January 2021 Meeting Announcement

     The next Latin Club meeting will be held today, the 18th of January. It will be done via Zoom at 7:00 PM, Dr. G sent out the email with the link to the meeting. We will be doing Certamen, so I suggest studying up and going over your Latin grammar, history and your mythology to get the most fun you can. If you've never seen Certamen before, here is a video of an NJCL Novice round.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzz1GKIyWcI

You should review form charts for verbs, nouns, and adjectives. This page looks like a really good prep page You only need to look at the level 1 parts.https://fhslatinclub.wordpress.com/language/

 Here is another page of study aids. https://www.fjcl.org/2019.html

Meeting Announcement

The next Latin Club meeting will be held today, the 16th of November. It will be 6:00-7:30 at the G's house . It will be outdoors and there will be a bonfire and hot chocolate and s'mores

It will include prayer, fun, and education in a community setting.

Next meeting

Hello again!

We will be meeting this Monday, the 11th, at Mrs. VH's house at 6:30. The meeting will be focused on Convention details including but definitely not limited to roll call, spirit themes, and the door.

Until Monday,

A. S.
President

November Meeting

Salvete!

Another meeting of our glorious club will be held this Monday, November 9th at Dr. G's house. The meeting will commence at 6:30 PM, and will end around 8:00, hopefully with snacks after the meeting. Remember, forms and payments for Convention are to be given to Dr. G at this meeting. We will also be discussing study assignments and spirit themes for Convention, as well as playing another round of Certamen. So put your thinking caps on and bring some ideas!

Until Monday,

A. S.

President

Last Night's Meeting

Last night's meeting was wonderful. We had a great crowd. The evening began with the prayer, "Veni, Sancte Spiritus." Next we had the song/round "Pauper Sum Ego," a student commercium from the middle ages. After that, Certamen, a game show type contest about Roman and Greek language, culture and history. Team C, captained by N.G., won.

Following that there was the presentation of the awards from the Wisconsin Junior Classical League convention in January. We won first place in Spirit for small schools. We also won first in the war machine contest, the men's costume contest, and the drawing contest. We won various individual ribbons for the twelve subject tests that the delegates participated in. It was a nice celebration of our accomplishments.

In the business part of the meeting we began with voting on amendments to the bylaws. The revised bylaws will be posted soon. Next, the president's report and valediction, the treasurer's report and the moderator's report.

Finally, we had the elections. After wonderful speeches--the best in club history--we elected the following: for the Triumvirate; M. B.--president, M. Z.--vice president, P. F.--Secretary/treasurer: for the non-executive officers; K. M.--historian, E.Z.--technology coordinator.

Finally, we had the cake prepared by K.M. in celebration of a wonderful year full of fun and accomplishments and in celebration of the new things to come under the new administration. And, as M.B. said in her speech (or something like it), Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam!

Saturnalia/Solemnity party!

JOIN US FOR...

The Dead Language Latin Club
A Roman Holiday party at the J. and A. Van H's (e-mail jvanhecke@sbcglobal.net for directions)!
Saturday, December 8
1:00-4:00 p.m.

· Roman Feast
· Games
· Piñata
· Costume contest
· Skit
- Celebration of the Solemnity

If you are currently homeschooled, studying Latin, and in grades 7-12, this is just the thing for you! An afternoon filled with fun, food and games! Meet other kids who study Latin just like you. Dress and do as the Romans did! Please wear a Roman costume and bring a Roman dish to pass! (If you’re not sure what to wear or bake google “Roman food and dress”.)

To RSVP please contact Lauren (see directory)

Please click here to view photos of last year's party.

October Meeting

somebodies vs. nobodies

Victors:

Certamen: The Nobodies

Skit: The Somebodies

September Meeting

I can't seem to come up with a sensible subtitle for this picture, perhaps because I didn't attend the meeting. But anyways, the rest of the pics can be seen here.

