MINUTES
President Don Hunziker opened the business meeting with 138 members present. Current membership is 500, with 16 on the waiting list.
ANNOUNCEMENTS & ACTIVITIES
Activities: Bowling is rolling, bridge and paddle continue, racquetball is still recruiting, Trailblazers invite members to an 8:30 a.m. Waveny walk-about before the next SCM meeting; 4-Fs decided Thanksgiving dinner would tide them over until December.
Charlie Morris reminded that the Christmas luncheon is noon, 12/8, and remember to mark toys for Salvation Army's distribution boy or girl.
Couth: "Kiss Me Kate" and 21 Club 11/15, Christmas Show at Radio City Christmas Show and lunch at City Island, 12/14, Foxwood and Pequot Museum 1/18, Mme. Tussaud's Wax Museum and Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 2/14, Bridgeport Downtown Cabaret Theater, 3/16.
SMC Program and Couth listings are on our new internet address: www.SMCNC.org, thanks to our 8-man website committee headed by Pete Stair.
People, etc.: Don Ambuhl is in Waveny, Ed Codel is home, Frank Barfuss is in Norwalk Hospital for surgery, Phil Toll is having minor surgery.
Jester: John Berg cited women's magazine advice on how to make a man love you: Show up in skin-suit, with six-pack. Steve Wise called the current political crisis a case of electile disfunction.
SPEAKER: Vice President Bob Witt introduced Nigel W. D. Mumford, who was a Royal Marine Commando before he emigrated from Britain in 1980. He was in business in Wilton and Bethel until 1995. His epiphany was witnessing the healing of his sister, a dancer with the Royal Ballet who had been crippled and near death from a disease. Since training in an Episcopal "Ministry and Training Program" he has been a lay minister of healing, a sharp contrast to his days as a drill instructor in the Commandos.
Nigel shared a sampling of the extraordinary successes he has had with prayer in his new calling, ranging from overnight germination of marigold seeds, instant healing of a crippled police dog, restoring a clinically dead woman to life, and enabling a Yale medical doctor and wife to conceive triplets after 11 previously barren years. In a decidedly minor miracle, Nigel concluded his presentation by squeezing "The Marine Hymn" out of a healthy Scottish bagpipe.
Les Brooks, Asst. Secretary