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May 22, 2007 No. 32 Vol. 85
This Week’s Program: Henry Adams,
Associate Director of Marketing and Communications for The Florida
Orchestra
Henry Adams has spent his
professional career primarily working for educational institutions and
performing arts organizations. He has worked as a university instructor
in the United States teaching Spanish language and Civilization, as an
English instructor in Spain and as the editor of Classical Guitar
Magazine. With over 20 years’ experience working in upper management
positions in marketing and communications in the performing arts, he has
been affiliated with many notable organizations, including the Honolulu
Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Tampa Bay Performing
Arts Center and The Florida Orchestra, where he is now in his fifth
season, currently as the Associate Director of Marketing and
Communications. Adams has been a guest speaker on the subjects of
marketing and public relations at various state, regional and national
conferences in the performing arts industry, including the American
Symphony Orchestra League's annual conferences. Welcome Mr.
Adams. Your presentation will be music to our ears!
Last Week’s Program: Allison
Jolly USF Sailing Olympic Gold
The Orange Blossom was hot last
week. The room temperature had to be 80 plus. Recommendation: How about
funneling some of the profits from serving brown lettuce into the A/C
fund? This does not bode well for the summer inferno. We had 65 sweaty
members and 3 uncomfortable guests in attendance. Dave Miles brought
Heather Bellah from All Children's to help drum up support for the
upcoming telethon. Angela Boswell brought Heather Fritz from somewhere.
I couldn't hear too good, probably had to do with real estate. I don't
know who the third guest was or who brought them since my face sweat
smeared my notes.
Announcements: Community Service -
Dave Miles talked about the upcoming All Children's telethon. Anyone
who likes to wear a reflective vest and nothing else is invited to help
park cars. Runners are also needed. Shifts range from 2 hours to 3 1/2
hours starting 4pm Saturday through 7pm Sunday June 2 & 3.
Jim Fischer Scholarship Bash - Al
Karnavicius is still looking for items for the silent auction. Dr. Ron
donated $1,000 dental services, Click offered the usual pet basket, and
Nick Gizzarelli donated an $1,800 bracelet for the event. Dig deep and
come up with some green for our scholarship fund. The bash is on June
16th.
Membership committee - Guy
VanMiddlesworth talked about getting organized and new marketing
materials. Mike Humlicek accidentally dis'd (disrespected) the women of
our club and was booed. Subsequently he was fined $2 by Fine Master
Harvey Ford.
Social Committee - Lorin Bridge
needs six more golfers to get 9 foursomes out for our annual golf
tourney Thursday 5/31.
Mitch's joke for the day was about a
boy shooting his dog and infidelity. However he did not win the
politically incorrect moment of the day. That honor went to fine master
Harvey Ford and his story about Arnold Palmer, his balls, and his
putter.
Thankfully, sailing gold medalist
Alllison Jolly took center stage at 12:45. Her key to success is
"picking a good crew". Sailing has been in the Olympics since the 1800s.
Women started competing in 1988. Allison won her gold in Korea on the
windiest day in Olympic history. There was lots of carnage that on the
water that day since the weather was supposed to be light. The person
reporting the weather used an anemometer (tripod with wind speed
measuring device on top). The wind was blowing so hard it kept knocking
the device over so the operator moved the device behind a building to
measure the wind speed. Unfortunately for the sailors they we were not
sailing behind any buildings.
After winning her gold medal Allison
was walking down the main thoroughfare, Gold medal twirling around her
neck, when the medal detached and headed for the nearest storm drain.
Allison stomped on it before it got flushed away. Her sailing partner's
medal also detached and got stuck in her pants. I don't think I'm
telling this story right. I guess you had to be there, something about
being made in Korea.
Allison loves sailing because it
combines mental and physical strategies like playing chess on a moving
chess board against multiple players. She also loves teaching at the
college level since she doesn't have to deal with parents. USF is a top
10 sailing school competing with Ivy League snobs up and down the coast.
Trained as a computer programmer it took 2 full seconds to decide she'd
rather be sailing. Her sailing career started in the pits of despair
having both Harvey Ford and Marcus Mittermayr as teammates. "That which
doesn't kill you makes you stronger".
USF is the unbeaten Florida State
Champs. Sailors are required to maintain a 3.0 GPA to go to the regattas
and a 2.0 to stay on the team. There are no scholarships for sailing due
to pressure from Ivy League goons in dark, smoke-filled rooms. USF has
produced many all-American sailors from students who had never been on a
sailboat before college.
Impress your friends at the next
cocktail party with this bit of trivia: What's the nickname for a keel
boat? A lead belly. Ha, Ha, Ha, good show ol'chap!
Scoop Piplitz
TODAY’S QUIZ:
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In a string orchestra, the viola is the only
instrument with a C string, true or false?
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How many “Q”s are there in a Scrabble game?
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What determines whether a month will have a Friday
the 13th in it?
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What does the word “karaoke” mean in Japanese?
LAST WEEK’S QUIZ:
1. A cross between a
cow and a buffalo is called a beefalo.
2. Neap tides are
especially weak tides. They occur when the gravitational forces
of the Moon and the Sun are perpendicular to one another (with respect
to the Earth). Neap tides occur during quarter moons.
3. 'Mayday' is the
internationally recognized voice radio signal for ships and people in
serious trouble at sea. Made official in 1948, it is an anglicizing of
the French m'aidez, 'help me'.
4. In the painting
“American Gothic,” the two figures are the dentist and the sister of
artist, Grant Wood.
PRAYER OF THE DAY
Heavenly Father,
bless all people who sing and make music and uplift those who listen.
Inspire them with your boundless energy, creativity and love. Amen
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