Adventurers Club of Honolulu July 20, 2023

 

July 20, 2023

NATSUNOYA TEA HOUSE,

 HONOLULU, HAWAII

Aloha Adventurers,
Welcome to Summer and Happy 4th of July weekend!

     We hope to see you on July 20th, at the Natsunoya Tea House where they will be serving their Japanese buffet. Remember it's BYOB, and don't forget your bottle openers and glasses!

     As we continue to think of better ways to serve you and be more efficient, we are asking those paying by check to please write them out ahead of time to help the registration line move more quickly. Please be sure to use the full club name, Adventurers’ Club of Honolulu to ensure the bank will accept the deposit. For cash payments, just a quick reminder to please bring the exact amount as we do not carry change. Mahalo for your kōkua!

     Please note we will skip the month of August and resume meetings on September 20, 2023.

     As a quick reminder, if you are interested in giving a presentation, volunteering to be a reservationist, or know anyone interested in joining the club, please contact your club leaders:

     1st VP/Program Chair –Brigitte Visser, brigitte6182@gmail.com

     2nd VP/Membership Chair – Terrilea Burnett, terrileaburnett@outlook.com

    Director/Reservations Chair - Lori Anderson, waikikilori@yahoo.com   

    Enjoy the summer fun in the sun and as always, safe travels!

                                               Mahalo,

                             Carolyn Gire & Lowell Angell

                                      Club Co-Presidents

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     REMINDERS & NOTICES

    Natsunoya Tea House is BYOB. Members who choose to bring their own beverages should also bring their own glasses, bottle openers etc.  Shoes need to be removed upon entry.   

     Please see BELOW for meeting and RSVP information.

     We will not meet in August, and our September meeting will be held on Wednesday, 9/20/23, at the Waikiki Yacht Club.

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JULY MEETING

THURSDAY, JULY 20, 2023

"Medical Mission & Clean Water Project  

Papua New Guinea in 2022"

by member Murray Visser

Join a team of doctors, nurses and Rotarians who provide medical equipment and training at the Mt. Hagen Hospital in Papua New Guinea. The hospital is 3,000 feet up the Owen Stanley Mountain Range.   Mt. Hagen is connected only by airplane to the capital Port Moresby.  

See the team provide catchment equipment and water purifying chemicals to isolated Omben village. On a daily basis, the team also tested many streams for water-borne diseases in remote places, while passing through some violence-ridden areas. Then see the gathering of some of the 700 tribes at a sing-sing; where the tribes competed for the award of being the tribe with the most talented performers.

Natsunoya Tea House  1935 Makanani Drive, Honolulu 96817

6:00 PM - BYOB

6:30 PM - Dinner

7:15 PM - Program  (approximately)

~ Menu ~  

Japanese Buffet   (includes water & tea)

Members = $43    /    Guests = $53

Checks Preferred or Exact Cash

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RSVP INFORMATION & DEADLINE

RSVPs due by 7/12/23

to Kathy Reinhart,via email  kathyreinhart@hotmail.com

(Late cancellations and no shows will be billed)

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Adventurers Club of Honolulu June 14, 2023

 

Adventurers Club of Honolulu June 14, 2023
         Waikiki Yacht Club - Wednesday

         "Around the World on Cunard's Queen Victoria" by Members Carolyn and David Gire

Summer is here and bringing in the heat is our very own Carolyn and David Gire, who will share about their recent 4-month adventure upon Cunard's Queen Victoria. Surely a story you don't want to miss! Join us to hear all about preparing for this journey and about the 16 countries and 4 continents they visited. 

• Meeting Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2023      (RSVP Deadline: June 7, 2023). 
• Reservationist: Stacey Thomas, email:  samoht96815@yahoo.com
• Location: Waikiki Yacht Club, 1599 Ala Moana Blvd
• Title/Presenter(s): "Around the World on Cunard's Queen Victoria" by members Carolyn & David Gire  
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• Waikiki Yacht Club         1599 Ala Moana Blvd
• 6:00 PM - no host cocktails  (credit cards accepted)
• 6:30 PM - Dinner
• 7:15 PM - Program  (approximately)
• ~ Menu ~ (includes salad and dessert + coffee/tea, iced tea or soda)
• "Chef's Choice" - unspecified Vegetarian option
•            or
• BBQ Cornish Game Hen with mashed potatoes & green beans
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• Members = $40
• Prices for guests = $50

