President’s Message
Spring greetings everyone! The Board is diligently working on the ballot for the slate of for 2011-2012. We look forward to a great time at our annual April club luncheon. The Valentine Dance was a great success and enjoyed by all who attended. The club had an awesome Mardi Gras celebration at the Elam’s with Gumbo and Jambalaya that was incredibly delicious! Thanks to all those who contributed to make this event an extraordinary one! Spring brought me a successful fishing trip in Ft. Pierce where I caught two delicious Pompano.
Congratulations to Annelise, who has a new grandchild and is also recovering from knee surgery. We hope for her and any of our members that have health issues, speedy recoveries.
Sincerely,
Pete Cottrell
The nominating Committee presents the slate for the executive committee for 2011-2012:
President – Josephine Ang
Vice President – Jan Flake
Vice Presidents (membership) – Fred & Annelise Leysieffer
Recording Secretary – TBA
Corresponding Secretary – Denise Ellingson
Treasurer – Calvin Zongker
Nominating Chair – Pete Cottrell
By-Law Amendment: To qualify to be nominated to become the incoming Vice President/President Elect, he or she must have been an active, dues paying member of the Club for at least one academic year.
Tour of Goodwood Museum and Gardens
1600 Miccosukee Road
Saturday, April 2 at 10:00 a.m.
Please meet Josephine Ang at the Visitor’s Center. Erica Clark, a new Club member, and another docent will be showing us through the house.
Cost is $6.00/person ($5.00/seniors) to be paid upon arrival. RSVP to Annelise Leysieffer if you plan to attend at at aleysieffer@gmail.com or call her at 893-1272.
Annual Luncheon & Business Meeting
Anthony’s Wood Fire Grill
1355 Market Street
Saturday, April 16 at 11:30 a.m – 2:00 p.m.
$20.00/person includes tax, tip and non-alcoholic beverage. Choice of meal – meat lasagna, eggplant parmesan, fish sandwich. Entertainment provided by two members from Pas de Vie Ballet. Please mail check for $20.00/person to Annelise Leysieffer (3720 Lifford Circle, Tallahassee, FL, 32309, 893-1272) with check made out to The Faculty & Friends Club of FSU by Wednesday April 13 and indicate your choice of entrée.
Pas de Vie Ballet is presenting their annual “Spotlight on Dance” and will be having two performances on April 30 and May 1. They are offering to bring a couple of tickets as door prizes to our Annual Luncheon. Please see their website www.pasdevieballet.com.
La Mesa Española
Thursday, March 31, 7:00 p.m.
Meet at the home of Marion & Gerard Nimis.
Thursday, April 21, 6:30 p.m.
2736 Los Amigos, Capital Circle, NE
Please contact Jo Stepp-Greany at jstepp@fsu.edu.
April Fools Day Gourmet Sampler
Friday, April 1, 6:30 p.m.
Poolhouse at Westminster Oaks
Hosted by Patsy & Don Rapp and Joannie & Britt Poulson.
Please contact Beth Charness at beth_charness@hotmail.com.
Globetrotters: “Fall in Finland”
Saturday, April 2, 7:30 p.m.
Westminster Oaks – Maguire Learning Center
Presented by Mary & Ben Lawson.
Please contact Diane Olsen at m.diane.olsen@gmail.com.
Diane Olsen is searching for one or more members of this wonderful interest group to take over next year. Globetrotters began during the winter of 1974.
Lunch Bunch
Tuesday, April 12, 11:45 a.m.
Fanny’s Café at Goodwood Museum and Gardens
1600 Miccosukee Rd.
Tuesday, May 10, 11:45 a.m.
La Hacienda, 2207 Bannerman Road
Please contact Denise Ellingson mdeniseel15@yahoo.com.
Presbyterian University Center
“Team Play and Strategic Thought”
Tuesday, April 12, 12:15 p.m.
by Professor David J. Cooper, Professor of Economics. $9.00/plate, RSVP 222-6320 by Thursday, April 7.
La Table Française
Saturday, April 16, 6:30 p.m.
At the home of Sue Hansen
Please contact Annelise Leysieffer at aleysieffer@gmail.com.
Book Discussion Group
Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
Monday, April 18, 7:30 p.m.
Location to be announced
The Other Family by Joanna Trollope
Monday, May 16, 7:30 p.m.
At the home of Cecilia Keller
Please contact Kea Herron at kea.snuffy@gmail.com.
Restaurant Roulette
Georgios Fine Food and Spirits
3425 Thomasville Road.
Thursday, April 21, 6:30 p.m.
Please contact Jan Flake at jflake@fsu.edu.
Outdoors Explorers
Saturday, May 14 or Sunday, May 15
At the home of Christel & Wolfgang Heil
Alligator Point
Please contact Barbara Elam at ble@neuro.fsu.edu.
Barbara & John Elam are searching for somebody in the group to take over this wonderful interest group for 2011-12. Please contact Barbara. We thank Barbara & John for having done such a phenomenal job.
Toni Kirkwood-Tucker is planning to chair Sprechen Sie Deutsch? this coming academic year.
We thank Toni for taking over this popular group. Please contact Toni at kirkwoodTF@aol.com with offers of homes and suggestions of programs for the upcoming academic year.
Jocelyn Maurice, a returning member to the Table Française interest group, is planning to lead a group on a 7-night cruise on Royal Caribbean’s “Liberty of the Seas” in the Mediterranean to and from Barcelona, departing on August 11, 2011. Please call her at 850-942-7364 if you are interested in getting more information.