CMC at 45: Remembering the Past and Embracing the Future

um uh this is i'm married to a lawyer um um okay thank you so much um uh congratulations sure thank you [Music] [Music] the columbus metropolitan club was founded in 1976 by 13 women leaders who wanted to be included in the community conversation i am sally bloomfield and i was one of those 13 women having been left out of men's clubs that focused on community issues it was a priority for us to make the club 100 inclusive today cmc presents public policy forums every wednesday at lunch with average attendance of more than 200 people i'm tony bell and i frequently attend forums which are open to everyone and present relevant current and newsworthy topics i'm grateful that cmc is nonpartisan and presents many perspectives on every topic i'm jane scott president and ceo of the columbus metropolitan club cmc's open to everyone we invite you to explore the personal and professional benefits awaiting you at the metropolitan club welcome to cmc welcome to cmc welcome to cmc welcome to cnc good afternoon and welcome to columbus metropolitan club's 45th anniversary forum i'm steve marks and as of about a half hour ago i am your immediate past chair of cmc's board of trustees and president of hannah news service here in columbus it's my pleasure to welcome our in-person audience today and to say hello to all of you watching via our live stream let's begin by meeting our newest cmc members franklin county commissioner erica crowley mariah lieberman and maggie ash with commissioner crawley's office a tedra brown with baird david devillers with barnes and thornburg abby mayfield with versa and michael simpson with nai ohio equities let's welcome them to cmc [Applause] we'd like to invite you to join cmc individuals can choose the monthly plan for as little as 16.95 per month or make an annual dues payment cmc membership is an investment in yourself professionally and in our community and your membership supports the not-for-profit columbus metropolitan club cmc members like you inspire our wednesday forums and are a critical part of the community conversation thank you thank you today's forum sponsor brickerneckler and thank you to our dessert sponsor today american dairy association mid east today cmc there go ahead let's give them the round and flies today's cmc live streaming is presented by the emergency response fund of the columbus foundation in partnership with the columbus dispatch and pnc let's once again thank them we would also like to thank those of you who purchased a virtual seat for today's forum we are very grateful for your continued support you can learn more about cmc register for events join or renew your membership purchase a virtual seat or make a donation anytime at columbusmetroclub.org 45 years ago columbus ohio was a very different place than it is today women women leaders in columbus were not included in the city's all-male downtown clubs 13 of those women decided to create their own club and so the metropolitan the columbus metropolitan club was born from the start cmc welcomes everyone the very first cmc forum took place on september 10th 1976. today 45 years later cmc has nearly 1200 diverse members as a community we are indebted to the 13 women whose leadership created an organization that welcomes everyone to the conversation and today it's our great honor and privilege to have two of those 13 visionaries on our stage we are happy to celebrate their achievement and recognize 45 years of community conversations now please welcome joelle kazam with today's forum sponsor bricker and eckler to introduce our panelists joelle [Applause] thank you steve and thank you all for being here with us today as you will learn today women like mary lazarus and my friend and colleague sally bloomfield are rock stars unicorns exceptional role models their foresight in 1976 in seeing and filling a need for a place like a place where a growing metro city like columbus could come together and civilly discuss important topics of the day is a testament to their can-do spirits and we all are the continuing beneficiaries of their collective effort they and their 11 colleagues have through many such actions throughout their careers continue to help us innovate they have helped women become confident business leaders they have turned men into allies and they have left us all with a legacy of civil discourse through this columbus metropolitan club at a time when we most need civility and common sense i am delighted that bricker and eckler which places such a high premium on diversity including diversity of thought can sponsor today's forum featuring mary lazarus and one of my personal shiros sally bloomfield [Applause] now i'd like to introduce tony bell and josh harrison who will conduct our panel thank you thank you wow 45 years that's incredible i first want to thank our two guests along with the other founders of cmc for making this happen i want to begin with the origin story walk us through how this happened what was the motivation what was it like you want to start i 45 years is startling and i think sally and i both echo uh what josh has said there were we were two of the of 13 founders uh uh and fortunately for us we've survived some of them have not some of them have moved away uh or and are are no longer with us here so we we sort of represent uh that group and it started with um as i remember a meeting of women actually it was at the academy academy for contemporary affairs which the problem here is good that most of you aren't going to be old enough to remember the things that i do but um uh where we were talking about what were the needs the real needs that women felt here in the columbus area and so i i'll start with one and then turn