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Section B

Fundraising

A New Generation Of Philanthropy

On Thursday, April
28 at The Bear’s Club
in Jupiter, Christie
Strunk, Jack and Barbara
Nicklaus’s granddaughter,
and her husband Todger,
kicked off a new initiative
to further the legacy of
the Nicklaus Children’s
Health Care Foundation
– the Golden Cub
Ambassadors Club.
Cochairs, Todger and Christie Connor Esrick, Caitlyn
Fundraising on page 27 Strunk Phil Doumar, Derek Brock Jack and Barbara Nicklaus Rowane Brianna and Bo Jahna

Todger and Christie Strunk, Barbara and Jack Nicklaus Colleen and Cody Parkey Mallory and Nick O’Leary Nikki and Joe Floyd Jr. Hattie Reedy, Summer Motes

Travel

Madagascar: The Remains Of Another World

By Don Kiselewski, MCC, D.S., Palm Beach Gardens Travel Leaders

The character of stretch down the length
Madagascar has always of the island and Mount
been an enigma. Great Maromokotro, located in
portions of its fauna and the north, is the island’s
flora are found no other highest at 9,435 feet. Rivers
place in the world. It is flow on the western side of
as if the world had started the island, and the east coast
on this island before it lies behind coral beaches
broke away from Africa, and an almost continuous
and not everything got off chain of lagoons that form
to propagate throughout an inland waterway.
the world when it was split
from the mainland. A typical fishing village on the island of Nosy Komba, which
The word “unique” finds true meaning because of what is also home to countless lemurs
remains of the diversity of nature that has been bestowed on
this island in the Indian Ocean. A quarter of a million square Madagascar is 1,000 miles north to south and 360 miles
miles make up the land surface of Madagascar. It split away wide, with a shape that roughly resembles a left footprint,
from Africa 165 million years ago, and is now separated from without the small toes making a mark. It has a population
the continent by 300 miles at its closest point. of about 28 million people (Source: CIA Factbook) and
Located about as far south of the equator as Florida overpopulation has been a concern to environmentalists
is north, Madagascar’s landscape is made up of ridges, for a long time. More and more of the natural environment
valleys, tropical forests and rivers. Each of the many areas
on the island differs in climate. A backbone of mountains A bright-eyed lemur A ring-tailed lemur Travel on page 26