High Tide January 2008

Inside this Issue:

Commodore’s Comments

2008 Directory Updates

Congratulations

Entertainment Calendar

Football Fans

Casino Night

Slip Registration Form

Celebrators

Care & Concern

We Remember

Welcome Aboard

Milwaukee Boat Show

Bar Reminder

Picture of the Month

P.O. Box 51

South Milwaukee, WI 53172

Ice Islands in the Harbor

SMYC Board of Directors

Commodore

Ray Hollnagel

Vice Commodore

Paula Modlinski

Rear Commodore

Jon Hemb

Corresponding Secretary

Genie Steele

Treasurer

Kyle Brunk

Financial Secretary

Karen Kilman

Fleet Captain

Rick Klamrowski

Board of Directors

Ryan Behling

Steve Bowens

Rick Klamrowski

Tom Hoffa

Barb Nowak

Paul Ruggles

2008 Committee Chairs

Bar

Debby Schulz

House/Hall

Barb Nowak

House maintenance

Tom Hoffa

Grounds Ryan Behling

Harbor & Docks Paul Ruggles

Membership & Marketing

Paula Modlinski

Manpower Jon Hemb

Finance Mike Gengler Jr.

Gas

Ben Chadwick

Planning

Kyle Brunk

Health & Welfare

Lois Kowalczewski

Juniors

Kurt Bruck

Entertainment

Paula Modlinski

Public Relations

Barb Mueller

Commodore’s Comments

Another year has passed. The 2007 boating season had some high points and some low points. The high points included enough water in the harbor to go where we wanted to go. We had a full season to use our new fish cleaning station and thousands of fish passed through it from cooler to freezer. We also obtained new picnic tables and gas grills that will get lots of use this com-ing season. Other highlights include our new road along the outer wall, the replace-ment of the walk-in cooler in the basement and new windows in the club-house. And don’t forget a successful Pig Roast weekend and other events that brought us together. On the downside, we lost Ron Mueller, a very active member of the club. We also have a handful of members who are battling cancer and other illnesses. Our thoughts and prayers are with those people. Toward the end of the year, we lost a lot of water in the harbor. According to some of our longest-serving members, it is the lowest they have seen the water level since joining the club decades ago. And as water levels drop, gas prices rise. But gas prices are not our main concern now. We will be dredging this year. Our board of directors from 2007 is mainly intact for 2008. We did lose a few members, however. I would like to personally thank Mike Gengler, Jr. for his work the past few years. Mike was our vice commodore last year and also served as rear commodore and corresponding secretary. Mike chaired many of our committees, including finance, planning, mar-keting and rules and bylaws. He spearheaded the task of redesigning our newsletter and making it available on our web site. I’m grateful for his in-put on several club matters. Congratulations, Mike and Katy, on your engagement! I also want to thank Pam Spenner for her three years on the board. She always was the voice of reason at our board meetings and I always re-spected her contributions. She served on the finance committee and was our LMYA liaison. Gary Gale completed six years on the board of directors and has chaired our grounds committee the entire time. I owe Gary a debt of gratitude for all his hard work. Gary donated his time and equipment to help us spruce up the club during our pavilion/gate/canopy project. The two retaining walls in front of the pavilion and the clubhouse look marvelous. Hopefully, we can get the sign installed for the commodore’s parking spot before I’m done being commodore! I also want to thank all the others club members who pitched in over the past year, especially the current board members and officers who quietly do their jobs to the best of their ability. See ya at the club, Ray

2008 Directory Updates

January

19 Installation of Officers & Gen Membership Mtg. 5:30pm

G Bruck /Nowak

Dinner ticket order forms available in High Tide and at the bar

$35 pp advanced sale price available thru 1-13

Cocktails 5:30/Dinner 6:30/Band, Rhythm Method, starts at 8 pm

26 5th Street Yacht Club Installation 5:30pm 5th Street

February

1 Hors d' oeuvre Night 6:00pm Club

3 Super Bowl XLII 6pm EST

4 Board Meeting 6:30pm Club

17 Chili Contest TBD Krall

23 Casino Night 7-11pm Hurulas

$20 of real $$ gives participants $30k in Play Money

Black Jack, Texas Hold'em and Craps tables

Prizes at the end of the night for biggest winners!

