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Fun Night Details

2010 Grand Lodge Convention

“Celebrity Reunion” Fun Night Banquet

Monday, June 14, 2010

 

The Grove Park Inn is a historic hotel built in 1913; and since its opening there have many famous celebrities stay there. When you walk the halls of the inn you will find the pictures of presidents, actors, actresses, inventors, musicians, singers, sports figures and others that have honored the Grove Park by staying there.

 

For our “Fun Night Banquet” we are having a reunion of these celebrities. Below you will find a list of the celebrities that have stayed at the Grove Park. Pick out your favorite, learn all you can about the person, and come to the banquet as that celebrity. First, Second and Third place prizes will be given to the ones who most look like and impersonates their superstar best. We have been to many conventions and we know we have a lot of creative members, so we can’t wait to see who you pick.

 

 

Presidents / First Ladies:

William Howard Taft (27th); Woodrow Wilson (28th) Calvin Coolidge (30th); Herbert Hoover (31st); Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd); Eleanor Roosevelt; Dwight Eisenhower (34th); Richard Nixon (37th); Lady Bird Johnson; George H. W. Bush (41st); President Barack Obama (44th)

 

Sports Figures:

 

Professional Tennis Player:

Bill Tilden

Professional Baseball player/coaches:

Gaylord Perry, Yogi Berra, Reggie Jackson

NASCAR Drivers:

Bill Elliot, Jeff Gordon, Harry Gant, Kyle Petty, Richard Petty

Olympic Medalist:

Bruce Jenner (decathlon); Peter Vidmar (gymnast); Oksana Baiul (Ice skating); Victor Petrenko (Ice skating); Dorothy Hamill (Ice skating)

Professional Basketball players/coaches:

Dean Smith, Grant Hill, Michael Jordon

Professional Golfers:

Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer

Professional cyclist:

Lance Armstrong (7 Time Tour de France winner); Greg LeMond (Tour de France winner)

Professional Football players/coaches:

Tom Landry, Fran Tarkenton, Hershal Walker, Phillip Fulmer

 

Inventor:

Thomas Edison (light bulb & phonograph)

 

Magicians/Illusionist:

Harry Houdini, David Copperfield

Doctors:

Dr. B.J. Palmer (pioneer in chiropractic medicine); Charles & William Mayo (Founders of the Mayo Clinic)

 

 

Actors, Singers, Dancers, Comedians, Musicians:

Male:

Beau Bridges, Daniel Lewis, Dan Akroyd, John Laroquette, Gene Hackman, Burt Reynolds, Donald O’Connor, Sir Anthony Hopkins, E.G. Marshall, Jack Lemmon, Jason Robards, Bill Gaither, Lee Greenwood, Johnny Mathis, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Victor Borge, John Denver, Jerry Seinfeld, Don Rickles, Andy Williams, Enrico Caruso, Loonis McGlohon, Pat Hingle, Steve Allen, George Baker, Bela Bartok (pianist), Dave Brubeck (Jazz pianist), Ellis Marsalis (Modern Jazz pianist), Peter Nero (Broadway, blues & jazz pianist), John Dankworth (Jazz clarinet/saxophone)

 

Actresses, Singers, Dancers, Comedians:

Female:

Niki Taylor, Debbie Reynolds, Cyd Charisse, Juliet Prowse, Judy Collins, Dinah Shore, Cleo Laine, Crystal Gayle, Shirley Jones, Melissa Manchester, Barbara Mandrell, Shelley Fabares

 

Writers, Authors, Journalist:

Margaret Mitchell (Gone w/ the Wind), Pat Conroy (The Great Santini), Charles Frazier (Cold Mountain), Jan Karon (Christian fiction), George Plimpton (Sports writer), DeePak Chopra (spirituality), George Will (newspaper (columnist), Irvin Cobb (Humorous stories), Elbert Hubbard, Sr. (journalist), Alex Haley (Roots), Helen Adams Keller, F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby), Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking)

 

TV Personalities:

Charles Kuralt (CBS Evening News segment “On the Road”), Art Linkletter, Joan Lunden (Co-host – ABC’s Good Morning America), Spencer Christian (Weather Forecaster – ABC’s Good Morning America), Charlie Gibson (Anchor – ABC’s World News)

 

Entrepreneurs:

Henry Ford (Ford Motor Company), Harvey Firestone (Firestone Tire Company), Edwin Wiley Grove (Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic), John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (Standard Oil Industry), Charles Schwab (Investment Company), Jerry Greenfield/Ben Cohen (Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream), Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (founder of W.K Kellogg Company)

 

Political Personalities:

Asa Chanlder (Atlanta, GA Mayor – 1916-1919); William Jennings Bryan (Dem. Nominee for President 1896, 1900 & 1908); Henry Kissinger (Sec. of State – Nixon Admin.); Sandra Day O’Connor (1st Female Justice of the Supreme Court); Elizabeth Dole (NC Senator – 2001)

 

Others:

Gutzon Borglum (artist/sculptor), Cardinal James Gibbon (Baltimore Catholic Archbishop – 1877 – 1921), Richard Simmons (Fitness Personality), General John Pershing (Highest rank in the US Army – “General of the Armies), Wiley Post (1st pilot to fly solo around the world), Will Rogers (Cowboy known as Oklahoma’s favorite son), Fred Seely, Jr. (built the Grove Park Inn), Ernest Skinner (Organ builder), Edith Vanderbilt (Owner of the Biltmore Estate), Norm Abram (Carpenter – PBS Program “This Old House”), Gene Krantz (flight director Apollo 13), Col. Robert Morgan (WWII pilot), Mickey & Minnie Mouse (cartoon characters); The Pink Lady (ghost of the Grove Park Inn)