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PA#1 Welcomes New Members

New York, New York

On Friday April 6th David Sharlin with his lovely new wife Linda returned to the S.A.M. Magic Table after many years. David shared stories of the old Table and his friend Mike Bornstein. He joined an afternoon of sharing magic and good conversation with Eric DeCamps, Richard Bossong, Isaac Rodriguez, Jerry Oppenhiemer, Sal Perrotta, Rabbi Noach Valley, and myself. Card master Dr. Bill Nagler also was in town for the day. The Table meets Fridays from 12:30 on for lunch at the Edison Hotel Café on 47th Street between 7th and 8th Avenue in Times Square.

Our monthly meeting was held that same evening at Mount Sinai in upper Manhattan. Harvey Berg’s Teach-a-Trick, which started at 6:30, was well attended. By 7:15 it was time for our MI President Ken Schwabe start the meeting. As usual in April the Assembly selected the Nominating Committee for our upcoming elections. The next order of business was to swear in three new members. Steven Hom, Michael Bastone and Glenn Gazin having completing their interviews and now sworn in they were warmly welcomed by the club. A report by the Archive Committee stated that our entire archive has now been cataloged after much work. The members gave us a nice round of applause. President Schwabe reported on the upcoming lectures by Marc Oberon, Richard Turner, and Howard Schwarzman. He also asked for vote to send Tom Klem the Chairman of the Parent Assembly’s Board to be one of our three Council members to attend the Annual National Meeting in Dallas.

Our after meeting event was a close-up show by the membership produced by 2nd VP George Sliverman. It started with some fine work by Wesley James. Arie Vilner. Dr. Jerry Waye, Harvey Berg, Ken Ferst, Josh Rand all performed as well as George Silverman with of all things a Harvey Berg book test. It was a good night for all.

reported by Tom Klem - April 29, 2007