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President
Frances Weekley
619-262-5512
Vice-President Diane Roop 707-246-1999
2
nd Vice-President
(Hosting Coordinator) Sharon Boskovich 760-496-4278 [email protected]
Secretary Terry Carpenter 619-697-5607 [email protected]
Treasurer Melvin Weekley 619-262-5512
HPR Delegates Frances Weekley Melvin Weekley Trustee Steve Gonzales 619-260-8178
Trustee OPEN xxxxx [email protected]
Membership Hilda Branch 619-469-5807
HPR Alt. delegates Diane Roop Sharon Boskovich Webmaster Richard Steadham [email protected]
Newsletter Editors Frances & Melvin Weekley
HOUSE OF ENGLAND
www.houseofengland.org
House of Pacific Relations Balboa Park, San Diego, CA
NEWSLETTER January 2012
NEXT MEETING: Tuesday January 3, 2012 at 6:30 PM at the Hall of Nations.
The meeting will be followed by a White Elephant sale with renowned auctioneer Neil Aldridge,
back by popular demand, and his elegant, illustrious assistant Jean Harrison. Bring your
unwanted treasures and see what amount this entertaining pair can raise for the House funds!
(Fran is parting with some Noddy items!)
NEXT HPR MEETING: Sunday January 8, 2012 at Noon in the Hall of Nations.
LADIES’ AUXILIARY LUNCHEON: Wednesday January 11, 2011 - at 12:30pm in Hall of Nations, hosted by House of Turkey. Cost is only $3 and everyone is welcome- males included! SPECIAL MEETING: Due to the busy agenda for the January meeting, we will have a special meeting in January to present plans for 2012 and enjoy an informal dinner with the leftover beer from December Nights. (Date and details to be announced)
MEMBER NEWS
Installation of Officers for 2012: Delphine decided to not hold the swearing in of new officers at the December luncheon so this will be done at the beginning of the January meeting. (See left hand column for names, phone numbers and email addresses of new officers). Vote for a second Trustee: Arya has withdrawn his name. We will be electing a replacement at the January meeting. Please contact Fran if you are willing to serve as trustee. November meeting minutes: These have been mailed or emailed with this newsletter to save time at the January meeting. Please read so that they can be approved (with any corrections needed). Membership renewals: Please get your check to Hilda by January 31
st- details on page 2.
Members over 80: It has been suggested that members over 80 that have served the cottage
over the years should be honoured by having membership dues waived. There will be a vote on
this at the January meeting.
December Nights Report: This was a very successful fund raiser and excellent for PR and
member camaraderie. Well done, Diane and thank you to all who participated.
December Christmas Luncheon Report: We had 37 members attend. Food was excellent, entertainment by Harry Tweedie very enjoyable as always, and a good time was had by all. HPR Officers for 2012: President: Hannu Mikkonen (Finland) First Vice President: Eugenie King (Norway) Chairperson for Hall of Nations: Delphine Malone (Ireland).
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HOSTING AND HOSTESSING AT THE COTTAGE
Thank you to our volunteers.
Call our hosting chairperson, Sharon Boskovich to volunteer for future dates. 760-496-4278
Commitment is from 12 noon to 4PM, providing light refreshments and milk (teabags and sugar are
provided) and chatting with the visitors. Donations are accepted for upkeep of the cottage.
NOTE: Rosie Lee Restaurant (Good English food) will give a discount to anyone purchasing food
items for serving at the cottage. Phone Lizzie Murray or email her at [email protected].
Dec 4 Aileen Price and Steve Gonzales
Dec 11 Mike Richards and Sharon Boskovich
Dec 18 Delphine Malone
Dec 25 Closed - Holiday
Jan 1 Closed - Holiday
Jan 3 Meeting –Terry Carpenter
Jan 8 - OPEN - Please Volunteer
Jan 15 Mike Richards and Sharon Boskovich
Jan 22 Mike Richards and Sharon Boskovich
Jan 29 - OPEN - Please Volunteer
Reminders: It is acceptable to take $6 per host from the donations towards cost of milk and food- just let the Treasurer know for accounting purposes. Also, please let Fran know if you notice that any supplies need to be replenished.