it over to sally uh one was that uh there there were not um places clubs if you will that welcomed women as members or even always guests the university club the columbus club the athletic club none of those had women members and there are some stories about those uh right and um and we'll give we'll give you two little vignettes that we experienced concerning the exclusion that women had at that time but basically one of the things was we really wanted to be part of the conversation and without having access to the venues that business people had and other men had we were left out so that was one of the biggest reasons for um for founding the the cmc i think it's important to sort of remember the context of the 1976 and that is in your programs today what was happening because this was the environment in which we we work to establish the cmc and our own per we had our own personal experiences of exclusion i'll start with one and i know mary has one too at the time of the founding i was a commissioner on the public utilities commission of ohio and as such i was asked to give a speech at one of the downtown clubs and it was after hours and i happened that our office was right across the street so i race across broad street go up the front steps and there was a knocker which i knocked on and took a few minutes and finally a young lady or an older lady actually was in uniform came to the door and said oh no no no no no you cannot enter in the front door and i've just taken aback i had no idea this was the uh this this was the uh policy so they you know after a while they took me to the the um the rear of the building and i was able to enter and i had to give a speech there so then i climbed up the stairs to the second floor to give my speech and it sort of went downhill from there because at the time i was about eight months pregnant and i i get to the speakers to be introduced and the gentleman who was introducing me made all kinds of comments about my pregnancy and hoping that i wasn't going to deliver right then so it was a map the whole experience was pretty memorable the other thing that i remember from around that time was credit cards and i had at that time women there were laws that were passed that permitted equal credit but it hadn't fully blossomed at that point and so i went to get a uh a credit card and i was told by the banker well i'm sorry you don't have any credit and i said well wait a minute i've had a credit card since so and so oh no that's in your husband's name he takes he has the credit rating you don't so i had to start all over again and fortunately i knew two women who were in banking and they assisted me and i was able to start all over again getting credit which had been established like maybe seven or eight years before so that sort of just gives you the context of what we were what we were living with and mary has an even better story i'm not sure that mine is better uh it was at the university club and uh i was doing um lobbying work for um not-for-profit i don't i think it was action for children but i'm not sure exactly which agency and we wanted to take one of the women legislators uh state women legislators to lunch at the university club and talk to her uh you know about their needs i'm sure they were budget needs and so forth and so when i went to make the reservation at the university called um my husband bob was a member they s i said we'd you know there'd be four of us or whatever we would like to come at noon and they said oh no sorry but if there are women in the group including the legislator of course who was the main thing uh women cannot come and have lunch until one o'clock because naturally the um underlying thing was that women would be uh you know free at one o'clock well it happens that at the legislature they were to be back meeting at one o'clock so that didn't sit too well and i actually i don't remember whether we got it resolved or not but but anyway so that's one more example of the kind of thing wow that's amazing um i'm thinking about how much has changed right in those 45 years since you started but when we think about the inception of the organization can you bring us into some of the conversations um i know sally you said that you were interested in you know what are some of the issues of the day that you wanted to address but can you help us like put us in a meeting with the 13 of you and what what was that like what were some of the tough points or the points that you decided yes now we'll you know this is exactly what we're going to do i don't know that we had an exact idea originally except we we did want to model it very much like the city club in cleveland in terms of presenting a panel and discussions and that kind of thing it we had a number of meetings um we had some concerns at the time about you know we'll if we build it will they come that was one of them for sure um and um and and one of the things every one of the 13 members worked very hard to get the membership in the beginning we knew that this club would fail if we could not get members to come and we were charging i think a hundred dollars which was a which was a big a big amount in those days particularly and so we i can remember many of the meetings having to do with uh lists and people calling people and you know checking to see if we could get because we needed a certain corpus before we could we could get started and there were cons there were just the normal uh operational concerns where were we going to meet that kind of thing uh it would take you even if it wasn't one o'clock right right um and also there were philosophical discussions about what kind of uh programming we wanted and for sure we we decided that we wanted to make sure that uh there were timely and