Meeting 763
March 7, 2005
Trey Haddad, President
Alison McBain-Wu, Vice-President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, phantom Sargent at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
Began at 8:04 pm - asking questions about the late VP
18 people attended
Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 762 were accepted as
'revisionist history'
Treasurer's report was that last week we took in $5.00 - while the party
jar took in $16.49
We established a party jar
Asked if she had a report, the Vice President said 'not really'
The President reported that he was finally caught up on his fannish
homework [has just finished seeing 'Firefly'
Announcements:
Frank Wu announced there's a high school kid who's been thrown in
jail for writing a zombie story
Dave C announced that the FCC and entertainment industry are putting
a chip to prevent HDTV from being copied - so write your
Congress-critter. Check out the electronic frontier foundation for more
info
Dave G announced that the Hugo voting deadline is March 11 & there
was a follow-on that the new rules for the Campbell award are currently
posted on the Interaction website
Reviews:
Cheryl reviewed Potlatch as being about 150 people who sat around,
talked and bought books. She thought it a good weekend, worth what
Kevin paid for it. Jim follow-on'd that they had Tshirts
Nathan reviewed the SciFi channel's showing of 'The 4400' as very well
done and worth full price
Eric reviewed the DVDs of 'Nausicaa' and 'The Cat Returns' as both good
moivies, worth full price & then we complained about the 'Bambi' sequel
- but Eric said the restoration of the original was superb
We auctioned off a bunch of little things: magazines for $0.10 & $0.25;
videos for $0.25 & $0.25; a lunchbox for $0.25; books for $0.25; 2 CDs
for $2.00 & a toy for $0.51
We adjourned at = 9:03 pm
And the rumor of the week was that ‘Alison is moving to NY to become
mistress of life, the universe & everything' [42]