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Aloha Adventurers'!
    We all know that restaurant prices have gone up a lot over the last couple of years, but did you know that our venues are asking for firm commitments on our numbers much earlier than in the past? 
     Pre-pandemic we usually could give our reservation numbers a week before the meeting and make changes until four days before. Now we are being asked to give counts two weeks before the meetings and can add, but not reduce, one week out. This means our deadlines are much earlier than in the past. While we know that life happens and you may have to cancel at the last minute, you will need to pay for your missed meal, since we have to pay for it. Please let the reservationist know as soon as possible that you won’t be attending and if you miss the deadline but would still like to attend,
get in touch with the reservationist, since they will know what is possible. Once you send your email RSVP, please check for the confirmation email within a day or two. If you don’t get it, please contact the reservationist to be sure it was received.
Aloha,
Carolyn and Lowell
ACH Co-Presidents

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Reminders & Notices:   Next Meeting: Thursday, July 20th, Natsunoya Tea House

At the Waikiki Yacht Club June Meeting 2023

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Club members Carolyn and David Gire recently returned from a 103 day voyage around the world on Cunard’s Queen Victoria that touched 28 ports in 16 countries on 4 continents, traversing both
the Panama and Suez canals. As well as describing the itinerary and the highlights of the various ports, they’ll answer the questions they have been asked: how do you prepare for a four-month cruise, how
many suitcases did you take, what’s life like on board and the big one – would you do it again?

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Adventurers Club Honolulu May 18, 2023

 

A D V E N T U R E R S ' S  C L U B  O F

  H O N O L U L U 

MAY MEETING
T H U R S D A Y , MA Y 1 8, 2023

Aloha Adventurers,
    As Spring transitions into Summer, we are heating things up with a set of new programs, starting with members Ted & Judy Simon, titled, "Ring of Fire: Dance of the Warriors". Check out page 2 for the program description.
       May will take us back to the Natsunoya Tea House where we will enjoy their Japanese buffet. Remember it's BYOB, and don't forget your bottle openers and glasses. We need your help please to make the registration line move more quickly. We are asking members to please make your checks out in advance and be sure to use our full name, Adventurers’ Club of Honolulu. Recently, our bank has been rejecting checks that don’t use the full name. Also, since we don’t carry change at these events, if paying in cash, please be sure to have the exact amount.
      Please see page 3 for parking details and directions. We appreciate your kōkua! We would love to hear about your adventures! Should you, or someone you know be interested in sharing, please contact our Program Chair, Brigitte Visser via email at brigitte6182@gmail.com.
       And as we mentioned before, we are always looking for new members to share our enjoyment of these programs and one another's fellowship! Contact our membership chair, Terrilea Burnett, if you know of anyone interested in joining, terrileaburnett@outlook.com.
      We hope to see you on May 18th - don't delay, make your reservations today (seats are limited).
     Mahalo,

Carolyn Gire & Lowell Angell
Club Co-Presidents

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Reminders & Notices:

Natsunoya Tea House is BYOB. Members who choose to bring their own beverages should also bring their own glasses, bottle openers etc. 

Shoes need to be removed upon entry.

Please see page 2 & 3 for meeting, RSVP and parking details.

Our June meeting will be held on Wednesday, 6/14/23, Waikiki Yacht Club.

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       Ring of Fire: Dance of the Warriors"

                               by members Ted & Judy Simon

         In this movie from the 1970s, two young English brothers, Lawrence and Lorne Blair, sail to Komodo Island in Indonesia and film the giant carnivorous lizards on Dragon Island. On the nearby island of Sumba, they witness a ritualized form of human sacrifice by equestrian warriors. They then journey 50,000 years into the past to live with Asmat headhunters in the remote West Papua regency of New Guinea.

          Ted and I visited Komodo in 2022 and also several Asmat villages in 2022 and 2016. In 2016 we were formally adopted into an Asmat tribe, yet nothing we experienced in our visits to the Asmat compared to what the intrepid Blair brothers experienced and documented on film. In the early 1970s, these two brothers set off on an audacious adventure to follow in the footsteps of the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) through many of the 17,000 islands of the Indonesian archipelago. Like Wallace, who developed his theory of natural selection independently of Charles Darwin, the brothers journeyed across a nation that covers two million square miles of ocean, among lands which harbor still uncategorized varieties of creatures, dragons, pirates, healers and headhunters. Their travels were performed without permits, radios, compasses, insurance or emergency supplies. 

