Mentor Harbor Yachting Club 5330 Coronada Dr. Mentor, Ohio 44060

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Mentor Harbor Yachting Club Monthly Newsletter Volume 77-11

Commodore’s Report John Rampe

November is upon us and it appears that the cooler weather has arrived. Hopefully everyone was able to take advantage of the fantastic weather we had through October with a few more outings on the lake. As the boating season winds down, Skeet season has arrived starting November 4th. If you know of anyone who is interested in Skeet and not a member, please let them know about the MHYC Skeet Club temporary membership for the shooting season.

Just a reminder on future club events, please make your res-ervations for the Club Christmas Party on Friday December 15th, the BIGsmall Christmas Party on Saturday the 16th and Christmas Brunch with Santa on Sunday the 17th.

In planning for the 2018 season, I have finalized the Com-mittee Chairs for next year. Everyone who is interested is welcome to attend any of the committee meetings. If you are interested, please call the club office to get the dates and meeting locations. Your input is important and requested. This will help improve the things at the club that are bug-ging you and make MHYC a better place for everyone.

I would like to thank Commodore Price for all his hard work and efforts this past year in remodeling the club house and other various capital projects that have been completed by the club. Thank You Doug!

Don’t forget the Annual Meeting on November 29th and the Change of Watch on December 2nd, 2017

I look forward to serving as your Commodore in 2018.

November 2017

Mentor Harbor Yachting Club 5330 Coronada Drive Mentor, Ohio 44060

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Office Hours Monday - Friday 9am to 5pm Club Dining Monday: Closed Tuesday: Closed Wednesday: Dinner - 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Thursday: Dinner - 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday Dinner - 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Saturday: Lunch - 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dinner - 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Sunday: Brunch & Lunch - 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dinner - 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Lounge

Wednesday through Friday @ 5 pm Saturday and Sunday @ 11 am

...until the last member leaves!

Gas Dock 8am-4pm, Monday through Friday.

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Club WiFi for members: mhycmhyc

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Password: mhyc7214

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Board of Directors 2017

Commodore Doug Price

Vice Commodore John Rampe

Rear Commodore Douglas McLaughlin, DO

PC Janet Blanchard, MD

Edwin Sellers

Chris Burton

Walter Payerl

Mike Pettrey

Timothy Gooding

Skip Martin

Duke Allyn

Alan Langlois, Secretary

PC Tom Barton, Treasurer

MHYC Staff

General Manager—Jaime Cordova

Executive Chef/ Food and Beverage Manager—Randy Luedders

Controller—Colleen Cavanagh

Harbor Master—Dan Miller

Membership Director—Rebecca Owoc

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For Reservations Call, 440-257-7214 Or E-mail, membership@mhyc.us

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General Manager’s Corner Jaime Cordova

Fall is in the air but you will still be seeing some positive changes to the grounds at Mentor Harbor this month. The three dead crabapple trees on the skeet range will be removed and replaced with something new and less messy in the spring. We will be keeping the wood for bonfires and for the Chef to use as he sees fit. The hillside opposite Docks D and E will also be receiving a long-needed cleanup of leaves, weeds, bushes and small trees that have sprouted up. Come Springtime, look for some of the landscaping and flower beds around the club to be redone and freshened up, as well.

Also in the Spring, we will also be resurfacing the main driveway from the front gate to the circle in front of the clubhouse as well as the Commodore’s row. The east and west lower level parking areas will be seal coated and relined.

The Holiday Season is right around the corner so please be sure to check out the flyers for all the festivities and fun being offered at the club and join in when and where you can. I also encourage all of you to attend the Annual Meeting followed a few days later by the Change of Watch which is one of the historic traditions that makes Mentor Har-bor such a special place.

Thank you, and I hope to see you all at the Club sometime soon.

