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18. CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE
We extend special thanks to our Area Coordinators for a successful 2008 season.
We recently mailed invoices for 2009 dues. The invoice is also our roster
verification. Even if you are a life member, please complete and mail the form
back to us.
We give a special welcome to Michael Sholer who joined our Executive Board
in January, 2009. Michael has been a long-time member who has attended most
of our luncheon meetings.
A new country list is enclosed. We added St. Barts in the Caribbean and
Abkhazia in Asia. Our new total is 319.
The UK Club will host an International meeting this spring on Friday, April 17, to Sunday, April 19.
I hope many of you will be able to attend. More details are on page 3.
Our September 12, 2009, meeting will be in San Diego instead of Orange County.
We look forward to seeing you at the March event.
WEBSITE
www.travelerscenturyclub.org
Viewers, we appreciate your
observations and suggestions.
CLUB PINS
Club Lapel Pin – $10
Silver 150 Countries – $8
Gold 200 Countries – $8
250 Countries – $8
All pins are available with pin or tie-tack backing.
Available only to regular members of the TCC.
INFO FILES REQUESTS
WELL TRAVELED 2009
Our congratulations to those Club members who have
reached higher levels of countries visited. Well Traveled.
SPECIAL AWARD
for 300 or more countries
MS. CAROLE ANN PESKIN
The Villages, FL
AWARD
for 250 or more countries
MR. COEN GONSALVES
Netherland
MR. ROBERT MULLER
Great Neck, NY
MR. STEPHEN NEWCOMER
W. Hollywood, CA
MR. JAGANNATHAN SRINIVASRAGHAVEN
Carbondale, IL
GOLD MEMBERSHIP
for 200 countries
MR. LEE S. ABBAMONTE
New York, NY
ATTY. DOMINADOR D. BUHAIN
Sampaloc, Manila, Philippines
MR. PHILLIPS M. CONNER
Singapore
MS. EDNA ERSPAMER
Santa Monica, CA
MS. ERIKA FERNBACH.
Los Angeles, CA
MRS. LINDA HUETINCK
MR. JOHN HUETINCK
Alhambra, CA
MR. WAYNE A. SCHILD
Austin, TX
SILVER MEMBERSHIP
for 150 or more countries
MR. THOMAS H. GETZ
Irvine, CA
MR. GARY HUGHES
Clarkston, WA
MS. DIANE JARRETT
Newport Beach, CA
MRS. JANET M. JOHNSON
Redondo Beach, CA
ATTACHED ARE INFO FILES ON: SUBMITTED BY:
#553 Andorra, Italy and the Mediterranean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Richard Hall Thayer, Ph.D
#554 Lesotho - Africa’s Mountain Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Wayne E. Smith
#555 From the Death of the Czar to Stalin’s Bunker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Bill Altaffer
#556 Bonaire - Netherland Antilles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dr. Sunny Vazquez-McMullen
#557 Cook Islands - Palmerston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .James A. Smith
Note: The opinions expressed are those of the writers and not the Travelers’ Century Club.
A hearty thanks for all of you club members for sending in Info Files for our Centurian. They are enjoyed by all, so please send in your items of interest. Don’t
forget that these must be typewritten, single spaced and not to exceed two pages due to cost of postage. Those of you who have sent in your Info Files that have not
yet been published, please be patient as they will be used in the future. Note: We do not edit or correct misspellings, since we cannot match your type. You can
also send your Info Files to our e-mail address. E-mail: tccclub3@gte.net
Please note that when you request back issues of Info Files, there is a $1.00 cost per Info File.
We have a new permanent name tags with the TCC Logo and your name engraved. Cost $7.50
including shipping. If you wish to order, send us your check and you will receive your tag in six weeks.
Magnetic backing available, add $4.00.
