2005 Winter - Wisconsin Writers Association

Page 6Fond du Lac Area Writers: Jane Osypowski, W972 Birchwood Drive, Campbellsport, WI 53063martyandjane@powerweb.net 920-553-3044Fond du Lac Area Writers meeton the fourth Tuesday of eachmonth at Moraine Park TechnicalCollege. Our topic for the past twomonths was “Reading, Understanding,and Writing Poetry.” We discussedwhy something is a poemand looked at imagery, figures ofspeech, and symbols. Our next assignmentis to write a poem inwhich someone else or something isthe speaker.Jane Weeks is one of several authorscontributing to The RainbowBook, Life After the Storm, a bookaimed at and to be distributed free toHurricane Katrina Victims. RossPurcell and Evelyn Shinoah eachhad letters to the editor published inThe Fond du Lac Reporter. JaneOsypowski recently attended theWRWA Fall Conference in WisconsinRapids and came home so enthusedabout the experience that shecomposed a poem, “After a Writers’Conference,” that appears with theConference pictures on page 31. #Northwest Regional Writers: Bernice Abrahamzon, Reporter, 715-653-42813446 115th St. Frederic, WI 54837Three of our members—BerniceAbrahamzon, Jody Pearson, andAlice Ford—had essays on “MyFirst Job” published in theWashburn County Register, ShellLake (http://www.wcregister.net/).Kathy Krantz had a Yarn of Yesterday,“My Yellow Kitchen,” publishedin The Country Today, EauClaire (http://www.thecountrytoday.com/). AliceFord’s “Family Made Sacrifices forCircus” was also published in thatpaper. Alice also had an article onthe old lift bridge between Superiorand Duluth published in the(Superior) Daily Telegram and severalpoems in the Washburn CountyRegister.Congratulations to Val Johnson,who placed second in Juvenile ShortFiction in this year’s Jade Ring contest;to Sally Bair, who took third inthat category; and to Boyd Sutton,who received honorable mention.Mary Jacobsen received honorablemention in the Article category, andBoyd Sutton received a secondhonorable mention in the Nostalgiacategory. They were all present toreceive their awards at the Fall Conference.Boyd’s wife, Carmen, andMary’s husband, Ed, also attendedthe Jade Ring Banquet. Don Millerand Kurt Holtz also attended theconference. With six members inattendance, our club received theRobert E. Gard traveling trophy formost participation and our club’sfive prizes were more than any ofthe other 76 clubs in Wisconsin.Boyd Sutton, Editor of The WisconsinRegional Writer, also won anaward for bringing in the most newWRWA members this year. As YogiBerra said, “It ain’t braggin’ if it’strue.”We held our club’s farewell forlong-time member, Sally Bair, inSeptember. Sally is the daughter ofRuth Bunker Christiansen and theniece of Ruth’s sister, Jean BunkerSchmidt, who won a Jade Ring in1959. Both were founding membersof this club. Each member wrote apoem for Sally and read the selectionat the luncheon. Sally now livesin a newly-built house in Washburn.She continues to write a weekly column,“Eternal Perspectives,” for TheInter-County Leader (http://www.the-leader.net/), published inFrederic, and continues to participatein the Yarnspinners, a biweeklycritique group.New member, Stan Miller, wrotea poem, “The Leaf,” to be read at afuneral, and has received many requestsfor copies. #Fox Valley Writers’ Club: Marain Athens, Reporter mathens@juno.com 920-954-5319465 West Ridgeview Circle, #432, Appleton, WI 54911See the club’s new web site at http://www.focol.org/foxvalleywriters/John Purvins ( jpurvins@scienceandreality.com) edits and publishes Science of Reality magazine (seewww.science&reality.com). #