Minutes from the September Meeting

The Decliner

Journal for the Dead Language Latin Club

 Minutes Issue                                                                                         Editor: Michèle Mot Juste

September 13, 2008

Meeting Minutes

 Starting time: 6:32 p.m.

 Opening Prayer

Pater Noster

 Song

Gaudeamus Igitur

 Events

 Explanation: A brief explanation of the Latin Club was given by the President.

 Introduction: All members were introduced.

 Game: Detur gloria soli Deo

 Skit: The Descent of Odysseus into Hades

            Teams for the skit were led by the President, Vice President, and Secretary, respectively.  The moderators, in their capacity as judges, after grave deliberation, awarded the places as follows:

•  Third Place - the Presidential team
  
• Second Place - the Secretarial team
• First Place - the Vice Presidential team

There will be more on the skits in the Art Column.

 Business

 President’s Report: The President’s report was, as far as I can remember, non-existent.

 Treasurer’s Report: The club stock contains $82.02.

 Moderator’s report: Dr. Gotcher talked about:

 Preparing for convention

The idea is to assign the different study areas (Literature, Emperors, Generals/Battles, and Maps) to different people within each level.

Dues

These are to be paid at the October meeting.

Brief discussion about the blog

Number of authors to be kept minimal.

Finance

$45 is to be deducted from the treasury for Dr. Gotcher’s membership in the American Classical League.

 Also, should the remaining funds be spent on Saturnalia or study material?

 Closing Prayer

Salve Regina

End time: 8:35 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

P.F., Secretary

Art Column

By the Editor

 

            The skits on the Thirteenth of September were all very unique in flavor. If they had anything in common it was their general tendency toward humor, but they were, on the whole, well executed.

 

            As I have alluded to humor as a point of comparison for all the skits, I will evaluate them on that head.

           

            The first to be performed that evening was by the Vice-President and her associates. Its humor was of a subtle type, with the exception, possibly, of Circe’s “valley girl” jive and the Boat.

           

            The next, performed by the president’s team, was more lighthearted and will go down in history chiefly for its spruce military Odysseus, its British Elpenor, and the resemblance of the blind prophet to a fashion designer.

           

            The skit directed by the Secretary was staged last. At this point I, the Editor, am somewhat at a loss; for while it pains me to speak ill of a colleague, I must be truthful. The skit was a vulgar affair, very American, decently historical, but stooping to such lows as referring to Poseidon, the Earth Shaker, as P-dog.

 

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