MEMBERS PRESENT:
Sharon
Palmeri, Art Wilkerson, Sharon Buckman, George Miga, Donna Douglass, Sharon
Dorelli, Judy Whitcomb, Katherine Flotz, Diana Wiacek, Beverly Stanislawski,
Neil Bedeker, Jackie Huppenthal, Luneil Morrow, Audrey Warzyniak, Julie
Perkins, Suzy Stueben, Kelly Chase, Laurie Chase, Michelle Vargas, Mike Musak
OLD BUSINESS:
A vote of approval
for the minutes of November 6, 2013 was given by BEVERLY STANISLAWSKI and
KATHERINE
FLOTZ.
NEW BUSINESS:
SHARON PALMERI
announced that a total of 64 people should be attending the 25th
Anniversary Christmas Party of WOH;
Sharon also announced that the Hoosier Horizon magazine has been sent to
the printers. The members were also
reminded that they should have a note accompanying the book they bring for the
gift exchange stating why they liked this particular book.
LITERARY NEWS:
BEVERLY STANISLAWSKI announced that she had
won three awards from the Texas Poetry Society.
“Ode to a Lowly Pothole,” 4th Place, “Spider Architect,” 6th
Place, and “Half Sisters,” 6th Place.
MICHELLE MC GILL-VARGAS
announced that her flash fiction story, “A Better Place,” will be published in
the March 2014 issue of "Splickety "
magazine.
JULIE PERKINS stated
that she would like to recommend the
book Prayer Journal written
by Flannery O’connor.
READINGS:
SHARON DORELLI read
her beautiful eight stanza poem entitled, “Soul
Mates.” The poem tells of the
connection between an author and an admirer that relates to her writings.
JUDITH
LACHANCE-WHITCOMB read two pages of her children’s story
entitled, A Whirlwind and a Princess. The story told of a lonesome princess named
Guenever who encountered a young whirlwind of a girl named Emma who literally
knocked her off her feet, only to be accidentally knocked down again as she
tried to regain her balance.
LAURIE CHASE read
four pages of the first chapter of her newest novel entitled Infiltration Agent. The chapter, entitled, “ A Rude Awakening,” began
with Agent Kaara awakening out of a coma to find that she was a different
person, with different surroundings, than the person she remembered
being; other agents began trying to explain to her who she really was.
ART WILKERSON read
his short comical article entitled,
“Questions I Have Been Afraid to Answer, For Out of the Mouths of Children
Comes Embarrassment.” The article
proceeded to tell of eleven of these questions, such as: Mr. Minister – Why did
King Solomon need 300 combines?
GEORGE MIGA continued
with his short story entitled, “The
Other Man.” The story, written eight
years prior, told of a Japanese airman, who had been hiding in the New Guinea
jungle following the end of World War 11.
After finding, repairing and eventually flying off of the Island with
the intent of bombing an Allied cargo ship, he eventually landed his beloved
Zero in northeast New Guinea.
DONNA DOUGLASS remembers
Nov. 22, 1963, the day John Kennedy was assassinated, as the turning point in
her life, from a time of innocence to a time of a less peaceful existence. As a college freshman, she remembers the
horror of that Friday, and watching the first live murder on TV the following Sunday when Jack Ruby killed
Lee Harvey Oswald.
BEVERLY STANISLAWSKI read
her eight stanza poem entitled, “The
Real Thanksgiving Feast.” Beverly’s
poem relayed what she felt was the real feast for that day, not turkey but
seafood since the colonists lived close to the sea.
AUDREY WARZYNIAK
continued with the second half of her short story entitled, “Return
Memories.” The story continues with
Maggie’s friends opening the gifts she had wrapped for them before her untimely
death, gifts that had them all to remembering the things Maggie had never
returned to them before.
JULIE PERKINS
continued with her short story entitled, “Dead
Ashley.” In this part of her story,
Marguerite, still wearing the clothes she had been married in that morning,
runs into her former boyfriend’s sister in the grocery store. She finds out that the wife of her
ex-boyfriend had been killed in a car accident that morning, the accident that
had placed her new husband in the hospital.
KELLY CHASE
continued with her story, “Stolen.” After following the older man into his
very expensive jet, young Cathy finally begins to ask him some questions, such
as, “why he had picked her up in a very expensive custom made car, bullet proof
glass and all?”
MICHELLE VARGAS read
her story entitled, “What Steel Hath
Wrought.” The story tells of a young
girl, forcibly married to an older man, trying to kill him on their wedding
night. After hitting him over the head
with a kerosene lamp the bedroom catches fire, sending her out into the night
and into a cotton field.
MIKE MUSAK read
his query letter to a prospective agent for his screenplay entitled, “The Plant.” In the query letter Mike tells of his 23,000
word comedy screenplay and his experiences from his last several jobs which had
provided the inspiration for it.
The
meeting was adjourned at 9:00 P.M.
Respectfully
submitted:
SHARON BUCKMAN
