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Saudi Arabia Featured at March Meeting in Newport Beach
Use the “Prev” and “Next” links to click forward or backward through the images in this gallery. [portfolio_slideshow] Faye Girsh presented a personal in-depth visual and descriptive look at Saudi Arabia during the TCC March lunch in Newport Beach. Traveling solo with a local guide in December 2012, she was appalled “to see how joyless…
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TCC Members Attempt Bouvet Landing During Five-Week Cruise
Just as the June 2015 Centurian was going to press, we received the accompanying photos and trip highlights from TCC Treasurer JoAnn Schwartz. On March 24, some 30 TCC members from the U.S., Costa Rica, France, Germany, Greece, Portugal and Singapore boarded the Ortelius at Ushuaia, Argentina, for a five-week cruise to the Cape Verde…
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TCC Members Help Others: Tell Us About Your Volunteer Endeavors
We are aware that many TCC members do volunteer work when they travel and also when they are at home. We’d like to hear about some of your work to help others. If you’ll send a brief description of your endeavors to TCC Headquarters, we’ll write about it in the Centurian, as space allows. One…
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TCC Get-Togethers on Cruises
TCC members like to travel together and often take cruises as a group, as we have reported with photos and items in past issues — and as shown in our report about a recent attempted voyage to Bouvet. Cruises are a good way to add TCC countries and territories. Members not traveling with a TCC…
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Possible New TCC Chapter in Naples, Florida
TCC members in the Naples, FL, area met for brunch in late March to discuss the structure and formation of a local TCC chapter. The meeting was spearheaded by Dr. Marilyn Varcoe, a cognitive behavioral psychologist who is also on the staff at Naples Community Hospital. Members decided to meet monthly except in August and…
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How to Start at TCC Chapter in Your Area
We now have 20 TCC chapters — 16 domestic and four international — and possibly another in Naples, FL (see separate article). But some members outside the current chapter areas have expressed interest in meeting with other TCC members to share travel experiences. Additional chapters have been started in other areas of the same state,…
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How to Become a TCC Area Coordinator
A TCC Area Coordinator should be a dues-paying member for several years but even a Provincial Member qualifies. It’s a volunteer position, primarily communicating with the other members in your local area about the venue and program for the social gathering. Formats of meetings can be as simple as a discussion of past and future…
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Can You Help Your Area Coordinator?
How about extending a helping hand to the busy Area Coordinator in your area? Some of them have full-time jobs, others are traveling a lot or have other obligations. The assistance would especially be appreciated in the areas with a large number of members. You could help the Coordinator: Line up speakers or program…
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A Message From the Chairman
At the March meeting, the TCC Board of Directors voted to add Tim Skeet of Calgary, Canada, to the board. Tim is the first International board member. By the way, all of the Area Coordinators are encouraged to attend our board meetings when they are in Southern California. Any member in good standing may also…
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A Message From the President
One of the great advantages of membership in TCC is the opportunity for travelers to actually meet face-to-face in local chapters and “tell travel tales.” At our March meeting in Newport Beach, California, I handed out a survey sheet with this simple question: Please list one of your travel experiences which you would describe as…
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