Chairperson

Deborah Guess has been an active member of the 55 Plus Club for years. She calls Bingo every Monday and has been the club treasurer for the past two years. Past experience includes being an office manager for 28years and president of her HOA for 5 years.

Barbara Hessler has been an active member of the 55 Plus Club and has been in charge of Bunko, Mahjong, summer dinner gang and Wednesday lunches for several years. She has also helped on events and decorations for the club. Previous experience includes varied banking responsibilities, work with child and family law, job fairs, payroll and insurance work, drug and alcohol counseling, teaching English
as a second language. Barbara has served as the clubs Vice Chairperson for two years.

Vice Chairperson

Joyce Scafidi has served on the board as Corresponding Secretary for the past two years. She was a secretary and handled accounts payable for a roofing company for 25 years. She was also a secretary for Dr. Eells and insurance processor for Dr. Turner and Muir. She was a school volunteer for the American Red Cross, a Cape Canaveral hospital volunteer and is a Eucharist minister, visiting the sick for Our Savior Church.

Recording Secretary

Jo Ann Fisher agreed to help the 55 Plus Club in November 2015, when the previous recording secretary could no longer continue. Prior to retiring in 2014, she worked as a nurse practitioner for Osler Medical caring for older adults in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. She is the Executive Director a medical group and organizes a symposium for over 450 people every November. She helped to establish a state chapter of the Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association and is currently their treasurer. She is also very active in Brevard County in healthcare related projects.

Corresponding Secretary

Olga Clarke is a retired registered nurse and has been a member of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority for over 50 years. She has held all offices for the sorority and served as president 13 times. She has also been a volunteer for the King Center for 23 years and works at the Humane Society Thrift Shop.

Treasurer

Louise Daley has been an active member of 55 Plus Club for many years. Before retiring she worked in banking as a bookkeeper and certification teller. She has volunteered for several projects and activities for the club.

Member-at-Large

Betsy Haff has been active in our club for several years. She has contributed greatly the last 6 years working on arts and crafts projects for our fundraisers. She is a volunteer for Meals on Wheels and has worked with Junior Achievement. Her past work experience was as Vice President of the Moorestown Recreation Department.

Only ballots with name and address of current member will be counted. Your vote is confidential and viewed only by the Election Committee. After confirmation ballots will be shredded.

Deadline is December 1, 2016 at 5:00 PM. Drop off at the DRS Community Center or the SB Civic Center as indicated below:

If you know a current member that did not receive a newsletter, which will include this ballot, please note that extra ballots can be obtained at the DRS Community Center or at Monday BINGO between 9:00 – 11:00 AM. Remember that only one newsletter will be sent to two members with the same last name, living at the
same address. Either make a copy of the ballot or obtain another copy from the DRS Community Center or Bingo on Mondays.

85TH YEAR
I did it again. I said before boarding plane:
I’m back again at 85
Gonna take another high skydive
I did it once 5 years ago
When asked if I’d do it again, said I don’t know
But here I am all aglow
I’m set and ready, Andiamo!—Let’s go!

The weather was bad on the day planned with rain predicted for next few days. I was so psyched up for what I wanted to do that day on August 24th. So on Sunday morning at 8 a.m. I called and was told it was a 50-50 chance of flying due to the weather. I hopped in the car and drove up to Titusville to the Skydive center. There were 55 people waiting ahead of me and just one little plane. It was rush, rush, rush.

After warily watching large clouds form above for a couple of hours it was my turn. My young handsome tandem guy Nick, 27 years old, was slim and just a little taller than me. I was the oldest person he had jumped with and he may have been a little more concerned. The plane was packed.

We were the second tandem to bail out at 18,000 feet. The cold wind felt great! A brief escape from all the muggy hot weather.

I enjoyed it and just wish it could have lasted longer. I knew no one, but several were friendly, chatted with me and asked to take a picture with me. I guess they wanted to tell their friends about the old lady jumping. It was 5 years ago the first time on my 80th. After looking at the photos taken today, I think I’ll just keep the photos from 5 years ago.

Wow – that wind up there can really ripple the wrinkles and saggy skin all over. Well – that will hold me – for a while.

Cheers! Gloria Makowski

Fundraising efforts to replace the old Bingo Equipment continues. First, we would like to thank all the members who have made generous donations. We appreciate you! Our first big fundraiser will be “Bingo for Designer Bags” to be held on Thursday, November 10th at the Satellite Beach Civic Center, located at 565 Cassia Blvd. Tickets are $15.00 for members $20 for non members and are available at the DRS Center, Monday thru Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm; at Bingo on Monday morning 9:00am, or Evening cards, 6:00pm at the DRS Center. We’ll have lots of fun while raising the funds needed to replace the Bingo equipment! If you have any questions
or suggestions please contact Terry Mellon 321/773-7705 or [email protected]

We are in need of a chairperson or chairpersons! Walking is postponed until someone steps up to this task. Please call Jill at 321/773-2080 if you are willing to assist. The members who have been in charge of these great programs simply can’t keep doing it forever! It’s not difficult and you will be trained. Its unfortunate that some programs can’t continue until more members come forward and assist.

Your 55+ Club yearly dues of $7.00 are almost due. You may pay these at the DRS Center office M-F, 8:30-5:00pm, at the Thursday Greeting Table or give to any 55+ Club Chairperson.