Mark makes intro: Meet Susan

 

So, Mark Denk made a cameo at the AMA golf event on June 27, 2025, He did not play but he hung around for some of the briefing of two sponsors (Robert Half and Chiro-One). Since Mark is a guy who likes to facilitate connections he wanted to make an introduction. The following e-mail served as introduction (I lost my cell earlier that week during my preparations for the Golf Event at Creve Coeur Golf Course.)  

On Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 01:47:55 PM CDT, M Denk <markdenk@yahoo.com> wrote:

Susan Signorino, I’d like to introduce you to my friend Wes Morgan and vice versa.

Susan - While I have been on the St. Louis chapter of the American Marketing Association (AMA-STL) board for the past 20 years (trying to get off for the last 19), I have had a lot of time to really get to know become friends with Wes. I am convinced that he started the St. Louis chapter back in the 1940s even though he’s only in his 60s. In addition to serving as a past president, he is currently our chapter’s historian and the most relaxed golf tournament chair.

Wes worked in the advertising industry for the majority of his career, is always smiling, always has a story to share and is a lover of art and museums.

Wes - I describe Susan as the very definition of what an outsider would imagine a social worker does. Everyone is naturally attracted to her as she is very kind, very generous of her time, expertise, her network and always willing to lend a helping hand and/or ear. She runs and has ran several always successful networking groups in senior healthcare.

While I am not a matchmaker nor want to be known as one, I look forward to you guys connecting and becoming friends.

Cheers,

Mark Denk

314-435-0393

PS: Susan, I’m connecting you through email because Wes misplaced his phone yesterday and won’t have his replacement until Monday at the earliest.

Well, the e-mail intro and my missing phone combined with my plan to meet an out of town friend at the Saint Louis Art Museum. The out-of-town guest cancelled but I did have a pleasant visit with Susan at the art museum, nevertheless. 

I did a bit of an art tour. (I am a docent at heart I guess.) I talked a lot about me, of course. We were together for 3+ hours. The museum was open late and the light rain at dusk resulted in am incredible rainbow on Art Hill.

Susan lost her spouse in 2022 (and her parents in the same year). She was a good audience for me docent tour highlights - Monet, Van Gogh, the Egyption cat, Rothko, Warhol, Jaune Quick To See Smith and other highlights. We went through the crowded Roar exhibit (dedicated to the period around the automobile, art and fashions of 1918-1939 in France),