<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif">Followup reminder that Tom Franz (<a href="mailto:franz@ohio.edu">franz@ohio.edu</a>) needs your RSVP for next week's luncheon to provide a head count for the OU Inn. Please email him no later than tomorrow. We need 50 paying members minimally per contract with the OU Inn.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif">We will be having a wonderful presentation from Boone Troyer who with his staff at the Athens County Convention and Visitors Bureau pulled off a wonderful 5 day visit of the 3/4 sized replica of the Vietnam War Memorial Wall. He will be discussing that event held last summer as well as other activities. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif">Please welcome Boone Troyer, Executive Director of the Athens County Convention and Visitors Bureau. Boone began serving as the director for the ACCVB during some tough times for the organization and during the COVID-19 pandemic. He has been in his current role now for one year. Prior to that, he served at the bureau as the partnership engagement manager working directly with several tourism sectors in our community and serving as a major public relations conduit for the bureau and businesses in our area. Boone has also previously served as the Athens City Arts, Parks and Recreation Child Program Director, taught undergraduate coursework at Ohio University, and Coached Track and Field specifically the pole vault event for the Bobcats. Boone currently coaches track and field at Athens High School. Outside of work, he enjoys spending his spare time with his two young daughters (Savannah 6 and Charlotte 3), riding his mountain bike, and fishing the Hocking and Ohio rivers. Again, please welcome Boone Troyer. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif">See you next week,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"arial narrow",sans-serif"><br></div><div>Program Chair for OU Emeriti</div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2">Scott M. Moody, Ph.D., Associate Professor Emeritus , Ohio University Athens</font><font size="2"></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>