Welcome back to a new year for Lockport College Women's Club.  Our October meeting will be held on October 2, 2014 at the Lockport Town and Country Club.  This will be a dessert meeting.  Coffee, tea and a selection of desserts will be offered for a cost of $ 12.00.  The meeting will begin at 7:00 pm.

We are delighted to welcome Anne Ulrich McCaffrey, Mayor of Lockport as our speaker for this meeting.  She is a graduate of the University of Rochester, Nazareth College of Rochester and Universite do Haute Bretagne, Rennes, France. She has been involved in Lockport as a board member for The Historic Palace Theater, Youth Mentoring Services of Niagara County, and Lockport Ice Arena. She is also a member of Rotary Club. She will certainly have much to share with us.

There will be a new Directory this year.  If you have any changes to your information and/or have not been contacted by the telephone committee, please call Dee Morotchie at 434-9892.

Anyone who would like to receive the Megaphone by e-mail, please call Ann Van Dusen at 433-7265 or e-mail at lockportcwc@gmail.com.

Dues of $ 40.00 will be accepted at the meeting.  Checks may also be mailed to Treasurer                      Anna Beth Kinyon, 117 Windermere Rd., Lockport NY 14094.

The October Board of Directors meeting will be held on October 9, 2014 at Monica Pullano's, 43 Grasmere Rd.

Baskets!! Please start saving baskets and items to put in basket for our annual fund raiser. You can drop them off at either Rosemary Dever’s home at 6864 East High St. or Pat Kennedy’s home at 126 Windermere.

Please make your reservation with the Telephone Committee by 8:00 pm Sunday September 28, 2014.
     Gail Marshall  434-4306, Marybeth Wilson 434-1464, Co-Chairperson
     Madeline Angelo                            433-4721    A-B
     Rosemary Dever                            434-9972    C-D
     Nancy Neivert                               434-6558     E-Go
     Valerie Hamluk                              695-5662    Gr-Ja
     Tracy Tubinis                                 471-3069     Jo-La
     Gail Marshall                                 434-4306     Le-P
     Nancy Coons                                433-4019     O-S
     Marybeth Wilson                           434-1464     T-Z
Reservations may also be e-mailed to smmgrigg@aol.com or by 8:00 p.m.
Remember all our meetings are guest meetings.  Why not bring a friend to start the new  year?  See you there!

THE MEGAPHONE – JUNE 2014

          Our June meeting (7 pm Thursday, June 5) will be an enlightening experience as we visit Niagara Hospice, 4675 Sunset Drive, for tours and refreshments. We will meet in the conference room of the Administration Building. Hostesses will be Anna Beth Kinyon and Mary Finn.

 The speaker will be Tricia Degan , director of Marketing and Public Relations.  The cost will be $ 5, with visitors welcome. Be sure to reserve with your telephone gal by 8 pm Sunday, June 1.

Also in June:

•  The slate of officers for 2015 will be presented.  President Patty Russell reminds us that some vacancies remain, and there is still time to volunteer before the meeting.

• The proposed budget for 2015 will be presented.

• Discussing ideas to increase our membership. One might be accepting women with associate degrees – or stepping up pressure on our daughters and granddaughters to join.

      Our May meeting, besides a yummy dinner, included the opportunity to meet Brianna Darnell, our newest scholarship winner, presented by Scholarship Chairman Michelle Brockman. One of five children, Brianna is 8th in her Lockport High School class; with an average of 100.2%.  She will attend Grove City in Pennsylvania, a small liberal arts college. She hopes to help the needy in other countries.

Accolades to the hard-working Scholarship Committee: Mary Beth Gammack, Molly Niland, Danielle Priest, and Gail Niparts 

Our long-standing members were honored:  Beverly Utter-Whitmore for 50 years, and Terry Carbone for 25 years. Judy Cummings, also a 25-year member, will be honored at another meeting.

A new Directory Booklet will be published, so if you have any changes, please contact Dee Morotchie.

