MEMBERS
PRESENT:
Sharon Palmeri, Beverly Stanislawski, Katherine Flotz, Sharon
Buckman, David Wilgus, Donna Eckelbarger, Sharon Dorelli, Paul Mulligan, Lisa
Groszek, Bob Philpot, Adam Sedia, Neil Bedeker
OLD
BUSINESS:
A vote of approval for the September 17, 2015 meeting was
first given by PAUL MULLIGAN and
seconded by KATHERINE FLOTZ.
NEW
BUSINESS:
SHARON
PALMERI discussed the Christmas Banquet, which is to be held at the
Lake of the Four Seasons clubhouse on Wednesday, December 2nd at
6:00 P.M., dinner beginning at 7:00 P.M.
There will be book sale from 6:00 to 7:00. A book exchange,
entertainment and door prizes will follow dinner. The fee of $30.00 for members and $35.00 will
need to be in by the next meeting (Nov.5).
LITERARY
NEWS:
DAVID
WILGUS stated he was invited to the local authors’ fair, which will
be held at the library in Laporte, IN. on November 7th.
KATHY
FLOTZ stated that she has had an invitation to speak at a sorority
hall in Hammond. She will be giving
further information at a later meeting.
LISA
GROSZEK stated that her poetry chapbook, And They Danced, will be
coming out on October 17th.
BEVERLY
STANISLAWSKI mentioned she had taken first place for her
poetry in a Massachusetts contest and lst place honorable mention in Ohio and
Massachusetts for two other poems.
READINGS:
DONNA
ECKELBARGER read three pages of her children’s book entitled,
Millie
Makes Vegetable Soup. The
illustrated book will reveal 2 ½ yr. oid Mollie, being assisted by her mother,
standing on a step stool at their kitchen counter preparing the vegetables for
their dinner. The process includes
various steps of naming and cleaning each one.
PAUL
MULLIGAN read two of his poems.
The first poem, entitled “Rainbows
at Night,” asks the question, are there rainbows at night “Or is
that imagery revealing the light of a night rainbow.” The second poem entitled, “Start With,” asks the question of how
much you are willing to part with. The
last line reveals the answer – “Just
giving my best to start with.”
ADAM
SEDIA read his 21 stanza poem entitled, “All Hallows’ Eve.” This
amazing poem, which has been accepted for publishing by the Indiana
Voice Journal, is certainly adequately named as it tells of the
piercing screams of the “ cursed and
restless dead.”
BOB
PHILPOT continued with his novel, Strange Friends, by
reading four pages of Chapter 7, entitled “The
Wren.” This part of the novel began as Zeb watched a small Cactus Wren
coming out of its nest and devouring a small beetle. After making a coded secured phone call,
which implied something had been stolen, or possibly the death of an important
person, he wondered if he was to be the beetle or the wren this time.
KATHERINE
FLOTZ brought her one page explanation of her book, A
Pebble In My Shoe. This page
tells of the loss of her parents and her life as a child in Gakowa (the former
Yugoslavia) beginning in 1944 and the hardships she endured in a concentration
camp as an “enemy of the state.” This
summary is given out to the various people who attend her speaking engagements
and also tells of how she and her husband, George, came to America.
LISA
GROSZEK continued with the fourth section of her short story
entitled, “Becoming Memorable.” In
this part of her story she tells of the questionable “camera” being taken out
of its box to take pictures of the proud mother and her first child. As the father takes the picture of the
sleeping mother, she suddenly awakens and begins telling of a strange dream
concerning the camera.
BEVERLY
STANISLAWSKI read her 14 line sonnet entitled, “Waltzing with Leaves,” which gives a
beautiful interpretation of falling leaves in the autumn as they seem to find “a waltz to be their favorite style.”
DAVE
WILGUS continued with his novel, The Joshua Henderson Story.
In this part of the novel, which takes place in rural central Ohio in 1965,
Chad has been arrested for his part in a Klu Klux Klan rally. The father of the family they had rallied
against suffered severe burns of his hands.
After his arrest, Chad is told that his three weeks old child might
possibly be suffering a severe problem with his liver.
NEIL
BEDEKER continued with Chapter 7 of his novel, An Early Retirement. After losing his teaching position, Mitch
finds himself standing on the front porch of the house now owned by his
ex-wife. After finally gaining entrance,
he explains he needs to get his good suit while he looks for a new job in
Florida. After leaving through the garage, he “accidently” knocks a bag of dirt
into his ex-wife’s boyfriend’s car.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:00 P.M.
Respectfully submitted:
SHARON
BUCKMAN