current topics that were presented similar to the city club we want to make sure that it was very balanced that we had both sides um represented and in fact one of the sort of tenets of the in the very first was that we had to have a point counterpoint now we had to abandon that later not because the concept wasn't good because it is and i think we still we still the club still honors all sides but we could not always get people on each side to speak at a particular time and that was that was a problem and we wanted as many sides as possible to be uh represented on a on a given issue we definitely wanted interaction between the members and the people participating in the speakers and so the question and answer period started and i am pleased to see that that is still a very integral part of what's going on today because that made a lot of difference and we thought that because there was no group like this or club like this that we could serve as a catalyst to keep the discussion going or put out important topics that uh that hadn't really been discussed in one place before did you feel that it took a lot of courage and oh go ahead i didn't want to interrupt you well no i was just going to add to that in an example our very first forum was as jane said on september 10th um 16 12 what am i saying um 45 years ago was on the development of downtown north and south and uh we were talking about it again i don't think anyone will remember joe madonna represented this south development or the real what we think of as downtown or the ohio theater the brewery district um all of that and the north was the convention center and thanks to some good research we've dick lasko was the person representing so it wasn't exact we but sally's so right we tried to alway to for a long time to have two points of view uh i mean should more money you know go to the north more money to to the south and how also the issue of how are these going to get connected um so you know still an of interest today and then of course we had political debates that was a very big part they're so much more common now that i'm not sure we do as many with the candidates always certainly do occasionally but we did then uh have debates between candidates and um also issues i think you know whatever the issues on the ballot were that was often a subject so since it's founding it's been wildly successful from the outside looking in but from your perspective was there ever a moment of crisis or resistance where you thought maybe this isn't going to work out well i i just i was thinking about that probably the biggest moments of crisis were financial uh you know what were we going to be able to make it we wanted to as sally said it was a steep price but we wanted it we didn't want to make it any steeper and we've been very good about we certainly haven't kept up with inflation but we wanted it to be accessible but i think in downturns in the economy and i'm i can't talk about the exact dates but and this is in large part i think due to jane's leadership when we began to get corporate sponsors that made all the difference in keeping us uh afloat i i don't think we ever hit a real crisis like we're gonna have to close next week but there were times where it was questionable would we have enough members now we get of course so many guests that wasn't always true in the beginning well i can certainly speak to where the the cmc has come for me i remember being at the columbus athletic club being a young professional and still kind of a young professional you're welcome and i can say that the cmc has meant so much to me in terms of the variety and the diversity of thought and i found myself coming to forums that are on topics that i i normally wouldn't have thought about but i said huh seems interesting let me go and i found that the ones i've come to that are outside of my bailiwick have been the most inspiring so that's pleasing to me and i would imagine it's the same way for our members what has surprised you most about how far the cmc has come well i would say first of all the um the membership is wonderful in um in terms of numbers and that was a struggle particularly for the first several years we had about 400 and it went up to 500 and we were holding on at 500 for some for some time um i think the fact that um the uh the the original tenants that we started with in terms of the balanced discussion and the diversity and absolute inclusion that of that of course has stayed and so um i think the essence essence has remained the same although it's certainly improved over the years the programs have improved the offerings to the members have improved i mean it's just been wonderful we i don't personally i couldn't have foreseen it being as successful as it has been particularly after 45 years we haven't mentioned it and you probably were going to that from the very beginning we were the 13 women and we did have quite a number of meetings before we launched and of course one of the big issues was were we going to invite men to uh to join and i think that is one of the most fundamental uh decisions that we made we were sure from the beginning that we were going to be open to to men and women there was a debate about that it didn't last too long but i think everybody in the room was thinking about the sting that each of us had had um experienced and so that's why the question came up at first but then we thought well we would be utter hypocrites if if we didn't admit everybody and men in particular that was admitting men was was the issue nothing else all the other inclusionary inclusion was assumed but manna took it took a little discussion to get through that one and it sounds like it would be more like a conversation around fairness well they didn't