PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
A BIG thank you to Barbara & John Elam for hosting our Halloween Party on October 30. The party was a huge success with 40 festively and imaginatively dressed members enjoying the evening. Two weeks later on November 12, the FSU Film School invited us to a film screening by Dean Emeritus Ray Fielding and Dean Frank Patterson followed by a tour of their state-of-the-art facility with film school students as excellent tour guides. The 45 attendees were most impressed by this wonderful facility on our campus. Our next event is scheduled for Saturday, December 4 to usher in the holiday season with the Holiday Happening hosted by Linda & Steve Leach in their lovely home from 5:30-7:30 PM. The wine and other beverages are provided by the Club with several members having offered to bring hors d’oeuvres and desserts. Feel free to bring your favorite food to supplement those refreshments to ensure a fulfilling evening. The Billy Bowlegs 5k Run and 1 Mile Walk has been changed to Saturday, January 15 by the GWTC. The flier will be attached to the early January newsletter but be sure to mark your calendar now and plan to include this race in your New Year’s resolutions. This will be our 21st scholarship run. I am challenging you to come and run or walk with us to make this race a special one for our scholarship recipients. Like last year, we are planning a delicious brunch directly after the race. It will take place in the Renegade Grill in the Seminole Golf Clubhouse across from the FAMU/FSU College of Engineering. The Chinese New Year at Lucy Ho’s Oriental Bistro is scheduled for January 23. Being a Sunday, there will be plenty of parking and space in the restaurant to enjoy a delicious meal and wonderful camaraderie.
Happy Thanksgiving! Best wishes to all of you for a blessed holiday season and for a wonderful New Year.
Annelise Leysieffer
Membership
Thanks to all, who have joined the Club this year. As of November 20, the membership stands at 187 members with more on the way. If the (04) is absent from your address label, your $16/$12 dues were not received by then. Please forward corrections and/or additions to the enclosed roster to Fred Leysieffer fleysief@mailer.fsu.edu
Holiday Happening!!!
Saturday, December 4
5:30-7:30 PM
At the home of:
Linda & Steve Leach
1238 Skip Wells Court
Come meet with friends and celebrate the beginning of the holiday season with delicious hors d’oeuvres and desserts. There will be wine and hot cider with refreshments provided by the members.Feel free to bring your favorite food to supplement the promised refreshments to ensure a fulfilling evening. Please call Barbara Elam at 385-9856 by Wednesday, December 1 to let her know you will be attending.
Directions to 1238 Skip Wells Court:
Take Maclay Road either from Meridian Road North or from Thomasville Road. (From Thomasville Road turn in at Village Square Blvd., go behind The Fresh Market (former Wal-Mart), turn right on Maclay Blvd. and left onto Maclay Road). Turn south onto Miller’s Bridge Road and left once again 100 feet further on onto East Miller’s Bridge Road. Skip Wells Court is the second street on your right with the house on the corner.
Billy Bowlegs 5k and 1 Mile Walk – 9:00 AM
Billy Bowlegs Brunch – 10:00 AM
Saturday, January 15 – Note new date!!!
Extra Brian Bachman mugs for Faculty Club winners
We challenge you to join us for the Billy Bowlegs Race to benefit returning, undergraduate students at FSU. This is our 21st year. Come walk or run with us before heading across the street to the Seminole Clubhouse for brunch in the Renegade Grill. The Brunch is free to members of the Faculty Club for race participants and volunteers and $5.00 for Club members who only attend the Brunch with those proceeds also going directly to the scholarship fund. Look for the flier in the January newsletter. If you are interested in volunteering, please call Annelise Leysieffer at 893-1272.
Chinese New Year at Lucy Ho’s Oriental Bistro
1700-1 Halstead Boulevard
The Year of the Rooster
Sunday, January 23 – 6:30 PM Cash Bar – 7:00 PM Dinner
Mark your calendar now for this great evening. Come help us usher in the Chinese New Year with delectable dishes especially prepared for the Club members. The cost for the dinner including non-alcoholic beverage, tip and tax is $20.00. More information in the January newsletter.
Table Française Friday, December 10 – 7:30 PM
At the home of Fred & Annelise Leysieffer, 3720 Lifford Circle
Call Annelise (893-1272) or e-mail her at all9002@fsu.edu
Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Sunday, December 19 – 6:30 PM
At the home of Johanna Dinkelman
110 Ridgeland Road off Lakeshore Drive
As always everybody contributes to the refreshments
Call Annelise (893-1272) or e-mail her at all9002@fsu.edu
Paperback Book Discussion Group
Monday, December 13 – 6:30 PM – Potluck !!!
At the home of Beth Wright, 911 Lothian Dr. (385-5915)
Please submit your (paperback) book nominations for the coming year to Diane Olsen olsend@dor.state.fl.us or to Bonnie Armstrong bonniearmstrong@comcast.net. Please provide the author, title, and a brief description of the book, enabling the members to vote on the 2005 selections at the December meeting
Monday, January 10 – 7:30 PM
At the home of Sharon Hagopian, 2916 Brandemere Dr. (385-7989) Book: ’ÄúDon’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: an African Childhood’Äù by Alexandra Fuller.
Call Maxine Weiss, 893-1891, or Diane Olsen, 386-5797, or via e-mail to OlsenD@dor.state.fl.us for more information or to attend
Members of the FFC Book Discussion Group have made a donation ($120) to the scholarship fund, in memory of Alex Bassin, husband of our dear longtime member, Ann Bassin. He was retired from the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and passed away November 4 after a long illness.