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THE LEGAL BRIEF
VOLUME 40, ISSUE 3
TCBA Annual Meeting & Dinner
Friday, May 13, 2022 was an eventful evening for the TCBA at the Olympia Country & Golf Club. The evening started with appetizers and socializing while listening to a variety of music selected by the Daniel Bigelow Award recipient, Terry Church.
During the business meeting, the membership voted in a new executive team for 2022 - 2023 and two new board members and some proposed Bylaw amendments were approved by the membership. A financial report was provided by our current Treasurer, John Kesler, and approved by the membership. After the business meeting, Geoff Hulsey, TCBA President, started the presentation portion of the evening including the celebration of Terry Church, who was selected as the 2022 Daniel Bigelow Award recipient! Terry gave a heartfelt speech to the members in attendance. Congratulations to Terry for this well deserved award! Thank you for your dedication to the legal profession and for volunteering in our community. The presentations ended with the Geoff introducing Michael Young as the incoming TCBA President for the 2022 - 2023 year. Michael then thanked Geoff for all of his hard work and dedication as the TCBA President this past year and presented him with a TCBA President plaque.
Big News...Parrot Head Judge and TCBA Presidents Claim Trivia Championship
About twenty participants on four teams closed down the bar after the annual Bar Association dinner and competed for Talking Cedar gift cards in a battle of wits …. or, more accurately, a battle of who possesses the most useless knowledge. In the end, the team with the most judges proved they had the most useless knowledge. Congratulations to Sam Meyer, Dan Berschauer and Phyllis (half credit to the couple for leaving early), Geoff Hulsey, and Michael and Alicia Young. The team of judges, incoming and outgoing TCBA Presidents, and better halves triumphed over: Church - Rietzke & friends; Johnson, Johnson, and King; and Connolly Crew plus one. It was not even close in the end thanks to some creative counting by the winning team—they claimed they needed more time to add up their score midway through the contest while other teams announced their tallies. Leave it to lawyers to need more time to count to thirty - something. The winning team never looked back after deciding they were in the lead and they successfully answered over two - thirds of the questions correctly throughout the course of the night. Question topics included Seattle Sports Star Nicknames, TV Show Characters, Song Lyrics, National Parks Facts, College Mascots, and Best Picture Quotes. Athlete nicknames (all from pro sports) proved to be the easiest category with college mascots among the toughest (very few could identify the Purple Aces, Gauchos, and/or Jaspers). Song lyrics was one of the more fun categories with Sam Meyer pointing out the lyrics read for a Jimmy Buffet song were from a live version and the trivia announcer butchering a couple tunes (and one singer ’ s name … sorry Adele, not pronounced add - a - lye). The teams battled for just over an hour through nine rounds of questions; ten questions per round with a bonus question here and there. Some contestants were ready to throw in the towel early, but others wanted more. Perhaps TCBA will schedule a future trivia event that is not at the tail end of a social hour plus dinner meeting. And next time, we ’ ll have a dedicated scorekeeper.
Thank you to everyone who was able to attend the TCBA Annual Meeting and for joining in on the fun Trivia games!
TCBA Financial Review by John Kesler, TCBA Treasurer:
As of April 30, 2022, the TCBA checking account had $20,893.82. We have $12,937.79 in CDs. Total in the bank = $33,831.61
On April 30, 2021 we had $22,868.98. • Advertising income is up approx. $1700 this year compared to the same time last year; • Monthly lunch CLEs are better attended this year now that COVID restrictions have eased; and • We ’ ve saved some money on the newsletter because our subscription to create an electronic version is less than printing and mailing fees.
However, the current difference is misleading because it shows most of the money we ’ ve collected for tonight ’ s dinner, but does not reflect the costs. We have a healthy organization from a financial perspective driven by member dues, newsletter advertising, and CLE attendance. We have a budget of about $33,000.00 and with membership participation and contribution are able to put together CLE programming, plan events, make donations to the community, and award prizes to high school students in the Law Day speech contest to name a few things.
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