by Karen Soo
With the blink of an eye, Nisei Ski Club celebrated 60 years as a ski club. A dinner celebrating this milestone took place on September 8, 2018.
The celebration event was held in a private room at China Stix in Santa Clara. Eighty people arrived promptly for cocktails and found their seats at one of the eight beautifully decorated tables. There was even a table for the younger generation of future NSC members. The evening started with wine, beer and soda. Curtis Otaguro, the MC for the evening, welcomed everyone to the celebration dinner.
The delicious and plentiful meal included a barbeque platter, seafood bean soup, Kabocha squash with spicy pork spareribs, fried rice wrapped in lotus leaf, Peking duck, honey pecan prawns, braised beef short ribs, seafood combo with vegetables, mixed mushrooms with Chinese greens and Hong Kong style chow mein. As the dishes were coming out of the kitchen, we had a raffle drawing and gave away about 30 prizes. Thanks to Corona and David Muira for providing the gifts.
We welcomed 11 past presidents at the dinner: Jim and April Shiro, Jeanne Katsuro, Curtis Otaguro, Randy Hirai, David Tom, Ida Koo, Doug Higashi, Judy Hom, Joel Hayashida and our long reigning current president, Armand Gutierrez. Armand gave a nice speech after the dinner.
Ex-members came as far from Auburn and Roseville. We also had members representing Monterey Ski Club that joined us in the festivities.
The party ended around 9:30 pm and many people didn’t want to leave! Seeing new and old faces gave everyone a big lift. Thanks to all the board members that helped with the planning, and to Bill Lee for taking photos. I guess we better start planning our 70thAnniversary Dinner. Before you know, it will be here!
