Early Summer Meeting 2014
As warm
summer temperatures overtook the Central Valley of California, the CVHC members
gathered once again at 12:00 at the Eastern Empire Bar and Grill (460 Howe
Ave., Sacramento, CA 95825). In
attendance, around a table filled with Asian delicacies, were members Bill Owen,
Yvonne Cabalona, Ricardo de Bernardi, Lynne Sperry, and Leslie Rose.
Once our
stomachs were full and we had updated each other on what we’d all been up to in the intervening months, one of
the first items of business involved club officers. Bill, who has masterfully commanded our helm
for so long, decided that it was time to step aside and let leadership pass on
to another. So after much discussion, by
acclamation Yvonne Cabalona was chosen to preside over our little group. From
here, into the next year, our roster of officers will be:
Yvonne
Cabalona, President
Bill
Owen, Vice-President
Mark
Hollingsworth, Treasurer
Leslie
Rose, Secretary
That
important bit of business out of the way, Yvonne proposed that we start work on
another linked haibun, since it has been some time since we published our last
one. With a “throwback” theme, Yvonne
provided a starting haiku, and we will all be working to see which of us can
come up with the haibun that will begin the series.
Information
about our current Jerry Kilbride English Language Haibun Contest has been
posted in the HSA newsletter and electronically posted on the HSA site. It was suggested that we also post a link on
Facebook and Twitter as well since we would like to have a bumper crop of
entrants in this year’s competition.
As our
meeting ran down, we began reminiscing about “members lost”, folks who, for
various reasons, no longer attend our gatherings. One of those past members was a man named Ty
Hadman, author of “War Crimes-DongHa Haiku” published in 2002. We wondered where he was and what he might be
writing. We are hoping that, when this
is posted, someone who knows of him might drop us a line.
Before we
adjourned our meeting, midst a flurry of hugs and well wishes, we selected
Saturday, August 9th, as our next gathering time. We will be holding that meeting from 11:30 to
3:00 at the Gekkeikan Sake Factory in Folsom (1136 Sibley Street, Folsom, CA
95630) (phone: 916-985-3111).
