architecture Committee, the sculpture
first resided in the Grill Room and has
since been moved to the Main Lobby
where it is today.
Amywren Miller
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Manager’s Message
J.G. TED GILLARY
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ne attribute that
sets the DAC apart
is the building of
relationships among our
members by developing a
sense of togetherness and
belonging.
As we work to share
the DAC story, good
communication remains a critical tool in
making those connections at the heart
of our vision and mission. This means
integrating creative resources, with a strong
commitment to the written and visual
language of communications.
For nearly 100 years the DAC News has
been at the center of this effort, not only
informing members but reminding them
about, and connecting them to the Club. In
recent years, though, the magazine’s history
has not accurately reflected the part it plays
in the day to day efforts to inform, share
and evoke what the DAC is about today.
Late last year we decided to clarify this
expanded role and realign the magazine
to be a true communications department.
While a name change isn’t in and of
itself a big development, the idea that
communicating to all of our members
across a broad spectrum of methods as a top
priority is one, especially with the changing
nature of communications in our society.
Though print publications remain
mainstays in what we do, our world really
is one of social media; electronic messaging
and websites; blogs; and an endless array of
app resources, all used more and more by
various demographics within our Club.
Our communications have already been
evolving to reflect this. In recent years we
revamped our website, started using social
media, implemented stronger e-messages,
added depth to our photographic coverage
and developed marketing materials for new
amenities at the DAC.
Most importantly, we have been working
to undestand our brand and how it relates
to the spectrum of communications you
receive from the Club.
This effort has truly refocused our
attention on the idea that engaging
members through considered and refined
communications is a key part of the DAC
experience.
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2013
DAC Election Results
Lauren Eisbrenner
Anthony J. Magdowski
Paul H. Huth
Steven P. Mellos
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s required by Club bylaws, the annual Club election of
members to the Board of Directors was held on Jan. 29,
2013. A total of 864 valid ballots were cast. Elected to
three-year terms were:
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Lauren Eisbrenner, Executive Vice President, Eisbrenner
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Paul H. Huth, Huth Lynett Corporate Law Firm
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Douglas J. Krizanic, Senior Partner, Deloitte Tax, LLP
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Anthony J. Magdowski, Senior Vice President & General
Manager, Comerica Bank’s Finance Division
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Steven P. Mellos, Executive Vice President, The Albrecht
Companies
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Alice R. Pfahlert, Financial Advisor, Ameriprise Financial
Services, Inc.
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Lawrence G. Rancilio, President & CEO, Proven Court
Services, LLC
Douglas J. Krizanic
Alice R. Pfahlert
Lawrence G. Rancilio
After the close of balloting at 7 p.m., the annual meeting was
held. The annual reports of President Rick DiBartolomeo and
Treasurer Anthony J. Magdowski were presented.
The full text of their official reports are on pages 8 and 14,
respectively.
At the first meeting of the new Club Board held Feb. 1, 2013,
Michael F. Ottaway was elected as the 96th President of the
Detroit Athletic Club and Thomas A. Fabbri was elected as 1st
Vice President. At the same time, Anthony J. Magdowski, winner
of the preferential ballot, was elected as 2nd Vice President; Glen
Fayolle was named Club Secretary; and David J. Hammel was
named Club Treasurer.
A profile of 2013 DAC President Michael F. Ottaway will
appear in the March Membership Roster issue of the DAC News.
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Election Day at the DAC
Chris Allen gets his
ballot from Bill Brink.
John Dakmak gets ready to vote.
Above, election
judges Carl
Jarboe, Jack
Lind and Walker
Mayhew.
Past Presidents John Prost, Charlie
Nicholl and George Haggarty.
Paul Huth, Anthony Urbani and Joe
Impastato.
Right, Larry Leib and Andy Housey.
Melinda Conway Callahan
and Margie Duncan.
Joe Moran and Nancy Thiel.
DAC election counters Spencer Burke, Stan Ames, Anthony
Joseph and Paul Van Der Hoeven.
Adel Dissett and
Linda Forte.
Left, Jim
Schroth
and Julie
Henry-Kelly.
Cal Look and Tom Peloso.
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President’s Report
RICHARD D. DIBARTOLOMEO
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s we close the record book on our
125th Anniversary as a Club, the
phrase, “Proud of our past, excited
about our future” continues to repeat itself.
2012 was a banner year for the Club on
many fronts and we stand poised and ready
to go into the next 125 years as a vibrant and
relevant institution in the City of Detroit.
Hallmarks of the Club’s success over the years have been
a common vision shared by our members and a relentless
focus on our strategic goals as follows:
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The “great recession” of
recent years appears to be behind us and
better days lie ahead. The Club experienced a net Resident
member loss of approximately 500 during the period
2008-2010. Since then, we have been able to stabilize the
membership, but we still have a long way to go as it relates to
our desire to retain existing members and attract new ones.
We ended up the year at 2,355 Resident members which is
down forty-two (42) from 2011. The Board and management
have recently undergone an analysis of our Membership
Development process, including the benchmarking of best
practices in this important area.
What we currently know is that less than five (5) percent
of our membership is involved in referring new members to
the Club. This percentage is well below where we would like
to be. We simply have to engage more of our members in the
recruiting process.
The Board has given Membership Development top
priority in 2013. With an increased membership, we can
continue with confidence our plans to further expand our
facilities and provide the types of services our members expect
now and in the future.
One of the highlights of the year as it relates to Membership
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Development is the increase in our Intermediates membership.
As of Dec. 31, our Intermediates totalled 369 or a 35
percent increase from 2011. The Intermediates Council is
doing a great job of organizing events and recruiting DAC
members of the future.
We will be launching a membership incentive program in
the near future that will assist us in being a stronger Club than
we are today. Stay tuned for more details.
I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Sean
Cotton of Meridian Health who is the winner of the 2012
membership drive. Sean recruited the most new members
to the Club in 2012 and as such will be entitled to his
very own personalized space
in the parking structure.
Congratulations, Sean!
Member Programs
and Services
During 2012, the Club
experienced
i n c re a s e d
utilization by our members
and their guests. We had nine
(9) events this year with record
attendance, including Back-tothe-Club Night which hosted
almost 1,300 guests.
The Intermediates Fall and Spring Wine Tasting events
continue to grow and attract both Intermediates and Resident
members. Increased usage and record attendance at events this
year is confirmation that our membership is fully engaged.
Our Stadium Pavilion activities continue to see increased
demand with 2012 being a record year as it relates to attendance.
We hosted over 19,000 guests and saw our revenues increase
over 60 percent from 2011.
The events at Comerica Park (Detroit Tigers, Jimmy
Buffett, etc.) and Ford Field fueled much of this increase.
Suffice to say, we had a great season and are expecting even
greater opportunities in 2013.
Our Athletic Department usage is up significantly with
our new Tranquility Spa experiencing over 1,000 visits each
quarter.
The reviews of the spa have been terrific and we continue
to introduce new services (nutrition, chiropractic, etc.) for our
members and their guests to enjoy.
Group fitness classes such as yoga, zumba, spinning and
kick boxing all continue to gain in popularity. Our Seventh
Floor Sky High Studio and adjoining room was completed
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In honor of the 125-year anniversary of the DAC, Rick DiBartolomeo’s term began with the taking of a unique photograph before the Past Directors Party that included more
than 70 former and current Board members.
in 2012 and hosts a number of these
classes.
Men’s and Women’s locker room
usage grew five percent and nine
percent, respectively from 2011 levels
and are the highest since the Club
began recording visits in 2000.
Best in class dining is something that
defines the DAC. Our rich culinary
tradition elevates and distinguishes
us from the rest with the Club’s
professional, award-winning culinary
team truly “Defining Detroit Cuisine.”
Our clubs-within-the-Club continue
to experience active participation by
our members.
Camaraderie and fun are two active
ingredients that make being a member
of these groups such a rewarding
experience.
Clubs such as the 3Bs once again
had a successful, soldout Golf Outing
in June and the Youth Activities Club
continues to come up with activities
and experiences that members and
their children will cherish for a lifetime.
Financial Stewardship
As a result of a stabilized
membership, increased usage of the
facilities, record attendances at events
and prudent management, the Club
recorded financial results not seen
since 2008.
Our long-term debt is now $5.2
million as a result of nearly $800,000
in principal reduction during 2012.
In addition, we expended over $1.9
million in capital improvements in
order to keep our facility the very best.
The Treasurer’s Report will go into
more detail as to the 2012 financial
results and it is encouraged that you
read the report as well as the audited
financial statements to gain further
insight as to our financial performance.
The results recorded in 2012 should
give us confidence that 2013 will be
another strong year which will allow
us to continue our vision and prepare
us for our Centennial Celebration in
2015.
Facility Maintenance
and Enhancement
Our financial performance as
discussed above has allowed us to
maintain and enhance our Clubhouse
to what it is today…a crown jewel.
Our 2011 investment in guest rooms,
Tranquility Spa, Sixth Floor Hughes
Chalmers Board Room and Men’s and
Women’s Bowling Locker Rooms were
the catalyst for us to continue on our
path of providing the very best for our
members and their guests.
The single largest project for 2012
was the completion of the Seventh
Floor Sky High Fitness Studio and
adjoining training room. This was a
The DAC Board presents preliminary information about the Master Facilities Plan at one of two Town Hall meetings.
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great example of taking under-utilized space and turning it
into an area that can be enjoyed by members.
A large portion of our facility expenditures in 2012
evolved around maintaining and upgrading of equipment
used by the DAC staff in the performance of their daily
responsibilities.
It is important that we continue to invest in “the back of
the house” so as to ensure safety in the workplace and no
interruption in the delivery of services to the membership.
The conservation and cleaning of the exterior limestone
of the Clubhouse was completed and it has never looked
better. Cleaning the limestone this year allows us to focus
on future enhancements to the Clubhouse in preparation
for our Centennial Celebration in 2015.
Our vision for a future DAC continued this year with
the development and completion of a Master Facilities
Plan (MFP). This undertaking was no small task and was
the result of involvement by many individuals including
representatives of management, the membership and the
Board of Directors.
As we communicated at our Town Hall meetings, our
vision for the near future is for an enhanced Clubhouse
including a rooftop plaza, a redesigned Randolph Lobby
and a more permanent Stadium Pavilion.
Future plans (depending upon membership levels and
the desire of the membership) would include a north
addition with expanded fitness facilities, men and women
locker rooms and a casual dining venue.
The next step for us is to engage our architects for
programming and conceptual design services.
The goal would be to complete construction of the first
phase (rooftop, Randolph Lobby and Stadium Pavilion)
prior to our Centennial Celebration in 2015.
Much work needs to be done yet, but we are on track
to be able to communicate to the membership our plans in
the first half of 2013.
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Governance and Management
The DAC has always had a reputation for a strong
governance and management structure. Our Board and
committees work closely with management to ensure that
we as a Club are operating efficiently and effectively.
During 2012 we continued to strengthen and improve
our governance structure with a review and amendment
of our election process for incumbent candidates, the
expansion of our nominating committee, the performance
of board self-assessments and the formalization of
succession planning for our senior management team.
In addition, we further enhanced the evaluation
process for our executive manager in order to ensure
fairness and accountability.
The growth of outdoor services in the Stadium Pavilion was helped by the World Series.
Communication was another area that we looked
to strengthen during 2012. Quarterly Board updates as
Commitment to Our Staff
well as having Town Hall meetings are critical to keep the
membership informed of developments and actions taken.
