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JCPenney National H.C.S.C. Alumni Club
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President Bill Kruder
It all began the summer of 1973, after graduating from high school and waiting to attend college that fall. I applied for a sales associate position at store 1542 Chicago (Ford City). Within months, I met Jack Fields, Ron Fazio, and Jim Trench who were part of the management team. It was at that moment that I decided I wanted to be like them. Through their mentorship and friendship, which has lasted more than 40 years, the journey began. After attending Elmhurst College in 1977, I joined the Management Training Program in store 1542. Upon completion of the program and after working in a couple of stores including store 1688 Gary (the Village), Indiana and store 1967 Waukegan, Illinois, and many different merchandise assignments, I was promoted to General Merchandise Manager of Women's and Men's in 1983 in store 0972 Niles (Golf Mill). In 1985, I was promoted again. The promotion was GMM of Women's and Home to open store 2163 Calumet City (River Oaks). Two years later, I moved on to my next assignment as GMM of Women's and Home at store 0237 Orland Park. Following these assignments in 1992, I was promoted as Women's Business Planning Manager for the newly combined Chicago district 8310 out of store 1948 Schaumburg (Woodfield). It was in 1994 that I was sent to the Home Office, first as Marketing Programs Manager in Soft Home then as Catalog Media Manager in Women's before getting my first buying assignment as Buyer of Misses Blouses. I then moved on to Buying assignments that included Misses Casual Tops followed by Misses Casual Bottoms. Ten years later, I was assigned as a project lead to the Cycle Time Reduction initiative followed by the Private Brands Time and Action Director in 2008. I retired after nearly 40 years in January 2012 at the age of 57. I joined H.C.S.C. Southwest Local Meeting Group in 2013, becoming Treasurer in 2015 a position I still hold. Why? Because I wanted to give back from a career that provided so well for me and my family. In 2017, I joined the National Board becoming Vice President in 2021-22 and now President for the term of 2022-2023. Me and my wife Debi look forward to serving the H.C.S.C. Alumni.
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1st Vice President Steve Strom
I am a 39+ year veteran of JCPenney and 11 years with the Alumni Club. I will happily receive my 50 Year Pin in 2023! My JCP career started in Fort Dodge, Iowa and progressed to Sterling, Ill, Dubuque, IA, Davenport, IA, Waterloo, IA, Chicago, Ill (Calumet City, Orland Park, and Elk Grove Village), Hays, Kansas, and Fort Smith, Arkansas. I joined the Alumni Club in 2013 and served as Vice President of the Mile High Denver/ Rocky Mountain RMG for 3 years under Ed Trujillo as President. I assumed the RMG President duties in 2017 and served for 4 years before turning the role over to current President, Royce Bervig. I served on the 2016 HCSC Annual Convention Committee researching Denver as a potential site (Sacramento, CA was selected), and the National Ad Hoc Committee researching and making recommendations about succession planning, future needs and priorities of the club etc. in 2019. I was selected by a National Search Committee led by Board Member, Wynn Watkins, to become 2nd Vice President effective October 2021 and served in that capacity this past year. My dear Wife, Marcia, has supported me throughout my JCPenney and HCSC Alumni Club careers for these 50 amazing years! We have been blessed to reside in Colorado since 2013 after I retired from JCP in Fort Smith, Arkansas in 2012. I am passionate about engaging with all HCSC Alumni Club members and strengthening and preserving our Club into the future. My Alumni Club priorities as 1st V.P. this coming year are membership growth and continued strengthening of relationships with the JCPenney Company and the City of Kemmerer, WY. .
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2nd Vice President John Gresham
I wanted to introduce myself as the new 2nd VP of the National HCSC Club. I worked for JCPenney for 43 years and now 9 years with the Alumni Club since retiring in 2013. I started in Kinston, NC then moved to District Staff in Raleigh, NC, New York Office, Dallas, TX Home Office, Florence, SC, Atlanta, Ga on Regional Staff, Jacksonville, Fl back to Atlanta, Ga, Washington, DC then to Sterling Heights, MI. I joined the Southeast HCSC Alumni Club in 2013 and became the President of the Southeast Club in 2017/2018 and then joined the National HCSC Alumni Club as a board member in 2020. Linda and I retired to Rock Hill, SC to be close to our families in NC/SC/GA and built our dream home on Lake Wylie. Linda is from Hartsville, SC and I'm from Clarksville, TN. We really enjoy having family and friends over to our home to enjoy activities on the lake. I'm an avid Alabama football fan. When I was a teenager, my uncle worked for Bear Bryant as the trainer and when a player got hurt he would run out on the field, when watching TV I would say there goes Uncle Jimmy. Our mission is to continue to support our Local Regional Meeting Groups and to encourage retired JCP associates to join those RMG Clubs as well as building relationships with our former and current JCP associates. .
