Meeting 919 March 10, 2008
Trey Haddad, President Chris Garcia, Vice-President Dave Gallaher, Treasurer Galen Tripp, Sargent at Arms Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary Began 8:10 [blaming it on daylight savings time] 19 people attended We established a FFAT jar to bring Chris back from England We established a party jar Secretary’s report: the minutes of meeting 917 were accepted as 'better late than never' & the minutes of meeting 918 were accepted as 'leap minutes' Treasurer's report was that at meeting 918 we took in $4.79 in the regular jar & $1.75 in the party jar there was no VP The President had nothing fannish to report Announcements Dave G announced that his company is also hiring techie people - and if interested see him Howeird announced that May 17 is the opening for 'Man of la Mancha' & he's been cast as the Governor; it's being presented by the Saritoga Drama Group, running through the end of June & check www.saritogadrama.org [tall] Kevin announced that emails have been going out to selected folk about being Hugo nominees &announced that Cheryl is coming back tomorrow Glenn announced that Gary Gygax failed his last saving throw [evil] Kevin announced that there's a CostumeCon meeting in the [Doubletree] boardroom at 10am, Saturday Reviews: Fred proxy reviewed [for Joni] 'The Mysteries of Harris Burdock' by Chris vonAllsburg as worth full price Howeird reviewed Consonance as a veritable who's who of famous filkers and he enjoyed having his mind bent ... twice - not only worth full price, but worth the procrastinator's at the door fee Andy reviewed spending the weekend having out with drag queens [with hair colors 'not found in nature] for Coronation as the show started within 'fannish standard' time, the pacing was iffy, it ran late & they left early but their after-party ran until 5am - flawed but fun and worth full price Ken reviewed the Lynxis 500N series as not worth buying, unpacking, repackaging and returning to Fry's Trey reviewed Comcast's 'on demand' feature as quite handy to have - since it allows us to view a Sharks game up to 24 hours after it was played - and does not cost us any extra fee we then did auctions: a notepad for $0.50, CDs for $3.25; CD and a book for $1.75 & a DVD game & CD for $2.00 We adjourned at = 9:15 And there was no rumor of the week _______________________________________________ Basfa mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basfa.org/listinfo.cgi/basfa-basfa.org
