Minutes of Meeting #1435 Monday, January 29, 2018 Trey Haddad, President Ken Patterson, Vice President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sergeant at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary held at the Black Bear Diner, Milpitas
Called to order at 8 pm, with me croaking 28 people attended we established a party jar The minutes of meeting 1434 were accepted as 'long' the Treasurer was absent the VP had nothing fannish to report the President had nothing fannish to report ANNOUNCEMENTS: Adrienne announced that she's trying to get a meetup to see the new Winchester moving at CineArts with BayArea Ghosthunters Lynn announced that she is looking for a technical writing job - check her website: http://www.rahul.net/figmo/LynnGold.doc John O announced that Worldcon 76 rates go up at the end of January & the 31st is also the last day to set up an installment plan - plus Worldcon 76 is looking for volunteers & the charity chosen for Worldcon 76 is the Altsheimer's Association of Northern California [see https://www.alz.org/norcal/] Dave C announced that Mark E Smith of the band The Fall has died at 60 & that Dave will miss him more than Neil Diamond Michael announced that Ursula K LeGuin died at 88 & he announced that there will be a Baycon meeting on this [Superbowl] Sunday Reviews Carole reviewed attending Conflikt in Seattle as it was good & enjoyable and the hotel was oddly icy cold in places; Bill related that one of Carole's songs was very well-received & he had a great time Bill reviewed the Museum of Ice Cream in San Francisco at Grant & Market is very pink Jan reviewed Lee & Miller's 'Neogenisis' & 'Degrees of Separation' as she enjoyed both of them hugely & greatly Lynn reviewed Sondheim on Sondheim as she enjoyed it very much - and several others agreed that it is great & she reviewed the dog show as that the dog flu epidemic left many breeds under-represented Brad reviewed the original 'King Kong vs Godzilla' as it brought back a lot of memories Adrienne reviewed the Old Hotel del Monte in Monterey as it can be toured and is a lovely place Ken reviewed the Palo Alto Players production of 'Laramie Project' as not fluffy, really amazing, thought provoking and very well done there were no auctions because of the Hugos discussion after the meeting we adjourned at 8:48 Rumor of the week = '50,000 Fall fans can't be wrong' -- ******************* She/whispered/'Oh/my/goodness/what/are/all/these/squirrels/doing/here?' melc...@gmail.com *******************
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