GSYC

I have had a difficult time putting a good email together as my subject matter

(you and the club)

have not been very cooperative with anything good to report.

However, that changed this past Sunday night at our Xmas eve get together.

We had a wonderful evening, a nice turn out of 38 people, good food, wonderful conversation (and for those of you not there, we talked about you) and of course some bridge and canasta games broke out.

Our TV set, which is having problems, was fixed by our resident technician

Dr. Dickie Sundel.

As Barry Epstein told me, to see Dickie on his knees playing with his connections was priceless.

Now comes the first major error of my stewardship:

I gave Lowell Harwood the TV controller and put him in charge of the TV.

I figured that Lowell, being the big sports nut that he is, would find some game for the guys to watch while the bridge & canasta was going on.

He finds the Hawaii Bowl. Not good enough.

Then he finds on Channel 13, a ballet with Mikail Baryshnikov

"The Nutcracker Suite".

I told Lowell, "I don't think we need to see that as we have our own nutcrackers right here."

Lowell ignores me, (I'm a short timer so I'm getting used to that).

So, picture this..here is Michael Schulman, Mike Unger, Jack (soon to be Commodore) Dashosh, Eli, Barry, Dickie, Tom and a bunch of others watching a friggen ballet on XMAS Eve!

Then it starts..Our own nutcrackers (the card players) start yelling that the TV is to loud.

and boy was it loud....

Lowell

"Well, it's not football..it's the ballet!!"

The nutcrackers

"Doesn't matter..it's too loud."

The nutcrackers start searching

"who has the clicker?"

(Lowell hid it in the cusions)

None of the guys would own up to it. I was sorely tempted to give Lowell up, but kept quiet. Lowell finally lowers the sound (a little) Then, after one hour of watching,

the ballet ends, and what happens is these guys all get up and applaud and yell Bravo!

I went outside to throw up.

Folks, I don't make this crap up and if you don't believe me - check out the pictures

that Tom Newmann took that night. make sure you look at the last picture

www.gsyc.org

Announcements

Eli recently had a birthday and some of his gifts were

A Mo-ped from Sandy with training wheels

his son, Richard gave him an insurance policy

(after his birthday, Sandy sold his mo-ped and was wearing the proceeds from the sale on her ears)

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Tanya is well on to the healing track..has not missed a mah-jong or canasta game since she left Kessler

(she has however, changed her toe-nail color...but that's another conversation)

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Hedy & Warren Bagatelle have moved and are happily ensconced at

43 Tillou Rd. West

So. Orange, 07077

973-762-0342

We wish them the best

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There will be one more email, to inform you of what takes place "in the last week of being Commodore", then I will switch to emails from a "citizen" of the Garden State Yacht Club.

Alan Karpas

Whose elated wife will tell you, one more week of

Commodore