Spindrift November 7, 2019
We had a good turnout for Ladies Day, with 12 significant others in attendance: Jolie Gertner, Lorrie Levin (Ken DuFour), Lore Kinton, Paula Kruse, Gina Lesley, Janie Major, Jean Naughton, Mary Romeo, Barbara Ryan, Dennie Schapiro, Jody Swinney, and Lynda Wood.
Lynda jump-started the festivities with a joke, followed by an invocation which included a request for prayers and assistance for the victims of the fires which have been ravaging all of California. Deane Bottorf then led the group in the flag salute, followed by a call to the buffet.
Deane Bottorf then led the group in the flag salute, followed by a call to the buffet. that Ladies Day was the appropriate venue for “taking Jeannie out to dinner”…..Dr. Bob Wood introduced his Honored Guest, Steve Kosch….Shirley Lashmett submitted an application for a new member to be submitted for Board approval…..Remember that next week’s featured speaker is our own Senator John Moorlach, and it would be a good time and place for you to invite any Honored Guests.
About 1/3 of the over 30,000 employees of the FBI are special agents, who are the ones who do the work in the trenches; the remainder are supportive personnel. These include linguists, auto mechanics, office personnel, etc. When engaging in an operation overseas, the agency almost always works overtly in conjunction with the host country to solve problems; in that respect, it differs from the CIA, which, for the most part, acts covertly. Situational and Vulnerability Awareness… Anyone and everyone who attends classes at a local school; shops at grocery stores; visits a hospital; goes to a church, mosque or synagogue; or attends concerts, sporting events, etc. are placing themselves in target locations, i.e., places where large numbers of people congregate. Today these venues are more dangerous than in past years, where, nowadays, innocent people are being attacked and killed.
RAFFLE
RAFFLES…Dr. Bob announced that the club was the winner of the most recent Football Book Pool….Mike Gertner identified the winners of the Week 8 “Other Football Pool” as Bill DeMeulle and Ron Lashmett, with Seymour Beek taking second place. Both “low (wo)man” and high (wo)man winners of the Week 9 pool ballots were cast by Shirley Lash-mett, who submitted two ballots and collected on both of them!.... Winners of the weekly raffle were Don Smith ($10) and Jeff Yeargain ($20).
GREETER(S)…Oops! You didn’t see yours truly, Dave Schapiro, at the greeting table. You saw instead Roy Shlemon, our resident geologist and longtime member.
Dave Schapiro, Editor