Pat Quinn, Editor

DAN’s DIALOG

Great things continue to happen for Branch 69. I am attending the State SIR meeting on Au-gust 1st and I will report on all the exciting news at our next luncheon. You will want to be there.

If you all are not “conventioned” out, get ready for our elections for 2017 officers. Getting no nomi-nees from the floor, on August 11th I will be asking you to

confirm our slate: Jerry Schroeder – Big SIR, Tony Vigil – Little SIR, Ron Hutcheson – Secretary, Dennis Jones – Asst. Secretary, Jerry Buhlert – Treasurer, Hal Copperberg – Asst. Treasurer, and Directors – Steve Eason, Greg Schweitzer, Jim Huffman, Bill Nichols, Jim Buckley and Dan Calcagno. Please give them the same great support you have provided me. We have roles for the rest of you so come see me about your niche in the Branch.

We are in the process of reviewing our active/inactive members and moving some to Emeritus status. This is a designation reserved for long-standing gentlemen who want to still be considered part of Branch 69 but might have diffi-culty attending the luncheons on a regular basis. We are also acting on some requests from people who no longer

wish to be active. And as I am constantly marveling at, we continue to grow in numbers. During the first 7 months of 2016, we have greeted 19 new faces ; 1 moved from the in-active list, 6 have transferred from other Branches and 12 are new to SIR. The Golf Expo has brought us 2 (with the possibility of several more) so I thank Tom Page and all the volunteers who worked the booth. Dan Nelson is leading the Sponsorship race with 2 but 7 others have introduced 1 friend to our ranks. Again, thank you all and I am sure this is an ongoing trend.

During the Social Hour, before our lunch, I try to walk around and chat with everyone. If you have something to say, please approach me and tell me the good and the bad of your experiences. If it is bad, try to also offer suggestions

for improvements. I will bring those ideas to the Branch Ex-ecutive Committee and, who knows, your comments might likely spark changes to make us even better.

See you August 11th. And expect a surprise or two – like wishing me a Happy Birthday (August 6 for those of you that might have forgotten – Frank).

Dan Calcagno, Big Sir

The Pony Express Branch #69 August 2016 Edition

AugustAugust--2016 Luncheon2016 Luncheon

Thursday August 11, 2016 Grilled TriTip, Caprese Salad, Panzanella

Salad, Tortellini Salad. A vegetarian lunch is available

Tell your caller

JERRY BUILT

I heard that our speaker, Betty Vosters-Kemp, from Avalon Hearing Aid Centers, did an excellent, entertaining presentation.

She made the subject of hearing loss and what action to take very interesting. Her ex-planation of the 30,00 nerves in the ear, which through age can deteriorate and die, explained a lot about hearing

loss.

Unless you’re a chicken, who it was discovered can regenerate these dead nerves, you might need to take ac-tion sooner rather than later. The advancement in Hear-ing Aids are astounding. Hearing Aids do come with a price tag so it is a judgement call. If cost is not the issue, it may not be wise to procrastinate. When was the last time you had your hearing checked?

I won’t be able to make the August luncheon. I’ll be in Ashland for a family week. However, I have a good pro-gram for you.

Dr. Bob Welti is also a SIR, in fact Little Sir of the

Penn Valley Branch 11 and an Honorary Life Member. Bob has over 50 years of aerospace experience, and is the author of Satellite Basics for Everyone.

Bob will entertain you with his presentation of “The

Amazing World of Satellites”. We enjoy global television,

radio, telephone, and Internet communications via satel-

lites. They are also essential for our national defense.

Have you ever wondered what are the different types of

satellites, what orbits are used for them, how we get them

into orbit and how do we keep them there? Bob will be

giving us answers to these and other questions, with illus-

trations.

Jerry Schroeder, Little Sir

Concept and Creation by Frank FranzagoConcept and Creation by Frank FranzagoConcept and Creation by Frank Franzago

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August Birthdays

8-1 Paul Ogden (81) 8-6 Dan Calcagno 8-7 Conrad Cookman

8-9 Ed Matkham 8-10 Aubry Stone 8-12 Warren Senegal (84) 8-14 Ralph Peri 8-14 Jesse Guitierrez (96) 8-15 Eddie Lang Jr. 8-17 Gary Conner 8-20 Heman Smith (87) 8-21 Bob Dant (86) 8-26 Roy Dunson (86) 8-27 Ernie Berryman

August Anniversaries

8-9 Charles & Gloria Rainoldi (63) 8-10 Greg & Norma Schweitzer 8-12 Ross & Susan Martin 8-12 George & Karen Langford 8-14 Hal & Gwen Witsaman (62) 8-16 Dan & Kathy Calcagno 8-19 Russel & Ellen Wong 8-21 Michael & Shelly Brassil 8-23 Dan & Cheryl Nelson 8-30 Armond & Mary Lee Delestrez

We had a banner month for recruiting in July with five new members and some guests in attendance. This is great recruiting! Of note with the five new members, all were born in the 1950’s. This is how we keep the branch young and growing.

