There will be a general membership meeting and dinner with guest speaker Walter Prothero on 6-27-09 at the University Club in downtown Louisville.

Cocktail hour begins at 6:00 with dinner to be served at 7:00. The cost is $35- per person with a choice of either Roasted Pork Tenderloin, or Pecan Encrusted Chicken for entrees. Reservations required by 6-22-09…send checks to Mike & Sherry Maddox, 211 Willoughby Ct., Louisville, KY 40245 Directions to the University Club can be found at www.louisville.edu/org/uclub


About Walter Prothero:

Walt Prothereo's quest for big game has taken him throughout North America, Africa, Asia and Europe. He's completed his Grand Slam of North American Sheep and is closing in on the World Slam of Wild Sheep and Africa's Big Five. He has worked as a wildlife research biologist for, among other, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and as a forester, wilderness guide, bartender, construction worker, writer, and teacher.

He has spent a year sailing solo around the Caribbean and was shipwrecked on an uninhabited island, lived a decade at a Gwitchin village on the Yukon River, and spend months in the rain forest of Central America hunting with the Maya.

Prothero has advanced university degrees in writing, English, and wildlife biology. His hunting expeditions have led to over 250 magazine articles, mostly in Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, and Sports Afield, and seven books-Safaris: A Dangerous Affair and Mule Deer Quest are the latest. Safari: A Most Dangerous Affair received much critical acclaim in the United States and abroad. He currently a contributing editor at Sports Afield.

Prothero lives with his soul mate, Cheri Flory in Eden, Utah, and currently teaches in the English and Zoology Departments at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah.

Walt returns in late June from China where is leading a group of students on an extended field trip.