THE RECORD
February 2006
President's Message
By Bob Phelan
It was about two years ago this month when I read something out of our Club Newsletter. It went like this
"Who ever dreamed up this idea that the president should have a column every month in The Record?!?!?"
I think Martha hit on something here. Who did dream this up? I didn't see that in the Presidents duties. Well, I'll give it another try, but you will probably notice them getting shorter and shorter. Heck I already used up five lines writing this.
Well the bowling/pizza party kicked off the year pretty well. Dorothy, while sick and not present, still seemed to when a prize. Seems her substitutes liked to throw gutter balls.
Next up is the Feb. 11th Hoedown, be sure to bring a sweetheart. After all it is almost Valentines Day. There will be an After Party at the home of Jack and Carol Giolitti. And don't forget Feb.
16th, Dorothy has something up her sleeve. You remember all those wedding photos she's been asking for; I bet she drew faces on them with permanent markers.
The next hoedown will be coming in April right here at the Diablo Women's Club; the caller will be our own Gary Kendall. Don and Lois Lollich are working on the Car Rally and I'm sure they will surprise us as usual.
And be ready for April, there will be a garage sale, the funds going to support club activities. Bring some good stuff; remember sometimes another man's junk is just another man's junk.
Thanks,
Bob
BIRTHDAYS
Don Lollich/
2/10
Tracy Woodard
Martha Erwin
2/12
Diana Lorentzen
2/18
Mary Gregovich
2/20
ANNIVERSARIES
None to report
Note: Birthday and Anniversary listings run from newsletter date to newsletter date not 1st of month to 1st of month.
A Very Special Pot Luck
By Avis Walker
The Bowling/Pizza Party quickly became the second CB social event of the year when we all realized that on January 20th Chris and Bob Kratz were planning on closing on their house sale and heading for
Keep track of their new address and phone number as Bob and Chris said they are looking forward to visitors.
Bob's been bragging that they are only a few miles from the beach and have easy access to a supply of wonderful cheese.
A Note From Chris and Bob
Dear CB friends. We really appreciate all the kind words and nice cards about our move to
Address:
925-586-4623 we will keep, at least for a while.
We have signed up for the Aug 6-10 session at Mc Cloud this year. I hope many of you will decide to join the fun along with John and Dorothy so we can see you there.
A great BIG yellow rock to all of you, we will miss you.
Chris and Bob
Bowling/Pizza Party
By Avis Walker
On Sunday, January 22, 2006 Mary and Milan Gregovich and Avis and John Walker were co-chairman for the annual Bowling/Pizza Party.
We had 27 folks on the lanes bowling and quite a few cheerleaders this year.
Attendance was down a tad from last year but we still had a nice showing of CBers, ex-CBers and friends and family of CBers.
It again gave us a chance to visit with some folks we don't see very often. Among those attending were ex-CBers Pat and Bill Scott, Alyce and Walt Jones, Peggy and Ken Wygal, Gloria and Art Price and Wally Everette.
Everyone who bowled won a prize this year.
Even someone who didn't bowl (in fact wasn't even there) won a prize.
We had the usual bottles for strike balls, picking up spares and a gutter-cleaning ball.
This year, thank goodness, I put the strike bottle in as big a box as the gutter ball bottle because these 27 hardworking bowlers rolled 75 strikes and 83 gutter balls in 2 games this year.
Carl Lorentzen won the bottle for the last strike of the day and Wally Everette won a prize for the most strikes but no other prize won.
Ken Wygal went home with the bottle for the first split pick up of the day and Mary Gregovich took home the bottle for the last gutter ball.
Although Dorothy Evans wasn't able to come on Sunday husband John was gracious enough to let Liz and Bob Phelan's sons Christopher and Andrew take turns bowling under her name.
They both seemed to be having a wonderful time and I think if you added the gutter balls that Dorothy would have rolled had she been there to Andrew's and Christopher's they were a shoo-in to be named Gutter Group of 2006.
So we sent home to Dorothy a really cute stuffed bear with sparkly sunglasses and a "Star Status"
tag.
This looks like it may become a revolving trophy as Liz earned it last year and recycled it.
Just to keep things on the up and up we awarded another stuffed bear to Liz for Gutter Gal 2006 as a reward for the 11 gutter balls she threw all by herself.
Then we got down to the serious business of awarding the roving trophies. Avis Walker won woman's high game with a 179 and John Walker won the men's with a 185.
Diana Lorentzen had two great games and won woman's high series with a 277 and Milan Gregovich rolled a 180 and a 162 to win men's high series with a 342.
Carl Lorentzen was right in there with a 150 and a 173 but he didn't quite beat the trophy scores.
However he was the only person not to win a trophy that had scores over 150.
The 173 won him the 170 and over prize.