The DAC was once again the recipient of the Platinum
Our Strategic Planning process continues to play an
Club of America award in 2012. This award recognizes the
important role in how we execute and make decisions for
finest clubs across the country for culinary excellence, quality
the benefit of the membership.
of the workplace, human resource practices, athletics and
All strategies employed throughout the Club are aligned
member communications.
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In addition, the Club was honored
as one of the top places to work in
metropolitan Detroit. These awards
are a tribute to the management and
staff of the DAC (“Team DAC”).
Research has shown time and
time again that loyalty and customer
satisfaction are driven by the service a
member is provided.
Team DAC continues to exceed
the expectations of our membership
by consistently delivering service with
precision and excellence unmatched
anywhere.
Team DAC, led by Executive
Manager Ted Gillary is to be
commended for an outstanding year.
With record attendance at events
and increased usage at the Club, Team
DAC did not waiver. They continued
to do what they do each and every
day….greet you with a smile and a
warm welcome when you walk into the
Clubhouse and make you feel as if you
are the most important person they are
serving.
It was recently announced that
Craig Cutler will be leaving us after
nine years to take the position of
general manager at a local country
club. His dedication to customer
service, Team DAC and the Club will
be truly missed. We wish him only the
best in his new role and thank him for
his contributions to our Club.
Team DAC is second to none.
Please take the opportunity to thank
members of Team DAC when you see
them for all that they are doing for us
each and every day.
Proud of our past,
excited about our future
As we head into 2013 we have these
six strategic goals or “pillars” that are
the foundation of all that we do. We
have a strong foundation upon which
to build and a tradition of excellence in
all that we do.
I would be remiss if I did not
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Rick DiBartolomeo with last year’s DAC Athletic Award winners.
conclude with the most important part
of my message as president.
That message is one of thanks
to the men and women who made
2012 possible. It’s the commitment
to excellence, a shared vision and a
passion for our Club that makes this
all possible.
As I mentioned previously, Team
DAC cannot be thanked enough for
all that they do for us each and every
day. Thank you for your dedication
and commitment.
Thank you to the members who
have volunteered their time, talents
and countless hours serving on Board
committees. Your input, guidance and
passion for our Club are the product of
who we are today.
Thank you
for your service
Thank you to the past presidents
and former Board members of the
Club. You, and those before you, are
the reason we are here today. Your
vision for the Club and a strong sense
of stewardship has been invaluable.
Thank you to all of the members
of the Club for your support and for
keeping us vibrant through good times
and bad.
Thank you is not enough for our
Executive Manager Ted Gillary and all
that he does to lead our Club on a dayto-day basis.
His commitment to excellence,
leadership, relations with his team and
passion for the Club are key reasons why
we are the finest club in the country.
He’s the best in the business and we are
fortunate to have him at the helm.
Finally, thank you to my fellow
Board members for their leadership,
commitment and passion for the Club.
Gary Marowske, Jerry Rock and I
will have served our commitment to the
Board and it is now time for three new
members to serve.
The 2013 Board has a full agenda
and I am confident that they will
continue to be exemplary stewards of
our great Club.
Thank you for the opportunity to
serve.
Rick DiBartolomeo accepts special recognition for the DAC
from the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame.
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Treasurer’s Report
ANTHONY J. MAGDOWSKI
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012 was a record year in so many
ways for the DAC. Not only did
the Club experience high levels of
activity during the baseball playoffs but
almost every facet of the operation showed
increased utilization and growth. This
growth translated to improvements to the
financial condition of the Club. For the year
ended Dec. 31, 2012, the Club Members Equity increased
by $725,000. Member Equity now approaches $34 million.
For 2012 the Finance Committee and I were challenged
with the objective of developing a plan that makes use of
revenue sources to generate funds for operations, annual
capital expenditures and facility development.
The Club directly met this challenge by focusing on
revenue growth in all areas of the Club as well as the reduction
and control of costs. This strategy allowed the Club to not
only meet but exceed the goal as illustrated above.
The Club was also able to invest almost $1.7 million in
Club facility improvements. At the same time, we reduced
the overall debt by $800,000. With reduced debt, the Club
has the ability to take advantage of future opportunities.
Most importantly, the Club saw an increase in total
member count from 3,605 at year end 2011 to 3,666 at
Dec. 31, 2012 with much of this growth coming in the
Intermediate ranks.
The Intermediate ranks swelled to record numbers,
approaching 400 Intermediate members. This growing
numbers reflects well on the Club’s ability to realize gains from
the growth of young professionals now living and working in
the City of Detroit. Long term, this membership class will be
the foundation of an active, engaged membership.
The strategy of maintaining high quality service with
an outstanding product has helped us in the long run and
prepares the Club for an exciting future. The ability to fund
capital investments was made possible by strong operational
results, achieved by increased member and guest utilization
of the facilities.
Copies of the Club’s consolidated financial report for
the year ended Dec. 31, 2012 were available at the annual
meeting. The Certified Public Accounting firm of Plante
& Moran PLLC has once again issued their unqualified
opinion on our financial statements. Below are financial
statement highlights.
Balance Sheet
The Balance Sheet reflects a strong financial position
including an asset base of $42.5 million. The debt to equity
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ratio of .16 to one is down 16 percent from the previous
year due to accelerated debt reductions that came as a result
of strong operational cash flows. The debt coverage ratio,
as measured by our lenders, is at 3.9, more than three times
the level required in our debt covenants.
Statement of Revenue and Expenses
During 2012, the Club saw a second consecutive annual
increase in membership. This membership increase coupled
with upward spiraling member utilization of the facilities
resulted in a change in member equity of almost $725,000.
Club operating revenues, or non-dues revenue, increased
by 9.1 percent, the second year in a row that operating
revenues have reached a nine percent growth pace.
The annual operational performance increased by
$114,000 bringing the two year growth to $250,000. The
Food and Beverage Department saw a revenue increase of
five percent or $360,000 for the year due to continued
service excellence, a great perceived value, and high energy,
high quality special events that allowed members to
entertain and showcase our Club.
The Club celebrated 37 weddings and saw an increase
in special event revenue of 16 percent. The guest rooms
occupancy grew for the third straight year and ended at 52
percent for the year. The Athletic Department utilization
numbers continued to climb with locker room visits
growing by six percent to the highest level in the last ten
years.
Higher utilization levels in all areas of the Club indicates
a high level of member satisfaction with the facility and
services and a high level of member engagement. Higher
engagement levels and an increase in the number of guests
will support the opportunity to increase our membership
levels.
Debt Management
Our long term debt stands at $5.2 million as of Dec. 31,
2012 with $3.9 million at a fixed rate of 5.6 percent. This
long term debt matures in 2014.
Additionally, the Club has variable rate debt of $1.3
million and a $2 million line of credit available for operating
cash flow both at a rate of 3.25 percent at year end.
Currently we have no outstanding balance on this line
of credit. Variable rate debt was used to finance the 2011
renovations of the guest rooms, spa, Hughes Chalmers
Board Room, locker rooms and other projects totaling $4.1
million.
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As of Dec. 31, 2012 only $1 million
was outstanding on this note as strong
cash flows for the last two years have
allowed the Club to finance and pay
down a large amount of this facility.
Current financial models indicate this
note will be paid off in the coming year.
Operational Management
All of our Finance Committee
members continue to work on various
subcommittees that address the most
pressing issues facing the operation.
These subcommittees include Master
Planning, Accounts Receivable, Best
Practices, Pension, Non-Traditional
Income, Health Insurance, Member
Demographics, and the Budget
Subcommittee.
The Finance Committee and these
subcommittees continue to look for
ways to implement best practices from
all industries and find cost efficient
ways to provide member and employee
services.
It is important to understand
that Club management and the full
Finance Committee are committed
to continuously surface cost control
initiatives, implementing them with
minimal impact to the membership.
The practice of meeting with
Club management on a regular basis
continued to reap benefits. Assistant
Treasurer Patrick O’Keefe and I met
regularly with Club management to
discuss not only past results but to
perform analysis of trends, forecast
future results, and discuss ways to
maintain the financial stability and
promote future growth.
This group also performed
benchmarking and peer testing to
evaluate our level of operational
efficiencies.
Excellent results, like those I have
described, are not possible without
strong leadership.
I would like to thank each
member of the 2012 Finance
Committee for their hard work and
commitment to the Club. The time
and talent that you give is invaluable
to this organization and is one of the
reasons we continue to maintain our
Platinum Club status as one of the
best clubs in the country.
I would also like to thank the
members of the Audit Committee.
This committee is charged with
overseeing the integrity and
effectiveness of the Club’s financial
position, and reporting processes,
including the evaluation of the
related risks and controls.
In addition, the Audit Committee
monitors the external auditors’ roles
and responsibilities. I also want to
express my gratitude to Ted Gillary,
the Accounting Department, and
the rest of the management and
staff. They are the ones who on a
daily basis are responsible for the
operations and financial success of
the DAC. We as members benefit
from their continued efforts.
Membership is the lifeline of
the Club so I want to thank the
Membership Department for
their energy and passion for our
membership and the membership
development.
I also want to thank my fellow
Board members for their support
in 2012 and our President Rick
DiBartolomeo for leadership and
vision and the tone his dedication
has set for establishing the DAC
as the premier gathering place in
Michigan.
Finally, thank you, my fellow
members, for the opportunity to
serve as your treasurer this past year.
I look forward to any future
opportunities I may be given to serve
this Club; you are all an important
part of my life.
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DAC Foundation Report
SEAN P. MORAN
A
s your DAC Foundation completes its
14th year, it continues a record setting
pace of charitable endeavors and has
quietly become an integral piece of the DAC
landscape. 2012 was a landmark year in the
development of this young organization and its
primary purposes.
The Foundation is a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3)
charitable organization founded in 1999 to help build upon the
community spirit so cherished by our founders and so many DAC
members today. Its threefold purpose continues the long traditions
of our Club in promoting participation in community service and
development, the promotion of amateur athletics and support of
both fine art and architecture. Despite the economic turmoil that
surrounds our Club, just as the DAC itself flourished in 2012, so
did your Foundation.
I have been involved now with the Foundation for many years.
This past year I was especially privileged to serve as its president
and to work closely with a very talented group of directors. Late
in 2008, your Foundation’s Board approved the expansion of the
board members as well as the establishment of three-year terms for
board members. We established a board rotation which provides
better continuity year to year, yet allows for a one third turnover on
an annual basis. Additionally, we have established a format, which
provides a larger number of independent, non-DAC Club Directors.
Your Foundation’s 2012 Board members were as follows: Mario D.
Apruzzese, Carl J. Bentley, Beverly Hall Burns, Bruce L. Birger,
Richard A. Brodie, Richard DiBartolomeo, Thomas A. Fabbri,
Glen Fayolle, George A. Haggarty, Michael A. John, Jr., Terrence E.
Keating, Mary L. Kramer, Terry O. Lang, James H. LoPrete, Eugene
F. LoVasco, Gary Marowske, John G. Marshall, Michael F. Ottaway
and Sean P. Moran. Jane Juszczyk continued to provide outstanding
administrative support, and without Ted Gillary, our tasks this year
would have been impossible.
Additionally, as outlined in prior letters to the membership, we
have created a DAC Foundation Endowment Fund. The purpose
of this fund is to manage, on a long-term basis, major gifts to
the Foundation for many years into the future. Under the able
leadership of Jim LoPrete, Terry Lang and Terry Keating, we have
created an endowment fund where substantial tax-deductible gifts
can be contributed and managed by the Foundation for years of
giving. Donors to this endowment may designate their gift to be
unrestricted in its use, or they may restrict their gifts to one of or all
of the Foundation’s three previously stated purposes.
