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Have you read your PALM lately?

August 2006
Newsletter

Contents

Coming Soon... Notes from the LocSec Member News Your Dues at Work! -- Treasurer's Report Puzzle Corner Notes from the Underground

 

Coming Soon...

• World Gathering (Aug 2006)
  Wg06.us.mensa.org

• Regional Gathering (September 2006)
  www.mamensa.org/RG2006

• Colloquium (October 2006)
  www.colloquium.us.mensa.org

We are looking for original artwork for our newsletter, submit yours to editor@palmbeach.us.mensa.org.

Visit our website at www.palmbeach.us.mensa.org

 

Notes from the LocSec --

Palm Mensa has a NEW EXCOM (Executive Committee):

Local secretary: Brian K. Johnson, (Locsec)
Treasurer: Tom Winchester, and
Editor: Ed Sorensen.

Congratulations Ed for the much improved newsletter this month!

Assisting us we have the following appointees:

Circulation Manager: Cheryl Gommel. Northern area coordinator: Bobbie Kadiecz. Boca Delray Area Coordinator; Elissa Rudolph. Proctor coordinator: Henry Colman. Scholarship Chair: Janice K Johnson. Ass. Scholarship chair: Robert Rieffel. SIGHT Coordinator: John Swick. Regional Vice Chairman: Maggie Truelove. Culture Quest Coordinator: Ed Gross. Local MERF Scholarship Chair: Janice K Johnson. Webmaster: Dan Tobias

Your newly elected officers and their helpers are eager to infuse new life and excitement into this chapter, and we desire your help. Sadly Linn Bidwell has resigned as Membership Director so our greatest need at present is for a membership Director. If you would like to help in this area please contact me.

The distribution of out chapter's members is shown below. The cities have been grouped by local into four areas. Only the Northern and the Southern most groups currently have area coordinators. Coordinators are of special importance. They arrange activities in their region and send the details to the newsletter editor before the deadline for publication in the newsletter. Setting up meetings for general membership is not difficult; there is a guideline on the Mensa Website at: http://www.lists.us.mensa.org/mailman/listinfo/areacoordinators.

Your local officers and other area coordinators will be happy to assist.

Membership Geographic Distribution

The geographic distribution of our Palm Beach chapter's members is shown below. Please note that our chapter covers a large area, much larger than Palm beach County! The total membership of 350 can be divided into four geographic regions as follows:

South PBC Boca Raton -- 73; Boynton Beach -- 32; Delray Beach -- 29; Highland Beach -- 1; Loxahatchee -- 3; Naples -- 1. Total - 139

Coordinator: Elissa Rudolph

Central PBC Lake Park -- 2; Lake Worth -- 21; Lantana -- 6; Wellington -- 8; West Palm Beach -- 39: Greenacres -- 3; Palm Beach Shores -- 1; Pahokee -- 1; Royal Palm Beach -- 8; Palm Beach -- 9. Total - 98

Coordinator: Needed

North PBC & IRC Hobe Sound -- 3; Jensen Beach -- 4; Juno Beach -- 1: Jupiter -- 28; North Palm Beach - 4; Palm Beach Gardens -- 15; Tequesta -- 9. Total - 64

Coordinator: Needed

Indian River Cty. & Martin Cty.

Fort Pierce -- 9; Okeechobee -- 3; Port St Lucie -- 15; Stuart -- 16; Palm City -- 6. Total - 49

Coordinator: Bobbie Kadiecz

What kind of meetings do Mensa chapters hold? Some examples of the kind of meeting Mensans are having at other Florida Mensa Chapters are listed below. Please consider hosting a Mensa meeting at your home or clubhouse. If there is no area coordinator for your local, contact the Locsec.

Mensa Group	Newsletter	Meeting Examples
Miami	Flamenco	Dining out. NTN Electronic Trivia
Broward	Brow●Beat	Family outdoor walks.
Palm Beach	Palm Mensa	First Friday Dining.
Jacksonville	Mensanity	Dining out.
Space Coast Area Mensa	SCAM	Scrabble, beach party, GO, Game night.
Central FL Mensa	The Flame	Folk Dancing, Lunch out, game night
NW FL Mensa	Pensa Mensa	Pot luck dinners. Pool party, Lunch out, Dine Out

NEWSLETTER TITLE

Our Newsletter currently caries the title "Palm Mensa." This is not representative of our chapter membership since it also includes large groups in Indian River and Martin Counties and a few members from Okeechobee, and one from Naples. I have listed other Florida chapter newsletter titles above.

