To improve the quality of life and well being of the community of senior men living in Southern Arizona by providing education and information of a broad and varied nature.
The 260 Club of Green Valley was founded on August 6, 1965 when 25 charter members began meeting in Casitas A & B at 260 Camino Alameda for the fellowship of sharing coffee, doughnuts, and to swap talk. Today, more than six hundred men hold membership in the 260 Club, continuing a tradition of thought-provoking programs that improve the lives of its members. The Club was recently incorporated as a non-profit organization in April of 2004. To read the Articles of Incorporation, click here. Or, if you would like to read the Club's Bylaws, click here.
Meetings are scheduled for the first Wednesday of each month at the Green Valley West Social Center Auditorium from October through May.
The schedule for the 2010 - 2011 year is a work in progress.
This is the schedule as of August 8th, 2010.
As soon as we confirm the speakers, we will begin to publish the programs, right here.
Keep checking. See you the first Wednesday in of each month!
| Meeting Date | Speaker and Subject |
|---|---|
| Tuesday Oct. 5th, 2010 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. West Center | GVR's Hearing Assist Workshop at West Center for everyone |
| Oct. 6, 2010 | Lt. Deanna Coultas, Pima County Sheriff's Department Meet the NEW Sheriff in Town |
| Nov. 3, 2010 | Dr. John Cobb Hearing Loss – Who’s Affected? |
| Dec. 1, 2010 | Roger SanMartin Patrol Agent in Charge of the Tucson Station US Border Patrol |
| Thursday Dec. 30th, 2010 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. West Center | GVR's Hearing Assist Workshop at West Center for everyone |
| Jan. 5, 2011 | Dr. Yar Petryszyn Bats! |
| Feb. 2, 2011 | Speaker & Topic T.B.A. |
| Mar. 2, 2011 | Speaker & Topic T.B.A. |
| Apr. 6, 2011 | Speaker & Topic T.B.A. |
| May 4, 2011 | Speaker & Topic T.B.A. |
Check out the programs from previous years!
The next board meeting will be held on September 14th, 2010, 8:30 a.m., at the United Methodist Community Church in Green Valley. Board members -- please put this on your schedule. If you are interested in serving on the 260 Club board, please let any board member know (we all wear white badges with our names on them) at the next meeting. You are also welcomed to attend a board meeting to see how we operate. All board members are volunteers, and that is what makes our Club work! Be a volunteer. Help continue the 260 Club success!
The membership dues for 2010-2011 continues to be $15. The 260 dues year runs from October to the following May. If you prepaid your dues in the Spring of 2010, you will pick up your membership badge at the front table as you enter West Center. If not, please stop by the front table membership tables at the entrance to pay your dues for the year. New members are welcome, and may sign up for this year at the New Member table.
Please bring your old membership card holder with you.
While your dues are not tax deductible, all other cash contributions to the 260 Club are fully deductible with our 501(C)(3) status. We expect to continue our tradition of support to educational institutions and senior research causes, and your donations will be added to this support.
Guests are always welcomed -- once! When your guest returns the second time, we expect him to become a member since he must have liked our program!
I was hired by the Sheriff’s Department in 1996 and while a Deputy, I worked in Patrol, Criminal Investigations and as the Public Information Officer. I promoted to Sergeant in February 2001 and my first assignment was here in Green Valley. I was then reassigned to the Personnel Unit and I worked there until my promotion to Lieutenant in December 2002. As a Commander, I returned to Criminal Investigations for two years, transferred for a year to the Community Services Section which, at the time, encompassed the School Resource Officer Unit, DARE Unit and Public Information Office/SAV Coordinator and most recently I spent over four years as the Lieutenant responsible for the Personnel Unit. So, I really made a circle in terms of my responsibilities. I was transferred to the Green Valley Patrol District in June, and I am very excited to be trying something new and learning all there is about being a District Commander and working in this great community. I have a Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from Northern Arizona University and Master’s Degree in Organizational Management from University of Phoenix.
Dr. Cobb was born in Tucson, graduated from Rincon High. Served in the Navy from 1966-70. Received my Masters in Audiology from the University of Arizona in 1975, and my Doctor of Audiology from Arizona School of Health Sciences in 2003.
He was the Coordinator of Audiology at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston from 1975 until 1979. From 1979 to 2009 I was Director of COBB Audiology and Hearing Aid Center in Fort Worth, TX and worked with an Ear, Nose and Throat physician during that 30 year period.
Dr. Cobb moved back to Arizona and started with Arizona Hearing Specialists in September 2009. Dr. Cobb is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and a Fellow of the American Academy of Audiology.Roger San Martin began his career in June of 1987 in Douglas. He was promoted to the position of Supervisory Border Patrol Agent in 1995 and to Field Operations Supervisor in 1998 while still assigned to the Douglas Station.
He transferred to the Del Rio, Texas Sector after being promoted to the Patrol Agent in Charge (PAIC) position in Abilene, Texas in 2000.
He transferred to the El Paso, Texas Sector in 2004 after being selected as the Special Operations Supervisor of the El Paso Station and was promoted to Patrol Agent in Charge of the Santa Teresa, New Mexico Station in March of 2006.
PAIC San Martin returned to the Tucson Sector in September 2007 where he now serves as the Patrol Agent in Charge of the Tucson Station.
Dr. Yar Petryszyn, retired June 30th, 2007 as professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the U of A, without any doubt, gets our vote as our most popular speaker in the last 10 years. He has talked to us about his journey to the North Pole on a Russian Nuclear Icebreaker, the Natural History of East Africa, the Galapagos, Antarctica, the Amazon and, most recently, the Polar Bears of Churchill, Manitoba Canada.
Dr. Yar Petryszyn, retired June 30th, 2007 as professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the U of A, without any doubt, gets our vote as our most popular speaker in the last 10 years. He has talked to us about his journey to the North Pole on a Russian Nuclear Icebreaker, the Natural History of East Africa, the Galapagos, Antarctica and, most recently, the Polar Bears of Churchill, Manitoba Canada.
He is back this year for his infamous Bat Talk!.
We already know that Yar will once again run out of time. If you haven't heard him, hold your coffee to one cup because you won't want to miss one word of what he has to say.
.West Center has a number of options to improve your listening experience.
It has a Induction Loop system installed.
If you have:
NOTE:
New hearing aides have two "T-Loop" options.
With these new hearing aides the Induction-Loop option must be programmed and turned on as above. The phone option will not help you!
If your hearing aide does NOT support the Induction-Loop option, you have two more options.
During these two special sessions for 260 club members, all of the hearing assist systems will be explained and demonstrated
attendees will be able to: