January 2003
Twins-Fest on Chapter Agenda
A New Editor for the Holy Cow
Chapter breakfast
Chapter Bookclub
Hot Stove Meeting
2003 Calendar
New Chapter Leaders
Cow Chips
Halsey Hall Board of Directors
Is this a scene from the most recent Halsey Hall Chapter Board meeting? Or maybe from the upcoming Chapter Hot Stove Meeting? Don't miss, see below.
Twins-Fest on Chapter
Agenda
The Halsey Hall Chapter will have a booth at Twins Fest, the annual fan festival sponsored by the Minnesota Twins. The hours for Twins Fest 2003 are as follows: Friday, January 31, 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Saturday, February 1, 9 a.m to 6 p.m; and Sunday, February 2, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. All members wishing to help staff the chapter's booth for a three hour shift (two hour shifts on Friday night, etc) please contact Rich
Arpi.
As in the past, the booth will have SABR publications for the public to peruse; the local and national display boards; and the membership fliers to distribute to those fans who seem geniuuely interested in SABR. A trivia quiz for handing out will also be available again this year. Members willing to work the booth will get a free admission to Twins Fest and a great opportunity to spread the SABR message to baseball fans who may not ever have heard of SABR.
Stew Thornley, the editor of this newsletter for the past several years, decided not to seek reappointment for the 2003 year. Stew felt the duties of being a national director deserved is full-time attention in his part time (or his part-time attention full-time) and felt there were others in the chapter who could handle the editorship duties of the Holy Cow. As a result, the Halsey Hall Board of Directors left no stone unturned in searching for a new editor. Rich Arpi (ah, that's me) crawled out from under a rock and offered up this name, and lo and behold the Board accepted his offer. Rich says, “I know I have big shoes to fill in that Stew has done a fine job with the Holy Cow. I hope to continue publishing all the news (like the New York Times, that is fit to print) about the chapter and its members in a timely fashion each month.”
Members attending the chapter breakfast have decided to move the breakfast to the first Saturday of odd numbered months starting , January 11th, 2003. If there is a conflict with a holiday on the first weekend of the month, the breakfast will move to the second Saturday. It was felt folks might still be traveling, relatives in town, etc. on January 4th so the breakfast was moved back this month. The usual location is the Baker's Square at 66th and Xerxes in Richfield at 9:30 a.m.
Chapter Bookclub
The yet unnamed Halsey Hall Chapter book club met for the third time on Saturday, December 14th at the Northwestern Book Store in the Har Mar Mall in Roseville. Seven members present discussed Robert Creamer's biography of Casey Stengel, Stengel: His Life and Times. The next meeting of the bookclub will take place at the same location on Saturday, February 8th, at ca. 10:15. The next book discussed will be a biography of Josh Gibson, The Power and the Darkness by Mark Ribowsky.
The book club in the future will meet on the first Saturday of the even numbered months, so as not to conflict with the chapter breakfasts. Holidays or other conflicts on the first weekend will push both meetings back to the second Saturday.
Hot Stove Meeting
The next chapter function will be the annual Hot Stove meeting at Kevin Hennessey's home at 608 Grand Avenue in St. Paul on Saturday, January 25th at 7 p.m. Members are urged to bring their usual good humor to this informal gathering, caus there isn't enough money in the treasury to hire an umpire.
Calendar for 2003:
January 11th - Hot Stove Saturday Morning: Baker's Square, 66th and Xerxes in Richfield. 9:30 a.m.
January 25 - Hot Stove Meeting
Residence of Kevin Hennessey,
608 Grand Avenue, St.Paul. 7 p.m.
January 31-February 2 - Twins Fest at The Metrodome. Contact Rich Arpi for information.
February 8th - Book Club Meeting,
Northwestern Book Store, Har Mar Mall, Roseville, 10:15.
New Chapter Leadership:
The Chapter Board of Directors at its December 8th meeting elected Fred Buckland to fill the term of Ray Luurs as chapter president and Bob Tholkes was elected chapter vice-president.
Halsey Hall Board of Directors
Cow Chips
Rumor has it that Roger Godin froze his patooties off attending the annual Army-Navy football game at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey on December 7th. Navy won a monumental battle of the previously two 1-10 teams, 58 to 12.
Alan Holst was the U.S. Embasssy liasion with Major League Baseball for the all star series in Japan this fall. Alan and his sons saw Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi homer back to back twice in a game. Alan also saw a game from MLB 's luxury suite with Ambassador Howard Baker (of Watergate fame)...
John Gregory's son's (David) football team almost made the state playoffs in Nevada and daughter Julie's soccer team had a successful season.
Halsey Hall Chapter
The chapter board of directors at its December meeting elected Fred Buckland as chapter president to fill the term of Ray Luurs
2002-2003
President - Fred Buckland
Vice President - Bob Tholkes
Secretary-Treasurer- Rich Arpi
Other Board members: Dan Cagley, Cary Smith, Dean Thilgen, Jim Wyman
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The Holy Cow! Editor - Rich Arpi
Holy Cow Extra Editor - Bob Tholkes
Webmaster - Dean Thilgen
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