Re: [AGA-mcm] [AGA Convention Feedback] (fwd)

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

Wow, The FT ride was long and although accidents aren't
predictable, problems occur often enough that one might be
expected. Perhaps we should have warend folks about the
length ofhte bus ride.

However, I don't think fed bldg.s, nat'l gallery, etc,
would have been appropriate for an AGA FT. Possibly the zoo
or Botanical Gardens but surely not the others.  We in fact
rejected the Zoo because most of it would not be aquatic
related and the Botanical gardens for the same reason. I
know ACA had mountain trip FT but I don't think we are
large enough to be organizing "extracurricular" activies.
Just working within the "curriculum" is as much as we can
handle. Besides, that stuff is all free and only a subway
ride away. Anyone could easily have opted for those things
on their own instead of the organized FT.

sh


--- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:23:24 -0800
> From: Shawn Van Doren <shawnuf@comcast.net>
> To: erik@thekrib.com
> Subject: [AGA Convention Feedback]
> 
> Below is the result of your feedback form.  It was
> submitted by
> Shawn Van Doren (shawnuf@comcast.net) on Wednesday,
> November 17, 2004 at 19:23:24
>  
> least: Field trip.  I question traveling 1 hour by bus to
> visit aaquarium 
> in Baltimore when there is a National Aquarium in DC. 
> Then I further 
> question traveling another 40 minutes to a local store
> when that put us 
> trying to get back to the hotel for evening events in
> rush hour traffic 
> (even without the accidents).  For me visiting the scenes
> that are 
> peculiar to the area (in this case the government
> buildings, National 
> Gallery, museums) would have been more meaningful than
> the store visit and 
> much closer to the convention site.  It might also have
> been beneficial to 
> query the AGA board as to what previous attendees have
> noted as 
> good/bad/indifferent.  Another source is the Chamber of
> Commerce. Remember 
> that most attendees either have never been to your locale
> or have not 
> frequently been there.

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