The next Board meeting will be at 7 pm June 12 at Monica Pullano’s, 43 Grasmere Rd.

MAY 2014

            May Day will mean spring flowers and much more for College Club members as we celebrate the culmination of our scholarship efforts at the Annual May Banquet and meet our scholarship winner for 2014!

          The May 1 celebration at the Lockport Town & Country Club will open at 6:30 pm with a cash bar and snacks, then proceed to the 7 pm dinner.  You have a choice of entrees:           
      -pasta primavera

     -8 oz. Prime rib, au jus

     -chicken picatta                                                                                           

Included: salad, rolls, cheddar mashed potatoes, vegetable, dessert, and beverage.             

          The cost is $27.  RESERVATIONS and your dinner choice must be 'phoned to the Telephone Committee by 8pm SUNDAY, APRIL 27.                                                       

          The scholarship winner will be introduced by Michelle Brockman, scholarship committee chairman.

Also to be honored are Beverly Whitmore-Utter, a 50-year member, and 25-year members Judy Cummings and Terry Carbone, who will be introduced by Anna Beth Kinyon, membership chairman.                                                                                       

–                   President Patty Russell thanked everyone, including the attendees and basket-contributors, for making our Fund-Raiser “a wonderful success”.  She singled out Chairman Jeanine Benoit; Ticket Chairman Judy Cummings, and Basket Co-Chairs Rosemary Dever and Pat Kennedy for extra accolades.

–                   The next Board meeting is planned at 7pm May 8 at Patty Russell's home, 102 Continental Dr., with a special invitation for Membership and Megaphone chairmen. Anyone interested in a position on the Board of Directors is asked to contact Patty Russell as soon as possible.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

                        QUOTABLE QUOTES    

                                                                                        

What charms are there in the harmony of minds,

and in a friendship founded on  mutual esteem and gratitude.

                                        -David Hume 

                                                          

 Friendship is the wine of life.

                                         -Edward Young

To be able to find joy in another’s joy:                                                                             

That is the secret of happiness.

                                        - Georges Bernanos

MARCH 2014

         

          To help overcome the winter blahs, come to the next meeting when we'll meet Chet Fery, an inspirational speaker and retired teacher with an upbeat message.  He uses 35 loaves of bread to accent the positive!

     The dessert buffet will be at 7 pm Thursday, March 6, at the Lockport Town & Country Club. Hostesses will be Dolores Tracy and Mary Beth Caswell.  Please remember to make your reservation by 8pm Sunday, March 2. Guests are welcome!

From the Board of Directors:

–                   Updating our Sunday, April 6 Fund-Raiser - about six weeks away, but there's still time to make a basket and to give or secure donations of goodies for INSIDE them. You'll receive letters/tickets/ more info, according to Judy Cummings. For “anything baskets”, contact Pat Kennedy or Rosemary Dever.  The chairman is Jeannine Benoit, who encourages you to bring a friend (or maybe 3?) to the big event.

–                   So far, only two members have responded to the call for more involvement in College Club offices or committees, so the Telephone Committee will be calling you to encourage you to use your talents in big or small ways to help us.  President Patty Russell also is collecting ideas for future programs, so please put on your thinking caps.

–                   At the February meeting, the Scholarship Committee recommended that we give one scholarship this year, at $1,000 for each of four years.

–                   Mary Brennan-Taylor presented a most interesting program last time and graciously has donated her honorarium to the YWCA.

–                   Condolences have been sent to families of members who have passed away – Dorothy Weir, a graduate of SUC Buffalo and a past president who joined in 1955, and Shirley Coulter, a graduate of Cornell University and a member since 1953.

–                   The March meeting of the Board will be Thursday. March 13, at the home of Dee Morotchie, 95 Vermont. If you're interested in a committee or office, you might like to sit in to learn details. Just let Dee know if you're coming!

