2007-03 Ring Report

Ring Report Ring #170 The Bev Bergeron Ring

Prior to our regular meeting we had another open board of directors meeting. Joe Vechiarelli was elected to replace the late Charlie Cox as our Sgt. at Arms. We all miss Charlie and are thankful for the years of service he gave to our ring. President Craig Fennessey gaveled the regular meeting to order and we had seven quests:
Margery Knapp the guest of her son, Leah and Cory guests of Kerry Pierce, Jeremy Haak visiting from Ring 11, Philip Keiser visiting from Columbus, Ohio, Gary Morton from Youngstown, Ohio and Jim Garrison. Joe Vechiarelli was introduced as our new Sgt. at Arms and board member. Steve Hart, our hard working IBM territorial representative gave a short talk on the benefits of IBM membership. President Fennessey showed a recording of some funny ventriloquists on a recent special ventriloquist week on The David Letterman Show.

Dan Stapleton gave a review of some recent magic shows in the Orlando area. These included Marc Salem's appearance doing mental magic. Dottie's Comedy Club is a new magic venue in Orlando near the International Drive area. Dan gave a wrap up of the Saturday Night Show in Tampa for this year's Magic On The Bay Convention.
Dennis Phillips added a few words about the Friday Night show that featured Rocco, Sterling Steal, Mark Charles and Mr. Bones. Bev Bergeron has a new DVD out on the market.

Plans for the upcoming banquet and auction/flea market were announced. The business meeting concluded and Kerry Pierce volunteered to Emcee the evening's magic presentations. First up was visitor Jeremy Haak visiting from Ring 11 in Moline, IL. He began with the Dick Stoner paper-folding comedy bit known as "Grave Mistake".
He then presented his comedy linking rings with two volunteers and lots of funny lines. A standout was all the funny "impressions" he made with his rings. The funny impressions were in the fashion of David Williamson's Rocky. Dan Stapleton followed in the announced theme, Valentine magic, and presented an effect with 5 Valentine cards that had been handed out to spectators earlier in the evening. They were instructed to write a love-note on the card but not sign it. The cards where then sealed out of sight on Dan and he attempted to determine who had written each card. He was successful! This was a clever adaptation of Theodore Annemann's Pseudo-psychometry.

Steve Hart did a clever effect in the love them that he found in a Linking Ring Parade years ago. A female spectator played "He loves me-he loves me not" with a deck of cards and arrived at the card she had previously selected . Guest, Philip Keiser did a polished card routine where a signed spectator's card was revealed and later ended up in his wallet. Charlie Pfrogner had a cute prop with many colored beads. They were removed from their plastic holder and placed in a handkerchief only to disappear and reappear in the covered holder. For a while Charlie had a clever sucker explanation but he ended up with a real mystery.

Finally, Emcee Kerry Pierce, did a unique version of the "1089" trick using 3 spectators with pencils and paper. Random numbers were revealed. With the magic done for the evening we adjourned. A great Spring and summer of activities are planned. Join us when you visit Orlando! Good things are always happening in Ring 170.

Dennis Phillips