MEMBERS PRESENT:
Pamela Gonzalez, Sharon Buckman, Sharon Jesik, Jane Burns, Beverly Stanislawski, Judy Whitcomb, George Miga, Sandra Nantais, Kelly Chase, Laurie Chase, Tom Spencer, Jackie Huppenthal, Sharon Palmeri
GUESTS PRESENT:
Lisa Gineris
NEWS:
1. JACKIE HUPPENTHAL stated she has been busy with her writing and is suffering from poison ivy for the second time this year. She and her son just acted in a movie short for Columbia College. She stated it was a great experience and a lot of fun.
2. BEVERLY STANISLAWSKI said she has been feeling a lot better and has gotten back to her writing.
3. SHARON BUCKMAN stated on June 17th she will be attending Oprah's Surprise Spectacular along with her son, Robert. She has been doing a lot of gardening and not much writing in the past two weeks.
4. GEORGE MIGA has been working on finishing his novel, "Medal of Dishonor."
5. SANDY NANTAIS has been busy with her photography and writing, she is working on genealogy at the moment.
6. KELLY CHASE stated she participated in the WW II ROTC Color Guard at Buckley this past weekend.
7. LAURIE CHASE has been having problems with her sciatic nerve for which she has been taking various medications. Laurie and Kelly are also starting piano lessons. She also told a not so funny story of her parents insurance company mixing the names on her mother's claim - the insurance company put her mother's name as the deceased instead of her fathers.
8. LISA GINERIS our new guest, stated she has taken several of Sharon Palmeri's writing classes and is presently working on a memoir.
9. PAMELA GONZALEZ has been redoing a story she started some time back. She also stated her daughter was just married this past weekend (from which she is still recovering). She also read a letter she received from our last guest, Robert Durling. He stated that do to a hearing problem he will probably not attend any more meetings but said he enjoyed being at the one he did attend.
10. TOM SPENCER reminded us of the May 20th open microphone meeting at the Hebron Comfort Inn, (1 65 and Rt. 2) at 6:00 P.M., a meeting of the State Poetry Society on May 21st at the Lowell Public Library, as well as a luncheon will be served at 12:00 noon, $l2.00 per person, at the library. When asked what he has been doing for himself he stated that he was doing spring cleaning and writing.
11. SHARON JESIK stated she has been working on her novel, "Corn Dancer" and has presently completed 85 pages.
12. JANE BURNS has been editing and revising her novel, "Atalanta." She has completed 40 pages and is now on part 2.
13. JUDY WHITCOMB has finished grading papers for her class at MSU and has started two children's stories.
14. SHARON PALMERI just returned from Indianapolis where she participated in judging for the Indiana Arts Commission. Sharon stated that thirty grants will be awarded out of the ninety participants. The awards will be posted on the IAC’s website in July. She also told of a funny (not for her) happening at the Indiana Government Center when she forgot to remove a small pair of children's scissors from her purse.
READINGS:
SHARON BUCKMAN continued with reading her novel, "A Family Murder." In this part of the story she told of trials of her nephew's two stepchildren. The stepson, Daniel, was sentenced to 22 yrs. and the stepdaughter, Christina, was sentenced to 5 yrs. in prison.
SHARON JESIK continued with her novel, "Corn Dancer." The detective continued with his investigation of the murder of their friend, Doty. Since the murdered victim's closest friend, Luck, inherited almost all of her possessions he was the natural suspect. He convinced the detective that he and Doty were not romantically involved since he was gay.
JANE BURNS surprised everyone when she continued her novel, "Atalanta." She told of the bear, Ursula, being murdered by several men and then taking the young girl that had been raised by the bear with them.
BEVERLY STANISLAWSKI read a type of essay she had recently written entitled, "Apple Seeds." The story concerned the type of character everyone sought and how best to teach your children how to find true character. Several members thought it would be a good story for Guideposts magazine.
JUDY WHITCOMB read one of her recent children's stories entitled, "I Want a Puppy, I Really Want a Puppy." The story involves a young boy trying to persuade his parents to let him have a puppy and eventually succeeding. She is planning on submitting it to a publisher soon.
GEORGE MIGA continued reading from his novel, "Medal of Dishonor." In this part of the story, the gun, that had been turned on Cordell, had jammed and was then wrestled away from the shooter by Cordell. In the process Cordell was shot but still had enough strength left to kill the shooter before being taken to the hospital.
SANDRA NANTAIS read her short story, "Pickles, Pretzels, and Prancing," a story concerning her memories of her grandmother as she was always rushing in and out of the house during backyard family gatherings and bringing pretzels, cola, and a relish dish complete with pickels and green olives.
KELLY CHASE continued with her novel, "The Ring." The ring is a magical one and Kristine felt she should not keep using the ring to accomplish getting anything she wanted. This soon changed when her parents were refusing to let her wear the new clothes she had just bought for a concert.
LAURIE CHASE continued reading a few pages from her novel, "Fast Forward," a story that involved a young housewife being transported 500 yrs. into the future and placed on a space ship. In this part of the story she decided she would need to do some "cleaning" if she was to be there for awhile.
LISA GINERIS, our newest guest, read a memoir, as being told by her grandmother, entitled, "Elsie Mae -A Life Recycled. The story told of her grandmother's heartache after losing two of her children and was followed up with the reading of a letter, written by her grandfather to her grandmother.
TOM SPENCER brought his seven stanza poem entitled, "The Superlatives of Nature." The poem dealt with man's desire for destruction of the earth by breaking the rules of nature.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:20 P.M.
JACKIE HUPPENTHAL read her poem about phobias and gave examples of different ways it could be printed out to give a more effective picture of the uncomfortable feelings phobias invoke.
Respectfully submitted:
Sharon Buckman
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