Back to the GCC Russian Club home page Meeting -- September 12 , 1998
Attendance: 24 (8 born in FSU)
Announcments by Dr. Story:
  • Welcome to 24 old and new, especially Russians
  • Club shirts are for sale at $10 each -->>
  • Glendale needs Russian Sister City volunteers.
  • Historic Status is requested for Molokan Cemetery.
  • New Russian Store at 19th Ave & Northern.
  • Volunteers needed for Fall Club Fair, Sept 15&16

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24 attended the first meeting.
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Club Shirts - $10
New officers for Fall '98-Spring '99:
  • President: Pauline Smith (front row, left)-->>
  • Vice President: Regina Lamb (front row, right)
  • Secretary: Andy Conovaloff (back row, left)
  • Treasurer: Daniel Whiteley (back row, right)

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New officers
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Snacks: Steve Gorbenko serves
hot Russian tea with samovar.
Also,  imported Russian cookies.

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8 Born in the Former Soviet Union:  
Left  to right, front row:
---Svetlana Conaway (Sevastopol', Ukraine)
---Anna Steinbach (Toli'atti, Samara)
---Masha Kehoe (Moscow)

Left  to right, back  row:
---Tat'iana N. Vakhlakova (Essentuki, Stavropol'skii krai)
---Irina V. Sidlauskas (Tiumen, Siberia)
---Yefim Toybin (Moscow)
---Larisa Gereyeva (Omsk, Siberia)
---Rita Green (Kiev, Ukraine)


Suggestions for Future meetings:
  • Follow up on  Sister Cities program
  • Serve tea, soda and cookies every meeting
  • Dues to be $2/semester
  • Russian background music during meeting
  • See Russian  video movies
  • Go to Russian restaurant (814 S. Central)
  • Snow trip to Flagstaff (ski, sleigh, cut X-mas trees)
  • Ruusian X-mas party at Dr. Story's house
  • Russian shashlik bar-be-que
  • Pizza for snacks
  • Themes discussions: matroshki, samovar, lozhki
  • Russians tell about their life and city
  • Updates on Russian news, economy, politics

Club Fair Volunteers needed Sept 15 & 16
(Tue & Wed  9 AM - 2 PM) to invite people to join us.

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