Meets 6:30 PM Mondays at The Lakeview Inn Restaurant

President Robert R. Loveridge                                                                                                                     Secretary David E. Booker

President-Elect Joseph M. Behson                                                                                                         Treasurer Robert S. Pasquarelli

Vice President Gerald Tysiak                                                                                                        Immediate Past Pres Alison M. Greene

Sandpiper Editor Margaret Weiss

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

James M. Colabelli, Manfred Jeschke, Kelly Stone

Christopher R. Blais, Roland B. Wagner, Eve M. Ward

Bryce M. Cutler, James E. Rogers, Sarah M. Tripp

MEETING OF JANUARY 29, 2007

PRESIDENT Robert R. Loveridge presiding

GREETINGS & INVOCATION by Eve Ward

GUESTS:                      

      (left to right) Speaker Sharon Klein, Bill Whipple, Sage Circle K Treasurer Amanda Brennan, Circle K Lt Gov Kim Worobey, Rose Dorr, Nancy Davis, Betty Jean Whipple, 

Joanne Rogers & Fred Wurtemberger.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Ø        Kim and Amanda of Sage Circle K gave updates on their activities:  planning for District Convention in March in Utica; Sage Club only one in Division with all dues paid; they will be going to South Carolina to help build a house; still collecting deposit bottles/cans; working for the Salvation Army; conducting fund raisers for convention expenses.

Ø       Community Services Chair Kathy Evensen:  Doors of Hope food unloading help needed Fri Feb 9^th @ 10 AM (Behson, Noland, Sarsfield), and Tues Feb 20^th.

Ø       Pres Bob read a thank you letter from Miller Hill School nurse including a $75 donation from faculty and staff for the food and toys distributed to needy families at Christmas time.

Ø       Times Union article read and circulated about Kevin Smith’s buying another Shop N Save store, his 4^th, this time in Voorheesville.

Ø       Fred Wurtemberger is climbing into the 21^st century—he now has e-mail!!

Ø       Jerry Tysiak announced that the Audit Committee has finished!  When asked why Deacon Bob, our treasurer, didn’t give the report, he replied, “The Audit Committee is bipolar”!

PERFECT ATTENDANCE AWARD to Bob Pasquarelli for 25 YEARS!!!  Congratulations!    

PROGRAM:

          Bill Whipple introduced Sharon Klein, Town of Berlin Historian, who related the story of Arthur Cowee, known as “The Gladiolus King” because he grew and sold more gladioli (200-300 acres in the valley surrounding NY Rt 22 between Rts 7 & 43) than anyone else in the world at the time (1890s-1920s).  He started with a 40’x40’ patch of his father’s land, and found how easy gladioli were to grow.  He also experimented with lemons, growing (in a greenhouse) some the size of grapefruit, and used them to lobby for Rensselaer County farmers.  His enterprise grew rapidly using a water-powered sawmill to build a 3-story bulb house in 1904, (now a firehouse), for packing and shipping.  He exhibited thousands of bulbs at the NY State Fair and won Grand Prize for his efforts.  Arthur knew that happy employees were more productive, so he treated them well, serving an annual harvest dinner for workers and their families.  His bulbs were sold all over the world.  The farm was visited by Dutch bulb growers, and also by Thomas A. Edison, who became a good friend of Cowee’s.   Sharon also showed slides, some very old black & white pictures depicting the acres of blooms, necessitating use of imagination for the colors.  She also had a table display set up to show how extensive the Cowee business was.  Eve Ward presented Sharon with our Certificate of Appreciation for a most entertaining and informative talk.  Pres Bob noted that he’d done a little (very little) research on the friendship between Cowee and Thomas Edison, who supposedly was heard to say, “Someday I’ll sell just as many bulbs as you do!”   Lots of light bulbs later, ………!

Remarked Sharon, “This is a tough group!”

HAPPY DOLLARS

$       Fred W:  As you’ve already heard, I finally got e-mail!  Now I’ll be just as grumpy and frustrated as the rest of you!

$       Joe Behson:  Another great weekend at Mt Snow—and there was 3” more up there!

$       Nancy Davis:  Thanks to Bill Whipple for inviting me to come tonight!

DOOR PRIZE, provided by Bill Whipple, was won, appropriately, by Rose DORR!

50/50 for $23 was won by PLG Chester A Melius!

MEGA 50/50, now up to $277.50, produced “another loser”!  Joe Behson could only find the 10 of Clubs—right suit, but wrong card—from the remaining 35 cards!  (Then Pres Bob put the King back into the deck)!

NEXT WEEK    PROGRAM:  Young Child Priority #1 Chair Jerry Tysiak

FEB 5                               BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING 

                             GREETER/INVOCATOR/CERTIFICATE:  sub for Dale Hall needed

FEB 12           PROGRAM:  Sarah Tripp – Miller’s Shop ‘n’ Save / The Bells of Life Campaign  

                             GREETER/INVOCATOR/CERTIFICATE:  Ken James  

FEB 19          PROGRAM:  Skip Patton / Three Kiwanians Against the Blue Sea

                             GREETER/INVOCATOR/CERTIFICATE:  Fred Jeschke

FEB 26          PROGRAM:  Bob Reiter – Deb Reiter – African Hospice Mission

                             GREETER/INVOCATOR/CERTIFICATE:  Pablo Martinez

SPIRITUAL THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

“If you’re lucky enough to have done well, then it’s your responsibility to send the elevator back down.”                                                                                 Jack Lemmon

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