The annual Holiday Luncheon included 31 members, two honorary members, Pat O’Day and Alan Ramsay, and five spouses, Joanne Baker, Carolyn Kambich, “M” Lavin (Mardirossian), Beth Padgitt and Betty Skalski. We also had two guests who are two relatively new executive directors - Lenna Scott of the Counseling Center of the North Shore, and Bob Thomas of the Community House.
We celebrated the 20th Club anniversary of David Grant. Barb Tubekis reminded members that we have 10 volunteers to participate in the Volunteer Center’s holiday wrapping party on Friday, December 8th at the Harley-Davidson showroom across from Costco. David Birkenstein told the audience that they might want to consider doubling up on this year’s year-end charitable contributions as with the tax reform bill being considered in Congress contributions may not be deductible next year.
This week’s Happy Buck$ contributors were especially generous. Those participating were: President Tom Nash, Ned Meisner, Rich Lalley, Robert Mardirossian, Tony Kambich and Pat O’Day,
Wes Baumann introduced the Rotary Holiday Luncheon’s annual performers, the New Trier High School Swing Choir under the direction of Nathan Landes. The group performed vocal jazz renditions of many of the season’s favorite songs. The boys were wearing black tuxedos and the girls were wearing long black dresses that added a lot of class to the luncheon. At the end Wes pointed out that most of these students take at least two, and sometimes three music classes on top of a heavy load of academic classes-English, Math, Social Studies, Science and Foreign Language.
The members of this year’s elite ensemble included:
Rachael Chiao Megan Rittmanic
Lauren Ellis John Ryan
Ayanna Guillen, Maliha Sayed
Lucas Kane Sarah Shapiro
Clarissa Nayman Julia Smulson
James Nayman James Snyder
Liam Oh (ill) Ella Torres
Max Rezek-Te Winkle Helen Ware