General Grenville M. Dodge Camp # 75

Sweetheart Dinner

23 February 2010

Celebrating Saint Valentine’s Day a bit late, nine brothers of Des Moines’ Dodge Camp held their monthly meeting at a local steak house and brought their wives and families for an evening of fellowship. Many of the Dodge Camp ladies know one another, because of their husband’s involvement in the activities of the Forty-Ninth Iowa SVR Unit, and have taken part in funds-raising activities together in support of the Iowa Rifles Monument Restorations Project. Tonight’s dinner afforded them the chance to see each other again after what has seemed an interminably long winter, and to make welcome Mrs. Karen Zenti, wife of Dodge Camp’s newest member, Louis Zenti.

The brotherhood was further enriched by the return of Brother Michael Friedel, PDC, who has remained a member of Dodge Camp, but who has not attended meetings of the organization of late.



It is anticipated that the February “Sweetheart’s Dinner” will become an annual event for the Camp.

Respectfully Submitted:

David M. Lamb
Camp Commander
Grenville M. Dodge Camp # 75
Department of Iowa
SUVCW