Letter to Joanie:

Dear Joanie:

All of us at the Club want to say Hi and let you know we’re getting ready for another season, although you know that as we’re sure you watch over us from your heavenly home.

We miss you and all of what you did for the Club for so many years. In the Club’s long history, only you served as President for three different terms—’89-’91, ‘96-’97 and ’08-‘09. That’s quite an accomplishment, especially considering that those three terms spanned three decades. And one of them was for two seasons.  

You and your tireless work for the Club earned the recognition of Club members in the Eighties, Nineties and into the new century. You were honored three times with the Al Schmidt Award for the Club’s most valuable member, twice with the George Hancock Award for outstanding work on an individual event, and once each with the DeWitt Conover Award for best committee and the Bob Hollendonner Award for most improved skier. Fittingly, you also were honored twice with the President’s Special Achievement Award, which now bears your name—The Joan A. Sabatini Award for Special Achievement. Also fittingly, your guy Bill Shannon was chosen as the first recipient.

Your selfless contributions to the Club, however, went far beyond those accomplishments. Running the Frog Races, straightening chairs and clearing tables at the end of meetings, and doing just about anything and everything that needed to be done when there was no one else to do it. No one gave more and asked so little in return. If anyone loved the Club, it was you.

You touched so many lives and so many of us are better for knowing you. May God bless you.

Your friends at the Trenton Ski Club

P.S. Your beloved Phillies are on track to win it all this year.