PORTHOLE - Pilot club of Titusville

President’s Report

Hello Pilots,

As this Pilot year comes to an end, I would like to thank all of you for the support you have given me. As we all know, this has been a challenging year for me and because of those challenges, it has made me a stronger person and leader. I believe in my heart that the lord knows exactly what he's doing when he give us those challenges.

In the beginning of my Pilot year, I sat at the Fundraising meeting and asked you all to bring that Fashion Show back! And you did! And it was a HUGE success! I had no doubt that you all could do it. With the help of our whole club, we raised $9,588.92. A BIG THANK YOU goes to our Chair, Evelyn Taylor. She was the organizer and designator. I am so thankful that she took on that position.

As of July 1, 2011, I will be a new Past President. I have some great ideas for our 5th Wednesday meetings. I am encouraging each and every one of you to attend these meetings. These meetings are different from our regular meetings. They are fun and informative.

I am looking forward to a new Board for this coming year. I know that Jean and Lily will do what it takes to make our club stronger, build unity and recruit new members. I am thanking the new Board in advance for taking these leadership positions.

I would like to thank you for allowing me to serve as your 2010-2011 President. It has been an honor.

Pilot love and friendship,

Robin

Board of Directors

PresidentRobin Porta

President ElectJean Seiffert

Immediate Past PresidentDebbie Thompson

SecretaryJanet Camacho

Corresponding SecretaryKatherine Musick

TreasurerDebbie Smith

DirectorsLily RenzettiPatty Seifreit

Billie Jo StricklandEvelyn Taylor

May 2011

From our Chaplain- ESTHER PORTAMy Dear Pilot Friends,

Spring has arrived with a rainbow of color. Our

neighbors have lovingly prepared their yards for our

enjoyment. Take time to enjoy the beauty God has

created in our small community. Get outside, take a

stroll, feel the breeze on your face and reflect on all

that is wonderful. As we journey into a new Pilot year,

there is so much good we will do as a club and as

friends. We are One, but we have many Hands to

accomplish the goals we set as Pilots.

“Deposit strength in others; deposit hope in others. Be

an encourager and help unlock their dreams.

Remember, what you make happen for others, God

will make happen for you. You'll have the strength, hope

and courage you need to see every dream in your

heart come to pass! “ Joel Osteen

From our Fundraising Committee

Pretty Woman Fashion ShowA Special Thanks to all members that committed to this fundraiser, Ruby as always came thru with beautiful and elegant center pieces. To Barbara Fry

for taking on the registrations and ticket sales and doing a super job, to

Robin Porta and Winnie Brewer for the gifts for the models and favors, to

Esther Porta for coming after surgery and handling the seat arrangements. To all the greeters and to Rachel Terry and

Jonda Erwin for the creative and beautiful Show Program.

Thanks to all our sponsors, models, Lowe’s, Home Depot and Pilot members, We raised $9,588.00

Evelyn Taylor

June 1, 2011 Registration

Deadline for PI

Convention

Scrip Report

By Jonda Erwin and Carol Pedersen

The Scrip Girls would like to thank you for your participation in the Scrip Program this year. We were able to honor the $2,500 commitment to the budget thanks to all of you. We were able to order Publix a couple of times this year which was one of our goals. Your suggestions are always welcome. This is the club’s fundraiser!!! We made up this slogan for our Scrip shoppers…Shopping Consistently Rewards Intelligent Pilots. Thank you again for a successful year!!!

Jonda & Carol

While attending the District

Convention Our Pilots, Billi Jo Strickland, Esther Porta , Debbie Smith, Robin Porta,

and Jean Seiffert attended the Open

House at the Weddle-Pilot Scholarship

House at FSU

Report from the Anchor Chairman-ROBIN PORTA

Hello Pilots,

At our meeting held on May 9, 2011, new officers were elected for the 2011-2012 school year. The officers are as follows: President - Sarah Oswald, President-Elect -Sarah Zeigler, Treasurer - Bijal Patel, Secretary - Leanne Messer, Directors - Jamie Dodson, Max Theriault, Keri McDermott, Parliamentarian - Jailyn Langston.

Our last meeting of this year was held on May 13, 2011 at the LaCita pool. Thanks to Katherine Musick, once again, the Anchors had a great time. Lily Renzetti joined our party that day. The two seniors that were present, Caitie LeBeau and Meghan Zeigler, received our Anchor stoles for their Graduation gifts from the Pilot Club. Caitie was also the recipient of the $500 Anchor Scholarship. Caitie plans on attending UNF (University of North Florida) this fall. There she will study Civil Engineering. We wish Caitie the best of luck. Caitie served as our 2010-2011 Anchor President.

Once again, I would like to thank Melissa Feaster for giving us another year of her time. She's an awesome advisor and she is great with the Anchors.

