The Alpha Study Club met on Tuesday January 10 at the City Center building. Jean Livingston, JoAnne Sash, Maxine Schoel and Sue Storjohann of the Program Committee served as hostesses. President Pat Goos opened the meeting with the line: I was going to clean the house, but then I realized………this book isn’t going to read itself. Seventeen members answered roll call. The Secretary and Treasurer’s reports were read and approved. President Goos acknowledge Karen Handorf, Pat Clausen, Avriel Koester and herself for the club’s entry in the Festival of Trees which won first place. New Business: Phyllis Chizek will select gifts to acknowledge both librarians for Valentine’s Day. Jean Livingston of the Program Committee introduced Shirley Young who reviewed the book My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business, a memoir by Dick VanDyke. Dick Van Dyke, indisputably is one of the greats from the golden age of television. He is admired and beloved by audiences the world over for his beaming smile, his physical dexterity, his impeccable comic timing, his ridiculous stunts and his unforgettable screen roles. His trailblazing television program, The Dick Van Dyke Show (produced by Carl Reiner, who wrote the forward to this memoir), was one of the most popular sitcoms of the 1960s and introduced another major television star, Mary Tyler Moore.  But Dick Van Dyke, was also an enormously engaging movie star, whose films including Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang have been discovered by a new generation of fans and are as beloved today as they were when they first appeared.  The book is a colorful, loving, richly detailed look at the decades of his multilayered life. The book will enthrall every generation of reader, from baby boomers who recall when Rob Petrie became a household name, to all those still enchanted by Bert’s “Chim Chim Cher-ee”. This is a lively, heartwarming memoir of a performer who still thinks of himself as a “simple song and dance man”. President Goos reminded everyone that our next meeting is February 14 at the home of Deb Wentizen with Karen Handorf as the reviewer. She adjourned the meeting with Lisa Kleypas’ quote: A well-read woman is a dangerous creature. The hostesses served a selection of delicious bars, coffee and tea. Marcia Plett, Secretary