FC LIFE February 2018

JANUARY 2017 FEBRUARY 2018

A PUBLICATION ABOUT LIFE AT FRENCHMAN’S CREEK BY, FOR AND ABOUT OUR MEMBERS

MARK PETRICOFF had a Hole-In-One on

Friday, February 2, 2018. It was on hole number 5 of the South Course and his first one! The hole played at 147 yards and he used a 6

hybrid.

LARRY KLEINBERG had a Hole-In-One on Tuesday, February 13, 2018. It was on hole number 2 of the North Course. The hole played at 150 yards and he used a 5 wood.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2018 TOURNAMENT

Flight One

1st

Susan Fuirst, Bette Goldberg, Debra Lalonde, Helene Shuter

2nd Jane Feinstein, Kathy Azeez, Barbara Sheldon, Nancy Bernstein

Flight Two

1st

Sharon Rochlin, Sandra Myrow,, Lois Kleinberg, Gaby Brinkwirth

2nd Andrea Finkel, Debbie Hornstein, Marion Newman, Elaine Parks

Flight Three

1st

Carol Smith, Wendy Weinstein, Ros Fanaroff

2nd Evelyn Gutkin, Helene Dubow, Alice Bael, Judy Rubin

2nd Marjorie Feinstein, Marianne Winick, Joan Simmons, Penny Abrams

Flight Four

1st

Joan Schwartzman, Carol Pulver, Judy Weiss, Phyllis Hershman

2nd Connie Golber, Robin Rothenberg, Bobbi Sobel, Naomi Freedman

The February Nine, Wine and Dine went off as scheduled– no rain!! On Friday, February 2, the nine hole tournament started at 3:30 p.m. to finish before sundown. Forty seven groups more than filled all four nines. The tournament was played, as usual, in a step aide scramble format.

After golf, players enjoyed cocktails and hors d’oeuvres preceding an extensive dinner featuring a salad bar, raw bar, taco and gyro stations followed by a luscious dessert station.

Sue Shaw and Robyn Rosenblatt arranged a lovely afternoon with the usual wonderful aid of our fabulous golf and dining staffs.

By Mimi Bergel

THE PALM BEACH INTERCLUB BRIDGE LEAGUE OF 2017 IN LIEU OF PURCHASING A TROPHY FOR COMING IN FIRST, DONATED THE MONEY TO SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE. The team members pictured from left to right are: Barbara Hanig, Linda Gross, Catherine Pollock, Barbara Wildstein, Harriet Gross, Flo Lewis, Helene Shuter and Carol Finkleman

With the Parkland shooting so fresh in our minds, we celebrate our children and grandchildren and our great grandchildren, take pride in their accomplishments and are happy to share them with our Frenchman’s friends. We, at Frenchman’s Creek Life, especially welcome these proud moments – so keep them coming!

LINDA and STEVE EPSTEIN are proud of their granddaughter, Brooke Silverstein who will be performing in Carnegie Hall April 23rd, 2018 as first violinist in her high school orchestra. The group is one of a select few high school orchestras nationally, which were invited to perform in that venue.

THELMA and RICHARD FLORIN are happy to announce that the article their granddaughter, Kate Florin, wrote for the Syracuse University’s food publication for college students by college students, Spoon, was picked up by “Business Insider.” The article was “Your relationship status as described by Valentine’s Day Chocolates.” She compares relationships to various chocolates– Godiva, Lindt Dark Chocolate, M&M Milk Chocolate and Late Night Drugstore Chocolate . Her article will be used in marketing.

HARILYN and ED ZIMMERMAN are thrilled to be first time GIGI’s (Great Grandparents). Brayden Fand was born Tuesday, January 30, 2018. He weighed 7 pounds 8 ounces and is the son of Mathew and Leah Frand and the grandson of Robin and Ben Frand. Brayden and his parents live in Warren, New Jersey.

ART LERNER sent us this unusual picture of a very large MANATEE in back of his house. The waterway is brackish water. Pictured is just one third of her size. The rest is underwater.

