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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