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Last updated: March 21, 2009

Next event: April 14, 2007, Clearwater Country Club

Volunteer couples needed to set-up future events

Please volunteer to organize an event for our calendar. We have had so many successful socials in the past, thanks to all of us who have volunteered to make the arrangements. Let's continue to build on this good foundation.

New members welcome

.If you are a member of our Temple, for details on our socials, email nsycc@gordonrichard.com. Please be sure to include in your message your complete name, home address, phone number, and a statement that you are a member of our Temple.

Purpose of our Couples Club

The purposes of the Not So Young Couples' Club are

1. to foster friendship among its members by providing a social club for older couples in our Temple
2. support the Temple by attending Temple functions whether they be religious services or events sponsored by other Temple organizations such as the Sisterhood and the Brotherhood

Requirements for official membership (see below for associate membership)

• Members of our Temple
• A couple from about age 45 and above (The Temple also has a couples club for younger members.)
• Willing to organize an event -- something as simple as dinner out, a movie, museum visit, minor league ball game, races at horse or dog track, comedy show, event at a local performing arts center, book discussion, lecture at a library, dinner or luncheon cruise. (If you select a restaurant, be sure the management will accept separate checks.) You can also arrange for us as group to attend a religious service at the Temple or to attend an event sponsored by another Temple organization such as the Sisterhood or the Brotherhood. See our resources pages for information on possible socials you may wish to sponsor.

I suggest you consider planning to do something that you would enjoy doing yourself and just inviting the rest of us to come along. It is a good idea, I think, to plan an event that up to ten couples can attend. Be sure to consider our Internet sources of suggested activities.

All the volunteer couple must do is --

• Select an easy-to-do event
• Publicize your event to the other members by email or phone calls
• Receive notification by email or phone call from those who plan to attend
• Make the reservations when necessary
• Send the details of your social to nsycc@gordonrihcard.com for distribution to the members.
• If you select a restaurant, be sure the restaurant will accept separate bills and get a range of menu prices the coordinator can include in his message to members. If the prices are too high -- averaging more than $30 per couple -- you may discourage many of our members from attending.

No president, board or officers

• We have no president or other officers to run things for us. The events will be as many and as varied as each couple is willing to set-up.
• I am willing to serve as coordinator, and will be glad to help out with sending the email notifications to the group.

Current official members (Temple members) Updated March 21, 2009

Who may attend our socials

The purpose of our Club is to serve as a social outlet for our Temple Members. Although official club membership is restricted to Temple members, the sponsoring couple of an event may open the event to friends and family of Club members even if they are not Temple members. Also, with the OK of the sponsoring couple, a member can invite along friends or relatives who are not Temple members. Official members may even recommend that their regularly invited friends and family become Associate Members.

Even though we welcome Associate members, the focus of our efforts should remain on providing opportunities to develop and nourish friendships among our Temple members.

Associate members

Non-Temple members

If a Temple-Club member recommends a friend or relative who is not a Temple member be placed on our mailing list and be regularly invited to our socials, such a non-Temple member will be classified as an Associate member. So far we have only three couples who are Associate Members, but we welcome more Associate Members who are sponsored, recommended by our regular members. Associate members are also responsible for arranging one social event a year.

The "So Young" Temple couples

Perhaps you are a Temple member but too young to make membership in the Not So Young Couple's Club appropriate. You may still join us as Associate members. (We suggest that you contact the Temple office manager to learn about the Young Couples Club.) We will welcome such "youngsters" into our Club, to take part and even sponsor social events as Associate members. Any member of our Temple family, regardless of age or marital status, is always welcome to attend and sponsor our events. But please do always remember, whether a full member or an associate member, you are obligated to sponsor at least one social a year.

Temple Approval -- and avoiding selecting Friday and Jewish holidays for our socials

• Since we are working under the umbrella of our Temple, our social activities are subjected to the approval of the Rabbi and the Temple Board. We will keep the Rabbi informed of our activities through this web site and email messages.
• We will avoid scheduling any of our socials on a Friday evening, not to conflict with Temple services -- and not to pick as a social date any date that conflicts with any special event at the Temple or any Jewish holiday. We certainly can't expect our Temple bulletin to promote our socials and help us attract more members if our socials conflict with Temple services or events.

Calendar

Couples in charge of each month's socials so far from December 2006 to December 2007 (Last updated March 21, 2009 )

Impromptu get-togethers

Even though we will try to have scheduled each month a planned event, any of our members on very short notice may invite Club members to join them for a movie, lunch, a museum visit, one of our Temple services. The time may be 1 PM on a Wednesday and you decide that you will go to the movies that very night to the 7:30 PM show. Using the email list of our members, you can easily and quickly send out an email asking others in our Club to meet you at the theater-ticket booth just fifteen minutes or so before show-time. Then if you wish, you can go out after coffee to Perkins and discuss the movie.

You can, of course, on another occasions use the same approach in inviting others to join you for breakfast at a local restaurant, sending your email invitation out just the night before. To socialize with our Club members, there's no need to wait for just our monthly special event. And any of us in our Club can email out the impromptu invitations.

Email and phone number privacy -- only for Club business

Please treat the email addresses and phone numbers of other members of our Club with great privacy. Do not share them with others outside the group unless you have first received the OK from the member-couple. Please, too, do not use the email addresses for forwarding jokes, chain letters, political or sales pitches -- or similar material that the receiver might regard as spam or junk mail. When in doubt, first get the permission of the member-couple before sending or forwarding such messages to them. (In fact, to ensure membership privacy, the author of this Website has deliberately omitted the name of our Temple and the last names of our members.)

Be sure to see online resources for couple-sponsored events.

Purpose | Membership Requirements | Couple event planning | Officers | Official Members | Who may attend? | Associate members | Temple Approval | Calendar | Sharing burden | Impromptu dates | Email, phone number privacy | Resources for events

Last updated March 21, 2009
Club coordinator Richard at nsycc@gordonrichard.com
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