December 2023 Meeting Notes

Meeting was held December 11th at 7:30pm

I- Officer Reports

Seneschal: Johann Bohrer von Elsass
a- Please send me Letters of Intent for those who want to run to run for Baron/Baroness
b- Twelfth Night NO FLAME CANDLES. Electric candles only!

Baron/Baroness: Sir Angus von Atzinger and Mistress Melisande de Canonwald
a- Twelfth Night coming, please send award recommendations
b- May Day, please send award recommendations
c- Letters of Intent open for new Baronage. Please see us if you have questions. Not an election, but a counseling to the crown of our preferred Baronage. Even if you want to be baronage later, running now is good practice
d- Shout out to our members who helped out at Christmas Tourney with marshaling and serving feast

Exchequer: Hypathia of Inish mor
a- Amount in the bank is $2,115.85. All checks have been cashed.
b- Waiting to be added as owner of account still by Wilhelm von Glier.
c- Report is late

Chronicler: Roisin de Burgh
a- By Christmas, please send officer letters and articles for the winter newsletter

A&S: Francis Howard Not in attendance

Chatelaine: Gabriel de Burgh
a- Not much to report, lots of new people

Herald: Reinhold von Glier
a- Report in on time
b- Great Axe Tourney at Christmas Tourney went well
c- Onund received a Willow at Christmas Tourney for embroidery

Quartermaster: Roisin de Burgh

Social Media: Amaranth Wolfbane Not in attendance

Web minister:
a- Event websites updated
b- Baronage Transition updates on the website

Armored/Heavy Marshal: Onund Ullrson Not in attendance
a- Report in on time

Youth Martial Marshal: Reinhold von Glier

Signet: Office vacant
Archery Marshal: Office vacant
Equestrian Marshal: Office vacant
Rapier Marshal: Office vacant
Thrown Weapons Marshal: Office vacant

II- Old Business
a- Chatelaine is still planning for day to make loaner gorgets for new members
b- Proposal for practices to be held at Pioneer Park in Kentucky has been tabled until February
c- Gabriel de Burgh offers candidacy for baronial rapier marshal
d- Gareth de Burgh volunteers to replace current baronial Exchequer
e- Chatelaine looking for a deputy

III- New Business:
a- Vote on Exchequer tabled until January so Hypathia can walk him through process as deputy
b- Gabriel has been elected new Rapier Marshal
c- Twelfth Night – sign up sheet for potluck will be posted soon

IV- Announcements
a- The period for accepting Letters of Intent for our upcoming Baronial Polling has opened. All letters of intent are to be sent to [email protected]. All letters of intent must be received No Later Than December 31. The letters must include the following:
 SCA Name and any titles (how you wish to be listed on the poll).
 Legal Name with contact information including: mailing address, phone number, email address.
 Copy of valid membership card (valid through the transition time period) and a copy of photo identification.
 Letters can include any information you as the candidate wishes to communicate to the Crown or the populace – such as SCA experience or vision for the barony.
 The submission should also include a single photo of each candidate with the current MK photo release form. All documents should be in a PDF or Word document format, please. (Photos can be submitted separately as GIF, JPG, PNG or TIFF.) The Model release form can be found here: https://sca.org/docs/pdf/ReleaseModelFillable.pdf