At 11:12 AM 1/1/99 -0500, you wrote: >Hi, y'all... > >Happy New Year!!! > >In response to the Robert Hudson discussion (and with due respect to Eric >and his contact with Robert), I would like to give him a "shot" on my >committee. You see, he will either be good or we'll get rid of him like >everyone else who has either been given responsibility or wanted to work >(or help). As soon as they have some responsibility or are asked if they >would like to participate, they disappear from the hobby, AGA and APD. Hi Merrill. I agree, and I'm glad you're willing to take him on. Sometimes people can surprise you, and be very useful if their energies can be directed into productive directions! Shall I contact him, or do you want to? Do you think that Jack's idea of new member packets could be incorporated into his "job"? >Where is Hudson located? Anyone else know him? How deep in the hobby is >he? I don't know anything more about him, although his name is vaguely familiar. It might just be that I remember it from postings on the APD. I just went back and checked my old E-mail files, and found one off-list conversation I had with him on fluorescent lighting. He was obviously not well informed on lighting, but was respectful in his tone, and by the end of the conversation was willing to believe what I had told him. (after verifying my facts for himself with the manufacturer's, but that's fine too<g>) Karen