MASTER ANNUAL REPORT

ART EXPO Barry Fenner, Chairperson Ethel Schultz, Board Oversight

Ruth Amiel Arlene Caplan Laurie Comiteau

Joan Gelch Ruth Karlin Adele Shamban

Carol Smith Ruth Stavisky Sue Sternberg

On January 25 th and January 26 th , Frenchman’s Creek cele- brated our 26 th Art Expo Exhibition. This years theme was “ART in BLOOM”. We incorporated colorful flowers throughout our exposition. We enjoyed viewing wonderful artwork from our members and staff. As in the past, we also included our “Young at Art” and enjoyed seeing our young members creativity. As a tribute to those Artists that have passed away, we also displayed their artwork. Our 26th Art Expo was a great success and everyone enjoyed seeing the creARTivity of residents and staff. We enjoyed seeing the many creative talents of our Frenchman’s Creek community. Both evenings began with an open-bar cocktail hour with delicious hors d’oeuvres. The members enjoyed viewing all the interesting artworks. It was fun meeting the Artists and chatting with them about their Art creations. The viewing was followed by a fabulous four course dinner, with dancing and listening to the music of the Street Talk Orchestra. Eve- ryone enjoyed these nights of “ART in BLOOM”. Our Art Curator, Kelly Luchini, did a fantastic job in setting up the artworks professionally and esthetically for all to en- joy.

Roberto, Jose, and Prophet, of our Engineering department, did a great job in creating walls, partitions, and lighting to accentuate all the beautiful artwork. Many thanks to Chef Bernd Linsenmayer and his culinary staff: Martin, Jasmin and David, and to the Food and Beverage Depart- ment: Ashish Sethi, Vineet Choudhary, Martina Haut, Andrea Ile, and Jackie Acotanza. A special thanks to Mariia Sliusarenko, who without her help, this large undertaking would not have been so successful.

Thank you to Norma Lippman, who always does a great job in- terviewing our Artists for FCTV.

Thank you to our committee members for all of their positive feedback.

Thank you to Achal Goswami and Marty Slepkow, who gave me the opportunity to chair Art Expo 2019, a job I thoroughly enjoy.

Barry Fenner, Chairperson Art Expo Committee

BRIDGE CLUB

Bridge playing at Frenchman’s Creek continues to be very popular with a sanctioned ACBL dupli- cate bridge game on Friday afternoons, as well as daily social bridge games.

The ladies and men’s card rooms are in constant use and many other areas in the clubhouse are being used to accommodate our growing bridge program, including the Main Dining Room, Living Room, Lounge and Sports Bar area.

Hank Rosely continues to do a great job directing our friendly duplicate bridge games.

Dr. Mel Shuter Chairperson

Phillip Alder has returned this year to teach intermediate bridge classes. These sessions are very well attended and our members found the lessons to be excellent.

Our ladies and men’s teams did very well and we look forward to another great Bridge season. We hope our members will continue to enjoy our bridge program and we encourage new member partici- pation as well.

As always, our thanks to the entire Food & Beverage staff who make all our card games more enjoy- able.

Mel Shuter, Chairperson Bridge Club

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