Nov 16 BASFA minutes

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BASFA Meeting 1320
November 16, 2015

Trey Haddad, President
Ken Patterson, Vice President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sergeant at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
held at Coco's, 1206 Oakmead Parkway (Lawrence Expressway/101 Fwy), Sunnyvale

Began 8 pm
19 people attended

We established a party jar

The minutes of meeting 1319 were accepted as 'robust'

There was no Treasurer

The Vice President had nothing fannish to report

The President observed everyone seemed to have a cold & we said 'hi' to Armand, visiting us, having seen the Meet-up site

Announcements:
JC announced that Nerdvana Podcast episode 43 goes up Wednesday & announced that he & Andy Weir went to the same high school

Gayle announced that an article by Gerry Nordley was published by the British Interplanetary Society

Dave C announced that Orycon is coming up this weekend

Lisa announced that Heroes and Villain con will be this weekend at the SJ convention center & it looks like a pay as you go con

Reviews:
Fred reviewed the Tachyon Press 20th anniversary party in SF as very pleasant and they had nice cakes

JC reviewed the SJ opera's 'Marriage of Figaro' as the theatre is beautiful & the production was good, worth full price & Ken agreed

Gayle reviewed 'Magic Flute' at the SF opera as she enjoyed it

Jon reviewed the audience for his dinner theatre performance as the seemed to be happy


we adjourned at 8:25 pm

and the rumor of the week was: 'short and sweet'