In 2025 Diane Selby received the Silver Torch Award from President Don Larson
Thanks to Current Torch Award Winners
Gold Torch Award for Outstanding Service to the International Association of Torch Clubs:
Rich Davis,
Dorothy Driskell,
Liz Short
Silver Torch Award for Outstanding Service to the Torch Club of Columbus:
Dorothy Driskell,
David Hammond,
Thom Seelbach,
Diane Selby
Torch Club newsletter
The Torch Club of Columbus, Ohio, publishes a newsletter, The Torch Lighter, that is distributed monthly (September through May) via email to all members. Each newsletter offers a preview of the next Torch paper, prints the Member’s Moment that each month highlights the life and career of a club member, and reports other news about members and club activities.
Click on the month below for the recent newsletters:
January 2025 (No newsletter)
January 2024 (no newsletter; Club did not meet)
Torch Club of Columbus, Ohio
Schedule of Programs 2025-2026
October 2 Analysis of the Presidential Election of 1924 (Paul Beck)
November 6 Development of Napa Valley Vineyards-Wineries (Tom Costantielolo)
December 4 Holiday Musical Presentation (OSU Glee Club)
February 5 Preventive Medicine (Naomi Wriston)
March 5 Building the Railroads (Violet Meeks)
April 2 Middle East Diplomacy (Richard Herrmann)
May 7 Girls and Women’s Sports (Nancy Wardwell)
June 4 Central Ohio Economic Development ( Bill LaFayette)
Columbus Torch was well represented in Baltimore at the convention of the International Association of Torch Clubs in June of 2023.
Portrait of Rev. Dr. McIIyar H. Lichliter, first president of Torch Columbus, 1926-27 and 1927-28.
More than 50 members braved cold and snow to attend Francille Firebaugh’s presentation, “How do Women and Men differ in their Work and Careers?” on January 6, 2022 at the OSU Faculty Club.
OSU Mens Glee Club entertain at the Dec 2021 meeting.
In December 2016, the Columbus Torch Club celebrated the 90th anniversary of its founding. Holding the numbers are past club presidents Jeff Caswell and Dorothy Driskell.