The Retired Men’s Club of Haddonfield
Web address: http://haddon65club.blogspot.com/
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110 Rhoads Ave
| Haddonfield, NJ 08033 April 1, 2016 |
President’s Message
The arrival
of Spring (and Easter) often inspires us to think about renewal and
betterment. But if you are looking for
inspiration, it doesn’t seem to be coming from the primaries for either
political party. I’m not sure if this
makes our NJ primary seem any more relevant, as I had predicted earlier, but it
gives us pause to look for inspiration elsewhere. I myself am finding a great deal of
inspiration from watching the NCAA basketball tournament games, admiring the
work ethic of the players, and marveling at the intensity of the
competition. I am particularly proud of
the Villanova team which has made the Final Four for the first time since 2009.
If you have
been living in a cave, travelling out of the country, are not a March Madness
fan, or have been otherwise separated from society, there are other places to
look for inspiration. You need look no further than our own town, or even our
65 Club. We have heard some of the inspired visions of our town from past
mayors and current elected Haddonfield officials, who praised the town for its
quality of life, the charm and convenience of downtown, the great schools, and
the engaged citizenry. But our 65 Club
is like a microcosm of what is great about Haddonfield. At every meeting, every event, and every trip
we take, I see an engaged group of active and caring individuals who care for
and support each other and who always pitch in to help in large and small ways;
I see people who are always looking out for our ailing members and their
families; and I see a continuing tradition of participation in our weekly
meetings, golf outings, bowling, pinochle, and bridge. And speaking of participation, Bill Brown
reports that we now have 40 people paid up for the April 6 casino trip, and
possibly more interested.
So we have
plenty of inspiration around us, and plenty of activities and opportunities
coming this spring and summer. I am
personally looking forward to returning to Haddonfield from all of this warm
weather in Naples, Florida to see the new flowers, tennis and golf, and warm
weather also returning to Haddonfield. I hope you all share my enthusiasm for
our Club, our town, and the new season.
–
– Neil Wise
2016 DUES
If you haven’t paid your dues and you have already received
a telephone call and a letter, you will be dropped from the 2016 members
directory.
Casino
Trip – Wednesday, April 6th
There is still room for latecomers to join
us for the Casino trip on Wednesday, April 6, 2016. Here's the story on the
trip. We will depart from Wedgewood Swim Club, at 10:00 AM. We will head to
Resorts Casino, where we will receive $10 in slot play, a $20 food voucher and,
tickets to the 3:30 PM show, which will be Eric Kearns and his show VOICES
OF LEDGENDS. We plan to arrive back in Haddonfield at 7 PM.
Total cost for the entire package is $44.00
and as usual BINGO will be played on the bus.
Although there is a sign-up sheet at the
club, latecomers can contact Jack Aharon at jackahaon@verizon.net, or Bill Brown, at 856-429-4368. For you last minute
deciders, bill will accept money at the bus but please contact him and let him
know you are coming.
Feed My Starving Children Event – April 9th
The 65 Club
is again preparing to participate in this excellent event hosted by the
Haddonfield Council of Churches. Founded in 1987, Feed My Starving Children is a
non-profit Christian organization committed to feeding God’s children hungry in
body and spirit. The approach is simple: children and adults hand-pack meals
specifically formulated for malnourished children, and they ship these meals to
nearly 70 countries around the world. The 65 club has 11 people signed up to
work on April 9th from 10:30 to 12:30.
Please be at the Presbyterian Church before
10:15 for sign-in and instruction prior to our time slot.
There is
still room for more people in this time period (as of 3/26/16). If you are
interested in participating, please contact Bernie Schaming at bschaming@comcast.net or 856 428-0932
with the names and email addresses of those who will attend.
Ladies Spring Luncheon – May 12th
All hands on
deck! Things are looking good for a great luncheon. We have a special treat
this year. Our speaker will be Roger Clark, a Haddonfield resident who has
recently been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. .
