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Palm-Mensa
Palm Beach County Mensa Newsletter
February, 2004
Contents
The Tenth Story - February 2004
By Elissa Rudolph
A month later, and Central Florida Mensa is still ahead in Region 10 with 32.9% of their proxies submitted-way to go, Ms!! Several other Region 10 groups are making good showings-Northwest Florida Mensa (26.7%), Southwest by South Florida (23.6%), Gainesville Area (21.4%), and Manasota Mensa (21.0%) are all over the 20% mark. You guys are great! Let's keep on clicking to get to the 51% mark nationally. Go to and tell your M-friends to go to http://www.us.mensa.org/ and click on "ProxyQuest."
Congratulations to Tampa Bay Mensa for landing the 2005 MindGames event, April 15-17! Now that it will be practically in my backyard, I will definitely attend. It will be my first time… And I know Tampa Bay Ms will do a great job.
See you in Orlando at Smarti Gras??
Coming Soon…another great Mensa Gathering event!!
February 13-15, ValenTime, hosted by Northwest Florida Mensa at the Holiday Inn of Destin; registration fee $35 til Jan. 31; white sand beaches, lavish hospitality overlooking those Gulf of Mexico beaches, chocolate, games, speakers, & more. Registrar: John Mochan (850-863-3599), jmochan@cox.net.
Elissa Rudolph
RVC10@us.mensa.org
5054 Lakefront Blvd., Apt. D
Delray Beach, FL 33484
561-496-0124
TEST THE NATION
On March 5th, Fox stations nationwide are scheduled to air Test the Nation 2. So you have a second chance, if you missed the opportunity last June, to encourage friends and relatives to test their intelligence and maybe join Mensa as a bonus. Mensa will once again be assisting with preparations for the program. More details will be coming from American Mensa.
TIPS FOR WINDOWS
Sometimes a web page does not have any toolbar icons (those thingies on top). To go backwards and forwards (respectively):
- Press the Alt key and hold down.
- Press the left arrow to go back to the immediately prior page.
- Press the right arrow to go forward one page (to the web page you were at before).
- Release both the Alt key and the arrow key.
TREASURER'S REPORT, PALM BEACH MENSA
For the period July 1, 2003 to December 31,2003
Beginning bank balance July 1, 2003 $ 2,752.99
Revenue:
Returned for local use
Dues
Jul $ 225.79
Aug 223.96
Sep 227.68
Oct 229.39
Nov 240.90
Dec 240.14
1,387.86
Tests
Aug 100.00
Sep 25.00
Nov 162.50
287.50
Bank interest
Jul 1.20
Aug .64
Sep .59
Oct .87
Nov .93
Dec .60
4.83
Post Office bal. returned
359.45
Total revenue 2,039.63
Expenses:
Newsletter
Jul $119.20
Aug 119.20
Sep 163.90
Oct 126.65
Nov 126.65
Dec 126.65
(782.25)
Misc. mailing expense:
Jul 7 postage 7.73
Oct 6 postage 7.72
Oct 17 prosp lttrs 18.50
Oct 17 postage 35.00
Nov 19 prmt trnsfr 300.00
Nov 22 postage 16.50
Nov 22 seals 12.76
(398.21)
To Post Office account (1,200.00)
Total Expenses ($2,380.46)
Add back in December printing
cost paid in Jan. 126.65
Bank balance December 31, 2003 $ 2,538.71
Postage account balance July 1 148.43
Deposits July 600.00
November 600.00
Balance returned from previous account 359.45
988.98
Postage - newsletter
Jul 69.29
Aug 70.48
Sep 103.44
Oct 72.51
Nov 73.26
Dec 78.46
(467.44)
P O account balance December 31, 2003 521.54
Total assets December 31, 2003
$3,060.25
Love Quotes Trivia by Linda Spellmon
(Reprinted from the February 1994 M'Ocean, Linda Spellmon, editor)
How many of the quotes below can you match with their original source?
- Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
- Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it.
- 'Tis better to have loved and lost / than never to have loved at all.
- To love means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.
- Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
- Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.
- Love is not dumb. The heart speaks in many ways.
Original Sources:
A. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "In Memoriam A.H.H." (1850), 27
B. Racine, Britannicus (1669), 3, translated by Paul Land and Robert Henderson
C. Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malti Laurid Brigge (1910), translated by M.D. Herter Norton
D. Bertrand Russell, "Sex and Individual Well-being Marriage and Morals (1929)
E. Peter Ustinov, Christian Science Monitor, 12/9/58
F. Bible, Song of Solomon 8:7
G. Theodore Roethke, "The Dream," The Collected Verses of Theodore Roethke (1961)
Answers below.
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MINDGAMES 2004
Mensa Mind Games™ Chicago April 16-18. For Information about participating visit the Mind Games™ web site at mindgames.us.mensa.org.
NEW EDITOR
Linda Spellmon has volunteered. She was previously editor of a Mensa group’s newsletter, and she’s offered a quiz for this month. Her e-mail address is lspellmon@aol.com. Send contributions.
Answers to quiz:
1.E, 2.F, 3.A, 4.C, 5.G, 6.D, 7.B
Note: The opinions expressed herein are those of the individual authors and DO NOT reflect opinions of Palm Beach County Mensa, its officers, or of American Mensa, Ltd., which holds NO opinions.
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