Re: [AGA-mcm] Re: [AGA-sc] Dave & PAM (fwd)

[Larry Lampert <l_lampert@yahoo.com>]

Here's my two cents.....

I really like the idea of making Neil and Dorothy life
members. It is a nice way for us as an organization to
express our appreciation of the work they have both
done to make the AGA whatit is today.

However, making Dave Gomberg a life member to get the
full rights to PAM is an entirely different story. I
have nothing against Dave, in fact I have sent
numerous people to his site to by CO2 equipment over
the years.

I agree that distributing the valuable info in PAM is
part of our mission, I think giving Gomberg life
status cheapens what has been done for Neil and
Dorothy. I would not have a problem with not charging
him dues but the "life member" status should be
reserved for those who truly gave of themselves not
for those who ..... 

Since I have nothing nice to say anymore as my Mom
always said I won't say aything else. But you all know
what I'm thinking! ;-)

Regards,

Larry


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

> FYI, while some members of the board were evaluating
> a "feeler proposal" 
> to give someone a life AGA membership in exchange
> for..um...I dunno, say, 
> full legal control over their former magazine or
> something, it was brought 
> up that we don't *have* any sort of official "life
> membership" categories, 
> just a handful of indefinite memberships for some
> workers and contacts.
> 
> So it was voted to officially make Neil and Dorothy
> life members.  Neil 
> and Dorothy are the two surviving founders of the
> AGA in its current 
> incarnation, and Dorothy was involved in the AAGA in
> its inception before 
> that!  Dorothy has some things to say about this
> below (Mike... some 
> history for you!).
> 
>    - Erik
> 
> -- 
> Erik Olson
> erik at thekrib dot com
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 11:14:09 -0500
> From: Dorothy Reimer <dreimer@wwdc.com>
> Reply-To: Aquatic Gardeners Association Board
> <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
> To: Aquatic Gardeners Association Board
> <aga-sc@thekrib.com>
> Subject: Re: [AGA-sc] Dave & PAM
> 
>      Thank you all for the honour you have given me.
> It is much appreciated.
> I'm more thrilled that you are giving it to Neil as
> he deserves it far more
> than me. He put TAG together, had it printed and
> applied the labels and
> mailed each issue. This was on top of working full
> time, with a family and
> related duties. I don't know how he really got it
> all in and still turned
> out a great product.
>      I hand wrote all the memberships to start with
> until I was able to get
> them on disk. I took the disk to my son who printed
> all the labels for me. I
> then drove them 67 miles over the border to mail
> them to Neil as this cut
> off two days. I also mailed the cheques, etc. to
> Jare. This was all done on
> the telephone as e-mail was limited then.
>      Again, than Thank You all for enjoyable years.
> I'm looking forward to
> getting to the conventions now.  I will be trying to
> get more Canadian
> memberships all the upcoming shows and auctions. (6
> in the coming 8 weeks)
> and I will also be at the CAOAC convention.
> 
> Dorothy
> 
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