Jacquie's Reminder Email
March 8, 2021: Hello Literary Ladies! Just a reminder that we will be meeting on Wednesday, March 10th at 1pm for our annual Annual Meeting. Our agenda will include discussing topics for next year, and the nominating committee will announce the officers for next year. Hopefully some of those meetings will be held in person! Until Wednesday, Jacquie
P.S. For those of you who have been waiting with bated breath for the third season of Shtisel, I have just learned that it will finally air on Netflix on March 25th! For those of you who haven't seen it, I highly recommend the series.
Barbara's Minutes
Signs of almost spring were shared during chat time by 12 members of the Literature Club. Several of us have crocuses or snowdrops blooming in our gardens, and Mary Greenly reported a bluebird sighting in Connecticut. The other hopeful sign was that all members of a certain age have received at least the first shot of the Covid-19 vaccine, so we could talk of meeting for picnics when the weather turns warmer.We remembered that it was at our annual meeting a year ago that we last gathered indoors in person. Fran Greenberg, then the nominee for President of Literature Club, could not be with us, because her granddaughter’s nursery school in Brooklyn had closed, and she was providing childcare. In the year since that time Fran has mastered conducting meetings on Zoom, many of us have learned how to share screens, and the Club has continued as a source of camaraderie and comfort as well as literary stimulation. We all learned to wear masks and keep social distance, and none of us contracted the virus. There was even a benefit to Zoom meetings, for members who had moved away were able to attend.
Fran led today’s business meeting, at which the minutes were accepted as read. We elected the nominating committee’s rhymed slate of candidates: Jacquie Weitzman continuing as corresponding secretary, Lori Walsh as treasurer, and Christine Lehner as our new recording secretary. Fran asked members to mail $15 annual dues to Lori. As part of the ongoing business to donate books to the Hastings Public Library, we approved Carol Barkin’s suggestion of Pamela Paul’s Rectangle Time in memory of May Kanfer.
Program Chair Connie Stewart led the discussion of topics for next program year, during which we for the first time eliminated as many topics as we added. New topics are "Black Women Authors: American and International" and "Solely Shakespeare." Among the deleted topics were “Adolescent Favorites Revisited,” although the writer of these minutes cherishes a fond memory of Gene Stratton- Porter’s Girl of the Limberlost. Connie will send us the list of topics. For our first vote, we choose 5 or perhaps 6 topics we like, but without ranking them. In the final vote of whittled down topics, we will mark first, second, and third choices.
In closing my final set of minutes, I promise that I will get copies of all to the Hastings Historical Society and that I will send Fran this past year’s minutes to be posted on the Literature Club blog. It has been a privilege to serve this august yet playful Club.
Respectfully submitted, Barbara Morrow, Recording Secretary
Fran led today’s business meeting, at which the minutes were accepted as read. We elected the nominating committee’s rhymed slate of candidates: Jacquie Weitzman continuing as corresponding secretary, Lori Walsh as treasurer, and Christine Lehner as our new recording secretary. Fran asked members to mail $15 annual dues to Lori. As part of the ongoing business to donate books to the Hastings Public Library, we approved Carol Barkin’s suggestion of Pamela Paul’s Rectangle Time in memory of May Kanfer.
Program Chair Connie Stewart led the discussion of topics for next program year, during which we for the first time eliminated as many topics as we added. New topics are "Black Women Authors: American and International" and "Solely Shakespeare." Among the deleted topics were “Adolescent Favorites Revisited,” although the writer of these minutes cherishes a fond memory of Gene Stratton- Porter’s Girl of the Limberlost. Connie will send us the list of topics. For our first vote, we choose 5 or perhaps 6 topics we like, but without ranking them. In the final vote of whittled down topics, we will mark first, second, and third choices.
In closing my final set of minutes, I promise that I will get copies of all to the Hastings Historical Society and that I will send Fran this past year’s minutes to be posted on the Literature Club blog. It has been a privilege to serve this august yet playful Club.
Respectfully submitted, Barbara Morrow, Recording Secretary
