MEMBERS
PRESENT:
Sharon Buckman, Beverly Stanislawski, George Miga, Donna
Douglass, Jane Burns, Tom Spencer, Gail Galvan, Neil Bedeker, Sharon Palmeri,
Tom Molnar, Ron Trigg, Julie Perkins, Michelle Vargas, Mike Musak
GUEST
PRESENT: Jean Rattay
OLD
BUSINESS:
A vote of approval was asked for concerning the August 1st
minutes. NEIL BEDEKER gave the first approval which was seconded by GEORGE MIGA.
NEW
BUSINESS:
SHARON
PALMERI stated that the Four Seasons Clubhouse has been secured for
our Write On Hoosier Christmas party.
Sharon also stated that due to the unavailability of the date for the
first Wednesday of December, the Christmas party will be on the first Thursday
(Dec. 6). Submissions for our yearly
magazine were also mentioned, as well as the photo contest for our cover.
LITERARY
NEWS:
JEAN
RATTAY, our newest guest, stated she had previously attended SHARON PALMERI’S writing class as well as
attending a few Write On Hoosier meetings.
She brought a few copies of her newly published book, TheKirkfield Heiress with her.
GAIL
GALVAN brought along her newly printed business cards introducing
her audio poetry and songs. She also
stated the Chicago Writers Conference would be held from September 14th
to the 16th and must be paid for by August 31st.
BEVERLY
STANISLAWSKI stated she had received honorable mention from
an Ohio poetry contest she had entered.
TOM
SPENCER stated that anyone wishing to attend a meeting of the Northwest
Indiana Poetry Society at the Lowell Library, could do so on the third Saturday
of each month. He also stated they would
be having a Country and Western writer as a guest this coming Saturday.
READINGS:
BEVERLY
STANISLAWSKI read her humorous short story entitled ,”A
Friendly Card Game.” A Friday night card game ended badly when a woman made a
stupid play, causing her partner to accidently drop his cigar into her famous
shrimp dip.
GEORGE
MIGA
continued with his newest novel, “Ariela - Lioness of God.” After crawling out of the trench, which was
dug for the executed prisoners of the Bergen-Belsen prison camp, a young girl
is found and helped by a woman named Chaya.
Chaya gave her the name of Ariela, since she could not remember her own
name. Her name was Anne Frank and this
is a fictitious story of what could have happened to this gifted child if her
life had not been shortened.
DONNA
DOUGLASS read her short story entitled, “Rage and Resistance.” Her
story takes place in the fall of 1969 at the Indiana University where she was a
student; it tells of the rage of a large percentage of the students against the
Vietnam War and leaves Donna trying to separate her own emotions.
JANE
BURNS continued with Chapter 7 of her novel, Atalanta. In this part of her novel, entitled “All
Acts of Love and Pleasure,” Atalanta enters her hut to find her roommate
going through her personal possessions.
After a short battle, with Atalanta pinning her to the floor, the
roommate later apologized and they both began to laugh.
TOM
SPENCER received a lot of praise for his nine stanza poem entitled,
“Punctuation Station.” Turning punctuations
into living things Tom explains their purpose, and ends with “when e e Cummings has his way
they will all retire.”
GAIL
GALVAN read a poem from one of her novels, Autoimmunity Counterattack: A
Sequel. This part of her novel
relates back to a friend she encountered while on a cross-country bicycle trip
with eleven other adventure bicyclists, one of them an Australian, and is entitled “Awesome
Aussie Storyteller.”
NEIL
BEDEKER continued with his novel,
Dark Hearts, White City. In his continuation of chapter 5, “Opportunity For Evil,” which takes place during the 1893 World’s
Fair in Chicago, tells of how easy it was for a young man, Herman Mudgett, to
take advantage of naïve young women during this time.
TOM
MOLNAR read two pages from his novel, Christianity, the Challenge of a
Changing World. This part of his
novel tells how TV, and other multi-media items such as cell phones, iPods and
video games, are influencing our beliefs.
RON
TRIGG read four pages from his memoir, Moments on an African Landscape. This part of his memoir is entitled “Heartless Highways” and takes place in
Nigeria during l984 – l986, when he relates a story of his travel along a
Nigerian highway and the risks it encounters.
JULIE
PERKINS continued with her short story entitled, “One Night
Stand.” After being left alone without
enough money to pay for a motel, a pregnant woman encounters a prostitute who
offers her a room for the night.
MIKE
MUSAK brought his newest screenplay entitled, “Randy Moves.” After assigning the two speaking parts to two
of our members, the play tells of a young female lawyer offering to help one of
her clients by promising to feed his pets while he is gone. The story takes an interesting turn when she
cannot find the pets she is supposed to feed.
MICHELLE
VARGAS offered
to read her piece at the September 5th
meeting due to time constraints.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:10 P.M.
Respectfully submitted:
Mary Flannery O'Connor
March 25, 1925 - August 3, 1964
March 25, 1925 - August 3, 1964
Occupation Novelist, short story writer,
essayist
Period 1946–1965 Genres Southern Gothic
Notable
work(s)
Did you know that Flannery O’Connor completed more than two
dozen short stories and two novels while battling lupus? Read more at: Wikapedia Flannery O ‘Connor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flannery_O%27Connor
or:
“There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners
to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at
least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this
motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it….”
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