Raising Seeing Eye Dogs - Jane Berkowitz

Jane outlined how she and her family raised four separate dogs to be ready for training to become seeing eye dogs.

You can see her charts by clicking on this line.

Making Poppies for Haddonfield Project Poppy

The Haddonfield Project Poppy, a public art installation starting on Memorial Day 2020 until Independence Day 2020.

A total of 3,837 poppies will cascade from the left corner of Haddonfield Memorial High School to the grounds of Veterans Memorial Grove. The poppies will all be made by local volunteers.

The 65 club is doing their part. in assembling poppies:

 

Athletic Director of HMHS

Our first VP, Frank Lodge,  Introduced our speaker.

The Director of Athletics at Haddonfield Memorial High School, Lefty (Lefteris) Banos spoke to us about The sports programs in Haddonfield and how he got there from Greece.

When he first arrived in the US, his grandmother told him to use the name "Lefty" because no one would understand or be able to say his name. So, even though he is not left-handed, he goes by the name of 'Lefty'.

He got to Haddonfield because hi future wife lived here and when the were married and he was working in Bordentown,  the Athletic Director's job became available. He applied and got the job 15 years ago.

He has  had  a very successful time here. He has built on the traditions that exist in the town. He doesn't teach the kids to min, but to "Listen, Learn, Improve and Grow".

That formula has worked, 8 of the past 16 years Haddonfield has earned the NJ Sportsmanship Award. This is an overall award for excellence in sports for the state for all schools, not just our Group 2 schools.

Bill Brown Thanks Lefty for sharing his experiences with us.

Poppies to honor WW1 Veterans...Joe McElroy

The Haddonfield American Legion Post 38, is sponsoring an event to place artificial poppies at the Haddonfield Memorial High School this year from Memorial Day until July 4th.

Joe told us of the plan to have 3,837 or more poppies flowing out of HMHS and across the grounds in front of the school.

He has 1,500 so far and showed us how to assemble the 100 that we units that we have purchased for this project.

The kits are $2 each and assemble quickly.

Fall Wine & Cheese Party

Once again, our resident Wine and Cheese expert, Bill Brown, Set a wonderful table for our annual wine and cheese event. I night fellowship fun and music.

Women of Camden County Bonnie Beth Elwell

As a second visit to our club from the Camden Country Historical Society,

 Bonnie Beth Elwell told about women in Camden County who were prominent in our  state and national history.

After a short introduction by Saul Resnick, Bonnie took us through an extensive presentation of the women and their contributions to our state and nation.

 Where it all started

 NOTE: After the Revolutionary War, women in New Jersey had the right to vote due to the large Quaker population and their beliefs in equality. That ended in 1807. It wasn't until the passage of equal suffrage in 1919 that they got it back.

Jessie Fauset was born in Fredericksville (now Lawnside) New Jersey.

Fauset was the only African-American graduate in her class at Philadelphia High School for Girls. She was a class of 1905 graduate of Cornell University and the first African-American woman graduate in Phi Beta Kappa. She served as the literary editor (under W.E.B. DuBois) of The Crisis, the journal of the NAACP, from 1919 to 1926. 58 of her 77 published works first appeared in the journal's pages. She is the author of four novels, There Is Confusion (1924), Plum Bun (1928), The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life (1931), and Comedy, American Style (1933). She is an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta.

Haddonfield 65 Club New Zealand - Fred Willis

Saul Resnick

introduced Fred Willis

who gave us a tour of New Zealand:

Some Interesting Facts

§New Zealand is composed of two islands which equal the area of Colorado

§It lies 1000 miles east of Australia and is in the  first time zone.

§It is about 1000 miles long and lies between the 30 and 45 degree latitude. This is Maine to Florida.

§Seasons are reversed. It is a temperate climate

§It is an agricultural exporting country, sheep, wine,  farm products with tourism becoming its largest economic aspect.

§Maori’s, a Polynesian race, arrived about 1300. It was uninhabited before then.

§NZ was discovered by the Dutch in 1642 and the English in 1769.

§European settles began to arrive in 1820.

§The Maori’s were a waring, cannibal people but reached a peace settlement with the British in 1840.

§The population is 4.8 million.  The Philadelphia area has 6 million

§70% European, 15% Maori, 15% other

§Auckland – 1.5 m, Wellington -  490 K,  Christchurch – 400 K

§Per capita income US $62,000, Australia $56,000, NZ $41,200.

§Cost of living in NZ is about 10% higher than in Australia.

§There are no liability laws. 

§There is a 100% tax on automobiles.

§Parliamentary System of Government

§NZ was isolated from the world for several hundred million years and developed unique wildlife and  fauna.  This is similar to Australian history.

§ When the Maori’s arrived it was a bird paradise with most birds walking around because there were no predators.  There were about six types of reptiles on the islands. 

§The Maoris hunted birds and made at least one species, a 12 tall land bird, extinct.

§The British brought mammals which ate bird eggs and greatly changed  NZ wildlife.

§Possums are deadly for native birds. Sheep, cattle, bison, rats, mice affect native birds.

§Native trees lacked strength and were replaced with non native forests.

§While native fauna and birds still exist, the current NZ has changed 

WELLINGTON

Marlbourgh

Te Anau

Queenstown

Auckland