        Their 19-year odyssey of discovery was documented in the television series, Ring of Fire, which aired on both the BBC and PBS in the early 1990s. The Dance of the Warriors video we have selected is the second episode in this series of 5 short films that have since been digitized on DVD.

Natsunoya Tea House
1935 Makanani Drive
Honolulu, HI 96817

6:00 PM - BYOB

6:30 PM - Dinner

7:15 PM - Program  (approximately)

~ Menu ~

Japanese Buffet   (includes water & tea)

Members = $43     /  Guests = $53

Checks Preferred or Exact Cash

RSVP INFORMATION & DEADLINE

RSVPs due by 5/11/23  to Gretchen Arnemann,via email bg.arnemann@outlook.com

(Late cancellations and no shows will be billed)

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Adventurers Club Honolulu April 19, 2023

 

 ADVENTURERS CLUB OF HONOLULU

April 19, 2023   Wednesday

Waikiki Yacht Club

Aloha Adventurers!

   We have another fascinating program lined up this month! The "Adventure" part of it is the stairs themselves! I have personally never climbed those stairs so I will be very interested in seeing and hearing about them. Hopefully you feel the same and will join us!

    This is sure to be a popular program! Our speaker is Sean Pager, the son of ACH member David Pager, and an expert on the history of the Stairs.

   We will again enjoy the ambience of the beautiful Waikiki Yacht Club. It is ideally suited to our club and meetings, and the food is tasty too.

     Plan now to attend the meeting and email your RSVP early to me at angell@hawaii.edu.

     And remember -- we are always looking for new members to share our enjoyment of these programs and one another's fellowship! Contact our

membership chair, Terrilea Burnett, if you know someone who would be interested in joining. Her email is terrileaburnett@outlook.com.

See you on the 19th!

  Aloha,

    Lowell Angell

ACH Co-President with Carolyn Gire

           "THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE HA‘IKŪ STAIRS"

               By guest: Sean Pager (son of member, David Pager)

      The Haʻikū Stairs are an architectural and engineering wonder that doubles as a world-class hike. They are indelibly linked to two different communications breakthroughs whose cutting-edge technologies had significant world-historical implications in the mid-20th century. Since then, the “Stairway to Heaven” has become an iconic fixture of Windward O’ahu. Up to 20,000 people per year climbed them in the 1980s, and the stairs’ renown continues to reverberate widely on

social media today. 

     Few people know the story, however, of how they came to be built: The Stairs were part of a top-secret Naval radio station. Heroic efforts and intrepid engineering underlay their construction, paving the way for a revolutionary transmitter whose high-altitude cables spanned the amphitheater-

shaped walls of Haʻikū Valley.  Radio signals sent from Haʻikū could reach across the Pacific Ocean (an unprecedented distance) and played a significant role in winning the War of the Pacific. After the war, the Stairs were used as part of an equally groundbreaking Omega transmitter, one of the eight stations worldwide whose global navigation beacons provided an early precursor to satellite-based

GPS.

    This talk will recount the untold story of the Haʻikū Stairs. It will also discuss the Stairs’ more recent incarnation as a controversial hiking trail and explore their possible future.

Waikiki Yacht Club   1599 Ala Moana Blvd

6:00 PM - no host cocktails  (credit cards accepted)

6:30 PM - Dinner

7:15 PM - Program  (approximately)

~ Menu ~  (includes caesar salad with house-made dressing, tiramisu, coffee/tea, iced tea or soda)

    1)  Pasta bar: linguine or rotini  / Sauce bar: house-made pesto, creamy alfredo or marinara & choice of Italian sausage w/onions & peppers $45, or

   2)  Eggplant parmesan (vegetarian) = $45

Prices for guest entrées = $55

RSVPs due by 4/12/23  To Lowell Angell, (via email) angell@hawaii.edu (live link)

Late cancellations and no shows will be billed

(Next meeting:   May 18th, 2023  Thursday, at Natsunoya Tea House    6PM)

Adventurers Club Honolulu March 16, 2023

 ADVENTURERS CLUB OF HONOLULU

 MARCH MEETING  Thursday March 16, 2023  

                            Natsunoya Tea House

Aloha Adventurers,  Spring is approaching and with it, new adventures and new members.  Thank you again for sending in your membership dues and please be on the lookout to welcome our newest members (listed below) at future meetings. Cheers to new friends sharing in our adventures and please keep spreading the word! Membership questions may be emailed to Terrilea Burnett (terrileaburnett@outlook.com).