Volunteers needed - contact John Hurula

March

3 Board Meeting 6:30pm Club

7 Hors d' oeuvre Night 6:00pm Club

8 Pier Bidding 12:00pm Klamrowski

17 General Membership 7:00pm Club

23 Easter Volunteers needed to sponsor kid's party in

March

April

4 Hors d' oeuvre Night 6:00pm Club

7 Board Meeting 6:30pm Club

21 General Membership Meeting 7:00pm Club

May

2 Last Hors d’ oeuvre Night until 10/08 6:00pm Club

5 Board Meeting 6:30pm Club

10 Launch/Lunch 6:30am Club - / P Modlinskii

Have a new idea for a club event you'd like to sponsor, or a date

in mind to reprise an entertaining activity previously enjoyed?

Make a plan to earn manpower hours to post to your account!

Please contact Paula 262.679.9076 or email to wordart@wi.rr.com

The 2008 Member Directory will be available after April 1st. Please review your personal information in the 2007 SMYC Directory and submit any changes or additions by February 15th to our Corre-sponding Secretary: Genie Steele Via e-Mail: genie@wi.rr.com By phone: 414-529-1899 Cell Phone Entries: Provide a cell phone number(s), if you would like this information made available and be sure to indicate which member of your family will an-swer each number!

The Board of SMYC congratulates Gordon Conant on achieving Life Member status. May you and Donna continue to enjoy boat-ing and all the friendships formed through your association with members past, present and future, for many, many years to come! The second of two weddings in three months had Chuck and Pam Cottrill mugging for the camera one more time with proud smiles. Son Justin wed Jennifer (Jenny) September 8th and Nick married Rebecca (Becky) on De-cember 14th. Wedded bliss to parents and newlyweds alike.

Entertainment Calendar

Congratulations

Football Fans

Thanks to all the Football Fans who showed up in mass for the last two regular season Packer

games—against the Bears 12/23 and the Lions 12/30 - as well as for the UW Badgers playoff game

so early on New Year's Day.

The upgraded Entertainment System, including the

new HD TV's and sound system, certainly en-

hanced the experience and brought forth lots of

positive feedback. There was an abundance

of food available, thanks to all the members who

shared their surplus of holiday cookies as well

as other wonderful hearty snacks. Bob Smith's

donation of a 1/2 barrel of beer was generously

consumed and enjoyed by most, appreciated by

all. Thanks to Deb Brunk and Paula Modlinski for

making available hot Italian Beef Sandwiches and

Pasta Salad during half-time.

We enjoyed the addition of all our guests from South Shore Yacht Club who've been stopping by

and, fortunately for us, feel welcome and at home among the SMYC crowd.

2nd Annual CASINO NIGHT will be held

Saturday, February 23rd 7pm to 11pm

Your $20 will provide you with $30,000 in Play Money and hours of Entertainment.

Play your choice of Blackjack, Texas Hold‘em, or Craps.

Prizes awarded to those holding the most Play Money at the end of the evening.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED, especially Dealers, to

make this a success! Contact John Hurula 414.762.8914 or

414.526.5248

Right: Casino Night 2007 was a lot of fun...make sure you don’t miss this one!

Casino Night

http://www.homestylecustom.com

Celebrators

Happy Birthday!!!

Mike Trock 2/1 Fred Roeseler 2/2

Linda Daly 2/6 Ralph Michaels 2/6 Sue Schlichting 2/7

Cathy Bruck 2/8

John Hurula 2/8 Judy Lindemoen 2/8 Neal Modlinski 2/8

Steve Krall 2/9 Joe Tarnowski 2/9 Tim O’Neill 2/11

JJ Reifschneider 2/12 Mary Oudeans 2/13

Don Green 2/14 Kenny Sierszen 2/15

Swifty 2/19 Shirley Tarnowski 2/19 Mike Gengler Jr. 2/23

Dave Schiel 2/23 Bob Spenner 2/23

Happy Anniversary!!

Jerry & Lois Kowalczewski 2/26

Steve & Sharyn Hock 2/29

Welcome Aboard

The board of SMYC introduces new members,

William "Stan" Crawford, wife Oana, and two

year old daughter, Christina. Residents of St.

