Re: MCM - Digest V1 #423

[krombhol@teclink.net (Paul Krombholz)]

>MCM - Digest       Wednesday, February 28 2001       Volume 01 : Number 423
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>   Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:05:04 -0500
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>Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:05:04 -0500
>From: Charlene Nash <ecn@tennis.org>
>Subject: Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 09:05:04 -0500
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>Hi guys-I have been making some arrangements for next AGA conference. I am
>looking at the Marriott this year. Some advantages are: nicer meeting room,
>with auction room next door and plenty of nice vendor area outside meeting
>rooms. We will have continental b'fast Sat and Sun and a deli lunch on site
>so people can network and visit vendors without having to go out to lunch
>and take that time.  Banquet Fri nite at aquarium again and dinner Sat night
>on your own. Sun lunch hasn't been determined yet. Better all around I think
>for meeting at the Marriott. Disadvantages: no air port shuttle-I will look
>into the contract players here that do that and see if it is reasonable.
>Hotel is 8 blocks or so from aquarium but we have free downtown shuttle that
>people can ride in groups of 25 or so that runs every 5-10 minutes at picks
>up at the Marriott door. fri nite shuttle quits at 9:30 so banquet needs to
>take that into consideration. Hotel is $79 per nite. Give me some feedback
>as I need to confirm or not. They are not charging us for all the ballroom
>space which we paid for last year. It is a nice hotel at the convention and
>trade center, has indoor pool and workout facility, 2 restaurants that are
>decent. I need to hear from you and I also need volunteers for a small
>committee who are familiar with the players in this industry and can start
>soliciting our vendors and supporters for money, etc We also need
>suggestions for a major star speaker that we pay expenses for and the other
>speakers as well. Charlene
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Hi, Charlene,  The cat woke me up at 5:30 AM---wants something
unknowable---, and so this is just off the bottom of my head.

Although it is nice for me that the convention will again be at
Chattanooga, TN, I had thought it would be the turn of the west coast
people.  It is too bad that things didn't work out for establishing a
convention there.  Another group that should get a convention near them
sometine is the Canadian group. (Perhaps I could get my hands on some of
the Tropica plants)

Jan Bastmeijer would be a possible major speaker.  He could bring over a
large number of crypts that are not available in this country.  This time
he could bring them as rhizomes that have been floated long enough that
they have grown some new leaves and roots submersed, and they wouldn't have
the mealybugs that got his plants impounded and destroyed Nov. 1999.  He
gave a very interesting talk at the North Jersey Aquarium Society 1999
meeting, and it was very well attended, even though it was a last minute
add-on to the speaker schedule.

We should also try to attract Tom Barr.  He is one of the most active
collectors and one of the most successful growers in the U.S.

I've got to go shut up that cat.

Paul Krombholz, getting over the flu (again!)