Star Island Pelicans

Office Manager - The Star Island Corporation, a nonprofit religious and educational conference center seeks a year-round FT Office Manager to work in our Portsmouth, NH office to provide administrative support to staff and manage all phases of office operations. Must be well organized, take charge person with ability to work independently in a small, busy office with an emphasis on database & meeting management & human resources support. Position works closely with the public so strong customer service skills are required. Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel & Access a must. 3-5 years relevant education and/or experience. Salary commensurate with experience; excellent benefit package. Forward cover letter, resume, & salary requirements by 3/12 to: OM Search, Star Island Corporation, 10 Vaughan Mall, Suite 8, Portsmouth, NH 03801, or e-mail to office@starisland.org. For more info, visit our web site at www.starisland.org.

Justina Kone Maji
Office Assistant
Star Island Corporation
10 Vaughan Mall, Suite 8
Worth Plaza
Portsmouth, New Hampshire 03801
603.430.6272

Hello fellow Pels,

I hope this winter has been treating everyone with kindness.

Plans for this years conference are well underway. I, Rebecca Emerson, along with my husband, Jonathan Brown, are the chairs and are looking forward to a great weekend! Many of you have ‘rolled-over’ your registration from last year, Thank you. If you are planning on attending for the first time this year, welcome!

Due to an unexpected production delay, the 2007 Blue Book is not yet in the mail. They had previously expected this mailing to occur by February 9 at the latest, and apologize for the inconvenience this has caused.

The 2007 Blue Book and 2007 Registration Form have been on their web site at www.starisland.org since last week and they are happy to report that many people have registered for conferences already (the blue book and registration form has been downloaded over 3,000 times in the last six days). They have redone the home page to ensure that the link to the brochure is the first thing people see when they log onto the site.

Tomorrow, they will send a one-time e-mail notification to everybody in the database who has an e-mail address listed, and by Monday, they will mail Blue Books, first class, to everybody in the database.

Our conference has a web site, http://pelicansarepelicans.org/reunion  with all the details that will be in the blue book.

Please email us with any questions, comments or concerns.

Cheers,
Rebecca
Pel 91-94

Philip L. Carson
1941 - 2007
Philip L. Carson, 65, of Durham Point Road, died Feb. 19, 2007 at his home in Durham.

Born June 10, 1941 in Detroit, Mich., he was the son of Lloyd and Nellie (Sponhouer) Carson. Raised in Detroit, he lived in Dover for several years before moving to Durham twelve years ago.

During his professional life he was president of several shoe companies. He was president of a division of Genesco where he developed and marketed the first comfort shoe for women. He also ran the wholesale operation for Tom McAnn Shoes. He held many offices and was president of Boston Shoe Travelers Association and was a member of the 210 Foundation.

For the last fifteen years, along with his wife, they operated a successful sales and marketing agency.

Philip’s life was full of joy and love. He expressed these through participation in various barbershop choral groups. He believed that barbershop singing instilled family values and the joy of music to people of all ages. He was a member of the Society for The Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in American, was a member and past president of the Yankee Clipper Chorus in Portsmouth, Fore River Boys, and was past president of the Worcester Men of Song. He was also a founding member of the Seacoast’s newest group, The Seacoast Men of Harmony, in Dover.

He was a member of the Rochester Elks and was secretary of Deer Point Land Owners Association.

He is survived by his wife of 13 years, Diane Bierman Carson of Durham; his step-father, Austin (Bud) Kerin of Pittsburgh, PA; 5 children, Kathleen Swan of Worcester, Ma, Lori Ellen Heim of Springfield, Ma, Julie Carson of Auburn, Ma, Jill Carson of Worcester, Ma, and Philip L. Carson Jr. of Madera, Fl; 7 grandchildren; a brother, Lloyd Carson of West Va; a sister, Marion Preston of Michigan; a cousin, Annibel Lee Webster of Estero, Fl; two nephews, Mark Carson & family of Wixom, MI, and Leroy Carson & family of Detroit, Michigan; and one niece Debbie May and her family of Wixom, MI. He was predeceased by a brother Leroy Carson.

A Memorial Service will be held at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, should friends desire memorials may be made to the Wentworth Homecare & Hospice, 113 New Rochester Road, Suite 4, Dover, NH 03820.

The Kent & Pelczar Funeral Home, 77 Exeter Street, Newmarket, is assisting with arrangements.

Visit www.kentandpelczarfh.com to view this obituary online.

Hello Star Friends!

Star Island is looking to fill the temporary position of Assistant Facilities Manager for the 2007 season.  Attached is the advertisement, which will be running in this weekends papers and the job description.  If you or anyone you know would be qualified and/or interested let us know!

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Justina Kone Maji
Office Assistant
Star Island Corporation
10 Vaughan Mall, Suite 8
Worth Plaza
Portsmouth, New Hampshire 03801
603.430.6272

Betty Sue (Ford) Lentz will be 80!!!!! on 6 March
2007. Her daughters and grandkids would be very
appreciative if you send her a birthday card. Her new
address is 70 Nassau Dr., Springfield MA 01129.

She has been an inspiration, babysitter, peacenik and
ST*R maven to hundreds, if not thousands. She
celebrated 50 years attending ST*R conferences in ‘06!
(She calls herself a ‘27 Ford).

Humbly yours, Laurie Janey and Connie Lentz
Harrison Tessa Eleni Marshall Zach Adam and Josh
Marino     Frye      Bouricius

“Joe and Brenda Watts, with their children Joey, left, 8 months, and Lily, 2, are the winners of The Rosa’s “How I was Proposed To” essay contest. Joe wrote a proposal to Brenda, put it in a bottle, had his friend plant it on the beach, then led Brenda to find it.”  Read the full story at http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/02142007/nhnews-ph-por-rosa.contest.html

Here in Dover,(NH) we have a bar called “The Barley Pub”-which primarily sells local/microbrews, no food and has live music. On days that it snows, they sell $1 Guiness. (I don’t care for Guiness, but - it was a buck!), it was also the only place open yesterday….nasty nasty snow storm, anyways…..On the wall, over the bar, a rifle of some sort is mounted with a plaque that reads “This gun was used in the capture and transport of Louis Wagner, of the Smuttynose Island Murder infamy in 1843″ or something like that, the only connection that I can see, is that they sell Smuttynose Ale, but I thought if anyone was REALLY interested in that, or has a spare minute on their way to or from the Island, its kind of neat, plus we have a great down town to walk around…. or come stay at The Schooner House Inn!
Karen Mairs
1986-91?

Star friends,

We just wanted to remind people that Ruth Koe’s memorial service is this coming Sunday, February 18th at 2:00PM at the First Church and Parish of Dedham (UUA.)

We also wanted to invite anyone who wanted to, to share a little story or a memory at the service.

If you will be unable to attend but would like your story or memory shared please feel free to send it to me, so we can be sure to include it.

Star Island and the people of Star meant A LOT to Ruth and we wanted to be sure that her Star family was included.

Thank you on behalf of Ruth’s family for all the kind words we have received over the past month.

Melanie Elliot (Grand Daughter)