Our goal during 2012 was to create of a number of donor
vehicles, which will assist our members in their long or short tax
planning, as well as assist in members’ particular estate planning
goals. Under the direction of John Marshall, this task continues to
take shape. We have established numerous gifting vehicles as well
as legal support by generous lawyers/members to create the desired
results.
This past year we continued the fine traditions of the past year’s
16
events. Again, under our leadership, the Foundation continued its
support of the Michigan High School Athlete of the Year program.
Thanks to people like George Haggarty, this event is significantly
sponsored by the DAC Delta members, named after the original
amateur sports teams of the DAC in the 1880-90s. The event
honors 12 outstanding male and female athletes throughout
Michigan who are evaluated on their exceptional athletic
accomplishments, as well as their academic accomplishments and
commitment to community service endeavors. I am continually
amazed at the caliber of individuals that are considered for this
prestigious award. We are very proud of all of them.
For the fifth year, the awards were expanded to honor two
Michigan college athletes of the year. Nominations for this
increasingly prestigious award are based on the same three criteria as
described above. The awards gala, now known as the DAC Athletic
Awards, provides a wonderful evening honoring these athletes, as
well as giving our membership a great chance for their children and
families to engage in conversation with these tremendous young
adults. We were proud to partner with the Boys & Girls Club of
Southeastern Michigan for the first time this past year.
Once again this year, working with the DAC Boxing Committee,
chaired by Mark Cleary, we were able to invite the three military
service academies to the DAC in the fall to participate in the
General Motors Chuck Davey Boxing Classic. As a result of the
sold out evening, and the generosity of our sponsors, we were able
to contribute more than $60,000 collectively to the U.S. Naval
Academy, U.S. Air Force Academy, and U.S. Military Academy at
West Point.
The Foundation continued this year its major support to the
Downtown Detroit Partnership Clean-Downtown initiative. This
partnership continues to transform the landscape of the Madison
Avenue Boulevard and Grand Circus Park areas.
Perhaps the most significant step taken this past year was the
moving ahead by the Foundation to secure member financial
donations for the creation of the new DAC Centennial Park and
series of athletic sculptures honoring the 100th anniversary of the
DAC Clubhouse in 2015. The generous contributions received
already have allowed us to move ahead and begin to engage the
artist who will create these magnificent bronze statues. Work by the
Foundation, the DAC Centennial Committee and Ted Gillary has
secured important City of Detroit approval for the park portion
of the project.
In closing, I want to thank all the dedicated donors, the
Board of Directors and individuals who continue to support our
Foundation; 2013 is looking to be a great year for the DAC, our
Foundation and the Detroit community. Next year the Foundation
hopes to host a special fundraising event to support the U.S.
Olympic Shooting Team.
Our success in the past, as well as our success in the future, will
be based on the generosity of our loyal, generous and expanding
number of donors. The board will continue to manage their
contributions with the utmost fiduciary care.
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DAC Donors Club 2012
The DAC Foundation Board of Directors and Enrichment Fund Committee thank the following members of the Donors Club.
Listed are contributions received from Jan. 1, 2012 through Dec. 31, 2012.
David J. Hammel
Director
($10,000 and up) Peter C. Hanley
Silver
($500 – $999)
3Bs
Daniel F. Akerson
Richard A. Brodie
Van E. Conway
Richard D. DiBartolomeo
George A. Haggarty
Michael Ilitch
John R. and M. Margrite
Davis Foundation
William M. Kuhn
Eugene F. LoVasco
Sean P. Moran
James B. Nicholson
Oliver Dewey Marcks
Foundation
Richard & Jane
Manoogian
Foundation
The Shelden Fund
John T. Adamo Jr.
Sandra Lee Aquino
Robert Baidas
Leland K. Bassett
David P. Bostwick
Vincent J. Brennan
Joseph M. Carney
Paul E. Dank
Edward C. Dawda
Marianne Trombley
Endicott
Gene J. Esshaki
David W. Fisher
Matthew G. Fuller
William E. Fuller
Thomas J. Halligan
Julie Henry Kelly
Curtis L. Ivery
Frank E. Janosz II
Brandon T. Johnson
Ronald S. Karaisz II
Peter T. Kross
Frank J. Martilotti
C. Walker Mayhew
Kathleen B. McCann
Peter J. Mercier
Carl Mitseff
Jackie Moon
Kurt R. Murphy
Artis M. Noel
Nels L. Olson II
Drew Peslar
Thomas R. Quilter III
James M. Richard
Jim Riehl Jr.
Francis J. Roney
Mark B. Saffer
Patricia Scanlon
Anthony G. Showich
Michael Simmons
David L. Stone
A. Alfred Taubman
William H. Tripp
Mary Ann Victor
Robert W. Wilson
Walter Wolpin
Richard D. Helppie
James E. Jenkins
Michael A. John Jr.
Vinnie Johnson
Douglas J. Krizanic
Frederick W. Leonard
Edward C. Levy Jr.
Phillip A. Lewis
Daniel T. Lis
Daniel J. Loepp
Michael K. Lotito
J. Thomas MacFarlane
Anthony J. Magdowski
Patrick J. Mansfield
Gary Marowske
John G. Marshall
David B. Marvin
Patrick A. McDonald
Patrick G. McKeever
Christopher M. Mebus
Glen T. Milligan Jr.
Platinum
Frederick K. Minturn
($5,000 – $9,999) William A. Morrow
William F. DuComb
Stephen A. Munk
Thomas A. Fabbri
Charles H. Nicholl
Foren Foundation
Michael F. Ottaway
Evelyn F. Hansen
Edward B. Palm
Mary L. Kramer
Carl M. Pesta
Mark A. Petroff
David F. Lau
Patrick Michael O’Keefe Patrick J. Petz
Alice R. Pfahlert
Samuel L. Westerman
Police Officers
Foundation
Assoc. of Michigan
David T. Provost
Gold
($1,000 – $4,999) Michele Rambour
Lawrence G. Rancilio
Mario D. Apruzzese
Gualberto Ranieri
Anthony Asher
Dennis M. Rauss
Brian E. Bartes
John J. Reinhart
J. Addison Bartush
Michael R. Reno
Douglas A. Bemis
Sydney L. Ross
Carl J. Bentley
Thomas L. Schellenberg
James Carl Bieri
B. A. Seymour III
Bruce L Birger
S. Gary Spicer Sr.
Beverly Hall Burns
Suite 618
David J. Burton
Robert L. Thibodeau Jr.
Charles E. Chandler III Nancy J. Vella
Mark W. Cleary
Ronald W. Wadle
Bruce Correll
D. James Walker Jr.
David A. Devine
Christopher D. Walsh
George Dombrowski
Richard E. Warren
Glen Fayolle
James W. Webb
Joseph A. Fikany
John V. Welsh
Frank G. and Gertrude Daniel L. West
Dunlap Fund
William F. Whelan
Anthony Galbo
Douglas W. Williams
J. G. Ted Gillary
Erwin E. Williams
Randall J. Gillary
Thomas E. Wolfe
Jeffrey C. Grabiel
Dwight Anthony
John E. Grenke
Zahringer
Todd Halsted
David J. Zmyslowski
Patron
($250 – $499)
Robert A. Allesee
Jeffrey Altshuler
John D. Anderson
Lia Arnold
Mandip S. Atwal
Duane A. Banyai
Suzanne E. Basile
Denise Bertin-Epp
Frederick Ross Birkhill Jr.
Thomas Michael Bolz
Daniel B. Carroll
John C. Carter
Edward K. Christian
William B. Corlis
John J. Daly III
Maureen T. D’Avanzo
Ric DeVore
H. Jeffrey Dobbs
Irma B. Elder
Joan Elizabeth Emerick
William S. Faber III
Barbara Frankel
Kenneth A. Fruehauf
Frank Gambino
Eric L. Ganz
Terence J. Griffin
Eric Heard
Steven G. Howell
Larry J. Hudas
Albert A. Iafrate
Terrence E. Keating
Stephen M. Kelley
Lynne Alcott Kogel
Mark W. Landschulz
Don LeDuc
Rosemary Ledwidge
Harry A. Lomason II
William E. Mathisen
William P. McCallion
Sam H. McGoun
Gioconda C. McMillan
Audrey McNary
Sharon Ann Mebus
Michael A. Novara
Kathleen M. Oswald
Julius A. Otten
Francine Parker
Laura Percival
James B. Perry
Wally Prechter
Leonard J. Prekel
Mark S. Provenzano
Randolph T. Redmond
William J. Reno
Lloyd E. Reuss
Allen J. Ross
Mara Letica Saad
A. Paul Schaap
Thomas F. Shore
Carolyn S. Skaff
Thomas J. Strobl
Steven L. Tallman
Michael G. Van Lokeren
Mary Susan Wilberding
Jeffrey W. Wilson
Terrence John Yarema
Member
($100 – $249)
Robert C. Adams
Larry D. Alexander
John L. Aubrey
James V. Audette
John G. Bascom
Charles M. Bayer
John Bernick
Joseph P. Bianco Jr.
W. George Bihler
Douglas A. Boehmer
Michael James
Bommarito
Nathaniel F. Bradley IV
David Gary Brown
Robert A. Burkhardt
Robert A. Bury
Kevin E. Butler
Margaret Mary Campbell
Robert Carnaghi
William E. Carroll
Joseph A. Caruso
Thomas Celani
Jean N. Chamberlain
Lawrence A. Chamberlain
Claire Chambers
William D. Cohan
Sheila Connolly
Melinda K. Conway
Callahan
Julie Corbett
Robert B. Cornwall
William J. Cosgrove
Martin E. Crandall
John P. Crowther
John Cueter
Frederick R. Damm
Joseph G. D’Avanzo
Barbara L. Davidson
Ronald Davis
William Deary
Gregory J. DeMars
William J. Demmer
William G. Diehl
James H. Dingeman Jr.
Frank Forbus Dinsmore
James M.P. Doran
Seth A. Drucker
Maria C. Duey
Lawrence F. DuMouchelle
John A. Dunwoody
Lauren Eisbrenner
Herbert E. Everss
Virginia Farris
Paul K. Fershee
Sharon Tevis Finch
Robert Jay Finkel
Phillip W. Fisher
Richard J. Frank
Kirk A. Frey
H. Richard Fruehauf Jr.
Lynn A Gandhi
Deborah T. George
Wendell N. Gibbs Jr.
Michael M. Glusac
Annamay Godin
Michael J. Green
Alice M. Greene
Jeffrey Groehn
Michael F. Gumbko
C. Kirk Haggarty
Donald F. Hanchon
William F. Heinemann
Marlene Hennessey
Robert L. Heritier
Sandra M. Hermanoff
Ross W. Herron
Thomasyne C. Hubert
Urban Joseph Hubert
Sybil Jaques
Diane Jaye
George G. Johnson
Joseph R. Jordan
Thomas G. Jordan
Richard E. Jositas
Dale A. Jurcisin
Alan Jay Kaufman
Paul C. Keiswetter
Sam J. Kennedy
Robert B. Kimmel
John L. King
Michael D. Klein
Marlene H. Kler
Michael Stanley
Kosonog
Walter S. Koziol
Peter Krenitsky
Richard P. Kughn
Harry R. Kurrie
Anthony J. Lamerato
Terry O. Lang
Frank Fidelis Law IV
Louis M. Leonard
Nancy Emma Levarsky
Arthur C. Liebler
Henry W. Lim
Donald A. Lindow Jr.