FRENCHMAN’S CREEK LIFE has been fortunate to have top photographers on our staff. We welcome ANDREA FINKEL as our new photographer who brings us this outstanding picture of the Full Blood Red Super Blue Moon partially eclipsed on early Wednesday morning, January 31, 2018

SUSAN KATZ and ANNE STANFIELD both captured our rosette Spoonbill. As Anne wrote ,”Even the birds were dressed in pink for our Frenchman’s Creek Women Playing For Breast Cancer Golf Tournament played Tuesday, January 30th, 2018.

Ask LAURIE and JONATHAN NELSON who their favorite entertainer is, and most likely they will reply “Paul Anka”. They have seen him perform almost every year for the past 40 years. It’s an annual tradition in the Nelson household to sit in the front aisle with a bouquet of roses for the performer. In the picture , Mr. Anka is seen serenading Laurie with his famous song, “Put Your Head On My Shoulders,” at the Kravis last month. Some of our members may have been there that night to share her joy.

By Marleen Hacker

We thank FREDDY SCHEFREN for bringing us this photo of she and GLORIA SLASS celebrating New Year’s Eve in the Sahara Desert with their hot water bottles. Hope they were large enough to keep them warm!

Have you ever yearned for those days of playing tennis using a wooden racket and sporting an all white outfit? Well dream no more because each and every year Frenchman’s Creek Tennis has such a match. This year’s event was on Monday, January 29, 2018. Because of previously inclement weather, the Wooden Racket/Vintage Tennis competition was combined with the Frenchman’s Creek Women for Cancer Research Benefiting Scripps Research Institute Tournament. Over twenty players dusted off their wooden rackets and donned their crisp clean white tennis clothing for a morning of spirited competition on the courts. It looked like 1974 all over again: white shirts, white shorts, and white tennis dresses all adorned with wood rackets. The only thing that was missing was the white tennis balls! It’s not so much the attitude of nostalgia that one plays with a wooden racket, but rather a growing conviction of some that tennis is a better sport when played with conventional rackets. Long base-line rallies, carefully planned approach shots, and volleys that need to be crisp and angled to win the point make the game more interesting. But why the throw back to white you ask? Players don’t just wear white because it’s hot outside, that’s for sure. However, white does reflect the entire spectrum of light, which means that white absorbs little heat. It therefore keeps the players cooler than colors. But also around the turn of the 20 th Century competitive tennis called for new outfits. It called for Tennis Whites. Furthermore, since tennis had long been a summer game for the rich, the rich wore white to play tennis. And—since the middle class likes to imitate the rich—as tennis grew over the course of the 20th century, the middle class wore white to play, too. Thus white for tennis became a rule and Wimbledon mandated all-white tennis outfits in 1890. So for the next Wooden Racket/Vintage Tennis event, check your seasonal handbook and pay attention to your email. And when the date is announced, mark your calendar. You will not regret the fun you’ll have playing like Martina Navratilova or Bjorn Borg did in the early 1970s. A BIT OF NOSTALGIA ON THE TENNIS COURTS AT FRENCHMAN’S CREEK By Mark H. Hurd

Back Row; L-R: Mark Jaffe, Lee Storch, Joel Comiteau, Hal Rosenson, Norman Jacobs, Dan Myerson, Tom Aveni, Arnold Kanarack, Richard Florin, and Kevin Kramp Front Row; L-R: Brenda Nocera, Myna Homburger, Elaine Pearlmen, Beth Elgort, Beverly Halpert, Laura Lustig, Connie Forman, Sue Davis, Mickey Berman, and Ginny Rogers

The Homefront column is designed to inform our members where in the community our new residents are living and other residences they may have. It also keeps up with our present members who have stayed in the community but moved to new dwellings. Of course we always wish our members who are moving out of the community good luck wherever their travels take them and our new members and established members good luck in their new address.

We welcome BETH and MARTY ZUBATKIN who purchased the Seymour Cohn house on Dijon Way. They also reside in Somers, New York.

