Ahoy, ye gentleman o’ rare fortune,

Here hopin’ this missive finds ye in ought but sober spirits! 

How ere ye be, sadly sober or fully fuzzled, know now ye be summoned to the 110th annual meetin’ of our marauding Pirate crew on Thursday, Jan. 9, at 4:30 p.m. in our privately appointed sanctorum at the Hamilton Club, 106 East Orange Street.

During our rendezvous, six stalwart Pirates will present a bedraggled lot of neophytes for yer interrogation and amusement.

These prating plebes, beef-witted louts all, be themselves: Lynn Dolan, Paul Collura, Tom Winters, Jack Kraft, Tom Gemmill and Dave Kuntz.

After ye quaff a glass or two of grog, ye may bestow yerself at table fer vittles – top o’ the line prime rib – at 5:45 p.m. The neophyte plebes will be scuttled below decks at 5:30 p.m.