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Tom Hunter highlights June meeting

Dear Oberon,

Just a brief reminder that our regular meeting for June is this Thursday, June 18, at our regular meeting place, the Farmington Public Library on 12 Mile Rd. between Orchard Lake Rd. and Farmington Road. Doors of Conference Room A open at 6:45.

We will be making plans for the Michigan Shakespeare Festival on Saturday, August 1, including a presentation table which the Festival has promised to make available to us. Also on the calendar is the Stratford Shakespeare Festival (at which the MSF is taking aim!), the University Musical Society's Globe Theater presentation of Love's Labor's Lost in October, and the SF/SOS national conference in Houston in November.

Plus we will plan on taking a closer look at the MSF's two Shakespeare offerings for this year, The Tempest
and As You Like It in July.

Remember that starting in July we will be meeting on Wednesday evenings in an attempt to better accommodate schedules of our members. Let me know if that will cause a hardship for you. We value the presence of each and every one of you at our meetings. We have a unique mix of personalities focused on our common love of Shakespeare. Heck, we just enjoy being together.

See you all on Thursday!

Your faithful chairperson,
Tom Hunter

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