In addition, Julia Chin and a small group from the high school will provide
music for the event during cocktails from 12:00 to 12:30. Come early and enjoy
the entertainment.
The Cash Bar will open at 12:00 Noon and lunch will
be served at 12:30. The three entre selections are: Breast
of Chicken Francaise with Sauce Beurre Blanc, Filet of salmon with Dill Sauce
or Pasta Primavera. Of course, there will also be the usual
accompaniments; rolls, butter, coffee and tea as well as ice cream for dessert.
The cost of
the luncheon is $30 per person. Our members will be called shortly for their
reservations.
Don’t Hang Up
Have you
gotten rid of your old landline telephones yet? All three of my sons have. They
and their wives have cell phones, of course. So do my two oldest grand
children, ages 10 and 11. Most of the time these two younger generations don’t
even use their cell phones to actually call us – they text us. When one of the
younger grandkids hits a milestone like a first tooth or a first step, we get
images of them doing it - live - on our
phone or on my wife’s Apple I-Pad. The
older granddaughters used to turn to me for answers when I was helping with
their homework. (“What is the capital of Idaho?”). Now they ask “Siri” on their cell phones –
even when I’m standing right there!
I guess we
all should have seen this coming when phone booths began to disappear thirty
years ago. Remember the first Superman movie when Clark Kent went
looking for a phone booth to change in and couldn’t find one? You can’t stop progress. And I don’t really
want to stop it. But every now and then I enjoy remembering some of the lost
aspects of life when we were young.
Most of us
are old enough to remember a time when to make a phone call you had to give the
number you wanted to call to an operator. We can remember picking up that heavy
black earpiece/mouthpiece and hearing those immortal words: “Number Please.” All the
operators were women. And they all seemed to have been taught a special
pronunciation which led to some cute jokes (“I
tried to call the Zoo, but the operator told me: I’m sorry, the Lion is busy”). Remember
that “phone numbers” in those days were not all numbers. They had words as
prefixes. My phone number was Collingswood 5- 2970-R . Elizabeth Taylor’s most
famous number was Butterfield 8. For
impish Catholic altar boys in the days of the Latin mass the Vatican’s phone
number was: Et Cum Spiri Two Two Oh.
I had a
summer job with New Jersey Bell Telephone for three years while I was in
college in the early 1960s. Based out of the garage on Cuthbert Road and Route
70, I would drive around to all the local offices and pick up both the
inter-office mail and what looked like suitcases full of punched computer tapes
and drive them to Trenton and Elizabeth. Yes! In those days mighty Ma Bell
communicated with itself mainly by “snail mail”!
When we bought
the house we currently live in back in the mid-1980s the Bell system was
already being broken up into separate regional companies. I could see things
were changing at the local level too. The installer who came to hook up our new
phones worked out of the Cuthbert Road garage. And she was a woman! There were
no women in that garage in “my day.” We had her install phones in the basement,
the kitchen, the family room, and our bedroom. We felt we had really gotten the
latest in modern technology: instead of the old-fashioned black dial phones,
our new ones came in colors and had push buttons!
– –Jim Dunn
Next Casino Trip in Planning Stage
Our next casino trip is scheduled for July 4. Cost $12.
Details follow:
After marching in the parade all paid members will be
picked up by limos, driven to Resorts, where you will be greeted by the
hospitality director, and ushered into a VIP lounge, where coffee as well as
French pastries will be personally served by the pastry chef.
You will receive $25, in coins, but before gambling, you
will be escorted to rolling chairs on the board walk, and wheeled to the dock
of an around the island cruise ship, for a one-hour tour.
After returning to the casino, lunch will be served in the
high rollers private dining room. featuring your choice of lobster or filet
mignon. As soon as lunch is completed, you will be escorted to a back stage
visit with the New York City Rockettes, before their performance.
After the show the limos will return you home, but en-route
they will stop at Tomasello’s Winery for a wine tasting.
Please get your money in by July 1, if we don't have 30
signed up the trip will be canceled.