Be sure to read the bios

for the new members; they come from varied back-grounds and have done some interesting things in their lives.

Tom Page, Recruiting & Publicity Director

RECRUITING & PUBLICITY

SIR GARY CONNER 9423 Mary Ellen Way Elk Grove 95624

(916) 685-4500 golfdad3@yahoo.com Sponsor: Dan Nelson

Gary was born in Sacramento but grew up in Wilton. Gary graduated from Elk Grove High School and Sacramento City College before attending UC Davis, from which he graduated in 1972 with a degree in agricultural business economics. His next stop was the Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa, where he completed a four-year program in three years. With his chiropractic degree in hand, Gary returned to the Sacramento area and opened up his chiropractic office. He practiced here for 25 years until his first retire-ment and then spent ten years teaching special needs chil-dren for the Elk Grove Unified School District.

Gary and his wife, Sue, have one daughter. Gary loves golf, plays a lot, and marshals at Emerald Lakes on Wednesdays. That golf course was also the scene of two amazing events in Gary’s golfing life. In 1994, he was held up at gunpoint on the 5th tee box there. Ten years later, he scored his one and only hole in one from the same tee box! Obviously, the second experience was more fun than the first.

Birthday: August 17, 1950 Anniversary: Sue, June 12, 1976

WELCOME

SIR JIM ORTIZ 7604 Bridgeview Drive Sacramento 95758 (916) 704-6864 jim.ortiz@gmail.com Sponsor: Tony Vigil

Jim was born and raised here in Sacra-mento, graduating from Jesuit High School in 1968. He next attended American River for two years and Sacramento State for two more years, graduating with a degree in business management. Shortly thereafter, Jim went to work for what is now AT&T as an outside plant engineer, which involved doing design work for tele-communications equipment.

Jim worked for AT&T until 1990, when he left to work for an independent construction company as a pro-ject manager, again with telecommunications equipment. He did this for several construction companies until he retired in May of this year.

Jim likes golf, which he plays well, softball and hiking. Birthday: May 10, 1950

From L to R: Big Sir Dan Calcagno, Jim Ortiz, Ted O’Neill, Gary Conner, Rick Hom & Frank Levings Jr.

WELCOME

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SIR RICK HOM 332 Bay River Way

Sacramento 95831 (916) 395-7433 rahom@sbcglobal.net Sponsor: Dan Nelson

Rick was born in Florence, Arizona, near Tucson, but grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. After high school, Rick went to USC in Los Angeles, from which he earned a degree in biology. He also went to grad school at USC, achieving a PhD in molecular biology.

His education continued with post-doctorate work at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta. With all this education, Rick went to work for Roche Pharmaceutical as the medical lab director in Burlington, N. Carolina. After eight years, Rick became Vice President and trans-

ferred to Sacramento. Three years later, Roche sold the Sacramento lab to Laboratory Corporation of American.

At this point, Rick went to work for a small Bay Area laboratory and helped their effort to go public, which made a lot of money for everyone. Ultimately, Rick joined UC Davis as an assistant professor and later as chief busi-ness officer of the med school. After 23 years at UC Davis, Rick retired in 2015.

Rick and his wife, Nancy, have two children and two grandchildren. He loves golf, computer and technology work, digital photography, RV travel, and ham radio.

Birthday: October 13, 1951 Anniversary: Nancy, July 22, 1978

SIR FRANK LEVINGS, JR 7908 Auburn Blvd

Citrus Heights 95610 (916) 300-3094 flevings@gmail.com Sponsor: Jack Osborne

Frank was born at Travis AFB and grew up all over California, including the central valley, San Diego and the Sacramento area. At age 18, Frank joined the Air Force and served in multiple post-ings at Strategic Air Command bases, working in Military Police.

After his military service was over, Frank worked at a grocery store before resuming school at Lane Community College near Eugene, Oregon. He returned to the work-force with Silvercrest Homes in Woodland. He later

earned an associate degree from American River College and then worked as a warehouseman for Target for 25 years. A back injury ended that type of work, followed by a heart attack that pretty much ended his other work op-portunities. He has been retired since 2007.