Francis, Stan reports they are happy to

be putting down permanent roots in the area. He

is a safety engineer for WE Power. The Craw-

fords have a 34' Silverton, the Adoua

Casã (Romanian for "second home").

South Milwaukee residents, Jeffrey and Sue

Popp, submitted their application for an Associ-

ate Membership, January 7th.

SMYC Member James J. Gilmeister, formerly of Oak Creek, died unexpectedly of an aneurysm on December 10th at the age of 66. He left behind his best friend and devoted wife of 47 years, Anita, his children Jackie (Jeff) Milosch, Sue (Collin) Running, and Jim (Shari) Gilmeister; also seven wonderful grandchildren, Mindy, Tony, Kristen, Stephanie, Rebecca, Chandler and Kara, and one sister Bonnie Wanta (Gordy Krogwald). Known as "Gentlemen Jim" in his early years, he played accordion and performed at weddings and special occasions. After retiring from Milwaukee Forge in 1995, Jim and Anita moved to Mesa, AZ where he started performing, known as "Jimmy Hookum", where he kept many people entertained until his death. Services were held in Oak Creek on Saturday December 15th.

We Remember

Care and Concern

The following members of our SMYC family ap-

preciate your continued thoughts, as we pray for

their strength to cope and recover.

Dave Pasniak

Jan Ruggles

George Gilmore, Re: friend Joanne

Jim Gilmeister Family

Bar Reminders

The bar will be closed Mondays that are not meeting nights and all Tuesdays

Milwaukee Boat Show

The finest displays of the newest boats retailed in the region will be on display at the one Boat Show that all boating enthusiasts know to at-tend. This is Wisconsin's largest boating exposi-tion with over 300 boats from over 100 manufac-turers

Friday, January 18th - Sunday January 27th

Adult $8 Children 12 & under free with paid adult.

Milwaukee Expo Center

State Fair Park

(www.showspan.com/MBS/Home.aspx)

Did you know?

There is an International Chili Society. They are a not-for-profit organization that sanctions chili cookoffs. These events are worldwide and benefit charities or nonprofit organizations. (www.chilicookoff.com/default.asp)

Most chili recipes are a secret and even in some successful restaurant franchises the cooks are

not privy to the ingredients. (www.famouschilirecipes.com/Chili-Secrets.html)

The origins of Chili are shrouded in mystery. The consensus, though, is that it first appeared in San Antonio, Texas around the beginning of the 19th century. (www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/kitchentips/chili.html)

Chili Contest Coming….February 17th

Hey Hey Hey, Think that your chili is good? Or better yet, think your chili is bad????? Don’t be hesitant to enter this year’s chili contest. Exotic offerings of spicy deer meat chili, white chicken chili, and once and only once, Pat Murray won with an offering of Hormel Chili (I think we cleansed our pallets between samples with copious amounts of wine that year). It is all in good fun, and we eat well and have some fun.

It was our custom to have the contest on Super bowl Sunday, but we made a change. By a unanimous decision of the Chili Contest Committee, we will be competing for the South Milwaukee Yacht Club Chili Championship on February 17th. In addition to the contest on that day there is a NAS-CAR event. I know it’s not the Indianapolis 500, but its close. It may be Daytona… right now it’s a mys-tery, just as the winner of the chili contest is always a mystery.

Above: 2006 Chili Contest: Dan Krall and 2006 Contest Winner Dona Cieczka Join us for a fun, interesting, and sometimes surprising event. There will be plenty of food, and I doubt the club will be short on beverages. Entry fee: $5.00 for the prize fund, collected from participants and spectators, which includes judging privileges. Everyone gets to eat too, if they want to………Bring your antacids just in case.

P.O. Box 51

South Milwaukee, WI 53172

As in all organizations, active participants are vital to the success of any program. Please consider volunteering to serve SMYC on any of the following Committees.

For Committee Description, refer to the Operating Committees section of the Rules, pages 12-14 of the most current handbook (5/9/06)).

In need of Chairs and Committee Members:

Cruise Committee

LMYA ( Lake Michigan Yachting Association) Rules & By-Laws

Please consider helping the newest Committee Chairs:

Ryan Behling – Grounds Committee

Planning – Kyle Brunk Membership & Marketing – Paula Modlinski