Welcome to VALERIE BERNSTEIN and JOHN BRODERICK, her fiancé, who purchased Susan and Syd Katz’ home on LeHavre Drive. Valerie has three children, Jess, Will and Dylan and also happens to be Linda Gross’ daughter!

CATHY and JON MILLER while new official mem- bers are not new to Frenchman’s Creek. Cathy is the daughter of the late Herb and Rita Chestler. Cathy and Jon live on Monaco Way and also reside in Old Westbury, New York.

BETH and ALAN SINGER bought the Woolman home on Degas Drive East and they also reside in Chicago and New

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By Mimi Bergel

Mardi Gras came a little early to Frenchman’s Creek, in the form of of the First Ladies Member Guest Invitational, on Thursday, February 8, 2018. Starting off with –happily -lovely weather, it was a delightful day with 224 women playing, including guests representing 57 different clubs. It certainly was as an extremely popular and successful event. To start the day, everyone was greeted by a Dixieland quartet to set the mood. Ladies dressed in Mardi Gras inspired colors and adorned with favors of lots of lovely beaded necklaces. They enjoyed a lovely buffet breakfast before playng a “One Best Ball Shamble Format.” After golf, everyone was welcomed into a dining room which included very beautiful themed decorations and flowers done by our own in-house florist, Mario. All were treated to a delicious buffet luncheon which included some different Mardi Gras inspired dishes, such as New Orleans style shrimp, jambalaya and chicken creole– along with lots of other delights. Among the desserts was a cupcake sized “King Cake,” which is indicative of Mardi Gras and one cake at each table which contained a miniature baby doll. The person who received that cake also received a ball clip and ball marker. Thanks to Chef Berndt who enthusiastically helped to create the menu. Everyone received a $100.00 gift certificate to any Saks Fifth Avenue Store as well as a sleeve of golf balls. Grace Drusinsky and Helene Shuter did a wonderful job of planning and executing the event. Again thanks go out to our wonderful golf staff– especially J.R., Rich, Rocco, Kim , Will and Chris; to Ashish our Director of Food and Beverage and Martina, our Catering Manager, and to our wonderful l dining room staff led by Vineet.

JOAN and RICHARD BAROVICK are so elated, happy and beaming that their children, AMY and JON

BAROVICK have become members of Frenchman’s Creek.

They bought Donna and Steve Fried’s house on Provence

Drive. They also reside in Manhattan, New York.

Jon is in the financial industry and Amy is a designer and

stager of homes. They have three children Jeremy, Sam

and Carly ranging in ages from 21 to 16 years old.

Great job done by MARK HALL

FRENCHMAN’S CREEK

VOLUNTEER PROGRAM

We thank Stuart Halpert for sharing this letter he wrote to Mark Hall

Thank you very much for participating in Career Day at Palm Beach Gardens High School yesterday morning. You were absolutely terrific. I wish for you to hear that from me, and I wish others at Frenchman's to know it as well! Your participation grew out of a casual conversation you and I had. When I told you what we were doing at Palm Beach Gardens High School in connection with our volunteer program, you told me you would be pleased to be of whatever assistance you could in our mentoring work on entrepreneurial and leadership skills. Well, you "knocked them over" yesterday morning! The kids and the teachers! All, as you walked into the room and lectured them about good impressions, professional development and leadership skills. "Keep your shoes polished!", you told them, among countless other remarkably entertaining and valuable lessons. Thank you, from me, for that reminder in particular! When you finished and started to leave the room to return to your official duties back at Frenchman's, the kids applauded vigorously and yelled, literally, "Please come back!" They have never done that before. You were that good! A great service to the kids, to the teachers, to me, to our fellow mentors at the school, and to the community. It was a great tribute to Frenchman's Creek as well.

Thank you.

And, by the way, you will be coming back! Your time permitting, I will make certain of that.

We urge all our members to please watch channel 999 and view the interview Steve Epstein did with our own JOE SACHS who related his experiences of being a very young man and on the pacific front during World War II.

