Tuesday, January 10, 2017

2016 Annual Meeting Minutes - January 10, 2017



Sage Society
Annual Meeting
January 10, 2017
OLLI Classroom 124 - USCB

MINUTES


Sage members in Attendance:

Jerry Stocks, Outgoing President
Stuart Heath, President Elect
Donna Armer, Vice President
Geni Flowers, Secretary/Treasurer/Historian
Kathryn Brown, Member-at-Large
Rebecca Davenport
Carol Lauvray
Martha Weeks
Carolyn Witkosfsky

No Members Absent


Dues of $25.00, in cash, per member were collected at the beginning of the meeting.

The meeting was called to order at 4:30 pm.

Discussions were held on the following topics:

It was requested that when presenting, each member be required to turn in a short synopsis of their paper, a couple of sentences describing the topic of the paper, to the secretary/historian for archival purposes. A copy of this will be relayed to Larry Koolkin, Honorary Member and Technical Advisor, for inclusion in our online blog.

The slate of new officers were discussed, approved, elected unanimously and installed.

The by-laws were discussed. Changes are reflected in copies to be handed out at the next meeting.

A brief report was given as to the allocation of member dues for this year. Stuart will take the money ($250.00 ) to a counselor at Beaufort Elementary School. It was suggested that next year’s dues be donated to Friends of the Beaufort County Library for their Born to Read program. Donna made the motion to accept, Kathyrn seconded and the motion passed unanimously.


Upcoming programs, presenters and topics are:

February 14th        Rebecca Davenport            Sideshows
March 14th            Donna Armer                      Mosaics
April 11th              Carol Lauvray                     TBA
May 9th                 Geni Flowers                       History of Beaufort College
September 12th      Martha Weeks                     TBA
October 10th
November 14th


The next regular meeting of the Sage Society will be held on Tuesday, February 14th at 4:00 pm in the OLLI classroom (room 124 of the USCB Sandstone building.) 

The meeting adjourned at approximately 5:30.

Respectfully submitted by Geni Flowers, Sage Society Secretary
February 6, 2017


Tuesday, November 8, 2016

The Beaufort National Cemetery - Stuart Heath


The Beaufort National Cemetery is one of six national cemeteries established in 1863 by President Lincoln for the re-interment of Union soldiers and sailors who died in the region. 
Beaufort National Cemetery has more than 7,500 Civil War casualties-- both Union and Confederate-4,019 are unknown.
The presentation highlighted the following topics to tell the story of the Beaufort National Cemetery, and was presented by Stuart Heath on November 8, 2016.

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Julia Child and French Cooking - Carolyn Witkofsky

Carolyn's presentation was entitled Julia Child and French Cooking.  A brief biography of Julia's life was presented along with her passion for French cuisine.  In keeping with the subject, a French Rose was served and an apple tart made step by step following Julia's recipe as found in her best selling cookbook, MASTERING THE ART OF FRENCH COOKING.

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Grand Memories: Keep Your Stories in the Family - Katherine Tandy Brown

On March of 2016, Katherine Tandy Brown presented Grand Memories: Keep Your Stories in the Family, centered on the importance of collecting the stories of your life in writing to pass along to your children and grandchildren, i.e. creating a true family legacy. 

She spoke about what memoir is and how to write it. Then everyone actually wrote a chunk of memoir using Natalie Goldberg's Writing Practice method.

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Breath - Lainie Andrew

Breath was the title of the presentation given by Dr. Lainie Andrew-Koolkin on April 12, 2016. 

She spoke on the importance of using breath to control pain, and explained how it gave her patients the ability to manage their pain through their own breathing, completely under their own control.



Tuesday, March 8, 2016

The Cozy Mystery - Linda Robertson

Linda Robertson presented a paper to the Society entitled The Cozy Mystery. 

In the presentation she defined the cozy mystery genre and gave examples of those authors that write cozies. She gave a detailed description, history and then recommended books for the Society to put on their night stands.