Update on 75th Anniversary Mugs
There are mugs on display at the cottage. If a visitor donates to obtain one, please let Mel know when turning in the donations money. You can also pick one up at the Tuesday meeting. All members are encouraged to purchase some for themselves also. They are $8.00 each.
Message from our membership chairperson, Hilda:
LAST REMINDER FOR 2012 MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL!
Please send your check for $10 to Hilda Branch, membership, 7545 Hughes Street, Lemon Grove,
CA 91945-4034 before January 31. Checks have been very slow coming in and I would
appreciate receiving your renewals as soon as possible before this date.
Thank you to those who have already renewed. I appreciate your promptness!
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Prince Philip
In the News
Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh and husband of Queen Elizabeth II, is in "good spirits" after
undergoing emergency surgery for a blocked coronary artery, a spokesman for the Buckingham
Palace said. Prince Philip, 90, was taken to Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire Friday December
23rd for "precautionary tests" after he complained of chest pains. We wish him well.
Report on December Nights 2011
The event was a great success and gave us excellent PR exposure for the coming year. (HPR will be billing for security, fencing etc. so final net profit numbers are not yet available).
Some things were purchased with the money raised that will be used for future lawn programs, ethnic fair days, and December nights. i.e.: the bar for the beer garden and the Tudor House façade for the food tent (all labour to build generously donated by Joel Roop), tent, banners, light fixtures, astro-turf, urn, aprons. The reuse of these items will minimize overhead cost for the future events.
The donations of baked goods brought about extremely good profit for the sales in the cottage. Thank you for all those who brought in baked items.
Thank you also to the wonderful group of volunteers, in all 3 areas, who worked pleasantly together and made everything work out well while having fun in the process! (Volunteers who escaped the camera were Terry, Delphine, and Mel).
Diane’s planning, organizing and overseeing was amazing and was the biggest factor in the success of all three components of the event. (Cottage, food, and beer sales).
Finally, thank you to our newest member, Keith Willis, (BBC Pasty heaven) whose shepherd’s pies were very tasty and sold very well.
Profits will be much higher next year because equipment is now on hand. Great days ahead!
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Bletchley Park is an estate located in the town of Bletchley, Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, England, which currently houses the National Museum of Computing. During World War II, Bletchley Park was the site of the United Kingdom's main decryption establishment, the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS), where ciphers and codes of several Axis countries were decrypted, most importantly the ciphers generated by the German Enigma and Lorenz machines. It also housed Station X, a secret radio intercept station.
The high-level intelligence produced at Bletchley Park, codenamed Ultra, provided crucial assistance to the Allied war effort. Sir Harry Hinsley, a Bletchley veteran and the official historian of British Intelligence in World War II, said that Ultra shortened the war by two to four years and that the outcome of the war would have been uncertain without it.
Google comes to aid of Bletchley Park with £550,000 donation By Phil Muncaster
Google has come to the aid of Bletchley Park with a £550,000 donation to help the famous World War Two code breaking site kick-start a £15m development project.
The funds, which come from the Google.org philanthropic arm, will move the Bletchley Park Trust a step closer to its goal of unlocking a £4.5m Heritage Lottery Fund grant as it tries to develop the site into a heritage and education centre.
The Trust needs to come up with £2.4m in matching funding to unlock the grant, which will be spent on conserving buildings of "highly significant heritage value", improving the educational facilities and enhancing the site for visitors.
Specifically, work will take place on restoring huts 1, 3 and 6 which housed the scientists who worked on cracking the codes created by the Nazi Enigma and Lorenz cipher machines, as well as creating a visitor centre and exhibition in the currently derelict Block C.
Simon Greenish, chief executive of the Bletchley Park Trust, thanked Google for the donation.
"We have received other generous contributions towards the project, but this is the largest single element of the partnership funding and absolutely vital in potentially getting the project underway much sooner than might otherwise have been possible," he said.
"It would be wonderful if other donors follow Google's example to help preserve our computing heritage. We could then proceed as soon as possible with restoration of the profoundly historically significant code-breaking huts."
The £4.5m Lottery fund was granted in October.