Upcoming meeting

From the Triumvirate:

Salve!
The October Latin club meeting will be held on October 16th at the Van Hecke's house from 6:30 to 8 pm. We're going to play Certamen for Roman history and Latin grammar, so your warned to study up on that, but don't stress over it. We're also doing a skit. We need someone to bring a Roman like snack for this meeting. So if you could do it, please e-mail me. Also, I've been told to remind you to bring the dues for the Latin club ($10) to this meeting, if you can.
RSVP to the Gotcher's at (414)427-6972 and hope to see you there!!
Semper Fidelis,
Kate Mantyh

P.S. We're aiming to have the meetings this year on either the 2nd or 3rd Tuesday. Novembers' meeting will be on the 13th or the 20th. Please e-mail me and tell me if you could make it on one of those dates. Thanks!

Minutes - September 11th Meeting

Dead Language Latin Club
Minutes for September 11, 2007

The meeting was brought to order at 6:43 pm. Nate and Christina G, Lauren and Enan Z, Michelle B, Stephen Z and Kate M were present.

We prayed the Pater Noster. Then we sang Aufer Me Ad Areman, which was suppose to be "Take me out to the ball game" in Latin, but turned out to be "Take me to the gladiator arena."

Next we built and raced chariots; boys against girls. Even though the boys got over the finish line first *coughonfootcough*, the girls won, because of their superior design.

Last we held the business meeting. The President, Nate, gave his report and welcomed us with a hardy, "Welcome." He then told us about the Latin convention. We discussed that it would be awesome if we could get 10 or more people to go with our club. Next we talked about the future meetings and the December Party. The treasurer, Kate, then gave the report that we have the same amount of money as we did in May. Finally the meeting concluded with Mr. Gotcher giving the moderator's report. We discussed e-mails, the blog and meeting dates. We are also considering watching a Roman themed movie.

The meeting was brought to a close at 8:09 pm. Lauren provided the snack of cookies, dates, grape juice, and peanuts.

Latin Club Meeting

Yesterday we held the last meeting of the year. The skits we put on chronicled the journey of Theseus from his home to Athens. The picture you see shows both casts after the skits.

A Contest for the final meeting?

Here's a thought: Let's have a translation contest for the final meeting. Take any song, whether secular or religious, poem, limerick, nursery rhyme, and translate it into Latin. The winner will get a prise. Here are some examples:

Fumus, draco magnus

Fumus, draco magus
Incoluit mare.
Lusit autumnal'illic
Maritimo Hanalo....(cont.)

Or:

Gabrobocchia [author unknown]
Est brilgum: tovi slimici
In vabo tererotitant
Brogovi sunt macresculi
Momi rasti strugitant.... (cont.)

Or:

ARDET ROMA
(London's burning)
ardet Roma! ardet Roma!
vigiles, O vigilate!
en! en! flammae!
aquam ferte! aquam ferte!

What do you think?

Next Meeting and Elections...

(from the secretary)

The first thing that should be mentioned is that there will be no Latin Club meeting for this month considering how late in the month it now is. We will however be represented in the upcoming GMCHE conference and I am told that various things such as our scrapbook and awards will be put on display.

In addition to this, the next meeting to be held will be on the 25th of May at the Van Hecke's from 6:30-8:00 pm. This will be the last meeting of the year and elections will be held. For all those interested in running, take a look at the bylaws which explain the election proceedures.

Who Are We?

We are the Dead Language Latin Club, and our mission is to promote the love and study of the Roman language and culture. Our current projects:

-Translating Philemon
-Reading The Aeneid
-Studying the fall of the Roman republic by reading the lives of the key players in that event (Caesar, Pompey, Crassus, Cato the Younger, Octavian, Cicero, Antony, Marcus Brutus, Sylla)

Not only by such study of the classics do we equip our minds to grapple with the world around us, but we do so in the spirit of friendship and camaraderie. (At our last meeting, the team having accumulated the most points in competition was awarded a donated copy of Corneille's Le Cid in English translation.)

For more information, please visit our Contact page.
What we are doing right now
Triumvirate
November Meeting

November Meeting

The next meeting is November 17, 2006 at the Van Hecke's residence. See you then. We will be doing major preparing for the December Party so be ready!