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1516th Meeting
July 2, 1987
Deb Willson at
Homestone

The Association's 1516th meeting was held with Deb Willson at Homestone on a sunny
July 2nd. After a refreshing lunch of good food and generous amounts of iced tea, the
meeting was called to order by Beth Bullard, chairing the meeting for the secretary.
Deb introduced her guests, Edna Farley and Mary Jo Williams. The minutes were read and
corrected and the Treasurer reported $83 in the Treasury. The next three places of
meeting were given. Sylvia Woodward and Joy Shotts on August 6th, Henny Bregliano on
Sept. 3rd, and Louie Canby on Oct. 1st.

Deb's sentiment: "Nobody ever learns anything while talking - everything they say,
they already knew."

Louie Canby told of a current business scam involving Sengalese who are furnished
with forged passports to get into this country to peddle watches in New York City. They
are supplied with the first batch and make a $3 profit per watch but then are on their
own. They usually end up all living together, unable to make a living and unable to get
home. Young people in Senegal are now being warned of this swindle. Rather than a
question, Louie had an amusing observation made in a newspaper - other than homo sapiens,
there are only two anthropoids that recognize a mirror image: the chimpazee and orangutan.

Jean Stabler read excerpts of an article in Southern Living called "Down in the Wire-
grass" - a journey made back to south Alabama by the author seeking, as he puts it, "the
roll call of my past" as a cure for the hurt of change. The wiregrass always made the
sidewalk cooler on bare feet.

Mary Jo Williams circulated a delightful picture clipped from the Washington Post
showing a mother duck leading 10 ducklings across Army-Navy Drive in Arlington while
traffic waited. Her question - a remedy for cloudy glass. She has tried baking soda and
white vinegar. Alum was suggested, however if the cloudiness is caused by etching there
is no solution.

Edna Farley had a question - how to get more invitations to more meetings!

Deb Willson read some Ogden Nash verse on the 17-year locust plague of 1936. These
creatures come out like insect debutantes that should be entitled to a handsome mate but
what they get is another 17-year locust. They are, however, immune to politics.

Helen Farquhar had brought a clipping on air travel. Before deregulation it was
great but now is like subway straphanging. Chartering small planes is possible but even
this is not hassle-free. Helen told of their recent crash-landing at the Ft. Lauderdale
airport in a small chartered jet. Fortunately, only the plane was damaged. Helen's
question - why is chess pie called that? At one time it was a meat pie but is now almost like a lemon pie.

Sylvia Woodward brought advice from Ann Landers addressed to people who complain -
few are interested in the dreary never-ending tale of people's maladies. Say you are well
and God will hear you. Sylvia had three questions: 1) who would like to buy a new quilting
frame? Mary Seiler will ask a neighbor who quilts; 2) name of the mirror used at the side
of a window to see people at the front door. Edna Farley said they were called "busybodies";
3) name of the plant in Nell's diningroom. This remained a mystery.

Jean Ladson read an article, "Of Moose and Men" in Audubon Magazine. It was the saga
of a moose that wandered into Lowell, Mass. and the lack of communion between man and
animal in our expanding urban life. Jean's question - the difference between a college and
a university. A university is made up of colleges or schools.