Mordecai's Journal

The Society of American Magicians
Northern Connecticut Assembly #21
Newsletter for April 2009   page one of three
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Meetings:

Second Monday of every month except December at Angelo's on Main in West Hartford
(I-84 exit 41)
April Meeting:
Martin Lewis Lecture

Put your Easter eggs, Peeps and Matzos on hold until May!  At the last minute we were able to book Martin Lewis for our April meeting.  (See page three for an overview of the lecture.)  Please help to spread the word to all of your magician friends.  The lecture is free for SAM 21 members and $15.00 for non-members.  The April 13 meeting starts at 7:30 PM, preceded by dinner at 6:00 PM.

Minutes of March Meeting

9 March 2009  7:45 PM
VP Dan Sclare presiding.

Sec. rpt.:  Accepted as published.

Treas. rpt.:  Our balance was reported.

Old Bus.:  Banquet Report—ticket sales are slow.  Rick St. Pierre will offer tickets to the local IBM at their next meeting.
Dave Garrity reports some difficulty in getting other dates in the area for Tim Sonefeldt.  We may not be able to get him to lecture for us if more dates are not booked.  Dave will still pursue this item.
We presented Sean Roche and Raymond Lorenzo with their membership materials.

New Bus.:  none this month.

Good & Wel.:  Dan is now engaged to his girlfriend Patty. North Central News featured compeer Dave Garrity on their front page.  Dave had performed at a Valentine's Day party for Somers Elementary.
NEMCON is this Saturday.
Ali Bongo passes away this past Sunday.
The theme for April was set as Easter and Passover magic—nobody “passes over” and does nothing! →

←   Adjourned at 8:03 PM.

Theme for the month: Shakespeare!

VP Dan Sclare started us off by shaking a paper grocery bag, then producing a ten-foot "spear" out of it.  Bill Smyth performed "Shakesphere," in which a small colored marble penetrated a salt shaker.  Rick St. Pierre did "A Night Out With the Girls" wherein all the ladies had Shakespearean names.  Sean picked a card as a "date," but missed out on going out with Portia, Cleopatra, Juliet, etc., because the card he picked was...Lady Macbeth!  Rick also showed us an empty frame in which a picture of a skull mysteriously appeared.  After a card was selected, the picture was shown to actually be of a young woman looking in a mirror—and holding a copy of the selected card!  Dana Ring performed a "seven ages of man" routine in which Sean was able to miraculously avoid the Death Card—after a prologue full of Shakespeare puns.  Walt Umberfield showed us a silk that could un-knot itself, and penetrate Dan's ten-foot spear.  Dan returned to complete the entertainment by presenting Lady Macbeth's favorite trick: What's Next (with all those damned spots!)
Dan shakes a bag, and produces a ten-foot spear.

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