I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas.  We at the Pride of Mobile certainly had a BUSY one.

December  1: The Chorus sang at the Creola Nutrition Center at 10 that morning ;board meeting at 6 followed by a chapter meeting at 7.

                3: The Mobile Rehab Nursing Center

                5: Oakleigh Mansion

                7: The Chorus sang from 1 to 1:30 at the Bragg-Mitchell mansion then a quartet     

                    went across town to sing at 2:00                                                              

                8: Chapter meeting

                9: We were scheduled to sing at Bellingrath Gardens but it got rained out.

               10: Cogburn's Health Care on Tuscaloosa St.

               11: Cogburn's Midtown

               14: Some of us took time to take in a Sweet Adelines Show

               In lieu of a chapter meeting on the 15th,  we had an installation banquet on the 16th

               The morning of the 16th we sang at two locations: Cogburn's West on Grelot Rd. @10

               and Gordon Oaks @ 11

                17: Across the Bay to Bay Ridge Nursing Home at Westminster Village

                18: Two blocks up the street from my business for Eight Mile Nursing Home

                This was the schedule for Friday, December 19th:

                     9:30 Meet at my house for coffee and doughnuts

                     9:45 Leave for Crowne Health Care (right around the corner from my house)

                    10:00 Sing at Crowne

                    11:00 Sing at Lynwood Nursing Home, just a few miles up my street

                    11:45 Back to my house for homemade soup (Thanks to my wife, Sandy!)

                    12:30 Convoy from my house to the next singout at Allen Memorial Home @

                      1:00 - 1:30 (Four hours of fun)

                (on Sunday nite, Dec 21, several of us were involved in my Christmas Cantata)

                  22: Dumas Wesley Center at 10:30 followed by my quartet heading for a 1:30 in

                        Gulfport after I treated us to lunch at The Tiny Diny.  Chapter that night.

                  23: Our Southern Home on Howell's Ferry Rd,

                  24: I treated 5 of us to breakfast at the Waffle House in St. Elmo @ 9 before we met

                        the rest at our final Christmas singout at Grand Bay Nursing Home.  A quartet

                        went on to sing at a private party on Dog River later that morning.

That comes to 16 chorus singouts, a board meeting, an installation banquet, 3 chapter meetings,

a Sweet Adeline show, a Christmas cantata and several quartet singouts (not to mention the one

that got rained out!)  Not bad for a chapter of only about 20 guys! 

 Oh, yeah! I almost forgot.  In lieu of a chapter meeting tomorrow night, we've got a planning meeting scheduled for 5:30 (Is it any wonder I resigned as Minister of Music at my church today?)

Respectfully submitted by Immediate Past President and Incoming VP of Marketing and PR,

Jerry Pugh