Club E-Mail:

RCOGLARGO@gmail.com

Casey Cox
President

Charlie Harper
1st Vice President and Program Chairman

Kathy Gagne
2nd Vice President and Membership Chairman

Toni Wolff
Recording Secretary

Steve McClelland
Corresponding Secretary

Fred Belzel
Treasurer

Kathleen McNeil
Immediate Past President

Pictured with Presenter Charlie Harper

Dennis Logue
Former Immediate Past President

Rita Fredenrich
Former Corresponding Secretary

Pictured with Presenter Kathleen McNeil

Martin Fredenrich
Former Director

Pictured with Presenter Kathleen McNeil

W. Fred Petty

Pictured with Presenter Kathleen McNeil

Please make the following corrections in your Membership Directory:

Doyce Hayth: Street Address: “6700” 150th Avenue North, #522, Largo 33764

Janice Hill – Telephone Number: 374-8610

Kathleen McNeil – Telephone Number: 536-7974

A big “WELCOME BACK” to Dolores (Hammond) Hamilton – please add her name, address and telephone number to your Directory:

Dolores Hamilton – 11791 68th Avenue, Seminole 33772 392-7036

Ruby Brooks’ zip code is 33771

Doyce Hayth: Ms. Doyce Hayth

Addition: Dan and Sandy Curran

Addition: Sharon Harper

If you have a correction to be made in the Directory, please call Toni Wolff at 385-5359. Thanks

Our Immediate Past President

It is an honor to introduce ou rImmediate Past President, Mr. T J Schmitz. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and has his MBA from Florida Atlantic University.

TJ has long been involved in the Republican Party serving for over fifteen years as Chairman of the Greater Indianapolis Republican Finance Committee, as a Precinct Committeeman, as President of a GOP Club, and as a member of the Indiana Republican Finance Committee, besides working on many campaigns. He was voted Outstanding Young Republican in Marion County (Indianapolis) and the Indiana General Assembly adopted a resolution on February 14, 1994, recognizing him for his business and political leadership. He had the great pleasure of serving on the host committee for a Bush-Cheney ’04 reception in Washington, D. C. last summer.

For 20 years TJ served as Chief Executive Officer of Tau Kappa Epsilon International Fraternity (“TKE”) with over 300 chapters on college and university campuses throughout the United States and Canada with a membership of over 150,000 alumni. One of his fondest memories is his visit to the Oval Office when President Ronald Reagan presented an award to an outstanding TKE undergraduate.

TJ has received many recognitions including Indiana’s highest, the Sagamore of the Wabash, Indiana Association Executive of the Year, American Society of Association Executive’s Key Award, the Gold Medal of the North-American Interfraternity Conference, 33rd degree Mason, and Beta Gamma Sigma Scholastic Honor Society.

His family includes two daughters, Julia (Florida) and Cathy (Wisconsin), four sisters and two brothers (Wisconsin). A number of us had the good fortune of meeting his family who came down for our second annual mystery dinner theater. What a nice family!

Introducing Toni Wolff

Past President and Newsletter Editor

Toni Wolff grew up in Chester, Illinois, the home of Popeye the Sailor created by Mr. Elzie Seagar, a schoolmate of her maternal grandfather. She attended schools in Chester, graduating Chester High School in 1965. She took business courses at Southern Illinois University following graduation and has taken various business and professional courses during the interim. Her immediate family includes her Mother, Gloria Sprague, and brothers Nick, Mark and Christopher Wolff and stepbrother, Richard Sprague, and their extended families. They all live in the Midwest scattered between Littleton, Colorado, and Gatlinburg, TN.

Toni has been employed with Diane Nelson, the Pinellas County Tax Collector, since 2001 and holds the position of Training Coordinator. Her responsibilities include coordinating and scheduling in-house training activities for five trainers and 290 employees, as well as the four dealer classes, which Diane offers to the motor vehicle, mobile home and vessel dealers and towing and storage companies in Pinellas and surrounding counties. These classes are free and cover the paperwork processed in the Tax Collector’s offices. She also assists with scheduling and coordinating DL and DMV Coalition meetings and special classes conducted by the Florida Division of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicle held in Diane’s Training Center in Largo.

During the time frame February 1998 to March 2001, Toni worked as the Project Manager and Administrative Assistant to the Vice- President of the Office Furniture Division for BT Office Products’ new Florida Division with headquarters in Tampa (BT merged with Corporate Express in 2000). Her responsibilities in this position included assisting with the upstart of the new office furniture division, setting up the furniture catalog library, learning accounting procedures and training and creating forms for fellow staff members. She also managed over $4 million in office furniture sales (purchasing, delivery and set-up) for a number of national customers.

Prior to February 1998, Toni worked as a legal secretary in several law firms in Illinois, Missouri and Florida, which included six years in the Legal Department of Shriners International Headquarters in Tampa, FL (1991 – 1998).

Toni’s stint in politics started in 1990 when she was elected President of the Republican Women of Tarpon Springs, Federated. During the interim she has been a member of several Republican Clubs in Pinellas County and served as a member of the:

Florida Federation of Republican Women, Federated (Board of Directors under Alis Freeland and Carol Jean Jordan and a number of Committee Chairs);

The Pinellas County Republican Executive Committee including serving as Chairman of two PCREC Lincoln Day Dinners and a lead volunteer for different campaigns between 1990 and 2004);

Served in different positions on the Board of Directors of the Republican Club of Greater Largo; and

Currently gearing up to help elect FL House Representative Gus Bilirakis to the U. S. Congress this year. GO GUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!