Y'S MEN NEWSLETTER — OCTOBER 12, 2006THURSDAY OCTOBER 19Noted journalist, lawyer and author, Jeff Benedict, will preview his new book, “The Mormon Way of Doing Business: Leadership and Success Through Faith and Family.” He had exclusive access to CEO's and top executives, all of whom are Mormons, at Jet Blue Airways, Dell Computers, Deloitte & Touche, American Express, Harvard Business School, Madison Square Garden and others. He and his wife have four children and they live in Connecticut. THURSDAY OCTOBER 26Thomas R. Brundage, Jr. USN (Ret) currently serves as a Regional Vice President of the U.S. Naval War College Foundation with responsibility in Connecticut for increasing public awareness of the U.S. Naval War College. The college is charged with the responsibility of providing graduate level education for senior officers, as well as, civilians from U.S. government agencies with national security responsibilities. CAPT Brundage and family currently reside in Hamden, CT. He is a financial consultant with a national brokerage firm. IN MEMORIAM Richard J. McGurk FUTURE MEETINGSOctober 19 Jeff Benedict The Mormon Way of Doing Business October 26 Tom Brundage Naval War College November 2 Jonathon Pollack Asian/Pacific Studies Naval War College November 9 Thomas C Grant Strategic Wealth Management DONUT HOSTS The donut hosts for October 19 will be Tom Marshall, Don Snook, Ed Van Gelder and Gil Vogel. The hosts for October 26 will be Budge Atterbury, Lee Jordan, John Luscombe and Steve Raffel. MEETING FACILITIESSetting up the chairs on October 19 will be George Erickson, Jack Farrell, Bill Huber and Dave Kidney. October 26 the chairs will be set up by Budge Atterbury, Lee Jordan, John Luscombe and Craig Matheson. TRIPS AND TRAVEL November 1 – Visit the Goodspeed Opera House and enjoy the musical The Pirates of Penzance . The price of $101 per person includes show, motor coach and lunch at The Griswold Inn. Sold out and we have stand-byes. Contact Warren Rossell , 226-5357. December 6 – Visit New York at Christmas time and enjoy the new Broadway musical The Drowsy Chaperone. The price is $113 per person and includes show, motor coach and lunch at the Trattoria Dopo Teatro. We are sold out and have stand-byes. Contact Warren Rossell , 226-5357. February 21 – Enjoy the revival of Stephen Sondheim's Broadway musical Company , the winner of six 1971 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The price of $115 per person includes show and motor coach. Lunch is on your own. Contact Warren Rossell , 226-5357. March 27/29 – Travel to Fascinating Philadelphia for a three-day tour highlighted by a visit to the Franklin Institute where their featured exhibition will be the lost treasurers of King Tut. Tour also includes the National Constitution Center, National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a performance at the prestigious Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts of the “Pops Hoedown” featuring Peter Nero and the Philly Pops. The cost is $496 per person, double occupancy, including insurance and four meals. Full trip description is available at the Travel Desk. Contact Dave Kidney, 227-7560. April 26-May 10, 2007 – Join us in Exploring Greece and its Islands , a 15-day escorted tour by Collette Vacations, featuring Mykonos, Santorini and classical Greece. The cost is $3,359 per person, double occupancy, including transportation from Westport. A $250 deposit is required to hold your reservation and brochures are available. We are currently sold out but anticipate obtaining additional space shortly. Those interested should submit their reservation form without delay. Contact Elliott Netherton , 454-0489. YOUR DUES ARE DUEThis year the dues are $50. New members will pay $60. Payment can be sent to Mike Belaga 196 Newtown Turnpike, Westport, CT 06880 or be paid at one of the next meetings. Good news. Through October 5th, dues have been paid by 240 of our 444 members. In past years considerable effort has been exerted by your Board to follow up with unpaid members. However, this has been a long term problem and it is felt that it is unfair to those who paid promptly and to the Board members that had to make phone calls to get payments. Therefore, in order to motivate slow payers, after November 15 there will be a late fee of $10 for dues. Further, if anyone has financial difficulty in paying his dues please contact either the Treasurer, Mike Belaga 454-2371 or the President Jon Fox 227-2679 for assistance. NEWSLETTER The Club spends 3600 $/year printing and mailing the biweekly news letter. Over 300 of our members have email addresses. If 200 of our members with email voluntarily accepted receiving the Newsletter by email, we could save over $1000/year. Mike Belaga emphasizes that anyone who does not have email or those with email who wish to continue to receive a hard copy "snail mail" may do so. We will be emailing a bulletin shortly to ask if you are willing to no longer get a mailed copy of the newsletter. To see what the newsletter on the website looks like, go to the website and on the home page click on "Latest Newsletter". Try printing the newsletter out if you prefer to read from a hard copy. CAMERA CLUB The Y's Men Third Annual Photo Contest and Exhibition will open with an awards ceremony and reception at the Senior Center on Friday, October 27 at 3:00 pm. All Y's Men and Significant Others are welcome. On October 31 at 3:00 pm. One of the Contest judges will critique all of the photos in the Exhibition. This will be a good learning experience for all of us. On November 14 Dave Schafer will bring us up close and personal to flowers and bugs in an entertaining and educational talk about macro photography. The meeting will also include a critique of our Botanical Garden photos. The venue will be the Y Board Room at 10:00 am. THE BOOK CLUB The Book Club will meet on Thursday, October 19, at 1:30 p.m. in the Seminar Room (2nd floor) at the Westport Library. We'll discuss "The Known World", by Edward P. Jones. Copies are available--ask at the library for the Y's Men book. This novel was a 2003 Pulitzer Prize winner and is about slavery told from the view of slaves, as well as freedmen, some of whom became slave owners themselves. It's a powerful book based on history and dealing with the practical and moral effects. Neil Hardy will lead the discussion. All are welcome. APPLE MACINTOSH OWNERS TAKE NOTEAs a minority in a world of PC owners, it would be nice if we Mac users could chit-chat with other Mac guys to resolve issues and learn more about our Macs. So we're starting a “Macintosh Round Table” to meet just a few times a year, and some very proficient fellows will counsel the rest of us. Sign up at a Thursday meeting or contact Joe Schachter at shachter@aol.com , or at 227-5802. HOOT OWLS The Hoot Owls will sing on Tuesday October 17 at the United Church of Rowayton at 12:45 pm. They will also sing on October 31 at the Greens at Cannondale at 3 pm. Rehearsals are every Thursday. HIKING Meet at the Saugatuck Congregational Church at 10 a.m. in the parking lot if you would like to hike. Bud Martin 227-2448 can answer any questions.
FUTURE MEETING SPEAKERSOctober 19 Jeff Benedict October 26 Tom Brundage November 2 Jonathon Pollack November 9 Thomas C Grant TRIPSNovember 1 Goodspeed Opera February 21 Company March 27/29 Fascinating Philadelphia December 6 The Drowsy Chaperone April 26 Greece Newletter Staff Editor—Steve Raffel Layout/Production—Paul Cohen Art— Hank McIver Mailing—Neil Coleman |
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