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1511th Meeting
February 5, 1987
Mary Moore Miller at
Pen-Y-Bryn

The 1511th meeting of The Association met with Mary Moore Miller
at Pen-Y-Bryn. Once again Peg Gibian had invited Mary Moore to have her
meeting there, and spring flowers on the tables invited all to enjoy
a delicious lunch orchestrated by Jane Riggs.

Mary Lillian Moore called the meeting to order. The decision
was made to omit the reading of the minutes of the last meeting with
Mary Moore so only the minutes of the January meeting were read.
Joy Shotts collected dues from members who had been absent from
the January meeting. The next three places of meeting were read:
with Mary Lillian Moore on March 5th, with Mary Reading Miller on
April 2nd and with Caroline Schauffler on May 7th.

Mary Moore's sentiment was in the form of a humorous verse about
the aging process. She closed with these lines: "My get up and go has
got up and went, but sometimes I grin when I think where it's been!"

Sylvia Woodward also had some humor involving doctors' diagnoses,
the wording of which needed a second opinion from a grammar teacher.
An example-"her rapid heart had stopped and she was feeling better."

Beth Bullard told us how the house finch, similar to the purple finch,
came to our area. Natives of the West, they were discovered to be good
cage birds and so were brought to New York around 1940. When they were
released they began to breed rapidly-and now are a serious nuisance.

Nell Johnsen read an amusing verse in honor of Valentines Day
called POSS-L-Q, an abbreviation for "Persons of the Opposite Sex
Sharing Quarters. The verse conveyed neither approval nor disapproval
but did suggest that POSS-L-Q might be used instead of "honey bunch", and
promised-"love will stay forever if you will be my POSS-L-Q."

Louie Canby also had a verse-this one a play on "The Night Before
Christmas" and called "A Bradley Christmas " left no one or thing in the
Washington newspaper scene untouched and finally, asked the
question-"is it journalism or is it theater?"

Caroline Schauffler read about plans for a new New York aquarium
which will introduce people to the animals and plants that inhabit
the sea-a sea that covers 70% of our globe.

Deb Willson had a February recitation in honor of our first President's
honesty. When courting, Martha asked if George had courted others-
his answer: "a few." When asked if she was his first love, his answer
was "Oh, no." As his wife, she asked if he would love her when she was
toothless and old. The reply was- "perhaps" -honest but not reassuring!