When Jim Wolf joined the Elks five years ago, he made it his mission to dispel the myth that this was an exclusive club for white men.

Wolf — a white man — had never imagined that he would be an Elks member himself. But while attending a fundraiser that the lodge hosted for Skinner Middle School, he was invited to apply. “A lot of us parents who are now members came to that school fundraiser,” he recalls. “One of the older members who was bartending that night approached several of us, saying that we should become members. And my wife, being very active in the neighborhood, saw the potential here for the community space. Basically, our wives were like, ‘You should join this.’ So a lot of our friends all joined at one time, and we started going to every barbecue and school fundraiser and said, ‘This place is kind of great, if we just put some love into it.’”   Westword 

Table of Contents
00:00:00 Keith Meyer Introduction
00:00:49 Jim Wolf Questions and Comments
00:18:59 Keith Meyer Questions and Comments
00:29:14 Lamone Noles Questions and Comments
00:30:54 Jim Wolf “Where we are now”
00:39:12 Lamone Noles Questions and Comments
00:40:23 Jim Wolf/Lamone Noles/Keith Meyer “Openness to Difficult Conversations”