Fort Smith Noon Exchange Club

06/08/2026

Fort Smith Noon Exchange Club President-Elect Mark Allen and Board Members Ben Brown and Robyn Fowler represented our Club at the Mid-America District Exchange Clubs Convention in Muskogee this past weekend. Also in attendance was Past Club and Past District President Cindy Long, along with fellow Exchangites from throughout the region.

During the event, attendees heard from inspiring speakers and learned about new ways to engage and recruit members. Our representatives are bringing back some great strategies for our Club!

Thank you to Mark, Ben, and Robyn for attending! Also, thank you to the Exchange Club of Muskogee for hosting!

06/07/2026

Our members had a great time at Our Blood Institute in Fort Smith's 43rd Annual MASH Bash on Friday! Thank you to all who attended and to those who donated blood. Our Club is proud to support organizations who help make our community a better place!

06/06/2026

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The D-Day operation of June 6, 1944 brought together the land, air, and sea forces of the allied armies in what became the largest amphibious invasion in military history. D-Day put the Allies on a decisive path toward victory in Europe. Beginning with the Normandy beaches, they pushed back against Axis forces until Germany was forced to surrender less than a year later. These achievements were not accomplished without tremendous sacrifice, however, as the Normandy invasion resulted in over 6,000 American casualties.

Across the country, the National Park Service helps tell the story of our nation during World War II. From Pearl Harbor to U-boats in the Atlantic, to D-Day, V-E Day, and the war's atomic end; explore the stories of America's WWII experience in a national park. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/subjects/worldwarii

Image: Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial part of National Mall and Memorial Parks includes a sculptures of General Eisenhower with soldiers and a bas relief depicting the Normandy landings on D-Day, June 6, 1944.

06/04/2026

Tomorrow the door closes on our group rate at the Hilton Omaha.

Members have been locking in their rooms all month, knowing they'll be in the building when we open the 2026 National Convention together. We want you there too.

If you've been waiting, today is the day. One booking, and one more of us is under the same roof July 9 through 11.

Reservation link in the comments. Group Code: NEC.

06/04/2026

Every Exchange Club scholarship winner has someone standing behind them. A parent. A guardian. A family who believed in them before we did.

Beginning with our 2026 scholarship winners in Omaha, the National Exchange Club is making sure those families have a permanent seat at our table.

Each scholarship winner’s parents or guardians (up to two per student) will receive a full year of dues at any Exchange Club of their choice. Upon graduation, the student receives the same: one full year of dues at any club they decide to call home.

This is more than a benefit. It is an invitation. For more than a century, our movement has lived in the everyday acts of neighbors who choose to show up for one another. The families who raised these scholarship winners already understand that instinctively. Now they have a place to live it out.

A thank you to South Carolina District President Michael Gaston, who brought this idea forward and gave us a thoughtful answer to a question we have been asking ourselves for a long time: how do we keep our winning students and their families in the Exchange family for life.

Welcome home.

06/03/2026

This week our members are using meeting time to support Our Blood Institute in Fort Smith's annual MASH Bash. Click the link below for event details!

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06/02/2026

Thank you to University of Arkansas - Fort Smith Assistant Vice Chancellor for Marketing and Communications Chris Kelley for speaking at our meeting this past Friday. His presentation on AI was both interesting and informative!

05/27/2026

Please make plans to attend our meeting this Friday, May 29, with special guest speaker Chris Kelly. Mr. Kelly serves as the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Marketing and Communications for the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith. His program will focus on AI, a topic that is both relevant and ever-changing in today's technological world.

As a reminder, Fort Smith Noon Exchange Club meets on Friday at noon at Golden Corral in Fort Smith.