IPCC Virtual
January Luncheon
in partnership with
IWA
Guest Speaker
Stephen Kinzer
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
11:45 am to 1:30 pm
Zoom
IPCC PRESIDENT'S NOTE
The IPCC has had an unusual Summer Season this year! Normally we program in a Summer Sabbatical from June until the second week of September. Nearly all our members are either traveling or in the cases of our Diplomatic Members, away on home leave reconnecting with their families and homelands!
That, I’m surprised to say, at least in terms of our members, has only been partially true this year.
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After a series of late Spring trips those members decided to stay close to home and enjoy the Chicago Summer heat reminiscent of June’s and July’s of over 60 years ago! Yes, I remember those summers, especially the ice-cold bottles of RC Cola and Orange Crush! The baseball games and the weekend trips to Wisconsin to cool off in the family car without air conditioning as if it was yesterday! We didn’t melt. We went with the flow and had a great time. This year has been much of the same!
Except we actually had a late July Guest Speaker’s Event when one of our Overseas Members, Matt Yazar, from Bodrum, Turkey, came into town for a visit to publish his third book!
The details and pitfalls which he shared with us, during a joint event, his presentation, and a surprise Goodbye for our Secretary Richard Cornell, who has been a steadfast IPCC supporter for 20 years! We had attendees and close friends to share stories and recollections of Richard. In all, it was a very good event. He is due to depart for a ranch in Florida in a few weeks!
And now it’s my turn! Not to say farewell, but to hit the friendly skies of Turkish Airlines, Aegean Airlines, and Serbian Airlines for the next six weeks or more!
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The first stop will be a plane change in Istanbul followed by a flight to Naples Italy for a week. There is a nice boutique hotel I’ll be writing about a half block off the Bay of Naples with nearby old world barbers right out of central casting for the Goodfellows, custom tailors, and a crusty coffee bar for the mandatory stand-up morning espresso and pasties!
Across the street is the award-winning pizzeria with a wood fired oven cranking out a piping hot 90 second pizza margarite and a GOBLET of local (actually really smooth and tasty) red wine all for under 8 Euros! This will be followed by a stay in the classic 1970s Jack Lemmon movie AVANTI! Hotel on the Island of Ischia!
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After Naples, it’s on to the Island Nation of Cyprus in the far Eastern Mediterranean which is also the farthest Eastern member of the EU for another three weeks, in part, to partake in a Cypriot recognized (for over 2,000 years!) holistic practice of water therapy to heal up your aches and pains and rejuvenate the soul!
Which, I’m pleased to say actually works! This is my 5th year on the island and at the same fully equipped seaside rental 50 feet from the same Mediterranean beach that saw last year’s 91 degree water!!
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Afterwards, it’s off to Padua via Venice for another week. Followed by the return flight from Belgrade and a two-day layover!
Images, video, and a series of submitted stories from the road to follow!
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I wish everyone the best which the remaining weeks of Summer can bring to you before we all start back fresh in the Fall!
All the Best, once more!
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Wayne Toberman
President, IPCC