The General Meeting on Wednesday, January 23rd was well attended. President Don Raun presented ideas for the members to vote on regarding what workshops you would like in the future. Thanks to all the members who completed our Workshop survey. A committee will be compiling the results and we will have a report for you soon and recommendations for new workshops!
Dick Travis also gave a presentation of "Flip Album", a software program that produces slideshows and presents your pictures in an Album format.
The club wishes to thank the Travel Club for their generous donation of $100. It was their way of showing appreciation for what the Club does for the Community. Also, the Bridge Club has donated $25 this quarter, they consistently donate $100 a year to our club. We appreciate this greatly!
February Meeting:General Meeting of February 27th, 2002...
Time to Organize Your Hard Drive, Manage your Operating System, Protect & Secure your Hard Drive--
Don Raun, Pres. & Randy WhittleRandy Whittle presented the latest tools from PowerQuest and AccessData to help you organize your hard drive, run more than one operating system on the same PC, and protect and secure your hard drive...
Bob Weber & Holly...among the members at the February Meeting...
March Meeting: June Porto, Mira Costa College presented an excellent presentation on Microsoft's Excel program at the March 27th General Meeting of the Computer Club. Her presentation was appreciated by the crowd with many practical questions asked. Thanks again, June, for your expertise.
April Meeting: The April 24th General Meeting was to have had Jim Jones of the Oceanside Library Computer Center, however he could not make the meeting.
Don Raun and Rex Christenson presented an interesting program on Firewalls. They spoke on how to secure your computer from hackers. Many questions from the audience were answered. Thanks to their personal knowledge of Firewalls, the membership is now aware of the vulnerabilities to their computer systems and how to set up a Firewall system to protect its assets.
The June 26th General Meeting featured an excellent presentation by the Community National Bank of their On-Line Banking & Investment System.
Nadia Lee, with assistance from Cher & Steve from Cadence Investments showed our members the ease in which you can keep your banking and investments current, accurate and up-to-date.
Many questions were asked and the interested group certainly appreciated the educational value of learning how easy it is to use your computer to keep your banking and investment information current.
September Meeting
Larry Piland and Don Raun
Larry Piland and Matt Shirley (Datel Systems, Inc.) and KFMB Radio (760AM) presented an excellent presentation to a packed house at the September 25th General Meeting of the Computer Club. Their expertise in Windows XP operating systems and their user-friendly topics were very much appreciated by the members.
Fran Obler, Sara Botts and Lucille Gold were among the happy throng...
Matt Shirley (San Marcos Office)
and a crowd of members asking questions, after the meeting.
October Meeting
Debbie Barnett from the Oceanside Police Department presented an excellent presentation on Internet Fraud to the October 23rd General Meeting of the Computer Club. She was very informative and offered us many tips on how to protect our privacy on the internet as well as to be aware of the internet frauds that are especially vulnerable to senior citizens.
Many questions from the crowd were answered by Debbie. We thank her for taking the time to inform our club.
Elections of Officers were held (due to the lack of a meeting site in November) -- the Officers for 2003 are pictured below:
LaVergne Brown, Secretary, Dorothy Miller, Vice President,
Don Raun, President and Patti Kopcho, TreasurerFour lucky members won software and computer related gifts in the raffle after Debbie's presentation.
Linda Azuar
Gordon Beer
Sig Safran
John McMenamin
November Meeting
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