2007-12 Ring Report Ring #170 The Bev Bergeron Ring

President Craig Fennessy gaveled the ring board meeting to order and presented several tentative dates for upcoming lectures . Times were also presented to the board for our annual flea market in February and Banquet in March . All the current members of the board agreed to serve another year in their offices but nominations for other candidates wanting to run in the December election will be taken if presented. The board meeting adjourned and our regular business meeting began.
We had several guests, Charlie Zeus from Skylar Lake, New York. Charlie runs and promotes , The Hall of Fame for Unfamous Magicians, a place where many unknown but hard-working magicians have a place of honor. Bob Beck and his daughter, Amanda visited and are interested in magic.
Our Hospitality chairperson, Jackie Manna, explained next month's December Gift exchange. We will have a ring holiday party at the regular meeting time and everyone should bring a gift worth at least ten dollars. This annual event is a lot of fun in the way gifts are drawn and exchanged.
Phil Schwartz presented his Magic Moment #2. Phil was just back from the Magic Collector's convention in California and witnessed Johnny Gaughn's very rare presentation of the Dr. Hooker Card Trick. This is an elaborate series of card effects presented in a specially designed small theater room. The specific workings of the effects have never been revealed and well-learned professional magicians remained baffled at how everything is accomplished. Phil also said there was discussion about the mystery of who wrote the classic text about the expert's secrets at the card table.
With the formal meeting adjourned, Mark Fitzgerald volunteered to be the Master of Ceremonies for the monthly show. He opened with some fancy coin manipulations using silver dollars that jumped from hand to hand and appeared and disappeared. He introduced Josh Royo who did a trick with a spectator selected card using time travel as a theme. A card chosen a second time magically transformed in the spectators hand to be the card chosen the first time. Charlie Pfrogner did his cut and restored necktie with the loudest tie in town. At first we thought Charlie was explaining the trick and then he fooled us with a sucker ending. Young Sid McWethy had a card effect that featured being able to cause a spectator selected card appear and any randomly called for spot in the deck.
Mark Fitzgerald then took a minute to show a deck of blank playing cards that suddenly were found to all have fronts and then backs and finally ending all blank again. Mystana adapted some clever Thanksgiving patter to a Hot Rod type effect giving metaphorical meanings to the colors as they changed on the rod. Finally, Charlie Zeus gave us an explanation of his "Hall of Fame for Unfamous Magicians" in upstate New York . He then launched into the classic Six-Bill Repeat trick with a clever storyline and when he was finished the money changed denominations.
Join us every third Wednesday for our monthly ring meeting and show. Good things are always happening in Ring 170.
Dennis Phillips