February 2017 - District 5 Board Minutes
Dear KAC District 5 Members,
Here's a summary of February's District 5 Board meeting.
Minutes February 11, 2017
I. Welcome
The meeting was called to order by President Diane Wahto with a greeting to the members of the 2017 Board. Members present were Diane Wahto, President; Gretchen Eick, Vice President; Connie White, secretary; Cindi Kerr, Blog Writer; Roy Beckemeyer, Public Relations Chairman; and Conrad Jestmore, Membership Chairman. Absent were Ray Racobs, Treasurer, and Vasuma Chaparala, Youth Liaison.
II. Plans for 2017
a. Programs
Gretchen Eick, Vice President, and her committee made up of Susan Howell, Taylor Stucky and Diane Wahto have scheduled meetings for 2017 as follows:
February 11: Why I Love To Write: sharing a favorite first line or two of a favorite novel, followed by a Dove Chocolate candy writer prompt for Valentine’s Day.
March 11: Roy Beckemeyer, Prem Bajaj, and Diane Wahto on How to Write Strong Letters to an Editor.
April 8: Michael Poage (author of ten books of poetry and founder of Blue Cedar Press) on Poetry and Small Press Publishing.
May 13: Dr. Kim Stanley, Chair of Dept. of Modern Languages at McPherson College, Professor of English and teacher of poetry and creative non-fiction. Moment by Moment: Writing Your Life. Sponsored by the Kansas Humanities Council’s Pulitzer Project Speaker’s Bureau.
June 10: Grant Overstake, Author (two novels), journalist, teacher of memoir writing: Telling Your Story.
July 8: Ken Spurgeon, writer, director, and head of Lone Chimney Productions. His film Home on the Range was shown at the Orpheum in 2016: Script writing and producing.
August 12: Dr. James Walther, teacher of library and information management at Emporia State University: Free Speech (and how to have confidence in the truth behind your writing) in an Overloaded World. Pulitzer Project of the Kansas Humanities Council.
September 9: Annette Hope Billings, Topeka poet and dramatist, sharing her poems and courage.
October 21: Cindi Kerr, independent writer and blogger for Dist. 5 KAC. The National Novel Writing Month challenge. Language Arts teachers invited to involve their students in “NaNoWrMo”
November 11: Dr. Sharon Cranford, co-author of Kinship Concealed, Co-Writing and Co-Researching Our Racialized Past. To be confirmed.
December 9: Celebrate each other’s writing. Prizes awarded to youth/children state contest winners, and election of officers for 2018.
January 13, 2018: Claire Caterer, fantasy fiction writer from Kansas City on fantasy writing, writing for children, the publishing process, or finding an agent (offers to speak on any of these topics – our choice.)
Regarding the October 14 meeting, this date conflicts with the State KAC Convention which will be held October 13-15. As the group felt that we would ideally have an October meeting to be able to share events of the convention with those unable to attend, we moved our October 14 Dist. 5 meeting to Saturday October 21.
Connie White, Secretary
Here's a summary of February's District 5 Board meeting.
Minutes February 11, 2017
I. Welcome
The meeting was called to order by President Diane Wahto with a greeting to the members of the 2017 Board. Members present were Diane Wahto, President; Gretchen Eick, Vice President; Connie White, secretary; Cindi Kerr, Blog Writer; Roy Beckemeyer, Public Relations Chairman; and Conrad Jestmore, Membership Chairman. Absent were Ray Racobs, Treasurer, and Vasuma Chaparala, Youth Liaison.
II. Plans for 2017
a. Programs
Gretchen Eick, Vice President, and her committee made up of Susan Howell, Taylor Stucky and Diane Wahto have scheduled meetings for 2017 as follows:
February 11: Why I Love To Write: sharing a favorite first line or two of a favorite novel, followed by a Dove Chocolate candy writer prompt for Valentine’s Day.
March 11: Roy Beckemeyer, Prem Bajaj, and Diane Wahto on How to Write Strong Letters to an Editor.
April 8: Michael Poage (author of ten books of poetry and founder of Blue Cedar Press) on Poetry and Small Press Publishing.
May 13: Dr. Kim Stanley, Chair of Dept. of Modern Languages at McPherson College, Professor of English and teacher of poetry and creative non-fiction. Moment by Moment: Writing Your Life. Sponsored by the Kansas Humanities Council’s Pulitzer Project Speaker’s Bureau.
June 10: Grant Overstake, Author (two novels), journalist, teacher of memoir writing: Telling Your Story.
July 8: Ken Spurgeon, writer, director, and head of Lone Chimney Productions. His film Home on the Range was shown at the Orpheum in 2016: Script writing and producing.
August 12: Dr. James Walther, teacher of library and information management at Emporia State University: Free Speech (and how to have confidence in the truth behind your writing) in an Overloaded World. Pulitzer Project of the Kansas Humanities Council.
September 9: Annette Hope Billings, Topeka poet and dramatist, sharing her poems and courage.
October 21: Cindi Kerr, independent writer and blogger for Dist. 5 KAC. The National Novel Writing Month challenge. Language Arts teachers invited to involve their students in “NaNoWrMo”
November 11: Dr. Sharon Cranford, co-author of Kinship Concealed, Co-Writing and Co-Researching Our Racialized Past. To be confirmed.
December 9: Celebrate each other’s writing. Prizes awarded to youth/children state contest winners, and election of officers for 2018.
January 13, 2018: Claire Caterer, fantasy fiction writer from Kansas City on fantasy writing, writing for children, the publishing process, or finding an agent (offers to speak on any of these topics – our choice.)
Regarding the October 14 meeting, this date conflicts with the State KAC Convention which will be held October 13-15. As the group felt that we would ideally have an October meeting to be able to share events of the convention with those unable to attend, we moved our October 14 Dist. 5 meeting to Saturday October 21.
Connie White, Secretary