Joseph H. Loving
Christina MacInnes
F. William Manion
Richard C. Marsh
Miriam B. Martin-Clark
David A. Mason
Mark C. Mathews
Richard A. Matthews
Timothy J. McCarthy III
William H. McCoy Jr.
Edward L. McDermott
Alexander C. McKeen
Brian J. McKeen
Carolyn Mergel
E. Ronald Milner
Theodore Monolidis
Jeffrey L. Moore
Jill G. Moore
In honor of Sean Moran
Scot A. Morrison
Robert Wills Nester
James M. Nicholson
Ernest L. Nicolay Jr.
Sandra Noecker
James E. North
William A. Novak Jr.
Gary W. Novara
Glenn Douglas Oliver
Dietmar Ostermann
Joseph J. Paglino
Curtis T. Pedersen
Duane C. Perry
John Gordon Petty
Marie E. Brasza Pinch
Daniel F. Ponder
John C. Prost
Robert T. Quail
George E. Reich
Ross C. Richardson
William F. Rivard Sr.
Gary E. Roncelli
Aric J. Rusk
Richard F. Russell
Charles R. Rutherford
Randall L. Rutkofske
Jack Ryan
Mark J. Sawchuk
Edward N. Schneider
Michael A. Semanco
George R. Short
Janet Ensing Skillman
Paul Gregson Slocum
Gregory C. Smith
Pamela W. Smith
Anthony L. Soave
David W. Sommerfeld
Janice Songe
George S. Sponseller
Margaret Steward
Robert R. Stoetzer
Richard F. Suhrheinrich
Anthony Sulkowski Jr.
Thomas M. Sullivan
Edmund Casimir Szoka
Duane L. Tarnacki
Michael J. Tauscher
Christopher P. Tennyson
Nicholas Tepe
Beverly Thomas
L. Murray Thomas
Luis Frank Torres
Stephen K. Valentine Jr.
Clune J. Walsh Jr.
Carol A. Walters
Peggy Ann Warner
Gerald E. Warren
Dale L. Watchowski
Keith S. Wicks
Frank M. Willard
Blair R. Wills
John P. Zenz
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Newly Elected DAC Members
Resident
Samuel Fogleman
Partner
KPMG, LLP
Sponsored by H. Jeffrey Dobbs and Daniel Langlois
Craig Geatches
Owner
Flood Solutions Inc.
Sponsored by Barry J. Winfree
and Mark A Wierszewski
Edward C. Gotfredson
Client Partner
Facebook
Sponsored by Edward L. McDermott
and Bryan Fitzgibbon
Marybeth Lepczyk
Nurse Practitioner & Manager
WSU Physician Group
Sponsored by Craig White and Timothy A. Whims
Bruce A. Morrison
Director of Investment Sales/Principal
Signature Associates
Sponsored by Christopher J. Monsour
and W. Emery Matthews
Jules B. Olsman
President, Owner
Olsman, Mueller, Wallace & MacKenzie, P.C.
Sponsored by Ben M. Gonek and Timothy J. Mullins
David H. Perez
Retired
Sponsored by David M. Gaskin
and D. Frederic DeHaven
Kristin K. Redman
Executive Producer
Redman Productions
Sponsored by Eugene F. LoVasco and Daniel L. West
James D. Shea
Strategy Development
Mission Throttle
Sponsored by Greer Love and Michael C. Skaff
James D. Tish
Partner
Grant Thornton, LLP
Sponsored by Frederick K. Minturn
and James T. Schmid
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John F. Vicari
Owner/Vice President
Joe Muer Seafood
Sponsored by Joseph A. Fikany
and Joseph P. Vicari
Bruno Welsch
President
Durr Systems, Inc.
Charles Turner and Edward A. Bartley
Intermediate
Joseph A. Danley
Financial Advisor
Morgan Stanley
Sponsored by Sean P. Moran
and Christopher D. Walsh
T. Seth Rothey
General Sales Manager
Trane
Sponsored by Michael J. Green and Edward S. Fici
James Trumble
Director of Strategy
Gyro Creative Group
Sponsored by Thomas A. Fabbri
and Matthew J. DiDio
Nicholas Weise
Senior Account Executive
Office Furniture Solutions
Sponsored by Michael Simmons
and Michael R. Bulgarelli
Intermediate Legacy
Ward A. Detwiler
Associate
U3 Ventures
Sponsored by Thomas C. Shumaker
and Charles A. McFeely III
Stephen V. Butterly
Project Coordinator
Walbridge
Sponsored by Vincent Butterly, Jr.
and Terrence E. Keating
Daniel Keogh
Corporate Finance Associate
Deloitte Corporate Finance
Sponsored by Craig P. Janutol
and Eugene F. LoVasco
John Edward Fitzgerald
Analyst
Wayne County
Sponsored by Stephen L. Kinsley
and J. Kevin Crowther
Paul Mersino
Attorney
Butzel Long
Sponsored by Bernard Fuhs and David J. Kelley
Peter V. Ghafari
Consultant
Accenture
Sponsored by Yousif B. Ghafari
and Georges B. Ghafari
Nicholas Mirabile
Delivery Manager
Iconma, LLC
Sponsored by Jaclyn Ventimiglia
and Michael Easthope
Keith A. Piwko
Associate
Plante & Moran, PLLC
Sponsored by Jeffrey T. Antaya
and Bryan O. Welsh
Bryan L. Regner
Financial Advisor
Edward Jones
Sponsored by David J. Boyd
and Michael A. John, Jr.
Stewart Fisher Hayes
Associate
Marcus & Millichap
Sponsored by Walter W. Fisher
and Gregory W. Fisher
Michael Jameson
Associate
Bodman, PLC
Sponsored by Andrew H. Curoe and John Jameson
Sean O’Donnell-Daudlin
Software Engineer
ePrize
Sponsored by Kevin Daudlin and Blair S. Osborn
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Non-Resident
Don V. Bailey
Chairman & CEO
Triton Investment Co.
Sponsored by Dennis W. Archer, Jr.
and John W. Stroh III
Landon Tracy
Director
Alvarez and Marsal
Sponsored by Michael J. Fikany and Joseph A. Fikany
Clergy
Timothy D. Hogan
Vicar for Clergy
Archdiocese of Detroit
Sponsored by Brian A. Joseph
and Richard D. DiBartolomeo
In
Memoriam
Marilyn Keane
Associate
Jan. 23, 2013
Donald E. Conley
Resident
Jan. 15, 2013
William J. Foley
Resident
Jan. 12, 2013
Frederick A. Erb
Honorary
Jan. 10, 2013
Barbara Conway
Associate
Jan. 5, 2013
Ralph D. Cushing
Resident
Jan. 4, 2013
Thomas J. Burke
Senior
Dec. 29, 2012
L. Murray Thomas
Senior
Dec. 26, 2012
My Space !
Sean Cotton
sponsored the most
Members in 2012
& now enjoys an
exclusive parking
space at the DAC.
Next year, this space
could be yours.
To sponsor a member, please contact the
Membership Office at (313) 442-1017 or maryr@
thedac.com for details.
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C
DAC ommittee
Reports
Ladies Activities
For our friend Kaye
L
AUTOMOTIVE
GROUP
“COME DISCOVER
THE
DEMMER
DIFFERENCE!”
Bill Demmer
DAC Member
Matt Demmer
DAC Member
Jack Demmer Ford
37300 Michigan Avenue
Wayne, MI
(734) 721-2600
Jack Demmer Lincoln
21531 Michigan Avenue
Dearborn, MI
(313) 274-8800
www.demmer.com
ongtime committee member Kaye
Mayhew, who passed away in
December, was small in stature,
quiet spoken and very much a lady.
However she could also be quite forceful
and feisty if necessary. Kaye had diverse
interests and was very active in the Village
Club in Bloomfield Hills as well as the
DAC.
Kaye acted as the committee’s cultural
advisor, reporting on special exhibits at the
DIA and also museums in Chicago (we
would fly over for the day), Toledo and
Cleveland. She was a Holiday Boutique
Committee member from its 2001
inception until the most recent event last
November. Tea with the “Queen Mum”
and the History of Detroit Jazz were just
two of the many popular events that she
brought to the DAC during her time.
During the 1990s, Kaye suggested that
we host an Art and Architecture Tour
in conjunction with the Club’s Art and
Architecture Committee. She “enlisted”
two of us to help with research. Several
tours later, while the DAC Board of
Directors was planning to redecorate the
Main Dining Room, an article by Albert
Kahn appeared describing various rooms
in the Club.
This new information led the Board to
pursue a complete restoration to preserve
the beautiful Main Dining Room ceiling,
rather than remove its acoustical tile and
brown painted beams.
Aside from her family, Kaye loved the
DAC, its events and the friends she and
Walker made there over the years. The
Up North Party in Harbor Springs was a
particular favorite.
We learned a lot from each other and
shared much laughter. We were indeed
lucky to have had Kaye as a friend in our
lives.
Sally Henrikson – CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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Beaver Baloney
WILLIAM P. SEYMOUR
Navajos take 1st half of season
T
he first week back was wonderful.
It was great to see everyone and
compare holiday notes. Santa was
good to everyone and everyone got what
they wanted. It seems that almost everyone
wanted coal this year though. It is great to be back in the pool.
My hands are pruned, my eyes are bloodshot and everything
smells like chlorine. I feel at home and at peace.
Congratulations to the Navajos (Paul Ballien, Mark Gilroy,
Todd Halsted, Pat McDonald and Dave Provost) for winning
the first half of the season.
Extra congratulations to Dave Provost for being the number
one individual swimmer
at the half way mark
(enjoy the extra-large
target on your back).
For the rest of us,
the long faces have
disappeared and we are
ready to once again strive
for excellence and pursue
Dave Burton fights out a would-be defender. the coveted championship
trophy.
Above, Larry Rancilio battles for a loose ball.
Below, Brian Covington drives the basket against
Pat Petz.
A fade away shot by Robert Mangiapane.
Words of Wisdom – For want of a twig the dam was lost, for
want of a dam the pond was lost, for want of a pond the beaver
was lost… for want of Beavers my Thursday afternoons were
actually productive.
Basketbrawl
The games kicked off with the Cherokees facing off with the
Ottawas. The Cherokees’ dynamic duo of Duane Banyai and
Rick Portwood were amazing. Rick Portwood got a hat-trick.
Duane Banyai pulled down six rebounds and had two assists.
Louis Braun, Dave Draper and Pat Mansfield showed up
this week (that is all I have to say about them).
The Ottawas were led by Andy Pollack and sub Josh
Williams. Josh Williams got two baskets and Andy Pollack
took seven shots (unfortunately, none of them went into the
basket). Ted Willett rose to the occasion and was able to put in
a late one to tie everything up.
Dave Simonelli and sub Matt Turnbull were not responsible
for covering Portwood, so they were not technically responsible
for any baskets one way or the other. The end result was a three
to three tie game.
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Game two was the Hurons versus the Navajos. The Hurons
played a solid game against the first half winners.
Mike Grindem, Pat Petz and Tim DiMartino all got baskets
for the Hurons. Tom Schellenberg and sub Erik Wordhouse
played Tenacious “D” and grabbed multiple rebounds.
Unfortunately, it was not enough to overcome the returning
champs. Fr. Paul Ballien, Mark Gilroy and Todd Halsted
The Beavers hold a moment of
silence for member James Walker.
1/31/2013 10:44:30 AM
Tom Izzo with Dan West and Don Vachon.
Olympic swimmer and new member Peter
Vanderkaay with Beavers President Dave
Simonelli.