let us in so why should we let them and you know um yeah but you're welcome so speaking of impact is do you have a favorite forum or a forum that you consider most impactful in terms of changing public perception or policy you know i i personally don't because everything is very thoughtful and you can't tell immediately you know what's what's going to happen from a conversation but i do think that the having the number of forms and of the quality of forms i think they've had a a large impact on the community generally as you know uh they're covered widely by the media which is good and frequently that's the only time you hear that point of view if you weren't able to attend the cmc then you get at least get a report in the media which which is great and i think that does uh help a lot also before um well the balance is was very important i think before we were listening to like say a politician had a personal view on xyz and and if that politician was covered that's all you'd see you wouldn't see the other side and i think the other sides or the many sides were were very important so i think it's hard to measure uh the imp the impact until maybe years later but um the fact that everybody keeps coming and they keep being interested in the conversations i i think is impact by itself yeah i couldn't kind of i thought i tried to think too of of one i mean there are some memorable ones but um the fact that for a number of years we were the place where the mayor gave uh the state of the city uh you know now that's gone on to other things and so many other places now where there is discussion but there weren't then i mean it's it's sort of hard to remember but there were there really weren't places for lively good good discussion so there were there were a lot and as sally said the fact that we are sort of an institution now i think is is pretty pretty amazing wow when i think about 45 years josh and i think about you know what was going on 45 years ago to today now i recognize that good um now i recognize that you know we've got the future to think about you were the visionaries your you and your you and your 11 friends together were visionaries at a time when um there was a different vision for the country and the way things were going what would you like to see in the next 45 years wow well i think but i can think of a few things i one thing where i think we did not do we did not give as much thought to or do as much in the beginning as we might have uh was the inclusion inclusiveness uh and particularly the inclusiveness of minority uh populations among those 13 women i'm sorry to say there was no one of color uh that you know looking back on it that's not not good at all but i think we have tried uh in recent years and most especially of course in the last couple of years to redress that that balance we have a long long way to go as we all know i think the programs that have been done since the george floyd events and so forth on race have been just absolutely outstanding i i just think that the i guess if i was going to think of one accomplishment i think the pivoting with covid and then with the race issues has been absolutely remarkable and that credit certainly goes to the young board members uh and to the wonderful staff that we have absolutely thank you thank you add to that and i absolutely agree with everything mary said the in the future i i think it's more important today and maybe and hopefully this will be a short term but the civility aspect especially after we've just come through the four years that we've come through i mean that that was lost and it's so important that there's an institution that promotes civility which the cmc certainly does and i i would hope that that would continue i would also hope that that wouldn't be as big a need in the future as it is now but i think it needs to be on the menu at all times i wouldn't bet on that i think it will be a need um well it seems to be a constant in previous conversations we were talking about civility in 1976 and how that was top of mind for you so could you compare and contrast what was happening then and now as it relates to civility like day i mean we thought we thought it was uncivil then we haven't we hadn't seen anything yet thank you yeah i mean so when you think about 45 years ago one of the one of the items on the on the night on the 1976 menu was it was fidel castro had just come into power there was a there was a lot of unrest where the political climate might be um there was an olympics everything was going on um and and sally if i can take it back to you you said that you were when you guys were thinking about um the cmc you were you were pregnant when you went to the when you had the uh the event at the athletic club that's right but that was a couple years before we founded cmc okay that proceeded so you still had a youngster um you still had a youngster and you had a flourishing career and something that many people ask themselves and you've got a young and seasoned professionals but it always seems like we're always looking for what's the work-life balance um and then it sounds like there were a lot of hours that each of you put into making the cmc you know launch what was the sacrifice that each of you had to make right in addition to all the other responsibilities you were doing something and did you think oh we're going to change the world or did you think we just need to make some change but either way you invested the time so what was that what did you have to sacrifice in order to make cmc launch i don't remember sacrificing anything really i mean because most of us that were on the um were the founders were doing other things we had we had a rich life in terms of what we call extracurricular and i think the