Bay Men's Club

06/19/2025

The past presidents of the Bay Men’s Club (BMC), the city’s oldest and largest civic organization, recently donated funds to erect a bench in Cahoon Memorial Park in honor of Ray “Skipper” Yoder, a former BMC president who passed away recently. Yoder was the founder and long-time manager of The Villagers, a baseball team formed to celebrate the city’s bicentennial in 2010. The team plays by the rules in effect around the Civil War. “Ray would have loved this,” Yoder’s wife Fran said. “Knowing you cared so much about him would have made him incredibly happy.” Shown below, left to right, are past BMC presidents Eric Eakin, Dave Blevins, Dwight Clark, Bay Village Service Director Mary Kay Costello, Yoder, and Peter Gierosky.

06/25/2024

The Bay Men’s Club has awarded three $2,000 scholarships to four very deserving Bay High students: Emma Lindway, Ava Phelan, and Nicholas Szekely.
Scholarships are awarded based on need, character, scholastic achievement and leadership qualities.
Lindway will be attending The Ohio State University where she will major in pre-medicine. Phelan will be attending Bowling Green State University where she will be studying psychology. Szekely will be attending Kent State University where he will be majoring in business and music composition.
“The accomplishments of these three recipients, both academically and in other fields, is quite impressive,” scholarship committee chairperson Peter Gierosky said. “We are happy to provide this seed money for our leaders of tomorrow.”
Shown, left to right, are past presidents Ray Yoder and Rob Spies, Lindway, scholarship committee member Peter Winzig, Phelan, Gierosky, Szekely, president Doug Gertz, and past president Richard Nelson.

09/06/2023

06/02/2023

The Bay Men's Club, the city's oldest and largest civic organization, has awarded four scholarships to four very deserving Bay High graduates. Shown above, left to right, are president Dan Rettig, scholarship recipients Jason Houk, Kristina Larraway, Omar Campbell, Jennifer Kasunick (with Rowdy), scholarship committee chairperson Peter Gierosky, and vice president Doug Gertz. "The Bay Men's Club provides scholarships based upon exceptional academic achievement and financial need, with the goal of seeding the oak trees of tomorrow," Gierosky said.

09/17/2022

RIP Chuck Millradt, BMC president 1986-87

07/03/2022

The Villagers, an old time base ball team comprised primarily of Bay Men's Club members, formed in 2010 to help celebrate the city's bicentennial and has continued to compete every year since. Playing under rules in effect in 1860, The Villagers, led by player/manager John Underation, battled their long-time rivals, the Whiskey Island Shamrocks, on Saturday, July 1, at Bay Days, losing by a score of 10 to 0. The team will next play Sat., July 30, at 2 p.m. at Cahoon Memorial Park.

06/03/2022

The Bay Men’s Club has awarded four $1,000 scholarships to four very deserving Bay High students: Sam Houk, Carli Mendelow, Norah Hamil, and Danny Kruzer.

Scholarships are awarded based on need, character, scholastic achievement and leadership qualities.

Houk will be attending the University of Cincinnati where he will major in business. Mendelow will be attending the University of South Carolina where she will be studying psychology and pre-med. Hamil will be attending The Ohio State University where she will be majoring in business. Kruzer will be attending the University of Cincinnati where he will be studying political science and pre-law.

“The accomplishments of these four recipients, both academically and in other fields, is quite impressive,” scholarship committee chairperson Peter Gierosky said. “We are happy to provide this seed money for our leaders of tomorrow.”

Shown, left to right, are scholarship committee member Dominic Giovannazzo, Houk, Mendelow, BMC President Ed Robertson, Hamil, scholarship committee member Peter Winzig, scholarship committee member Dave Blevins, BMC Vice President Dan Rettig, and Gierosky.

05/01/2022

The Bay Men's Club is very excited to have Eddie Plotts, coordinator of the Cleveland chapter of Sea Shepherd, to speak to the group this Thursday night, May 5th!

The BMC meets at the Bay Lodge (492 Bradley Road) at 7:00 p.m. Meeting is open to all men and not limited to just Bay Village.

Sea Shepherd is an international conservation organization that takes direct action with its fleet of ships to intervene on behalf of ocean wildlife around the world. Founded in 1977 by Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd’s first campaign was against the killing of white-coated seal pups in Canada. Over the last 45 years, the organization has engaged in many high-profile, direct-action campaigns against the Icelandic and Norwegian whaling fleets, the whale and dolphin slaughter on the Danish Faroe Islands, shark finning in Costa Rica (documentary Sharkwater), illegal poachers on the high seas (documentary Chasing The Thunder), Mexican cartels and Chinese wildlife traffickers to save the most endangered marine mammal in the world (documentary Sea of Shadows), and most notably the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary (Animal Planet’s reality series Whale Wars).

Today, Sea Shepherd puts to sea the largest private navy in the world with a new focus on working with governmental agencies to stop Illegal, Unregulated, and Unreported (IUU) fishing in addition to our ongoing pursuit of other direct-action campaigns.

Join us for the educational and entertaining speaker, Cinco de Mayo themed dinner, a variety of beverages, and really, really bad jokes! What’s not to like?!

04/05/2022

The Bay Men's Club will convene Thur., April 7, at 7 p.m. at the Bay Lodge, 492 Bradley Road. The speaker will be Bay Village resident Chris Herbruck, an expert on Lake Erie shipwrecks. The entree will be a wide variety of chilis made by past BMC presidents. All gentlemen from Bay Village and adjacent communities are welcomed and encouraged to attend.

11/30/2021

All Bay Village men are invited to attend the Bay Men's Club meeting on Thur., Dec. 2, 7 p.m., at the Bay Lodge, 492 Bradley Road. This is the club's annual "white elephant gift exchange" evening and a fun time is guaranteed. Bring a crappy gift and get one in return. Food and refreshments provided.