CMC Mourns Phyllis Greene

Upon the news of her passing Thursday night, February 24, I made several attempts to write something meaningful about the beautiful spirited woman who was Phyllis Greene, one of CMC’s beloved founders. I came to the conclusion that the best way to explain how special Phyllis was to everyone who knew her is to reprint the blog she wrote when she fi rst entered hospice. We are blessed to have known her.

Jane Scott, CMC, Executive Director

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THIS WEEK AT CMC

MARCH 2

Global Preparation for a Demographic Tsunami: Communities for Longer Living-Part 2 Kathryn Lawler, External Affairs Manager, Atlanta Regional Commission, the Metropolitan Planning Organization and Area Agency on Aging.

In partnership with Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission

Sponsored by

Previews of Upcoming CMC EventsAll CMC forums are held at the Athletic Club of Columbus,

136 East Broad Street unless otherwise noted. Registration begins at 11:30am, with lunch served

promptly at noon and closing at 1:15pm.

MARCH 9CMC and Bricker & Eckler Present

Leadership LegaciesLewis R. Smoot, Sr., President and Chief Executive Offi cer of The Smoot Corporation, interviewed by Mike Curtin, Editor and Publisher Emeritus, The Dispatch

With series support from Sequent, Huntington and forum support from Moody Nolan

MARCH 16

Ohio’s “New” BudgetFeaturing John Begala, Executive Director, The Center for Community Solutions with Allen Proctor, founder, Linking Mission to Money and Curt Steiner, Principal, Steiner Strategies

With support from The Franklin University MBA Program

MARCH 23 A CMC 35th Anniversary Event

Jane GoodallFeaturing Jane Goodall, who greets just about every audience in “chimpanzee” for a reason. She, perhaps more than anyone on Earth, is best suited to act as an ambassador for the amazing species.

Sponsored by American Electric Power

Special Sponsor Tables available

APRIL 20

Sustainable Arts

GOLD – $3,500• alive! • AT&T • Business First • Columbia Gas • Columbus State Community College

• Columbus State Community College Foundation • Columbus Underground

• Franklin University • The Jeffrey Company • Milenthal Group • ms Consultants

• Plante & Moran • Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur • Smith & Hale • State Auto

SILVER – $2,000• Bob Evans Farms • CASTO • Corna Kokosing • DeVry University • Fifth Third Bank

• Fireproof Records Center • Glaven Fehrer Architects, & Glavan Image Works • Help Wizards

• KeyBank • NBC4 • OSU - Institute for Energy & the Environment • Plunkett & Cooney

• Richardson Printing • SZD Whiteboard • The Women’s Book • Time Warner • US Bank

BRONZE – $1,000• AARP, Ohio • Burgess & Niple • Carlile, Patchen & Murphy • Chemical Abstracts

• Columbus Foundation • Crane Group • Girl Scouts of Heartland Chapter

• Greater Columbus Sports Commission • Hannah News Services • James - Larry & Donna

• McGladrey • M * E Companies • PRIME Engineering

CMC Corporate Supporters Thanks to our generous supporters for their ongoing commitment to CMC!

PLATINUM – $5,000

DIAMOND – $10,000 +

Cadles, 100 East Broad Street

Bruce A. Harkey,

Executive Director,

Franklin Park

Paul B. Redman, Executive Director,

Longwood Gardens

Alex Fischer,

Columbus Partnership

Moderator: Douglas F. Kridler,

President & CEO, Columbus

Foundation

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9

CMC and Bricker & Eckler Present

Leadership Legacies

Founded in 1945 by the late, Sherman R. Smoot, the Smoot Construction Company has since been known for their unwavering reliability and top performance on the general contracting and construction management projects they have undertaken. Using his expertise in administration, fi nance, and project management, Lewis Smoot, Sr. shaped the company into what it is today. He states they are a “business formed not by the characteristics of projects; but by the character of our people.” Comprised of only 160 employees, Smoot, makes sure his business family is made up of only the best and that they are well cared for.

Based on the guiding principles of character, humility, integrity, pride, and performance (CHIPP) and the Smoots’ thoughtful and driven personalities, there is no question how the Smoot Construction Company has earned its highly-respected reputation. It is this foundation that allowed the company to expand from its small, private offi ce on Leonard Avenue into the Indianapolis and Washington, D.C. areas, working on a variety of large-scale projects.