thing that made it easier if you will were that all 13 of us rolled up our sleeves and we were doing we were working together and so that was inspirational for each of us and it didn't make it seemed as as if it were a burden at all it was just a part of it was just a part of what you were doing with your world that's right yes i would agree with that actually our first step or just one part time our very first it was a one part-time person and it's still very lean and they uh they do a great job and through the years we have been extremely fortunate to have wonderful uh wonderful staff uh and and executive uh directors and and i think sally's so right and it makes me think that this has all been sort of a joint effort certainly that that group of us and then the first board and so forth i mean the first year i know my first assignment was with lou briggs some of you knew we were the she and i were the program committees so we had to come up with a once a month program they weren't they weren't once a week and uh not nearly uh as complex uh as this uh but and then then we went through a period where we had these small weekly mid-weeks where some member actually spoke about something some issue that he or she was interested in so we sort of evolved but it was it's been the members that have have made this the board the staff and the members who've made this club work so you mentioned our coverage of george floyd were there any controversial or uncomfortable or provocative topics in the decades after the founding that you can remember yes i can remember phyllis schaffler yes yes she was national figure who was anti-era and the thought was we would have a point counterpoint well we could find no one that wanted to argue with a national figure which i can understand from that was the problem so then the debate became do we cancel this would we go to something else or not and we eventually decided no this was a point of view none of us i will have to say none of us on the board held that point of view but we thought it was important for people to understand the point of view so we went ahead and had her and we did experience an outcry from some of the members i think they must have forgotten that we were suppo you know that part of the goal was to have diversity in in thought and discussion and issues but anyway and i think we did have i don't think we we didn't have a whole bunch of people leaving but we did have some people that said that's it i'm not if you're going to have phyllis shapley i'm not coming and that was that was scary and i think it was courageous on the part of the board to go ahead when we realized that we weren't going to have the count the counterpoint and we also knew that some of our members would be very disappointed yeah i remember that one very very well too and uh there was some discussion well should we go should we show up does that mean we're supporting her and i remember going i do remember i came to almost see where i was sitting that some of us at our table didn't clap for him but but we showed up and and we've we've always been polite i think at the at cmc we listened to other points of view and there you go well thank you for thank you for that i can only imagine i'd love to i'd love to go back was that one recorded yeah oh my goodness well as we're i'm going to ask you your final question before we go to the audience's q a because i'm sure that our p our friends online are chomping at the bit as well as members of our audience who would love to ask some questions i'm thinking about the other impact of the cmc right it's the networking and the friendship building um what does it like what feeling must it give you on the inside to know that so many business relationships and even lifelong friendships have happened because of just the thoughtfulness and the mindfulness that you had 45 years ago and um yeah i mean i can think about stories about how i personally benefit but what feeling must that give you in addition to the goosebumps i've got right now and probably just i thought of and i had in my little notes here with the networking which you just brought up i think that's something maybe we haven't talked about that has been a real uh byproduct if you will are part of the the success the reason people come i thoroughly enjoy walking in and sitting down with people that i don't know i also like coming and meeting up with people that i haven't seen for a long time like now but um but i think that that that that networking and then i was also thinking we've done some off-site things that have have been really good in fact i'm looking at my uh son down here when you were talking about what did we sacrifice i said well you'd have to ask my kids was i was i ever home but anyway um but i remember one that that you went to where you got to drive a car with new cars that had ohio that the ohio state where they developed the new cars we had a thing there and there there have been a lot of others i remember learning so much about the um oh what the thompsons do at ohio state with the polar those are just things that stick you know yes polar research things like that i with you some of the ones that have meant the most to me were about things that i didn't know anything about absolutely how about you sally i think the networking we noticed right away it was i remember after one of the very first forums the buzz in the room the fact that people did not leave immediately after the forum they stuck around um you could see people introducing them do you hope we never lose as we change and evolve what do you hope we never lose oh i hope you never lose the club never loses the um the basically what i would call the tenants which would be the uh always having timely topics current