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<div><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>HAPPY
THANKSGIVING</b></font></div>
<div>On behalf of Nancy Ridout, registrar, Barry Fasbender, Joan
Alexander, Karen Dugan, Jennifer Zietler, Joan Bervan, I would
like to wish everyone a very happy Thanksgiving. We hope that you will
enjoy the holiday with your friends and family.</div>
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<div>Pacific Masters is made up primarily of volunteers. It is only
through those volunteers that we have the great programs that we have
come to expect. There has been a lot of hard work by these volunteers
that goes into the running of Pacific Masters Swimming. I am very
thankful that we have them:</div>
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<div>Nancy Ridout has been our registrar for a long time. She is also
our Top Ten chairman. She answers all the calls people have about
Pacific Masters. I believe that Pacific is the largest LMSC because of
the hard work of Nancy. If anyone has a question about Masters
swimming, she either answers the question or finds out the answer and
then gets back to the person with the question.</div>
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<div>Barry Fasbender has been our Vice President of Operations. He is
also our sanctions chair. Every meet that Pacific sanctions has to be
reviewed by Barry before it is granted a sanction. He reviews the meet
sheet and works with the meet director to be sure that everything is
properly done.</div>
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<div>Karen Dugan has been out secretary for the past two years. She
takes the minutes of the general meeting and the executive board
meetings. After writing the minutes, the minutes have to be
communicated to all 110 Pacific Masters clubs.</div>
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<div>Joanne Bervan is our newsletter editor. She works on six editions
every year. All eight pages have to be written, checked and rechecked.
Then it has to be sent to the magazine people so it makes it on
time.</div>
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<div>Jennifer Zietler has been our Treasurer for the past two years.
She made sure that everyone was paid on time. She just became a
teacher which has very much limited her extra time. We thank her for
the her work over the past two years.</div>
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<div>Cindy Clements has done a phenomenal job working with the
Open Water Directors to produce great open water events. Cindy had to
be sure that the safety rules were adhered to and that all of the
paper work was done and properly turned it. Then after it is turned
it, there are usually errors that have to be corrected. Thank you
Cindy for the great job that you did over the past few years.</div>
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<div>Bill Grohe has been the At-Large chair for the past two years.
Bill has worked hard with new clubs and has worked to get new meets
for Pacific Masters swimmers.</div>
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<div>Kerry O'Brien and Brian Stack have been the coaches chair for the
past few years. They have had the experience to work with the coaches
all the while working with their own teams. Thank you Kerry and
Brian.</div>
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<div>Every meet needs officials. Caroline Lambert our officials chair
has been taking the names of all the officials who have worked Masters
meets. This data base will be available so that we can get our meets
properly officiated.</div>
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<div>Leianne Crittenden worked hard to get Clyde Wilson to speak on
nutrition at the Olympic Club for our members. Over 60 people attended
the presentation.</div>
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<div>Barbara Thomas, as the Administrative Vice President worked very
diligently to get the all the paperwork done for Pacific Masters
Swimming. As a very able writer she wrote many of nomination letters
that we send to USMS national. She worked tirelessly for Pacific
Masters, I am thankful that she work for us for the past few years. I
have missed her since her untimely passing.</div>
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<div>To all the Meet directors and volunteers, we could not have had
the meets and the working of Pacific Masters without your help. You
are the unsung heroes of Pacific Masters. I am thankful for all of you
and I wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving.</div>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>PACIFIC MASTERS WEBSITE 12 YRS
OLD</b></font></div>
<div>Yesterday, the Pacific Masters website became 12 years old. In
that we years, the results of the pool meets and the open water meets
have been posted. The Pacific Masters Newsletter have all be posted.
It is a great place to find out how well you have swum over the past
12 years.</div>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>Reno Winners
Meet</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica" size="+2" color="#000000">T</font>he 14th
Annual Reno "Winners" Meet will be held Saturday, 1 December
2007 at the Northwest Pool in Reno, Nevada. The meet starts at noon,
so that swimmers from the Bay Area can make the four hour drive to
Reno the day of the meet. Remember Reno is at 4000 feet and that there
is not much time between events.</div>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>PACIFIC MASTERS ANNUAL
MEETING</b></font></div>
<div>The Pacific Masters Swimming Annual meeting was held 14
November. There was an election of officers. The officers for
2008-2009 are</div>
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<div>Chairman - Michael Moore<br>
Vice Chair Administration - Joan Alexander<br>
Vice Chair Operations - Barry Fasbender<br>
Secretary - Karen Duggan<br>
Treasurer - Linda Shoenberger</div>
<div>At-Large - Bill Grohe</div>
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<div>The committee reviewed it accomplishments over the past
year.</div>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>NAPA COACHS
CLINIC</b></font></div>
<div>The Northern California Swimming Coaches will be 4-6
January in Napa. Chris Campbell has information about clinic. Pacific
Masters will reimburse coaches $50.00 of the clinic's $85 cost. For
further information contact Chris Campbell at
coaches@pacificmasters.org</div>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>NOVEMBER - DECEMBER
NEWSLETTER</b></font></div>
<div>The November - December Pacific Masters Newsletter has been
posted on the Pacific Masters website. It contains the 2008 schedule
and meet information for meets in December and January.</div>
<div>
http://www.pacificmasters.org/newsltr/07/07novdec.pdf</div>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>PACIFIC MASTERS 2008
SCHEDULE</b></font></div>
<div>The 2008 Pacific Masters Schedule has been posted on the web
site.</div>
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<div>http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/schd.html</div>
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<div>Currently 35 events are planned for the next year. Included in
the schedule are short course yards, long course meters, short course
meters and open water.</div>
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<div><font size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>REGISTRATION</b></font></div>
<div>Pacific Masters members can now register for the 2008 year. The
registration for is on the first page of the November - December
newsletter. The cost for 2008 is $40.00 - a $5.00 increase that will
be going to the national USMS organization.</div>
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<div>Almost all the clubs have re-registered. Nancy has sent out
invoices to most Pacific Masters members. You might have already sent
sent in your money and still received an invoice - they are two
different systems (we are working on a new registration system
for 2008). For those who have sent in their 2009 registration, 2009
cards will start to be sent out the end of this week (after
Thanksgiving).</div>
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<div>The Pacific Masters Committee hopes that you will register early.
By registering early, you will continue to USMS Swimmer, your club
will continue to be covered by USMS secondary insurance (if all the
swimmers are USMS members), you receive borrowing privileges from
Pacific Masters Video library and there is a central Pacific Masters
office to answer your questions:</div>
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<div>Happy thanksgiving</div>
<div>michael</div>
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<div>michael w. moore<br>
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