University Club of of U of L The
University Club of Louisville is
nestled there on U of L's campu.
It's a club for professors,
alumni and friends of U of L to enjoy
and enjoy catered events and eny
all kinds of things together th.
Well, you know what?
They are reopening their doors.
They're having a great big grand reopening.
That's a reporter.
El Bottom is this morning.
Good morning, Al.
Good morning, Claudia.
So excited to be at the RE grand
opening of of the University of Global.
Of course, I'm here with Janine Triplett,
Board President of the University Club.
So tell me a little bit more abt
this space and why it was creat.
Well, we it was created in 19.
1919, nine. It was 30 years old,
I think 1991, right? It's early.
You know, it hasn't been around
that early. It's 30 years
old. And we celebrated
the anniversary last year.
It was made possible by a gift
from Barry Bingham senior,
who was a prominent philanthropt
in the Sea Louisville,
in case you don't know the hist.
And he gave $4,000,000 to
make the club possible.
He was very passionate about
supporting the University of
Louisville and he felt that we
needed a place for especially
faculty to come and collaborate,
socialize and just be together.
It's part of he felt it needed.
It was a very important part ofe
university culture and we needed
the place to facilitate that.
So when it opened,
we opened it with Under Donald n
as well and it was open for fac.
And alumni, So today it is.
It's always be.
It became a major community locn
for people from all over the sea
Louisville to come and celebrat.
And be together.
It's the only place of its kind
for the University of Louisville
other than an athletic event whe
people can come and socialize ad
enjoy the University of Louisvie
or just family or whatever,
whatever the case,
and collaborate and and be toge.
So now it's open to the Universy
of Louisville alumni, faculty,
staff and friends of the univer.
So you don't have to be in those categories.
If you're just passionate U of L fan,
you could be a part of this too.
Yeah,
absolutely. And it is.
Like a members only club.
So you do have to join. You do.
So what is like membership look like,
well, membership, there's no initiation fee.
And the membership,
one of the things Barry Binghams
passionate about was keeping the
membership fees very reasonable.
So through his endowment we aree
to do that. So the monthly dues,
the highest monthly dues is $50s
$30.00 to $50.00 a month and that's it.
And then for and members can
obviously we have dining facili.
There's amazing catering facilis
here in the history of the club.
It's become a place where we've had weddings,
so many weddings here, so many family events,
we've had weddings, baby shower,
even funerals and memorial services here.
So it truly is a community
place that people love.
They just love this place
and we're just really happy,
happy it's opened again.
It's
such a strong community in EU o.
You know, alumni, family, friends, so many.
Just to gather regather again.
Yeah. So people are interested n
learning more about the universy
club or even joining themselves.
Where can they go to learn more? Well,
they can always just stop by.
We're located on campus.
Normal operating hours, 9:00 to 5:00,
Monday through Fridays.
We're on campus,
on the side of campus with the business goal.
So we're parallel.
We run the other end of the Business School.
You can't miss it. Just stop in.
And I'm stopping the office.
Get membership information.
Slides Dumbo is our new membership director.
Google us.
You can just Google the
University Club of Louisville,
find our phone number
and then our new website,
dressesyouclublouisville.com.
Yes, well, thank you so
much for chatting with me.
And coming up next,
we're going to see what all you
can expect during their reopeni.
Back to you, Claudia.