STAKE YOUR CLAIM! B
In each issue of the Focus we’re spotlighting a team member from the MDA or MDIS, or an MDA Board of Trustees member. The goal is to help you, the members, get to know a bit more about the featured individual.
Elisha Kleffner joined the MDA in December 2013 as Graphic Designer and Website Content Manager. She grew up just east of Jefferson City in the small town of Bonnots Mill. Her athletic ability in softball earned her a scholarship to Missouri Southern State University in Joplin. After graduating with an art degree, she headed even further south to Bentonville, Ark., where she worked as a designer for Walmart before returning to live near family.
Graphic Designers & Content Manager Pictured with husband, Jamey
Away from the MDA, she coaches private softball pitching lessons and assists at her husband’s screen printing and embroidery business. In addition to website work and assisting with the Focus magazine, Elisha uses her talent— working with the MDA team—to create event promotion materials such as MOMOM, Connect4Success and I Heart Dental Charities. Here’s a bit more to get to know Elisha better! Contact her at
elisha@modentalmail.org.
Last good book you read: Gone Girl How you like to spend your Sunday: Do a few pitching lessons, then spend time with family and relaxing. Love being on the water (usually the Osage River).
Music currently on your playlist: Love Eric Church! Just went to a concert, too!
Favorite wellness activity: Just being active outside. Food you refuse to eat: Hominy … Yuck! Most awesome place you’ve visited outside of Missouri: The summer before my senior year in college, I studied art abroad for six weeks. During the week we stayed at a college campus in Mulljso, Sweden and traveled to Paris, Copenhagen, Oslo and Stockholm on the weekends. We took sketch pads and drew outside in pastoral scenes, painted along streams and studied black and white photography, with a lot of time dedicated to the dark room. It was a trip of a life time.
Clockwise: The event provided a great field view. // Dr. Charley McGinty, Joplin, met up with his daughter, Dr. Sarah Brent, Overland Park, to enjoy the game. // Fitting in our 150th year as an association, we’d be in the Hall of Fame box!
STL CARDINALS
aseball fans in Missouri are pretty spoiled right now. Both the Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals are in first place in their divisions with very good teams. As a proud Missourian,
it’s okay if you root for both clubs. That is until they play each other and then you must “stake your claim.” Do you bleed Royal Blue or Cardinal Red? This dynamic was the brainchild behind MDA’s first baseball themed Day at the Game sponsored by our good friends Missouri Dental Insurance Services (MDIS).
We sold out of 80 tickets to MDA members and families and friends and occupied two of the left field Hall of Fame suites at the K on a cool, breezy evening for a battle of first place teams. The setting was perfect as folks could move between the indoor suite and the outdoor patio seating. Food and drink was plentiful. And despite the larger, more vocal Royal contingency, everyone was civil! It made for a relaxed social setting and nice first time event.
While our seats were perfect for catching a home run, we did not catch either of the two home runs hit by K. Morales as the Roy- als shut out the Birds on the Bats by a score of 5-0. While most left happy, all left pleased after a fun evening that was capped off by fireworks.
Thanks to all who came and enjoyed this MDA outing. Watch for news next year as we may shift to St Louis for another Stake Your Claim Day at the Game.
KC ROYALS vs
ISSUE 3 | MAY/JUN 2015 | focus 11
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