Dictator Gary Edwards has announced the Annual Spouses’ Dinner will be held on the evening of Saturday, 21 November 2015, in a meeting room on the lower level of the Eldorado Hotel and Casino in downtown Reno. This annual function is the one event where we dress above “casual”, and give our spouses or significant others some insight into the Club de los Mondongueros.

Cocktails will begin at 6:00 pm, and dinner at 7:00 pm.

An after-dinner presentation related to aviation is planned.

Members will be asked by the Dictator to specify their menu choices for the Annual Dinner at regular lunch meetings a few weeks before the event.

Photographs taken at the Spouses’ Dinner will be included on the 2015 Edition of the Mondongueros Photo Album, and will be distributed to all members on CD at the regular lunch meetings on December 9th and December 16th.

Those members who still have not provided the long-requested photographs from their past are encouraged to submit several to the Web Master before November 21st, so they may be included within the Photo Album. The web-site post on the subject of “requested photographs” may be consulted for details.

Our brother Leo Lynn passed away last Friday – 15 May 2015 – at 0405, following a brief final illness. Patricia, his wife of 37 years, reports that he died peacefully in his sleep while surrounded by family.

Although Leo was a regular attendee at lunch for twenty years, he found it increasingly difficult to walk over the past two years, and his last meeting with us was the 30th Anniversary Lunch on 10 September 2014.

Leo was a B-17 pilot in World War II, and an active general aviation pilot for decades after the War. He owned and operated Lincoln-Mercury dealerships in Las Vegas and Reno for many years. After retirement. he served as a regular juror on the federal grand juries in Reno.

There will be no funeral. Patricia has arranged for a memorial get-together for family and friends to be held at the Reno Elks Lodge on Monday, June 1st, beginning at 1400. She would enjoy having Mondongueros Members attend to share their stories and remembrances about Leo.

The pictures below of Leo were taken in 1944, and during the Reno Air Races in September 2008.

As we all know, our Brother and founding member Berto Crawford lost his beloved Pam a little over one year ago after a lengthy battle against cancer. Pam was a 1969 graduate of Sparks High School, and was a life-long contributor of time and effort to community activities in Sparks, and in particular connected with Speaks High School. Few of the girls graduating from Sparks High School girls have the opportunity to go on to college, and Berto has formed a scholarship foundation in Pam’s name – The Pamela Lummer Crawford Scholarship Foundation – for the purpose of helping young women with the potential to meet the expenses of college.

To help support part of the Foundation’s work, an Annual Golf Tournament and Barbecue will be held on Saturday, May 30th, at the Washoe County Golf Club. Non-golfers and families are invited to the Barbecue.

The Dictator urges all who can to support this worthwhile effort.

Our web-site has become an important part of Club de los Mondongueros Reno.

The annual hosting expense for the web-site will become due in June, and the Dictator has directed that each active member be assessed $10.00 to cover the expense for the period from 01 July 2016 through 30 June 2017.

You may remit to Web-Master Mark Goodrich by mail, or pay him directly at a regular lunch meeting.

It is with great sadness that we have learned of the passing of the beloved wife – Josefina – of Luis H. “Lucho” Moreno in Panama on 25 March 2015, after some 60 years of marriage, and a lengthy final illness.

Newer members may read about Luis H. Moreno under the History Section of our web-site, and in the 30th Anniversary Booklet. He was sent to Reno by the Dictator of the Panama Club in 1984, and commissioned to present the original documents of formation for Club de los Mondongueros Reno to Clarence Crawford, our founding Dictator.

Dictator Gary Edwards has sent a message of condolence to Lucho on behalf of us all in the Reno Club.

Dictator Gary Edwards Sr. characterized the Annual Spouses’ Dinner as “a success”, with a large turnout of some 26  members and spouses.

Our long-time hostess – Charlotte Hofer, but “Mama” to all of us – returned to oversee the preparation and service of the meal, despite her “formal retirement” earlier this year. In recognition of her many years of service to the club, Dictator Gary Edwards presented her with a bouquet of roses from the membership.

Thanks to the efforts of Member Mike Poirier and Dictator Gary Edwards, special awards were presented honoring Member Bill Elander as a member of the “Caterpillar Club” with the “Martin-Baker Tie-Club Cluster” for his successful bailout from his F-4 after being hit with a surface-to-air missile in 1973.

Members Mark Goodrich and Dave Penney honored the 30th Anniversary by presenting a history of Mondongueros, with accompanying booklet and a framed group photograph taken in September at the 30th Anniversary Lunch.

A gallery of photographs taken at the Annual Spouses’ Dinner has been posted on this web-site under the Event Galleries section, and will be included within the Mondongueros Photo Album to be distributed on CD in December.

Dictator Gary Edwards has announced the Annual Spouse’s Dinner will be held on the evening of Saturday, 22 November 2014, in a meeting room on the lower level of the Eldorado Hotel and Casino in downtown Reno. This annual function is the one event where we dress above “casual”, and give our spouses or significant others some insight into the Club de los Mondongueros.

Cocktails will begin at 6:00 pm, and dinner at 7:00 pm.

Several special presentations are planned in recognition that 2014 is the 30th Anniversary of Club de los Mondongueros Reno. Among those events, the 30th Anniversary Commemorative Book will be distributed.

Members will be asked by the Dictator to specify their menu choices for the Annual Dinner at regular lunch meetings a few weeks before the event.

About one-half of the active membership, including Dictator Emeritus Tom Hallam,  turned out for the Annual Mondongueros Barbeque on Saturday, September 20th.

The weather, food and camaraderie were perfect.

Photographs taken at the event are posted on this web-site under the Event Galleries Section.

The original chartering and first meeting of Club de los Mondongueros Reno took place on 08 September 1984. Thus, the 30th Anniversary is upon us, and will be celebrated at the regular lunch meeting  on Wednesday, 10 September 2014.

Four of the original members – Bill Charney, Berto Crawford, Tom Hallam and Ed Suterko – are still with us, and it is hoped all will attend the Anniversary Luncheon.

A presentation of Mondongueros History will be presented, and a group photograph will be taken memorializing the event.

The Dictator encourages all members who are able to attend this historic lunch.

Member Bill Charney and his immaculate 1944 Beech D-17S Staggerwing are participating in a number of aeronautical events associated with the 70th Anniversary of the 1944 invasion of the European Continent by allied forces.

Members may not be aware that Bill’s Staggerwing was originally operated as a new airplane by the Royal Navy, and used for executive transport. As such, it has been temporarily repainted in its original livery as a Royal Navy aircraft.

The airplane is – of course – prominently displayed on the header of the web-site for Mondongueros Reno, and a comparison of its normal red livery compared with the special livery applied for the D-Day Events is clearly seen below.

We are all looking forward to hearing Bill’s presentation about the D-Day Events at the Annual Spouse’s Dinner in November.