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MHYC Employee Spotlight… Nick Doherty (Chef de Partie)

Nick has been cooking as part of the MHYC Back of the House Staff for two years. He was born in Cleveland and grew up in Geneva, and is a graduate of Geneva High School. He currently lives in Lakewood and is attending Tri-C, studying computer technology.

Nick enjoys spending time with his girlfriend Acelyn and his dog Charles, taking nature walks and spending time outdoors. He is an accomplished roller blader and was featured in One Magazine, where he was described as a “main dude in the Cleveland roller blading scene”!

Last boat out of the water…

November 2, 2017

Thanks for a great

boating season!

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Upcoming Dates to Remember… Thursday, November 23rd Thanksgiving Dinner

Monday, November 27th Christmas Decorating

Wednesday, November 29th Annual Meeting

Saturday, December 2nd Change of Watch

Friday, December 15th Club Christmas Party

Saturday, December 16th BIGsmall Christmas Party

Sunday, December 17th Christmas Brunch w/Santa

Members Photos Needed We are hoping to add photos of the MHYC membership to our

Point of Sale System to help our staff better recognize you when

you come to the club. You can assist us by forwarding a photo

(headshots work best) of all adults members listed in our roster.

Please forward them to membership@mhyc.us. Thank you in ad-

vance for all of your cooperation for this project!

MHYC “Open Table” Thursdays On Thursdays this fall, we will be offering an "Open Table"

seating option. This is a chance for you to meet new members or

catch up with long-time acquaintances. When making your reser-

vations, ask to sit at the "Open Table" and get to know more of

your MHYC family! 6 to 6:30 pm will be socializing, with dinner

seating at 6:30 pm. Please plan to join us!

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This month’s article honors one of Mentor Harbor Yachting Club’s most famous mem-

bers. George White was a Cleveland architect and a sailor at Mentor Harbor, but he was

much more. He was a true polymath with at least 5 degrees in engineering, business and

law. He and my family became friends in the 1950’s.

When my parents decided to build a house on the shore of Lake Erie, they chose George

to design it, although he usually designed commercial buildings. The result was the won-

derful house that I am lucky enough to live in today. Through the winter of 1959, mother

and dad met with George about once a week to plan the house.

Inspired by our house, Goerge went on to design houses for Malcom Daisley where John-

sie lives today and Richard Newpher, where the Hudak’s now live.

George had a beautiful, varnished hull sailboat named Gaudeamus. Loosely translated

from Latin, it means, “Let’s have a Party”. That was George. In 1967, he teamed up with

then Commodore Ted Kilroy to design a significant addition to our clubhouse which en-

compassed the lobby, restrooms and the wonderful bar and lounge where we all love to

meet and spend time. This had previously been just a screened porch.

I now urge the board to consider naming our bar “The George M. White Memorial Bar”.

The following obituary tells a lot more about Georges later career as “Architect of the

United States Capitol”. George was a great mentor to me and I was proud to be at his in-

stallation in Washington as Capitol Architect along with my mother Julia and brother Jim.

George died on June 17, 2011 at the age of 90 after serving under four U.S. Presidents.

You can read the details about a great friend and a great man.

(printed in The Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 22, 2011)

George M. White By Pat Black, MHYC Historian

George Malcolm White 1920-2011

Survivors: wife, the former Susanne Neiley; children, Stephanie White Bradford of West

Stockbridge, Mass., Jocelyn of Washington, D.C., Geoffrey of Guilford, Conn., Pamela

of Washington, D.C.; three step-children, Stephen H. Daniels of Chagrin Falls, Michael

S. Daniels of Potomac, Md., and Cynthia E. Daniels of Santa Clarita, Calif.; four grand-

children and four step-grandchildren.

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Kids Halloween

Party

Adult Halloween Party

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Cleveland's George M. White spent 24 years as the nation's architect of the Capitol.

Despite critics in Congress, he oversaw the rise of three federal buildings, restored several,

wrote a master plan, strengthened security, improved access for people with disabilities and

managed more than 2,500 Capitol workers, from janitors to cooks to gardeners.

