Some photos from the 2009 Dinner
      
Vice President Matt Zembo gives an honorary Alco HTS membership award to Christopher MacDermot who is was a long time ALCO empluyee.
We had several door prizes and Ron Epstein was the lucky winner of a certificate for 1 year free membership. Since he is a paid member, it extends his membership another year.
Another door prize was a copy of the "Centennial Remberence" a book covering the history of Alco donated by its author; Richard Steinbrenner. This was won by Cindy Seacord of Schenecdaty,NY.
Richard Steinbrenner (shown above)was our guest speaker this evening. Hist powerpoint presentation covered the actitivty of ALCO  in Schenectady in the 1950's and 60's.
In addition to his first book; Centennial Rembemberence, he is also co-author of two other books: "Old Maude" and "The DL-640" ; the story of the Alco RS-27. He is in the process of writing another Alco book titled " Alco-The World Of Exports"
Member Kathy Mech was the greeter at the check in table who gave everyone a warm welcome to everyone who checked in for  the dinner. We had 33 guests which including several non-members one of which joined on the spot!
Chris MacDermot relaxes while waiting for the program fo begin as Kathy Mech watches the photographer. In the background is Matt Giridino and Matt Zembo.
This table was featured officers and guests along with thier spouses.
This included Mike Koch,Pam Koch, John and Kathy Mech, Matt Zembo, Chris MacDermott and Richard Steinbrenner with his wife Ann.
These two tables featured both members and guests including some that had traveled many miles to attend. One guest drove in with his Dad from Hamburg, New York which is a subburb of Buffalo. We were please to have them attend and show thier support for the Society.
PHOTO ON THE LEFT
The note book contain a photo essay of what the Alco Plant looks like now.
We recently took a walking tour of the plant on October 26th, 2009 to check out some of the buildings in hopes that we may use them in our future plans. We will post photos elsewhere on this site in the near future.


The Dinner was a big success and we plan to do another one next year. In fact, we hope to make a yearly tradition as one our groups regular activities.

We hope that you will join us next time.
Next year's Dinner will be November 6, 2010 at the Crossgates Restaurant
in Albany, NY