Whyt Whey Commons - December 11, 2003

Attending:
	Ailith				Eppu Jensen
	Alexandre d'Avigne		Jeff Berry
	Anne White			Marge Whitehead
	Eularia	Trewe			Lorree True
	Medb				Mimi Curry
	Sancha				Jessica Valadez

Continuing Business:
1) January Commons will be at 552 RSD, on the 8th.
	
2) Tamara says (via email) that she's got space for a sewing circle
	for Mimi's down months. She's thinking either a Saturday 
	or Sunday from about 11:00am to 4:00pm.  She wants some feedback
	before fixing  a firm date.

New Business:
1) We are starting to acquire Canton stuff - Medb was declared
	Chamberlain by acclamation (but not officially) and
	Anne White offered to maybe help out with some storage.
	
Officers Reports:

1) Knight Marshall:  Not in attendance - no report.

	
2) Mistress of A&S: Tamara emailed a report.
	The Period Patterns were sold by the time I made
	my report.  Apparently, there is a SCA-dian or
	SCA-dian wannabe here in the St. George region of
	Staten Island.  I tracked said buyer down and may yet
	have access to said patterns.
		Ana has kindly forwarded, by e-mail, a prototype of
	an A & S report, that I'll be looking at and following
	as I send my own canton report to the powers that be. 
		Jessica is writing a paper on Judicial Dueling,
	which she's forwarded to me for review.  I was
	wondering if it would be appropriate for the Cheese
	Cloth?  
		Having gotten good reviews on the Gingerbreade,
	I'm emboldened to try other Medieval recipes.  (See
	what you started, Jeff!)
		The Feast of St. Nick's was wonderful in all it's
	facets-- the food was scrumptious, the music and
	dancing cheery, and the players (which I sadly missed)
	got great reviews.  I'm wondering if, as A&S mistress,
	I should arrange to get a digital camera and forward
	pics to Lev?  Would creating pictorial records of
	various A&S accomplishments fall within my range of
	duties, or would I be treading on the toes of others?
		Finally, the Whyt Whey Whyte Linen Workers are
	plodding along...  Sancha will cut fabric for Mike's
	underwear, and I will sew it.  The ultimate goal, as
	you know, is to collect money for Gold Key and then
	sew several items for the Gold Key chest.  

3) Web Minister: Not in attendance, no report.

4) Exchequer: Not in attendance, no report.

5) Herald: Submit to Sancha!

6) Seneschal: Alexandre has a copy of the zip list and needs to go
	through and figure out how many folks the SCA,Inc. thinks
	we have in Whyt Whey, and how to contact the ones that
	we aren't in contact with.

7) Chronicler: The Cheesecloth is out.  Send more stuff for By the Whey.

8) Historian: Absent. No report.

Recent Events:

1) 100 Minutes War was attended by a number of our folk and
	was quite a nice event.

2) Sancha also made it out to St. Andrew's, which she said was
	smaller and quieter.

3) St. Nick's in Whyt Whey was given a thorough going over.
	Overall, everyone felt the event went very well, indeed,
	and that we should do it again.  Eularia volunteered to
	autocrat next year's event.  She will look into other
	sites, but keep Mimi's building as a fall back.
	The motivation for looking for another site is primarily
	for the feast - a larger kitchen more convenient to the
	feast area would open up options for the Cook.
		A few areas were open to improvement though:
	1) getting some coat racks for folks to hang things on
		would be very useful in a site as small as this
		one - and probably anywhere.
	2) a better system for reservations, troll and waivers
		needs to be put in place.


Upcoming Events:

1) Some basic ideas for St. Nicks 2004 were discussed.

2) Mimi's space is a great resource and we should use it more
	often.  We discussed a great many options for a
	small, tightly focussed, non-feast event sometime in June.
	Ideas centered around a collegium type event with classes
	and such (perhaps dance or music based) or a ball event.
		After some discussion, the idea was tabled until
	the January Commons meeting, where proposals should be submitted
	by would-be autocrats.  If we can decide on a workable proposal
	then we will move ahead, otherwise, we will table it for 2004 and
	think about 2005 - since we need a few month's lead time to
	get it moving.

3) The idea of doing some kind of foodie thing was batted around; meetings,
	low-key "party" revels, or a progressive dinner.
	


Submitted by Alexandre d'Avigne