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Dinner and Our Annual Meeting
Election of Board Members

The Club’s May dinner was held at Emmett’s Brewing Company in Palatine, the sight of our traditional May annual meeting.

Peggy Simonsen, long time board member extraordinaire is retiring as a board member. Joe Strzelecki will continue on the Board with a new term. Tom Molitor and Craig Rowlinson will join the board. We’re excited to see these new faces on our Board!

President Prochaska reviewed the club’s activities over the past year and gave a preview of the up-coming events for 2023 - 2024 including possible ski trips.

Club 50 has a flash trip list for skiing and one for hiking/biking. A detailed email describing each flash trip list, how to get on either list and how to instigate a flash trip was sent to you a while back. You don’t remember getting that email? Contact Josh through Club50Flash@yahoo.com.
The team of Josh Kiem and Earl Lemberger have a pretty good record going – six attempted flash trips with four successful ones. Successful means adequate snow and people to ski. Josh is the one who sends out the flash notices to those on the flash list, and Earl is the point man who gets everyone together for a spontaneous day of skiing and lunch at Wilmot. Many thanks to both!

Joe Strzelecki volunteered to give Club 50 a Facebook presence ̶ a private page for all of us with a Facebook account to post photos and comments and also a public page to advertise Club 50 to those over 50 years of age looking for an active sports life. Joe has volunteered to be the administrator of both.

Look for us at https://www.facebook.com/groups/chicagolandclub50.