Peninsula Hokie Club

On the evening of April 19, approximately 100 Hokies gathered at ‘Point Plaza at City Center’ to enjoy the annual Orange and Maroon Spring Dinner. Head Women’s soccer Coach, Chugger Adair, gave a very complete review of our up-and-coming women’s soccer program. After moving up from the assistant coaching role to the head job, he has continued to improve the program and has some big-time victories to show for it.

Although Coach Beamer did not make the trip, due to a weather-related shuffling of the Spring Practice schedule, Coach Cavanaugh stepped into the breech as the replacement and did an admirable job, as usual. Coach Cav pointed out there are some things at spring practice the head coach needs to be present for and that’s why Coach Beamer was not present. Coach Cav reviewed our returning players, top recruits, and the upcoming schedule. With an outstanding quarterback in Logan Thomas, a solid defense, and some young players stepping up, we are hopeful of another great football season.

May 8 was a beautiful day at the Williamsburg National Golf Club and 84 Hokie golfers showed up to enjoy the weather, the Hokie fellowship and compete for some outstanding prizes, all donated by our supporting merchants around the peninsula. The overall tourney winner of the captains choice event with a score of 53 was the team of Brian Grieff, Barry McKay, Ken Moyer, and L. Harden.  1st place winners in the three flights were: 1st flight – 56 – James Craft, B. Mowers, T. Mihalik, M. Mizuno; 2nd flight – 60 – Frank Seamster, Carolyn Seamster, Chris Seamster, Nick Re; 3rd flight – 61 – Jim Fike, Jimmy Fike, C. Hoyer, L. Presto. After a great picnic lunch, the winning teams selected their prizes and, in addition, a drawing resulted in every participant receiving a prize as well. As usual,the big winner from the event was the VT Athletic Fund. Thanks to everyone for supporting the Peninsula Hokie Club’s VTAF fund-raising effort.

On the evening of May 5, at the weekly Hampton Fest, the Peninsula Hokie Club worked our first “Beer Gig” of the year in spite of the rain. Our ‘beer-poppin’ bartending efforts resulted in $205 in tips toward our annual VTAF fund-raising goal. Our Hokie team of Frank, George, Dale, Jo Rae, Emily, Natasha, Jaime, Tami, Reggie, Bonita, and John gave great effort to accomplish this result with the inclement weather. The cheerleaders on the front row “beaded” the fans into giving a little extra. Emily was most successful in “beading” for the tips.

Our next gig is June 30. We will be at the end of the street and at the mid-station where the beer is on tap. The band is Vinyl Headlights who play a variety of music including rock and roll, disco and metal. Check out their video.

As an aside, band leader John Smallwood was interviewed by Fox Cable News Neil Cavuto. Check out the video. Thanks to everyone for your support at this event.

Join us on Thursday, April 19 at ‘Point Plaza Suites At City Center’, 950 J. Clyde Morris Boulevard for our annual Orange & Maroon dinner with Guest Speakers - Head Football Coach Frank Beamer and Head Women’s Soccer Coach, Chugger Adair. The Social will begin at 6pm, Dinner at 6:45pm and the Program with Coach Beamer and Coach Adair will begin at 7:30pm.  In addition to the great speaker, this event will include a complimentary keg & soft drinks, appetizer table, cash bar, raffle prizes and a silent auction! Continue reading →

Join us on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 for our annual golf scramble with a shotgun start at 9:00 a.m. at Williamsburg National Golf Club (Jamestown course), 3700 Centerville Road, Williamsburg, VA 23188, Telephone (800) 859-9182.  Format will be Four Person Captains Choice.

COST: $75  (Entry fee covers green fee, cart fee, prizes, range balls, lunch with complimentary keg after golf).  Prizes consist of Merchandise, Miscellaneous Gift Certificates including Golf and Dinner Certificates!! Usually all participants get a prize! Continue reading →

Approximately sixty Hokies showed up at Bailey’s Sports Grill on Feb. 7 for lunch and to view video hi-lites of this year’s recruits.  The event was sponsored by Mr. Bill Leong, State Farm Insurance.  The videos were narrated by Coach Jim Cavanaugh, who always adds to the interest with his ‘biting’ commentary and his answers to all the tough questions.  There are 28 recruits this year and, according to Coach Cav, several might have a chance to play this year, especially in the backfield with the loss of David Wilson and Josh Oglesby.  The areas hardest hit by graduation and the NFL are the offensive backfield,the offensive line, and our receiving core.  However,with a strong nucleous returning on the defensive side and Quarterback Logan Thomas, the Hokies in attendance are looking forward to another good season.

The PHC held it’s monthly meeting at Beamer’s American Grill in Hampton, Va on Nov. 2..  The purpose of the meeting was to present our annual gift to VTAF.  This year’s gift was a check for $9,500 toward the club’s pledge in support of the new football practice facility.  Again this year, the club gift is a culmination of many fund-raising activities conducted throughout the year with the help of our Hokie Reps, our business sponsors, and other Hokie Club members.  We thank everyone who participated in these activities and hope we can count on you again next year.

The picture below reflects the symbolic presentation of the annual gift.  Club members present in the picture are: 1st row left to right – George Leftwich, Carolyn Seamster, Frank Seamster, Terry Bolt-VTAF Director of Athletic Development; 2nd row left to right – Bob Ross, John Wells, Bill Bradley, Roy Burrows.