Richmond Dive Club – December 2022 Membership Meeting

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Meeting held at O’Toole’s Restaurant and Pub Forest Hill Ave. Richmond.

Club Treasurer, Debi Moir, began the meeting at 7:20 pm.

NEW RDC BOD FOR 2023

Debi introduced the new RDC BOD for 2023 to the group and informed members that the new BOD will assume leadership of the club as of Jan. 1, 2023.

• President – Larry Antonacci

• Vice President – Brian Cohen

• Treasurer – Tonya Langenstein

• Secretary – Leslie Andrus

THANK YOU TO THE CURRENT RDC BOD

Debi thanked the current BOD for their work in managing the club over the past year.

• Jim Dacey

• Larry Knorr

• Debi Moir

• Bart Drummond

• Warren Bowman

Debi reminded everyone to make sure that they tipped their server for their hard work during the club’s Holiday dinner as well as the hard work they had put forth at every RDC business meeting.

Debi introduced the meeting’s keynote speakers, Meredith and John Nelson from the Reef Environmental Education Foundation - Reef.org.

Business meeting ended at 7:24 pm.

PRESENTATION

o Reef Environmental Education Foundation and FISH-O with Meredith and John Nelson.

o Meredith and John informed the group about the mission of REEF and how the volunteers of the organization help to identify the fish species and populations throughout the world as well as sponsored fish ID dive trips and how members can get involved.

o The members in attendance played a game of fish identification bingo, or FISH-O.

• Presentation ended at 8:17 pm.

The next meeting will be held on January 10, 2023, at O’Toole’s Restaurant and Pub at 7 pm, with the meeting also broadcast virtually on Zoom.