President
Winstead will introduce Charlie
Eckerly, who will introduce his annual bowl picks.
Charlie is our in-house expert on picking bowl winners.
Over the years he has an outstanding record of picking the
winners, but he says don't bet the homestead on his
choices. Charlie has an extensive background in football,
as a player, coach, and observer of the sport, so he is more
than qualified to give his opinion of who is a better team.
His choice of bowl games will be limited to the better
known, long standing bowls. Charlie says the number of
bowls has greatly increased since he was a player and coach.
We look forward every
year to Charlie's predictions. It makes watching the bowl
games more interesting. Does anyone want to make a little
side bet?
LAST
WEEKS PROGRAM
There was no program last week;
the speaker didn't show up.
RETURN
OF A MEMBER
David Morris
is back after a leave of absence.
He is the Director of the Conversational English Language
Program. Welcome back David.
ENTERTAINMENT
Al
McLellan,
the Club's
Elvis had returned. Every time he shops with the kids at
Penney's he's reminded of the Statler Brothers song, "Joy To
The World".
THOUGHT
FOR THE DAY
President Winstead said he talked to
his cousin and got an update on Boudreaux.
Boudreaux got into trouble with his wife.
An old dog kept showing up around the house, upsetting the
trash cans and digging up her flowers. The dog was no good
and his wife wanted him to get rid of him. He put the dog
in his pickup and drove it out in the country and dropped
him off. When he got home the dog was there. Again he took
the dog far out in the country and dropped him off. Again
when he returned home and was sitting on the porch, the dog
showed up. Cloteal said he need to take the dog out, drive
him around in circles, then dump him out, because then he
wouldn't be able to find his way back home. Boudreaux said,
"You are smart Cloteal; that's why I married you". So he
took the dog out and drove him
around, crossed
over, and doubled back. In a little while he calls Cloteal
on his cell phone. He asked, "Is that dog back at the
house"? "He sure is Boudreaux", she said. "Put him on the
phone, I'm lost".
This time of year there are a lot of
homeless people on the streets. Boudreaux was walking down
the street and a real dirty man walks up to him and asks him
for $2.00 for food. Boudreaux said, "Man, if I gave you
$2.00 you will go buy beer". "No", said the man, "I gave up
drinking". "If I give you $2.00 you will gamble with it",
said Boudreaux. "No", said the man, "I gave up gambling 20
years ago".
"Listen", said Boudreaux, "If I give you
the $2.00 you'll go buy bait and go fishing". "No
Boudreaux", he said, "I won't do that". Tell you what, I'll
take you home to my wife and she will cook you the biggest
meal you've ever had, and you can eat all you want".
"Really" the man asked, "even with me being dirty and
smelling bad"?
"I want my wife to see what a man looks
like that doesn't drink, gamble or fish".
DECEMBER
BIRTHDAYS
& ANNIVERSARIES
DALRAIDA
SCHOOL
Ken Carrick said that he and
the following members were going to read to the children
right after the meeting: Jean Ash,
Barnie Paulson, James Dill, Bob Bonn, George Oetting, Dick
Bennett, Frank Wells, Doug Speight, and Al McLellan.
BOSTON
BUTTS
Dick Bennett said he had
tickets for the Boston Butts if anyone wished to buy them.
VISIT
TO V.A. HOSPITAL
Barnie Paulson said the 107
year old they visited died. Today he and volunteers will go
to Target to buy gifts for the
men and women in
the V.A. Hospital. He also plans to distribute Christmas
cards from the students of Dalraida School. He will find
out how many men and women veterans are in the hospital.
REPORT
ON CHILDREN'S
SHOPPING
SPREE
Fran Abrams
thanked the members (20) who helped the 11 children shop at
J.C. Penney's. It touched the member's hearts to see the
children's faces as they shopped for new clothes. She said
every child got an electric car. Some of the men said they
would have liked one.
CHRISTMAS
PARTY
Friday, December 19th the
Club will have its annual Christmas party at the Maxwell
Officer's Club. Hope everyone has made their reservations
with Charlie. Al McLellan asked that everyone bring a small
gift for door prizes.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Michael Fritz, last Friday, went to
the Character At Heart Breakfast. A few years ago we gave
$500 to Mike Todd to start the Character At Heart. The
electric company came to the podium and said they were doing
it (give their support) for selfish reasons. They can not
find workers with that kind of
character and
manners. The City wants to put the program in all of its
schools. The program will cost $250,000. Teachers said the
program was a success.
Board meeting was held last Monday
at John Burch & Al McLellan's office. Refreshments
were served to the Board.
There will be no meetings for the
rest of the year.
PEANUT
Report
El Kidd
asked members to turn in any outstanding money to Charlie so
he can close out his books. He said he had 13 bags left.
Some members said they wanted some bags. A decision will be
made today regarding the Club buying more peanuts.
FAST
STARTERS IN THE SHELL GAME
