"Alis M. Nims"

     The first time I saw this lady, the year was 1948, and the place was Sea Scout Point (on Webster Lake). The Sea Scouts were supervising W.S.A.'s sailboat races on a Sunday afternoon, Up in the tower of their club house. I could see the top of a white-haired lady. I asked the person I was with who that was, and the answer was that is our secretary Alis Nims. She records all the race results.

     Sea Scout Point was sold shortly after, but the Putnam family stepped up and offered to run W.S.A.'s races from their boat house on Wawela Point. John and Charles Putnam supervised the races, while Alis once again did all the recording of the race results.

     Time moved on and Alis continued to record race results through the years. We finally grew to the point where everyone in the W.S.A. said it was time to obtain our own property. We then obtained two parcels of land in Winter Cove from George Hall, and sold shares to pay for it. Alis continued to be our secretary, but once we obtained a committee boat her response was "I do not get in any type of boat of I will have motion sickness.". From then on, our Race Committee recorded the races and Alis received the results from them.

     When Alis' husband Phil Nims passed on in 1983 she took a year of sabbatical, but following year she was back as our secretary. This was to be her 47th year a secretary of W.S.A.! In 1989, in recognition of her 50 years of service to our club and by vote of the Executive Committee and general membership, the hall at the Anchorage was named "The Alis M. Nims Recreational Hall" in her honor.

     The years passed but Alis kept going as our secretary, keeping excellent records of our races and a multitude of membership types. She was a one of a kind person giving her best for a total of 60 years of service to W.S.A. by my count.

     Thank you, Alis, from a very grateful Sailing Association