topics that presenting as many slides as possible always civil and the provision of interaction between members and guests and the speakers and finally serving as a catalyst for things to come and for people to come in for the discussion to be continued i think those are very important very important i don't think i can add much to that i hope we can become more and more inclusive and accessible excellent thank you jane i believe you have some questions for us i have a couple questions from people online and i would encourage any of you in the room who have questions come up please and we're going to do every other question for online plus in-house i know i have a lot of board members in the room former board members so you know i think we'll um we'll wave the no editorial comments today and if anybody has a special memory to share with mary and sally that would be fun for them as well and i'll share one from mike lors some of you might remember mike lawrence who was a pr executive when i first started with this job he came to meet with me and he said that he wanted me to know that the ladies recruited him to be on one of their first boards and they promptly elected him to be secretary [Applause] so i think that is so so fitting kathy fox asks mary and sally what are the biggest accomplishments of cmc that you might not have envisioned when you helped with the founding jane could you just repeat that yes i'd be happy to do that what are the biggest accomplishments of cmc that you may not have envisioned when you helped with the founding well i i i guess i don't know that we talked we've said about the networking i mean i don't remember that that was a founding i mean i mean that probably was in the back of our minds but there's been much more of it um another thing that i think's been been wonderful is um in the beginning and i read this somewhere that uh the audiences were very heavily weighted with women and a minority of men i think that has definitely changed we often have hopefully we have about equal but we have lots of men and the men are always very good at asking questions and i'm always poking the women and saying get up there and ask one but um can you think i'm i'm i just never liked sally i never dreamed that it would become as much of an institution in the community as as it is and i'm delighted and institution and stature i think that's the word because you know this was a small group we had no idea but uh cmc is really a potent organization at this point it's people are very very respectful of it it is covered in the media a lot which for good things not for bad things and and that's taken a while to get to that point and i think i would go back with to mary i think the thing is sort of catapulted into that echelon if you will was the mayor's state of the city which happened about a year or so after we were founded my recall correctly we asked him for one year and he said no and then he came to the second year and then it became a tradition until fairly recently that that's where it would be and i think that that really added to the stature renee delaine from women who dare and i have a question for each of you uh amazing women very very slowly because they cannot hear you very well okay um just a question for both of you amazing women is that if you could go back in time into history or at the present time who would you love to see up here for the forum that you could ask questions of what would you love to see don't forget that now we were up here uh from 45 years ago so maybe our hearing isn't quite as good who would you who would you love to see that you haven't seen oh let me speak a little louder if i may anybody in the past in history or present that you would love to see at a forum here cmc forum programming has been so good i don't i don't feel a lack of of having heard different points of view or from different people and the uh the other thing is the cmc has never had a huge budget so it's not like you're going out to the nation and picking up you know being able to pick whoever you want we've been very lucky to have national figures such as senators and representatives talk from time to time that's that's been wonderful we've had great authors that have come and talked uh here so i think we've done really fine i really i really don't i can't think of anybody that we're missing if you will i am dj buchanan board member did i hear you correctly that your first meetings were at the athletic club no i went through where their first meetings were where were your first meetings where did you end up meeting motorist mutual uh so were you able to uh you know make all that happen or did they want to talk to your husband or do they want to talk to the male representatives oh no i have a feeling that by that you know we were a strong small but mighty little group we the columbus foundation was very supportive us right from the beginning and one of the founders was a woman named leda martin who invited us for our first few meetings just of the group at at the columbus foundation and um i think we were able to um enlist i i don't know jane whether we what kind of rent we had to pay there or um i think it was pretty gratifying i think i thought no it was which was really wonderful yeah no i think the the number of the corporations and then oh you know we had lots of iterations we we did have a small office by the way you know one of our original thoughts was oh wouldn't it be nice to have a club in club rooms and so forth where women were welcome well it wasn't very long after that that the capital club which you remember so bill lafayette from regionomics has this memory my first meeting was part of the series on lgbtq life in columbus this was 2002 and that was still kind of under the