The Fifteenth Annual UNIEA Luncheon was held on Saturday, May 1, 2004, at the St. Stephen's Center on West 23rd Street in Cedar Falls.  The social hour began at 11:30 a.m.  As you entered St. Stephen's you could hear the music of "The California Street Sax Quartet" being played on the lower level of the Center.

As you descended to the lower level there was a registration table and sitting close by was the "The California Street Sax Quartet."   (Click on any image to enlarge the view.)

There were 69 people in attendance but unfortunately Robert (Dean) Talbott who arranged the event for the Association was not able to attend the event.  His wife, Alice, told us that Dean was in the hospital for tests.  Also William (Bill) Maucker and his wife Dee were not able to attend this year since Bill recently returned home from the hospital.

Most of the attendees were from the Cedar Falls/Waterloo area but a number of members traveled a considerable distance to attend the event.  Mary Nan and Richard Aldridge traveled from Texas and  Robert Gish came from New Mexico.  The greatest distance traveled was by Verner Jensen and his wife Elaine (shown below) who traveled from Merritt Island, Florida.

After a nice luncheon, Arnold Freitag (UNIEA’s current Chairman) made several announcements and Len Froyen gave the Invocation.  This was followed by Sue Doody who gave a slide presentation on the new Cedar Falls Library.  Starting with outside photographs of the facility, Sue provided us with a “Virtual Tour” of the building and its various sections and departments.  For those of us who have not had the opportunity yet to visit the new building, Sue’s presentation was very enlightening and informative.  For more information on the new library facility please go here http://www.cedar-falls.lib.ia.us/.

Some pictures taken at the luncheon are shown below.  (Click on any image to enlarge the view.)