Michael Kowalski, in a special
swimsuit for the week, gets
an ice water bath from Wes
Henrikson before his race.
four baskets. Sean
combined for five baskets.
Harrington, Brian
Pat McDonald and Vince
Stevens and Dave
Brennan were key to pulling
Burton all had
it all together, retaining
assists.
possession of the ball and
Each member
pulling just enough dirty
tricks to eke out a five to four Tom Izzo shares a lighter moment with Dan of the Seminoles
Follis at the Beavers luncheon.
got involved in
win.
the offense. If
The Navajos still look
they keep this up they will be a difficult
unstoppable!
team to counter. The Choctaws also
The third game was ugly. The
played well in this game. Jerry Kelly,
Chippewas and the Shawnees could not
Terry Wilson, Dave Zimmer and Robert
hit a shot in the first half. It ended with
Cahill put forth great effort, snagged
a putrid zero to zero tie.
multiple rebounds and played great
In comparison to the first half,
defense.
the second was a real barn burner.
Jim Stroh and Mike Tauscher
Rick Darbyshire and CJ Sutton were
were both able to get baskets, but
able to sink one basket apiece for the
unfortunately all of their efforts fell
Cherokees. Mike Kowalski was able to
short. They lost the game four to two.
get one basket for the Shawnees.
Finally, the Kickapoos and the
End result was that Chippewas pulled
Apaches faced off in game five of the
out the win in this stinker of a game.
day. This was the best game of the day.
This game so upset Mike Kowalski that
It was a real shootout.
he was heard muttering under his breath
that he was never going to
pass the ball again, which
means that everything is
back to normal (Phew!).
Game four consisted
of the Seminoles against
the Choctaws. This
was a great game. The
Seminoles spread out and
got everyone involved.
Frank Germack, Rick
DiBartolomeo and Brian
Covington combined for
Tom Izzo speaks to a
packed house.
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Paul Kavanaugh, Jeff Grabiel and
Doug Krizanic each got one in the first
half for the Kickapoos. Mike LeVan,
Bat Seymour III (by the printing of
this article will be the proud father of
IV and V), Steve Mayhew and Justin
Winkelman were each able to grab a
score for the Apaches.
The half ended with a score of three
to four (Apaches on top). The second
half was all about Mike LeVan. He was
everywhere at once. Every loose ball
found its way to his hands and from his
hands to the basket. He ended the day
with four baskets total.
His team ended the day with eight
overall (Bat Seymour III picked up
another basket in the second half –
giving him one basket for each of his
boys).
The game ended with a score of four
to eight; Apaches on top (don’t let the
score fool you – the Kickapoos could
have swung the game the other way if
a few balls had bounced differently).
Overall, it was a very exciting game to
watch.
All in all it was a great way to start the
half. If things keep up this way, Beavers
is going to be a blast!
Please remember that
any resemblance to reality is
purely coincidental as I have
a tendency to be fast and
loose with inconsequential
items like truth and facts.
Here is to the ever
exciting race to the finish.
Goodbye and see you in the
pool!
As always, I remain…
Anonymous.
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Bowling Beat
Michael A. John, Jr.
Popular bowling invitational
draws eight guest clubs
T
he annual DAC Club Invitational Tourney took
place on Jan. 12. This incredibly popular event
had 32 DAC Bowlers challenge eight guest clubs
from around the area. Guest clubs included two teams each from Detroit
Golf Club, Oakland Hills Country Club, Birmingham Country Club,
Lochmoor Country Club, Forest Lake and Grosse Pointe Yacht Club.
Each DAC Men’s Bowling league provided two bowlers. In order to
participate, there was a three-week competition in December. The top
two leagues bowlers’ scores with handicap qualified to participate in the
tournament.
The morning squad and eventual overall winner was the Grosse Pointe
Yacht Club (GPYC) team of Andrew Christians, Tom Stephenson, Tommy
Lauzon, Jr. and Chris Lauzon with a total score of 3,756. The Detroit Golf
Club (DGC) Team One came in second with a team score of 3,667. The
General Bowling Chairman’s hand picked team of John Welsh, George
Haggarty, Pat Petz and Phil Lewis were third with a score of 3,627.
Doubles event winners were Tommy Lauzon, Jr. and Chris Lauzon with
a combined two game score of 1,026. Second place went to Andrew
Christians and Tom Stephenson.
No wonder the GPYC won this
event; the singles event winner
was Joel Keiper from the DGC
with a two game 508 score.
The afternoon squad went
to Forest Lake Country Club’s
team of Tom Currier, James
Stewart, John Prepolec (former
FIRST PLACE – Tom Stephenson, Andrew Christians, Tom
DAC bowler) and Steve McGee
Lauzon and Chris Lauzon.
(current DAC bowler) with
a score of 3,590. DAC Team
Seven of Doug Williams, Brad
Blanchard, Bill Royce and
John Chmura came in second.
Third place went to DAC Team
Five of Mike Callaway, Steve
McKalko (both DGC members),
Justin Winkelman and Bryan
Fitzgibbon.
The doubles event went to
SECOND PLACE – Al Hall, Pete Asaro, Joel Keiper and
Pano Papalekas. John Prepolec and Steve McGee
with a score of 964. The singles event winner was Mike Callaway who scored
471. Mike Lotito had the highest scratch score with yet another 299 game.
Congratulations to all participants and tournament winner GPYC, the
second consecutive winner this year.
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THIRD PLACE – Pat Petz, Phil Lewis, George Haggarty and John Welsh.
FIFTH PLACE – Brad Blanchard, Doug Williams, Bill Royce and John Chmura.
SIXTH PLACE – Justin Winkelman, Bryan Fitzgibbon, Steve McKalko
and Mike Callaway.
SEVENTH PLACE – Dave Banda, Tom Moncrief, Doug Schroeder and Richard Irwin.
EIGHTH PLACE – Dave Wright, Mike Carl, Tim Ross and Mike Lotito.
Other honor scores
There were some awesome honor scores in the last month
with Steve McKalko shooting an 815 series and Tony Berti
scoring an 803 series. An 800 series is far more difficult and
elusive than a perfect 300 game. Jack Bourget nailed down his
second DAC 300 as well. Great bowling!
Chairman’s
Message
Bob Allison, longtime
DAC member, once hosted
a local and highly popular
television show called
“Bowling for Dollars.” Bob,
himself an avid bowler and
student of the game, made
the show a big success.
Bob has been bowling at John Welsh with Bob Allison.
the DAC for many, many
years. Recently, due to a shoulder injury, he was told that he
could never bowl again. Not wanting to miss his longtime
friends on Wednesday afternoon, Bob refused to accept his
doctor’s advice. Bob is a lifetime right-handed bowler who
continues to bowl full time today…but now he bowls lefthanded! Remember, at the DAC, it’s more than just bowling.
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Blackballer’s Bounce
DAVID M. BARBOUR
Four sports – one club
I
n late January, Blackballers came
together at the Second Dividend to
meet and greet the DAC Board of
Directors candidates.
This festive event was held in a
new venue for the first time, above and around the DAC
Gymnasium, where our hoopsters showcased the 35 and Over
Championship.
It was great for our members to watch Basketball at its
finest, DAC style. These grizzled veterans of the hardwood
put on a spectacular show, and while doing so, permanently
etched their place alongside the other diverse “Ballers” who
comprise our Club.
For too long, us “guys” who play their games on smaller,
walled courts, did not interact with our round-ball brethren to
the extent of actually watching them compete. Well, compete
they did, and we were impressed.
Once again this year’s Commissioners Tournament brought
together our handball players on both ends of the ability
spectrum for a spirited week of play, camaraderie and a wellattended ladies dinner on Saturday night.
Since its inception, this great doubles tournament has
elevated “B” players to a new level of play and provided “A”
players with lessons in patience.
But most important is that wives of the winners bracket
finalists, and champs in the losers bracket, all received
Waterford Crystal as a thank you for putting up with us.
Once again, Bob “Fat Lady” Kozak led those assembled in
singing the Star-Spangled Banner to open the championship
matches on Saturday night.
However, most exciting is the enthusiasm of an increasing
number of new players discovering handball. Whether joining
the Thursday Rookie League, finding a pick-up game or
participating in tournaments like the Commissioners, these
players are finding out that playing handball is a great workout
and way to develop friendships on and off the court.
Basketball
Our rookie handball class included Ed Trojanowski, Tom Paglia, Eric Backman, Matt
Morceri, Ron Elliott, Dan Seder, Tom Fabbri, Jr., Justin Pejhke, Dan Taylor and John O’Brien.
Blackballers have traditionally used our Second Dividend to
host the DAC Board candidates. However, the idea to change
the venue for this event was the brainchild of Blackballers
President Chris Mebus, whose philosophy of governance is
one of inclusion and mutual support.
Thanks to Chris, we are more than ever “four sports – one
club.”
January was another exciting month for DAC hoops. At
the Second Dividend on Jan. 23, we enjoyed our 35 and Over
Championship.
Congratulations to all participants and, of course, the
winners. It was a great year for this league.
Then on Jan. 31, we gathered for our annual “blind draw,
3 on 3, half court, call your own fouls” event, also called the
Hacker Tournament. This event was a total blast in line with
our commitment of tradition, camaraderie, competition and,
of course, hacking.
Check results of both events on our board in the Men’s
Locker Room, and look for more commentary in next month’s
article.
Handball
DAC Handballers participated in the 2012 Winter Cup
played shortly before Christmas.
Three divisions battled for the coveted prize of a DAC
carwash, and Rick Leonard sponsored these washes as a hint
to us all that appearances do matter. Rumor has it that Rick’s
next “project” is a makeover for Steve Valentine, including
wardrobe and hair implants.
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DAC members enjoyed an outing to see the Detroit Pistons at the Palace in December.
1/31/2013 10:44:32 AM
Farris Cup action on the courts at the DAC.
BAC’s Walter Oehrlein with
George Haggarty.
Above, Peter Logan with his
BAC opponent Eric Machus.
Below, Matt DiDio with his
BAC foe Salam Chaudhary.
Members of the John Farris family
at the tournament.
Our Open League also
continues each week with
current standings from
one through five: Shake, Bake and Roll,
Tenacious D, two Chainz, Lake Sharks
and Sweep the Leg. Playoffs will begin
in March, so stop by the Gymnasium to
check out all the hoops action.
Upcoming events include the new
Commish’s Skillz Challenge at the
Third Dividend on March 20, the
Blackballers Ladies Party on March 15,
the NACAD Tournament in Fort Worth
on April 18-21 and our Open League
Championship Game at the Final
Dividend on May 3.
For the next few months, DAC
Basketball will be full tilt. See you on
the court and “hack you later!”
Racquetball
January’s resolutions were met
with solid racquetball play to shed
holiday and winter pounds. The
leagues are back in full swing, and
January brought the Third Annual
Competition on the courts at the DAC.
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DAC Racquetball Invitational.
Nearly 40 players from around
the state joined in some excellent
matches at the DAC. Expect to
read a full recap next month.
We are always looking for
more members to come and join
us. Our racquetball contingent
continues to grow. Three out of
four people say they used to play
it—why not come back and play
again?
The DAC’s Kirk Haggarty and John Birgbauer with their BAC
counterparts Mike Parks and Dave Cosgrove.
Squash
Oh, the pain and humiliation!
Such proclamations are
usually associated with a squash
player who decides to take up
handball.
Unfortunately, this was also the
sentiment after the 2013 Farris Cup.
The boys from the BAC soundly
outplayed us.
The bright spots were free beer,
good food and victories by Sante
Fratarcangeli and Pablo Buitron.