I am initiating a competition open to all Chapter members to suggest a meaningful and inclusive name for our newsletter. As an example, I propose: "The Greater Palm Reader." Send your suggestions to the Editor (Ed Sorensen) who will publish them in the newsletter. After we have enough we will offer them for a membership vote to select the most appealing one. Please send in your suggestions to by 9/15/06 for publication in the October newsletter. Our members can then send in their votes for their favorite one in time (Nov 15^th) for publication in the November newsletter.

Mensa survey

In the May newsletter we published a survey questionnaire for members to fill out and return. So far two people have sent in their surveys, and we thank you both. We need to know what you want and what you can do and are willing to do. Please complete your surveys from May newsletter at website http://www.palmbeach.us.mensa.org/newsletter/200605nl.php and email a cut/pasted version to me.

--- Brian Johnson, LocSec

Webmaster's Note: A version of the survey that can be submitted online is also available here.

 

Member News

Palm Beach County Mensa ended July with 340 members. We gained 10 brand new members, renewing or moving into our area. Welcome or welcome back to: Benjamin Dorfman of Royal Palm Beach, Fernando Libertella of Boca Raton, Lori Lynn Hutter of Delray Beach, Mark Hunt Dorfman of Royal Palm Beach, Edith Niles of WPB, Craig Evan Behrmann of Lake Worth, Anita M. Kirchen of Lake Worth. Come on out to an event or organize one yourself. We'd like to meet you!

Have you renewed your membership yet?

 

Your Dues at Work -- Treasurer's Report

by Tom Winchester, Treasurer

10-334 Treasurer's Report
Fidelity Federal Checking	4615.67
US Postal Bulk Mail Acct	151.21
Dec. Membership/Test Inc.	310.43
Outstanding Check	51.95
Total Assets 1/1/2006	5025.36
Fidelity Federal Checking	5462.36
US Postal Bulk Mail Acct	278.81
June Local Group Support	289.51
Outstanding Check	207.71
Total Assets 6/30/2006	5822.97
Profit & Loss 1/1 to 6/30/2006
Local Group Support	1416.68
Testing Fees	62.50
Bank Acct Interest	6.10
Total Income	1485.28
Newsletter	687.67
Total Expenses	687.67
Net Income 1/1 to 6/30/2006	797.61

As you can see, our local group has been quite frugal. Looking forward, the newsletter expenses will increase due to the wonderful new format. Money well spent It appears that it will fit the budget after seeing the first mailing. On the other side, I am very interested in hearing anyone's comments about an electronic mail version of the newsletter for those who are interested only. Some benefits would be a more timely delivery and more room in the budget for other membership enhancing expenditures.

--Tom Winchester

 

Puzzle Corner

Give it a Try (we'll post the answers as the puzzles get a little more challenging ☺)

Sudoku (数独, sūdoku^?), also known as Number Place, is a logic-based placement puzzle. The aim of the puzzle is to enter a numerical digit from 1 through 9 in each cell of a 9×9 grid made up of 3×3 subgrids (called "regions"), starting with various digits given in some cells (the "givens"); each row, column, and region must contain only one instance of each numeral. Completing the puzzle requires patience and logical ability. Although the puzzle was first published in a U.S. puzzle magazine in 1979, it initially caught on in Japan in 1986 and attained international popularity in 2005.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudoku

 

Notes from the Underground

When you receive a new e-mail address, please send the address to Barry Karas as well as me, your editor. Rest assured that neither person will send your address to ANYONE except the national office of Mensa. And we will not send your address to the national office if you specify it.

We will also check your e-mail address -- if you request it.

We at PBC Mensa will use your e-mail address ONLY to send Mensa-related announcements (like the dinner/meeting announcements and this announcement) to you.

E-mail is now a very popular mode of communication. Junk e-mail is annoying, of course. We strive to eliminate or minimize junk e-mail.

Thanks, Barry Karas