A Meaningful Evening by Barbara Stern

FRENCHMAN’S CREEK

VOLUNTEER PROGRAM

Grove Park Elementary School reached out to our community for help with their Science “event” which was held on Thursday February 8th at 5:30 -7 PM. It’s part of the STEM project to engage and interest students in Science Technology Engineering and Math! The Science Museum set up 20 interactive centers at the school that need an adult/ teenager to work at! We were asked to arrive 30 minutes prior to get instructions. The students received a stamp when they completed each center. Pictured are some of our members helping with this project.

Stuart Halpert has informed us of the most recent volunteer outing to Palm Beach Gardens High School on February 16, 2018.We assisted in helping to prepare the high school finalists for a State Competition for scholarship funds sponsored by The Palm Beach Post. They requested volunteers to help coach students heading into the final round of a Palm Beach Post sponsored statewide competition for college scholarships. Those who "interview" best in front of the final judges win. Our job was to help prepare the kids to give a great interview! Palm Beach Gardens High School is sending 18 of their top students, with whom we worked, to the finals. As one volunteer commented, the experience for the Frenchman’s volunteers was “very uplifting”. There is great hope in the next generation coming up in America!

Pictured from left to right:

Back Row: Larry Kleinberg, Shelley Parker, Gunther Brinkwirth, Micki Berman, Lenny Greenberg.

Front Row: Tammy Skinner, Rima Robinson, Gabbe Brinkwirth, Stuart Halpert.

What a relief it is to read a book that made me laugh, chuckle or smile on every page, a book I hated to put down because it was such a pleasure to read. As this short novel explores the kindergarten year of Maximilian Dixon, through his mom’s hilarious portrayal of the class mom, the personalities and relationships she encounters are examined and exposed with all of the human frailties “that flesh is heir to”. Jen Dixon is the class mom extraordinaire, although at first that is not a universal opinion. The reader will witness the interaction of all of the Dixons, with their friends, fellow kindergarten parents, kindergarten children and their teacher. Life’s little pleasures will pop out of the story in expected and unexpected places. If nothing else, the book surely proves that we are all young inside our heads, no matter how old we are on the outside, and we all have our little secrets and dreams. It will prove that our lives shine no brighter than when we are happy and taking life in stride. Jen Dixon is lucky and she knows it. She is enjoying the dessert of her life, as she describes her youngest child, five year old Max, who has just begun kindergarten. She has two older daughters who are already away in college. Her friend Nina who heads up the PTA has leaned on her to become a class mom. She certainly has had world class experience having been one for both of her daughters. She provides a laugh a minute with her sarcastic emails, requests and expectations of the other moms, although some take umbrage at her style and do not laugh at all. Anyone who has ever been a class mom or school volunteer will nod in agreement compulsively as Jen relates her activities and the pages fly by; they will find their lips turning up into a knowing smile as requests are made and duties are performed. Anyone who hasn’t had any experience in being a class mom will thoroughly enjoy her experiences vicariously, taking pleasure in being a voyeur into the life of Jen Dixon as she navigates her home life as a wife and mother and her outside life with all of its various temptations! Max’s teacher is unusual. She presents a persona that alternates between a sex pot and a puritan. She is full of surprises, and she confounds some of the parents when they try to understand her. In short, the book presents a picture that represents a slice of all of our lives, warts and all. Jen Dixon was what every parent might want to be, even though she could be abrasive at times, because her tongue in cheek dialogue and messages were genuine, she was sincere. She spoke her mind; she was involved, and she was really a nice person when you scratched her surface. She was a joy to discover.

Club News Staff

Editor Bobbe Wiener

Correspondents Louise Albert, Mimi Bergel, Shirley Goldberg, Marleen Hacker, Mark H. Hurd

Jeri Jacobs, Myrna Leven, Norma Lippman, Joan Siegel, Lois Stern, Judy Tobin

Photographer

Andrea Finkel