Messages From Little Sir

John Eleazarian

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Little SIR Report for March 2024

I want to extend a big thank you to Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln (aka Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Scott) for their excellent and informative presentation of our sixteenth President and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. I learned a great deal, not the least of which is that bad...

May 2023 Little SIR Message

SIRS,  The speaker for the May meeting will be Lisa Smittcamp, Fresno County District Attor[1]ney. Lisa has been a regular speaker for May since that meeting also has the wives at the luncheon. Even though our wives will not be joining us for the May meeting I am sure...

Notes from the Little SIR

SIRS,The speaker for April’s meeting is Bill Goodreau. Bill has been involved with Central Valley Honor Flight for quite some time. With all the Vets in the club, he should bring not only his military expertise, but his experience in the Honor Fight. It should be a...

August 2021 Note from the Little SIR

Let me start by saying the band “Uncle Ophus” who played for our last luncheon really had a really good time. They also wanted to say Thank You for a great lunch and your reception for the music they provided. In August we will have Peter DeYoung as our speaker. He is...

Message from Little SIR

I'm very excited to announce that we are going to start our journey back to normal with two great speakers.  For the May luncheon we are going to have Jon Forrest Dohlin CEO for the Fresno Chaffee Zoo.  Jon is very excited to talk to us about all the great things...

Year End Thoughts from the Little SIR

Our 2020 SIRS Branch 169 activities began with our January guest speaker unable to attend. So fellow SIRS member Bernie Hollenbeck quickly filled the void and shared from his days as a flight instructor and crash site investigator. We did not realize at the time that...