In other categories winners were:
140-149
Pat Scott with a 147
130-139
Don Orton with a 132
120-129
Bob Phelan with a 129
110-119
Don Snodgrass with a 118
100-109
Wynell Snodgrass with a 109
89-99
Bill Scott and Tracy Woodard at 97 and 95
80-88
Sue Sandow 80. Gloria Price 83 and Lisa Woodard 84
70-79
Art Price 78
Don Lollich won a prize for 2 games with the same score and John Evans won a prize for being the
most optimistic in predicting his second score.
Two people predicted their score for the second
game right on the nose, Wally Everette and Tom Sandow.
I had to tweak some of the prize categories to come up with prizes for all so the scores listed may not be the highest scores that person bowled but just the score that fit highest in the category they could win in.
Some of the folks that bowled with us didn't join us at the pizza parlor and asked that no prizes be awarded to them. There were also some folks who couldn't make it to the bowling but who were able to join us for pizza.
We were glad to have the company of the Gerhards, the Kendalls, and Erna Beutel at pizza.
At the end of the awards a large basket of candy was passed around so every one came out a winner. Mary and
Valentine's Day Potluck
By Dorothy Evans
Our Valentine's Day potluck will be held on Thursday, February 16th.
Please bring your own plates and silverware.
Also, if you haven't already done so, please remember to bring me one of your wedding pictures to display that night.
Lisa made really cute holders for the pictures (she's very talented).
One last request.
If you can, please drop me an email (devans3@cctimes.com) with just a line or two of something amusing or heartwarming about your wedding day.
Getting Wedding Pictures
By Don Snodgrass
Valentines Day is coming and the Clutch Busters will take the occasion to have a Potluck dinner.
Oh, how we love to eat.
Well, Dorothy Evans came up with this great idea to have our wedding
pictures posted as the observance of Valentines Day.
Seems simple.
At our wedding, where we had no band to play or paid photographer, no one took photos.
But Wynell's brother used my motion picture, 8 mm camera to take a few shots of the event.
Years later, I decided to transcribe these pictures from 8mm movie film to 8mm video, with a camera box to take pictures of the picture.
For this occasion, after some thought, I decided I could take another picture of the picture from the videotape.
Easy enough.
Except when I got out the VCR and charged the battery, it still would not work, at all.
After some deliberations and shopping, including professional transcription to DVDs, we decided to buy a new videocassette camera.
We purchased one, brought it home, read the directions and opened up the cassette door, then got the Wedding picture cassette and tried to insert it into the camera.
It would not go, no matter how I tried to get it in.
It seems the current cassettes are smaller than those my video camera used.
We finally borrowed our daughter's video camera to play the tape into the TV and took pictures of the TV.
A picture, of dubious quality, was delivered to Dorothy in late January.
To recap the history of this picture:
8mm movie
to
8mm video
to
TV
to
photo.
Oh, that Dorothy is an e-eee-evil person!
(By the way, we are getting our video camera repaired).
Roster
By Tom Sandow
In the next edition of the club roster I will include a €˜Member Since' line. This will indicate the year that the member(s) joined the club. For instance, for Sue and I, it will say "Member Since 2005". I think this will add some interest and fun to the roster. Some of you have already provided me with this information. If there are any other members who would like to participate in this please see me at club or send me an email. Thanks.
50th Anniversary Preparations
By Tom Sandow
As the Anniversary committee plans for The Clutch Busters' 50th anniversary we are requesting current and former club members to share some of their photographs with the club. Please send me your photographs along with information such as when and where the photo was taken, the event, and the names of those in the photograph. I will scan your photos into my computer and return the photos to you. Please share this request with any former CBers that you know; we would really like to get pictures from the club's early days. Send your pictures to Tom Sandow,
Refreshments
By Diana Lorentzen
Please see the assignments for our February 11th hoedown at the end of this newsletter.
News from the Alley
By Avis Walker
Our Tuesday bowling group started out the New Year on January 3, 2006 with most of our regulars on board.
Allen Wesdorf was missing as he had gone to
On January 10th scores returned to normal without that NO TAP edge.
Rachel Ireland took the first game with a 164 and the second with a 177. Avis and John each picked up a 5-10 split in the second game.
Rachel rolled a true turkey but was edged out of her third win by Don Orton with a 169 to her 165.
Allen Wesdorf was right in there with a 164.
Ken Wygal also rolled a turkey for a 147.
At the end of the day John had beaten me 2 out of 3 games and by 32 total pins but when he was bragging and said he had "whooped my butt", all I could answer was "Remember who won the money last week and beat you by 142 pins!!"
On January 17TH Wynell remembered my birthday and provided a doughnut hole and candle but had to borrow my matches as hers wouldn't light.
The group all sang Happy Birthday to me and my day started out just dandy when every one let me win the first game with a 144 with Bob Erwin a close second at 132 and Rachel Ireland and Don Orton tied at 130.
In the second game I bettered my first score by 4 pins but Smart Alec John had to roll a 162 only to be edged out by Don Snodgrass who rolled a great 176.