FEBRUARY 2014

Our February 6th meeting will provide your chance to chat with Lockport's own

“Woman of Influence”, as named by Buffalo Business First! Mary Brennan Taylor, vice-president of programs for YWCA of Niagara, and an advocate for patient safety and care on a national level, will speak at the meeting. Treat yourself as a Valentine, and make reservations by 8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 2 for the 7 p.m. meeting Feb. 6 at the Lockport Town & Country Club. Bring a guest. Cost will be $12 for an array of desserts. The hostesses will be Peg D'Amato and Rosemary Dever.

At the meeting, scholarships and their funding will be in the limelight as Michelle

Brockman, Scholarship Committee chairman, presents recommendations for this year's award. Danielle Priest, Mary Beth Gammack, Gail Niparts, and Molly Niland, committee members are busy supervising College Club's main reason for existence.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Ø  HELP ! - Baskets for our April 6 major fund-raiser are needed. Can you please put one together? Or, can you take items and/or baskets to our creative team of Pat Kennedy and Rosemary Dever?

Ø  President Patricia Russell received a thank-you letter from the History Center of the Niagara County Historical Society for our gift in memory of the women who founded College Club in 1922. Included were, albums, programs, and records documenting the history of our club.

Ø  We have learned that Glenda Reardon, a member since 2000, has passed away. A dietician by profession, she worked on our second cookbook.

Ø  The next Board Meeting will be at 7 p.m. Feb. 13 in the home of Mary Beth Caswell, 5886 Marion Dr.

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TOFFEE BARS – VALENTINE TREAT

Heat oven to 350. Line a jellyroll pan with foil and place 40 square soda crackers in it.

In a saucepan, bring to boil: 1 cup butter (NOT margarine) and 1 cup brown sugar.

Pour it evenly over the crackers and place in oven 3-5 minutes. (Crackers should get

“floaty”)

Remove from oven and sprinkle 6 oz. chocolate chips evenly over crackers. Wait

5 minutes and spread chocolate evenly. Cut while still warm. If too gooey, refrigerate to allow to cool before storing. Yummy – like candy!

 DECEMBER  2013

In case you’re disenchanted by the lengthy, commercial holiday

razz-a-ma-taz, be sure to attend our Christmas Party at 7 pm

Thursday, December 5, at the Lockport Town & Country Club.

We’ll have décor and dainty desserts in the Christmas mode, PLUS live jazz, swing, and Christmas songs with jazz duo Gil Pease and Gary Dieboldt.   The hostesses will be Karen Robison and Suzanne Kugler.

Guests are welcome. Cost is only $12 to get us all in the holiday spirit!  Reserve with your telephone lady by 8 PM Sunday, December 1.

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                                               REMINDERS

-         $40 annual dues will increase to $50 after December. Send your check to Ann Van Dusen, 40 Lakeview Pkwy, Lockport 14094

-         There is no College Club meeting in January.  The next will be Feb. 6,

      NEXT YEAR!

-         Also coming up in 2014 is our major fund-raiser –on Sunday, April 6. We ask you please to turn in used baskets and new items to help fill them so that  our creative co-chairladies Pat Kennedy and Rosemary Dever can get to work!

-         Kathy Newman, as Sunshine Chairlady, is happy to spread a little cheer to members who you know could use it.

-         If you can receive the Megaphone via e-mail, please do it! 47 of us use e-mail and 53 use snail mail. E-mail saves us $27 every month, plus costs of printing and labels, according to Charlotte Lasher.

-         The next Board meeting will be 7 PM Jan. 19 at Anne O’Byrne’s, 12 Roosevelt Drive.

                                           MORE CHANGES

Change Scholarship Committee member to Mary Beth Gammack, not Mary Beth Caswell - Tracy Tubinis lives at 6520 Amy Lane; Lois Donovan lives in Medina, not Lyndonville; Marian Hannigan lives at 40 Spruce St., Sonia Werner’s ‘phone number is (716) 201-1406

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P.S. Shelley Richards gave an inspiring presentation about the late artist Ollie McConnell at the November meeting and contributed her honorarium to our program committee!

                                           HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!