![]() ![]() Our first officers were Tom Boley, President, Randy Zelenka, VP, David Delker, Secretary, Tom Shields, Treasurer, and Bob Holcombe, Newsletter Editor. Two weeks later, those twenty-one woodturners met again for the first meeting of this new club which, by the end of the meeting, became the Flint Hills Woodturners. This initial group decided to hold meetings the first Saturday of each month and agreed that Tom’s shop, Red Oak Hollow Lathe Works, would work just fine as a location for our meetings. Twenty-one woodturners showed up and the mood was overwhelmingly positive for starting a formal club. Tom offered his shop and Bob said he would create a flyer which could be distributed to the local woodturners he knew who were mostly members of the Kansas Quality Woodworking Association (KQWA) inviting them to that meeting to be held on 21 March 2015. ![]() First thing to do, they thought, was to invite local woodturners to a meeting to see if there was sufficient interest to form a club. Bob brought Tom Shields to a meeting at Tom’s house some time after that to talk about how to proceed. ![]() It was a very short discussion which resulted in agreement to work together to start a woodturning club affiliated with the American Association of Woodturners. Tom and Judi Boley were at the Show and Judi, having been there the day before, had told Tom there was a woodturner there. The first seed of an idea to form a woodturning club in Manhattan, Kansas, appeared when Bob Holcombe was working his booth at the Pumpkin Patch Craft Show at CiCo Park in October 2014. ![]()
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