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Newspaper
Tripoli Leader
Location
Tripoli, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1966
Page
4
The list includes 1 to r, Gary Bennett, Wm. D. Kuker, Kenneth Rettig, director, Leslie Fossum and Wendell Rettig.
The creed states free men through free enterprise and that earth's treasure lies in human personality. It proclaims service to humanity as the best work of life.
The Jaycees or Junior Chamber of Commerce is a civic service group for men aged 21 to 35. It offers leadership training through community development work, a voice in community affairs, practical development not found in colleges, social activities, and personal growth through committee duties and public speaking.
Tripoli's Jaycees plan a slate of upcoming projects including sponsoring a junior tennis tournament teenage automobile roader soap box derby teen hops trap shoots safety check park development and a community survey.
The Jaycees began in St. Louis with 32 founders led by Henry Giessenbier to mobilize young men for civic service. From 1919 to 1920 the national organization formed, expanding to 5,300 communities, 240,000 members, and over 50 countries, with a war memorial building in Tulsa dedicated in 1951.
The Iowa Jaycees national director Donald Vohrees presents the Tripoli Jaycee charter to president Donald Bremer at the charter banquet on September 12 in Tripoli Town Hall. Iowa leads the nation with 30 new chapters chartered in the past year as Jaycees enter a homecoming parade float.
Tripoli Jaycee Chapter members have been active since September 12 chartering. They sponsored fourteen hops with live music and youth recreation, entered a float in the THS homecoming parade, and promoted a Get out the vote campaign with townwide leaflets. They held Sunday trap shoots, hosted a hunters breakfast on November 13, and sponsored a December 28 Medicare benefits meeting with a Waterloo Social Security field rep and 90 attendees. Their latest project was a free door to door Christmas tree pickup on January 2, deemed highly successful.
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