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Special Thanks to VAC Member Dick Stephenson |
Posted on 07/01/2013 |
In January, 2005, member Dick Stephenson offered the Virginia Anglers Club the use of the “PD” (private dining room) and the “small side” dining room in the Skilligalee Restaurant to use gratis for our monthly Board of Directors and our Monthly Membership Meetings. The VAC BOD immediately accepted his generous offer. We now had a venue where we could conveniently meet for some pre-meeting fellowship over dinner and order from the bar during the meeting. We could also get to know speakers and nudge some information from them while we ate some really fine food.
The VAC members were guests of the Skilligalee Restaurant for over 8 years. The Skilligalee has been home for 85 membership meetings and 101 Board of Directors Meetings. Only one time did weather force cancellation of a meeting. We established a first name relation with many members of the wait staff. “Janet” became our unofficial “club mom”. We marveled at how she could keep food and drink orders straight among a fluid bunch of 30 or 40 members and always deliver the meal and bar check to the right member no matter how many times we moved around during the evening.
The entire Membership of the Virginia Anglers Club thanks Dick for his hospitality and wishes him the best of things for his retirement. Hopefully, now that is duties of managing a grand restaurant come to a close, he will be able to have more time to fish and, perhaps, come by and join us at a meeting now and then. We all have good memories of meals and meetings at the Skilligalee and will miss both very much. |
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