These minutes were first found, called "excerpted", but very nearly complete, in Son of the WSFA Journal #138, 3rd April 1974 issue. Then in 2021, Matt found the complete version and OCR'd it. Noticed errors are marked with "[sic]". Underlines are indicated by surrounding words with underscores. ================================================================================ AND NOW FOR MINN-STF MINUTES COMPLETELY DIFFERENT Meeting of March 9. 1974. at Denny Lion's. Meeting called to order at 3:45 p.m. Nominations wer [sic] once again opened for the Board of Directors election. The following people were nominated: Jeff Appelbaum - Nominated by Martin Schafer. 2d by Dick Tatge Benjy Lessinger - Nominated by Garth Benn. 2d by Martin Senator Chuck Holst asked of a non-voting member (such as Benjy Leesinger) was eligible for Board election. Bev Swanson (who was not present) had the constitution and by-laws. No one recalling anything in said constitution or by-laws which would make it impossible, the nomination was accepted as legal. Denny Lien. noticing that the meeting had not been formally called to order, moved that we be retroactively called to order at 3:45 p.m. No one seconded but the motion carried. Twenty-four hours later, while typing us these minutes, the secretary noticed this and asked Ken Fletcher to retroactively second the motion to retroactively Open the meeting, which was done. Blue Petal moved to close nominations and Caryl Bucklin seconded. Carried. Since [handwritten: "no candidate as of Feb. 23d changed his/her/its mind in the interim,"] this means we hate 15 candidates for the 3 to 9 positions upon the Board. There are 31 voting members this year. Ken Fletcher passed on several announcements from Don Blyly: (1) [handwritten: "the"] Next _Rune_ deadline is Monday. March 11, 9pm at Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore. (2) Don needs Rune-typing help. (3) Don will give a 10% discount on any order of Wertham's _World_of_Fanzines_ (or any other Southern Illinois U. Press books) until 7 p.m. tonight (March 9). (4) People can register for Minicon at Uncle Hugo's. Denny Lien muttered something about signing the sign-in sheets. Frank Stodolka recommended the local of play. _Jumpday_: shows tonight and tomorrow afternoon remain. Chuck Holst moved to adjourn. Martin Schafer hastily asked about the possibilities of _Jumpday_ being scheduled for Minicon: Dick Tatge reported that it was quite unlikely, for several reasons (previous commitments by cast members, chiefly). Denny Lien then seconded the motion to adjourn. Meeting adjourned at 3:55 p.m. Meeting reopened at 4:05 p.m. Chuck Holst announced that Joan Verba could not host the April 6th meeting after all but would host the May 4th meeting. Martin Schafer volunteered for April 6th and the Hobbitat for April 20. Chuck moved and Martin seconded adjournment: meeting adjourned again at 4:05 and this time stayed dead. (Stake through the heart does it every time.) Post-pre-retroactively submitted, [signed:] Denny Lien [handwritten:] // Dennis Lien, Secretary ================================================================================