FALL 2014

FALL 2014 CHAPTER UPDATE AND EVENTS

Dear Friends,

Summer is now over and many of us will have begun to head back to Florida!

This note was also included in the September 1818 Bulletin, but to give you a heads up - to kick off the season, Karin Nordlander organized a dinner for the SE Florida group in Boca Raton October 20, at 5:30 PM at Josef's Table.

For the SW Florida group we are proposing to meet for lunch at 1.00pm on Saturday November 15, 2014 in my club restaurant – Tarpon Cove Yacht and Racquet Club in Naples (www.tarponcoveclub.com).

The club has a lovely location on the water in Wiggins Pass and you can ride the club boat to the Delnor Wiggins State Park (http://www.floridastateparks.org/delnorwiggins) and enjoy the beach either before or after lunch. The ride takes 15 mins each way and the boat runs every hour from the club.

For those with a wild side, Karin Nordlander is proposing a SWAMP WALK near Everglades City. Do take a look at the website (http://www.clydebutchersbigcypressgallery.com/reserve-labor-day-swamp-walk). This is an easy swamp walk for beginners. Kudos to Karin! Please email us if you are interested. The walk could be planned for some time in November or January, depending on interest.

Beyond the Fall, we are looking into three potential reunion options: a Caribbean cruise (March or April); a Space Coast weekend (no dates yet, but could be between February and April or in the Fall) that Robin Broadfield, our NE Florida coordinator, is organizing; and a cultural gathering in St Augustine the weekend of April 18, 2015 jointly with the Florida Humanities Council. Yes, there was a Chapter reunion in St. Augustine in 2002 but this event promises a very interesting agenda. The Council is an incredible organization that might be better named ‘cultural and historical’ Council. To give you some idea of their activities, you might check out their event in Fort Myers this October (http://www.flahum.org/Speakers/Fort_Myers_2014) . Karin Nordlander is an avid supporter of the Council and has participated in many of their events over the years and highly recommends them. An 1818 trip to Costa Rica is also being developed in Washington for February 2015.

For the two proposed Florida weekend events, more details will follow but both would likely cost about $550/pp (including most meals, but not alcohol). Surveys of expression of interest will be posted on the 1818 and Florida Chapter websites when we have more details.

Several of you expressed interest in bus trips to Opera nights in Miami in season and this information is posted on the left-hand side menu item.

If any of you wish to post information on activities you will be engaged in this season (for instance some of you are involved in volunteer work and would welcome more volunteers others are teaching courses that are open to the public, etc) please email me and I will post the information on the Florida Chapter website.

Thank you all for your ideas, do keep them rolling in.

Sandra Hadler, Florida Chapter

Regional Coordinators’ Contacts:

NE: Robin Bradfield robin.broadfield@gmail.com Ormond Beach

SE: Karin Nordlander karin@nordlander.com Boca Raton

SW: Sandra Hadler sachadler@gmail.com Naples