This column is used  as space for Letters To The Editor, editorials and/or  questions submitted via fax, e-mail or postal mail to the Editor for possible answer by a qualified person as  information to all members.
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My computer was Y2K compliant when I prepared this edition of the newsletter, but I certainly was not.  It gave me a real "tick" when I started writing 2000 in the masthead and elsewhere.
This month's lead article is Part One of a brief history of the VBCG prepared by  Bud Greenlees who is one of the 1979 charter members and has been a super-member who has contributed immensely to the group.  The current members who have come on board recently should find this history interesting as to how the group grew since the days that a standard DOS did not even exist.
Jean Grider continues to provide us with helpful "stuff", if you "didn't already know that".
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   Board and Officers
The VBCG officers for 2000 are:
President  -  Jack Pirozzolo
Vice Pres. -  Jean Grider
Treasurer -  Joan Pannenborg
Secretary. -  Doris Hall
Directors will be the above officers and the following from membership:
Joe Fredlock ex-officio, Anne Fredlock, Bud Greenlees, Sherman Reed, Paul Tardif, and John McHale.
The Vice President is responsible for the monthly meeting programs.  If you have a  suggestion about such programs contact Jean Grider
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VOLUNTEERS  SERVE   LIBRARY

  By  Sherman Reed, Staff Writer

VBCG members Thomas Chadwick, Charles Ernst, and Tom Nadig provided valuable help to the public library during December.  They helped members of the public from 2-4pm on six days to use library computers. The VBCG membership thanks these caring and helpful volunteers.
If you would like to serve as one of the Club volunteers helping persons use the library computers, please contact  Sherman Reed, at 562-2003. New helpers would be scheduled with a experienced helper for two hours to learn the setup and then serve a few hours per month.