MEETING MINUTES
January 19, 1999
OFFICERS
Ruth Sulik, President
Eric Wanner, Vice-President
Harry Schumann, Treasurer
Ron E. Seward Jr., Secretary
Ruth Sulik, our new presiding president introduced our guest
lecturer. He is a man with quick hand, fast on his feet, and able to
misdirect an audience with a few well-chosen words. No, she was not
talking about President Clinton. She was introducing Dan Paulus, a
mild manner family man, whose alternate identity is that of a super
magician. The fantastic turn out for this lecture is a testimony to
how highly regarded Dan is by the magic community.
Dan Paulus offered this lecture in appreciation for all the
kindness and hard work that everyone put into the fund raiser for Dee
Pollard at the Draper theater. As he put it, "IBM has truly
shown what it means to be a Brotherhood. Thank you all." So in
appreciation he offered to give a free lecture for all active members.
Dan started his lecture by performing Blind Luck. A spectator
Benjamin Yang selects a deck of cards. He could choose between a deck
that had a red back design, or one with a blue back design. After
choosing one of them Ben reverses one card, sight unseen, into the
middle of the deck. Dan spreads the two decks out. Ben's selected
card was now visible to the audience. In addition, a prediction card
was found turned over in the deck Ben did not chose. The two cards
match perfectly. Still, what is more amazing is the back design on
the two cards came from the other deck.
Dan then shared with us a host of other tricks, the ‘Must do
Traveling Aces,' ‘Easy Card to Pocket or Wallet,' ‘Count
Down,' ‘The Impostors,' ‘Samurai Jokers,' and ‘Shout'.
Each as stunning and visually effective as his opening trick
‘Blind Luck.' At this point in the lecture we took a break and
had refreshments. Mike Cottam was kind enough to providing
refreshments. Thank you, Mike.
Before the lecture started again, Ruth Sulik presented Anthony
White with his IBM membership certificate, membership card, and pin.
Congratulations Anthony. Ruth then turned the time back over to Dan.
During the break someone asked Dan about his Imaginary Deck Routine. So Dan started the second half of his lecture by performing it with a borrowed Mental Photography Deck. He then used four coins to do a Coins Across routine using a Mid Air Han Ping Chein move. Taking the same four coins, he did Four Coins - Four Shticks where each coin performed a different trick.
Dan shared a host of other effects using coins, such as the ‘Minty Fresh Coin in Bottle,' ‘Kennedy Conspiracy Bill,' and ‘Business Card Quiz Show'. In the ‘Minty Fresh Coin in Bottle' a borrowed quarter penetrates a sealed Tic-Tac mint box. In the ‘Kennedy Conspiracy Bill' a half dollar visually penetrates a dollar bill.
However, ‘Business Card Quiz Show' required a contestant. Rebecca Nelson was selected as the contestant. Dan gave Rebecca a chance to win a prize if she could guess if a Chinese coin or a half dollar was in the middle of a folded business card. In consolation Dan gave Rebecca his business card.
We would like to thank Dan Paulus for sharing his time and talent
with us.
Thank you, Dan.
