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Bulletin #465 (Aug 98)

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Bulletin #467 (Jul 98)

No. 470

Dear Fellow Members:

Here it is mid-Summer again and time to think about our annual steak-supper at the camp. Preparations have already started. We are looking forward to a huge turnout of members and guests on Saturday August 14th next, your only chance to enjoy this traditiona1 celebration before the new millenium. As usual the festivities will get underway with a cornroast (I should say a cornboil) in the afternoon and an opportunity to visit the camp and grounds and renew old acquaintances. There will be good corn from Compton provided by Gerry Largy and cooked to perfection under the supervision of Bro. Francis Giroux. The steaks will also be top quality and we are once again counting on the expertise of Mike Butterfield to do the honors at the grill. This, by the way, is Mikes official invitation. Beer will be available at $2.00 a bottle and wine at $1.00 a glass. Preparations at the camp will be in the capable hands of Albert Kinkead. I will personally invite my brothers Bill, Peter and Bernard and their wives and I hope other members will do the same. The charge will be $10 per person, bring guests and stay overnight in one of the cabins if you like, or pitch a tent, but come.

Bill Woolgar came to our regular meeting in June at the camp and offered to set up a web-page on the internet for St-Pats Old-Boys. He is a retired communications expert and has already put copies of previous bulletins on his own websight. Bills e-mail address is woolgo@microtec.net, please contact him there to give an opinion on whether or not we should have a websight. By the way the Woolgar family is planning a gathering of the clan at the camp in August 2000. Gerald Gingras a life member of our association and Lens brother died on June 30th in St-Lambert at age 79. Our condolences are extended to the family of the deceased and he will be remembered at the annual mass for deceased members on St-Patricks day in the year 2000. Two new associate members have been confirmed at recent meetings of the association,they are Gilles Samson a member of the Optimists Club of Stoke and a businessman in Sherbrooke and Réjean Dubé of Stoke who is the president of the association of property owners of Stoke Lake. Both these members have taken a keen interest in the activities of the association as has our preceeding new member Fred Scott who owns a home lakeside near the camp. Some progress has been made toward the acquiring of a tax number for charitable donations through the efforts of Gilles Samson who has contacted a notary and put forward a proposal that should eventually lead to charitable organization status. Overlooked in the May Bulletin were several letters one from Patrick McCoy including a photograph inside St-Patricks Church before removal of the main altar, dated 1951. Patrick also sent in his uncle Bobs new address. Another letter was from Pat Stock in Scottsdale Arizona where he is Vice-President of a large homebuilding company. Pat has fond memories of attending camp at Stoke Lake and sent in a very generous donation to the Brother Joseph Fund. Gerry Walsh also sent in a very generous donation and and a personal letter. Gerry is the Superior of the Jesuits of Halifax and is going to Rome in September to report on Jesuits in Upper Canada province (Jesuit). He said that Marc Gervais (SJ) won an award for best teacher at Concordia University! Bravo Marc. George Katadotis writes that John Gardiner, his brother-in-law is seriously ill at the C.H.U. Last but not least a letter from Michael Brooks in England asking for information concerning Garth McVeigh who died in May. Sorry we weren't able to comply Michael, no e-mail for one thing and a delay in my getting to actually read your letter so you were already travelling when I got to it. See you all at the steak supper August 14^th.