It was a brisk 45 degrees at the Ridge last Wednesday, but it felt more like 60 with the sun when we all did not gather for the weekly lunch meeting. George Schoen was not collecting money for the food that we didn’t have, and Jack Martin was not selling raffle tickets. The world changed a few weeks ago, and we all are being urged to stay home if we want ourselves and others to be safe from the virus that is afflicting the world. It might be some time before we see each other in person again. However, all is not lost for our club meetings. District Governor Elect Mark Glass and President Bob Buettner have come up with an interim solution: Zoom! We might be meeting online for quite some time and Zoom looks like a great way to do that. We had 23 attendees on Wednesday, almost all of them onscreen from their webcams, including some faces from Florida and Maine that we don’t see often enough.

Getting the meeting started went pretty smoothly, with just a couple of hiccups, most of which got straightened out pretty quickly. We were able to see Doug Willett’s face, connected in from Florida, but his microphone did not work, so we could not hear anything he tried to say. I will leave it up to the readers to decide if that was a plus or a minus J There was no speaker, but President Bob did have some announcements. Firstly, let’s all welcome Ray Maselek as our newest member! He joins us as part of the Goodwin University contingent. Ray has agreed to chair our Membership committee. Let’s all help him as much as possible.