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In this paper, I specifically focused on teacher's belief system that impacted the course development. Utilizing the methodology called Formative and Design Experiments (FDE), a Japanese language teacher and I collaboratively designed and implemented interventions to create better learning environments for their students. The FDE procedure enabled the teacher to reflect upon her beliefs for online instruction and scrutinize the reason why the interventions worked. The results showed the change in the teacher's belief system and understanding of online Japanese language learning during the course of the research, which led to further revisions and implementations. As a result, this research contributed to improving the online Japanese language course, demonstrating how the teacher's beliefs in online L2 teaching have changed and how the change influenced her to refine her delivery and management of the course.


Avineet Kalsey and his team at Business Solutions Credit Counselling Services has recently announced that they will be giving free initial consultations.
(Newswire.net -- November 28, 2017) Toronto, Ontario -- A certified BIA credit counsellor from one of Canada's most reputable credit counselling firms has recently announced that they will be providing free consultations. To celebrate their success and to give back to their clients for their never ending patronage, Avineet Kalsey and the team at Business Solutions & Credit Counselling Services (BSCC) will be serving consumers initial consultations with no charges.
Business Solutions & Credit Counselling Services is a registered credit counselling firm which has been in the industry for over 20 years. They have already assisted tens of thousands of consumers in absolving their financial burdens. BSCC is known for developing innovative and effective programs to solve their client's financial problems. They work with their clients individually which means that there will be no problems with scheduling and each program is specifically designed to meet the needs of each client. Clients are in good hands with BSCC, as they offer a money-back guarantee.
BSCC serves the whole nation of Canada. They have multiple offices strategically located to make it easier for consumers to visit them. They have offices conveniently located across Canada including Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Abbotsford and Vancouver (Surrey). For clients who are far from cities where their offices are located, they also have the option to have one of their certified credit counsellors come to the client's vicinity to consult about their financial problems.
Many Canadians eventually go through rough days where they need to resort in using their credit funds to pay the bills. Some are able to pay their debts back, but some are left with piled up bills and overdue mortgages. According to creditcards.com, having high debt can lead to depression and other emotional issues. It usually happens when people with debt constantly think about their debt all the time. Credit counselling is one of the best ways to prevent such a mishap.
Credit counselling is a process wherein debtors are assisted in settling their credit through a systematic program. These include educating the debtor about the need to know information about settling their debts, teaching proper budgeting, and use of multiple tools and programs to reduce the debt and eventually extinguish the debt.
In his full interview, Avineet Kalsey mentioned that credit counselling firms such as BSCC act on behalf of their clients to negotiate with the creditors in goals of resolving debt. They work for their client not for the creditor and they will do everything they can to reduce the debt to the lowest possible value.
For anyone who is need of credit counselling, Business Solutions & Credit Counselling Services (BSCC) is offering free consultations. Call their main office at 905-789-8984 or via their nation-wide phone number at 1-866-790-8984. Visit their official website at www.bscc.ca. Don't wait for debt to pile up! Solve financial problems while it is still manageable.
For Over a Decade, the professionals at Business Solutions and Credit Counselling Services (BSCC), a registered, government-approved counselling firm, have assisted hundreds of thousands of consumers throughout Canada who were once struggling to manage excessive debt and financial obligations. They work with each client individually, designing manageable, realistic programs to absolve their client's financial burden and stress.


Methi Poori is a healthy version of Poori made out of Methi leaves, also called as "Vendhaya Keerai"/Fenugreek leaves. This is a popular dish in North India and it is gaining popularity in South India too. As methi leaves tend to have a very slight bitter taste and a nice aroma, "Methi Poori" is one of the best ways to have all its goodness without struggling much 😉 (Compared to Methi Porial ( Vendhaya Keerai Poriyal), Vendhaya Keerai Podi etc).
Over to Methi Poori recipe from HomeMakingDelight..
1) If you are using Dried Kasoori Methi – Boil water in a vessel and add dried kasoori methi to it. Add a bit of salt too. Let it cool for sometime and strain the water from the leaves.
a) If you are using fresh methi leaves, wash and finely chop the methi leaves.
