The Embassy Suites Hotel
Rosemont IL
January 24, 2009
| The 23rd Annual Neil Diamond Birthday Party The Embassy Suites Hotel Rosemont IL January 24, 2009 |
| Thursday | Pizza Party | Saturday | Party | Denny Diamond | More Party | Forms |
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Arlene and Richard Vicek, the Gamemeisters, did an excellent job as the hosts. | |
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Shirley Munday, Janet Masterson, and Rise Levine were the contestants for Neil of Fortune. Three rounds were played and each contestant won a Neil CD | 
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The next game was Neil or No Neil. Nanci Sumner was the contestant and she was determined to play to the end and won $25 out of a possible $200. She turned down some pretty good offers from "The Banker". | 
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| The third game was Neilo, a variation of Bingo where instead of numbers, there are Neil album covers. When an album name is called and the contestant has that album cover on his/her Neilo card, a penny is put on the square. We played three games, and each contestant won a beautiful color picture of Neil. | ||
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| After that, Cathy from Cleveland set up her kareoke machine and urged people to come up and sing or lip synch Neil songs. Lots of us were too chicken to participate other than singing quietly at the tables, but there were some brave souls who entertained us, and Cathy performed lots of songs, too. What a lovely voice! Kirk has a very good voice, too, although he kept wanting to sing the same two songs, Desiree and Longfellow's Serenade over and over again! That guy's a party animal! | ||
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| Cathy Finegan | Jungletime | Kirk Fellabom |
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| Sheilagh does a solo. She plays a mean air guitar too. | Kirk serenades Debbie Siegal with "You're So Sweet" | Cathy and her dad, Roger Clark, did a lovely version of "You Don't Bring Me Flowers. |
| Back to Pizza Party | Next - Saturday | |
by Joan Nurczyk and Anne Fortin.