Upcoming Events
May 1 - Division 34 trip to Bay Meadows
May 5 - Board Meeting **Note Change of Date**
May 15 - Gov. Visit
May 20 - Special Games
May 22 - Tour de Cure
Look Who's Coming
April 26 - Gloria Jean Mitchell,
The Invisible Homeless
May 3 - Open
May 10 - Bev Poellet, International Justice Mission
Happy/Sad Dollars
Pete was so happy to be back with the group after a rather long absence that he donated a buck.
Nick was happy to put in a dollar because Paula was with us today.
Clark paid a sad dollar for missing the anniversary celebration.
Kristin added a sad dollar because her girls' volleyball team lost in the championship game.
Perfect Attendance
The following members received their perfect attendance pins this afternoon:
2 years
Clark
3 yearsAnn and Kristin
8 yearsDoug
9 yearsArt
10 years Bruce
17 years Dave G.
25 years Richard, Jim and Don
45 years Nick
50 years Pete
50th Anniversary Party A Huge Success
This past Saturday, the gang gathered at the Blue Pheasant to celebrate 50 years of fellowship. In attendance were 2 members we hadn't seen in a while, Lou Mariani (and Justine) and Pete Pavlina (and Carole). Also joining us were Ethel May, widow of long-time member Bill Schneider, and Joy, widow of the wonderful Dutch Thomas.
Following a delicious meal, some speeches were made, Richard, Jim and Don received their 25 year Legion of Honor awards, Louie and Pete received their 50 year Legion of Honor awards, and Fenton presented a slide show that dated back 40 years, which was a lot of fun.
Below is a picture I took of all the current members who were with us that evening (except for Lou Mariani who had left earlier in the evening.)
And Finally
At today's meeting, Prez Dave tested the group with some interesting and thought-provoking questions. Richard wrote them down and posed them to me last evening. The test was a lot of fun and I only missed one (wouldn't you know it would be mathematically oriented? Hopefully you found my little test (Mangled Maxims) equally stimulating to your basal ganglia.
Speaker
Our speakers today, Gillian and Doran Thorpe,
were from S.H.I.P. Aid (Shipping Humanitarian
Aid to Impoverished People), a nonprofit
organization that provides assistance to poverty
stricken members of the international community.
Leveraging the goodwill of the people within the
United States, S.H.I.P. Aid enables our local
community to work together to improve and
strengthen the lives of people living in poverty
stricken communities throughout the world.
There aim is to promote awareness around issues that plague humanity while working to improve the quality of life for those in need by focusing on two critical areas: education and healthcare.
S.H.I.P. Aid works with international governmental officials and community leaders in Africa to identify poverty-stricken villages and communities. They are currently working with the government of Lesotho to “adopt” specific villages and regions In essence, S.H.I.P. Aid focuses on providing goods and supplies of the adopted village to help the village become self-sufficient. There programs are focused on two specific areas to help improve the adopted village: school and medical supplies.
On February 8, 2005, volunteer members of S.H.I.P. Aid gathered to load their first shipment – a 20 foot container of donations for schools, hospitals and orphanages in the Kingdom of Lesotho in Southern Africa
Guests
Former member, Paula Davis, was with us today as was Doc from Mtn. View.
Joker - Joker
Today's lucky winner of Joker-Joker was Clark who took $4 from the pot.
Mangled Maxims
Can you figure out what these common sayings actually are? E-mail me if you're stumped and need an answer.
Splintered wood and mineral chunks can rupture my skeletal system, but nomenclatures do not impair me.
A needle and thread mark in hours passed hoards eight + one.
Do not traverse the gantry until you approach it.
Offspring should be endowed with visibility but not oral facilities.
Hemoglobin is more viscous in consistency than H2O.
If primary failure is imminent, new attempts should be made repetitiously.
The most prompt feathered biped seizes the annelid.
Perambulate in moccasins and shoulder a gargantuan wooden rail.
A red fruit of the Malus genus absorbed into the digestive system every 1440 minutes keeps a medical practitioner from entering the ridge pole of home sweet home.
Individuals continuing daily functions surrounded by fused sand structures should be forbidden to hurl missals.
Refrain from enumerating your poultry prior to their emergence from calcified enclosures.
A moving and twirling rock picks up no green matter.
Departure causes the blood-pumping organ to become more loveable.
Distant meadows are invariably more verdant.
Do not shed tears over a white liquid that has become earthbound.
Everything is justified in intense liking and in combat or battle.
View with your optical organs prior to jumping with great steps.
A pan under constant scrutiny will never reach 212 degrees F.
Pulchritude pertains solely to the epidermis.
Focus your optical apparatus on the spheroid.