A special thanks to our captain Pete
“Lefty” Logan, DAC Squash Pro Mick
Joint and Farris Cup Founder George
Haggarty, who promised to make an
effort to return to the doubles court
next year and show us what victory
looks like.
The Doubles 100 Tournament is in
full swing with a fine group of players.
The DAC’s Greg Rivard and Bowden Brown with their BAC
rivals Nick Post and Tom Walbridge.
Fans enjoy the fierce Farris Cup competition.
Defending champ Stu Boynton would
rather spend tournament days running
out the clock in Florida versus defending
his title, which leaves his partner
scrambling.
The return of Jeff Parsigian set the
squash courts and locker room abuzz,
but fear not Tap Room staff, Jeff will
still appear three times each week.
It is good to see Jeff back on the
courts, not only for his squash skills
but also for his countless related,
humorous stories.
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Fitness Club
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TRICIA A. KEITH
D
id
you
know that
the Detroit
Athletic Club has a
fitness club and it is
independent of the
annual membership
fee that gives you
access to our wonderful clubhouse
facilities?
As 2013 Fitness Club chair, one of
my goals for the year is to ensure that
you clearly understand what the DAC
Fitness Club is, and that you buy into
the value proposition! The Fitness Club
is the organization that coordinates many
of the “extra” fitness and motivational
activities throughout the year: Healthy
Cooking, the IronMan Challenge,
Curling, the AM Athletes Breakfast and
the Detroit Free Press Marathon activities.
The Fitness Club should be a resource
to you to help keep you motivated
through challenges and activities (new
and old). Do you have an idea that
will help to motivate you to maintain,
change or increase your fitness activity?
The Fitness Club is seeking your input
on what types of things you desire in
athletics from your Club. Is it a new type
of fitness class, piece of equipment or
training? Is there a fitness adventure trip
that you would like to lead? We would
like to hear from you.
February is the time of year that the
“shinyness” of the New Year’s Resolution
starts to wear off. Having trouble
keeping up with the same fitness pace
with which you began 2013? Why not
register for the Indoor Triathlon on Feb.
9? By completing the triathlon, you will
have run, swam, and biked 20 minutes
each. Not sure you can handle all three
legs? New this year is an optional relay
triathlon team category where up to
three people can participate – each
taking a different leg.
The Fitness Club hopes to engage you
in 2013. I look forward to seeing and
hearing from you.
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Intermediates
CHRISTOPHER M. JOHN
Improve Your Benefits & HR Practices
A pleasure to
lead and serve
B
eing that this is my first article in the
DAC News as 2013 Intermediates
Council President, I felt it
appropriate to recognize our outgoing council members.
Drew, Britt-Marie and Charlotte, your contributions
played a huge part in our success during 2012, and it
does not go overlooked. Thank you for a fantastic year!
On Election Day, it was great to see everyone down at
the Club supporting not only fellow Intermediates, but
also board candidates vying for a seat.
This is one of the busiest days at the Club each year,
and the fact that so many Intermediates attend is a true
sign of our commitment.
We have a few exciting events on the way. Our firstever Craft Cocktail Night will be on Feb. 22. Come
sample a selection of cocktails and weigh in with your
opinion. The most popular one will be featured in the
Tap Room.
After the event, a special prix fixe dinner menu will be
available to us in the Grill Room until 10 p.m. So you
might as well make a night of it.
The Intermediates Bowling Night returns on March
8. Those that have attended in the past can attest to the
amount of fun we share when our group takes over the
lanes.
One great achievement over the past year was
ensuring that each of our council members had a seat
on a Club committee that reflected the responsibilities
of his or her council position. This practice will better
connect Intermediates with changes around the Club
and allow us to voice our opinions to help improve new
DAC undertakings.
Another major focus for Intermediates this year will
be increasing our community involvement, so keep your
eyes open for opportunities.
Now I would like to introduce our 2013 Intermediate
Council: Shane Henry, Charles Dabrowski, Dan Sporka,
Meghan Carey, Brandon Malson, Emily Dabish and
Allie Penz. I have no doubt that this team will lead the
Intermediates in a positive direction, resulting in our
best years yet!
I hope that every Intermediate fully enjoys their
DAC membership this year. If you ever have a question,
comment or just want to shoot the breeze, feel free to
reach me at [email protected].
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Clubs-Within-the-Club
((
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Ladies Spa Day
O
ver 90 women of the DAC and guests
enjoyed a complimentary light breakfast,
exercise classes, mini-makeovers and lunch at
January’s health and beauty sellout event.
Left, Joy
Bihler with
daughter
Jill Mida.
A sunlit gym set the tone for morning
stretches during Ladies Spa Day.
Lashand Thomas, Leigh Coleman, Angela Spencer
Ford, Jeanvievie Adams and Marchelle Costa.
Michelle Shore and
Wendy Jerome.
Cindy Fabbri with Sue and Jaclyn
DiBartolomeo.
Dante Simonato, Jade Clark and Heidi Flake.
Left, Velva Vosler
and Nancy Griffin.
Cheryl Gibson gets a manicure from Delanie Farough.
Lori, Karen and Liv Vinckier.
Above and below, women take on kickboxing.
Kathy Quilter and Sally Werenski.
Ladies enjoy exercise classes
throughout the Clubhouse.
Janet Magdowski and Lynne Oshinsky.
Leigh Coleman and
Marchelle Costa.
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Barbara Stone, Sharyn Mannino, Eeka Marshall, Ann Stone
and Erin Stone.
Left,
Deb
Spicer
and
Christy
Scipione.
Above and left, women enjoy yoga and dance classes.
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Early January saw the first Business Rountables dinner of the year.
Roundtables host networking dinner
M
embers invited guests to a fantastic DAC
dinner to discuss innovative business
techniques and networking opportunities.
A perfect setting for sharing interests and
insights, the Business Roundtables Dinner
proved to be a success for over 20 attendees.
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DAC Executives
Club honors
David DiChiera
By Mary Rodrique
H
e’s a leader who needs no
introduction to the people of
Detroit.
Founder of the Michigan Opera
Theatre (MOT), a moving force behind
the creation of the Detroit Opera
House, music composer and visionary
who helped revitalize Detroit’s
entertainment district, Dr. David
DiChiera has done for the arts in
Michigan what Henry Ford did for the
auto industry.
For DiChiera’s extraordinary
accomplishments, he can add first
recipient of the DAC Executive Club’s
Lifetime Achievement Award for a
DAC member to his list of honors. He
will be feted on March 19 at a black-tie
gala evening at the Club.
“It’s a little daunting because there
are so many incredibly talented people
who’ve made contributions to our city,”
said DiChiera of the DAC recognition.
A Senior member, he joined the Club
32
39 years ago. “I feel very honored to
have been selected.”
Among a lifetime of prestigious
accolades, DiChiera in 2010 was
recognized by the National Endowment
for the Arts at the Kennedy Center in
Washington D.C. – equivalent to an
actor winning an Oscar in Hollywood.
More recently he was named the 2013
Kresge Eminent Artist, receiving a
$50,000 award from the Troy-based
Kresge Foundation.
DiChiera is particularly revered for
making opera accessible to a widely
diverse audience. In Detroit he helped
launch the careers of several African
American singers by giving them their
first starring roles. The Detroit Opera
House in 2005 staged its first world
premiere with “Margaret Garner,” the
tale of a fugitive slave and the first opera
since “Porgy and Bess” in 1936 to focus
on African Americans.
“It’s very stimulating work,” said
DiChiera, who at 77 is finally starting
to consider lessening his involvement
with the business end of the opera
company.
“I’m focused on succession,”
DiChiera said in a recent interview.
“Within a year or so we’ll have a new
executive director. I may stay on doing
artistic things. The opera house and
company need to look forward to
someone with wonderful ideas and
talent to bring it to a new place. There
are good people out there.”
Rick Williams, a Club member for
10 years and currently chairman of
the MOT board, credits DiChiera for
introducing opera to Detroit.
“It didn’t exist before David came
here,” said Williams. “It was an
outrageous idea back then. For that
achievement, to take an idea and
convert it into reality, to build a world
Above, David DiChiera takes a bow at the premiere of
his opera “Cyrano” in 2007. (Photos for this article
courtesy of MOT).
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class opera company and our own
opera house, for one person to have
accomplished that is extraordinary.
“He is totally amazing, devoted to
the city,” added Williams. “He put the
opera company on solid ground for
the future. There will never be another
David.”
Asked to name career highlights, in
addition to bringing opera to Michigan,
DiChiera cites his efforts to revitalize
downtown Detroit as extremely
gratifying.
“Within six years of the Detroit
Opera House debut in 1996
we had two huge neighbors,
Comerica Park and Ford Field,”
said DiChiera. “Now I can go out
the Broadway side in summer and
there are four restaurants on this
block. I see young professionals
having lunch or dinner. That is
exactly how I dreamed it and it’s
very rewarding.”
After earning multiple degrees
(Bachelors with highest honors,
Masters in composition and a Ph.D.
in musicology) from UCLA in the
mid to late 1950s and spending
time in Italy as a Fulbright Scholar,
DiChiera came to Michigan in 1962.
He joined the faculty of music at the
newly established Oakland University,
and was soon thereafter department
chairman. Less than a decade later, in
1971, he founded the region’s first opera
company and was its general director.
“Years ago I was on a plane with
Detroit Mayor Coleman Young,” he
Above, DiChiera and Luciano Pavarotti at the opening
gala of the Opera House in 1996.
Left, at the 2005 premiere of “Margaret Garner” are
composer Richard Danielpour and his wife with DiChiera
and author Toni Morrison, who based her Pulitzer Prize
winning novel “Beloved” on this saga.
recalled. “I told him the role the Lincoln
Center played in revitalizing the west
side of Manhattan, taking back the area
from gangs and crime. Mayor Young’s
administration provided the first small
loan we had.”
Along with the opera company,
DiChiera spearheaded the creation
of the Music Hall Center for the
Left, Kmart
Corp. CEO and
MOT Board
Chair Robert
Dewar, legendary
soprano Joan
Sutherland and
DiChiera at the
Opera House
premiere in
1996.
Performing Arts, reviving the DAC’s
neighbor on Madison Avenue which
had shuttered after the 1967 riots.
With DiChiera as artistic director,
the Music Hall began a tradition of
providing theater, music and dance
for local audiences, and catching
positive attention in the national
press. The Christian Science Monitor
opined “DiChiera overcame Detroit’s
inferiority complex about the arts by
mounting events of national interest.”
Music Hall’s small stage and orchestra
pit weren’t ideal for world class opera,
so MOT began searching for a new
home. While some suggested DiChiera
headquarter his growing company in
the suburbs, he never considered it.
“It was a time of flight to the
suburbs,” he recalled. “Even the DAC
membership was falling.”
DiChiera stayed focused on
downtown Detroit.
“The opera house belongs in the core
of the city, to take its place with other
cultural institutions, to be a catalyst for
the area,” he emphasized.
In 1989 MOT bought the crumbling
abandoned Grand Circus movie theater
(originally the elegant 1922 vintage
Capitol Theater). Seven years later, as
MOT celebrated its 25th anniversary
in 1996, DiChiera cut the ribbon for
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the grand opening of the Detroit Opera
House, the magnificently restored
jewel at the corners of Broadway and
Madison, a block west of the DAC.
Today’s success is a lifetime removed
from the first-generation American
youth who began to seriously consider
a career as a concert pianist when
he was just a boy. The son of Italian
immigrants, DiChiera was born and
lived near Pittsburgh until his family
moved to Los Angeles when he was 10.