I would like to welcome Debbie Smith to our Anchor Division this coming Pilot year. Our Division will consist of Rosa Estela-Flint, Debbie and myself.

Until next school year,

Robin

Report from The Project Division

Hello Pilots,

Let me start by thanking the fundraiser committee for the fantastic job in raising the funds for us to be able to meet our goals and needs in our community.

Thanks to Jonda Erwin and Carol Pedersen for heading the Community Dinners this year, see their report next.

This year we gave $6,400.00 in Mini Grants to sixteen recipients.

There is a lot to be proud of our work in this community, in 2010-2011 we served over 220 dinners, provided 50 bags of personal hygiene to homeless and underserved, contributed to the Flag Memorial and flag services with Carole Clarke, as Betsy Ross, are some of the project we did this year.

Thanks to Wanda Andrews’ leadership we continue to provide socials to Joe’s Club clients., and our Anchors, under the leadership of Robin Porta and Mrs. Feaster brighten the day for the clients of Joe’s Club with their visit, gift and enthusiasm.

Truly a team effort that can only be accomplished by caring individuals,

Thank you for your support.

Root Beer Float Social @ Joe’s club, by Wanda Andrews

Hello Pilots

On Friday, May 20th, Wanda Andrews, Carol Pedersen, Billie Jo Strickland , Barbara and Bill Fry hosted another Root Beer Float Party at Joe's Club for 40 of the Joe's Club clients on behalf of the Pilot Club of Titusville.

The party began around 1 p.m. Audrey Moore, from Holy Spirit Catholic Church, played the piano accompanied by her husband Arthur. They have become regular volunteers at Joe's Club festivities since we introduced them to Joe's Club several years ago when our regular piano player, Sally, fell and broke her arm and couldn't play.

We learned Friday that Sally herself is now in a nursing home, although she did play for us one last time this past Fall when Audrey was unavailable on our party date. We served sugar free root beer floats, cookies and cheese puffs to our enthusiastic guests as Audrey played piano. While refreshments were being delivered to the tables, we sang which encouraged the Joe's Club attendees to join in the old time favorites that they still remembered.

Wanda and Carol did their famous polka dance and even Barbara and Bill Fry "cut a rug" to the delight of the guests. Since Audrey was celebrating her 80th birthday on Saturday, the Joe's Club attendees joined the Pilot Club members in an impromptu rendition of Happy Birthday which really delighted Audrey.

As usual, we concluded with a stirring rendition of "God Bless America". Both Staff and Joe’s Club clients thanked us as a group and individually and begged us to come again.

Respectfully Submitted,

(*_*)WandaPC of Titusville E-Member

Joe's Club is a licensed daycare facility that offers

care and programs specifically tailored for older

adults confronted with physical or cognitive

challenges. Their objective at Joe's Club is to

provide professional and specialized care to our

clients that will enable the caregiver the ability to

maintain a somewhat normal lifestyle.

Spring Dinners -by Jonda Erwin and Carol

Pedersen

Ten families were selected for us by Norma Lumpkin, a local community activist. Pumpernickel’s supplied 10 dinners for a nominal fee for our "Spring Dinners" project to be delivered the day before Easter.

There were 33 children associated with these 10 families and our members donated all the supplies for these baskets. On Friday night, the following people met at Parrish Medical Center to assemble the baskets: Janet Camacho, Jonda Erwin, Rosa Estela-Flint, Ann Legge, Carol Pedersen, Robin Porta, Lily Renzetti, Jean Seiffert, Dylan Seiffert(Jean’s grandson), Lorene Shafer, Rachel Terry, and Debbie Thompson.

On Saturday four teams delivered the dinners and baskets . Team #1 was Robin Porta, Max and Sarah Jones (Robin’s cousins), Team #2 was Janet Camacho and Ann Legge, Team # 3 was Jean Seiffert and Lorene Shafer and Team # 4 was Jonda Erwin, Carol Pedersen and Rachel Terry.

Thank you to everyone who bought, donated, assembled and delivered. It absolutely was a club effort and a lot of fun!!!!!

2011 Mini Grant Recipients

AHS Academy of Health Sciences, Brevard Alzheimer's, Brevard

County Public Schools, Exceptional Ed, Brevard County School Board,

Children's Center, Casting for Recovery, Children's Center, Children’s

Center c/o Parrish Medical Foundation, Fox Lake Farms, Inc., Hidden

Potentials, Inc., HorseSisters, KLD Youth Foundation, North Brevard

Charities, Oak Park Horse Therapy, Parrish Early Care & Education,

Parrish Medical Center Lifeline, THS Patient Care Assistant Program.

