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Club members had grand time
at DIFF Annual Meeting

Great Island Camp. The work group also fixed the roofs on cabins 10A and 10B. Those cabins also were rewired for generators, as was cabin 15.
The workers had a busy week. They also finished and painted a small building they had built last year at the Cape Lookout Environmental Center south of the lighthouse. A non-profit group in Greensboro is leasing Les and Sally Moore's old fish camp from the National Park Service and will use it as a camp for children.
The work group also built a shelter for the Park Service at the ferry dock near the lighthouse.
A stiff breeze and cool weather made working comfortable, but didn't do a lot for the fishing. Frank and a few other work group members caught 12 gray trout one evening near the old telephone poles on the north end of the island. A few whiting made up the rest of the catch for the week.
Along with Frank, the DIFF Club members who expended a little elbow grease for a week were:  B.K. Barringer, Ray and Margaret Bumgardner, Jack Burcham, Roy Byrd, Alvin Cheek, Jack Davis of Charlotte, Jack Davis of Winston-Salem, Chester Hiatt, Bob Miller, Tom Monaco, Gus Royal, Harold Smith, J.W. Smith, Randy Speas, Wayne Stafford, Bill Tucker, and Charlie Wolff.

Balance Sheet
The DIFF club ended 1998 with $18,309.36 in the bank, Jim Grier, the club's treasurer, reported at the Annual Meeting. About $8,000 of that is in a checking account and the rest is in certificates of deposit.
Membership fees, at $4,060, made up the bulk of the club's non-tournament income, Jim reported. Raffle tickets for the generator and pressure washer brought

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About 90 DIFF Club members attended the club's Annual Meeting in Pineville, Feb, 28. We had a good fried-fish lunch and heard the good news that the National Park Service doesn't intend to replace the Great Island Camp.
Karren Brown, the superintendent of Cape Lookout National Seashore, made that announcement at the meeting.
Those at the meeting also unanimously elected the slate of candidates that the DIFF Board of Directors nominated to serve of the board this year. They are: B.K. Barringer, Steve Barringer, Dennis Blanton, Roy Byrd, Jack Davis, Joe Gerald, Jim Grier, Chester Hiatt, Frank Long, Alvin Tans, Frank Tursi, and Charles Wright.
After the Annual Meeting, the new board elected the following officers for 1999: Tans, president; B.K. Barringer, vice president; Grier, treasurer; and Tursi, secretary.

Work group stays busy
The fishing wasn't very good, but the 19 DIFF Club members who spent a week on Davis Island in May aren't complaining.
"It was good weather to work but poor weather to fish," said Frank Long, who led the annual work trip. "So it worked out all right."
Club members and members of the Core Banks Fishing Club used 110 gallons of paint to paint many cabins in the

Work group kept busy paintin and, rewiring but the fishing sure was slow.