“I had a dream through high school
and early in college of being a concert
pianist,” he recalled. “But I found it
rather isolating. You have to spend hours
in a little practice room. One day I was
asked to be an accompanist in an opera
workshop. It was the beginning of a love
affair with the art form. Opera is such
a collaborative effort – there are the
singers, directors, conductors, designers,
and chorus. It’s the ability to work with
different people that makes opera an
exciting art form.”
From 1979 to 1983 DiChiera
served as president of Opera America,
overseeing opera companies across
North America. It was there he found
an international platform to further his
strategy of connecting opera to a wider
audience, encouraging companies to
reach out to previously under utilized
segments of the population.
“In 1979 there was only one company
presenting a new work,” DiChiera said.
“We were kind of stuck in the past. I
helped develop a program at the time
called Opera for the 80s and Beyond.
The whole idea was to develop a fund
supported by major foundations to
encourage opera companies to take risks
and commission new works.
“There was a grant to meet composers,
another grant for workshops, one for
production,” he explained. “It resulted
in the transformation of new programs.
Companies felt comfortable doing new
work.”
DiChiera worked hard to grow the
opera audience to include more than its
traditional Eurocentric base.
“Whether Asians, Latinos, African
Americans, we’ve had to build bridges to
David DiChiera congratulates Denyce Graves at the “Margaret
Garner” curtain call.
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these audiences, to relate to everyone,”
he added. “In opera we have music,
dance, and theater. All people have that
in their culture.”
Under DiChiera’s leadership the
Opera for a New America program was
born in the 1990s to help companies’
commission operas more relevant to
their communities. For the Michigan
Opera Theatre that translated into
‘Margaret Garner’ telling the African
American experience and drawing a new
audience to the art form.
In addition to his pivotal opera roles
in Detroit and nationally, DiChiera
in 1981 also took over the financially
troubled Dayton Opera Association. He
transformed it into the largest subscriber
base of any opera company in Ohio.
Going even further afield, DiChiera
also founded Opera Pacific in Orange
County (CA) which flourished as one
of the nation’s top opera companies
under his direction from 1986 to 1996.
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In addition, DiChiera has held several
offices in opera organizations nationally
and internationally.
In addition to being tremendously
successful on the business end, DiChiera
yearned to produce something fulfilling
artistically. To feed his creative side, he
began thinking about writing an opera.
“I’d spent 30 years creating an
institution, I wanted to go back and give
voice to my own creativity,” he said.
A colleague from Montreal, Bernard
Uzan, was familiar with DiChiera’s
compositions (his Four Sonnets for
soprano and piano with verses by Edna
St. Vincent Millay) and suggested
he consider a new interpretation of
“Cyrano d ‘Bergerac.” DiChiera agreed.
“While running the opera company
it took me seven years to write in my
spare time,” said DiChiera of “Cyrano,”
which had its world debut on the MOT
stage in 2007. It was later staged in
Philadelphia and Miami.
A longtime resident of Detroit’s
Palmer Park neighborhood, DiChiera
has two daughters, Lisa and Cristina,
and three grandchildren.
For decades the DAC has been an
integral part of his busy life.
“I do try to work out at the end of
the day,” he said. “It’s a way for me
to stabilize my health and it’s a stress
reducer. I’m grateful it’s across the
street. After my workout I can go down
to the Abbey for dinner. The DAC is a
wonderful part of my life.”
DAC News illustration
originally published
with DiChiera profile
prior to the “Cyrano”
premiere.
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New award lauds community
leaders with ‘global presence’
W
hen Michigan Opera Theatre president and
founder Dr. David DiChiera receives the first
DAC Executive Club’s Lifetime Achievement
Award for a DAC member, guests at the black-tie dinner on
Tuesday, March 19 will witness the start of a new tradition.
The award is the brainchild of Kenneth Myers, a past Club
director who once served as DAC Executives Club president.
“As a 40 plus year member, I’ve often thought about
this great Club and the extraordinary people who’ve been
members,” said Myers. “I came to recognize that the Club
has never stopped to honor someone who has truly made a
difference.”
The award is not meant for successful businessmen or
women. “We’ve got the distinguished service award for that,”
said Myers. “This award won’t be granted often. We need
to set the bar very high in looking for a person who has a
presence not just locally but nationally and even globally.”
To that end Myers said one name came immediately to
mind.
“In my view unquestionably it’s David DiChiera,” said
Myers. “He’s not only the founder of Michigan Opera Theatre
and persevered to get the Detroit Opera House renovated;
he’s been honored around the world. Prevailing over all of
that, he is credited with introducing diversity to opera. When
you think about what David DiChiera has done it’s off the
charts remarkable.”
The formal dinner next month will include video and
oral tributes from DiChiera’s local and national admirers,
a performance of an aria from his opera “Cyrano” and the
presentation of gifts including a custom designed glass art
object that will be permanently displayed on a pedestal in
the Hughes Chalmers Board Room. It will be engraved
with DiChiera’s name and eventually the names of future
DAC Executives Club award recipients.
“Even before it was announced to the Club in general,
we already had a high number of individuals interested in
attending,” said John Petty, who will begin serving a term
as DAC Executives Club president in March. “It should be
an incredible turnout. And David DiChiera is the perfect
recipient.”
Wrapping up a term as DAC Executives Club president,
Ed Deeb also serves on the planning committee and will be
Master of Ceremonies for the March 19 gala.
“We are honored to be able to present this very first
award to Dr. DiChiera who has demonstrated so much
in our community, the arts and music over the years.
I have known him many years and he is an outstanding
individual.”
For more information on the black-tie dinner,
contact Beth Laskowski in the DAC Catering Office at
(313) 442-1068.
Mary Rodrique
Gala evening is planned for March 19 at DAC
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DEA continues heritage
of bringing leaders together
By Mary Rodrique
E
very Thursday afternoon,
business leaders from across
the metro area converge at
the DAC for lunch, camaraderie and
networking as part of a longstanding
tradition of the Detroit Executives
Association (DEA).
The DAC has had a prominent
role in the organization’s success – not
just as the weekly meeting spot for
an elegant luncheon and speaker’s
forum, a role it has played for the
past 30 years. Club members
founded the DEA and at
least one early meeting was
held in the Madison Avenue
Clubhouse.
In addition, nine of the
organization’s first dozen
presidents were also DAC
members. Many more served
in that capacity through the
years and DAC members still
play an active role today.
The DEA is a microcosm of society,
with representatives from all walks of
life. Careers are as fluid as the members
themselves and currently include
representatives from auto leasing,
carpet cleaning, funeral services and
home remodeling to name a few.
The idea is for members to grow
their customer base by utilizing each
other’s professional services.
It’s a formula that has worked so
well that the DEA, founded in 1926,
is still going strong nearly nine decades
after the first organizational meeting
was held at the old Statler Hotel on
Washington Boulevard.
“It’s another opportunity to meet
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business people with the sole purpose
of exchanging information,” said Tom
Rost, a 31-year DAC member who is
president of the R.G. and G.R. Harris
Funeral Homes and Cremation Society
of Michigan.
“There are a lot of members whose
services I can use: interior design,
heating, office supplies, auto repairs,”
said Rost, who joined the DEA in 1980
and served as president in 1990. “When
I came in we had really big companies.
We’ve drifted to smaller organizations
but that’s fine. I try to make it every
Thursday. The social aspect is nice but
we stay focused on business.”
DEA membership provides
exclusivity within the group. Members
promote each other’s businesses, seek
advice from other professionals and
have a built-in test market for new
products and services.
“I’ve made some incredible contacts
for business advice, partnerships
between companies and gotten over
a dozen business clients out of being
a member of the group,” said Mark
Stackpoole, a 12-year DAC member
who served as DEA president in 2011.
“We’ve used it to find our contacts for
office supplies and employee savings
program, and set up our financial
documents for the company,”
added Stackpoole, of Global
Telecom Solutions. “I value
being able to utilize people we
already know and trust, people
we feel comfortable with.”
A newsletter published by
the non-profit DEA in 1958
shows that the focus hasn’t
strayed. “An executives club
is not a social club, a service
club or a fraternal organization,” it
noted. “It is simply a business getting
organization. Members are associated to
exchange business information.”
The organization dates to 1926,
when DAC members George Klein,
a founding partner in the downtown
Detroit law firm now known as Clark
Hill, joined W.H.C. Burnett, an
insurance agent with Canada Life with
offices in the Buhl Building, to establish
a Detroit chapter of the International
Executives Association (IEA). The men
served as the DEA’s co-presidents in
1926 and 1927.
Klein joined the DAC in 1917 and
was a member for over 40 years. Burnett
joined in 1913 and resigned in 1932.
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Above, Mike and Marian Ilitch with DAC Executive of the
Year Ken Holland and his wife in November.
The first organizational meeting of
the DEA was held at the Statler Hotel
on Feb. 26, 1926. It included election
of officers and adoption of articles of
association. “It has the earmarks of
being the best of its kind ever organized
in Detroit,” Burnett noted at the time.
Early on, there was a split between
the co-founders of the Detroit chapter
regarding belonging to the international
association. The IEA wanted $50 per
member for each of the first 50 members
in Detroit. Just $10 per member
would stay with the local chapter with
$40 going to the IEA to subsidize
newsletters, an annual convention and
an inter-city lead program.
The Detroit chapter had reached
its quota of 50 members by the end
of 1926 and Burnett wanted to honor
the IEA commitment while Klein
thought it too expensive. According to
a history posted on the IEA website,
the movement began in San Francisco
in 1915 and by 1928 spread to 26 cities
in the U.S. and Canada.
In a letter Burnett wrote to Klein in
1926 he referenced an earlier meeting
held at the DAC where IEA Executive
Secretary Worth Caldwell of Portland
fully explained to DEA members present
– “that we belong to the international
association on their regular terms.”
Ken Holland with DEA President Al Wood at the DAC.
In a letter to Caldwell, Klein noted
“the charge to members is out of
proportion to the amount of business
or benefit to be derived.” The Detroit
membership sided with Klein and never
did join the international group.
In fact on Jan. 26, 1927 the name
of the association was officially
changed from the Detroit International
Executives Association to simply
the Detroit Executives Association.
According to the IEA history, after the
1927 convention, resignations were
received from a number of local groups.
To boost its stature locally, Burnett
decreed that the first annual DEA
banquet be held at the DAC “all expenses
paid by him with the understanding
that he invites the press.”
Other DAC members who were
affiliated with the DEA in the
beginning include 1928 president
James Vernor, Jr. of the iconic Vernor’s
Ginger Ale and R.B. Gotfredson of
Gotfredson Trucking. DAC members
Charles Bennett, William Davis,
Joseph Hickey, T. Mel Rinehart, Ralph
Thomas, and James Hopkins were early
DEA presidents.
In 1931, an executive association was
launched in New York City as the result
of a DEA member. New Yorker Jesse
Perlman, while visiting his brother-inlaw Ralph Wilson in Detroit, attended
a DEA meeting and was impressed by
the idea and its methods. Both men
were life insurance agents. According
to IEA history, Perlman launched the
New York association after he secured
a copy of the Detroit association’s bylaws.
During the 1930s the DEA staged
an annual fashion show at the Statler
Hotel for members and guests before
Christmas. Retail merchants in the
association displayed their wares –
including Himelhoch Brothers and
Company women’s wear, Hickey’s
Men’s Wear, Fyfe’s Shoes, Wright Kay
Jewelers and Dietrich’s Furs. After
the fashion show, Mrs. George Klein
hosted a tea.