2) Mix wheat flour, asafoetida (hing), red chilly powder, rava, salt, cumin seeds in a bowl (wide-opened bowl preferably).
3) Now add the boiled kasoori leaves and knead the dough, as we prepare for normal pooris, by adding required amount of water. The process would be same for fresh leaves also.
a) Kneading the dough: add little water at a time, and mix the water well with flour by giving swift circular rotations beginning from inside of your bowl towards the corners, until the dough is not sticking to your hands/to the sides of the bowl. Knead it for a few more minutes until it reaches a consistency when you can easily roll them well into pooris (Refer the pic).
4) Make small balls out of the kneaded dough.
5) Place the balls on the Roti-Rolling-board or a Poori-Presser and roll them into fine, thin round shaped pooris (Refer the pic).
6) Repeat the process for all the small balls.
8) With the proper spatula, gently press the corners until the poori gets puffed up.
9) Turn it over after it has just turned golden brown. Once this side has also turned golden brown, take that poori out of oil.
1) Adding 2 tsps of warm oil would make the kneading process easier.
2) You can add green chillis also to the flour, if you like it. Adding a tsp of ajwain (Omam) would enhance the taste.
3) Don't touch the flour while rolling the pooris as this would cause those residual deposits in your oil.
4) Take care not to burn pooris while frying.
5) Wash and clean the leaves well in salt water, if you are using fresh methi leaves.
6) If you feel that methi leaves are bitter, then reduce the amount of leaves.
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P-I photos from the 1930s
Local // Seattle History
Dec 31, 1975 Updated: Oct. 12, 2020 12:47 p.m.
Seattle P-I/MOHAIJust before his election as President of the United States, New York governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt visited Seattle in 1932. He flashed his famous smile from an open touring car, surrounded by an admiring crowd. The governor, born in 1882, stricken with polio in 1921, would be elected to a record four terms as president, serving until his death in 1945.
Museum of History and IndustryThe Seattle Rainiers played poorly in 1937, their first season, but the franchise really took off in 1938. By the middle of the summer, the team was in fourth place in the Pacific Coast League and made it to the pennant finals. Excited fans at Sick's Seattle Stadium watched their home team win 100 games during the 1938 season.
Museum of History and IndustrySick's Seattle Stadium opened in 1938 at Rainier Avenue South and South McClellan Streets. This had been the site of Dugdale Park, built in 1913 as home of the Seattle Indians. That ballpark burned to the ground after a Fourth of July celebration in 1932. The new park, built of steel and concrete, cost $125,000 and was the home of the Pacific Coast League Seattle Rainiers, owned by Emil Sick. In spite of protests, the stadium was demolished in 1979.
Museum of History and IndustryThe ferry "Kalakala" began service in 1935. Its streamlined design made it internationally famous. The ferry ran six times daily between Seattle and Bremerton, and made summer evening dance band party cruises around Puget Sound. Unfortunately, it also vibrated badly, was difficult to handle and expensive to repair. Passenger service ended in 1967. This 1935 photo shows the "Kalakala" on her trial run along the Seattle waterfront.
Seattle P-I/MOHAIAn early version of the B-17 Flying Fortress sits outside a Boeing factory. Making its maiden flight on July 28, 1935, it was Boeing's first military aircraft with a flight deck instead of an open cockpit and was armed with bombs and five .30-caliber machine guns. Boeing plants built 6,981 B-17's delivered during World War II. In 1936, Boeing spent $250,000 to build a new 61,750-square-foot assembly plant adjacent to Boeing Field.

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Keolis, a provider of passenger transportation services throughout the U.S. and Canada, will be a major sponsor of the 2015 World Police & Fire Games, in which an estimated 12,000 first responders from around the world will compete in more than 1,600 medal events across 60 sports.
The Games will take place in Fairfax County, Va. and other locations throughout the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area June 26 to July 5, 2015, with more competing athletes than the Summer Olympics. Held biennially, the Games will be the single largest event ever held in Northern Virginia.
"We are truly delighted to have Keolis 'on board' as one of our major corporate partners for this prestigious global event," said 2015 World Police & Fire Games President and CEO Bill Knight.


August saw the inaugural Groundswell event held - Tauranga's festival of innovation. Priority One was proud to put on this event and we were pleasantly surprised by the amount of interest from the community and attendance at the events that made up Groundswell.
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