Consumer Night – April 2011

Donato Vaccaro, who lives across the street from the barn, is an Associate Director at Consumer Reports. He’s responsible for overseeing the online version of the Annual Questionnaire, when more than 800,000 subscribers report on their experiences with a range of products and services. Donato gave us an overview of this 75 year old organization and answered [...]

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Environmental Policy – March 2011

Peter McCartt is Chairman of the Eastchester Environmental Committee. By discussing the initiatives he’s involved in, we learned how it’ s possible to make a difference in our communities and in the quality of our lives. Khalil Shalabi, who servers on Peter’s committee, contributed to the discussion as well.

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Architecture Night – February 2011

Local architect John Iannacito lead an open discussion on architecture and home renovation. Although he didn’t have a prepared talk or presentation, he fielded a continuous stream of questions for an hour. Clearly this is an interesting topic for men, and John did a great job of educating us. Besides being highly experienced and knowledgable, we all [...]

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NASCAR Night – January 2011

Mark Allen of Mark Allen Racing gave an excellent presentation on NASCAR, which stands for the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. NASCAR is said to be the most popular spectator sport in the world. Mark gave us insight into the business behind NASCAR and shared info on the new venture he formed to race in the Nationwide [...]

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Internet Safety Night – December 2010

Timothy Mooney of Symantec shared his insights on Internet Safety. His presentation made us aware of the extent to which our privacy and the personal information on our computers is in jeopardy. Tim told some interesting stories about security breeches affecting large corporations and even governments. He gave us practical advice for keeping our data [...]

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Publishing Night – November 2010

Steve Quigley invited Ron Pramschufer of Self-Publishing, Inc. to share his experiences in the publishing busines. Finding an agent or publisher that will take on your book can be difficult. So using a service like Ron’s to publish your own book may be a viable option.  Ron recommended that every man over 50 years-old write [...]

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Comedy Night II – October 2010

Comedy Night was back by popular demand. John Sirabella knew a comedian, named Bob Luparella whom he used to work, so he coordinated the event. Bob brought another comedian with him, named Vinny, so we had 2 acts. The humor was appropriately crude for a barn full of guys. Everyone agreed that they were very [...]

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Rescue Night – September – 2010

Rescue Night was led by Ralph Stupple, Asst. Chief/Operations of the Eastchester Fire Department. Ralph gave us an overview of how the department works and contrasted it with that of other municipalities.  He shared many true stories from the rescue missions he’s been involved in. They ranged from hair-raising to hilarious, and from heroic to [...]

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Networking Night – August 2010

We all took turns standing in front of the room introducing ourselves and explaining what we do for a living. Many of the guys knew each other socially, but knew little or nothing about each other’s professional lives. Sure enough connections were made. One man is a dentist in town and another man needed a [...]

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Story Night – July 2010

Bob Manley was the MC for the evening and led us in a great story telling session. We heard quite a range of stories from hilarious, to sad, to spiritual, to sentimental, to unbelievable. Among the titles were, “Close Call on the Golf Course”, “The Son I Almost Never Had”, “High Dive”, “How I Gave My [...]

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