IBM Ring 31

Hi Everyone!

Our April meeting was a bang-up success!

We had a good attendance with a mixture of new and
long time members!

Three local members signed up to be official members
of the International Brotherhood of Magicians!

Two youths and one adult!

Here’s a little run down what happened.

Our officer meeting started promptly at 4:30 p.m. and
ran into the general meeting at 5:00 p.m.

At this point I am President/Secretary/Treasurer!

Cliff Wollin agreed to be Vice President and in charge
of sending all members a monthly newsletter.

If anyone would like to step up and be our Ring
Secretary, it would be greatly appreciated!

To be secretary you have to a member of the
International the Brotherhood of Magicians for one
year and a member of the local Ben Bergor Ring #31
Magic Club for one year.

Please feel free to email or call me any time to
discuss this urgent matter!

Ring #31 wants you, in fact I want you. With my busy
schedule I can’t do everything myself!

Your duties would be taking notes at business
meetings, writing a ring report to be sent to the
International Brotherhood of Magicians and helping
Cliff and I with general meeting duties.

We discussed many issues to improve the club and make
it a great place to attend every month.

We talked about getting a hard-core lecture group
going again where we all chip in $20 to get good
lectures to come to the club.

If you’d be interested in this please me know.

We had a celebrity in our midst with Lochlan Masters
performing on the tonight show with Jeff Lang.

Lochlan Masters talked about his red carpet treatment
at the Magic Castle. Ask him to tell you his fantastic
story!

It was nice to see Andy Hagen!

Andy is a long time member and helped keep the club
going for many, many years. We appreciate Andy’s many
years of hard work and dedication to the club!

At the end of the meeting we had a surprise farewell
cake, card and gifts for John Coppin and his lovely
wife Carol.

John and Carol are moving to Arizona in May.

They will be sadly missed by everyone here!

After the meeting we went right into our show.

And what a show it was!

Our theme was “Magic with Everyday Objects.”

Here’s a run down who performed:

Lochlan Masters, John Coppin, Tom Krzystoff, Jake
Sachse, G-Ball, Jon Staats, Dave Schumacher & yours
truly. Sorry if I misspelled anyone’s names.

The show ran well over 30 minutes and covered
everything from cards to card ducks!

Our next meeting will be Sunday, May 11.
Where: J.T. Whitneys,
Time: 4:30 Officers Meeting,
General Business Meeting, 5:00 p.m.
6:00 p.m. Program

The theme for May is “Self Working and Easy Card
Miracles!”

Please plan on performing at least one effect if you
come.

It’s a great place to work out your new routines or
just do some of your favorites.

If you haven’t join the International Brotherhood of
Magicians please give it your serious consideration.
There are many options available.

You may attend two meetings but you must be a member
of the International Brotherhood of Magicians to
attend monthly meetings.

Please check out http://www.magician.org/portal/ to
find out more about the world’s greatest magic
organization.

The membership form is online.

You have many different options.

Think of it this way. It costs less than a tank of gas
to join!

If you haven’t paid your local dues yet the fee is
$12 per year.

In this day and age that’s a bargain!

Where else can you hang out with people that love
magic.

You also have the availability of a fantastic magic
video library and many other benifits!

We need you to keep magic alive and well in Madison,
Wisconsin!

Please feel free to call me any time at 274-9411 or
email me at
magic @waynethewizard.com

Magically Yours,

Wayne the Wizard - President/Treasurer & Secretary

April 27^th, 2008

Location: Fire Ridge Golf Club

2241 Hwy W

Grafton, WI 53024

Time: 11:00am pre-view and sellers check-in

Auction Starts at 12:00pm-till

Price: $5.00 with paddle

Food and beverages available on site

Dealer’s tables are available for $25.00 flat fee

10% all proceeds are donated to Ring 41

Here is a link to the video from NBC.

Hi Everyone!

I’m excited to be re elected President of Ben Bergor Ring #31.

I have a lot of exciting plans for the upcoming year!

My first order of business will be to get everyone that currently
isn’t a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians to sign
up.

Everyone must be a member of the International Brotherhood of
Magicians to be a member of this club.

You may visit the club for two sessions, but then you have to join.

The International Brotherhood of Magicians is a great organization
with many benefits!

We have wonderful magazine that all members receive monthly!

You have access to a fantastic web sight!

You can attend out of this world conventions!

You become a member of one of the world’s best magic organizations!

You become an official member of Madison’s one and only Ben Bergor
Ring #31 that has been going strong since 1970!

Here you can hang out with other magicians who love magic!

I will be bringing membership applications for you to sign up if you
currently aren’t a member of the IBM.

Please be prepared to show you IBM card at every meeting.

Our officers want to find out who and who is not of member of the IBM.

This months magic theme is “Tricks with Everyday Objects”. This could
be with cards, strings, rubber bands, paper clips.

Please be prepared to perform at the meeting.

Our club needs you to participate so we can make the meetings exciting
and worth coming to!

We all learn from watching others perform.

All skill levels are welcome!

Our business meeting will start at 4:30 p.m. (Everyone is welcome!)
Dinner at 5:00 p.m. (It would be great if people can order something.
We’re getting the room for free at J.T. Whitneys.)
As soon as everyone is finished eating we will go right into our program.

For all those that are already members I thank you for your
continued support and loyalty to our club!

Next meeting: April 13, 2009 (Second Sunday in April)
Where: J.T. Whitneys, 674 S. Whitney Way (Back Room)
Time: Business Meeting 4:30 p.m., Dinner 5:00 p.m., Performance time
immediately following dinner, approximately 6:00 p.m. PLEASE BE
PREPARED TO PERFORM!

For us to grow as a club we need everyone to participate.

Let make everything great in 2008!

Magically Yours,

Wayne “the Wizard” Peterson (President Ben Bergor Ring #31, Madison Wisconsin)

Well here we are speaking from Feb-burr-ary and it has been a cold winter so far and we came together to make it as warm with our magic as possible. Our feature for this month was mental/magician Scott Xavier for a very entertaining and educational lecture. Scott brought all he had plus some to show us all what mentalism can bring to our audiences. He included the use of various artifices of the mentalist from thumb writing to the use of the taking a peek thru the nose for blind fold effects. He made great use of common articles such as cards, books and phonebooks to make a distinction of what we can use to direct either choices made by the volunteers or making sure the choice is already made before hand and you just need to control the ending. His act and lecture were very well done and came across very well. The membership was at a great number to see this lecture and we are looking forward to next months lecture and nomination of our new leaders for the ring, unfortunately yours truly will not be able to take on another year of presidency due to a big change coming this year, I will be moving to warmer climates in Tucson Arizona, the best part is that I am already looking forward to helping their ring a big help in growing them to a great ring.

We meet here at J T Whitney’s if you are ever in Madison and are here on the second Sunday of the month please feel free to meet with us at 5pm.