Welcome Newest Members 2023:
    1. Judy McCluskey
    2. Carl McCluskey
Our March meeting will be held at the Natsunoya Tea House. 
    Sadly, we would like to share that long time member and past Club President, Paul
Snipes, has passed. Please join us in honoring him on his last safari.
                         BEYOND THE REEF
Paul Snipes joined the Club in 1969 and sponsored many new members over the years and served as a former club president in addition to holding other offices. He was a keen photographer and founded the Zone XII Photography Club, which had quite a few members in common with the Adventurers' Club. Once his health began to fail, he moved to California to be nearer to his daughter and passed away on 1/27/23. To Paul, we bid you our hail & farewell...cheers dear friend, you will be missed.
"Beyond this Life, and beyond this strife,
To those who have bid adieu to Life,
What better message can we send?
Than, we will miss you, our good friend." ...by August L. Ahlf
          Mahalo,
Lowell Angell & Carolyn Gire, Club Co-Presidents

Natsunoya Tea House is BYOB. Members who choose to bring their own beverages should also bring their own glasses, bottle openers etc. Shoes need to be removed upon entry. 

 RSVPs due by 3/09/23 to Patricia Moore, (via email) honolulupat1@yahoo.com (Late cancellations and no shows will be billed)

  [ Our April meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 19th, Waikiki Yacht Club. ]

MARCH 16, 2023   NATSUNOYA TEA HOUSE 

         1935 Makanani Dr, Honolulu, HI 96817

6:00 PM - BYOB

6:30 PM - Dinner

7:15 PM - Program (approximately)

~ Menu ~ (includes water & tea)

Japanese Buffet  Members = $43   Guests = $53   Checks Preferred or Exact Cash

 

"The Blessing of Swiss Grandkids"   

                             by member Terrilea Burnett

        Terrilea's love of travel was fostered during the 1970’s when her family lived in Guam for 4 (wonderful) years. Who knew that Japan, Asia and the Pacific Islands were just a short flight away. For $15, one could fly on a “mac” flight and bring home beautiful goods, even furniture. It was during this time that she learned the lifelong lesson that a smile is the universal language.
      After 3 years in Afghanistan following the war, Terrilea's daughter was relocated to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. It was there that her two “Swiss grandkids” grew up. As a child, rereading "Heide" countless times, Terrilea never thought she would end up with free hotel, car, and family in this exquisitely beautiful country. This talk will focus on her adventures in Switzerland and nearby France.

Adventureres Club of Honolulu Feb 2023

 

Adventurers Club of Honolulu 

WEDNESDAY     Feb 15, 2023
 Waikiki Yacht Club
        1599 Ala Moana Blvd

"The Wildlife of Namibia"

by member: Kay Kolt-Bowersox

                                                                     
     Namibia is in southwest Africa, bordering Botswana, Angola and South Africa, with its western side facing the Atlantic Ocean. With a  land area of 318 square miles and a population of 2.5 million, Namibia traces its independence to 1990. When it broke from South Africa. Previously Namibia was part of German West Africa. The country has five major game parks, most located in the northern part of the country. The parks include elephants, rhinoceros, Cheetahs, and zebras.  

     Kay Bowersox (nee Kolt) was a flight attendant and bursar for Northwest Airlines, later Delta, which gave her an opportunity to travel over much of the world. She spent much of her free time in Japan, Taiwan and Australia. Later a resident of Kona, she has been president of the Hawaii Big Game Fishing Club and a frequent participant in the club’s events.

6:00 PM - no host cocktails  (credit cards accepted)
6:30 PM - Dinner 
7:15 PM - Program (approximately)

Note: masks & vaccine cards no longer required

~ Menu ~

(includes hummus w/pita & greek salad & baklava for dessert
w/coffee/tea, iced tea or soda)
1) Mediterranean Style White Fish with Rice Pilaf = $45
2) Stuffed Portabello Mushroom = $45
*Prices for Guests entrées = $55

RSVPs due by 2/8/23   To Lori Anderson, (via email)

 waikikilori@yahoo.com  

Late cancellations and no shows will be billed

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Waikiki Yacht Club