2012 Meeting Minutes:

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Minutes: March 17, 2012

District 1 Kansas Authors Club met at McFarland’s Restaurant at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 17, 2012 with 15 people present.

• Following lunch President Patricia Bonine convened the meeting.  She reminded the group to renew their membership to Kansas Authors Club.  Members over the age of 80 should notify the Kansas Authors Club Financial Secretary to maintain their membership status.
• Phil Morris had copies of his latest book for sale.
• President Patricia Bonine made offered information about contests available to interested writers.
• The February minutes were made available and approved.
• Reaona Hemmingway read the treasurer’s report. The report was approved as read.
• Karen Brown announced a meeting by District 2 held on April 14, 2012 in Emporia. All members are invited to attend.  The event will include a visit to Emporia Gazette made famous by William Allen White a former Kansas Authors Club member. Following a pizza lunch, there will be a 7:00 p.m. reading by people who had poems in the book Begin Again: 150 Kansas Poems published in celebration of our Kansas Sesquicentennial.  
• Ken and Doris Peery cordially invited those going to Emporia to have a tour of their childhood homes at no charge.
• Evie Green announced the Pen Women meeting on the 2nd Saturday in April will feature Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate 2007-2009, as a guest speaker. 
• Evie Green invited the group to check out her new Kansas Authors Club license plate that she won in a drawing.
• Kyler Carpenter will be guest speaker at the April meeting of District 1. Kyler works in the children's section at Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library and is known as a storyteller and performer. His presentation will focus on ways the library encourages children to love to read.
• Thirteen members who shared their prose and poetry provided the program.  The participants were Patricia Bonine, Barbara Brady, Madeline Cowell, Lee Goldstein, Evie Green, Reaona Hemmingway, Phil Morris, Karen Brown, Agnes Kazminski, Annabelle Corrick, Mark Bouton, and Doris Peery.

President Patricia Bonine adjourned the meeting at 1:40 p.m.

—Respectfully submitted by Barbara Brady, Secretary District 1.

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Minutes: February 18, 2012

District 1 Kansas Authors Club met at McFarland’s Restaurant at 11:30 on Saturday, February 18, 2012 with 28 people present. 

• Following lunch President Patricia Bonine convened the meeting.
• Visitors Esther Spradling and Mike Brose were introduced and welcomed.
• Books by Errol Anderson, Sylvia Colombo, Reaona Hemmingway, Ken Ohm and Don Pady were made available for purchase, in addition to the book, Hidden Gold: Lost Treasure in the Flint Hills, co-authored by Ken Ohm and Don Pady.
• Patricia Bonine reminded the group that dues to Kansas Author Club should be paid.
• Reaona Hemmingway reported that the annual yearbooks would be out soon.
• Evie Green won a KAC license plate holder when her name was drawn from those who had purchased books—November, 2011, to January, 2012. Books were donated by Dr. Bob Carey as a District 1 fundraising initiative.
• Phil Corbin has published a new book to be out in a few weeks.
• Barbara Brady’s book, Once Upon a Hunch, is available electronically.
• The January minutes were made available and approved.
• Reaona Hemmingway read the treasurer’s report. The report was approved as read.
• Carol Yoho announced that Tom Averill’s book rode received an award for “Outstanding Western Novel, 2011.” This award is given each year in Oklahoma City, home of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. Past winners have been James Michner and Larry McMurtry.
• Carol Yoho asked members who give presentations about writing to let her know so the information may be placed on line. This helps to maintain the non-profit status of Kansas Authors Club.
• Carol Yoho was thanked for extensive work maintaining the Kansas Authors Club website.
• Evie Green announced that the next meeting will be March 17, 2012. The meeting will be presentations by members who will read their work. There will be a three minute time limit. 
• Patricia Bonine introduced the speakers Dr. Ken Ohm and Don Pady, Kansas Author Club members. They each gave a background of their previous books and told how they met and became good friends. This friendship and mutual interest in history prompted them to co-author the book Hidden Gold: Lost Treasure in the Flint Hills. An article written in 1905 by Emporia Gazette publisher William Allen White tells the story of two youngsters who discovered a hidden treasure buried in a mound southwest of Emporia. That story is at the heart of their fascinating novel. 

Patricia Bonine adjourned the meeting at 1:25 p.m.

—Respectfully submitted: Barbara Brady, Secretary, District 1

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Minutes: January 21, 2012

District 1 Kansas Authors Club met at Walt McFarland’s Restaurant at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, January 21, 2012, with 19 members present.

• Following lunch the meeting was convened at 12:30 p.m. by President Patricia Bonine. 
• The following authors had books displayed and available for sale: Sylvia Colombo, Melvin D. Bruntzel, Max Yoho, F.C. Appelhanz, Mark Bouton, and Gary K. Clarke.
• Mark Bouton has a publisher for his next novel, The Sacrifice.
• Max Yoho will have a book signing at the First Friday Art Walk, February 3, at the Eclective Gallery in North Topeka.
• Sarah Anderson has a publisher who is interested in her novel about terrorists in United States.
• The December minutes were made available and approved.
• Reaona Hemmingway gave the treasurer’s report. The report was approved.
• Carol Yoho reminded members to renew their KAC membership for 2012.
• Speakers for the next meeting will be Kenneth Olm and Donald Pady, co-authors of Hidden Gold: Lost Treasure in the Flint Hills.
• Gary K. Clarke, Kansas Author Club member and author of his latest book, Gary Clarke’s Africa was introduced by Patricia Bonine. Gary opened his presentation by declaring a BYOB Day also called Bring Your Own Banana Day. He then passed out bananas to the group and followed with a story about carrying bananas on his head in Africa. With his usual humor, Gary explained the book’s subtitle, “Wildlife, Rainbows and Laughter” along with memories and information accumulated during his 140 African Safaris.

Patricia Bonine adjourned the meeting at 1:35 p.m.

—Respectfully submitted: Barbara Brady, Secretary, District 1.