PRESIDENT'S
CORNER
DECEMBER
2002
This year is over, flying with skies
is the way to go to keep those fingers limber for the coming spring.
Simulators are neat, but nothing replaces the real thing.
2002 has been an
active and very exciting year and we finished it with a GREAT banquet held at
the Elks Lodge in Westbrook. Fifty-Four
people came and enjoyed a delicious meal served family style and frankly, those
of you who decided not to attend missed a terrific evening of war stories,
kidding around, dancing, drinking, eating too much, and most of all the
opportunity to build on friendships within our membership.
You all know I have been asked to serve as Club President for another year.
I will do this with honor and integrity.
We have the pleasure of having
Diane
Carpio
as our 2003 Secretary
and we can count on her to continue to do
more
for our club then we could possibly ask of her.
Ron
Czikowsky
will serve as our
Treasurer for the 3rd or 4th time and again we can trust
Ron
to squeeze every penny
just like it was his own.
Luis
Carpio
will serve as our Vice
President for 2003 and I hope this is a warm up to take over the Presidency in
2004.
Bernie
Liskov
is our Newsletter
editor and happiest person is
Diane
. I
personally want to thank
Bernie
for taking this
responsibility and I hope we can get more of you to take your newsletter on
line.
Rich
Ippolito
will be helping us out
by setting up a newsletter website that will be easily accessible and linked to
the
RC
Propbuster
site.
You will receive an e-mail with financial information and a link to click
that will bring you to the newsletter. You
will be able to read it on line, print it out, download it or ignore it.
This should solve the problem many of you have had downloading loading
the newsletter and then opening it.
Jack
Holmgren
is our 2003 Field
Marshall and will be in charge of the April Field Maintenance weekend.
We have tentatively scheduled it for April 19th but it will be
Jack
’s final decision.
Bob
Boudreau
returns as our Safety
Officer and without a doubt he will continue to do an excellent job.
Bob
has recovered from
tendonitis with the help of surgery, so you will be seeing lots of him at the
field in 2003.
Lester
Smith
and
Dennis
Duplice
were elected to our
Board of Directors and
Brian
Jolicoeur
&
Phil
Norman
round out the Board.
I am repeating myself from last months President’s corner, but if you want a
better Club, GET INVOLVED, don’t sit back and let others do the work, pitch in
and volunteer to help. Become an
officer, make suggestions to improve our position and visibility in the
community, and look for community projects that can bring our great hobby to all
ages. Today our Children spend too
much time in front of the TV, playing games on the computer & Internet, or
experimenting with drugs. We can
help change that by getting involved with the schools, neighborhoods and the
towns and cities where we live.
A special thanks to
Charlie
Lewis
for graciously hosting
our newsletter on his website. We
will discuss and study the need for a better Club website that can handle more
pictures as well as the newsletter but we are not going to rush into this.
We want to see how the new newsletter format works out, how much space we
really need for our
RC
Propbusters
site, and the overall
interest of our members.
I also included a calendar of events of 2003, some dates may change but
basically this is the best information and suggestions I have at this time.
Until Next time,
Good Flying,
Fred