radar then i was hooked immediately thanks hi my name is karen twinem and i started my career in 1976 and was not allowed to go with the other guys in the office to events so i'm curious you were talking about the the columbus club opening and things like that but what was the reaction of the men being in the room with the women at the metro club and did that impact eventually some of the other businessman's clubs in columbus well there weren't a whole lot in the beginning i have my most respect for them and they um but as time went on and we in the the organization got more coverage and the and the the uh topics continued to be more interesting and so forth more and more men joined and i i think one of the things that did cmc they sent their their people and a lot of those people were men so that that sort of evened out the you know i think the example and did in i hope influenced other companies and other um men it's been you know all part of the the movement that we've seen i'm joel teaford and i was one of those men [Laughter] and and one other thing is we did have club rooms at the atlas building for a while that was well i was president when that was going on and that was a struggle constantly that's right was joel that thanks for remembering that was that the time at one point is that on the atlas buildings on long street yeah okay we had we even had um a tiny little lunch service there remember you could come in bring a friend or a guest and order from a very limited menu a sandwich or a quiche or something and there were a few tables so that was another evolution another thing we did was no wait why was that we were at the chin's room or the room at lazarus because something closed were darn and you could go there in this little small dining room there was a private little dining room off the chin's room on the fifth floor at lazarus and you could the cmc ran that for a year but there was some reason does anyone remember why i don't know why that happened but i just thought of it when you brought up so we went through a lot of exactly hi i'm carol newcomb i was a recent chair of cmc and i want to thank you for your vision to start this organization i also wanted to share with you these recognition that cmc has i recently got an award from osu at the most recent graduation and what they mentioned was my involvement in cmc so you've started something that i think is really great and has come a long way thank you well and here's a closing thought that uh talk about networking kathy fox another uh memory from her she said she was going to a cmc midweek program and a guy named joe aluto presented a big idea for the osu business school to have its own buildings goodbye hegerty hall who knew then what he would where he would take it so you never know who you're going to meet at the metropolitan club right so um [Applause] tony you have some closing chores thank you very much what an honor to spend time with you and i hope with that we get to spend even more time um together so let's give a toast to 13 amazing women who dared 45 years of conversation extraordinaire unity and community at its very best we followed their vision at their behest each week at the columbus metropolitan club it's like meeting getting leadership lessons from the pub they lure us in with food and drink and a range of conversations that make us think about the best future we can mindfully create and now we're here to celebrate to mary and sally and generations of cnc family let's give three cheers to the power of us and we here here wow this is a first at least for me excellent excellent what a wonderful day we had here today i really hope you enjoyed the historical look back on 45 years of cmc it is it is an honor to be involved with this organization and it's an honor to be on the same stage as people who have the vision to start it so once again let's thank them [Applause] okay [Applause] thank you thank you very much please make plans to join us next wednesday as cmc marks the 20th anniversary of september 11th with our forum 911 we were there our thanks today to today's forum sponsor bricker and eckler and our dessert sponsor the american dairy association mideast to the emergency response fund of the columbus foundation for presenting our live stream in partnership with the columbus dispatch and pnc and thank you to our online virtual patrons and our special appreciation and thanks to our guests of honor sally bloomfield mary lazarus and our hosts tony bell and josh harrison thanks uh all all of you for uh joining us for an annual meeting in this special anniversary we look forward to seeing you next wednesday as the columbus metropolitan begins it's 46th year of community conversations but we we would like to do one more thing and that is if we could get everyone in the crowd on the count of three to just say join cmc the um that comes into the live stream it says welcome to cmc we did that out on the porch out on the deck so this is the join cmc video so do you understand that or sit let's uh let's let's do it two ways and can is it okay for everybody d masks for this yeah because this video needs to live for a little bit beyond cobin so so jane you do it three two one and then it's okay join join us or join cmc join cmc all right so let's go let's get a couple here three two one join cmc all right my decibel level got about 75 percent i think you guys can do a little bit okay so let's do it let's do another maybe so maybe so okay three two one join cmc all right let's do one standing okay everybody stand up and then you all can visit all right three two one join cmc you guys are getting it okay very good excellent thank you very much yep joelle so [Music] you

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