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July 2007

COACH MANGINO EXPECTED TO DRAW BIG CROWD
Football excitement is building just as the football building is proving pretty exciting outside Memorial Stadium.  Come support Coach Mangino as he previews the upcoming season in Topeka on Sunday, July 29.  The TJC board this year formed an events committee which looked into all sorts of alternative locations in the Topeka area which would allow us to keep our prices down and offer our members a price break.  After looking at the alternatives, the Ramada still provided the best location and deal.  Coach Mangino continues to give us a great date on a Sunday evening, so let's show him just how many friends he has in Topeka. Don't miss it!  The TJC band will once again provide all the wonderful atmosphere that makes this event a Mangino favorite!
Further info? Call Justin Glasgow at 286-1316.
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TAILGATE HOPEFULLY RETURNS
Because of high tent rental/catering costs, we're only able to hold a KU football tail-gate in a tent with the help of a sponsor who picks up a large part of the cost.  The board had a tentative sponsor lined up when the sponsor's business was just sold.  We're hoping the tailgate will still be a go, either with the new owners or another sponsor.  We're aiming at the Baylor game..
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LICENSE PLATES STILL WAITING FOR SOME
If you haven't already done so, come to the picnic and pick up your 2007 membership gift license plate.  If you can't, you can still get them at  Performance Tire, 1735 N Kansas, or at Larry Tenopir's office, 1610 SW Topeka. 
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TJC GOLF TOURNAMENT ANOTHER HIT
Shawnee Country Club was again awash with crimson and blue when TJC and KU coaches Bill Self and Mark Mangino (and other KU dignitaries) joined 125 golfers to raise scholarship funds for the athletic department.  During its 10 years of tournaments, TJC has raised thousands of dollars for KU.  Original plans were to fully endow a scholarship so that interest earned from the endowment would fund annual scholarships.  Plans have changed over the years so that current amounts raised are paid immediately out as a scholarship (Topeka golfer Gary Woodland was the recipient for 2006-2007 school year.)   Options are being weighed to transfer the amounts held by KU endowment from the early years of TJC tournaments in a lump sum to the athletic department in a manner which will allow for recognition for years to come to TJC's contributions.  More on that later.
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THANKS TO GOLF SPONSORS
The only way we can actually provide a quality golf tournament and still clear an amount to donate to KU athletics is because of the generosity of our tournament sponsors.  Please patronize our sponsors: Bank of America, BRB Contractors, Inc., Kevin Brennan Funeral Home, Capital City Bank, Capitol Federal Foundation , Community National Bank, Cotton O'Neill Clinic, Eventide Convalescent Center, Robert A. Exon D.D.S., Fairlawn Plaza Shopping Center, Hayden Tower Service, Inc., Jayhawk Beverage/Coors, Jeremiah Bullfrog's Bar & Grille, KTKA Channel 49 - ABC, Laird Noller Ford - Topeka, Murphy Tractor & Equipement, Bruce Price & Associates Insurance, Richardson Decorative Curbing, Signs to Go, Topeka Capital Journal, Western Associates. THANKS TO ALL!!!
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LOCAL ALUMNI CHAPTER ORGANIZES
Local members of the KU Alumni Association met recently at the Shawnee Country Club to organize a Shawnee County Chapter which will work closely with TJC.  The Topeka Jayhawk Club will continue to do the support of athletics which we've been doing for the past 13 years.  The alumni chapter will concentrate on other aspects of providing local support for KU such as the annual honors banquet and a summer picnic for incoming KU students.  First up is the annual Jayhawk Generations picnic for incoming KU freshmen set for July 23 in Gage Park.  Both organizations will be mutually supportive, and many will serve on the boards of both.
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Carry your card... It has benefits...TJC Friendly Merchants
Here is the link:

http://www.topekajayhawkclub.com/Merchants.shtml

If you own a business or know of a business that would like to participate in the TJC Friendly Merchant Campaign, let me know and I’ll contact them. Fans helping fans...Call 271-1224 or email me at pat@topekajayhawkclub.com. We will continually be adding to the list, so check out our website often! This is just starting to roll, so get in on the ground floor.
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WATERMELON FOR THE TEAM ON AGAIN THIS YEAR
Carrying on a long-time tradition started by several loyal KU boosters, including the late TJC board member Bill Bradford, TJC will once again transport melons to treat the football team after some to-be-determined practice in August.  The team always appreciates the special event.
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BRIAN'S SONG FEATURED AT KSHS SUNDOWN FILM FESTIVAL
Mark your calendar for July 27 when you can start your KU football weekend with a short trip to the Kansas State Historical Society Museum for its FREE screening of the famous movie about KU's own Gale Sayers and his friendship with his late teammate Brian Piccolo.  The movies shown on Fridays this month are sports-related since the KSHS current exhibit is "Game Faces-Sports in Kansas". Movies are shown at sundown (about 9:30) on the museum's plaza.  From 5-9 before the movie, you can see the museum's Game-Faces exhibit for FREE as well.  Bring blankets/lawn chairs (and tissues for the movie), bug spray. Concessions are available through the first 30 minutes of the film.  In case of rain, the movie just moves indoors.  Other films featured are 7/20- Hoosiers; 8/3-A League of Their Own.  Thanks to TJC member and KSHS Teresa Jenkins for the heads-up.
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TJC TO SUPPORT MARCHING BAND SCHOLARSHIP
A major fundraising effort is currently being contemplated by KU Endowment to support the KU marching band by providing scholarships to provide some financial support to students to help underwrite their expenses and time involved in participating in the marching band.  Other Big 12 and even smaller Kansas colleges and universities provide this kind of support to their bands.  The TJC board voted at its July meeting to donate a scholarship for one Topeka student for a full four years.  We'll hopefully be able to present a check at our tailgate this fall.
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GOLF TOURNAMENT DVD AVAILABLE
Pat Maxon, TJC's past-president and volunteer web-meister, has put together a DVD combining many photos of this year's golf tournament taken by TJC board member Dave Heineman with a cute Buster Keaton golf film clip (Buster was a native Kansan) and some appropriate music.  If you'd like a copy for $10, please contact Pat at pat@pmdevelopment.com. You can view online at: http://www.pmdevelopment.com/TJC_Golf_2007.htm You will be prompted to download a small viewer program which is totally safe and allows high quality viewing over the internet. Some company firewalls do not allow this however.

So, for those of you at work whose firewall will not allow you to download the small viewer program, you can watch this compressed flash version, less the Buster Keaton clip, here.