Amongst many accomplishments, the company is responsible for the restoration of the Ohio State House and Annex and the Columbus Metropolitan Library, as well as Union Station and the National Museum of National History Smithsonian Institute in Washington. Other familiar buildings the company has helped construct are the Lucas Oil Stadium, home of the Indianapolis Colts and the Thompson Library, on Ohio State’s Columbus campus. The Smoots have left their mark on countless other university campuses, sports venues, retail centers, and commercial buildings. By Annie Carruthers, OSU Student Intern

CMC event and executive board photos by Rick Buchanan 893-7425

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CMC Forums are available for viewing on:The Ohio Channel Fridays @ 4 pm & MidnightWOSU 34.2 Sundays @ 4 pm & MidnightTime Warner Cable 411 Local on Demand Mondays @ 11 am & 7pmInsight Digital Ch 765 WOW Digital Ch 150

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23The fi rst of several CMC 35th Anniversary Events

Jane Goodall at CMC In July 1960, at the age

of 26, Jane Goodall traveled from England to what is today Tanzania and bravely entered the little-known world of wild chimpanzees. She was equipped with nothing more than a notebook and a pair of binoculars. She managed to open a window into their sometimes strange and often familiar-seeming lives. The public was fascinated and remains so.

Today, Goodall at age 76 travels more than 300 days per year. Often holding lectures where she discusses her years at Gombe National Park, the state of chimpanzees, Jane Goodall Institute’s programs, and each individual’s power to effect positive change. Goodall is in great demand as an inspirational speaker who often moves her audiences to tears. Some people say her message and her example have changed their lives.

This is Goodall’s life today – sometimes exhausting, but always driven by purpose. She is determined to use just about every minute she has working to save chimpanzees and to empower people to do what they can for a better world.

We are grateful to AEP for providing Jane Goodall to CMC.

Special 35th Anniversary Event pricing• $35 for members; tables of 8 for $350• $50 for public; tables of 8 for $500• Sponsor Table of 10 for $1,000

Sponsored by American Electric Power

CMC, Battelle and AEP present Fueling Ohio’s Future

The “Rare Earth” SituationJames D. McGuffi n-Cawley, Arthur S. Holden Professor, Department Chair, Materials Science & Engineering, Case Western Reserve University; Shane Thompson, V.P. Kinsbursky Brothers - Toxco; Moderated by Kimberly Gibson, Director, Energy Center, EWI

With support from Battelle, AEP, EWI and Columbia Gas of Ohio

In partnership with OSU Institute for Energy & the Environment

RECAP – FEBRUARY 24

Front – Moderator Kimberly Gibson, CMC President Teresa McWain, from sponsor AEP Tim Riordan.Back – Speaker James McGuffi n-Cawley, from sponsor EWI Phil Weisenbach and from sponsor Battelle Rick Heggs, and speaker Shane Thompson.

John Begala

Lewis R. Smoot, Sr., President and Chief Executive Offi cer of The Smoot Corporation

Interviewed by Mike Curtin, Editor and Publisher Emeritus, The Dispatch

With series support from

Forum support from

Saturday, July 31, 2010

On being a (Hospice) patientI am in Hospice Care, at home, in my own bed and it

is weird, unreal, surreal, but REAL. I fi nally know that the root of my evil is a failing heart with its fi brillations and pacemakers and old valves. They, or it, has a right. It’s 90 years old, for heaven sakes.

After a miserable month of retching and nausea that made me moan like the tennis Williams sisters’ serving, my doctor could not prescribe for me, without actually seeing me. I knew I could not go to his offi ce. Our son Tim found a way. He secured an impressive private ambulance service who maneuvered their way down my terrifying driveway. DG rode with the driver, Tim followed. They took me to a pre-arranged examining room, the IV was set-up and waiting, the EKG was done, blood drawn, a thorough end-of-life talk ( no death panel, this) and by the time the ambulance got me home, I was enrolled in Hospice.

My New Yorker magazine ( August 2 issue) arrived the next day, and although I had not felt like reading for weeks, I was drawn in by the cover. There was this little old person, pedalling all alone on a yellow road, through a lovely forest. The rider had to be me; I was on the road to eternity. When I looked at the table of contents, I found an Annals of Medicine article, “Letting Go”, a scholarly, well-documented argument in favor of Hospice care, written by Atul Gawande, Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. I am likely reading more into this than it is, I know, but it felt absolutely cosmic to me.

That night, I fell into the fi rst real sleep I had had in over a month, not drug-induced, just good old-fashioned sleep-sleep. The crickets, the katydids, the cicadas were singing a musical, a magical surround-sound outside my bedroom window. I was at peace with myself, with our hard-won decision. I am in the hands of the Lord.

Guests trade contact information after the forum.

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