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East Chop was crowded with fun activities over the Fourth of July weekend. The beach club held its annual July meeting on Friday the 4th at 10 a.m. President Caryl Dearing presided over a businesslike and rather brief meeting. Affairs are running well at the beach club due to excellent board leadership and a cooperative staff. As a result, there were few issues of controversy to discuss, but that didn’t explain the brevity of the meeting. The sun was shining!
The yacht club meeting immediately followed with president Jay Kay at the helm. Jay announced that the club was preparing for maintenance work to be done on the bulkhead next fall. He reported that the junior sailing program is up and running under Perry Dripps, and that they were thinking of adding an advanced racing class and an adult sailing class. He also announced that the club had purchased a Gem which will be christened for Sterling Ivison next Saturday at the annual yacht club party.
Saturday night the beach club held its annual Fourth of July cookout. The beach was mobbed with enthusiastic partygoers. The night was as beautiful as Terry Appenzellar’s smile, but more on that later.
On Sunday, the focus turned to the tennis club. Steve and Kathy Wilkerson led a large cast of volunteers in serving the traditional breakfast at “Wimpleton.” While feasting on the elaborate fare, club members watched Mark Willis and Gretchen Massey defeat Charlie Daane and Jane Coe in the finals of the mixed doubles tournament. Prior to this fine match, Dan Protzmann and Gail MacLennan-Bird defeated Dave Kranz and Holly Novell for the consolation title in a nail-biter decided by three tiebreakers.
East Chop said a final goodbye to Sterling Ivison at a memorial service held at Union Chapel on Sunday afternoon. The Reverend Jim Kidd of Punta Gorda, Fla., and East Chop led the service for a packed house. Moving tributes were given by Sterling Wall, David Stephens, son Skip Ivison and daughter Kate Meleney. Several members from the congregation added stories about how this good and very generous man had touched their lives. Following the service, Skip and Leigh Ivison held a reception at Big Bluff that concluded this upbeat and lively celebration of Sterling’s life.
Penny and Don Hinkle were visited last week by their younger daughter Katherine, husband Bob Bell, daughters Samantha and Kaitlin, two cats and two dogs. Their visit was timely. Bob, who designed the extensive renovations to their home, was able to fix all the little problems that often result from such building projects.
If the lousy weather returns, Patsy McCornack has a rainy day tip. Featherstone Center of the Arts is hosting a flea market on Tuesdays throughout the summer. One hundred vendors, including many Island artists, will be there.
Finally, the trivia contest mystery has been solved. Terry Appenzellar and I share a chipped front tooth. I played tennis with Debby Lewis on Saturday. When she arrived on the tennis club porch, I smiled, and she broke out into a wide grin. “Gotcha.” It was interesting that I provided the mystery and not Terry. Everyone knew she had a chipped tooth. Maybe I need to smile more often!
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