White died June 17 at home in Bethesda, Md. He was 90.

In 1981, Rick Thomas of the Cleveland Press wrote, "Beneath the bow ties and fine manners,

there lies a savvy politician."

Architect Harold Adams, hired by White for the Capitol Visitor Center, said Wednesday, "He

was one of the most intelligent people I ever met. He stood his ground. He told Congress that

he knew more about his field than they did."

White urged politicians to rely on foresight, not expedience. "It's time to stop playing pin the

tail on the donkey with a map of Capitol Hill every time you need a new building," he told the

Press.

The eclectic White ran track at East Technical High School and fenced, rowed and shot pistols

at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering. He went on to a mas-

ter's in business administration at Harvard University and a law degree at Western Reserve University. He never earned an arc hi-

tectural degree but passed a licensing test.

He worked for General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y., then joined his father's small architectural firm at 750 Prospect Ave. H e

mostly designed apartment buildings, factories, a wing at First Unitarian Church, and an addition to the clubhouse at the Men tor

Harbor Yachting Club, where he raced a sailboat for years. He also designed, owned and ran Whitecliff Manor, now Cedarwood

Plaza, a nursing home in Cleveland Heights.

Besides architecture, White led the Merriman-Holbrook marine hardware company in Grand River and taught physics at Western

Reserve. He lived in Lakewood, Shaker Heights and East Cleveland.

He skated daily at the Cleveland Skating Club, danced in ice shows and refereed hockey. He sculpted, painted, hunted, fished in

the Georgian Bay and on the Outer Banks, helped start a Great Books club, operated a ham radio, played the bagpipes and the

ukelele, made furniture and belonged to the Print Club of Cleveland.

The registered Republican once said that his only political activity had been driving around his neighborhood in 1960 to tout Rich-

ard Nixon for president. In 1971, while he was president-elect of the American Institute of Architects, President Nixon re -deployed

him as the nation's ninth Capitol architect.

A day after he took office, a bomb caused $100,000 damage to the Capitol. He stayed up all night and testified about the bomb the

next day to Congress.

White came to call himself the Capitol's mayor. He was in charge not just of raising and maintaining buildings but of running the

district. He managed police, electricians, drivers and more.

Before taking the job, he had opposed his predecessor's plan to extend the Capitol's West Wing. Then he examined the relative

costs, changed his mind and stumped for the extension for years. But he had to settle for renovating and shoring it up instea d.

White oversaw construction of the Hart Senate Office Building. It came in at $137 million, well over budget. He blamed the er a's

inflation and the Senate's inflated demands for space.

He also led the creation of the Marshall Federal Judiciary Building and the Library of Congress's Madison Memorial Building. He

restored the Old Supreme Court, Old Senate Chambers and two other Library of Congress buildings. He conserved the Rotunda

canopy and the Statue of Freedom. He installed "slammer" barricades for security in Capitol parking lots and was slightly inj ured

when his driver hit one.

During the first oil crisis, White darkened many buildings at night but not all. "The Capital dome is the symbol of freedom a nd de-

mocracy throughout the world, and we ought not turn the lights off on that," he said.

He also advised distant projects, including the Statue of Liberty's restoration, a new Australian capitol and the relocation of Egypt's

Nubian Monuments.

He was often controversial. Representative Samuel Stratton of New York demanded his resignation. Senator William Proxmire of

Wisconsin gave him a "Golden Fleece" award for a gym that the Senate had sought. Congress finally limited future architects t o 10

-year terms instead of indefinite ones and made presidents choose from short lists of candidates.

White lived in D.C.'s Georgetown section until 1995, when he stepped down from the Capitol and moved to nearby Bethesda. He

became vice-chairman of the Leo A. Daly architectural firm.

He will be buried privately on "Architects' Row" at the Congressional Cemetery.

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