Man, if it gets much hotter around here we'll be able to rent vacation
space to Venusians!  (Don't laugh, I've had a few inquiries.)

     Since we won't conduct any "official" business at our non-existent
August meeting, I though I'd get you all primed for the one in September. 
At that time I see a need to talk about: 1) 1996 meeting space, 2) 1996 Club
officers, 3) 1998 Con Chair, 4)Location of our Winter Solstice Celebration,
and 5) Other stuff.
 
  1) Meeting space for calendar 1996.   We're booked at the Children's
Museum thru 10/95, but haven't decided on a place for 1996.   We currently
have 10 "business" meetings a year.  We pay $40/month for use of the
facilities at the Children's Museum, for $400/year.  Generally we run about 40
dues paying members/year.  Dues are $10/person.  Therefore all of our dues go
on a meetingplace (40x$10=$400).  Plus the club pays for the meat at the
August cookout, the December party, and sometimes for where we have the party
in December.  There are also other expenses (e.g. this newsletter). Anyway you
look at it, /u>the C of J AS A CLUB operates in the red.
  

     [Yes, I know we have an adequate cushion in the savings account.  The
reason I brought all of these numbers up is to give you the background to make
a decision on whether or not you want to stay at the Children's Museum next
year(if they'll have us and have room for us.)]

  2)  Club Officers for 1996.   We need a president, vice-president,
secretary, treasurer, and sergeant at arms.  Not a lot else to say.  (Other
than I ain't gonna be any of 'em.)

  3)  ConChairbeing for 1998.  We need one.  Only earth shaking factor
in this area is that the Church of the Sub Genius predicts that the
flying saucers will be landing during the con to take away the
faithful.  (We just don't know if they'll be taking any of us away.)

  4)  Location of the Winter Solstice Celebration.  We need one.  It
needs to have minimal kitchen facilities.

  5)  Other stuff.  This includes anything else that we can think
of.

     Anyway, enough of this serious stuff!  Y'all come to the picnic at
Roseanne's house, ya' hear?  Bring a side dish(I'm bringing bean salad.)

                                     Andy Andrews

p.s.  Rebecca has officially moved the 1996 Con to the Mariott. 

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Meeting Minutes - 7/22/95

     The July meeting was on Saturday, July 22, at the Children's
Museum.  The meeting was called to order at 7:35.  There were 29
adults and 2 kids present.  All the club officers except Dave
Henninger were present.  We had one guest, Ray Brown, who was a
guest of Don Dailey and in Starfleet Command.    The minutes of
the June meeting were approved as they were printed in the
Circular of Janus. Bob McGillem reported that he was cautiously
optimistic about the convention.    There were about 840 members
at InCon '95.  Joanne reported that there were still some
giveaway items left over from the convention and that we would
have a drawing for them during Chaos.

     Andy opened the meeting by stating that this was mostly to
garner comments, compliments and complaints about InCon '95 in
general, and specifically the Adam's Mark.   We immediately went
to reports from the various committee heads or their assistants
for InCon '95.   Roseanne reported that she survived the con. 
She knew of no really big problems and no major complaints from
the hotel.  Andy reported that the Dealer's room had hotel staff
not being nearly as surly as in years past and that the middle
management knew him. He also reported that the registration desk
knew the name of the club responsible for the convention(i.e.
Circle of Janus), but not the name of the convention itself. 
This was a problem if people called to reserve a room knowing the
name of the convention, but not the Club.  Some dealers reported
some rudeness from a security guard while they were waiting for
the Dealer's Room to open.
 

     Sandy Dale reported that the heat (rather than a/c) got
turned on somehow in the Video Room on Sunday morning, and that
the Video Room had courteous delivery of tables.   The Art show
reported that the hotel was much quicker at getting things done. 
They had no complaints.   Mike Cowper reported that the Play
rehearsal on Thursday night had a manager asking if we needed
anything. Steve Easley reported that there were actually trash
cans in the Game rooms.  Con suite had managers bringing ice. 
Registration had no known problems.  Treasurer reported problems
being credited with Pepsi returns on canisters, as usual.  Panels
reported some problems with the stages being rickety.   Rob Pyatt
reported that the Media room always got prompt service as long as
whoever called identified himself as Jeff Thompson. There were no
complaints about the dance that anyone had heard.  Don reported
that the Star Trek room had a poor response time on requests. He
added that we may have lost some Star Trek fans to a con in
Chicago the same weekend.

     Dennis brought up questions about media panels getting all
the attendance versus writing/reading panels and whether this was
an indication of changing tastes.  Rebecca got comments about and
requests for more juvenile programming.

     Lynette Cowper mentioned that the maid had come to her room
at 8:00 AM to clean the bathroom. Several people reported bad or
slow service at Appleby's.  The possibility of the hotel staff
knowing that we were considering moving was brought up.
 

InCon '96:   Rebecca reported that she had signed
the contract with Marriott for InCon '96.  The Adam's Mark had
called after they got her letter and asked to discuss her
cancellation.  First Fandom has confirmed that they are going to
have their Midwest reunion at InCon '96.  Rebecca also reported
that she is trying to get a science guest of honor. The Marriott
is not charging corkage for pop in the con suite. There was some
talk about doing cans of pop instead of canisters and donating
the cans to Riley Hospital.
  

Announcements from members:

Con Reviews. DRAGONCON.  Greg and Linda Dunn
attended DragonCon and Linda was scheduled to be on some of the
panels.  The Programming person was sick and this caused problems
galore with figuring out who was on what panels and when.  Many
authors were double-booked, booked on panels when they weren't
going to be at the convention, etc.  There were also problems
with the Con Suites.
  

     Randy Porter & the Cowpers attended ORIGINS.   In
general they gave it a good review.   The 10th of September the
downtown library in Indianapolis is to have a Star Trek
celebration. There is a prize for best ST costume, and members
were urged to attend in ST costume.
   

MOVIES.  There was a good review of First Knight.
Randy's review of Apollo 13 was that only nitpickers who
had worked at mission control would find much to complain about. 
Other members reported it as an all around good movie.

MISCELLANEOUS.  The Daileys are moving to Jeffersonville,
IN, which is almost exactly 100 miles away.  The
after-the-meeting get-together was to be at Flakey Jake's, as
usual.  There was some comment that we needed to find an after
the meeting place that is closer to where we now hold our
meetings.   The after-the-con-bash is the *second* Sat. in August
at 2:00 p.m. at Roseanne's.

The meeting adjourned at 8:30.