National Orange Day At Singer Island

What a great day on the beach at Singer Island, just could not have asked for nicer weather for this event. The parade of thank you acknowledgements starts with Mickey, Todd and Tom of the Palm Beach Chapter of Surfriders. Thank you for your hospitality and for making sure our our members had a great time while serving a great cause. Thank you for taking the extra time post event to share with us the serious situation confronting our beaches. Thank you to our alumni support team at SU, for promoting the event and for sending us T-Shirts and Hats to raffle off...Thank you to to Kerry, our incredible communications director, for everything she does to promote all of the club activities and for her extra support on this NOD event. Thank you to Ryan Schultz for promoting the event to our networking group and for making the long trip up to Singer Island despite other family obligations that very same day. Thank you Tony Lourido for coordinating the brunch at Longboats, great time, great weather, great food. Thank you to all of our sponsors and to Sherryl for creating an incredible T-Shirt on short notice. Total contributions easily covered the cost of the shirts with enough left over for a very generous gift to the Surfrider Beach Clean Up Efforts...Thank you to everyone who attended and hopefully you had a good time and felt good about doing something worthwhile even though it meant getting up early and making a long drive...That is the spirit of NOD.

For anyone who wanted to make it but couldn't...you can at least feel a part of the event by purchasing an official NOD Singer Island T-Shirt. The SU School logo is on the front and our club logo is on the back with a list of all of the sponsors. We will post a picture of the shirt on the web site and if interested, they will be available for you to pick up at Embroidery Works in Boca Raton at $5.00 each. I will bring some to future game watching events and to networking events as well.

This is the third consecutive NOD event that I have had the honor to organize and I'm proud that our club has been recognized by the University for its NOD accomplishments. I'm sure many of you saw the national email communication which profiled our clubs NOD Activity. The tradition has been started and now it is time for some of our younger alumni club members to take on leadership roles including the Chair of the Community Service Committee which includes selecting and organizing the NOD Event. This was my last event as your NOD chairman, but hopefully not my last as an attendee. The club is looking for new leaders with energy and conviction to community service through the outreach of our alma mater...Call Eric or Ryan and let them know you want to step up...