Ken Wygal had started out with a wonderful 2 strikes in a row but as he
said "his game fizzled".
In the third game both John Walker and Bob Erwin were smoking.
Bob
rolled 4 strikes in a row and picked up the 1-3-6-7 split to win honors of the high game of the day with his highest ever scratch game of 215.
John Walker was right behind him when he turkeyed out for a 207.
John managed to edge Bob out of high series of the day by 4 pins 493 to 497.
So even on my birthday John got to crow that he beat me 2 out of 3 and by 59 pins. We all went to Carrow's for lunch where I can highly recommend the mile high chocolate cake to celebrate your birthday or drown your sorrows.
January 24th I missed bowling to nurse a nasty chest cold and
Pat Pardee sent me the scores.
John Walker took the first game with a 173 and Don Orton took the second and third with a 171 and a 174.
While Allen picked up a spectacular 5-7 split his score wasn't quite high enough to stop John Walker from taking high series of 475.
Don Snodgrass had a very nice third game of 153, as did wife Wynell at 144.
On January 31st we were again missing Ken Wygal and found out he had an infection on his leg from a fall in the back yard.
Sounds like he might be out of bowling for a while as he heals and we send him good thoughts and cheer.
For any of you who want to stay in touch; Wally Everette has moved.
Her new address is
Halloween Contest
By Bob Phelan
Some how January didn't make the last newsletter. But here are Jan and Feb clues:
From your Official Halloween Headquarters - Guess the theme contest and clues:
Clue
1:
Did you pass stones? - January
Clue
2:
Rack em' up - February
If you're ready for a guess, contact Dorothy Evans,
Lets pick up the guessing pace this year! Spooky.... guessing.......
There will be a pumpkin-carving contest this year.
There have been o correct guesses as of the January Newsletter
Coffee
By Sue Sandow
Here is the coffee sign-up list from February 9th thru March 30th, 2006:
Feb.
9
Snodgrass
Feb. 16
Evans
Feb. 23
Phelan
Mar.
2
Beutel
Mar. 16
Lorentzen
Mar. 23
open
Mar. 30
Birsa
Thank you to everyone for your help.
Sodas
By Jack Strickler
Here is the soda sign-up list from February 9th thru March 30th, 2006:
Feb.
9
Turgeon, Ted
Feb. 16
O'Toole, Kathy
Feb. 23
Phelan, Bob
Mar.
2
Erwin, Bob
Mar.
9
Birsa, Frank
Mar. 16
open
Mar. 23
open
Mar. 30
open
Duties include picking up the sodas and soda ice chest along with the empty can pail and the garbage pail on the date you signed up for and then returning them (with ice and remaining sodas in the chest) the following week.
Thanks to everyone for signing up!
CONTRIBUTORS TO THE RECORD
Thank you to the following people who contributed their time and effort to the creation of this newsletter.
Editing:
Sue Sandow
Articles:
Dorothy Evans
Diana Lorentzen
Bob Phelan
Sue Sandow
Don Snodgrass
Jack Strickler
Avis Walker
CLUTCH BUSTER HOEDOWN
REFRESHMENT SCHEDULE
DATE:
11 FEBRUARY 2006
TIME:
8:00 - 11:00
PLACE:
IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO DO YOUR ASSIGNMENT, PLEASE ARRANGE YOUR OWN SUBSTITUTE OR FOOD EXCHANGES THOSE WITH * WORK & BRING FOOD
WORK SCHEDULE:
7:45-8:00 PM - SET UP COFFEE:
Sue Sandow 8:30 -9:00 PM - SET UP FOOD/SUPPLIES:
Diana Lorentzen
9:15-9:45 PM - REPLENISH FOOD/SUPPLIES: Carol Giolitti
9:45-10:15 PM - REPLENISH FOOD/SUPPLIES:
Kathy O'Toole
10:15-10:45 PM - REPLENISH & ASSIST IN CLEAN UP: Diana Lorentzen and Pat Bennett 10:30-11:00 PM CLEAN & PACK UP:
Diana Lorentzen
SANDWICHES (1 loaf cut into quarters):
1. SANDOW*
2.
VEGGIE PLATE + DIP:
1.
ERWIN
2.
BEUTEL
LARGE FRUIT PLATTER:
1.
GIOLITTI*
2.
LOLLICH
3.
ZEHRUNG
FINGERFOOD (NO CHIPS):
1.
BENNETT*
2.
BIRSA
3.
EVANS
4.
GREGOVICH
5.
LEONARD
6.
O'TOOLE*
7.
PEDERSEN
8.
PHELAN
9.
SNODGRASS
10.
STRICKLER
11.
THORNE
DESSERT:
1.
GERHARDS
2.
LORENTZEN*
3.
MOON
4.
TURGEON
5.
WILLIAMSON*
PLEASE ALLOW OUR GUESTS TO GO FIRST BETWEEN 9:00 -9:30 PM