A word from our president:

Hello All,

I hope that you all endured well and maybe even enjoyed the recent blast of 100 plus degree weather! As true summer approaches, so does the next breakfast meeting of the Catholic Professional & Business Club on June 9, 2009.

Officers & Board Members…

Members should be mindful of the fact that the one year term for the current CP&BC officers expires after the month of June. The good news is that there is still time for you to commit yourself to serve on the Catholic Professional & Business Club board. It is from this board that the club’s officers will come for 2009-2010. Please consider giving a little of your time. Just contact any current board member from the club directory for more info.

Our Featured Speaker for the month of June…

Frank Allocco is currently head basketball coach at De La Salle High school. In college he was a three year letterman in football and was set to be the starting quarterback in his senior year, until a severe injury in the first minute of the first game of his senior game altered the season and his life.

Frank Allocco, was named head basketball coach of De La Salle high school in May of 1997 and was honored as National coach of the year in 2000. He is the only coach in California history to win a state championship at two different schools. Mr. Allocco also founded the Excel Basketball summer camp which serves and has served thousands of youngsters both in California and New Jersey.

Coach Allocco will share his journey from passionate high school and college athlete, whose dreams were dashed, to his work as a Catholic high school educator using concepts of faith-based coaching. We’ll be challenged to embrace many of these principles in our everyday lives!

Remember to mark your calendars for our next breakfast meeting, since this will also be the last meeting of the 2008-2009 term. See you all at 7:15AM on June 9, 2009 at the Doubletree Hotel - Ninth Street in Modesto. Bring a friend!

Yours In Christ,
Joseph G. Nesta

 

Mission Statement

As Catholic professional and business men and women, we are called to live as disciples of Jesus Christ not only on Sundays, but every day at home and at work. Our goal in the Catholic Professional and Business Club (CP&BC) an unincorporated association, shall be to continue our faith formation as Catholics so that we can bear witness in our daily lives by word and deed to the Good News of Jesus Christ. We gather to share with others who seek a more ethical business environment. These goals shall be attained by coming together monthly to hear from an informative and motivational speaker during the meeting. Each of us shall strive to integrate our ethical values as Catholics into our professional and business lives.

Next Meeting, Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Join us at 7:15am at the Doubletree Hotel in downtown Modesto. Breakfast will be at 7:30am. $15 for members, $20 for non-members. For reservations please call 521-6849 or email Kathy Etchebarne at suezbear@aol.com. See the calendar page for upcoming speakers!

A word from Father Lindsay

Patriot and Pinhead - I have a candidate for each. Hope you don't mind.

Since 1960 -"I like Ike," I have been attending graduation ceremonies - well if you count 8th grade that would be 1956. As I look back I have had to readjust my evaluation of how important they are.In first grade I had a crush on an eight grade girl who was graduating and I thought she would be married in very short order. If she were graduating, she was old enough I thought. When I graduated, there were still predictions of early marriages for some of our fellow eighth graders; well they had been going steady for almost two months and she even had his eighth grade ring.Pomp and Circumstance four years later; only one marriage -that we knew about - a veritable Peyton Place. A year later in 1961, when my friend graduated from public school, there were not a lot more weddings; but more than a few "little ones" getting ready to enter the world. Which brings me to my "pinhead" for the mortar board set.

Have you noticed how many commencement speakers and not as smart as they say you are valedictorians with great solemnity proclaim to the graduating class that they are "going out into the world." Now just where on earth have they been for the last eighteen to twenty five years? On Pluto? For every graduate there is one pocketbook and a well worn wallet that gives ample evidence that they have been in the world for some time now and a growing sentiment that the money ought to be coming out of their own pocketbooks and wallets. Graduations are important. There is accomplishment. Some of your best mistakes are yet to come. So are some of your best accomplishments. By the way, you are in the world, watch that next step.

Patriot award goes to the person who dries another's tear, who brings a smile where a frown once was, gives an encouraging word or has his or her name mentioned in a silent prayer at the end of the day with a "Thank you God for .......who helped me today more than they will ever know." You have spent a great day in this world that you share with us, and we are glad you are here with us.

father Lindsay