If you have read this far, and are suspicious, you are
correct – April Fool.
– – Bill Brown
Member Alert
Some members
may prefer to have their cell phone number listed in the club directory. If you
would rather have your cell phone number listed in the 65 Club 2016 Directory,
please contact Bernie Schaming at bschaming@comcast.net
or 856 428-0932 to provide the appropriate number. Otherwise the number you
provided on your membership application will continue to be used.
April Birthdays
2 Richard
F. Gimigliano
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11 Joe
Howard
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15 John Kishbaugh
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19 Charles A. Sayre
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4 John
Cokos
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14 Thomas
Rayser
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16 David B. Potts
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24 Luigi A. Principato
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9 Richard
Murray
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Clubhouse Programs
Thursday
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Mar 31
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MILITARY BENEFITS……..................…Steve
Halenda
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1:30 PM
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Thursday
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Apr 7
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Directors meeting
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10:00 AM
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Thursday
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Apr 7
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COUNTY EVENTS……..................…..Tom
Castellano
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1:30 AM
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Thursday
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Apr 14
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Business meeting
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1:30 PM
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Thursday
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Apr 21
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VOICE OVER…. . . ........... . . . .............Eve Elliott
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1:30 PM
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Thursday
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Apr 28
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PROBATION……………....................…Larry Grigorio
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1:30 PM
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Thursday
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May 5
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Directors meeting
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10:00 AM
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Thursday
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May 5
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STOCK
MARKET/ECONOMY........…William Dorman
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1:30 PM
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Thursday
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May 12
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LADIES SPRING LUNCHEON at
TAVISTOCK
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12:00 PM
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Thursday
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May 19
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SENIOR HEALTH……………….........Nora
Bollinger
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1:30 PM
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Thursday
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May 26
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MARKETING TECHNIQUES……......Joe
Haro
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1:30 PM
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Thursday
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Jun 2
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Directors meeting
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10:00 AM
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Thursday
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Jun 2
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ARCHAEOLOGY AT JERSEY SHORE..Drew
Stanzeki
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1:30 PM
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NOTE: We have an insatiable appetite for presenters. We
rely on the vast experience of our members to satisfy this need by suggesting
speakers. So, be on the alert and notify Neil Wise (428-9280) if you have any
suggestions for speakers.
Activities
Bowling
We’re now getting an average of nine bowlers. Come on out
so we can have five bowlers on each team.
The lefties are winning by a close margin. Of course we do have a righty or two on the
Lefty’s Team. For only $6.55, you get
coffee, tea, Danish, donuts, bowling ball (if you don’t have one), bowling
shoes and great friendship. We’ll be looking for you Friday Mornings at Laurel
Lanes on Rt. 73, Maple Shade at 9:15 AM. It’s only 15 minutes from Haddonfield.
Ed Howe had a 536 Series (178 Average). Nice bowling Ed.
Averages Through
March 25, 2016
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Ave
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Player
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Ave
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Player
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Ave
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Player
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158
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Walt Baker
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136
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Ed Howe
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111
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Charles Legge
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146
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Bill Brown
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132
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Tom Mervine
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111
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John Fiorella
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145
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Hank Zaleski
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130
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Alan Bigelow
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85
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Henry Leimkuhler
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138
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Dick Gimigliano
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– – Dick Gimigliano and Walt Baker
Bridge
Each month the average weekly
score for the 15 players with the highest average score will be reported. Each
week the players in the top team receive 4 points, 2nd place get 3
points, 3rd place get 2 points and fourth place 1 point. The ‘Wks’
column in the table below is the number of weeks you have played and the ‘Ave’
column is the average weekly score for the number of weeks that you played.
