Skålleagues we are grateful to have had the opportunity to toast together on December 17, 2020. It has certainly been an unexpected year, but the fellowship of this group has been a light. Our President, Beth Stehley, welcomed us all to the event and acted as event emcee taking us through a terrific program. Everyone who pre-registered for the meeting was surprised by the Skål elves with a holiday surprise to make your toast a little sweeter. We toasted with outgoing Skål USA President Dave Ryan, who’s been a regular with us this year, and with incoming President Jim Dwyer. Carrie Campbell announced our 2020 charity and David Colella introduced…

Hello Skalleagues! Thank you for joining us for our October meeting! We’ve started a YouTube channel to keep our videos on so you can always reference back to them. This month was a terrific meeting with Dave Ryan, President of Skal USA joining the call to give us an update on dues, a SPOOKTACULAR video put together by Beth’s team of past Halloween fun with our Skalleagues and our update from Sebastian Colella from Pinnacle Advisors. Please see our last post for Sebastian’s deck. Without further a-BOO, here’s your October meeting…

Thanks to everyone who joined us at this month’s virtual meeting! We had a terrific group! Stay tuned for our next post with Witches Brew recipes from our Skalleagues at the Seaport Hotel. We were lucky to be joined by Sebastian J. Colella, Vice President of the Pinnacle Advisory Group. He created the following deck that we wanted to post here as a resource for our membership. Thank you Sebastian! More info about Sebastian and his team here: https://pinnacle-advisory.com/about/the-team/#

Watch our video from the September 2020 Past President’s Luncheon. You can view videos from past leaders of our Club.

Skalleagues please make sure to check your email for Beth’s invitation to our August virtual meeting on August 20th at noon. We are excited to announce there will be some fun surprise hospitality content. Stay tuned!

Dear Fellow Skalleagues, I start this newsletter with wishes of continued good health to each of you and your families. We are living in turbulent times where our need to connect with family and friends has never been more important. In place of our April 16th meeting, the Club hosted our first ever Zoom Skal Toast and Conversation. Approximately 50 members attended along with Skal USA President David Ryan. It was great to finally “see” so many of you and hear from President Ryan. He gave an update on the results of the survey that was sent to members. Skalleagues Dan Donahue and David Colella shared some Boston hospitality insights.…

Good afternoon fellow Boston Skalleagues, I start this communication with a heavy heart as I have heard some of you have been furloughed until we can get ahead of this pandemic.  I am truly sorry because if there was a time when we need to gather and be among friends, this would be that time. I must once again deliver unfortunate news.  Honoring the Governor’s decision to ban gatherings of more than 25 people, our April meeting at the Hampshire House has been cancelled.  I know you share my disappointment as we were preparing to celebrate our Past Presidents.  I want to thank both Tom Kershaw and Michele Giacomozzi for…

Fellow Skalleaugues, With the recent declaration of a state of emergency by Governor Baker, and in the best interest of continued good health and safety, I am cancelling the March Skål Boston Luncheon.  The luncheon was scheduled to be held at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge on Thursday, March 19, 2020.  I would like to thank Eduardo Fernandez, General Manager and Jim Anello, Director of Catering Sales for their support and guidance over the past weeks. For those of you who registered for the meeting, the Club will issue a refund to your credit card.  If you paid by check, we will confirm with you directly on the best…

We had a beautiful February luncheon at the Boston Marriott Copley Place. Our host, Skålleague Erin Gilroy, entertained 57 members and 14 guests. We pinned six new Skålleagues at the meeting, inviting them into our ranks. Congratulations to all of you and welcome to our incredible organization! Aideen Mullholland, Club Med Dustin Kovats, Moxy Boston Downtown Kate Davis, City of Boston Ken Ng, Mandarin Oriental, Boston Kristina Lazos, Four Seasons Hotel, One Dalton Street Mohammed Hashesh, Courtyard Boston Cambridge Thank you to the following partners for their generous raffle donations this month. Raffle tickets sold plentifully and our live auction item was a hot item! Marriott Copley: 2 Club Seat…