The
Meeting began at 6:15 P.M.
MEMBERS
PRESENT:
Katherine Flotz, Amy Brailey, Caren Von
See, Shirley Vaughan, Hardarshan Valia, Diane Stratton, Corri Stephenson, Paula
Stephenson, Mike Ripley, Sharon Palmeri, Danielle Johnson, Tim Phillapart, and
John Hunt
OLD
BUSINESS:
A vote of approval for the March 21, 2019,
minutes was first given by KATHERINE
FLOTZ and seconded by CARON VON SEE.
Great thanks to Sharon Palmeri and others for
putting together the banquet. Hardarshan Valia reminded members that
Sharon has the meeting notes (like these) and newspaper clippings on the group
for the last thirty years. An amazing
legacy for Write On Hoosiers!
NEW
BUSINESS:
REMINDER:
We will return to Merrillville May 2, 2019.
LITERARY
NEWS:
KATHERINE
FLOTZ will be speaking at Wittenberg Village in
Crown Point on April 29.
TIM
PHILLIPART shared that some of his writings can be
found on Imaginiscent.net.
READINGS:
TIM
PHILLIPART read four free verse poems. The first, entitled “The Wizard of My Own Life” shares about the change from seeing The Wizard of Oz entirely in black and
white to seeing it with Oz being in color.
“Exit Wanda” gives a
delightful description of an exit scene that turns into an unexpected date. “The
Moon Has Lost Her Memory” plays on T.S. Eliot’s inspiration of Cats and looks at the painful things we
wish we could forget but can’t. Finally,
“Box of Predictions” is the
mysterious telling of a boy who finds a magical box at auction labeled
“Predictions.” When told that if he
opens the box, the predictions will come true, he chooses to wait 50 years to
open it.
HARDARSHAN
VALIA shared “A Bird, a Tree, and a Volcano” in which he examines the cycle of
life. A bird and a tree have a close
relationship. When a volcano comes that
destroys the tree, the bird takes a pod of seeds, which will later be planted
in the lava-rich soil to grow a new tree.
CARON
VON SEE read the end of Chapter 12and the start
of 13 of My Treasure Chest. In this section, we learn that the ghost has
a child. She tells Sara she can
communicate with her, but Sara is more scared than encouraged. She takes a few clothes from the chest and
leaves. Antonio reveals his aunt had
died in childbirth.
KATHERINE
FLOTZ read “Sacred Treasure,” the amazing true story of how a bell from a
church in Yugoslavia was saved from destruction by a farmer who hid it on his
property. This allowed it to be
preserved and placed in another church in Hungary, drawing residents from the
initial town to its placement.
JOHN
HUNT shared “The Commencement,” a humorous telling of a graduation ceremony of
a less than stellar pupil and the celebrations of the adoring mother and the
longsuffering father who always lets her have her way.
MIKE
RIPLEY read Chapter 3: In this installment, we are introduced to the
other boys in the gang and some of their families. Changes occur to the baseball diamond as one
generation grows old enough to leave the games behind for other pastimes—more
changes to the neighborhood.
DANIELLE
JOHNSON read a section of Love, Death, and Socialism. In this section, Karina is in class when her
teacher brings in a gun to begin training.
When he pairs them up to begin training, Karina is chosen by the most
popular boy in class, the rich Maksim whose parents are high up in the
party.
The Meeting Adjourned at 7:50 P.M. (by
external library pressure J)
Respectfully
submitted by
Amy Brailey
Amy Brailey
