Thirty or so members gathered to celebrate the holiday season during our annual Holiday Potluck and Bake Sale. Mary Stevens and her committee of Partha Dasgupta and Trudy Perez decorated the room and tables creating a very festive atmosphere.

Last year we held the event outside in the park which was quite nice but we were all glad the event was indoors this year- it was rather chilly outside.

I got to spend some time with Joe Schultz and we discovered an amazing coincidence. Joe was in his organic chemistry lab in Mississippi and I was in my organic chemistry lecture room in California when we  both heard that Kennedy had been shot. What are the odds?

Santa did not appear but we did get a nice visit from our 10th President, Don Dotts. The bake sale had its usual amazing offerings including some incredible peanut brittle from Joy Shearman and as usual Barbara Eschbach's (expletive deleted) banana nut bread. The sale brought in $200!

Story by Barry McNeill

Pictures by Barry McNeill