Sargant at Arms Nick Cecere had a list of miscreants highlighted by Dan Firestone who paid “a dollar a day” for his significant birthday. It turned out to be an expensive Happy Birthday Song for him. Dan Larson paid to brag about his son being named Manchester’s Citizen of the Year, Chickie Amberg paid to recognize the upcoming 71st Wedding Anniversary for Art and Charlotte Bradbury, and several other fines were paid which have been lost to Nick’s penmanship and my losing his chicken scratched sheet of paper.
The Golf Committee will meet on July 11th at the Goodwin meeting that evening. It’s time to collect raffle prizes, to sign up for sponsorships, to get your foursomes in order. Everyone in the Club is expected to participate in some meaningful way. The Tournament will be on September 17th this year.
Next week is our Installation Picnic at the Kickery’s and all are invited to enjoy the pool and the company. Festivities start around Five or so. BYOB. The week after is the 4th of July so we will not be meeting that week. The following week is the second Wednesday of the month, so we will see you at Goodwin College at 6 p.m.
Our Scholarship winners each gave a brief introduction and told us of their college plans. Another impressive trio of talented young ladies.
We had two raffles today. First Happy Jack engineered our weekly raffle to pull the ticket of our outgoing President and proceeding to hand the winnings to the keeper of the purse, Chickie Amberg. She did not refuse to take it.
The second raffle was of more consequence as it was our drawing for our club fundraiser. Raffle Mistress Mary Martin pulled eight tickets for our raffle prizes with the winners of the $400 fourth prize, the $600 third prize and the $1,000 Andersen Jewelers Gift Certificate all being names we did not recognize. But the big winner was sitting only steps away from the Empress. Wes Willett smiled broadly as he accepted the top prize, $2,500. I was happy to see it.
As of 6/18 this year’s raffle raised $14,000, an improvement of $1,500 over last year. George Agnelli continued to be our biggest salesman with 26 books sold, 20% of our total sales. Bill Saunders with six books sold was our runner up. Of our 49 members, 26 sold 3 books or more and 3 members did not sell a single ticket. Thanks, Empress, for another outstanding job leading this effort.