01/08/2025 -- Bob Roeglin (now retired) worked in the corrections field in various capacities for Hennepin County for over 40 years. His first Corrections job was working with misdemeanor offenders, primarily drunk drivers and domestic assault cases. He then moved on to working with felony level offenders and later was promoted to supervisor for the last several years of his career.
Bob helped to create, along with a team of judges, attorneys, and treatment providers, the first "problem solving court" in Hennepin County, the Drug Court. This was a radical departure from the way that drug offenders had been dealt with in the past. Persons arrested for drug offenses were then given the option of going the traditional route -- plead or go to trial, if guilty serve time in the county workhouse, go on probation for a period of years after that -- or opt into Drug Court which meant no jail time if certain conditions were met. This meant weekly court appearances frequent drug testing and unannounced home visits by law enforcement and probation. This model was replicated a few years later with the DWI Court for chronic drunk driving offenders in which Bob supervised a group of dedicated probation officers who developed very close and therapeutic relationships with their clients. These innovative programs are still going strong in Hennepin County. Host: Randy Preuss
01/15/2025 -- Michael Oscarson, an audiologist at Audiologists Hearing Center in Edina, will speak to the Club about hearing loss, hearing assistance technologies, and new trends in hearing preservation and assistance. Host: Victor Kirsch.
01/22/2025 General member discussion regarding the hopes, dreams, expectations, uncertainties, concerns, and fears for the nation collectively held by the group regarding the new President, Congress, and other public officials who were recently sworn in to their respective offices. Moderated by Tom Horner.
01/29/2025 -- Jamie Dolynchuk is Canadian and spent most of his career working for Cargill and living in many developing countries around the world. He recently retired and is now running Community Emergency Service, one of the largest food shelves and Meals-on-Wheels provider in the State of Minnesota and located in the poorest area of the Twin Cities. Jamie will speak about his Canadian ‘roots’ and what it is like to have worked around the world and now in the U.S. Host: Richard Wisland
02/05/2025 -- Open
02/12/2025 -- Speaker: HCMC official on trauma prevention. Host: Darrell Bertelson.
02/19/2025 -- Roma Duncan is a flautist and piccoloist with the Minnesota Orchestra. She will tell the Club about her professional journey, discuss the role of the piccolo in major orchestral works, and play a distinctive piccolo solo or two for our enjoyment. Host: Ron Hasselmann.
02/26/2025 -- Open
03/05/2025 -- Open
03/12/2025 -- Open
03/19/2025 -- Open
03/26/2025 -- Dr. [first name] Logue, HCMC Medical Director for Hyperbaric Medicine & Limb Preservation will be speaking about the clinical applications of hyperbaric medicine. Host: Darrel Bertelson.
04/02/2025 -- Open
04/09/2025 -- Open
04/16/2025 -- Open
04/23/2025 -- Open
04/30/2025 -- Open
05/07/2025 -- Open
05/14/2025 -- Open
05/21/2025 -- [Tentative; to be confirmed] Rev. Angela Denker (ELCA) is a journalist, pastor, and author. She is a regular contributing columnist to the Minnesota StarTribune. Her most recent book, Disciples of White Jesus - the Radicalization of American Boyhood, was published in March 2025. She will speak to us about her research and the findings that led to her writing of this timely book. Host: Jim Utt.
(For a longer description of Rev. Denker's book, see https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9798889830757/Disciples-of-White-Jesus.)
05/28/2025 -- Open
06/04/2025 -- Open
06/11/2025 -- Open
06/18/2025 -- Open
06/25/2025 -- Open