2012-11 Ring Report

President Craig Fennessey opened the meeting by announcing that a lecture by Ryan Shultz would take place on our next meeting date, November 21st. There would be no charge for members to attend. Craig reminded the membership of the Magic Convention in Daytona the first weekend in November as well as a week of magic performances in Orlando during the Halloween Week. Craig had also attended the Genii Convention earlier in the month and shared with the group the generous contents of the handout briefcase bag each participant received for attending.

The Ring was happy to see Janet and Tim Scarborough, as well as Billy Scadlock attending the meeting. Bev Bergeron reported that he had an appearance at an event in the Dayton, Ohio area earlier in the  month.

Phil Schwartz presented Magic History Moment #45 by sharing part of his collection of 19th Century books on magic. The earliest he presented was circa 1839 and others, not so much sought after, from 1872.   He had in his collection, Will Goldston's Locked Book and Modern Magic Book by Angelo Lewis.

A raffle was held for a framed Houdini Poster and won by lucky Gary Adams. After a brief intermission five (5) members volunteered to entertain. Mark Fitzgerald performed Red and Black as well as the Ultimate Oil and Water. Charlie Pfrogner chipped in with his rendition of Zenner's Prediction. J. C. Hiatt followed with a very entertaining variation of the Professor's Nightmare. William Zaballero came on next with an exhibition of handling three different colored pens and caps with a predicted outcome. Bev Bergeron ended the evening with a clever routine of predicting wrist-watch time on a detached timepiece.

Sheldon Brook, Secretary, E-mail: mrbrook33@yahoo.com