Phather Phil Prayer, Read by Bob Burkman
October 11, 2016
Heavenly Father, many of us spend a lot of time thinking, which is a good thing. But sometimes it creates a problem that wasn’t even there in the first place. Instead of relying on our own judgment, we need to get in the habit of having a prayerful discussion with you. We need to listen to our inner selves, to recognize your nudges and to act. We thank You for all the variety of talents that are assembled here, and may we continue to use them for the benefit of the kids and make You smile in appreciation.
Amen!
Announcements
- Kristen Marks announced that at the CNO lunch next week (3/15/2022) the winners of the essay contest will read their essays.
- Beth Duncan announced that the 2nd Annual Washington Centerville’s Got Talent is accepting video submissions until 4/7/2022 from kids aged 4-18. Only the first 30 applicants will be accepted. The prize money for places 1-3 are $500, $250 and $100. An in-person FINALE of the top 10 chosen will be held in the Central Theater at Centerville High School on 5/4/2022 at 6:30 PM.
- Jesse Gaither announced that the next CNO 2.0 meeting will be on 3/17/2022 at Heavier than Air Brewing Company in Centerville. The speaker will be Alexis Gomez. Alexis made it to the final 6 of American Idol. She splits her time living in Dayton and Nashville.
- Pat Behn announced that volunteers are needed for the Easter Egg Hunt that will be held on 4/16/2022 at Oak Grove Park. There will be 8000 plastic eggs with a piece of candy for the kids to find.
- The UD Optimist club is stuffing 3000 eggs.
- Top Optimist club will stuff 1000 eggs.
- On 4/2/2022 at 10 AM for about 45 minutes, the final 4000 eggs will be stuffed at St Leonard. Let Greg Griffin or Pat Behn know if you would like to help stuff some eggs.
Committee Meetings
3/16/2022, 6 PM, Tom Frazier Tee Off for Youth Golf Classic 2022. Meetings in 2022 will be on Wednesdays on 1/26, 2/16, 3/16, 4/20, 5/18, 6/15, 7/13. Additional golf committee members and volunteers are always welcome. The event will be held on 7/18/2022.
Community Events
4/16/2022 10 AM, Easter Egg Hunt at Oak Grove Park. Volunteers are needed at 8:30 AM to distribute the eggs before the event.
Social Event
4/8/2022 at 6 PM, Euchre tournament at Beth Duncan’s clubhouse.
Tim Engleka, CHS Baseball Coach
Debe Dockins’ Introduction of Tim Engleka
I have the honor of introducing Tim Engleka – most of you will remember him as the former baseball coach at Centerville High School. Tim had a record of 760 wins and 307 losses when he retired. He has had more than 60 former players go on to play in college and numerous players drafted professionally.
A Dayton native, he played baseball and graduated from Miami University and has a masters from Xavier University.
During his coaching career Tim had 12 league championships and two regional titles. He was the Miami Valley Baseball Coach’s Association’s Coach of the Year three times – in 1976, 1989, and in 1994 – and was inducted into their Hall of Fame in 1990.
One of the most interesting times for Tim is when he was able to spend time one on one with Ted Williams talking about baseball and I hope we hear more about that – Boston’s Splendid Splinter.
Tim also has the answer to this trivia question,” The only remaining player drafted by the Montreal Expos retired this year, who is that player?”
Please give a warm Optimist welcome to Tim Engleka.
About Tim Engleka’s Career
Tim said, “It is an honor to speak here today.”
He really enjoyed his career of coaching. One of his favorite quotes is from Mark Twain, “Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” He started at CHS in 1963 and coached there for 38 years. He had great assistant coaches and he was very fortunate the entire time he was at CHS.
He recently talked to the current CHS players and he told them, “Once you put on the black and gold you always wear the black and gold.”
Baseball Conventions
At a baseball convention booth Tim asked if he could buy a baseball and have Lefty Gomez sign it. Lefty came out from the back and said, “We don’t sell baseballs! I’ll sign one though and you can have it, but then it won’t be worth anything.” Lefty talked for a half hour about the 1927 Yankees that included himself, Waite Hoyt, Babe Ruth, and Lou Gehrig. Tim said, “I was like a kid in a candy shop.”
The first college coach baseball convention he attended was in St Louis, Missouri. He went to the CHS principal and his CHS boss Will Cale to ask for time off to go and they said it was fine. Then he had to ask the real boss, his wife! She said, “That’s fine if I also get to go.”
Tim said, “You don’t want to go. I’ll never see you.”
She said, “That is no problem, I will just read and sew.”
The convention hotel was near the Mississippi River. Tim told his wife, “One of the nights we will go to dinner on one of the barges on the river.” It ended up his wife was not bored. Several college coach’s wives adopted her and they went and did whatever it is college coach’s wives do at these conventions.
At this convention he was very excited to join a session that included a talk by Ted Williams. Tim considers Ted Williams the greatest hitter ever. Williams was promoting a line of fishing gear for Sears at the time. Tim remembers how focused he was listening to Williams. When the session was over, he did not have much time before taking his wife to dinner on a barge at 5:30 PM. He remembered his wife told him she learned that the bank of elevators nearest the lecture hall was always crowded and that he should just go down to the other side of the hotel where there was another bank of elevators.
When he reached the second bank of elevators, he saw a man sitting on a couch reading a newspaper. It was Ted Williams. Tim looked at his watch and it was 5:30. He had a choice to make now. He went with going over to Ted Williams and introducing himself.