“George Klein believed that there
should be an association of prominent
Detroit businesses that could meet
to discuss doing business with one
another and business topics in general,”
explained Doug Rasmussen, who
represented the Clark Hill law firm for
several years as a member of the DEA.
Rasmussen, the DAC’s president
in 1997, recalls being taken to his
first DEA meeting in 1965 in the old
Statler Hotel, which became part of the
Hilton chain in 1954. The hotel closed
in 1975 and was demolished in 2005.
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“The DEA met there for several years
until the hotel closed and then met for
awhile at the Masonic Temple. It was
in the 1980s that the DEA moved its
meetings to the DAC,” noted Rasmussen,
who served as DEA president in 1988.
“The premise was you won’t get
business from your friends and colleagues
unless you are willing to give business
to them,” said Rasmussen. “Thus the
exchange of business contacts, orders,
engagement and sales made the group Club set up for DEA luncheon.
flourish even to this day.”
Clark Hill is the longest surviving member business of the
association, dating all the way back to founder Klein. Today
its representative on the DEA is DAC Board Director Tom
MacFarlane.
MacFarlane, who was DEA president in 2007, notes that
unlike similar groups, the association doesn’t penalize members
if they fail to meet a certain quota of referrals.
“A referral organization is still a big part of what DEA is all
about, but it’s evolved into more than that,” said MacFarlane.
“It’s a group of friends who meet for lunch, socialize outside
of the DEA several times a year, and recognize an outstanding
executive of the year annually.”
Last year, Detroit Red Wings general manager Ken Holland
was feted as DEA Executive of the Year. Past recipients of the
award, bestowed annually since 1979, have included DAC
members Richard Manoogian, chairman of Masco Industries;
Keith Crain, chairman of Crain Communications; and Ivan
Ludington, Jr., who served as DAC president in 1988 and was
president of the Ludington News Company.
DAC members whose companies are currently affiliated
with the DEA include Corporate Fleet Services, Clark Hill,
Conner Park Florist, Burton Brothers General Contractors,
Standhardt Design, Global Telecom Solutions, Frisbie Moving
and Storage and The Reaume Company.
Today under current president Chris Ingoglia, the DEA
is part of the global IEA network, with chapters across the
nation, Canada and Great Britain. The international group is
run by a volunteer board with equal representation for each
chapter.
“For years the chapters met for an annual conference but it
wasn’t until 1996 that a number in attendance voted to make
the IEA more than a loose grouping,” said Betty Adams,
managing director of the IEA in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Detroit finally joined the international association in 2001.
Closing in on 90 years, the DEA is still helping business
leaders connect.
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DAC Professionals
Technology
Alex
Burkulas
Security Systems
Tim
Weldon
Engineering
David
Darbyshire
Automobile Dealer
Bob
Robb
Finance
Alice R.
Pfahlert
Marketing/PR
Dwight
Zahringer
Public Relations/Marketing
Leland K.
Bassett
Marketing & Brand Development
Kay
Douglas
Financial Services
Randall A.
Hoover
Residential Real Estate
Scott A.
Adlhoch
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Auto Show Charity
Preview Night
M
ore than 1,500 members and guests
enjoyed the DAC as their place to be
before and after the Auto Show Charity
Preview Night in January.
Joe and Kelli Carney, Don and Sharon Nauss with Helene and Mike
Predhomme.
Jill Wise and George Johnson.
Sue Hanawalt and Don Sitarski.
Peter and Suzanne Skorich.
Richard and Joanne Brodie,
Scott and Katie Wood and
Char Terry.
Katie Wybo and Emily Petrovski with
Chuck and Teri Moore.
Brian and Julie McDonell,
Anne and Gary Caldwell, Ann
Landfair and Jeff Fricke. Roger and Kathryn Penske.
Kathy and Matt Agnone.
Michael and Martha Brosseau with Ray and
Noreen Eisbrenner.
Steve and Frances Valentine.
Michele Schroers and Carolyn
Steiner.
Rick and Melinda Callahan.
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Megan McGown and Rich Florka Jr.
Stephen and Barbara Munk.
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Detroit Mayor Dave Bing beams for a television team.
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Kevin and Kathleen Prather with Brian
and Heidi Bartes.
Kristin and Dan Ritter.
Doug and Tina Krizanic with Tom and Ellen Stretlien.
Roy and Maureen Roberts with Leland and Tina Bassett.
David and Ann Stone.
Rick and Jen Darbyshire.
Party goers check out
some of the new models
showcased.
Dave and Kathy Zmyslowski.
Cynthia and Edsel Ford.
Tom and Barbara Doescher.
Larry Rancilio with Cassie Sobelton, Mark Wallace
and Allyson McLean.
Bill and Carol Burton.
Ricca Gonzalez and Kip Wasenko.
Matthew Swegles and Julie Ahrling.
Jeff and Lisa Smith.
Bob, Mary Ann and Meredith Bury.
Rob and David Hinman.
Robert, Paula and Jonathan
Djurovic.
Bill and Annette Royce.
Phil and Barb Fioravante.
Roy and Pegeen Link.
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Bill Volz and Mary Kramer.
Kris and Ruth Pfaehler.
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William and Kimberly Smith.
Carl and Barb Roehling.
Kristine Volk and Gary Corbin with Scott and Julie Jecmen.
Patricia Padilla with Andrea and Sonya Sorrenti.
Devon Scillian and Carmen
Harlan.
George and Mary Dombrowski with Ane and Brody Barthelemy.
Dave Fisher, Katie and Scott Wood with
Diane and Dennis Meagher.
Jim and Lindsey Nader.
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Victor and Kerry Peltola.
Sarah and Bill Heinemann with
Sue and Imre Csaki.
Ed Fernandez and Lila Lazarus.
Above, Dan and Gina Soulliere,
John Trentacosta, Lauren
Eisbrenner, Bruce and Lissa
Barron.
Lynn McNulty and Amy Wenzel.
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Tom Healy, Paul and Sheryl Carroll with Grant and Trisha
Belanger.
Bob and Anne Diehl with Joe Caughlin.
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Scott Jacobson and David Foltyn.
DAC members and friends enjoy the Charity Preview Night tradition.
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Sylvia Rosales-Fike and David Fike.
Elizabeth and Pierre
Atallah, Travis Brownik
and Alicia Miela with
Patrick and Chris Atallah.
Ann Lee, Lillian, Ann and Tony Tai, Larry John, Lita and Bob Regan, Gillian and Joseph Yee.
New Year’s Eve
M
ore than 155
members and
guests gathered in
the Grill Room to
begin the countdown
to 2013 with iconic
DAC cuisine, live
music and more.
Joan McCarron, Earl Wolfe, Larry and Judy
Stanko with Janet and Michael Reno.
Tom and Cynthia Fabbri, Mark Davidoff and Margie
Dunn with Rick and Sue DiBartolomeo.
Paul Huth and Krystol
Rappuhn.
Left, Mary
Beth Widak,
Nicole Gize,
Jonathan
and Jennifer
Buntian.
Bob Slattery, Ted Gillary and Debbie Regal.
Jeffrey and Rachel Schostak with Dana and Dan Labes.
Gillian Yee, Danielle Hessell and
Amy Cadovich.
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Peterson
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McCandless.
Teresa
Slyfield
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Graczyk.
Gil Penchina, Gail Guaresimo with Bob and Sue Buydens.
Sandy and Woody Aquino.
Left, Evelyn
Hansen,
Dick and
Judy Werner
with Jamie
Spriet.
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Larry Walsh, Bonnie Jobe, Stephanie GermackTony Widenman, Dorene Harling, Mike and Lisa Bartoy, Jim Williams and Mary Carlton. Kerzic and Patrick Kerzic.
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Our Amazing Heritage
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2013 Advertising Rates
ounded in 1916, the DAC News is the award winning monthly magazine
for Detroit Athletic Club members and guests. Spanning three centuries,
the DAC is one of the finest private clubs in the country, consistently
recognized as a Platinum Club of America. Today the DAC is the place to be
for Detroit’s business, cultural and community leadership.
FOUR COLOR
The DAC News magazine, published monthly, including the annual Business
Directory, connects members with their Club and other members. The DAC
News includes feature and photo stories on business, culture, history and
more, as well as information on Club activities.
More than 10,000 DAC members (including spouses and dependents) receive
DAC publications in their homes or businesses. The DAC News is also
available throughout the Club for casual visitors and our overnight guests.
Why Advertise in DAC News
1 time 2-5 x
6-10 x 11 x
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1480
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520
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110
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Access to an amazing customer base
The DAC News readership is a powerful and affluent group; pre-qualified allowing
advertisers to reach their target audience.
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DAC members cite publications as a valuable benefit of DAC membership, and
don’t discard their magazines as quickly as others, so your ad will be relevant for
a longer period of time.
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Brand your business
Advertising with DAC publications gives your company a certain professional
cachet. Display advertising in a high quality, four-color glossy allows for superior
imaging, and coupled with the immediacy of e-advertising gets your company
noticed.
All publications are available to members online; ads are “hot-linked” to
advertiser’s website. Business Card advertising also available. Call for details.
Contact Us
Advertising Manager
Editor & Publisher
Cathy Condino
(313) 442-1036
[email protected]
Kenneth H. Voyles
(313) 442-1034
[email protected]
241 Madison Avenue, Detroit, MI 48226
Phone – (313) 442-1036
Fax – (313) 442-1047
www.thedac.com
2013 Editorial Schedule
Issue
Editorial Focus
JANUARY
Maritime - Great Lakes
FEBRUARY
Leadership
MARCH
Membership Roster
APRIL
Baseball & Golf
MAY
Travel & Leisure
JUNE
Culture, Home & Style
JULY
Education & Technology
AUGUST
Business Directory
SEPTEMBER
Detroit Development
OCTOBER
History DAC - Detroit
NOVEMBER
Traditions & Holidays
DECEMBER
Automotive
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Around the DAC
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ur Clubhouse is the scene for a wide variety of large and small Club and private events. This page will
showcase some of these activities. Let us know about an upcoming event that could be photographed
by the magazine staff. Contact Ken Voyles at (313) 442-1034 or [email protected].
CULTURAL SERIES CELEBRATES BEETHOVEN
The life and work of Beethoven is being rediscovered at the DAC with
the 2013 Culture Series. Jan. 9 saw the first in a series of four lectures
comprising the 2013 Culture Series when members of the DAC gathered to
hear Leonard Slatkin, music director of
the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, discuss
Beethoven’s nine symphonies.
Leonard Slatkin leads off the 2013 Culture Series.
Leonard and Cindy Slatkin, Reimer Priester and
Paul Hogle.
Leonard Slatkin with Doug Boehmer, Paul and Mary Jo Wemhoff, Theresa
and Leonard McEachern and Judy Williams.
Margie Duncan, Lorna Utley and Anne Parsons.
Upcoming Cultural Series lectures
will be presented on
Feb. 7, March 14 and March 21.
Ann O’Neill and Dayo Woessner with Leonard and
Daniel Slatkin.
SPECIAL VISIT BY THE HARVARD KROKODILOES
Above, the Harvard Krokodiloes performing in the Main Lobby.
Right, the group gathers for photo in the Reading Room prior to performing.
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Since 1946 the Harvard Krokodiloes have delighted audiences
worldwide with their blend of a cappella harmony and humor.
On Saturday, Jan. 12 the DAC hosted these special guests
for an evening of
live entertainment.
Performances in the
Main Lobby, Grill
Room and Reading
Room charmed an
intimate audience
throughout the night.
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