MINUTES FOR FEBRUARY 17, 2010

MEMBERS PRESENT:
Michael Musak, Judith Lachance-Whitcomb, Beverly Stanislawski, Katherine Flotz, Tom Spencer, Pamela Gonzales, Sharon Palmeri, Sharon Buckman

GUESTS PRESENT:
Chuck Brown
John Hunt

NEWS:
l. Mike Musak stated that he returned home from a nice evening of candlelight bowling to discover a broken water pipe. The remainder of his evening was spent under the house trying to get it repaired.

2. John Hunt, a former member of WOH two years prior, just recently started writing again. John is a resident of Hobart.

3. Tom Spencer announced that on May l5th there will be an open mike session at the Lowell Library. The Northwest Indiana Poetry Society will also be at the Comfort Inn, conference room, on Saturday, Feb. 20th.

4. Chuck Brown stated that due to a computer problem he has been unable to do any writing.
5. Pamela Gonzales has been kept busy entertaining her grandson. She also stated her husband has been stationed in Iraq and though she misses him every day, Valentines Day was the worst. She also wrote a piece called "Lonliness."

6. Judy Whitcomb hosted the first meeting of a new writing club for children's books called The Magic Hour. She said it went very well and had eight people attending.

7. Beverly Stanislawlski has been finishing some of her poems which she intends to submit online to various poetry contests. Three of her poems, Chicago, Lake Michigan and Homecoming we have all heard and feel she has a very good chance of winning.

8. Kathy Flotz stated that she and George will be going to St. Louis Community College regarding her book "Pebble In My Shoe." It will be involving a DVD documentary that will feature her and George.

9. Sharon Palmeri has been busy with her two Merrillville Adult classes.

l0. Sharon Buckman just returned from a trip to Tennessee with her family. She stated that they were caught in a terrible snow storm coming home.

READINGS:
JOHN HUNT has recently started a novel, no name at this time, involving a young woman named Sally. While trying to get to work her frustrations began to mount when her car started giving her enough problems that it was necessary to pull off the road. Her day turned much worse when a "Barney Fife" policeman approached her.

KATHY FLOTZ wrote a Fibonacci Diamond poem called "The Proposal." The love poem was a perfect poem for Valentines' Day.

BEVERLY STANISLAWSKI wrote an article about someone she met as a child called Old Bob. The article, entitled "Freecom Man," told of an old half Indian and half Black man who lived to be l04 yrs. old. He told of being lifted up by his mother to shake the hand of President Lincoln. He had once been a slave and all that he desired from life now was to go fishing and be a "freedom man."

JUDY WHITCOMB wrote a poem entitled "The Road." The poem gave a very good description of the difference of a trip from city life to back roads in the country.

SHARON BUCKMAN continued with the struggle of a young girl trying to plan her escape from a backwoodsman in Kentucky.

TOM SPENCER wrote a poem entitled "Prophecy Twenty-Twelve." It told of the prophecy of Nostradamus's writings that predicted the world's end in Twenty Twelve.

MIKE MUSAK continued with his play "The Break In." Part of the members were included in the cast as the comedy continued, beginning with the police coming into the bar that Joe and a friend had broken into. They found Joe with his hand stuck to his bowling bowl, inside the juke box and his foot stuck in a bucket of plaster. Needless to say we all had a good laugh as it all played out.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:20 P.M.

Respectfully submitted:
Sharon Buckman