Average Bridge Scores Through March 28,
2016
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Player
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Wks
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Ave
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Player
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Wks
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Ave
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Player
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Wks
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Ave
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Rementer
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27
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2.519
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Bigelow
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15
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1.733
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Marchesani
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15
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1.400
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Hoeberg
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29
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1.828
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Coelho
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24
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1.729
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Bauer
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28
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1.321
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Mervine
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27
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1.815
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Schaming
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29
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1.552
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Pusatere
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15
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1.267
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Cosentino
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25
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1.760
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Leimkuhler
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22
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1.545
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Chhabria
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18
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1.250
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Walden
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14
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1.750
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Petrozzi
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17
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1.529
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Zeluck
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11
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1.227
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We play at the
Clubhouse every Monday. If you are interested in Duplicate Bridge please join
us. We start at 1:00pm sharp so please arrive by 12:45.
– – Bernie Schaming
Pinochle
Each month the average weekly
scores are reported. Each week the player with the highest score receives 8
pts, 2nd highest receives 7 points…down to 1 point for the 8th
highest score for the week. The ‘Wks’ column in the table below is the number
of weeks you have played and the ‘Ave’ column is the average weekly score for
the number of weeks that you played.
Average Pinochle Scores Through March 23, 2016 |
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Player
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Wks
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Ave
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Player
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Wks
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Ave
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Player
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Wks
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Ave
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Len Walden
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22
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5.66
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Henry Limmekuhler
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13
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3.77
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Don Gosnay
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18
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3.17
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Howard Remeneter
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21
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4.38
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Hank Bauer
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19
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3.61
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Bud Pusatere
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28
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3.04
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Roland
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21
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4.10
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Tom Mervine
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28
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3.30
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Ron Borem
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1
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3.00
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Jack Walden
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16
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3.97
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Ron Howley
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21
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3.29
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Bill Hoeberg
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28
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2.96
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Pinochle
is played every Wednesday at 12:30 PM at the Clubhouse. Play begins at 12:30 PM; please arrive by 12:15 PM. You
are invited to join us.
Golf
Below is a repeat of the golf schedule for
2016. Get those clubs polished up,
April 6th is almost here.
Apr. 6
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Golden
Pheasant 9AM
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June 29
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Golden
Pheasant 8AM
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Sept. 21
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Centerton 9AM
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13
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Pennsauken 9AM
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July 6
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White Oaks 9AM
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28
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Westwood 8AM
65 Club Master’s
Best Ball3
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20
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Kings
Grant(Links) 9AM
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13
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Pinelands 8AM
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Oct. 5
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White Oaks 9AM
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27
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Ramblewood 9AM
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20
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Golden
Pheasant 8AM
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12
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Rancocas 8AM
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May 4
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Westwood 8AM
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27
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Rancocas 8AM
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19
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Kings
Grant(Links) 8AM
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11
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Pinelands 8AM
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Aug. 3
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Kings Grant(Links)
8AM
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26
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Golden
Pheasant 8AM
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18
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White Oaks 9AM
Fun Best Ball1
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10
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White Oaks 9AM
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Nov. 2
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Pennsauken 9AM
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25
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Centerton 9AM
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17
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Ramblewood 8AM
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9
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Ramblewood 9AM
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June 1
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Pinelands 8AM
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24
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Westwood 8AM
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16
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Westwood 9AM
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8
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Pennsauken 8AM
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31
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Pennsauken 8AM
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23
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Pinelands 9AM
|
15
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Ramblewood 8AM
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Sept. 7
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Golden
Pheasant 8AM
|
30
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Rancocas 9AM
|
22
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Westwood 8AM
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14
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Ramblewood 8AM
65 Club Master’s Tournament2
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NOTES:
- Fun Best Ball – Foursome together without handicap consideration, no awards or trophies
- 65 Club Master’s Tournament – Low Net and Low Gross Scores will be awarded trophies at the 2017 Spring Luncheon
- 65 Club Master’s Best Ball – Teams set up by Handicaps, winners names placed on Clubhouse Plaque.
Composing Editor: Bernie Schaming
Contributors:
Walt Baker, Bill Brown, Jim Dunn, Henry
Leimkuhler, Tom Mervine, Al Schmidt & Neil Wise
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