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 APRIL 23, 2007   

PRESIDENT Robert R. Loveridge presiding

GREETINGS & INVOCATION by George Raneri

GUESTS:  Speaker Steve Comer, and Nancy Davis

WELCOME BACK Kelly Stone, and Ken James following heart surgery!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Ø        ANNUAL MEETING & ELECTION OF OFFICERS in 3 weeks on May 14^th.  Nominating Committee of Jim Rogers, Dudley Dorr, and John Brownrigg present Sarah Tripp for Vice President, and the following candidates for 4 directors:  Whipple, Weiss, Patton, McSherry, Hall, Greene, Colabelli, & Brownrigg.  3 with most votes will fill full 3-year terms, and the next highest will complete Sarah’s term which ends in September 2009.  Nominations from the floor will be accepted at May 7^th meeting, and also night of election, May 14^th.

Ø       TENT REQUEST from Bruce Coyne for 10’x20’ tent on June 23 & 24 granted.  John Brownrigg will be the responsible Kiwanian.

Ø       DIVISION COUNCIL meeting Wednesday, May 2^nd 6:30 PM @ Castleton:  Dale Hall, Jim Colabelli, Jim Rogers, Peg Weiss, Bob Pasquarelli, & Booker to attend.  Carpool will meet at 5:45 PM @ Millers parking lot.

Ø       MEET THE CANDIDATES for District Governor-Elect at Mohawk Division, Saratoga Senior Center, 5 Williams St, Saratoga, from 10 AM Saturday, May 12^th.

Ø       SAND LAKE MEMORIAL DAY PARADE Monday May 28^th.  Meet @ 9 AM at Crystal Lake Park—yellow shirts and peanuts!

Ø       DELEGATES TO INTERNATIONAL:  Dudley Dorr and Bob Pasquarelli approved.

Ø       Joe Behson reported another successful Dissipated 8 concert with about 600 attending.  Many affirmative comments from both audience and performers—will be back next year!

LEGION OF HONOR AWARD was presented to E. Kenneth James for 35 years!    Congratulations, Ken, and we’re glad you’re back with us to receive it!

PROGRAM

          Bill Whipple reported that he was filling in for Botsy who was busy renovating his barbershop to include a hot dog and ice cream stand, and wondered what the new name of the business would be.  Several suggestions were offered, including The Hairball, The Clip & Drip, and The Hairy Dog.

          Thanks to Nancy Davis who contacted tonight’s speaker, Steve Comer, who is very proud to be an enrolled member of the Mohican Indian Tribe, and can trace his lineage back to the legendary Chingakook, who, contrary to literary reports, was NOT the “Last of the Mohicans”.  The Mohicans were the “good guys” as opposed to the Mohawks who were the “bad guys”.  Mohican history began on September 15, 1609, when they encountered Henry Hudson and the crew of the HalfMoon.  It was an amicable relationship with trading in both directions, like the “River That Goes Both Ways”.  However the native tribes were very susceptible to the Europeans’ contagious diseases, along with their alcohol, and epidemics ravaged their populations.  Mohican land once ranged from southern Lake Champlain to the Catskills, and from the Housatonic River to the Mohawk River.  The Mohicans withdrew, “fell out of history”, and the Mohawks became dominant.  The Algonkians were a large tribe who ranged from Canada and New England all down the coast as far as the Carolinas.  The Iroquois Confederacy ranged west of Amsterdam, and included Mohawks, Oneidas, Senecas, Cayugas, and Onondagas.  The Catskills were named by the Dutch:  KAAT for the many mountain lions, and KILL for the creeks that flowed through them.  The Indians measured time in seasons, and looked forward to spring for their new year.  When the shadbush bloomed, it meant that the shad fish were spawning up the Hudson, and could be caught to feed the people.  They also told of the black clouds of passenger pigeons, now extinct, which migrated north in spring, darkening the sky, and filling the trees.  The Indians waited out the winters, anxious for spring, and a plentiful food supply.  The Mohicans were fish-eating people, and found the Hudson much more abundant than the Mohawk.  They used many means to catch their fish:  dams, weirs, baskets, hooks, and nets.  From 1736-1822 there was a Mohican village at Stockbridge, and they lived as farmers as a concession to the white man, raising the “3 sisters” of corn, beans, and squash.  There are about 1500 people left in the tribe, most living on a 15,000-acre reservation in Wisconsin.

George Raneri thanked Steve for a most interesting look into native heritage, and presented him with our Certificate of Appreciation.           

HAPPY DOLLARS

$       Chris:  Kelly’s back!  Thanks to Brownrigg, the highway cleanup was done last weekend.  AND……..for the Sox…..BACK to BACK to BACK to BACK!!!!

$       Skip P:  A resounding repeat of that back-to-back-to-back-to-back……1^st time EVER!

$       Ken J:  I’m very glad to be back!!

$       Nancy Davis:  Thanks to Bill Whipple for making me his guest for dinner!

$       Teacher George:  Happy to be here, and glad to see Ken James so well!

$       Bill W, for Steve’s talk, and for Nancy’s coordinating the program!

$       Fred W:  Great 3300-mile trip south to see the cherry blossoms in DC, azaleas in Carolinas, Civil War area of Petersburg, VA, Charlotte, Savannah, Amelia Island, Titusville & the space center, Augusta, GA, and others………!

$       Dale:  Glad to see Steve.  My great-great-great-grandmother was an Indian princess and is buried in Sand Lake Cemetery!

$       Jim Rogers:  Tonight’s the night for the River Rats in Calder Cup playoffs to break the tie with the Hershey Bears in Glens Falls.  And also, for a great trip to Plymouth, MA, despite the torrential rains.  Traced ancestry as a Mayflower descendant via William Brewster!

$       Kelly:  So glad to be back, and to hug my pal Gary!

$       Gary:  OK you guys…..eat your hearts out!!!  And I got my cucumbers, too!

DOOR PRIZE, a bottle of bay rum provided by Botsy, was won by EVE!

50/50 for $19 was won by ED Peg, who picked her own ticket for the Mega!

MEGA 50/50, worth $466.50 tonight, triumphed again, as Peg picked the Queen of Hearts from the remaining 23 cards!  It jess keeps growin’ along!!

NEXT WEEK    PROGRAM:  Barb Fioravanti & Chris Blais, Key Club Officer Installation

APRIL 30                 GREETER/INVOCATOR/CERTIFICATE:  Sarah Tripp

MAY 7           PROGRAM:  Jerry Tysiak, Chair, Young Children Priority #1

                                      BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING 

                             GREETER/INVOCATOR/CERTIFICATE:  Bruce Perry

MAY 14                   PROGRAM:  Pres Bob Loveridge presides over the

                                      ANNUAL MEETING & ELECTION OF OFFICERS 

                             GREETER/INVOCATOR/CERTIFICATE:  Bob Reiter

MAY 21                   PROGRAM:  Doug Baldrey

                             GREETER/INVOCATOR/CERTIFICATE:  Fred Jeschke

SPIRITUAL THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”     Plato

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