JANUARY 19, 2017

MEMBERS PRESENT:

Sharon Palmeri, Caren Von See, Adam Sedia, Mary Lou Cowley, Marilyn Kessler, Katherine Flotz, Sharon Buckman, Beverly Stanislawski, Amy Brailey, Dave Wilgus, Rebecca Juergens, Kate Ryan, Ruthann Graczyk, Roger Batton, Luniel Morrow

GUESTS PRESENT:

Diane Stratton, Tahirah Hasan

OLD BUSINESS:

A vote of approval for the January 5, 2017 minutes was first given by MARY LOU COWLEY and seconded by KATHERINE FLOTZ.

NEW BUSINESS:

Adam Sedia stated that he will be sworn in on January 20, 2017 as the new President of the Lake County Bar Association. Congratulations Adam!

LITERARY NEWS:

CAREN VON SEE announced that the mystery novel, written by her and her sister, Carol, is presently being edited by Lauren Johnson and hopefully will soon be published.

READINGS:

ADAM SEDIA read two of his poems, the first was a free verse five stanza poem entitled, “January.” The poem told of the wonder that how the “seeds sown and forgotten, will soon rise “when the sun’s course has run.” The second poem, entitled, “Inversion,” told how the sun, emerging from a cloud, could be mistaken for a dawn and not a sunset.

MARILYN KESSLER read her lovely five stanza Christmas poem, entitled, “One Moment Each Christmas.”  The poem told of the serene wonder of the soul as it gazes upon the shining Christmas tree on the night before Christmas.

KATHERINE FLOTZ read two pages of her continuing short story entitled, “The Boy at the River’s Edge.”  The story, a true story, tells of her husband George’s life, beginning as a ten yr. old in Germany during World War 11.  This part of her short story ends with the fire-bombing of Dresden and his family’s unbelievable luck in surviving.

BEVERLY STANISLAWSKI read two of her poems.  The first poem, recently entered in a Utah Poetry contest, was entitled, “Bryce’s Paradise.”  The poem told of the beauty of Bryce’s canyon and tells of how the “canyon’s vistas astound visitors and urge imaginations to explore.” The second poem, a four stanza free verse poem entitled, “Sustaining Memories,” tells of all the sad memories left behind after a spouse’s departure and states; “Memories are all that sustain us now, And the promise of a reunion one day.”

DAVE WILGUS read four pages of his final chapter, “The Curse is Over.”  In this chapter he tells of tragedy that struck the Kronk family and the fact that they never got to see the Cubs win another World Series.  After detailing all the Cubs major events he ends with, “Seventy years of frustration are now over.  To all Cub fans, the hope of a dynasty has become the heartbeat.”

 

REBECCA JUERGENS continues reading her novel, In Angelic Arms.  Summarizing this part of the novel, “Kara falls off a bridge and is struggling to survive.  There is a darkness, and an evil to the water that makes her struggle that much more difficult.”

ANNE HUNTER (Ruthann Graczyk) read three pages of her newest novel, The Reconnection.  Chapter One begins with two women making their way through a restaurant after a conversation in the ladies room that causes one of the women to believe she has entered a “nightmare dream sequence.” The woman realizes that her earlier suspicions have been confirmed.

ROGER BATTON read four pages of his novel, Unfinished. The novel begins in the office of a fishery company in Seattle, Washington, with a young woman, Sedna Yazzie, pulling her cellphone away from her ear and slamming it down on her desk in a fit of rage.  The news she had heard made her believe that the company she has helped survive is now in jeopardy.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:30 P.M.

Respectfully submitted:

SHARON BUCKMAN