MEMBERS
PRESENT:
Bob Philpot, Sharon Buckman, Angelina Mendoza, Ruthann
Graczyk, Rebecca Juergens, Beverly Stanislawski, Katherine Flotz, Al Koch, Amy
Brailey, Caren Von See, George Miga, Helena Qi, Mary Ellen Beecher
MINUTES APPROVED BY: by REBECCA JUERGENS and RUTHANN GRACZYK
LITERARY
NEWS:
KATHERINE
FLOTZ mentioned that she will be speaking about her book, “Pebble
in my Shoe,” at the Four Seasons Clubhouse on November 9th at 4:30
P.M.
BEVERLY
STANISLAWSKI mentioned that there will be a Pop-up Poetry Show
at the SIP Coffeehouse, 2815 Jewett Ave. in Highland on Friday, Oct. 27th
from 6:30 to 7:30. Beverly also stated
that after entering a mid-south Tennessee Poetry Contest, she had taken 1st
place for her poem, “Family is My Home Town.” She also took 2nd
place for “Something Blue,” and 1st
H.M. for “Natures Play.”
AL KOCH stated
that SHARON CUTTER will be speaking
at the Crown Point Library on Nov. 12th at 12:00 about her book, “Bandstand Diary’s,” a book he helped
work on.
READINGS:
CAREN VON
SEE
continued reading her novel, The Treasure Chest. In this part of her novel, Chapter 14, Sara
and Rudolpho are making plans for their Mediterranean cruise. Their plans, which involves a shopping trip
for Sara, also involves a discussion about onshore trips and how many they
should take as well as a possible problem with passports.
BEVERLY
STANISLAWSKI first read her two page Halloween short story
entitled, “One Scary Night.” The story involved two high school students,
Marty and Jerry, making plans to go back to a house they believe to be
haunted. They are both afraid of the old
man and his dog that live there. Their
plans go almost perfect until Marty gets his leg trapped in a floorboard. Beverly’s second reading, a poem entitled,
“Beware the Baba Yaga,” (Polish for witch), is a six stanza poem telling of a
witch who tells children that she will make their dreams come true, because she
needs them for her stew.
MARY
ELLEN BEECHER read her two-page memoir entitled, “Out of Control.” The memoir centers around her son, Michael,
who has had a number of problems involving drugs and alcohol. In this part of her memoir Mary Ellen tells
of his problem keeping jobs, mostly at restaurants, and handling his
finances. This part of the memoir ends
with her trying to stop him as he drives off intoxicated.
KATHERINE
FLOTZ read her one page short story entitled, “The Adventures of Mikki and Mini,” not related to the Disney
characters. The story tells of two mice
entering this cozy white house and trying to decide where they should hide the
food they brought in. After deciding to
check out the basement, Mini gets stuck in mouse trap sticky paper and is later
joined by Mikki.
REBECCA
JUERGENS read her two-page memoir entitled, “I Am a Writer.” The memoir
tells of Rebecca trying to decide, with God’s help, what she should do with her
life. Her children have been the love of
her life but they no longer need her as much as before. She finally found her answer after suffering
the loss of her unborn child.
SHARON
BUCKMAN brought her two-page Halloween short story entitled, “All Hallows Eve.” The story tells of a retired couple, Anna and
Frank, selling their farm and moving into town.
After fixing up the old house Frank and his son go fishing, leaving Anna
home alone. After going to bed Anna
believes she hears someone else in the house, she runs outside only to find a
dog and his master chasing her. They
only wanted to Trick or Treat.
AL KOCH read his
very humorous, partially true, short story entitled, “To Protect the Brain – A Tale of Adolescence.” The story tells of his teenage years with
eight years of a parochial education before entering high school. He also tells of his mother always telling
him of the importance of protecting his brain.
As his story continues, he tells of his first week in gym class and his
instructor telling the class they need to bring their athletic supporter to
class with them on Friday. Since his
grade school education never prepared him for this item, he asks his local
druggist to attend his class as his “athletic booster.”
ANGELINA
MENDOZA read her four-stanza poem entitled, “I Am From.” The poem tells
of the beginning of her life with each of the first four stanza’s beginning
with the words, I am from. This
beautiful poem begins with “I am from a long dirt road, a sharecropper’s shack
long gone.”
HELENA QI read her
humorous short story entitled, “Where is
My Hiding Place.” The story tells of
her fear of being called upon by the Table Topics Master. After joining the club she always found that
lowering her head and looking away had always worked to keep from being called
upon – but not anymore. After facing her
fears, she ends her story with telling people to face their fears instead of
avoiding them.
The meeting was adjourned at 7:45 P.M.
Respectfully submitted:
SHARON
BUCKMAN
