MEETING MINUTES
December 13, 1998
OFFICERS
Thalia Swinyer, President
Eric Wanner, Vice-President
Ruth Sulik, Treasurer
Kathryn Johnson, Secretary
Seasons' Greetings. The annual family Christmas party started with
a pot luck dinner, followed by the entertainment. Thalia
Swinyer acted as the Master of Ceremony and introduced each
performer. The first magician Andrew Baerlocker performed a mind
reading card trick. The next magician was Ron Seward. He performed
Traveling Money with foreign coins. Quentin Smith then did the
Further Than That card trick. Benjamin Yang followed Quentin and
showed us how rope tricks can go Further Than That. Chris Kenney did
some mental magic. However, Mike Cottam did a cheap trick that came
to a total of seven ½ cents. He didn't have enough money to go
Further Than That. But David "Magic" Johnson went Further
Than That and performed the "Mental Origami Money" trick.
Ron Nelson performed the Egg Joke (or is that Yoke) trick. He then
pulled a thimble from a spectator's ear. He also demonstrated the
strange properties of a chalk paddle. Rebecca Nelson penetrated a
dollar bill with a pencil. Ruth Sulik caused the Egg Whites left
behind by the Egg Yoke trick to disappear. Jess Cone did the
Christmas Card trick and introduced us to the Santa Klaus card. Adam
Meziani performed a card trick with a single card. Where the only
card that a spectator could select disappeared. John
Maynard did the Little House on the Table. He made toy furniture
appear from a small empty house. Ed Rock performed the Ring on a
String, and Kim Walkowski did the One Off Card
trick. Angelica Hartman did a Cut and Restore rope routine where the
restored ropes spelled out "Merry Christmas." Len
Swinyer did the "Ultimate Three Card Monty" and then
the White Christmas trick. In the White Christmas the selected Santa
Klaus card changes the color of the deck of cards to white. You would
have thought that was enough, but the evening entertainment went
Further Than That.
Gifts were exchanged, dessert was served and everyone gathered
around the fire place. Tom Cantrell sat in
front of the fire place and regaled us with his story about a
"Kid and a Christmas Tree." Unfortunately any description
of his story here would not do it justice. The reality of it goes
much Further Than That.
