When Wesley Willows shut down their facilities during the pandemic, Don Barrett and Ed Kuehl kept the meetings going on by presenting them online via Zoom.
Bob Pressman was elected president in 2021, and with the help of other officers, went to work reorganizing the Round Table and putting it on solid financial footing. "We formed a committee to rewrite the bylaws, based on those of other round tables," said Pressman.
"Prior to the pandemic, attendees paid Wesley Willows for the meal, but paid only $1 for expenses. Jerry Paris volunteered to be treasurer and we raised dues to $25 a year, opened a bank account, and started paying for our Zoom subscription."
Zoom meetings were a mixed blessing. "It allowed us to use speakers from all over the country, since we didn't have to pay travel expenses, so the pool of presenters became very large. It also kept us in contact with each other, but we missed the face-to-face interaction, the camaraderie of in-person meetings.
By 2022, things were starting to reopen, and Wesley Willows said they would allow us to meet there again, but without meals."
--Old Secesh
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