Join us June 22, 2011 6pm @ La Cita Country Club for

installation of the 2011-2012 Board

Janet Camacho and Sheila Edwards will be

leaving on June 3rd on a

"Continental Introduction" bus tour of

Europe.

Their journey will take them from Orlando

to Paris for a visit to the Eiffel Tower and a

taste of French cuisine,. Then they will visit

Lucerne and Lugano, Switzerland.

From Switzerland they will tour the

beautiful countryside and head toward the

Tuscany Region (Italy). , while in Italy, Janet

and Sheila will tour Michelangelo’s David in

Florence, the Colosseum and Sistine Chapel

in Rome, and St. Mark’s Basilica and Doges’

Palace in Venice.

An overnight stay at Lake Como, a private

boat transfer in Venice, a cruise down the

romantic Rhine, and a canal cruise in

Amsterdam is all on the schedule before

heading home on the 17th.

Truly a trip of a lifetime and they are really

looking forward to a great time.

We can’t wait to hear more about their trip

and we wish them a fun and safe trip.

Pilot Members

News

E-MEMBERSWe would like to invite you to the 2011-2012 Board of Directors Installation When: June 22, 2011 Where: La Cita Country ClubTime: 6pm Cost: $20.00 DinnerRSVP: email me by June 20th

Come and join us as we start a new year of Friendship and Service.

As members and leaders of this club we are looking for ways we can engage our E Members. I am personally taking a new approach to keep you connected.

I will start by sending you a reminder of every club meeting as well as division meeting.

I will also email you asking for any happy announcement you want to share with the membership and or anything you want to share with us. New and exciting projects and fundraisers are in the works for the coming year and I will keep you posted in the hope that we can be with you again.

You are valuable to us and would like to know what can we do to engage you in our activities. Please email me your thoughts,

Lily Commitment is a very important character

trait to have. It means to be responsible, having devotion

and never giving up, staying the course in spite of the

challenges. It also means to be honest and true to the task

or journey on which you have agreed to embark.

Commitment to make a difference is what our leaders had

when they chartered the Pilot Club of Titusville May 1,

1957.

Commitment is what it takes from us to continue with our

mission in this community

Birthday’s

June’s BirthdaysJan Bratcher 2nd

Terri Burdine 5th

Marilyn Jones 11th

Patsy Watson 27th

July’s BirthdaysJan Alwine 4th

Pam Boddy 9th

Lisa Alpha 17th

Alicia Duisberg 18th

Pat Seifreit 21st

Debbie Thompson 26th

Carole Clarke 29th

ANNIVERSARIES:MayPatsy Watson -31 yearsJean Seiffert -27 yearsKatherine Musick ~9 yearsDebbie Smith ~5 years

JuneWinnie Brewer -18 yearsBarbara Fry -1 years

Report from the Membership Chairman-

LILY RENZETTIAs this year come to an end, I want to concentrate on our accomplishments. The accomplishments of the past year are quite extraordinary. In the mist of the economic situation our region is facing, the fundraiser division managed to exceed our expectations, Thanks for everyone participation, the Project division feed more than 220 people, provided personal hygiene products and blankets to 50 homeless and less fortunate, gave more six thousand dollars in Mini Grants to sixteen organization, donated to Japan Relief fund and contributed to the FL. Scholarship Houses. What I am mentioning here is only half of what we contribute to this community and the world.

But these accomplishments are only feasible and possible by the leadership, commitment and passion of each one of our members . As Francis Wayland, puts it “ It is by what we ourselves have done, and not by what others have done for us, that we shall be remembered in after ages.”

To our chartered members, Thank you for your commitment to the mission and vision of PI, The Pilot Club of Titusville and this community. May your earlier accomplishment continue to inspire all of us as we continue to make a difference in this community and the world. Happy Birthday Pilot Club of Titusville

Lastly, I want to personally thanks Debbie Smith for all her help she gave me this year, from having the Anniversary Certificates ready each month, to getting the cup cakes for your birthday, to cover for me each time I could not attend a meeting. Debbie you truly are a team player and I am grateful for your help.

Lily

It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.

~ James C. Penney

June 1 – Bus. Lunch Meeting at 12pm

@ La Cita Country Club

June 7 - Breakfast get together 7:30am

@ The Village Inn

June 15 -5th Wed. Meeting 5:30 pm-

@ La Cita Country Club.

June 22 – Installation of 2011-2012

Board 6pm @ La Cita Country

Club

June 29 - Board Meeting at 5:30pm @

La Cita Country Club

July - 13 PI Convention Dallas, TX

July 20 – Bus. Lunch Meeting at 12pm @

La Cita Country Club

A Special Thanks to all members, co Pilots and

friends that devoted time to make the 2010-2011 projects

successful,Robin Porta

Please email me your happy announcement and or any

news you would like share with our members,

Lily