REMINDER
The Club will close at 4:00pm on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. We will also be closed all day on Christmas &
New Year’s.
GIVING TREE
Patty Knapp is once again organizing the Giving Tree in an effort to provide gifts for local children who are living in
poverty, some homeless. Here’s how you can participate:
1. Choose a tag off the tree in the lobby.
2. Patty would like to give each child a set of winter clothes, a pair of shoes and a toy or two. You may want to get
together with a work-out partner or teammate to shop for the child.
3. Gifts must be received at the Club by December 19.
4. If you would prefer, you may choose a tag and then write a check to Patty Knapp and place both in the
envelope at the front desk.
5. Come join the fun at the Wrapping Party on Saturday, December 20th at 10:00am in the upstairs lounge
here at the Club. Be prepared for rapid scissors and a warm heart!
6. Thanks, in advance, for helping these truly disadvantaged boys and girls to have a good holiday.
HOLIDAY SHOPPING AT ATFC
How about ATFC gifts for the family and friends? A racquet perhaps? Swim goggles? Wonderful Thorlo socks? A
tennis lesson or personal training? A T-shirt? Water bottle? Raffle ticket? Please look for special holiday discounts
at the Pro Shop.
JOINING IN DECEMBER
If you have friends who have interest in joining the Club, please let them know that the December promo is a $20.00
punch card. Encourage those you love to give themselves the gift of health!
INAUGURATION DAY
As the country inaugurates President-elect Obama on January 20, ATFC will have its own Inaugural Event. We will be
instating the “No Paper Cup Left Behind” initiative. As of January 20, the Club will no longer be providing paper cups
for water, so we want to give you plenty of notice to begin adjusting to this change. The purpose is 2-fold: primarily to
help the environment and secondarily to save the club money. ATFC will soon be selling BPA-free bottles with
the Club logo, at the pro shop.
DECEMBER TENNIS EVENTS
ATFC Doubles Tournament: December 5th - 7th. Sign up on the Tennis Board.
Ladies Day: December10th from 12-1. Fun and games with Leo and Ari. All levels welcome. Free for members!
Saturday Tennis Clinic: Check the Tennis Board, This is a clinic for 3.5– 4.0 men and women. Ari and Andy will
alternate leading the clinic. No clinic on December 6th.
Junior Winter Program: December 5th - March 27th. Sign up at the front desk. Special 6 week pre-season prep for
Grizzlies.
Century Weekend: January 23-25. Century Doubles tournament, Century Fitness Events, Silent Auction, Live Auction,
Gourmet Dinner, Music and Raffle Drawing. Please keep an eye out for the Century Weekend letter and raffle tickets
which will be mailed to you the first week in December. It is all very exciting!
USTA TEAMS
Cici Brown’s Super-Senior 7.0 team has completed its regular season with a 6-0 record and will play in sectionals.
Eric Danson’s 8.0 Mixed Doubles Team has advanced to Playoffs in January. Sally Jones’ Super-Senior 8.0 team
will play in Sectionals. Congratulations!
!! THANK YOU !!
Kimberley to the rescue! When the double-decker clothes dryer breathed its last, Alan and Steve put out the call to
those in the lobby: “Does anyone have an extra dryer?” Kimberley quickly offered hers and the fix-it-duo had the new
one in operation in a jiffy. Kelly was dusting it off when she found that it had a full load of clothes inside, very dry as
they had been there for at least 4 years… Thanks, Kimberley!
Tilly Gibbs and the rest of the Double the Fun Auction Committee are very grateful to Tom Beam, owner of Pasta Piatti
and Tabu restaurants. Tom has made an amazing contribution to the auction: he will be cooking and donating a
gourmet dinner for those attending the event. That’s 250 dinners!! WOW!! So… when you are choosing a place to
dine, please consider one of his great restaurants.
Thanks, also to the scores of club members who have donated wonderful items and events for the auction.
Special thanks to Dave Hodges for being a year round ATFC elf...
NEW MEMBERS
Please give a warm welcome to: Sarah Epstein, Mike Haller, Dan Brothers, Kim Sherrell, Ken Sackowitz, Laurie Sager,
Marcela Flekal, Ray Sanchez-Pescador, Abigail Kollar and Luke Estes.
WINNERS
Congratulations to Darlene Beckett: you have won a $5 snack/towel card; Sara Lovelady, you have won a package of
tennis beverage napkins. You may pick up your prizes at the front desk.
LET’S SUPPORT EACH OTHER
We would like to compile a list of member-owned businesses and services within the ATFC community. If you need
your hair or maple tree trimmed, think of someone from the Club! Please see Jo if you would like your business
included on the list which will be posted on the Community Board.
NEW CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM
We have developed a new program and brochure for corporate members. Thanks to Jim Lindow and Dan Ralls for
advancing this idea. Please see Jo or Alan if your would like more information.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENMANNERS
Dear Arnold,
What is your personal style when you work out? Do you grunt?
Looking for answers,
ATFC Managers
Dear Looking for Answers Managers:
What is up with you two? You are making Arnold read between the lines here. Do you think I have the time for that?
Here is what you are really asking: "Within our community of 500+ members there are many styles and sensibilities
about working out. Can you give us some advice about these differences?"
Again, ATFC, I want to commend all of you for how hard you work to stay healthy! And I want to encourage you to be
accepting and tolerant of your neighbors on the life cycles and treadmills; be thankful that they, too, hold fitness as
important. Even if you ever get to be really great, rich, and famous like I am, you will not have perfect conditions in
your own gym. You cannot believe what I have to put up with from Maria!! Here's a little trick I learned in the Mr.
Olympics contest in 1980: I was starting to feel frustrated by a competitor's breathing pattern, so I was getting
judgmental and wanted to destroy him; instead, I said to myself, "Arnold, you are a lucky son of a gun and you
are wonderful." I felt better right away!
May peace reign in the fitness room. Love, Arnold
MS. MARTINA MANNERSTILOVA
Dear Martina:
Everybody is talking about getting buffer and looking better. But what about the mind? How can I work on my
mental fitness? Sincerely, Caught in the Routine
Dear Caught in the Routine,
What a great question! Particularly now, when Black Friday casts its long shadow over the land of the free
until the Groundhog sees it and harbinges spring.
To answer you with substance, I am going to have to go obscure and allude to an 18th century Swedish scientist
and philosopher who has been called the last man ever to have known all there was to know about all sciences to
date. I am, of course, referring to Emmanuel Swedenborg, after whom the building on the northeast corner of 2nd and
Main is named. The great Zen Buddhist, D.T. Suzuki, called Swedenborg "the Buddha of the north." Swedenborg
summed up the core exercise of mental fitness with one pithy sentence. There is as much packed into this sentence
as say, a half hour with Leo or a brief exchange at the desk with Roxanne, so it warrants a great deal of
contemplation. Here it is. Put it to use. (A recommended workout regimen would be simply to pretend that it is true for
a few moments at least twice a week. It will quickly give your mental abs an inner six-pack to die for.)
"You are what you love, and what you love is what you give your attention to." With holiday affection, Martina
December 2008 ATFC Newsletter
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