Membership:

Limited to 24 active members, aged 40+. Members must attend at least six of ten yearly meetings— September through June (no meetings July or August). Members not meeting this requirement will be dropped from the club.

After five years of membership and any time after age 75, active members may shift to Emeritus status...and will no longer present papers, but will still pay dinner dues and hold the right to vote.

If/when the membership is full, two additional people may be approved as Reserve members...with all the privileges of regular members, but won't be in rotation for presentations, and do not vote. They move onto the active member roster as soon as openings become available.

Prospective members attend one meeting before being formally proposed for membership.

Officers:

President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer and WebMaster. At each April meeting the President, immediate Past-President and one other member are recognized as the Election Committee. They present a slate of nominees for the following year at May’s meeting. New officers are elected at the June meeting.

Dinner Meetings:

Wranglers meet on the second Thursday of each month at the Aljoya Center (Mercer Island). Happy hour (wine) at 6:00pm. Dinner, 6:45, Club Business/Table-Talks/etc, 7:20, featured speaker on at 7:40, wrangling starts about 8:20. Out by 9!

Program Presentations:

The schedule of speakers is maintained by the Secrtetary and circulated regularly (with revisions made as new members join and old members depart). Each member, in turn, presents an oral paper that includes deliberate aspects of controversy or contention— with the specific intention of generating a hearty "wrangle!" Speakers are urged to notify members in advance what their wrangling issues will be. Each speaker should send a short abstract of his talk to the Secretary for inclusion in the minutes. If ever a speaker has a conflict with his assigned date, he is responsible for findng another member to swap dates with.

New members will give their first presentation by the sixth month of their membership.

Speakers using slides should arrange for a run-through of the A/V system (call Wrangler Bill Dowling to set this up: 206-954-1819).

The December Christmas meeting includes spouses/guests.

Dues:

In September, and again in January, members pay a flat fee determined by the Treasurer to cover dinner expenses, regardless of the number of meetings attended or missed. September’s assessment includes the cost of one guest per member at the December (Christmas) meeting.

The featured speaker may bring a guest to his meeting without charge. Any Wrangler may invite a prospective member to attend a dinner meeting— at no charge. In addition, members may host guests at any meeting and pay their dinner costs to the Treasurer.

Officers For 2025-2026

President— Einer Handeland

Vice President— Rich Matrisian

Secretary— Jeff Martine

Treasurer— Bill Dowling

Web Guy— Tony Ward-Smith