Tim said, “I’m Tim Engleka, a high school coach from Ohio. I don’t know if high school kids could do some of the things you suggested in your talk.”
Williams started off with, “Here is what I meant.” Williams started on a roll and the clock kept ticking. He went on with things like, “If the players are inside because of the weather you can try this… drill or that … drill”. The actual advice is not important to this story.
Tim said, “We talked and talked and talked. Well really, he talked. Every once in a while, I got to ask a question. At one point I looked at my watch and I said I hate to break this up, but I was to pick up my wife at 5:30 for dinner and it’s 6:25.”
Ted Williams said, “I think you’re in trouble.”
Tim said, “I’ll be alright. My wife is a good lady.”
Tim told us he got a surprise when he stood up and turned around, “There were about 30 people standing behind me – I was so concentrated on Ted Williams I didn’t notice. The crowd parted for me to get to the elevator. My wife was very understanding, and we went to dinner. This is one of the greatest moments I have had off a baseball field.”
The Golf Story
Tim said, “Once I retired, I told my wife we’ve spent our last January in Ohio. I want to go somewhere warm.”
She said, “Where?”
He said he told her, “Somewhere in Florida but I have no clue where in Florida to go.” He told us, “I asked several people I know where they liked to go and nine of ten said they go to Siesta Key near Sarasota. For 14 years in January we went to Siesta Key.”
One year he went into the pro shop at the golf course and said, “I would like to play a round of golf and I’m a single today. I was paired with an elderly gentleman and we proceeded to play.”
On the fourth hole the guy told Tim, “You don’t know how to keep score do you?”
Tim told him, “Sure I do. I keep count of the strokes to the green and then count the number of putts.”
The guy said, “No, you don’t know how to keep score.”
Tim thought, “The next 14 holes will be a problem.”
Tim told the guy, “Well then why don’t you tell me how to keep score?”
The guy asked, “Why are you counting the strokes you shank, go into the water or the woods? Those are negative strokes. I only count positive strokes. Yesterday, I shot a seven.”
Tim told us, “As I get older, I get the point, and just to let you all know, two days ago I shot a nine.”
At this point Tim Engleka received a standing ovation from about 90 people at today’s CNO lunch meeting.
The Roy Barclay Story
One of Tim’s assistant coaches was long time CNO member Roy Barclay, who was at lunch today. At practice one day there weren’t enough players to catch for one of the pitchers and Roy said he would catch for him.
Tim told us, “The tenth pitch hit Roy square on the nose. I felt bad for two reasons. The first was that Roy was hit, but the second was that it was his top pitcher and he didn’t even knock him down.”
Thank You
Thank you, Tim Engleka, for your very enjoyable baseball stories. I’m laughing again as I write this.
New Member Readings and Inductions
| Name | Sponsor | 1st 2nd 3rd Reading or Induction |
| Jenna Robbins | Jesse Gaither | 2nd Reading |
| Ray Daley | Stan Fronzaglia | Induction |
Welcome Guests!
| Guest | Guest Of |
| Joe Duncan | Beth Duncan |
| Judy Johnson | Barbara Santo |
| Paige Gary | Cherie Gentry |
| Reggie Germany | Scott Langer |
| Tim Engleka | Speaker |
Happy Bucks
| Member | Reason |
| Myron Rheaume | Scott Rheaume after 8.5 weeks in the hospital after COVID finally was able to get up and walk. |
| Myron Rheaume | Grandson Liam is an All Ohio Athlete for high school hockey. He just received the prestigious Hobey Baker Foundation Award for hockey which is based on integrity, leadership and more. |
| Cherie Gentry | $20, she will miss being a member of the CNO club (she changed jobs and can’t make lunch). Cherie remains a member of the Monroe Optimist Club and she looks forward to seeing everyone at District Meetings. |
| Harry Bossey | He doesn’t get to come to CNO lunch that often, but he always feels the love from members when he does. |
| Gail Aiken | Oldest grandson has made the High School Baseball Team. |
| Roy Barclay | He learned a lot about baseball from todays speaker coach Tim Engleka. |
| Don Massie | Wife Kim is finally feeling better. |
| Don Massie | Thank you for the flowers sent by the CNO Sunshine committee to his wife. |
Sergeants at Arms
| Member | Infraction |
| Tim Engleka (speaker) | For any disagreements he may have had with an umpire as a coach. (Sergeant Beth’s father was a high school baseball umpire.) |
| Chris McAlpine | Chris McAlpine bet Sergeant Beth that she wouldn’t remember his $100 comment from last week |
| Joe Duncan (guest) | Being Sergeant Beth Duncan’s brother. |
| Everyone at the Speaker’s table | For chatting up coach Tim Engleka so much that he couldn’t eat. |
| Gary Hansen | Stole a pen from a sergeant and when asked for a pen by a sergeant he gave a crappy one. |
| Group Fine | Chairs at each table were numbered 1-8 under the seat and the number 2 was randomly selected. If you didn’t have a 2 then you paid a dollar. |
Membership Anniversaries
| Member | Joined | Years |
| Barbara Santo | March 9, 1999 | 23 |
| Bob Glavin | March 12, 1993 | 29 |
| Steve Kohls | March 14, 2003 | 19 |
| Shane Wilken | March 14, 2003 | 19 |
Birthdays
| Morgan Schiffhauer | March 12 |
| Gareth Dickey | March 14 |
CNO Donations – 2013 through February 2022
Click here to see a summary of donations the club has made since 2013
