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Over The Coffeecups
Warren Mitchell - Editor
TODAY'S PROGRAM
Barnie Paulson
will introduce Marcy L. Ingram, a financial advisor
with Merrill Lynch. She is a native of Montgomery. She did
her under-graduate and graduate work at Temple University in
Philadelphia, PA. She is a specialist in wealth preservation
and growth. Ms. Ingram regularly conducts seminar on
investing, specializing in wealth management and retirement
planning. She has written an investment column for the
Montgomery Independent, for over 2 years. She has written
articles for the Montgomery Advertiser, The Troy Messenger,
and other publications. She regularly conducts seminars on
investing, focusing on wealth management and retirement
planning.
LAST
PROGRAM
Charlie Eckerly, our
in-house expert on Bowl games made his yearly selection of
winners. Before giving his picks, Charlie gave us a little
back-ground on bowl games and Alabama and Auburn’s season. He
said he was no expert on what was going on at Auburn, so he
didn’t go in too deeply, but he has had enough experience
coaching college football to know a few things. One of those
things is evaluation. When he looked at Auburn’s team, he
thinks, that is one of the finest football teams he’s ever
seen. Looking at them individually, they have some real
studs. He doesn’t know what the problem is, but he looks for
some heads to roll; perhaps the President, or the Director of
Athletics, but the coach is safe. He coaches, where the
teaching comes in is the motivating; teaching the right
techniques, the conditioning, everything. Auburn was picked
number 1 in the nation and that didn’t come to be at all.
They played Southern Cal. and lost, but Southern Cal is one of
the 2 best teams in the nation. Auburn played them as good as
you could play them.
Things will get better over the years, but
they’ve got all those ex-coaches on the payroll. That has to
involve a lot of money.
In Tuscaloosa, they’ve got a fine young coach
who learned a lot this year. He comes from a great football
family. They didn’t have the “horses” this year, because of
probation. The started the first bunch; they played Oklahoma
as good as anybody, but they ran out of gas. Things will get
better up there and they have some really good prospects.
Charlie said we’ve been looking at bowl games
since time began. The first 3 years the had not missed a
game. It was a good start, but things got worse. He talked
about 15 games. He would be happy to win 8 games out of 15,
because all the games are just a flip of the coin and that is
what he did; flip a coin for 5 of them.
When he was playing football in the 50’s,
there were 5 games; Orange, Sugar, Gator, Rose and Cotton; 10
teams altogether. You were blessed if you got to go to a bowl
game. There
weren’t too many going. Today there’s the toilet bowl,
kitchen sink bowl; you name it and there is a bowl. He came
up with an idea, but it was too late for this year, but next
year he is going to run off the games and let us pick the
winners. There will be a free dinner for the winner and his
wife at a good restaurant. He said we probably have the wrong
guy picking them.
The top games this year, each team will get
between $14-$17 million. In the S.E. Conference; 6 teams in
the East, 6 in the West; LSU in the Sugar Bowl would get $17
million split 3 ways. Each team would get a share, plus the
commissioner’s office would get a share. After expenses; LSU
wouldn’t have a long way to go, Oklahoma wouldn’t have a long
way to go, and expenses wouldn’t be great. He could see a
team spending a couple million without half trying. After
expenses some teams would get $750,000. It seems to him that
some of them would have to go to a bowl, because $750,000 the
teams couldn’t go far.
The following are the 15 bowls that Charlie
chose and the teams he picked to win. The underlined teams
are his winners.
Tangerine Bowl
N Carolina 56 vs. Kansas 26
Hawaii Bowl
Houston 48 vs. Hawaii 54 (OT)
Alamo Bowl
Michigan St. 3 vs. Nebraska 18
Holiday Bowl
Washington 28 vs. Texas 20
Music City Bowl
Wisconsin 14 vs. Auburn 28
Independence Bowl
Missouri 14 vs. Arkansas 27
Outback Bowl
Iowa 37 vs. Florida 17
Gator Bowl
Maryland 41 vs. W. Virginia 7
Capitol One Bowl
Perdue 27 vs. Georgia 34
Rose Bowl
Michigan 14 vs. Southern Cal 28
Orange Bowl
Florida State 14 vs. Miami 16
Cotton Bowl
Mississippi 31 vs. Oklahoma State
Peach Bowl
Clemson 27 vs. Tennessee 14
Fiesta Bowl
Kansas St. 28 vs. Ohio St. 35
Sugar Bowl
Oklahoma 14 vs. LSU 21
Charlie exceeded
his expectations by picking 10 winners. (Some of the games
were really up for grabs) Pretty good picking, considering
some of the teams records.
ANNUAL
GIFTS TO CAFETERIA STAFF
Checks were presented to Cynthia and Gladys.
ENTERTAINMENT
Al McLellan did some
research about Christmas and he said a German entrepreneur
invented Christmas in the 4th century, named Godfrey Von
Mall. All the malls are named after him. He led the merry
singers in “Giggle Bells”, loudly.
THOUGHT
FOR THE DAY
President Winstead thought of the faithfulness of
Joseph and Mary. He turned to Psalms, 5-10l. He hoped we
all had a pure heart and the right spirit.
PANCAKE
DAY
Ed Melton
announced Pancake Day would be March 13th.
Assignments will be announced on the Club’s website. A
volunteer is needed to do ads; other volunteers are needed for
other jobs.
DALRAIDA
SCHOOL
Ken Carrick announced
the following dates:
January 15th - read
to the students
April 13, 14 & 15th -
Monitors are needed for 1st grade during testing Kindergarten
and 1st grade teachers will monitor tests for the 5th and 6th
grade. They need 12 people.
PROGRAMS
Vince Cox is responsible for the
January 15th program. January 22nd and 29th are open dates.
Speakers are needed for those dates.
CHRISTMAS
PARTY
Everyone
had a great time at the Christmas dinner. In fact, many won
door prizes, which added to the Christmas spirit. Many thanks
to Ed Melton’s daughter for providing the Christmas
music. Many thanks to Al McLellan for being Master of
Ceremonies and the members, their wives and all the others who
decorated and help make the party a success.
PEANUT
Report
Jerry
Evelan reported $700 is still outstanding. He asked that
members check their records.
El Kidd got 6 bags of peanuts December
15th and they were bagged by the following members: Bill
Scarborough, Dick Bennett, Barnie Paulson and El Kidd. A
total of 560 pounds are in storage. By the time we have
Pancake Day they will be sold. He said we saved $300 on very
bag purchased. We paid $55 per bag and on 4 trips save $
1,200.
TOUR
OF FOOD BANK
Ken Carrick asked if anyone would like
to tour the Food Bank during lunch in January.
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