1918 CLUB MEMBERS DECIDE TO DISBAND.Byline: Rachel Uranga Staff Writer SIMI VALLEY Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. - Age has caught up with the 1918 Club. Infirmity Flaw, defect, or weakness. In a legal sense, the term infirmity is used to mean any imperfection that renders a particular transaction void or incomplete. For example, if a deed drawn up to transfer ownership of land contains an erroneous description of it, an , fatigue and death have taken their toll on the international social club, whose members were all born in 1918 - the year World War I ended. So, after more than four decades of spreading friendship, leaders of the organization have decided to disband dis·band v. dis·band·ed, dis·band·ing, dis·bands v.tr. To dissolve the organization of (a corporation, for example). v.intr. 1. . ``I used to make sure of this and that, but I am too tired now, and we lost four members this year,'' said Grace Ridosh, president of the Simi Valley chapter, one of six chapters with a total of 173 members in California. Lifting a glass of champagne to the dozen-or-so years the Simi Valley chapter has been meeting, the 5-foot-1 leader offered a toast Monday: ``This is to our last Christmas party of the 1918 Club.'' A small group of spry An application framework from Adobe for building rich Internet applications using HTML. Spry takes the tedium out of writing AJAX code and also includes routines for creating animation effects and building widgets. For more information, visit http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry. 1918ers jeered. ``It's not the end; we are still coming,'' said Owen Grumber, a former opera singer and electrician who fought in World War II and lives in West Hills. Yes, added Blanca Villarino, a Sylmar resident who donned a wooden ``85'' pin on her lapel, although her birthday is not until Christmas. ``Age is a state of mind,'' said Villarino, a great-grandmother of five who joined the Simi Valley chapter seven months ago to see how she stacked up against others her age. ``We have been through all the changes together - from iceboxes to refrigerators to automatic washing machines; from radio, then television, then a man on the moon,'' she said. At its height, in the mid-1980s, the club boasted more than 2,000 members internationally. Among its most famous was the late Egyptian Late Egyptian is the stage of the Egyptian language that began to be written in the New Kingdom around the Amarna period. It is represented by a large body of religious and secular literature, comprising examples such as the Story of Wenamun and the Instructions of Ani. President Anwar Sadat. But with the number of those now 85 years of age and older comprising only a sliver of the population - about 1 percent nationally, as well as in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and Ventura counties, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the census - it's become increasingly difficult to attract or retain members, organizers say. Membership has now slipped below 1,000, and several chapters across the country, including those in Washington state, New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and Sacramento, have become inactive. Earlier this year, leaders of the club decided to stop accepting new members, suspend the payment of dues and wait for the $5,000 in the treasury pot to dry up. The international 1918 Club emerged in 1960, after a pair of stamp-collecting pen pals Pen Pals or penpals may refer to:
``It started off with no big intentions,'' said Dorothy Smith, a Rhode Island Rhode Island, island, United States Rhode Island, island, 15 mi (24 km) long and 5 mi (8 km) wide, S R.I., at the entrance to Narragansett Bay. It is the largest island in the state, with steep cliffs and excellent beaches. resident who puts together the club's six-times-a-year newsletter. ``But it grew so much it was more than they could handle,'' added Smith, who recently had a hip replacement. The first 1918 convention was held in Louisville, Ky., in May 1968, and every two years after that. Had it not been for the wheelchairs and walkers that proliferate at their annual conventions, the leaders might have considered one last meeting in 2004. Rachel Uranga, (805) 583-7602 rachel.uranga(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Grace Ridosh, president of the Simi Valley chapter of the 1918 Club, eats lunch with fellow members at Coco's in Simi Valley on Monday. Hans Gutknecht/Staff Photographer |
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