2007-2008

2007  President, Mike Sears

  • January 9
    • Panel Discussion – What Distinguishes Great Presidents?
    • Presenters:  Joe Tirpak & Members
  • February 13
    • Meeting Cancelled – Snow Storm
    • Presenter:  Mother Nature
  • March 13
    • Medicine in the Civil War
    • Presenter:  Dr. Dan Cudnik, Member
  • April 10
    • Grant at Petersburg
      Ulysses S. Grant

    • Presenter:  Dr. Richard Sommers, Army Heritage & Education Center Carlisle, PA
  • May 8
    • Was Abe Lincoln the Last of the Red Hot Lovers?
    • Presenter:  Bob Bayless, Founder & Past President
  • September 11
    • Statues in Time – Ohio Civil War Monuments
    • Presenter:  Harold George, Historian & Author
  • October 9
    • Maj. Gen. Mortimer D. Leggett
      Gen. Mortimer D. Leggett

    • Presenter:  Marge Wilson, Lakeview Cemetery Historian
  • November 13
    • John H. Morgan’s Raid & the Impact in Ohio
    • Presenter:  Phil Price, Member & Mayfield Schools Superintendent

      Civil War Memorital, Willoughby, Ohio
  • December 11
    • Reelecting Lincoln, the Battle for the 1864 Presidency
    • Presenter:  John Waugh, Author & Historian

    2008 – President, Bill Meissner

    • January 8
      • 10th Anniversary Celebration
        Founders: Joe Tirpak, Bob Bayless, Frank Baucher, Frank Yannucci, Bob Battisti, Norty London
      • Presenters:  Founding Members
    • February
      • The Final Days of the Confederate Government
      • Presenter:  George Grim
    • March 11
      • A Civil War Quiz
      • Presenter:  Brian Kowell, Member
    • April 8
      • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
      • Presenter:  Ted Karle, Member
    • May 13
      • Ohio History, a Celebration in Music
      • Presenter:  Hank Arbaugh, Scholar and educator of traditional music
    • September 9
      • General George McClellan and the Battles of the 7 Days
      • Presenter:  Michael Gorman, National Park Service
    • October 14
      • The Andrews Raid
      • Presenter:  Tom Horvath, Member
    • November 11
      • Ulysses S. Grant and R.E. Lee in Peace and War
      • Presenters:  Norton London & Joe Tirpak, Founders
    • December 9
      • The Founding Fathers and the Constitution, Was the Civil War Inevitable?
      • Presenter:  Dale Fellows