Frank enjoys golf, which he plays well, fishing, hunt-ing, reading and gardening.

Birthday: February 1, 1955

SIR TED O’NEILL 5610 Anchor Bay Way

Elk Grove 95758 (916) 704-6864 tedo5610@gmail.com Sponsor: Golf Expo

Ted was born in Chelsea, Massachu-setts, but grew up in Torrance in Southern California. After high school, Ted attended junior college and then Cal State Long Beach, from which he earned a degree in business administration. Following college, Ted went to work for United Airlines at LAX until he was laid off, but that brought him to Air Products Chemicals as a truck dispatcher. Ted did this type of work for various companies all over California and also worked as a truck driver recruiter. A transfer brought him to Sacra-mento in the late 80’s; and he has lived here ever since.

Ted and his wife, Linda, have three children and three grandchildren. Ted enjoys golf, family activities, gardening and home upkeep.

Birthday: February 11, 1952 Anniversary: Linda, May 20, 1978

WELCOME WELCOME

WELCOME

A simple but to the point message. Don’t drink & drive.

GOLF TOURNAMENTS BOWLING NEWS

2016 ROSTER REPAIRS

Ed Leano-has been removed from Branch 69.

Charles Rainoldi-has been moved to Emeritus Status.

Mark Sanders has been moved to the inactive list.

Pat Quinn, Roster Chairman

Here are two important dates for

bowlers and aspiring bowlers: Wednes-

day, August 17 at 11:00 will be our an-nual bowling meeting and free bowling at Country Club Lanes. We will vote on league officers, rules for the upcoming season, and the bowling teams will be announced.

If you have signed up for bowl-ing, or if you have an interest in bowling, please plan to attend the meeting. The bowling signups went very well, so my job of making up the teams will be hard.

Wednesday, August 24 at 11:00

will be the start of our bowling season for 2016-2017. As

always, we will bowl on Wednesdays at 11:00am at Country Club Lanes.

Also, at the bowling meeting on the 17th or no later than the first day of league play on the 24th, please bring

$23 cash or a check for $23 made out to GSA for your

annual bowling dues. Jerry Buhlert and I will have the USBC forms ready to complete.

See you at the luncheon on Au-gust 11 and at Country Club Lanes on August 17.

Tom Page, League Secretary 488-6465

August Golf 8-4 Thurs 69/RC Alister M. 2nd Rd. CC 8-15 Mon PGC Bing M. Gold Tees

8-18 Thurs 69/RC Turkey C. Low Net 8-25 Thurs 69/RC River Oaks Low Net

8-29 Mon PGC Land Park Pick your 9

September Golf 9-1 Thurs 69/RC Bartley 3rd Rd CC 9-12 Mon PGC Bartley Razzle Daz.

9-15 Thurs 69/RC Empire R. Low Net 9-18-21 State SIRS, Solvang

9-26 Mon PGC Davis 3rd Rd. CC

9-29 Thurs 69/RC Elkhorn Low Net

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Thank you members for your support of our lunch-eon raffles and purchases of articles from our apparel program.

At the August luncheon, everyone that wears a SIRS emblem shirt will receive a free raffle ticket and the chance to win a SIRS cap of their choice.

Be sure to see Mike Ratzlaff at the luncheon to re-ceive your raffle ticket and to order any additional SIRS apparel such as; polo shirts, denim long sleeved shirts (yes, winter will be back someday), jackets or caps. As an added touch you can also have your name embroi-dered on these items. Check out our inventory at the back partition at the next luncheon.

Mike Raztlaff, Apparel

SIRS BRANCH 69 APPAREL

Raffle postponed until September

League Secretary Tom Page

Treasurer Jerry Buhlert

See Tom Page to sign up as a Sub

NON-RESPONSIBILITY DECLARATION: All activities arranged for or by, or sponsored by, Sons In Retirement, Incorporated, and its Branches, are for the convenience and pleasure of the members and their guests who desire to participate. Sons In Retirement, Incorporated, and its Branches do not assume any responsibility for the well-being or safety of the partici-pants or their property, in any matters pertaining to said activities (Rule 345). Checks, money orders or credit cards for Travel for one day or less (no overnight), where a bus/busses is/are used as the primary means of transportation, may be made payable to the Branch sponsoring the event. All other checks, money orders or credit cards for travel must be made payable to the travel agency. (Rule 420 & 421). Members are obligated to attend all regular luncheon meetings unless prevented by illness or absence from the Branch locale. (Rule 60). REQUIRED ATTENDANCE – A member who misses three (3) consecutive luncheon meetings without having been excused by contacting the designated Branch Attendance person prior to the meeting date, and giving a valid reason, or did not attend one half of the regular luncheon meetings within the previous twelve consecu-tive month period. may be notified, by letter, of the pending termination of his membership in SIR. (Rule 60, 100 & 107).

