November 13, 2008
Zozo's Restaurant, Reno Nevada

President Larry & Ellie Richardson were on vacation to Cancun, Mexico so Patti Wilder, RJC VP ran the RJC meeting.

Patti thanked Randy Wright for hosting this dinner/meeting at Zozo's. He picked a wonderful place to have this dinner. We had a private room with a bar set up just for us. Our dinner consisted of appetizers, a choice of main courses and even desert - Yum!

Our new member Linda Valle was welcomed by all. Also welcomed back were Joan Shonnard, Bob & Nancy Price and Ron & Julie Pizer who had been away from our club for awhile.

The club discussed the RJC's 25th Anniversary Club badges that member, Iain Buxton, designed and made for the club. The RJC would love to see every member purchase one (or more) of these badges as a show of pride in our club and to celebrate our milestone of 25 years as the RJC!

Patti surprised Mick Collins in congratulating him on his up-coming Ph.D!

Here is what was said:

"We will have a "Doctor Mick" in our club tomorrow after his Doctoral Dissertation Defense
His Ph.D. will be in: Educational Leadership
The title of his dissertation is: 'Engineering Graduate Preparedness for the Workplace: Employer Assessments of Outcome Based on Education'"

The RJC gave a strong round of applause to Mick for his hard earned accomplishment

Dave Minedew gave the Treasures report:

He stated that we have $4,288.37 in the operating account and $179.80 in the Day on the Village Green account. He went on to say that our coming expenses for the Christmas Party may be about $1500.00 dollars and that we still owe Iain for badges and that the Village Green usually needs about $1200.00 seed money to get it up and rolling. Therefore if we break even on the Village Green we should be ok.

A list of members and the month they were willing to host a dinner/meeting is as follows.

I cannot thank all the volunteers enough for coming forward and helping the club with all of these upcoming dinner/meetings. It is such a great relief when this difficult assignment is divided amongst 12 different people verse our sole Social Director as we had done for so many years. Again, THANK YOU!
This dinner/meeting was also our club's election night. Patti asked if there were any more nominations to be added to the ballet. Mike Johnson's name was added for the position of "A Day on the Village Green" chairperson. Ballots were passed out and collected. The results are as follows:

The RJC board for 2009 is:

There was no nominee for the position of Secretary.
The write-in votes for Secretary were:

Patti Wilder 17
Sunny Minedew 5
Kathy Glass 1
Nancy Price 1
Dixie Black 1

Secretary to be announced at a later date.

Dave Minedew read the following letter that the RJC received from the Harrah's Automobile Museum. This letter asked for club/members for donations. Harry Keast started the donation at $50.00 other members chimed in. They are:

Randy Wright
Harry & Pat Keast
Mick & Lani Collins
Iain & Wendy Buxton
Bob & Nancy Price
Sam & Mina Dibitonto

A grand total of $220.00 was received. Anyone else wanting to donate to this very worthy cause can get a hold of Harry Keast

Meeting was adjourned.

Minutes and photos by Patti Wilder

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