TCC Editor: Klaus Billep Contributing Editor: Lorelli Embry
NEW ENGRAVED NAME TAGS
INFO FILE ITEMS
A HEARTY WELCOME
Abeloe, Mr. Ryan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2235 Hogan Ct., Reno, NV 89523-2034
Arbeit, Mrs. Wendy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1609 Oak Hill Road, Memphis, TN 38138
Brixen, Mr. Scott. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Jalan Hajijiah, #03-19, Laguna Green, Singapore 468726
Clasby, Mr. Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1410 Catalina Ave, Seal Beach, CA 90740
Conner, Mr. Phillips M.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1905 Suntec Tower 2, 9 Temasek Blvd., Singapore 138909
Ernst, Mr. Roger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9176 Highland Ridge Way, Tampa, FL 33647-2277
Fogarty, Mr. John T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1303 Edison Heights Road, Sunbury, PA 17801
Geiger, Ms. Lesley M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Delfern Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90077
Getz, Mr. Thomas H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15181 Chalon Circle, Irvine, CA 92604
Halderson, Mr. Jerome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9420 Pigeon Lake Road, Valders, WI 54245
Johnson, Mr. Graeme & Mrs. Carina. . . . . 4058 Chemingage, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3Y 1R5
Johnson, Ms. Katie Butler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771 River Oaks Circle, Fairview, TX 75069
Kelly Jr., Mr. Robert T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 W. Carmen Lane, Apt. 94, Santa Maria, CA 93458
Kulick, Mrs. Marilyn J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18074 Daves Ave, Monte Sereno, CA 95030
Kwar, Samer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3240 Maguire Way #200, Dublin, CA 94568
Newcomer, Mr. Stephen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840 N. Larrabee St. #4121, No. Hollywood, CA 90069
Olson, Mr. Ray. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P.O. Box 70749, Washington DC 20024-0749
Roth, Ms. Clara A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436 Lincoln Ave, Apt B4, Orange, NJ 07050
Sartin, Mr. Jim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3680 Hacks Cross Road, Memphis, TN 38125
Searle, Mr. Gary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2829 SW Brighton Way, Palm City, FL 34990-6071
Stading, Mr. Tige . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505 Tremont St. #702, Boston, MA 02116
Vail, Mrs. Colette S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 Hoppers Lane, Paramus, NJ 07652
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Travelers’ Century Club
Club Headquarters
P.O. Box 7050
Santa Monica, CA 90406-7050
(310) 458-3454 • Fax: (310) 395-9511
email: tccclub3@verizon.net
www.travelerscenturyclub.org
OFFICERS
Klaus Billep, Chairman
Christopher Hudson, President
Ronald L. Endeman, Vice-President
Sanford K. Smith, Secretary
Pamela Barrus, Treasurer
EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBERS
Floyd D. Baker
David J. Barry
Tim Carlson
Kevin Hughes
Michael Sholer
MARCH 2009
Klaus Billep
AN INVITATION TO THE
MARCH LUNCHEON
Date: Saturday, March 14, 2009
Place: Riviera Restaurant at the Fireside
13950 Springdale Street
Westminister, CA 92683
Tel: (714) 897-0477
Time: 11:30 a.m. – No Host Cocktails
12:30 p.m. – Luncheon & Program
Cost: Members & Guests $50
Non-Members (not guests) $60
Includes wine, tax, tip
Payment: No later than March 11
For late RSVP call (310) 458-3454
Parking: Free self-parking
Directions: From South 405, exit Westminister Ave.,
cross over 405 bridge, enter big
parking lot to the right. From North
405, exit Springdale. Enter parking lot
across the street.
Hotel Info: Hotels in Irvine or Newport Beach
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Being halfway through my term as TCC President makes me think of “Mezzo
Cammin,” which is a wonderful poem by Longfellow about being halfway through
life. Longfellow’s generation of writers isn’t much appreciated now, but they were
both great writers and great travelers. Longfellow traveled widely in France,
Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain, Denmark, England, Sweden and Switzerland.
His contemporary, Washington Irving, also traveled in Germany, France and Spain:
in fact, he wrote Rip Van Winkle in Birmingham, England. He had learned all about
Sleepy Hollow on an earlier trip when he had to flee from a yellow fever outbreak.
What exotic place was suffering from yellow fever? It was Manhattan.
Travel back then, in the early nineteenth century, could be seriously difficult. We have it much easier, and
we are all wimps compared to Montaigne, who traveled around the Alps in the sixteenth century, all the
while enduring excruciating kidney stones as his carriage bumped from one rock to another.
We owe a debt to these earlier hardy travelers. Mark Twain put it very well in 1857. “Travel is fatal to
prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little
corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
So let’s all keep moving! And if you haven’t been to Dublin’s fair city recently, or at all, why not join the
local TCC group for their meeting in April? I’m sure they’d love to meet you.
Christopher Hudson
ST. BARTS AND ABKHAZIA ADDED TO TCC LIST
(continued on page 3)
The TCC Board, at its meeting in December,
2008, voted to add two more countries – St.
Barts and Abkhazia -- to its approved list, bring-ing
the total to 319. Here is some of the ration-ale
for the Board’s decision.
St. Barts, in the Caribbean, became a separate
collectivity of France on February 22, 2007.
Previously, it was administered together with the
French portion of the island of St. Martin. With
its new status, the U.S. State Department added
St. Barts to its list of entities, as did the American
Radio Relay League.
The Board discussed the two breakaway regions
of the republic of Georgia – Abkhazia and South
Ossetia. Since August, 2008, these regions have
been occupied by Russian troops and both
declared their independence, but they have only
been recognized as independent by Russia and
Nicaragua. Both regions originally declared their
independence in the early 1990s but Georgia
denied their status, so the Board previously
declined to recognize them as separate entities
because of the uncertainty of their outcome.