The Alpha Study Club met at the Methodist Church on March 26. President Avriel Koester opened the meeting with sixteen members present. Roll call was to tell of a book you had just finished. The Secretary’s and Treasurer’s reprorts were read and approved.

Kathy Herink reported on the gift basket given to the two librarians for all the help they have given us.

There was no Old Business. New Business was a discussion of where to have the May 28 meeting. Marcia Koester and Susie Strohbehn volunteered to be hostesses for the meeting. Meeting place will be decided later.

Our April 23 meeting will be at the Methodist Church with Bonnie Murty as hostess.

Lisa Reinhard reviewed the book “Half Broke Horses” by Jeannette Walls. Jeannette Walls’ no nonsense, resourceful and spectacularly compelling grandmother, Lily Casy Smith, is a remarkable woman. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At 15, she left home to teach in a frontier town – riding five hundred miles on her pony, alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car and fly a plane and with her husband, Jim, ran a vast ranch in Arizona. Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds – against women, Native Americans and anyone else who didn’t fit the mold. “Half Broke Horses” is the Laura Ingalls Wilder book for adults. The author, Jeannette Walls lives in Virginia. Her book “The Glass Castle” is one of the bestselling memoirs of all time and has been translated into 23 languages.

The meeting was adjourned. Lunch was served by Avriel Koester and Deb Wentzien.