More from the October meeting

Second and third place entrys and the making of the triremes.

Minutes from the September Triumvirate Meeting

Triumvirate Meeting

Sunday September 14 2008

Duration: 7:30 - 9:10 p.m.

 Discussed

 Certamen:

 For the convention - Study categories to be assigned to different students in each level

 Tentative category assignments:

 Level 2: E.Z. - Generals & Battles

 Level 3: J.V.H. - Emperors & Wives, M.B. - Generals & Battles, M.Z. - Literature or Maps

In the club - Advanced students are to be team captains.

 Next Meeting’s Agenda

 We will be building Roman Triremes with a variety of materials, the main one being popsicle sticks.

 It is decided that attendance will be taken and will be put in the minutes.

 Meeting location will be rotated on a Gotchers, west, Gotchers, west rotation.

 Meetings will be on third Mondays from 7:00 - 9:00.

 Group play

 Discussed idea of group play to be performed at Saturnalia and cast prior to it.

 

 Respectfully submitted,

P.F. 

Secretary

Minutes from the August Triumvirate Meeting

Triumvirate Meeting

Friday August 29 2008

Duration: 10:07 - 12:19 a.m.

 Discussed

 Blog

 Time dues are to be paid

 Alumni party (summer 09)

 Balloting method (ballots will not be read when they are cast)

 Club attending Latin Mass

 Agenda:

 Prayers - Pater Noster, Salve Regina

 Song - Gaudeamus Igitur

 Explanation

 Skit - Descent of Odysseus into Hades

 

Respectfully submitted,

 P.F. 

Secretary

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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Eques for life on Youtube

Here is eques for life Juliana Bridge in a Youtube video recording of a Latin dialogue at Wyoming Catholic College. Congrats for making the big time!

Sancta Missa

I may have linked to this before, but since we are talking about going to a Latin Mass, I thought this might be useful to prepare for it. Sancta Missa has everything you would want to know about the 1962 missal, including videos, chants, rubrics, and spirituality.

Latin LIves Online Newspaper

They are looking for staff and subscribers. Here are the details:

Dear Recipients of This E-mail:

Latin Lives is a small online
newspaper produced by high school students. We are currently looking this coming year's staff (editors, a tech.-coordinator, and writers) and subscribers. The attached document includes more information on the newspaper as well as how to apply and/or subscribe to Latin Lives. Students, please take the time to apply for a staff position; the applications are due Monday, October 6, 2008. Teachers, please share this information with your students and fellow Latin teachers; you are the main medium through which Latin Lives can disseminate information to potential staff
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Thank You,
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Latin
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Latin Lives Newspaper

General Information

Latin
Lives is a small, online newspaper run entirely by high school students across the nation, and the paper publishes quarterly throughout the September-to-June
school year (October, December, February, and April.) A high school student in California revived the paper three years ago. It is a small paper that publishes bimonthly over the course of the school year—in October, December, February, and April—with many opportunities to become involved. Because the goal of the newspaper is to connect people’s lives through the Classics, a variety of Classical topics are covered in the newspaper. Currently, we are searching for editors, a tech. coordinator, as many contributing writers as possible, and subscribers.

The responsibilities of each staff position and application information follows as well as information about subscribing.

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Editors will be responsible for proof-reading articles (about five per issue), soliciting article submissions from classmates, suggesting article topics, and occasionally writing articles.

To apply for the position of editor, please read the sample paragraph (on the last page of this document) and send back a corrected copy including any grammatical or stylistic corrections you would make to it. Additionally, submit a list of your qualifications for the position (any previous newspaper or writing experience, etc.) and a brief essay 100-200 words explaining why you would like the position and what you could bring to Latin Lives.

NB: Any applicant not selected to be an editor is welcome to later join the staff as a contributing writer.

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The tech. coordinator will be responsible for building and maintaining a new Latin Lives website (i.e. posting new articles) as well as distributing the newspaper to subscribers.

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NB: Any applicant not selected to be the tech. coordinator is welcome to later join the staff as a contributing writer.

Writers:

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If you would like to add your name to the list of official contributors, send David Davenport an e-mail with the required information listed above (name, school, etc.), and he will send you periodic e-mails listing possible article topics and informing you of the deadlines for submissions. Becoming a Latin Lives contributing writer is a great way to get your writing published online!

There is not a specific word limit, but, in general, a desirable length is between half-a-page and a page single spaced. Also, even though topic suggestions will be sent out, any Classical topic—ranging from a Latin club event to a Classical myth to even JFK’s use of Ciceronian rhetoric—is acceptable. Writers are encouraged to write about topics that interest them and those they think may interest others.

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Editor
Application- Sample
Paragraph


In my school, ou don’t have to take latin. But i wanted to. So I learned Latin one in magistra Martins class, period 5. I wanted to learn about latin so to help my s.a.t. scores, due to the fact that Latin improves your vocabulary. Plus I enjoy roman and greek stuff, like gladiaters and mythology. Their cool. I’m glad I taking Latin and I hope I’d take it again next year, maybe even learn Greek someday.

Skits

DSC_7461, originally uploaded by Chez VH.

Tiresias and Odysseus

DSC_7470, originally uploaded by Chez VH.

Odysseus at the Gates of Hades

DSC_7482, originally uploaded by Chez VH.

Odysseus and the Shades

DSC_7465, originally uploaded by Chez VH.

Latin Club Meeting - September 2008

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!