City Club Missoula Inaugural Luncheon, 10/22, Missoula

We are excited participating in the inaugural meeting of City Club Missoula. Many communities across the United States host City Clubs; some have been in existence for many years. The goal of City Club Missoula is to foster communication, discourse and creative thought within our community. The slogans used by some existing City Clubs will give you a sense of what City Clubs are all about. See the following websites:

Tacoma- Inquiring Minds Embracing the Future http://www.cityclubtacoma.org

Cleveland- A Free Exchange of Thought http://www.cityclub.org

Portland- The Conscience of the City http://www.pdxcityclub.org

Denver- To inform rather than reform http://www.cityclubofdenver.org/

San Diego- Dialogue of Democracy http://cityclubofsandiego.com/index.asp

Eugene- Where Minds come out to Play- Building Community Vision through Open Inquiry http://www.cityclubofeugene.org/.

City Club Missoula will be membership supported with fees on a sliding scale to make it possible for everyone to participate from city leaders and business executives, to students and senior citizens. The strength of the organization will be in the volunteers who organize the speakers, arrange the meetings and help maintain the organization’s neutrality and openness.

Next lunch will be on November 12, 2004. Please mark you calendars and plan on attending.

Thank you, Barbara Koostra, Sue Talbot, Claire Olivier, Tom Bensen, Daniel Kemmis, Russ Fletcher