1988

A Film Gift and the First Authors' Boutique

The annual meeting on January 20 elected officers. In March the board voted 5 to 3 to keep four sales a year and approved a proposal for an authors' boutique. Carlotta Hoye died on April 26, and the Friends created a memorial fund in her name; it passed $350 by July. Weintraub Entertainment Productions paid $3,000 for location use and courtesies during the filming of My Stepmother Is an Alien. The Friends thanked Janet Hamilton and her neighbors for their part in securing the gift. The August 20 Libations, an Imaginary Caribbean Cruise at the Ryan home, included a book auction. Marilyn Goodman gave $1,000 in November. On December 10 twenty authors joined the first authors' boutique. At its December 14 meeting the board began to phase out the record bins, kept the Flake memorial plaque and named Pat Belasco historian.

Drawn from: Annual meeting minutes — January 20, 1988; Board minutes — March 30, 1988; Newsletter — May 1988; Thank-you letter — Pearl Hoye; Thank-you letter — Weintraub Entertainment Productions; Thank-you letter — Janet Hamilton and neighbors; Photographs — first authors' boutique; Board minutes — December 14, 1988.

Summary written by Claude from this year's records, for review by the board. Read every year.