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2016 Slate of Officers BIG SIR: DAN CALCAGNO 481-8368

LITTLE SIR: JERRY SCHROEDER 801-2530 SEC: MARK STEFFENS 214-8650 ASST SEC: GEORGE LANGFORD (650) 823-5493

TREAS: JERRY BUHLERT 704-0159 ASST TREAS: HAL COPPERBERG 722-2606

Directors

DENNIS JONES 684-3189

STEVE EASON 972-7383 MIKE RATZLAFF 768-6348

ADRIAN HERRELL 989-5981 JIMMY BUCKLEY 284-2364 GREG SCHWEITZER 687-8629

State Officers STATE PRES: DON DILL REG. 3 DIRECTOR: VIC MERSHON AREA 3 GOV: BOB PEREZ

Committee Chairs Programs Jerry Schroeder 801-2530 Mail Pouch Pat Quinn 784-3729 Chaplain Karl Munz 922-2482 Roster Pat Quinn 784-3729 Golf PBS Lennie Silva 487-9812 Golf (SC) Greg Schweitzer 687-8629 Bowling PBS Tom Page 488-6465 Audit John Martinez 812-7363 Nominating PBS Dennis Jones 684-3189 Attendance Don Neufeld 863-5228 Orientation PBS Ron Hutcheson 897-2807 Branch Apparel Mike Ratzlaff 768-6348 Day In The Park PBS Jim Porterfield 383-8156 Sunshine PBS Jim Carlson 635-8516 Bios PBS Tom Page 488-6465 Web Site Ross Martin 427-0559 Book Club PBS Tom Costello 351-0443 RV Bob Houghton 487-1190

Honored Members

Honorary Life Members

PBS LENNIE SILVA (SHLM) PRD WARREN SENEGAL

PBS TOM PAGE PBS JIM PORTERFIELD

SENIOR CERTIFICATES

SIR JESSE GUTIERREZ SIR SAM LeROUGE

SIR EDWARD GONSALVES SIR RIC NANNINI

SIR WINFIELD (WINDY) CURTIS

At the July Luncheon we had a total of 105 members in attendance. This gave us a 71% attendance rate.

Don Neufeld, Attendance

SUNSHINE

Bob Vandenburg- Bob will not be playing any golf for

the next four to six months due to bypass surgery scheduled

at Sutter downtown for the 8th of August.

We all know of a few of our members who are dealing with some serious health problems. Let’s keep them in our prayers for comfort and healing.

If you know of any of our members who are sick or hos-

pitalized please let me know.

Jim Carlson, Sunshine Chairman-635-8516

HOW ARE WE DOING 2016 Budget

INCOME ACTUAL BUDG DIFF

Contributions $3,675 $3,600 $75

Other

Total INCOME $3,675 $3,600 $75

EXPENSES

Printing & Postage $280 $800 $520

Officers Expenses $366 $250 $-116

Guest Expenses $0 $200 $200

State Pro Rata $571 $730 $159

Other, Golf Expo $295 $300 $5

Other, Misc. $444 $1,200 $756

TOTAL EXP. $1,996 $3,480 $1,514

PROJECTED CASH BALANCE AT END OF YEAR $3,749

PROJECTED CASH BALANCE PER MEMBER $25

NOTE: We ended 2015 with $235 more than we had in 2014

Jerry Buhlert, Treasurer

TREASURER’S REPORT – JULY 2016

Cash Balance 1/1/2016 = $3,629

JUNE YTD

Beginning Cash Balance $5,245 N/A

Contributions $125 $3,675

Expenses $215 $1,966

Membership, Gain/Loss +5/-2 152

Ending Cash Balance $5,170 N/A

Jerry Buhlert, Treasurer

ATTENDANCE REPORT

Recruitment, Activities, Member Relations & Publicity (RAMP) RECRUITING/PUBLIVITY PBS TOM PAGE 488-6465 ACTIVITIES PBS JIM PORTERFIELD 383-8156 MEMBERSHIP TONY VIGIL 217-7816