Member News

Nov. Member News: William Mark Simmons — Doris Schroeder —
        Karen Stokes
Sept. Member News: Eunice Boeve — Wm. Mark Simmons
Aug. Member News: Doris Schroeder
Jul. Member News: Eunice Boeve — Carol Murray
Jun. Member News: Doris Schroeder
May Member News: Doris Schroeder
Apr. Member News: Wm. Mark Simmons
Mar. Member News: Eunice Boeve 1 & 2 — Lonnie Haden —
        Raymond E. Noah — Doris Schroeder
Jan. Member News: Betty Berney — Eunice Boeve — Doris Schroeder

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Bragging Rights!

• Luanne French, District 6, Great Bend, had an article, "The Answering Machine," published in Dana Literary Society Online Journal, February, 2007. It was only available to read during February, but she received $50.00 for the story.
• Doris Schroeder, District 6, Hutchinson, has a weekly column published every Wednesday in the Hutchinson News
• Maria Dreisziger, District 6, Hutchinson, has a weekly column published every other Saturday in the Hutchinson News

Be proud of your writing accomplishments! Email them to tsfink@sbcglobal.net to be shared with District 6 and all of KAC! We're proud of you. Keep it up!

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District 6 Writing Contest Winners

Poetry:

Place	Winner	Title
Classic Forms (no entries)
Free Verse (4 entries)
1st	Adelyn Emery	Sustenance
2nd	Dolores Baker	Belittled
Rhymed Verse (11 entries)
1st	Grace Bell	Lightning
2nd	Audrey Collins	Lonely Women
3rd	Audry Collins	Like a Tree
Narrative Verse (1 entry, no prizes)
Whimsy (4 entries)
1st	Kay Towle	Flat Disappointed
2nd	Kay Towle	Doll Hospital
3rd	Anne Mart	Huh?
Haiku (7 entries)
1st	Audrey Collins	The End of Summer
2nd	Adelyn Emery	Cardinal on Tree Top
3rd	Leona Dillard	Icicle (1st Verse)
HM	Leona Dillard	Icicle (2nd Verse)
Theme Contest (4 entries)
1st	Kay Towle	Committed
HM	Doris Schroeder	The Color of My Life
Prose:
Place	Winner	Title
Short Fiction (9 entires)
1st	Anne Mart	Ashes, Ashes, All Fall Down
2nd	Lara Hershberger	Rooster's Revenge
3rd	Leona Dillard	Love
HM	Arleen Whittaker	The Trip Home
Feature Article (5 entries)
1st	Anne Mart	Joys of Grandparenting
2nd	Teresa Fink	Bubble Gum
Memoir (12 entries)
1st	Arleen Whittaker	So You Think Teaching Is For Sissies
2nd	Dolores Baker	Accounting for the Baker Boy
3rd	Colleen Heron	Little Annie Ruth
HM	Audrey Collins	It Is More Blessed
Inspiration (5 entries)
	Kay Towle	The Gift of Woods
Story for Children (3 entries)
1st	Kay Towle	Just one Day
2nd	Arleen Whittaker	Lucky's Great Adventure
3rd	Francis Fox	A Christmas Scheme
First Five Pages of a Book (no entries)
Theme Contest: Pen Life as Art (no entries)

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Fall Meeting: September 22, 2007
Anchor Inn Restaurant, 128 S. Main (intersection of Main St. & Ave. B), Hutchinson
Registration: 9 a.m. / Meeting: 10 a.m. / Registration fee : $5.
Lunch paid for individually
Program: Author Fair (including D6 member Carol Murray)
Fair hours: 1-4 p.m., stay as little/long as you want!
Poet Steven Hind spoke at 2 p.m. and sports writer Steven Farney spoke at 3 p.m.

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Spring Meeting: April 21, 2007
Our meeting was held at the Great Bend Public Library, 1409 Williams St., Great Bend. Registration fee was $5.
Roll call: Name an all-time favorite story/poem you have penned
Morning meeting: We discussed the 2008 KAC State Writers Convention, voted on theme finalists and started to delegate positions. A mid-summer meeting with District 7 is in the works to help finalize details.
Lunch: Buffet was at Highland Manor Convention Center in Great Bend, paid individually onsite
Program: Richard Paul Tanos, District 3, Coffeyville, "Getting Published, Not Scammed," presented at the Great Bend Library.
—A special thank you to Arleen Whittaker and her assistants for arranging our meeting.

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Please keep these District 6 members in your thoughts and prayers:
Audrey Collins, Hutchinson; Leona Dillard, Hutchinson; Sonia Hayse, Hutchinson (District 6 co-president); Margaret Shauers, Great Bend

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District 6 Officers, 2007:
President, Teresa Fink
Vice-President, Lloyd Ballhagen
Secretary, Jean Wambsganns
Treasurer, Marvin Wambsganns

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