❖Ski Club Profiles
400 Ski Club he 400 Ski Club is a long-established club in Chicagoland. Many of our members are senior skiers, but we have a good helping of nonseniors, too. Every year, we go to Snowmass in December and stay slopeside at the Mountain Chalet, a ski lodge in the grand tradition. Later in the season, we go to a second destination, which varies from year to year. Last season it was Telluride. In 2010 it will be Steamboat. Our trip schedule for the 2009 10 season is: Snowmass (Mountain Chalet), Dec. 5-12, and Steamboat (The Lodge condos), Feb. 27-March 6. During the summer, members of the 400 Club get together for bike and golf outings. Outside of summer, we get together for lunch at various restaurants and for our annual spring dinner banquet. Our annual dues are low: $10 for singles, $15 for couples or families.
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Alpine Ski Club
Aqua Adventurers
he Alpine Ski Club has been a ski club since 1960. It is a family-oriented ski club. Most members are Europeans (German, Austrian, Swiss) that immigrated in the 1950s and 1960s. We’ve done a New Year’s trip to Marquette, Mich., every year for the last 35 years. We also do a
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week out West, usually spring skiing to Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, etc. In 2010 we are going to Steamboat, Colo., the first week in March. We have numerous club activities during the year (picnic, Christmas party, etc.). We always encourage parents and grandparents to bring along their children and grandchildren. During the summer, we schedule two bike outings, one local and one that requires a one- to two-night stay. Also, we have a golfing league. In winter we have a group that goes bowling once a month. We meet at 8 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at the Schwaben Center, 301 Weiland Rd., Buffalo Grove, Ill.
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For more information: Bill Murphey, President 847-855-0821
For more information: John Kendl, President 847-991-5345 johnkendl@sbcglobal.net
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www.skicmsc.org ❖ 2009/2010 DIRECTORY
kiing – we ski! Other stuff – we do that too! The Aqua Adventurers are a close-knit group of friends. Most of us have been together for many years but we always welcome new faces. We genuinely like each other and miss each other when we are apart. We have spent hours and hours chatting, drinking, dancing, skiing, attending each other’s weddings, celebrating each other’s divorces, seeing plays, eating at fun restaurants, traveling and basically laughing a lot. This year’s ski trips should include skiing and eagle sighting in Galena, Devil’s Head over Super Bowl weekend and a week in Telluride.
Other activities we’ve done or are on the calendar include a Jimmy Buffett concert, sailing on Lake Michigan, plays in Arlington Heights, a murder mystery dinner, and perhaps, a séance with Jorianne the Coffee Psychic. Check us out on Facebook. Maybe you would like to meet some odd but very nice people. If so, contact us.
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For more information: Nettie Napravnik, President 708-704-4828 nettie_nap@hotmail.com.
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