NCYC General Membership Meeting Minutes
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Motion Carried.
Commodore’s Comments:
Commodore, John Anderson
Good afternoon everyone and thank you for attending this first General Membership meeting
of the year. It's been a long way since the Commodore's Ball. I can hardly believe that the year
is just about half over. I hope that you found it satisfactory, the few changes that we've put in
place. The Board and Flag have worked hard on your behalf to make this Club of ours a better
place.
A lot of thank you's are to follow and I hope that you can bear with me, for every one of them is
well-deserving. I would be remiss without first mentioning my rock, my counselor, the one who
often bears the brunt of my frustration... my wonderful wife Beverly. Thank You. My Flag and
Board of Directors are the best I've seen. There is never a meeting that they don't put their
whole selves in the job they do. Each and every one of them. Thank you. What would we do
without the participation of the Elite Brigade and members attending the work parties?
Besides the work that is necessary to complete, it binds us together as one membership and
develops bonds that last a lifetime. Thank you.
If you haven't experienced working as opening manager, don't be fooled on how things just
seem to get done seemingly overnight. A great big thanks goes out to PC Bob and Patti Watson
for managing opening week this year. If piloting the Fin almost non-stop and accepting
deliveries isn't enough, they were up to their elbows making sure all of the last minutes jobs
were completed. My thanks to them, PC Tom and Judy McHugh, IT director Keith McGregor,
and Linda Pagel and team, and all the rest that came up this weekend to help out.
An angel, to say the least came to my rescue for the first scheduled work party. I had a huge
family commitment that day. I also needed to feed close to a hundred hungry members
attending the work party. Debbie Siwek and her girls, Anne and Julie, volunteered their skills at
calming the hungry masses. They not only prepared, but served lunch that day with
compliments still being heard about it all. Thank You. Of course my gratitude goes out to the
First Mates and Ancient Mainers for the help and donations they invest in this Club of ours.
If I haven't mentioned you for helping out, it's not because you were forgotten. I have a
reputation to live up to as a Short-Winded talker. If I didn't get a chuckle out of you with that
comment, then you weren't around for the "The Speech that Never Ended" I gave a few years
back.
I hope that you all enjoy this season It was planned for you in mind. Make sure that you
participate in these events. It's a sure way to meet and make friends.
Most of all. enjoy the celebration and remembrance this weekend. A lot of good men and
women sacrificed their all for us to enjoy what we have now.
